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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1893
Page
1
An Old Dominion Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Virginia, Charles T. O Porragall, is described as a political heavyweight with six consecutive terms. Born in Frederick County in 1840, he began his career as a clerk of the Mor.
The obituary notes a county court veteran who served in the Confederate cavalry rising to colonel and commanded all valley cavalry at Lee's surrender. Wounded eight times and left for dead, he later practiced law at Harrisonburg. His wife was Miss Knight of Richmond, daughter of a former president of the state agricultural fair.
Opie P Read narrates his life from Nashville birth on December 22 1852 through early career steps. He recalls shunning arithmetic in school and drifting toward idleness before joining the Franklin Patriot in 1873 and later moving to Gallatin Tennessee to work on the Neophogen two years afterward.
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