The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 22, 13 July 1872, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers Charleston West Firginia Journal, July 24, 187o, 2. ~ Almost certainly Henry B. Rice, born in Malden, W.Va., in 1856, son of Rev. Lewis Rice. After graduation from Hampton Institute in 1877, he taught in Malden, Cannelton, St. Albans, Coal Valley, and Winifrede, all in Kanawha County, W.Va., and later for many years in Charleston. He was also ordained as a minister and worked for the Baptist state convention. He was living in retirement in Charleston in 194~. 2 Presumably the Musey Strawder mentioned in the letter of William T. McKinney to BTW (Sept. ~ I, 1 I, Con. 429, BTW Papers, DLC). The McKinney letter referred to Strawder as an active participant in the monthly meetings of Lewis Rice's African Zion Baptist Church in Tinkersville. He was reported in the 1880 census as D. Mucey Strander, black male, age thirty, a hostler, able to read but not to write. 3 Frank Randolph appeared in the census of 1880 as a mulatto laborer in Malden, age fifty-five, unable to read or write. He was married with six children. The 1870 census report showed discrepancies in the ages reported. 4 Isaac McKinney was reported in the census of 1880 as a black ''engineer,'' age forty-eight, unable to read or write, married with five children. The ~ 870 census reported him as a farmer. 5 In the election of 187~> the Democrats swept the state, continuing a trend begun in 1870 when the Democrats gained the governorship and control of the legislature. The election of 1870 broke the control the Republican party had had in the state since its beginning in 1863. The Democrats dominated West Virginia politics for the rest of the century. The Republican party in West Virginia during Reconstruction was dominated by moderates rather than radicals, but was more friendly to black political rights than the Democrats. 6 Probably William B. Wilson, a white miller in Charleston. 7 Thomas Swinburn, born in Lancashire, England, in 1840, moved to the United States at the age of eleven and settled in Kanawha County, W.Va. He served for three and a half years in the Union Army and was wounded. He worked as a newspaper and magazine writer on political matters and in 1879 was clerk of the circuit court in Charleston. George Wesley Atkinson (~845-~925), Republican governor of West Virginia from 1897 to egos. He served in many political positions in Charleston after 1870, being postmaster, internal revenue agent, and U.S. marshal. In 1889 he was elected to the U.S. Congress for one term. From 1905 to 19~6 he was a judge in the U.S. Court of Claims. 22