U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- See, Adam and Michael (brothers) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 567-568 ADAM SEE and MICHAEL SEE, two brothers, came from somewhere east of the mountains of the Old Dominion (the writer is not informed as to the exact place), and settled in Tygart's Valley, at or near the town of Huttonsville, Randolph County, during the latter part of the 18th century. Adam was a lawyer, being admitted to the Randolph County Bar in 1793, and was the third prosecuting attorney of Randolph County, being elected to that office in the year 1798. He died about the year 1840, leaving a large estate, and is buried in the old Brick Church Cemetery near the town of Huttonsville. Michael See was a farmer owning a fine farm of more than 500 acres in the Tygart's Valley, between the town of Huttonsville and the present site of the town of Mill Creek. On this farm he erected a brick residence probably the first brick structure ever erected in Randolph County, the main part of which is still standing near the Parkersburg and Staunton Turn Pike. This farm he sold in the year 1828 to Charles C. See (a son of Adam See) and taking his family with him, he emigrated to Missouri, locating in Montgomery County in that State. His family, so far as the writer is informed, consisted of John, Jacob, Noah and Anthony B. See. Noah and Jacob became men of wealth and prominence in their country and their posterity have held many positions of honor and trust in the State of Missouri. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, son of Noah, is one of the noted astronomers of this country, having written a number of books on that subject, and at the present time is the chief of the Government Astronomical Observatory at Washington, D. C. Missouri counts him among her greatest men. Anthony B. See, having contracted the ague in the new country, came back to his native State of Virginia, and in the year , married Julia Leonard, a member of a New England family that came from the State of Massachusetts about the year 1824, and settled at French Creek, in Upshur County. Julia was the oldest of the Leonard family, having been born in 1812, and was 12 years old at the time the family moved to French Creek; she died in 1902, being 90 years old at the time of her death. Anthony B. See was by occupation a farmer and cattle raiser. He was one of the contractors under the state of Virginia, for the construction of the Parkersburg and Staunton turnpike, and built many miles of that famous thoroughfare through Upshur and Randolph Counties. He was also engaged in the mercantile business and hotel business in Buckhannon. He is said to have been a man of large physique, great physical strength and endurance, indomitable will, and hasty temper. He is said by those who knew him to have been honest in his business dealings, true to his friends and lavish in the bestowal of favors on those whom he liked, but an implacable foe of those who incurred his enmity. He died in the year 1859, being at the time of his death still in the prime of life. His family consisted of the following sons and daughters viz: Claudius B., Randolph, George W. and Seymore, Louisa, Jane, Martha, Adelia, Virginia and Catherine. Claudius B. See was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company E of the 3d Virginia Infantry, being the first company organized at French Creek in the spring of 1861. He was later transferred to the cavalry service and served until the close of the war. He was a young man of fine physique, great physical strength and endurance, but the exposures and hardships of the soldier life wrecked his fine constitution and he returned to his home broken in health and shortly after the close of the war died with consumption. He was at the time of his death a young man still in the spring time of life. He is said by all his old comrades to have been a brave and gallant solder, daring and fearless in the rischarge of his duties, and to perpetuate his memory the G. A. R. Post and the Sons of Veterans Camp at French Creek are named for him, being designated as the C. B. See G. A. R. Post and the C. B. Randolph See is a farmer now living at Frenchton. He was also a Union soldier in the Civil War holding the rank of Second Lieutenant, in the same company of which his brother Clodius B. See was First Lieutenant and S. B. Phillips was Captain. He served as a soldier until about the year 1863, taking part in many engagements of the early years of the war, then resigned his commission and went to the State of Illinois where he engaged in farming for several years, then by reason of ill health, brought on by climatic conditions existing in a new country, he returned to his native state, where he has since resided. George W. See was also a soldier fighting on the side of the Union. He served his country as a soldier until the close of the war, taking part in many of the great engagements and was wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run. The war being over, he emigrated to the State of Missouri, locating in Montgomery County, where he engaged in business and succeeded in accumulating an ample estate. He died in 1902. Seymore See is a farmer and merchant living at French Creek. Louisa married Martin Burr, and still lives near French Creek, in Upshur County. Jane (now deceased) married William Townsend, who was captured with the Militia in 1863, and died in Andersonville prison. Adelia married Alva Brooks and resides at French Creek. Martha (now deceased) married R. P. McAvoy, who still resides at French Creek. Virginia married John Randolph Crouch and lives in the Tygart's Valley, in Randolph County. Catherine married J. L. Talbot and resides in Harrison County, West Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------