Source:  History of The Pan-Handle
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Janet Waite  1998
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J. R. DONEHOO

J. R. Donehoo, attorney-at-law, was born in Cross Creek village, Washington county, 
Pennsylvania, September 1st, 1834.  He received a classical education at the academy in
that place.  Studied law under Messrs. Russell & Fitzhuhg, of Wheeling.  In 1855 he was
admitted to practice in Hancock county, and shortly after went into practice with Z. Jacob,
Esq., of Wheeling, where he continued three years.  Removed to Washington, Pennsylvania
where he practiced law and edited the Examiner, of that place, for over three years.  Married
Miss Eleanor McCown, of Fairview, April 26th, 1860.  During the campaign of 1863 he 
established and conducted the Courier in Steubenville, Ohio.  After a year and a half of 
practice in Hancock county he removed to McConnellsburg, Fulton county, Pennsylvania,
where he edited a paper for over three years, following his legal profession also.  Elected
district attorney of that county in 1866; represented the sixteenth Pennsylvania district in
the New York democratic national convention of 1868; re-elected district attorney in 1869,
but resigned and removed to Indiana county, Pennsylvania.  Conducted the Democrat there
for eighteen months; went to Morgantown, West Virginia in 1871, and published a paper there 
for a year or two, and in 1874, removed to Fairview and resumed the law.  Served two years as
prosecuting attorney, under appointment of the county court, to January 1877.