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A view of Rion House on the kitchen end taken by Tucker Brooke. This is a home of his aunt and uncle, 'Judge Daniel Bedinnger Lucas and Jene C. Harles. A friend of John Yates Belle, Confederate sho as spy, both buried in old Zion Church in...'

1. Rion House--Kitchen End View

IDNO:
027018
Title:
Rion House--Kitchen End View
Description:
A view of Rion House on the kitchen end taken by Tucker Brooke. This is a home of his aunt and uncle, 'Judge Daniel Bedinnger Lucas and Jene C. Harles. A friend of John Yates Belle, Confederate sho as spy, both buried in old Zion Church in...'
A poet and lawyer from Jefferson County's Shenandoah Valley, Daniel B. Lucas led the fight against coeducation which he considered to be a "Yankee" notion. As Democratic Floor Leader of the State House and member of the Board of Regents, he contributed heavily to the defeat of legislative attempts to sanction coeducation in the early 1880s.

2. Portrait of Daniel B. Lucas, Jefferson County, W. Va.

IDNO:
037208
Title:
Portrait of Daniel B. Lucas, Jefferson County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1880
Description:
A poet and lawyer from Jefferson County's Shenandoah Valley, Daniel B. Lucas led the fight against coeducation which he considered to be a "Yankee" notion. As Democratic Floor Leader of the State House and member of the Board of Regents, he contributed heavily to the defeat of legislative attempts to sanction coeducation in the early 1880s.