From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 233.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


REV. JACOB BRITTINGHAM

Rev. Jacob Brittingham, rector of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal 
church, of Wheeling, was born in Northampton county, Va., September 
25, 1852, the son of Elijah and Virginia S. H. (Nottingham) 
Brittingham, natives of the same county.  The father was the son of 
Elijah Brittingham and Margaret Long, natives of the eastern shore of 
Maryland, and of English descent, and the mother was the daughter of 
Levin Nottingham and Sarah Hubbard, also both of English lineage, and 
natives of Northampton county, Va.  The subject of this sketch spent 
his boyhood and youth in his native county, and in the public and 
private schools received his early education.  At sixteen years of 
age he entered the Episcopal high school near Alexandria, Va., and 
after studying there three years he spent an equal period in the 
university of Virginia.  He was engaged then as a tutor one year in 
Hardy county, W.Va., and during the next two years he was principal 
of the public school at Moorefield.  During part of this period he 
also pursued the study of law, but on the 25th of September, 1878, he 
entered the Theological Seminary of Virginia, with the intention of 
preparing for the ministry, and after a full three years' course, 
graduated June 23, 1881.  He was ordained to the Diaconate, June 24, 
1881, and to the priesthood June 13, 1882.  For nearly two years he 
was engaged in missionary work in West Virginia, preaching at 
Ravenswood, Ripley, Sistersville, New Martinsville, Raven's Rock and 
in Roane county.  August 12, 1883, he became rector of Christ church, 
at Clarksburgh, W.Va., and minister in charge of a mission station in 
Grafton, W.Va.  He resigned the latter on the 12th of August, 1888, 
giving his whole time to Clarksburg until January 25, 1889, when he 
accepted a call to a parish in Wheeling.  On March 3, 1889, he 
entered upon the rectorship he now holds, and during his 
comparatively brief service here he has evinced notable ability and 
devotion to his cause.    


(Linda Fluharty)