John Laidley

John Laidley (1791, Morgantown, (West) Virginia – 1863, West Virginia) was a prominent Virginia lawyer and politician who was one of the founders of Marshall University in 1837. The part of Virginia where Marshall University is located is now part of West Virginia.

References

Marshall University: The Early Years
Virgil A. Lewis, "A History of Marshall Academy" (1912), p. 9 n. 2.

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