The History of Barbour County, West Virginia

By: Hu Maxwell, Pub. 1899, reprinted 2025, 533 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-647-5. Barbour County was created in 1843 from parts of Lewis, Harrison, and Randolph Counties. This book is broken up into 3 parts. The first is covers the state as a whole, the second covers the history of the county while the third are biographies approximately 222 individuals.