Mark Twain could smoke up to twenty cigars a day, and they were often stogies from the Marsh Wheeling Company of West Virginia. Founded in 1840, the company was one of the first to be associated with the cheap cigars called "stogies" (after the Conestoga wagons passing through Appalachia.)
Even in Twain's day Wheeling cigars were regarded as a strong smoke. In his autobiography Twain proudly recalls his butler telling him, "There is not a cigar in the house but those old Wheeling 'long nines.' Can't nobody smoke them but you. They kill at thirty yards."
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