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Maslin, Thomas (1808-1878)
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Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia
by F. Vernon Aler, 1888
Printed for the Author by 
The Mail Publishing Company, Hagerstown, MD.

CHAPTER VIII.
Historical Pen Sketches of the Early Residents of Berkeley County
by the late Hon. Chas. James Faulkner.

Pages 148-149, THOMAS MASLIN

Son of Wm. and Ann M. Maslin, was born in Gerardstown, Berkeley
County, on the 28th day of October, 1808. At the early age of
fifteen years and with but a very limited education, he was placed
in a store at Harper's Ferry and continued there and in similar
situations until in 1830, when he removed to Moorfield. In 1831 he
commenced the mercantile business in that place without capital and
relying exclusively upon his own energy, integrity and capacity for
business. In this pursuit he continued actively and successfully
for a period of thirty years. In 1837 he was commissioned a
magistrate of Hardy County, and continued to hold that office until
the magistry became elective under the constitution of 1850. Under
that new system he was elected to the same office, and was made
presiding justice of the County Court until the County of Hardy was
embraced in the newly created State of West Virginia. When the Bank
of the Valley established a branch at Moorefield, in 1853, he was
elected a director and made President, and re-elected every year
until the bank was closed by the war. In 1861 he was elected by an
almost unanimous vote of the people to represent the County of
Hardy in the Virginia State Convention, called together by the
exigencies of the opening civil war. In 1871 he was elected by a
large majority to represent the counties of Hardy and Grant in the
Constitutional Convention of West Virginia. He also tilled various
other offices in that county — was treasurer of one turnpike
company and President of another. He died at Moorfield on the 21st
of September, 1878, after a protracted illness of more than a year.

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