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Born May 6, 1821, Kellian V. Whaley served as a Union recruiter and colonel in the 9th WV Volunteer Infantry. He was captured in Guyandotte on November 10, 1861, during the battle there but escaped. First elected to the U.S. Congress in 1861, he became in 1863 one of the first three men to represent the new state of WV in Washington, DC. Whaley died in Point Pleasant on May 20, 1876.
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia · United States
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