Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of Harry E CALDABAUGH

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 254

HARRY E CALDABAUGH.  A native of Wheeling, Harry E. Caldabaugh was educated
as an engineer, followed that profession for a number of years, but is now
prosperously established as a merchant, a wholesale and retail dealer in
paints and glass.  Mr. Caldabaugh has a record of service in the army at the
time of the Spanish-American war.

He was born at Wheeling, April 28, 1879. His father, Phillip C. Caldabaugh,
now living at Glendale, Marshall County, West Virginia, was born in
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, inn 1844.  Four years later, at the climax of the
Revolutionary struggles in Germany, his parents, Charles F. and Laura M.
(Kraft) Caldabaugh, left their native home in Hesse-Darmstadt and came to
America, first setting in Monroe County, Ohio, and later moving to Wheeling,
where the latter died.  Phillip C. Caldabaugh was reared in Monroe County,
and as a young man of nineteen enlisted there in 1864, joining Company F of
the One Hundred Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry.  He served the last year of the
war and was with Sherman on the march to the sea, his regiment being part of
the rear guard in this famous campaign.  Phillip Caldabaugh moved to
Wheeling in 1866, was married in this city, and for many years followed
teaming.  He is a republican, an active member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and is affiliated with the Knights of the Mystic Chain and the
Improved Order of Red Men.  His wife was Margaret Heckler, who was bon in
Hesse-Darmstadt in 1848, and died at Wheeling in 1889.  She was the mother
of the following children: Laura M., living with her father; George W.,
connected with a wholesale hardware house at Los Angeles, California; Laura
M., unmarried and living with her father; Charles W., a merchant at
Wheeling; John C., a merchant at Glendale, West Virginia; Harry E., Lucy M.,
wife of William Thornburg, a resident of Glendale and an office employe of
the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad; and Chester W., a Glendale merchant.

Harry E. Caldabaugh attended the public schools of Wheeling and spent three
years in West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, pursuing a course in
civil engineering.  From 1906 to 1908 he was employed in structural
engineering work at Wheeling and Cincinnati.  The as a civil engineer and as
purchasing agent he was associated with the United States Engineers in river
improvement and other Federal projects in the Wheeling District. He was in
the service of the Federal Government is this capacity for 9 ½  years.  In
1917 Mr. Caldabaugh established his present business, beginning in a small
way as a dealer in paints and glass, and has kept his business growing and
prosperous until it is now one of the leading establishments of the kind in
the Wheeling District.  His store and offices are at 1058 Market Street.

Mr. Caldabaugh has always been willing to take a kindly and helpful interest
in community affairs. He was for eight years state commander of the Sate
Boys Brigade, a national organization.  He is president of the Northern West
Virginia Fish and Game Protective Association.  He is a member of the
Wheeling Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanis Club, is a republican, has served
on the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and as president of
the Epworth League.  In June, 1898, he enlisted in Company D of the Second
West Virginia Infantry, as a bugler, being then nineteen years of age.  He
was with his regiment at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, and then at Greenville,
South Carolina, until mustered out in April, 1899.

In 1910, at Wheeling, Mr. Calabaugh married Miss Mabel W. Rahr, daughter of
David and Jennie (Wallace) Rahr, residents of Wheeling, where her father is
employed in the Steel Rolling Mills.  Mr. and Mrs. Caldabaugh have four
children; Harry R., born July 31, 1912; Jane E., born April 30, 1914; Phil
D., born May 31, 1915; and John W., born August 31, 1918.