Blackburn B. Dovener, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Blackburn B. Dovener

lawyer and politician

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1842

Place of Birth: Teays Valley, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 09-May-1914

Profession: teacher, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Blackburn B. Dovener

  • Blackburn Barrett Dovener (April 20, 1842 – May 9, 1914) was a Republican politician from West Virginia who served as a United States Representative.
  • Dovener was born in Tays Valley, West Virginia, in Cabell County.
  • (At the time of his birth, Tays Valley was in Virginia) on April 20, 1842.
  • He served as a member of the 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th United States Congresses.
  • He died in 1914. Dovener taught school from 1858 to 1861.
  • When he was nineteen, he raised a company and served as captain of Company A, 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
  • He became captain of an Ohio River steamboat in 1867.
  • After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1873 and entered practice in Wheeling, West Virginia. He married Margaret Lynch, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • When she was quite young her parents moved to Wheeling, Virginia, now West Virginia, and here she grew to beautiful young womanhood.
  • Her father was a Union man in those days when it cost something in Virginia to be a Union man, as also was her husband.
  • At the commencement of the Civil War, when only nineteen years old age, Dovener raised a company of loyal Virginians, and served in the Union Army during the entire war.
  • It was when he came to Wheeling to be mustered in that he first met Miss Lynch, then a beautiful young girl of seventeen.
  • They corresponded until the close of the war, when they were married.
  • Their younger son, Robert, died in his twenty-second year.
  • Their elder son, William, was a talented lawyer, like his fatherHe served as member of the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1883 and 1884.
  • His candidacy for election to the Fifty-second Congress was unsuccessful.
  • In 1894, he won election as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1907).
  • His candidacy for renomination was unsuccessful, and he returned to his legal practice in Wheeling.
  • He retired to Glen Echo, Maryland, until his death on May 9, 1914.
  • He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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