William Madison Peyton (September 4, 1804 – February 16, 1868) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and slave owner who began developing what would become the coal country of Virginia and West Virginia in the 1840s. Peyton sympathized with the Confederate States of America and died financially ruined shortly after the war's end.
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4 September 1805 Montgomery County, Virginia, U.S.
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Died |
16 February 1868 (aged 62) Montgomery County, Virginia, U.S.
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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