Kanawha County, West Virginia - Biography of Daniel Bedinger LUCAS

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Source:  The South in the Building of the Nation, Volume XI.  
Richmond, Va.: The Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909.
Volume XII, page 119

 LUCAS, DANIEL BEDINGER, lawyer and author: b. Charlestown, Va. (now W. Va.), March 16, 1836; 
d. Charlestown, W. Va., July 24, 1909. His father, William Bedinger, was a member of Congress
from Virginia. When the son was an infant his nurse let him fall, causing a permanent spinal
injury. In 1856 he graduated at the University of Virginia, and in 1858 received his law 
diploma at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) and began practice in
Charlestown. In 1860 he removed to Richmond. In the war he served on the staff of Gen. 
Henry A. Wise in the Kanawha Valley. In 1867 he resumed his practice in Charleston,
and in 1869 married Lena T. Brooke, of Richmond. In 1872, 1876, 1884 and 1806 he was
presidential elector on the Democratic ticket. From 1884-87 he was a member of the West 
Virginia legislature, when he was appointed by the governor to the United States 
senate. The legislature, however, elected Charles J. Faulkner. In 1888-93 he was 
president of the superior court of appeals of West Virginia. His poem, The Land 
Where We Were Dreaming (1865), attracted much attention in the South. Other
works are: Memoir of John Yates Bell (1865); The Wreath of Eglantine, and Other 
Poems (1869); The Maid of Northumberland (1879); Ballads and Madrigals (1884); 
Nicaragua and the Filibusters.