Nov. 12, 1923: When appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in March 1964, Clarence Martin Jr. became the first West Virginia native to hold a full five-year term on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Nov. 13, 1925: Musician and radio and television star “Little” Jimmy Dickens was born.
Nov. 14, 1870: Educator Cibe Clamp was born in Ohio. In 1899, the state’s first private normal school for black teachers, which he named the Clamp School, hired music to strengthen reading and writing skills.
Nov. 15, 1894: Writer Hubert Skidmore was born in a log cabin on the Gauley River in Webster County. He is perhaps more widely known for his classic 1937 novel, Hawks Nest, which documents the construction of the Hawks Nest Dam and the resulting silicosis tragedy.
Nov. 16, 1734: Land speculator, military officer, and politician Adam Stephen was born in Scotland. He settled in the lower Shenandoah Valley, which he helped to establish as a major wheat-producing region, and founded Martinsburg.
Nov. 17, 1883: Politician and industrialist Johnson Newlon Camden died in Baltimore at the age of 55. As an industrialist, he built the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and made a fortune.
Nov. 18, 1954: Poet Dante (Dandridge) Michael was born in Charleston. As a teen, she lived in Shepherdstown, where she still lives and operates a small publishing company, the Bunny and the Crocodile Press.
Nov. 19, 1920: The West Virginia State Medical Association was organized.
