WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 162 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: WEBSTER WADSWORTH WAUGH, Jack [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #2 BIO: WILLIAM E. WRIGHT, Fayette Co [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #3 MEMBERS - House of Delegates-Sessi [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #4 BIO: THE WHEELING SANITARY MANUFAC [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #5 BIO: GEORGE D. MILLER, Cabell Co. [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #6 BIO: J. P. SNYDER, Lewis Co. WV [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:15:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709133814.00c57d10@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: WEBSTER WADSWORTH WAUGH, Jackson Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 469 WEBSTER WADSWORTH WAUGH. Substantially identified with the business affairs of Ripley as an automobile dealer, Mr. Waugh is an expert in all the mechanics of automotive engineering, and is a young man who has had a remarkably broad range of experience in practical affairs. He was born near Kenna in Jackson County, February 26, 1886. His grandfather, Arthur Waugh, was a native of old Virginia. He was a physician and surgeon, a pioneer of his profession at Given, West Virginia, and later removed to Mason County, where he practiced as one of the leading doctors of his community until he died in 1863, his death being the result of a kick from a horse. His first wife, and the grandmother of W. W. Waugh, was Miss Boswell, who was born in old Virginia and died at Given, West Virginia, in 1854, at the birth of her son Samuel G. A. Waugh. Samuel G. A. Waugh was born in Jackson County, April 17, 1854, and has spent his life in this county, though for several years his father lived in Mason County. His activities have been those of a farmer, and for a number of years he also taught in the rural schools of Jackson County. He and his son Webster W. now own together a farm on Thir- teen Mile Creek. He is a republican, has served as constable of Ripley District four years, is a member of Ripley Lodge No. 16, A. F. and A. M., and was formerly active in the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias and at one time was an organizer of Odd Fellows lodges. Samuel G. A. Waugh married Elizabeth Brotherton, who was born in Jackson County in 1862. The oldest of their children, Edie, died in childhood; Felicia D. is a teacher in the rural schools of Jackson Cornnty and the widow of Matt Bucklew, a farmer who died as the result of accidental injuries; Onie, who died young; Amy, wife of Jesse Bass, a traveling salesman living in Mason County; William O'Connor, who was head electrician for the Scioto Stone Company at Columbus, Ohio, and was accidentally killed in a stone quarry at the age of thirty- four; Webster W.; Edgar, who died at the age of sixteen; Mamie, wife of Lloyd Crane, a farmer near Fairplain in Jackson County; Lilie, wife of Hollie Parsons, a farmer on Parchment Creek, Jackson County; Clarmont Howard, an automobile mechanic employed in the wrecking room of the Ford Automobile Company at Columbus, Ohio; Harry, a farmer at Given in Jackson County; Beulah and Bernice, twins, the former at home and the latter dying in infancy. Webster W. Waugh spent the first sixteen years of his life on his father's farm. Besides making use of the advantages of the common schools he has perfected his varied knowledge through extensive experience and read- ing and study at home. After leaving home he worked three years in Ohio for the Toledo & Ohio-Central, Kanawha & Michigan and the Hocking Valley railroads, for two months was at work for the Coal & Coke Rail- road at Charleston, West Virginia, for three months fired a stationary boiler for a tunnel company at Gassaway, West Virginia, for three months was a stone chipper on a lock on the Cayahoga River in Ohio, then foreman of a stripping gang in a quarry at Columbus four months, and for two years was a municipal employe at Columbus doing landscape wort and tree pruning. He then changed scenes by going to the Pacific Northwest, and for three months drove a delivery wagon in Spokane. For two months he ran a concrete mixer at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and on returning to Columbus, Ohio, was car repairer in stone quarries six months, and for three months was employed in curing tires in the Diamond Rubber Com- pany's works at Akron. Following that he returned home, and for six months operated the home farm on Thirteen Mile Creek. He was next fireman on a steam shovel at Columbus nine months, then operated a crane for a sand and gravel company at Columbus six months, and craned a shovel at Pickaway, Ohio, five months and worked on general repairs for the Marble Cliff Quarry Company at Columbus two years. He then took another job craning a shovel at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, two months, following which he operated a shovel at West Pittsburgh eight months. This brings his record down to 1916. For seven months following he was master me- chanic on a concrete job at Kensington, Ohio. For about a year after that Mr. Waugh operated a farm on Parch- ment Creek in his home county, and after a seven weeks' course in the Y. M. C. A. Automobile School in Columbus he was granted a diploma and in April, 1919, entered the automobile business at Ripley, associated with A. S. McCoy in the ownership of a public garage on Court Street. This firm sells and repairs automobiles and handles automobile accessories, and has the leading busi- ness of the kind in this part of Jackson County. Mr. Waugh owns his home on Court Street. He is a republican and a member of Ivory Lodge No. 394, F. and A. M., at Hillyard, Ohio. May 9, 1915, at Given, he married Miss Ina Myrtle Maddox, daughter of Charles D. and Belle (Hill) Maddox, farmers near Givens. ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:15:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709143946.00cca870@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: WILLIAM E. WRIGHT, Fayette Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 474 WILLIAM E. WRIGHT. There are, unquestionably, in- dividuals of natural force found in every prosperous city who, by reason of their inherent ability, by the use of their brains and the soundness of their judgment, attain dis- tinction and acquire authority. They are men who in- dustriously work for an end, and in helping them- selves add to the sum of comfort and happiness for all about them. These resourceful men are the depend- ence of the whole social fabric, for their efforts not only bring into being the substantial industries that support commerce, but conduct them along the safe and sane chan- nels which assure public prosperity and general content- ment. In the class referred to is found William E. Wright, of Charleston, president of the Indian Run Coal Company and of the Indian Run Collieries Company. Mr. Wright was born March 23, 1878, at Fayetteville, West Virginia, where he received a public school education, and when little more than a lad commenced his experience with coal concerns. He was first employed by the Winifrede Coal Company, and later by the Kanawha and Hocking Coal and Coke Company, and then became identified with the organization of the Indian Run Coal Company, a sell- ing organization, and the Indian Run Collieries Company, with mines on Armstrong Creek, Fayette County, producing the best high-grade steam and gas coal. This company has five different tipples working on 7,600 acres of land, its production being 750,000 tons annually. The company is now about two years old, having taken over this property from the Black Betsey Coal Company, which had operated on Armstrong Creek for twenty years, and the Elkhorn- Piney Coal Company, located on the same creek. The Indian Run Coal Company and the Indian Run Collieries Company were organized by Mr. Wright and S. G. Smith, who are the principal owners, the latter being the treasurer of both com- panies, with F. O. Harris, of Cannelton, West Virginia, act- ing as general manager. The capital is $1,000,000. For twelve years the Indian Run Coal Company has handled the output of various Kanawha and New River coal com- panies, as also that of the Indian Run Collieries Company. The entire output thus handled amounts to approximately 2,500,000 tons annually. The Armstrong Creek coal is the best by-product coal in the United States, and the Pow- wellton seam is found only on Armstrong and Paint creeks, and on Morris Creek. Mr. Wright has maintained his office at Charleston for the past twelve years, and enjoys an excellent reputation among business men of his city. He has various other in- terests and is a stockholder in a number of banks and other concerns, and as a citizen is notably public-spirited, being a friend and supporter of all movements which promise to advance the public welfare. In politics he is a republican, and his religious connection is with the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He likewise is affiliated with several fraternal orders and is a member of the Rotary Club In 1905 Mr. Wright was united in marriage with Miss Flossie M. Henley, of St. Albans, West Virginia, daughter of the late Capt. C. W. Henley, of that place, a well-known and highly respected citizen of his community. Four chil- dren have been born to this union: Charles Ermen, Paul Henley, William E. and Frances Josephine, the first two of whom are attending the Charleston High School. ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:36:51 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709163554.00c43d50@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: MEMBERS - House of Delegates-Session of 1887. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed MEMBERS - House of Delegates-Session of 1887. [from a voting roster.] Members will please examine the Roll and report to the Clerk any inaccuracies in their Names. House of Delegates-Session of 1887. Bowers, G. M., Berkeley County Brown, J. E., Jackson County Byrne, Peyton, Braxton County Chambers, B. S., Lincoln County Chancellor, W. N.,Wood County Chew, R. P., Jefferson County Chipley, J. J., Hardy County, 2d Del. Dist. Cochran, Jacob, Wetzel County Cochran, P. B., Clay County, 6th Del. Dist. Cook, W. H. H. Wyoming Co.,3d Del. Dist. Crockett, John G., Summers County Crow, George B., Jackson County Davisson, George I., Lewis County Depue, J. W., Wirt County Duval, I. H., Brooke, County, 1st Del. Dis. Ferguson, C. W., Wayne County Gandee, Frederick, Roane Co.,6th Del. Dis. Garden, A. D., Ohio County Gates, D. H., Putnam County Gleason, C. J., Ohio County Gorrell, Oliver, Pleasants County Hagans, J. M., Monongalia County Hager, L. D., Boone County Hamilton, J. M., Calhoun County Harding, J. F., Randolph Co, 5th Del. Dist. Haymond, Henry, Harrison County Hensley, J.L., Mason County Hiner, J. J., Pendleton County Hoke, J. T., Preston County Holmes, M. G., Harrison County Jones, J. P., Preston County Kellar, A. A., Wood County Kidd, R. F., Gilmer County Kincaid, J. G., Fayette County Kinsey, G. W., Marion County Largent, Lewis, Morgan County Lucas, D. B., Jefferson County McClung, W. H., Greenbrier County McCombs, J. T., Marshall County McKinney, J. M., Ritchie County McWhorter, H. C., Kanawha County Middleton, William, Mineral County Oakes, L. H., Kanawha County Peck, J. E., Nicholas County Pugh, A. L., Hampshire County Ragland, H. C., Logan County Reynolds, W. M., Mercer County Riffe, W. C., Raleigh County Ropp, G. H., Berkeley County Roseberry, Andrew, Cabell County Shaw, D. W., Barbour County Sinclair, Josiah, Marshall County Smith, Silas, Tyler County Spencer, J. S., Mason County Sturm, Jesse F., Marion County Sydenstricker, J. M., Greenbrier County Taylor, E. G., Doddridge County Thayer, A. H., Taylor County Toler, W. H., Kanawha County Whittaker, N. E., Ohio County Woods, J. J., Ohio County Woodyard, R. L., Wood County Yeager, Henry A., Pocahontas Co.,4th D. D. Young, Stillman, Upshur County Mr. Speaker, (Rowan, Monroe County.) ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:45:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709131218.00cc6cd0@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: THE WHEELING SANITARY MANUFACTURING COMPANY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 465 Ohio THE WHEELING SANITARY MANUFACTURING COMPANY. The initiation of the pottery industry in the City of Wheel- ing is to be credited to Charles W. Franzheim, George K. Wheat and W. A. Isett, who enlisted the services of J. Pearson, a practical pottery man from England, to assume active charge of the new enterprise. Operations began in the old Wheat tannery plant, which occupied the site of the present Wheeling Tile Company. Later the company erected the La Belle pottery plant, in the south end of the city. In the early days Messrs. Hearne and O'Brien also engaged in the manufacturing of general lines of pottery at Wheeling, but they were not successful and their plant passed into the possession of Anton Reyman, who brought from Germany an expert potter, with the intention of pro- ducing pure porcelain. He continued operations a few years, and about 1890 the Wheeling Potteries Company was organized and took over the plants of the two concerns men- tioned above. Under this title the business was continued until adverse trade conditions resulted in the concern's be- ing placed in the hands of a receiver. Within a short time thereafter a reorganization was effected, the result being the incorporation of the Wheeling Sanitary Manufacturing Company, which initiated operations on the basis of a capital stock of $750,000. With progressive industrial policies, careful and well ordered commercial methods, and ample capital this company has developed a substantial and prosperous manufacturing enterprise, which contributes much to the commercial prestige of Wheeling. The modern manufactory of the company turns out vitreous china prod- ucts of the best type, and the output includes toilet tanks, lavatories and bathtubs of vitreous china, as well as porce- lain bathtubs, laundry trays, kitchen sinks, etc., together with similar products of enameled type. The company now operates three well equipped manufacturing plants, two of which are established in the City of Wheeling and the third at Tiltonville, Ohio. The corps of employes in the plants averages 450 under normal trade conditions, and three salesmen are retained in representing the company to the jobbing trade of the United States, besides which an appreciable export business has been developed. The company's annual payroll at Wheeling aggregates $300,000. The company is at the time of this writing, in the winter of 1921-2, preparing to expend approximately $100,000 in improvements on the Wheeling plants, the principal im- provement being the installing of a new type of kiln, made up of a group of sixteen chambers, instead of individual kilns, a type but recently introduced into this country from England and one that greatly conserves fuel. Of this progressive industrial corporation John E. Wright is presi- dent, and S. P. Alpaugh the secretary and treasurer. Wil- liam F. Stifel, a director of the company, had likewise been a director of the old Wheeling Potteries Company. Mr. Wright, the president of the company, was appointed re- ceiver of the Wheeling Potteries Company in 1910, and he was the primary force in effecting the reorganization and placing the industry on a substantial and profitable basis. ______________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:45:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709131924.00cf92c0@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: GEORGE D. MILLER, Cabell Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 466-467 Cabell GEORGE D. MILLER is one of the prominent young men in the financial and business affairs of Huntington, and a large group of important interests center in him. His chief daily routine is in the First National Bank, of which he is cashier. Mr. Miller was born at Huntington, Decem- ber 20, 1887. His father, the late George F. Miller, came to Huntington when a young man, and after his marriage at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, settled here permanently. He assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Hunting- ton in 1884, and became its first cashier, holding that post until his death. In the meantime he had done something toward making this the largest bank in West Virginia in point of capita] and resources. He was associated with the group of men who really built up Huntington to an im- portant city. He was a democrat, but in 1896 changed politics on account of the free silver issue. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. George F. Miller married Lucy McConnell, a native of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, who died at Huntington. They were the parents of three sons: James I. is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore and is practicing medicine at Huntington. Charles I. is in the wholesale dry goods business at Seattle, Washington. George D. Miller, the youngest of the sons, was educated in the public schools of Huntington, and attended pre- paratory schools at Charlottsville and Alexandria, Virginia. He left school at the age of twenty, and soon afterward became bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Hunting- ton. He was promoted to teller, again to assistant cashier, and since April, 1920, has been cashier of this institution, now housed in the magnificent twelve-story business block that is the outstanding structure in the Huntington district. Mr. Miller is also a director of the bank. He is associated with his brothers in the ownership of several business buildings in Huntington, and among the other interests that claim a share of his active energies are the Huntington Land Company, of which he is secretary, Ohio River Land Company, Pea Bidge Land Company, Kenova-Huntington Land Company, and the Enslow Park Realty Company, all of which he is treasurer, and he is president of the Miller-Hunt Homes Company. Mr. Miller votes as an independent. He is affiliated with Huntington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Huntington Rotary Club, Guyandotte Club of Huntington, Huntington Country Club and West Side Country Club. During the war he exerted himself in behalf of all the patriotic causes, and was particularly valuable in leading and insuring the success of the Liberty Loan drives. Mr. Miller has a modern home at 1056 Sixth Avenue. He married at Huntington in 1908 Miss Chloe Doolittle, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Edward S. Doo- little, now deceased. Her father was a prominent West Virginia lawyer and judge of the Circuit Court. Mrs. Miller is a graduate of Marshall College at Huntington and finished her education in the Randolph-Macon College at Lynchburg, Virginia. Three children have been born to their marriage: George D., Jr., born in 1911; Jane, born in 1914; Chloe, born in 1917. ______________________________ X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:45:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709114421.00b8a230@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: J. P. SNYDER, Lewis Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 464 Lewis J. P. SNYDER. Lewis County honors J. P. Snyder for length of years, industry and faithful performance of duty, his military record as a soldier of the Confederacy, and good citizenship at all times. Mr. Snyder is still living in the house where he was born, January 7, 1839, son of Peter and May 0. (Stone) Snyder. His father was a native of Highland County and his mother of Pendleton County, old Virginia, and after their marriage they settled in Lewis County, in what is now West Virginia, in 1837. Peter Snyder acquired 400 acres of land when he came to Lewis County, and out of the prosperity he gained he subsequently owned 640 acres and was a man of substance and high standing. He was a democrat in politics and a member of the Methodist Church. His first wife died, and he then married a Miss Flesher, and by that union had one child, Peter Snyder, Jr. By his first wife, Miss Stone, there were six children: Saloma, who became the wife of Daniel Hoover; Jeremiah; Hezekiah and Uriah, both deceased; Josiah P.; and Mary C., deceased. Josiah P. Snyder grew up on the home farm, acquired a good education in the nearby schools, and his duties and interests were largely centered at the old homestead until the outbreak of the Civil war. He then joined the Con- federate Army, was in the commissary department under General Jackson, and was in the struggle until the close. He was in several battles, but was never wounded. After the war he resumed his place on the home farm, and has steadily carried on his industry as a general farmer and stockman. He has 600 acres in Lewis County, his home being two miles from Weston, on the Parkersbnrg and Weston Pike. Mr. Snyder is a democrat.