WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest				Volume 00 : Issue 17

Today's Topics:
  #1 Bio- Henry Fairbanks Warden- McDow   [Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>]
  #2 Bio- WalterAllen Carr M.D.- McDowe   [Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>]
  #3 BIO: WELCH, Richard A., Mineral Co   [Vivian Brinker <VIVIANB@RAVEN.CCC.]
  #4 BIO: BACHMAN, Wheeler H., Wheeling   [Vivian Brinker <VIVIANB@RAVEN.CCC.]


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Subject: Bio- Henry Fairbanks Warden- McDowell Co.
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society Inc.
Chicago and New York Volume 11
Page 240
Bio- Henry Fairbanks Warden-McDowell Co.


   Henry is a young man who has shown fine executive and administrating
ability in connection with the coal-mining industry in West Virginia,
where he is a general manager of the Williams Pocahontas Coal Company at
War, McDowell Co., besides being general manager also for the Orinoco
Mining Co., Orinoco, on Pond Creek, Pike Co., Kentucky. His residence
and official headquarters are maintained at Bluefield, Mercer Co., West
Virginia.
   A scion of staunch Colonial ancestry in New England, Mr. Warden was
born in the town of Monroe, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, on the 29th of
May, 1893, and he is the son of Alexander and Susie (Fairbanks) Warden,
both likewise natives of Monroe, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, where the
father was a representative merchant and farmer and influential in
political circles and public affairs of a local order. He died in 1908,
at the age of seventy-four years. The first wife of Alexander Warden
bore the maiden name of Lucy Flint, and his second wife, mother of the
subject of this review, died in 1907, at the age of fourty-four years.
Mr. Warden served as draft officer in his native country in the period
of the civil war, and he represented his county in the State
Legislature, served as its sheriff, was city clerk and postmaster at
Monroe, and held other positions of trust. A man of inviolable integrity
and mature judgment, he was a guide and counselor in his community and
commanded unqualified popular confidence. He was  one of the builders of
the Methodist Episcopal Church edifice at Monroe, and was one of the
most zealous and liberal members of the church. His political allegiance
was given to the republican party and he was affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity. He passed the last seven years of his life in supervising
his farms and other property interests. Alexander Warden was a member of
a  family of eleven sons and two daughters, and his father, Andrew
Warden, was one of the substantial citizens of Monroe, Grafton Co., New
Hampshire, at the time of hos death. Alexander and Lucy (Flint) Warden
had one son, Oliver S. who is now owner and manager of the Great Falls
Daily Tribune at Great Falls, Montana. Of the three children of the
second marriage Henry F. of this sketch is the eldest. David R. is chief
inspector and chemist in the employ of W.C.Atwater & Company at
Bluefield, West Virginia. He was a student at Norwich University at
Northfield, Vermont. In the World war period he was with the Near East
Relief Commission in Turkey and Armenia, a service with which he
connected eighteen months before his return to the United States. Ralph
B., a youth of seventeen years(1922), resides with his brother, Henry
F., at Bluefield.
   The early education of Henry F. Warden was acquired in the public
schools of his native county and was supplemented by a four year's
course at St. Johnsbury Academy, a leading preparatory school at St.
Johnsbury, Vermont. Thereafter he held a clerical position with Boston &
Montana Smelting Co. at Great Falls, Montana, now a subsidiary of the
famous Anaconda Smelting Co., and upon his return to the East he took a
course in technical and industrial chemistry at Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, New York, in which institution he was graduate in 1913. Soon
afterward he came to Bluefield, West Virginia, and took the position of
chemist in the office of thePocahontas Coke Co. Eighteen months later he
became chief inspector and chemist for William C. Atwater & Co., his
duties involving inspection of coal mines and their products and the
preparation of coal for market. He retained this position until he was
made manager of the Williams Pocahontas Coal Co. and the Orinoco Mining
Company's properties, owned by the Oriental Navigation Co., New York
City, who are in a position to ship their coal from the West Virginia
and Kentucky coal fields to all parts of the world. The Oracle, official
publication of the Oriental Navigation Co., in one of its recent issues
published a full-page portrait of Mr. Warden, who is probably the
youngest general manager of coal-mining corporations to be found in West
Virginia.
   In 1915 Mr. Warden married Miss Ethel Witt, daughter of J.F. Witt, of
Bluefield, and the two children of this union are Henry Fairbanks, Jr.,
and James Alexander. Mr. and Mrs. Warden are members of the Bland Street
Methodist Church, South, and are popular in the representative social
circles of their home city.

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Subject: Bio- WalterAllen Carr M.D.- McDowell Co.
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published in 1923, The American Historical Society Inc.
Chicago and New York Volume 11
Page 241
Walter Allen Carr, M.D. - McDowell Co.


   Walter Allen Carr, M.D.  In the practice of his profession Dr. Carr
is associated with Dr. David D. Hatfield, the former maintaining his
headquarters at War and the latter at Yukon, both in McDowell Co. As
partners the doctors have charge of the medical and surgical work at the
mines of the following named corporations on Dry Fork and on the line of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad: Warrior Coal Co., Williams Pocahantas
Coal Co., War Creek Coal Co., DomesticPocahantas Coal Co., Yukon
Pocahantas Coal Co., Buckhannon Coal Co., Dry Fork Coal Co., Sawyer
Pocahantas Coal Co., Dry Fork Colliery Co., and Flat Top Coal Co. Each
of these physicians also has a comprehensive and important private
practice of general order.
   Dr. Carr was born at New Hope, Mercer Co., West Virginia, Dec. 9,
1882, and is the son of Edward B. and Mary (Ellison) Carr, the former of
whom likewise was born at New Hope, in 1855, and the  latter of whom
was born in Grayson Co., Virginia, in 1862, a granddaughter of Rev.
Matthew Ellison, a distinguished and revered clergyman of the Baptist
Church in what is now West Virginia. Edward B. Carr was the third
student to enroll his name at the Concord Normal School at Athens, and
he has long maintained high prestige as a successful and popular teacher
in the schools of this state, the while he has taken special
satisfaction in inducing many of his pupils to attend his alma mater,
the State Normal School at Athens. He has wielded large and benignant
influence as an  instructor and counselor of young men and women, his
adiding sympathy and tolerance have been shown in human helpfulnesss,
and he has ever been instant in the aiding of those in suffering and
distress. It is pleasing to note that his son, Dr. Carr of this sketch,
has shown the same gracious attitude and gives his professional service
as well as other aid to those in need, just as willingly and earnestly
to those who have no means of paying him as to those in affluent
circumstances. Further than this, the Dr. attributes much of his
professional success and advancement to the aid and goodly counsel of
his honored father. Edward B. Carr taught in numerous rural schools in
Mercer Co. and also at the normal school at Athens, where he and his
wife now maintain their home. They are zealous members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and he has been a teacher in the Sunday School
for many years. He is independent in politics and is affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity. His father, Col. Shannon Carr, who was born in Wythe
Co. Virginia, represented the Old Dominion State as a gallant soldier
and officer of the Confederacy in the Civil War, in which he was colonel
of a regiment of Virginia infantry. He was a resident of Mercer Co.,
West Virginia, at the time of his death, and served many years as
sheriff of that county. Edward B. and Mary(Ellison) Carr became the
parents of five children: Dr. Edward S., a graduate of the University
College of Medicine of Virginia, is a representative physician and
surgeon at Narrows, that state; Mabel M. is the wife of S.C. Thornton of
Princeton, West Virginia; Alice is(1922) a popular teacher in the public
schools at War, McDowell Co.; Dr. Arthur B. graduated in the Medical
College of Virginia, at Richmond, and is now a professional assistant of
his brother, Dr. Walter A., who is the eldest of the children. Dr.
Arthur B. Carr was a member of the Students Army training Corps during
the period of America's participation in the World war.
   Dr. Walter A. Carr reverts with satisfaction that the major part of
his preliminary education was acquired in schools taught by his father.
Thereafter he continued his studies in the Concord State Normal School
at Athens until 1902, after which he taught school one term in Mercer
Co. In 1907 he graduated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and after thus receiving his degree of
Doctor of Medicine he engaged in practice at Palmer, Braxton Co. Three
months later he joined his brother Edward S. in practice at Narrows,
Virginia, where he remained eighteen months. Since that time he has been
doing admirable professional service in the coal fields of McDowell Co.,
West Virginia, where he now maintains his residence and office in the
village of War. The doctor holds membership in the McDowell Co. Medical
Society, West Virginia State Medical Society, and the American Medical
Association. He is independent in politics, and in the Masonic
fraternity he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge at Narrows, Virginia,
and with the chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Northfork, McDowell Co.
   In 1909 Dr. Carr wedded Miss Hettie Altizer, daughter of William
Altizer, of Harman, West Virginia, and her death occurred in Jan., 1913,
one son, Walter Hatfield Carr, surviving her. In 1917 was recorded the
marriage of Dr. Carr and Miss Elva M. Ward, daughter of George W. Ward,
of Inez, Kentucky, and the two children of this union are a winsome
little daughter, Betty May, and a baby boy, James Arthur.

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Subject: BIO: WELCH, Richard A.,  Mineral County

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II.
pg. 182


RICHARD A. WELCH.  For considerably more than half a century the 
name Welch has been one of prominence in the Mineral County bar.  
The record is not quite continuous, since Richard A. Welch was
not qualified to begin practice until about a year after the
death of his father, who was one of the ablest lawyers and men of
affairs in Keyser from about the close of the Civil war.

The first American of this name came to this country in the colony
of Lord Baltimore, and for several generations the family lived on
the eastern shore of Maryland.  Many states and localities have
families descended from the original one in Eastern Maryland.  The
family supplied a number of soldiers to the Revolutionary war, and 
the ancestor of the branch of family in Mineral County was in the
struggle for independence.  Shortly after the close of that war he 
moved to Allegany County, Maryland.  John Welch, grandfather of
Richard A. Welch, spent all his life in Allegany County, Maryland,
where he was a "gentleman farmer."

William M. Welch, the pioneer lawyer of Mineral County, was born in
Allegany County, Maryland, January 10, 1841.  He attended the old
Allegany County Academy and read law for a time under Judge Hunter
at Cumberland.  He was admitted to practice there in the fall of
1862, but soon afterward left the law to join the army as a Union
man.  He was commissioned a captain in the Quartermaster's
Department, and for a time was stationed at New Creek, now Keyser,
then at Wheeling, and finished his service at Clarksburg.  He was
mustered out soon after the surrender of General Lee.

At the close of the war Mr. Welch came into Eastern West Virginia, 
about the same time as Judge Francis M. Reynolds, and both located 
at Romney, county seat of Hampshire County, which then included
Mineral County, and they were together in practice.  When the party
was divided and Mineral created both these young lawyers destined 
for great prominence in the future, moved over to Keyser, the new
county seat, and they continued to be associated until 1872.  After
that William M. Welch practiced law alone.  He became widely known
for his masterful handling of cases at trial, and was undoubtedly
one of the best trial lawyers in Mineral County.  His successful
career in this profession continued until his death on September 5,
1898.  His name was also well known in democratic politics.  For
seven different terms he represented Mineral County in the House of
Delegates and was twice Speaker of the House.  He was a delegate to
two national conventions, that of 1876, when Samuel J. Tilden was
named for President, and that of 1884, when Grover Cleveland was
nominated.  He was useful to his party and to his friends in a 
number of campaigns, but had no ambition for more of the political
honors that were given him.  He was not a member of any church, but
was a Master Mason.

William M. Welch married Virginia Adams, who was born at Clarksburg,
on the same day of the month and the same year as her husband.  She
is now living at Keyser.  Her parents were Josiah and Hannah (Moore)
Adams.  The Adamses were a Massachusetts family and the Moores came
from Delaware.  Josiah Adams settled at Clarksburg and secured a
patent from Virginia for from 26,000 to 28,000 acres.  He was one of
the prominent farmers and land owners of that section.  The Moore
family came into that region about the same time.  William M. Welch
and wife had the following children:  Mrs. T.P Smith, of Parkersburg;
Mrs. Louise B. Martine, of Chicago; Mrs. Ida V. Rathbone, of
Parkersburg; W.A., of Keyser; Richard A.; and Ralph P., of Holdenville,
Oklahoma.

Richard A. Welch was born at Keyser, April 17, 1878, and during his 
boyhood and youth he profited from the public schools, and after 
finishing high school took his academic work in the University of
Virginia.  He left there at the end of his junior year and enrolled in
the law department of West Virginia, where he graduated LL. B. in 1899.
He at once returned to Keyser and began practice, and a considerable
part of his father's law business drifted to him.  He has continued
his professional work alone, and always in general practice.  The law
has abundantly satisfied him and he has permitted himself no diversion
into the field of politics for the sake of office.  However, he has
done considerable campaign work as a democrat, and until state 
conventions were abolished he was one of the leaders of his party in
this section of the state.  He was a delegate to the Denver National
Convention of 1908, and in 1912 was a member of the West Virginia
delegation pledged to the nomination of Champ Clark at Baltimore,
though personally he was a Woodrow Wilson man, and voted for Wilson
as soon as the West Virginia delegation was released from its 
instructions.  He also served as a member of the Democratic State
Committee for eight years.  While a good and loyal democrat, Mr.
Welch cast his first presidential vote for Swallow, the prohibition
candidate, declining to support the nominee of his own party.

His practical public service has been given to his home town.  He
consented to serve seven consecutive terms as mayor.  During these
administrations a large amount of paving was done, sewers laid, 
concrete walks built, water works installed, and when these
improvements had reached a satisfactory stage he felt that his
obligations to the community had been discharged and he was satisfied
to retire.  During the World war he was chairman of the Legal Advisory
Committee for Mineral County, of all of the Liberty Loan drives at
Keyser, and member of the County Council of Defense.

At Martinsburg, West Virginia, August 16, 1911, Mr. Welch married 
Miss Mary D. Edwards, a native of Martinsburg.  her father, William G.
Edwards, was a business man of that city, and by his marriage to
Miss Roush had three children:  William G. Edwards, Jr., of Chicago;
Mrs. Welch, who was born October 5, 1887; and Mrs. Nell Sherpick, of
New York City.  Mr. and Mrs. Welch have a family of four young
children:  Virginia, Mary, Louise and Richard A., Jr.

Outside of his profession Mr. Welch has been interested in some
business organizations that have contributed to Keyser's advancement.
he was associated with Doctor Gerstell in the organization of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank, and is a director of and attorney for the
bank.  For a time he was a director for the Keyser Electric Light
Company, and for many years was president and director of the Alkire
Orchard Company.

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Subject: BIO:  BACHMAN, Wheeler H.,  Wheeling

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II.
pg. 183


WHEELER H. BACHMAN for a number of years has been a power in the
commercial and financial affairs of Wheeling, was formerly in the 
dry goods jobbing business, and is now member of the investment
firm of Speidel & Bachman, Incorporated, of which he is president.

Mr. Bachman, whose citizenship has been distinguished by the
broadest cooperation in enterprises for welfare and charity, was
born at Wheeling, March 22, 1870.  His father, William Phillip
Bachman, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1838, and was a boy of 
ten years when he accompanied some relatives to the Unites States.
He reached Wheeling, the city destined to be his permanent home,
about 1853, and in after years he achieved a position as a 
successful merchant, with associations with other business and
banking affairs.  He was a staunch republican.  He died at
Wheeling in 1918.  William P. Bachman married Lucy Wheeler, who
was born in Dudley Port, England, in 1845.  Her father, Simmons
Wheeler, was born in Dudley Port, was a shipyard owner there, 
and was killed when thrown from a horse.  He married Martha 
Simmons, a native of Dudley Port, who came to the United States 
when her daughter Lucy was fifteen years of age.  Thereafter
she made her home at Wheeling, where she died.  Lucy Wheeler 
Bachman, who died at Wheeling in 1919, was for nearly half a 
century an active member of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal
Church.  She was the mother of two children, Jessie Martha and
Wheeler H.  The former is the wife of George Grant Ralston, a
resident of Martin's Ferry, Ohio.

Wheeler H. Bachman was educated in the public schools of Wheeling,
attended Frazier's Business College until 1888, following which
he spent seven years with a retail dry goods store, familiarizing
himself with the detail of the business and at the same time 
making a close study of the jobbing phase of dry goods 
merchandising.  In 1895 he embarked his experience and capital in a 
wholesale dry goods business, and was active in that line nearly 
twenty years, until 1914.  As a jobber he had an extensive general 
trade through West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and in special 
lines he did a large volume of business over the United States,
especially with jobbing houses in New York City and Chicago.  Mr.
Bachman became a member of the firm Speidel & Bachman, Incorporated,
in 1914.  This firm acts as underwriters and investment brokers,
and the names of the partners are the highest guarantee of their
financial integrity and reliability.  The offices of this firm are
in the Wheeling Bank & Trust Company Building.  Mr. Bachman is 
president, Joseph Speidel Jr., vice president, and Jesse Speidel,
secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Bachman is a member of the executive committee and a director of 
the Wheeling Bank & Trust Company; is secretary of the Carr China 
Company of Grafton, West Virginia; a director of the United Dairy
Company of Wheeling; a director of the Camden Coal & Land Company of
West Virginia; and a director and assistant treasurer of the Arizona
Mossback Mine Company of Oatman, Arizona.  He is also a director of
the Equitable Mortgage Company of Cleveland, director of the Fidelity
Investment Association of Wheeling, vice president of the Union Mines
of Wheeling, formerly secretary and treasurer of the Wheeling Stock
Exchange of Wheeling for a period of three years and a member of the
Advisory Board of the Lutz & Schraunn Company of Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.

In 1908, at Wheeling, Mr. Bachman married Miss Edith Carr, daughter
of Thomas and Alice (Stockwell) Carr, residents of Grafton, where
her father is president and general manager of the Carr China Company.
The Carrs were an old family of New York City, while the Stockwells 
run back into the Colonial history of Vermont.  Mrs. Bachman was 
educated in public and private schools at Wheeling.  They have one son,
Wheeler Carr, born September 4, 1911.

For a number of years Mr. and Mrs. Bachman have been closely 
associated with mutual interests and sympathies in many phases of 
broad and constructive charity and public spirit.  They have helped 
support all the charitable organizations of the city without respect 
to creed.  Mrs. Bachman is a member of the Board of the Aged and 
Friendless Women's Home, and is a member of one of the "Hospital 
Twigs," organizations for the purpose of raising funds for the 
hospitals.  She is a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, 
while Mr. Bachman is one of the active supporters of St. Matthew's 
Protestant Episcopal Church and is president of its Men's Bible Class 
and a vestryman of St. Matthew's Church.  He is a republican, is 
affiliated with Wheeling Lodge No. 28, B. P. O. E., is a member of the 
Wheeling County Club, the Fort Henry County Club and the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen.  His home is a fine old residence at Cambridge 
Springs, Pennsylvania.  During the World war Mr. Bachman was active in 
the placing of Government securities, and was a working member of all
the committees in the Red Cross, Liberty Loan and other drives.