Lewis Ruffner was also a prominent Union man, and among the leaders of the movement to make West Virginia a separate State.

Mr.
Doddridge, long the cashier and manager of the Bank at Charleston, whose family was an old and well-known one, was an outspoken Unionist, and in the next year, when the war put an end for the time to banking in the valley, he became a paymaster in the National army.

Colonel Benjamin F.Smith was a noteworthy character also.

He was a leading lawyer, a man of vigorous and aggressive character, and of tough fibre both physically and mentally.

He shared the wish of Summers to keep West Virginia out of the conflict if possible, but when we had driven Wise out of the valley, he took a pronounced position in favor of the new state movement.