Marshal Mortimer Dent

Marshal Mortimer Dent
BIRTH
May 1829
West Virginia, USA
DEATH
3 May 1901 (aged 71–72)
Granville, Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Old Granville Cemetery
Granville, Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227997698/marshal-mortimer-dent

Death of Marshal M. Dent. West Virginia Argus. Kingwood, WV. Thur., May 16, 1901.

 Excerpt -- From Morgantown News --  Marshal M. Dent died  at the home of Jas. E. Dent, at Granville, May 3, 1901, aged 72 years.  His oldesst son is Judge M. H. Dent of the Supreme Court of West Virginia.  A wife, three sons and three daughters survive him.  The funeral occurred at Granville, Sunday afternoon, attended by a great assembly of friends.  The pall-bearers were members of the Morgantown bar.  Mr. Dent was one of the best know men in the county, when in public life, having served as clerk of the county court and of the circuit court.  He was recorder for the town of Morgantown, and for twenty-five years commissioner in chancery, his reports having a high reputation with the Judge and bar.  He was successfully editor of the Virginia Weekly Star and of a campaign paper called the "Little Giant."  The latter was published in the interest of Stephen A. Douglas, whom he supported in 1860.  He was a Democrat and a Unionist.  He was a member of the Virginia Convention that passed the ordinance of succession, and violently opposed its passage.  Mr. Dent was generous to his fellow men, always ready to favor anyone in need.  Dr. Dent of Newburg, was called here by the death of his brother, Marshal Dent.

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