Brooke County WV Archives Biographies.....Gass, Patrick 
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Source: History Of West Virginia In Two Parts
Author: Virgil A. Lewis

Patr1ck Gass, author of Gass' Journal of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition to the
Pacific, was long a resident of this county. He was born near the present site
of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1771. Soon after the family removed to
Maryland, but soon returned to Pennsylvania, and settled near where Washington,
in that State, now stands. In 1792, Patrick served as a soldier on the frontier,
and after the close of the hostilities on the upper Ohio, accompanied the
command of General Wilkinson in the descent of that river. In 1802, he was with
the detachment of Captain Bissell on the Tennessee river, and the next year went
with the same to Kaskaskia, Illinois. Here he enlisted as a member of the Lewis
and Clarke Expedition, then fitting out at St. Louis for the exploration of the
Pacific Coast. The story of his adventures, together with that of his
companions, is told in his "Journal" printed at Philadelphia in 1812. After the
return of the expedition, he lingered for a few months at Wellsburg, then again
went west. When the War of 1812 came on, he was at Nashville, Tennessee, and
enlisting in the command of General Gaines, served throughout the struggle,
participating in the battles of Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie. In 1831,
he wedded a daughter of John Hamilton, of Brooke county, and reared a family of
seven children. He died April 2, 1870, at the advanced age of nearly ninety-nine
years. He was the last survivor of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition.


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