Broadside for the 1840 Democratic Whig Convention held in Wheeling, September 3, 1840

On, September 3, 1840, the political convention for the Democratic Whig was held in Wheeling, Virginia.

A growing industrial hub heavily visited by steamboats and stagecoaches, Wheeling was the third largest city in Virginia at the time, behind Richmond and Norfolk, with a population of 7,885 people.

On the Whig ticket were William Henry Harrison for president and John Tyler (VP), using the slogan "Tippacanoe and Tyler Too."

The convention was a huge event for Wheeling, with 18,000 people convening on Wheeling Hill to hear the speeches of the candidates. A banquet table featuring "cold beef, tongue, fowl, vegetable, bread, cheese, pies, barrels of ice water" was set up to feed the attendees.

Notable names on the broadside seen below include: Jacob S. Shriver, Thomas Brues, James H. White, O.W. Heiskell, Lewis Bayha, S.P. Hullihen, James E. Wharton, and B.F. Kelley.

Wharton was the editor and publisher of the Wheeling Times & Advertiser in which this broadside was found.

A prominent businessman, Shriver, was the father of Daniel Shriver, who, two decades later, would organize the Shriver Grays -- a Confederate Company of the 27th Virginia Infantry (Stonewall Jackson's regiment) in Wheeling. The Shriver holdings would be seized during the Civil War, even as the family fled to Louisiana, then Richmond.

Benjamin Franklin Kelley would go on to organize the 1st Virginia (Union) Infantry in Wheeling. He was appointed its colonel and was later promoted to brigadier general and assigned to guard the B&O at Harper's Ferry, commanding 10,000 soldiers.

A microcosm of the state of Virginia and the nation as a whole, the attendees of the Wheeling Whig convention of 1840 were split in their loyalties during the Civil War.

Meanwhile, Harrison was elected president, but died only 31 days into his term, becoming the first president to die in office and the shortest-serving president in U.S. History. (text based on the Lunch With Books program presented by C.J. Kaiser of Jan. 28, 2020) Broadside: , OCPL Archives

- Broadside from the Wheeling Times and Advertiser, bound newspaper collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.

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Taken on: September 3, 2020

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