Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Genealogical and Personal History of. (Volume #1)

By: James Morton Callahan, Pub. 1912, Reprinted 2019, 454 pages, ISBN #0-89308-952-4.

Monongah Valley lies in the northern portion of the state of West Virginia boarding Pennsylvania.  The counties of: Marion and Monongalia lie with in its boundaries.  Monongalia County was created in 1776 from Augusta County, VA.  From it the following counties were created:  Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker and Upshur and they too are represented in these three volumes with their histories and more importantly Genealogical Sketches of its early settlers.