George William Summers (1804 - 1868)

Born 4 Mar 1804 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died 19 Sep 1868 at age 64 in Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

George Summers is Notable.

Summers County, West Virginia is named in his honor.The county was created by an act of the West Virginia Legislature on February 27, 1871 from parts of Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer and Monroe counties and named in honor of George W. Summers (1804-1868)

George W. Summers, a prominent jurist of Kanawha County. He was born on March 4, 1804 in Fayette County, Virginia to George Summers and his wife, the former Nancy Ann Smith Radcliffe. His father represented Fairfax County in the Virginia House of Delegates for four terms, then moved his family to Kanawha County (later Putnam County) in 1814. He was moved to the Kanawha Valley, near Clarksburg, by his parents when he was an infant.

He graduated from Ohio University in 1825, studied the law and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1827.

In 1830, he was elected to the Virginia General Assembly and represented Kanawha County in the General Assembly from 1830 to 1840.

On 7 Feb, 1833 in Charleston he married Amacetta Laidley (1818-1892). They had children:

1. Lewis, b. abt.1843; d. 13 Dec 1928^[1]
2. George Laidley, b. 1848
3. Mary, b. 1849

He was elected as a Whig to the US House of Representatives and served there from 1841 to 1844.

He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850,

He ran for the Governorship of Virginia in 1850 but lost to Joseph Johnson, and was then elected Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, serving from 1852 to 1858.

In 1861, he represented Kanawha County in the Virginia Convention that passed the Ordinance of Secession, which he opposed. He died in September 1868.

Research Notes

Glenwood: The historic "Glenwood" residence at 800 Orchard Street in Charleston, West Virginia - "one of the oldest and best preserved houses in Charleston" - was restored "c. 1954 for the Misses Lucy and Elizabeth Quarrier, direct descendants of Judge George Summers. Genevieve E. Pennypacker, of Winchester, Virginia, was responsible for the interior restoration."^[2][3]

George's surviving heir, Lewis Summers II, had inherited Glenwood, the home built for James Madison Laidley in 1852 by William Preston. Laidley "had accumulated a small fortune from a saltmaking operation in the Kanawha City area of present Charleston." In 1857, Laidley sold Glenwood to Judge George W. Summers.^[2]

Brother Lewis: George was the younger brother of Lewis Summers (1778-1843). Lewis "was an attorney, judge, store owner at Kanawha Salines, member of the Virginia Assembly from Kanawha County, 1817-18, and member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} https://wvculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Laidley-summers-quarrier-house.pdf
3. ↑ Probably Lucy Quarrier (1895-1983) and Elizabeth Quarrier (1896-1973), who are found in the 1930 census with their parents and brother:
   • "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM41-JYF : accessed 16 July 2022), Lucy G Quarrier in household of Russell J Quarrier, Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 43, sheet 16B, line 83, family 371, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2537; FHL microfilm 2,342,271. Image (accessed 15 July 2022).

• Wikipedia
• George W Summers
• United States Census, 1850
• United States Census, 1860
• Find A Grave Memorial # 12193318

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Summers-556 created through the import of From John of Fairfax Down.ged on Jun 15, 2012 by G Oltz. See the Changes page for the details of edits by G and others.