Civics
Born in 1813, James McGrew was a Preston County businessman who served as a pro-Union advocate in the Richmond Convention of 1861. His calls for Union loyalty helped create the statehood movement in West Virginia. He served in the state's first legislatures and the U.S. House. The home he built here and lived in until his death in 1910 was added to the National Register in 1993.
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Kingwood, West Virginia · United States
