Lincoln County, West Virginia The Biography of JAMES H. LONG The Biography of JAMES H. LONG was submitted by Pat R. Adkins, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1894. Rpt. in West Virginia heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock 1974 JAMES H. LONG was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1838 and settled in Lincoln county March 19, 1878. His parents James and Jane (Conner) Long are still residents in Franklin county. J. H. Long first married A. E. Eldridge on the 29th of January, 1860 the ceremony having been performed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One child was born of this union; James E., born May 19, 1862, died October 14, 1879. Emma Barton (Richards) daughter of Peter M. and Peninah C. (Akers) Barton was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania in 1842 and in this county, October 22, 1873, she became the wife of Mr. J. H. Long. At the time of her marriage with Mr. Long she was a widow and the mother of two children. Her first husband was Samuel A. Eshleman whom she married May 29, 1862 and Charles E. was born June 11, 1863 and died October 4, 1881, and Mr. Eshleman died July 1, 1864. She then married T. T. S. Richards February 20, 1867 and of their union was born one child Mary Zena born March 21, 1868 who now resides in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Richards departed this life January 3, 1869. James H. Long was in the militia during the late war and one brother was in the 126th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Mrs. Long is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Long is a harness maker by trade but at present he is proprietor of the Hamlin House, which is in every respect a first-class hotel, the rooms are well furnished neat and comfortable, good stables attached: charges reasonable, Hamlin, Lincoln county West Virginia.