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Today's Topics:
  #1 BIO: Homer B. WOODS, Ohio County,    [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #2 BIO: William A. SHANNON, Hampshire   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #3 BIO: John A. McALLISTER, Logan Cou   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #4 BIO: William BANFIELD, Hancock Cou   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #5 BIO: Hon. Belvard J. PRITCHARD, Wa   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]

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Subject: BIO: Homer B. WOODS, Ohio County, WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 259-260
Ohio County

HOMER B. WOODS, a leading citizen of Harrisville, Ritchie
County, is presiding on the bench of the Circuit Court of
the Third Judicial Circuit, comprising Pleasants, Ritchie
and Doddridge counties, and he has made a splendid record
both as a lawyer and a jurist.

Judge Woods was born on a farm in Ritchie County,
near Harrisville. July 16 1869, and is a son of Rev. Philip
A. and Salina (Wells) Woods. Rev. Philip A. Woods was
born in Pennsylvania, January 4, 1828, and was about
eighteen years old when the family came to what is now
West Virginia and settled in Ritchie County. He gained
his edneation principally in Pennsylvania, where he at-
tended a private school and also Allegany College, after
which he was ordained a clergyman of the Baptist Church.
He continued in the service of the ministry during the
remainder of his active career, and held various pastoral
charges in the central part of West Virginia. He became
a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican
party, and his memory is revered by those who came within
the compass of his benignant influence. Both he and his
wife were well advanced in years at the time of their deaths.
They became the parents of six children.

Judge Homer B. Woods gained his youthful education
in the public schools of the various places in which the
family resided in connection with his father's pastoral
charges in the central part of the state, and he was but
sixteen years old when he initiated his career as a teacher,
his service in the pedagogic profession having been suc-
cessfully continued several years.  In the meanwhile he
attended Marietta College, and in preparation for the
legal profession he took a course in the law department
of the University of West Virginia. While pursuing his
studies in the law school he was elected superintendent
of the public schools of Ritchie County, and after having
served two terms in this office he continued his services
as a teacher for several years, within which he was prin-
cipal of the Harrisville High School and later of that at
Pennsboro, likewise in Ritchie County. He was admitted
to the bar in 1892, and thereafter continued in the private
practice of his profession at Harrisville until 1896, when
he was elected prosecuting attorney of his native county.
He held this position two successive terms and retired
therefrom in 1904, in which year he was elected to the
bench of the Circuit Court.

Judge Woods was unanimously nominated by the repub-
lican party, in August, 1920, as a candidate for the third
term as judge of the Third Judicial Circuit. His splendid
"previous record on the bench is not only attested by this
nomination but also by the action of the democratic party
which met in convention in the same month and made no
nomination to oppose him, and at the same time unani-
mously adopted the following resolution:

"Whereas, at the Republican Judicial Convention, the
Honorable Homer B. Woods was nominated for the Judge
of this judicial circuit, and

"Whereas, we, the legally constituted delegates and
representatives of the Democratic party in and for the
third judicial circuit, in convention assembled, believing
that the judiciary should be composed of able and honor-
able men, well versed in the law and experienced in court
procedure, and who would wear the ermine untarnished
by partisan prejudice or political influence, and we, hav-
ing confidence in the ability, integrity and fitness of the
said Honorable Homer B. Woods for the high office of
Judge; and to the end that the judiciary may be removed
from and elevated above partisan political contests; be it
resolved, that this convention doth decline to nominate
a candidate for judge of the third judicial circuit."

Judge Woods was. therefore, unopposed at the polls in
the November election in 1920, and is now serving his
third term on the bench.

Judge Woods is a stanch republican, and he and his
wife are active members of the Baptist Church. He is
affiliated with Harrisville Lodge No. 98, A. F. & A. M.,
and Odell Chapter No. 28, B. A. M., is a past grand of
the local lodge of Odd Fellows, his wife being a member
of the adjunct organization, the Daughters of Rebekah,
and he is an influential member of the Modern Woodmen
of America, in which he has served as counsel of the local
camp and also as counsel of the head camp of the organ-
ization in West Virginia, in which he is now a member of
the committee on appeals and grievances.

September 10, 1892, recorded the marriage of Judge
Woods and Miss Winifred Davis, daughter of the late
Thomas E. Davis and a representative of one of the oldest
and most highly honored families of Ritchie County. Of
the six children of Judge and Mrs. Woods five are living:
Ralph D. is a graduate of the law department of the Uni-
versity of West Virginia; Homer B., Jr., who graduated
in the high school and who became a successful teacher,
received appointment to the United States Naval Acad-
emy, Annapolis, Maryland, and was attending that institu-
tion at the time of his death, at the age of twenty years;
Miriam graduated in the Harrisville High School and in
1922 is a student in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Conservatory
of Music; Robert J. is a high school student; and Samuel
T. and Winifred are grade pupils in the public schools.
The eldest son, Ralph D., entered the nation's military
service in connection with the World war, gained the
rank of first lieutenant, and was in service in turn at
Camp Dodge, Iowa, the Central Officers' Training Camp
at Waco, Texas, and the Second Training Camp at Fort
Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana. The war came
to a close before there came a call for his command to
enter service overseas. He is an active member of the
American Legion, and is now engaged in the practice of
law at Harrisville.

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Subject: BIO: William A. SHANNON, Hampshire County, WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 261-262
Hampshire County

WILLIAM A. SHANNON for a long period of years, in fact
since early manhood, has been in the service of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railway Company. For over ten years he
has been the railway station agent at Springfield in Hamp-
shire County.

His name introduces one of the oldest of the pioneer
families of this section of West Virginia. The founder of
the name was his great-great-grandfather, who came from
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and settled about a mile below
the old farm at Springfield. William A. Shannon as a boy
could see the ruins of his old pioneer home. He was a
blacksmith, and a number of his descendants followed the
same trade. His pioneer ancestor was buried in the old
graveyard at Springfield in 1792, his grave being marked
by a common stone slab. The next ancestor was his son,
Thomas Shannon, who likewise was a blacksmith and de-
voted his active life to his trade in his shop on the Spring-
field townsite. He was laid to rest in the same graveyard
as his father. Thomas Shannon married a Miss Walker,
and among their children were: James, who settled at West
Union, West Virginia; Andrew; and Mrs. William Donald-
son, wife of a large slave holder and wealthy farmer be-
tween Springfield and Green Spring in Hampshire County.

Andrew Shannon, grandfather of the railway station
agent, was born at Springfield, and died there in 1850, at
the age of fifty-two. He also followed his father's trade,
and was the village blacksmith of his generation. He was
never in public service of any kind. He married Mary
Cross as his first wife. She came from Wood County. They
had four sons, Benjamin, who was a Springfield black-
smith and a magistrate when he died; Thomas, the only
soldier representative of the family who volunteered for
the Mexican war, and removed to Ohio and died at Nelson-
ville in that state; Robert, who also went to Ohio and prac-
ticed medicine at Circleville; and James.

James Shannon was born August 5, 1824, and was only
a few weeks old when his mother died. He had only a sub-
scription school education, but his inquiring mind led him
to investigate and acquire a knowledge of many subjects
outside his Immediate experience.  He became a black-
smith, and for many years worked as a partner with his
brother Benjamin at Springfield. He was a member of the
school board, a Presbyterian, a loyal and faithful Christian
in all his years, was a Southern man in sympathy and a
democrat in politics. He died in 1908. His wife was Eliza-
beth Somerville, who was born in October, 1821, and died
New Year's morning of 1900. She was the daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Phillips) Somerville, who came to
Hampshire County from Frederick County, Virginia, and
settled at Romney, where the daughter Elizabeth was born.
William Somerville was a saddler and harness maker, and
died in 1865, at the age of eighty-three. The children of
James Shannon and wife were: Charles, who followed his
father's trade for a short time and later became a merchant
at Springfield, where he died; Miss Mary, of Springfield;
Emma, wife of Charles Towers, of Baltimore; Sallie, who
died at the age of sixteen; William Andrew; and Hannah,
Mrs. Elwood Parsons, of Springfield.

William A. Shannon was born August 25, 1861, and was
reared and educated at Springfield. At the age of twenty-
one he entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Company as a track man, was promoted to section fore-
man, then to supervisor, and in October, 1911, took over
the duties of station agent at Springfield as successor of
J. D. Pownall. He has given over forty years to the serv-
ice of the railway company, has performed his duties with
a high degree of fidelity and efficiency, and has also per-
formed a good part as a public spirited citizen of his home
community.

For twenty-eight years Mr. Shannon has been a member
of the Springfield School Board, and is its president. He
is a democrat, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church of
Springfield, a former superintendent of the Sunday school
and is now assistant superintendent.

At Springfield, November 27, 1884, Mr. Shannon married
Miss Fannie C. Parsons, daughter of William C. and Louise
(Jarboe) Parsons, her mother a daughter of Washington
Jarboe. Her father was born near Springfield and her
mother at Piedmont, West Virginia. William Parsons was
a Confederate soldier. Mrs. Shannon was born September
16, 1864, seventh in a family of thirteen children, eleven of
whom grew up and nine are still surviving, namely: Elwood,
of Springfield; Mrs. Nannie Parker, of Lincoln, Nebraska;
Mrs. Shannon; Mrs. Sallie Hughes, of Moundsville, West
Virginia; William, of Cumberland, Maryland; Miss Louise,
of Springfield; John, of Piedmont; James and Charles,
both of Springfield.

Mr. and Mrs. Shannon have one son, Augustus, born De-
cember 25, 1885. He was educated in the public schools, is
a traveling salesman, and during the World war served as
a member of the Hampshire County Draft Board.

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Subject: BIO: John A. McALLISTER, Logan County, WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 260
Logan County

JOHN A. McCALLISTER is superintendent for the Faulk-
ner Coal Company at Huffco in Logan County. His home
is in Huntington. Mr. McCallister has been acquainted with
practical mining operations for forty years, and his name
is widely and favorably known among the prominent coal
interests represented in the southern part of West Virginia.
The Faulkner Coal Company is one of the operations carried
on by the W. E. Deegans Consolidated Coal Company.

Mr. McCallister was born at Big Sewell Mountain, Fay-
ette County, West Virginia, November 13, 1868, son of
William and Rebecca (Campbell) McCallister. His father
was a farmer and shoemaker, and finally left the farm to
locate at Sewell, a station on the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
road. He was a democrat, and with his wife worshiped in
the faith of the Baptist Church. They had ten children,
six sons and four daughters. The son Edward was for
five years foreman of the Paragon Mines on Ram Creek,
and is now a mine foreman in the New River District.

John A. McCallister attended school at Fayette County,
and was only a boy when his parents died. His education
was abbreviated by the necessity of doing something for
his own support. At the age of fourteen he went to work
as a trapper in the mines at Sewell, and his experience in-
cluded bailing water, hauling coal, mule driving, and finally
he was made boss driver, a job he held three years. For
seven years he was a coal loader. Then, after an experi-
ence of a few months in the mines at Jellico, Tennessee,
he became assistant foreman of a mine on Loup Creek,
West Virginia, and from there went to the Paragon Mines
on Ram Creek as foreman. He spent eight years in the
service there and was promoted to superintendent.  His
next work was with the E. R. Johnson Coal Company be-
low Peach Creek, on the Guyandotte, as superintendent, and
he was also superintendent of the operations at Peach Creek.
He spent about ten months there, and then became assist-
ant superintendent at Toplin, and in October, 1921, took
up his present duties with the Faulkner Coal Company.

While living at Paragon he was a member of the school
board. Mr. McCallister married in 1898 Hester H. House,
daughter of Robert House. Her father was a native of
England, and Mrs. McCallister was born in West Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. McCallister have nine living children, three
sons and six daughters. The sons Kenneth G. and John L.
are in the grocery business at Huntington. Mr. and Mrs.
McCallister are Methodists, and fraternally he is affiliated
with Longdale Lodge No. 14, F. and A. M., on Ken-
neys Creek, the Scottish Rite bodies of the Consistory at
Wheeling, the Mystic Shrine of Charleston, the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In
politics he is an independent voter.

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Subject: BIO: William BANFIELD, Hancock County, WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 255-256
Hancock County

WILLIAM BANFIELD. Prominent among the men who have
contributed to the business development of Follansbee may
be mentioned William Banfield, general manager of the
Follansbee Brothers Company Steel plant, who has numerous
other important business connections. Mr. Banfield was
born in Monmouthshire, England, in 1854, and at the age
of eighteen years immigrated with his father to the United
States.

Upon their arrival in this country father and son secured
employment in the first tin plate mill erected in this country,
located at Leechburg, Pennsylvania, where William Banfield
was a heater and roller for seven years and was then made
manager, a position which he held for six years. In October,
1885, he removed to Irondale, Ohio, and with others estab-
lished the Irondale Boiling Mill Company, having purchased
the former plant of the Pioneer Iron Works. The above
company, under the name of Wallace, Banfield & Company,
Limited, made fine grades of black and galvanized iron
and soft sheet steel, and it became one of the leading in-
dustries of Jefferson County. In 1892 they converted part
of their plant into a tin mill, being the first to become
extensive manufacturers under the McKinley Tariff. In
1899 the American Tin Plate Company purchased and dis-
mantled the plant, and Mr. Banfleld, with others, erected
sheet mills at Chester, West Virginia, but these were also
acquired by the American Tin Plate Company at the time
of their completion. Mr. Banfleld was chosen and served
as district manager for this concern about five years, at
the end of which time he removed to Steubenville, in 1907,
subsequently becoming associated with the Follansbee
brothers in building the tin plate mills at Follansbee, of
which he has since been general manager.

The Follansbee Brothers Company, started to erect a mill
at Follansbee, West Virginia, in 1902, and the six tin plate
and two sheet mills were put into operation in 1904, with
600 employes. There were three buildings, about 200 x
40 feet, occupying approximately two acres of ground. In
1911 two sheet mills were added. In 1906 the company had
commenced the steel plant, having two twenty-five ton open
hearth furnaces, to which a third was added in 1911 and a
fourth in 1918. Three more sheet mills greatly increased
the company's capacity in 1915, as well as a galvanizing
shop. There are about 1,200 men on the pay-roll, which in
1920 was over $2,000,000. The weekly output approximates
400 tons of tin plate and 1,000 tons of sheet steel. The
company has erected ninety houses, which it has sold to
its employes on reasonable terms, and the friendliest of
feelings exist between the corporation and its men. The
Follansbee brothers, of whom there were formerly four, but
now only three, were merchants of Pittsburgh prior to en-
tering their present line. They now have a similar mill at
Toronto, Ohio, with about the same capacity.

An auxiliary company of the Follansbee Brothers Com-
pany is the Sheet Metal Specialty Company, which was
established in 1906 on a small scale with about fifteen men
employed. In December, 1906, the plant was destroyed by
fire, but was rebuilt on a larger scale and since then has
been enlarged at different times, now having four two-story
buildings, 50 x 150 feet each, with from seventy to eighty
employes engaged in making sheet metal ovens and stovepipe
and elbows. In 1921 this company took over a two-story
building 180 x 130 feet, formerly operated by others for
several years in making metal specialties, and this is now
utilized for the manufacture of milk and garbage cans, with
some fifty employes. This latter acquisition added about an
additional half to the company's output, sold to jobbers,
which is now about 350 cars. The buildings of this plant
have some 65,000 square feet of floor space, and the annual
pay-roll amounts to $105,000. The officers are: John Fol-
lansbee, president; L. A. Diller, secretary and manager; and
D. Reed, treasurer.

Mr. Banfield is also president of the East Ohio Sewer
Pipe Company at Irondale, Ohio, one of the important local
industries of that place, president of the Union Savings
Bank and Trust Company at Steubenville, and a director
of the Citizens Bank of that place. He likewise is an elder
of the Second Presbyterian Church at Follansbee, West
Virginia, and now makes his home at Follansbee.

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Subject: BIO: Hon. Belvard J. PRITCHARD, Wayne County, WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 260-261
Wayne County

HON. BELVARD J. PRICHARD, president of the Wayne
County Bank and president of the Southern West Virginia
Oil and Gas Corporation, located at Wayne forty years
ago as a young lawyer, and while steadily maintaining a
reputation for skill and efficiency as a civil and commer-
cial lawyer, his interests have become widely extended not
only in the industrial field but as a forceful influence in
all matters of progress in his section of the state.

Mr. Prichard represents a pioneer family of West Vir-
ginia and Eastern Kentucky, and was born June 10, 1856,
near Garner, on Little Sandy, in Boyd County. His first
American ancestor was William Prichard, who left Wales
when a boy of fourteen, accompanied by his brother John,
and, getting on board an Italian vessel, was taken across
the sea and left on the shores of Virginia about 1745.
William Prichard finally went to Russell County, Virginia,
where he was living at the beginning of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and subsequently moved to what is now Boyd County,
Kentucky, where he died in 1819. His children were John,
James, Lewis and Elizabeth. Of these Lewis was the father
of Dr. Lewis Prichard, long prominent as a banker of
Charleston, West Virginia.

James Prichard, son of William, was born in Russell
County, Virginia, in 1796, and as a boy saw service in the
War of 1812 as a coast guard at Norfolk, Virginia.
About 1820 he came down the Big Sandy and settled at
Buchanan in Lawrence County, Kentucky, where he became
a citizen of distinction, planter and slave owner, and it is
said that ho never sold a slave, and negroes were so at-
tached to him and his family that after liberty was given
them they declined to part. James Prichard was a practical
ideal of the peacemaker in his neighborhood, and was well
qualified for the office of justice of the peace, which he
filled. He also served as county assessor. He married Eliz-
abeth Stewart, who was born in Giles County, Virginia, in
1804. They were active Methodists, and their family con-
sisted of eight sons and one daughter.

One of the sons was Dr. William Allen Prichard, who
was born near Buchanan in Lawrence County, Kentucky,
August 4, 1823, and died at Garner February 2, 1900.
He graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cin-
cinnati in 1854, and for many years practiced his profes-
sion at Garner. He served one term in the Kentucky State
Legislature, was a member of the Royal Arch Chapter of
Masons at Ashland, a stanch democrat and a contributing
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Doctor
Prichard married Samantha Jones, who was born in Lee
County, Virginia, September 17, 1830, and died September
13, 1916. She was the mother of six children: James M.,
a physician in Lee County, Virginia; Mrs. James W. Mul-
lan, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky; Belvard J.; Mary E., who
died at the age of twelve years; Helen, wife of Samuel D.
Finley, of Bolts Fork, Kentucky, and both now deceased;
Robert A., a resident of Wheaton, Missouri.

Belvard J. Prichard acquired his early education in the
public schools of Eastern Kentucky, attended an academy
at Ashland, the National Normal University at Lebanon,
Ohio, and Center College at Danville, Kentucky. In tlie
course of these educational advantages he taught three ru-
ral schools. He began the study of law in the office of his
uncle. Keener F. Prichard, and Judge John Elliott at Cat-
lettsburg, and in 1879 received his law degree from the
University of Louisville. Mr. Prichard began practice at
Greencastle, Indiana, where he was associated with C. 0.
Matson, afterward an Indiana Congressman and also nom-
inee of his party for governor. Reasons of health caused
Mr. Prichard to give up his promising professional con-
nections in Indiana, and in 1881 he located at Wayne,
Wayne County, West Virginia.  His first associate here
was William Merreil in the firm Prichard & Merrell, later
he was a member of Prichard, McAlister & Fry, and sub-
sequently Judge Tiernan became senior member of the firm
Tiernan, Prichard & Fry. As his practice increased Mr.
Prichard confined his efforts more and more to his spe-
cialty as a civil and commercial lawyer.

With his rising professional prominence came honors of
a public nature, and for two terms he was mayor of Wayne,
and in 1888 was elected a member of the State Senate,
serving as chairman of the committee on counties and munic-
ipalities and the finance committee. In 1914 he was again
urgpd to become a candidate for the Legislature, and was
nominated by the democratic party, his nomination being en-
dorsed by the republican and progressive parties. He re-
ceived every vote in the county except 191. He went to
the Legislature primarily to fight the pending bill designed
to cut off a part of Wayne County, and he permanently
blocked that piece of legislation. In 1916 Mr. Prichard
became a member of the County Court, but resigned be-
fore serving his full term.

The Wayne County Bank was organized in 1904, and
Mr. Priehard has been president of this institution ever
since. In 1908 he organized the Belvard Oil & Gas Com-
pany, of which he became president, in 1909 organized the
Central Wayne Oil & Gas Company, and in 1912, the Wayne
Light, Heat & Water Company. These three companies
have since been merged together as the Southern West
Virginia Oil & Gas Corporation, of which Mr. Prichard
is president. He also organized the East Lynn Coal Com-
pany and the Big Sandy, East Lynn and Guyon Railroad
Company, and among other enterprises he has promoted
is the Wayne Brick & Tile Company. He has been an en-
thusiastic advocate of good roads construction for a num-
ber of years. Fraternally he is a Royal Arch Mason, hag
been grand master of the State Lodge of Odd Fellows, and
has filled all the district offices in the Knights of Pythias.

In 1880 Mr. Prichard married Catherine Finley, daugh-
ter of Eb Finley. Mrs. Prichard died in 1901, the mother
of five children. The oldest, E. F., is an accountant at
Macon, Georgia; Dr. Allen C. was in the World war as first
lieutenant, then as captain, and, finally, as major. He was
on the battle front at St. Mihiel and the Argonne, being
dangerously wounded in the latter, action, and is now prac-
ticing medicine at Hot Springs, Arkansas. The third child,
Stella M., is the wife of Gordon Davis, of Huntington,
West Virginia. The son Oscar died at the age of nineteen,
and the youngest, Sallie, is the wife of C. W. Harp, of Lex-
ington. In 1902 Mr. Prichard married Etta R. Rucker,
daughter of John W. and Emma Bell Rucker, of Lawrence
County, Ohio. To this marriage have been born three sons,
Belvard R., Marion J. and Russell G.