Boggess, Caleb
lawyer, was born April 29, 1822, in Lumberport, W. Va. In 1842 he was appointed a cadet in the Virginia Military institute, from which he graduated three years later with the highest honors. He then returned to Clarksburg and studied law, and practiced his profession for more than thirty years. He was elected as a union candidate to represent Lewis county in the convention of Richmond. He was the chief counsel for West Virginia of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He possessed a rare legal and mathematical mind; had a large practice in the supreme court of appeals of the state, and argued a number of important cases in the supreme court of the United States.
He died April 14, 1889.