WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                           Volume 00 : Issue 181


Today's Topics:
  #1 BIO: WILL A. QUIMBY, M. D., Ohio C   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #2 BIO: SEBASTIAN M. MILLER, Raleigh    [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #3 BIO: ROBERT KEMP MORTON, Kanawha C   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #4 BIO: CAPT. FRANCIS W. TURNER, Kana   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #5 BIO: EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, JR., Ka   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #6 BIO: EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, SR. , K   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]


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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. 535-536
Ohio


WILL A. QUIMBY, M. D. A Wheeling physician. Doctor
Quimby after several years or general practice specialized
in X-Ray and Radium work, and through his broad study
and specialization of the technical facilities on which he
has concentrated has made his specialty an invaluable serv-
ice to the public and to the medical and surgical profes-
sion of Wheeling.


Doctor Quimby is a native of Wheeling, where he was
born August 19, 1881. His father, Charles H. Quimby,
was born in Boston; Massachusetts, in 1838, was reared in
Massachusetts and Maine. In 1862 he moved to Marietta,
Ohio, and in 1865 located at Wheeling. He was a tanner
by trade, and continued to follow that work for some time
after coming to Wheeling. He then engaged in the news-
paper and stationery business, and was an active merchant
of Wheeling until he retired in April, 1920. He is now
living at Bridgeport, Ohio. He is a republican, and for
many years has been a faithful member of the Baptist
Church. He first married in Peabody, Massachusetts, but
the two children of that union died in infancy. After
coming to Wheeling he married Sarah Baker, who was
born at Captine, Ohio, in 1841, and died at Blaine, that
state, in 1905. To that marriage were born six children:
A. Judson, an X-Ray specialist in New York City; Charles
H., Jr., a civil engineer at Washington, D. C.; Miss Jennie
C., a graduate nurse and superintendent of the Maternity
Hospital at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Will A.; Mary D., wife
of Milton Kennedy, a contractor at Bridgeport, Ohio; and
John C., a teacher of agriculture in the State Normal
School at Dillon, Montana.


Will A. Quimby acquired his early education in the pub-
lic schools of Blaine, Ohio. He graduated from Linsly
Institute at Wheeling in 1903, attended the West Virginia
State University, and subsequently entered Starling-Ohio
Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he was gradu-
ated M. D. in 1908. One year he spent as interne in the
Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, and also did some gen-
eral practice there. Doctor Quimby has been a member
of the medical profession at Wheeling since 1909. He was
the first physician in Ohio County to use radium in the
treatment of certain cases, and his work is practically con-
fined to X-Ray and Radium practice, for which he has
an equipment probably not excelled in any other city in
the Ohio Valley. His offices are in the Wheeling Steel
Corporation Building.  Doctor Quimby is a member of
the Ohio County, West Virginia State and the American
Medical Associations, the American Roentgen Ray Society,
the Radiological Society of North America, and is secre-
tary and treasurer of the Curie Radium Society, Inc., of
Wheeling.


In politics he is a republican, is a member of the Metho-
dist Church, is affiliated with Bridgeport Lodge No. 181,
F. and A. M., Wheeling Consistory of the Scottish Rite,
Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of
Fort Henry Club. His residence is at Lenox, Wheeling.


Doctor Quimby married at Bridgeport, Ohio, in 1913,
Mrs. Helen Dunlevy Sprott, daughter of Major Seymour
and Emma (Rhodes) Dunlevy, both of whom died at
Bridgeport.


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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. 556
Raleigh


SEBASTIAN M. MILLER is a mining engineer, with a wide
and varied experience in the mining district of West Vir-
ginia and other states. He has been the engineer and
operating official in the development of the most important
coal districts in the southern part of the state. His home for
the past ten years has been at Beckley in Raleigh County,
and he has been manager of the sale of land for a large
group of mining properties in the interest of the Interstate
Coal and Dock Company of Huntington. This company is
incorporated under the laws of Maine, and its officers and
directors comprise one of the most powerful groups of coal
operators in the Middle West. The general manager and
secretary-treasurer of the company is C. H. Mead of Berkeley,
and Mr. Miller for a number of years has been associated
with the Mead coal interests in this state.


Mr. Miller was born February 18, 1868, at Pine Grove,
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. His ancestors have been
in Pennsylvania since Colonial times, and comprise an ad-
mixture of English, German and Scotch. About 1750 the
German branch of the family acquired an interest in lands in
Pennsylvania, and subsequently brought a colony of Germans
who settled on the land. The parents of Mr. Miller were
George and Katherine (Mull) Miller, natives of Pennsyl-
vania. Mr. Miller's grandfather on his mother's side was
an Abraham Lincoln elector for Pennsylvania. The Millers
were pioneers in the development of the anthracite coal
fields of Schuylkill County. Sebastian Miller's grandfather
began mining coal in that county in 1827, and subsequently
associated with him his sons David, George and another son,
and they continued these operations until 1890. George
Miller was a Union soldier who joined the army in the
closing months of the Civil war. He was a thirty-second
degree Mason and belonged to the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He died in 1881.


Sebastian M. Miller attended the common schools 01
Schuylkill County, also Mercersburg Academy, and from
there entered Franklin and Marshall College of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, where he graduated A. B. in 1888. Subse-
quently he pursued special courses in mine engineering, and
also as a matter of general business education rather than
with a view to fitting himself for the profession he read
law for about a year. On leaving Pennsylvania Mr. Miller
spent about a year and a half as a practical geologist and
engineer in the gold, silver and lead fields of Colorado in big
own interest. He was also in the coal mining district of
Utah and acquired some interest in a considerable acreage
of coal land. For about a year he was in the coal mining
section around Fort Scott, Kansas. While in the West he
became interested in a proposition to build what was to be
known as the Utah & California Nevada Railway, and he
connected with the construction company as treasurer
and director in charge of the survey, and secured the right
of way for this line. He returned to New York in the
interest of the railroad in 1896. Not long afterward he be-
came associated with his uncle in coal mining operations in
Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. His uncle died in 1905,
and the mine properties were sold to New York parties, Mr.
Miller remaining in charge for the new owners. These
operators subsequently became interested in West Virginia,
and Mr. Miller came to the state to represent them in 1906,
and he handled many of the matters connected with the
purchase of the properties of the New River Smokeless
Coal Company, Cunard Coal Company, Brooklyn Coal Com-
pany, Red Ash Coal Company, Rush Run Coal Company,
the Sun Mines Nos. 1-2-3, the Lanark Coal Company and the
Royal Coal Company. These purchases included nine mines
in all, and the properties were organized as the New River
Collieries Company. Mr. Miller became general manager of
this corporation, and he negotiated the lease of 8000 acres
from the Crab Orchard Land Company. He was the practical
man in charge of the development of this property, and
supervised the installation of two sets of shafts and the
building of railroads, power plants, store buildings, offices,
tipples, dwellings and club house. The first coal was shipped
from this property in 1907. Mr. Miller remained with the
organization for two and one half years, and then
established himself as a consulting engineer at Beckley.
In 1912 he became associated with P. M. Snyder, S. A.
Scott, J. L. Bumgardner and others in securing leases to
fifteen hundred acres of coal lands in the Winding Gulf
District. The development of this property was under his
personal supervision, and the corporation handling it was
known as the East Gulf Coal Company.


Mr. Miller sold his interests in this corporation in 1917,
and then became interested in the Interstate Coal and
Dock Company a Coal Sales Company, becoming its
manager in order to round out his experience in the coal
business in this district. He is also interested in the Low
Volatile Consolidated Coal Company, of which C. H. Mead
is president. Mr. Miller is now general sales manager for
all the coal produced in the properties of C. H. Mead Coal
Company, Bailey-Wood Coal Company, Ragland Coal Com-
pany, Ingram Branch Coal Company, and the Low Volatile
Consolidated Company, there being six mines producing
about a million tons annually.


In November, 1907, at Washington, D. C., Mr. Miller
married Miss Anna B. Scott, daughter of Samuel Scott,
a native of Maryland. Mr. Miller is affiliated with the
Elks Lodge and the Kiwanis Club, and is a member of the
Episcopal Church. He is also a member of the Raleigh
County Country Club, the White Oak Country Club, and
the Old Colony Club.


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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. 558
Kanawha


ROBERT KEMP MORTON brought to the profession of law
an education and early training derived from contact as a
student with some of the foremost institutions of education
in America. He had decided talents for the profession,
and his record as a practicing lawyer for fifteen years has
brought him deserved prominence. Mr. Morton has been
a member of the Charleston bar for the past ten years,
and is widely known over the state as state president of
the West Virginia Elks' Association.


He was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, in 1880, son
of William Benjamin and Margaret (Crockett) Morton.
His parents were also born in old Virginia, representing
families long identified with that commonwealth.  The
Mortons had their ancestral seat in Prince Edward County.
Margaret Crockett represented one branch of the family
that produced the famous pioneer Davy Crockett.


Robert Kemp Morton was educated in Randolph-Macon
College in Virginia, graduating in 1903, with the Bachelor
of Arts degree and did postgraduate work in history and
political science in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.


After one year at Johns Hopkins Mr. Morton decided
to take up the profession of the law. and prepared for
the bar at the University of Virginia.  He began the
practice of law at Tazewell Court House in his native
county in 1906, but in 1912 moved to Charleston. For
some time he was associated in practice with Judge A. S.
Alexander, now on the bench. Mr. Morton is now senior
member of the firm of Morton and Mohler. They have
a large general civil practice and represent among their
clients some of the important business and industrial in-
terests of the state.


Mr. Morton has for a number of years been active in
the Charleston Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, is past exalted ruler of Charleston Lodge,
and the many valuable services he has rendered the Order
led to his being elected president of the West Virginia
Association of Elks at the annual state convention of the
Order at Charleston in September, 1921. He is also a
member of the college fraternity Kappa Alpha. He is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member
of Beni-Kedem Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.


Mr. Morton married Miss Julia Ward Davidson, of
Mercer County. West Virginia, in 1909.  Their three
children are Robert Kemp, Jr., Margaret Elizabeth and
William Benjamin III.


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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. 519
Kanawha


CAPT. FRANCIS W. TURNER was an officer in the American
forces during the late war, is a captain in the West Virginia
National Guard, and is a prominent young business man of
St. Albans, Kanawha County, where he is engaged in the
insurance business with his father.


His father, W. T. Turner, was born at St. Albans, repre-
senting a pioneer family of Kanawha County. For a num-
ber of years he has carried on a general insurance business
in St. Albans, the firm being now Turner & Turner. Francis
W. Turner was born at St. Albans in 1895, son of W. T. and
Dimmie (Wheeler) Turner. He acquired a public school
education in St. Albans, and for three years was a student
in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of
West Virginia. While at the university he received his
military training, and was a member of the Cadet Corps.


Soon after America entered the war with Germany he en-
listed, in May, 1917, at Camp Kanawha with the Second
West Virginia Infantry. When this organization was mus-
tered into the army it was sent for training to Camp Shelby,
Mississippi, and while there Mr. Turner was commissioned
a second lieutenant. The Second West Virginia became a
part of the Thirty-eighth Division, but on going overseas,
however, in September, 1918, Francis Turner went into the
Twenty-ninth Division. With this division he was in the
fighting in the Argonne Forest. He received his honorable
discharge in June, 1919, and for some time thereafter at-
tended the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.


On returning home he joined his father in the insurance
business. With the reorganization of the Old National
Guard after the war, as a permanent unit in the Federal
Military Establishment, Mr. Turner joined Company B, One
Hundred and Fiftieth Infantry, and in the fall of 1921
was commissioned captain by Adjutant-General Charnock, of
West Virginia. Captain Turner is in active charge of this
unit. The National Guard is now formally incorporated
in the Federal army, and is no longer officially designated as
the First National Guard.


Captain Turner is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity and is affiliated with the Masons, Knights of
Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
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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. 521
Kanawha


EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, JR., is a civil engineer by pro-
fession, but for several years past his time and abilities have
been expended with the Bowman Lumber Company of St.
Albans, of which he is manager. His father, E. C. Colcord,
Sr., is also prominently connected with that and allied in-
dustries at St. Albans, and a separate article gives the
details of his career.


E. C. Colcord, Jr., is the oldest in a family of seven
children, and was born at Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
January 15, 1885. He has lived in West Virginia since
childhood, and he secured a liberal education in the schools
of this state. In 1907 he graduated in the civil engineering
course from West Virginia University, and during the next
four years he carried on a general practice as a civil en-
gineer. For two years he was at work on Ohio River im-
provement. Since then he has been general manager of the
Bowman Lumber Company at St. Albans. Mr. Colcord
married Gertrude Bocke, daughter of Capt. A. A. and Julia
Doddrige-Lackey Bocke, of St. Albans. They have one son,
E. C. Colcord, III. Mr. Colcord is a republican, and has
spent four years in the council of St. Albans and is a
Master Mason.


The Bowman Lumber Company is a West Virginia Cor-
poration organized and capitalized chiefly by men from
Baltimore and Williamsport. It was organized about 1880,
and its operations as a lumber mill have been conducted
steadily at St. Albans. The first plant had a capacity of
about 35,000 feet per day and an average annual output of
between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 feet. It cut great quan-
tities of timber along the Coal River, and those cut-over
lands are now leased for coal purposes. In former years it
drew much of its lumber from Boone County and later
from Raleigh. The company has about 125 men on its pay
roll, fifty of them living at St. Albans, while the others
are in the woods. Up to about sixteen years ago their
plant manufactured only poplar lumber, but it now handles
red and white oak, chestnut and maple, and it supplies
large quantities of wood used for the high class product in
furniture, interior work and automobiles.


The same interests who own the Bowman Lumber Com-
pany also comprise the Rowland Land Company, which owns
coal and timber lands in Raleigh County to an extent of
50,000 acres. These lands are leased for coal operations,
and there are seven different mines that have been started
during the last fifteen years, known as the Long Branch
Coal Company, the Marsh Fork Coal Company, the Birch
Fork Coal Company, Colcord Coal Company, Glogora Coal
Company, Hazy Eagle Collieries Company and Raleigh
Wyoming Coal Company. 
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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. 521
Kanawha


EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, SR. A resident of St. Albans
since 1889, Edward Clark Colcord, Sr., came to this state
as a timber expert, and for many years has been general
superintendent of the lumber, coal and land interests of
the Bowman Lumber Company. At the same time he has
been an enlightened and progressive leader in the affairs
of his community, and several times has gone to the Leg-
islature from Kanawha County.


He was born in Franklin County, Vermont, September
4, 1851. Now past the age of three score and ten an'd
still active, he comes of a long lived and vigorous family,
some of whom have reached the age of ninety. He is a
son of John and Sylvia Prudentia (Bowman) Colcord.
It is an old family in New England, established there
before the Revolution. John Colcord served as a member
of the State Legislature during the Civil war. His wife's
father, Eben E. Bowman, was a contractor in the con-
struction of the Erie Railroad. Mrs. Sylvia Coleord died
at the old homestead when past ninety.


E. C. Colcord, Sr., at the age of seventeen went to the
Northwest with an engineering corps, and about 1872 be-
came interested in the lumber industry at Eau Claire, Wis-
consin, then and for years afterward one of the largest
centers for the production of Northern White Pine lumber.
He also became interested in lumber manufacture at Wil-
liamsport, Pennsylvania, and while there became associated
with a group of capitalists who were interested in the
purchase of timber lands in West Virginia. The Bowman
Lumber Company began the buying of lands in this state
in 1886. The first mill was constructed in 1888 and produc-
tion began in the spring of 1889. The company were far
sighted and desired to secure land not only valuable for
the timber, but also for coal. Mr. Colcord made personal
inspections of large areas in the mountains of West Vir-
ginia, and purchased over 50,000 acres. In 1892 he took
charge of all the Bowman manufacturing operations. In
connection with this large business he has had much to do
with the commercial and civic affairs of St. Albans. He
is one of the original directors of the Bank of St. Albans,
and is president of the St. Albans Board of Trade. He
is a Knight Templar Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine
and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.


As a republican he was elected to the House of Delegates
in 1900 for the session of 1901, and in 1902 was elected
a member of the State Senate, serving from 1903 to 1905.
In 1908 he was again elected a member of the House.
For many years he has been a member of the State Board
of Equalization. While he has thus been in the service
of the state government, his keenest interest is in his home
town. St. Albans is one of the choicest residence towns
in the state, owing largely to the high stock of citizenship
that has been developed there.


In 1883 Mr. Colcord married Mary Agnes McManigal,
of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. She died in 1919. She
was a very active .member of the Presbyterian Church.
They were the parents of a family of seven children. The
oldest is Edward Clark, Jr., now manager of the Bowman
Lumber Company at St. Albans.  Francis C. and his
brother Eugene L. are the owners and operators of the
Colcord Coal Company in Raleigh County. Sylvia Prudentia
is the wife of M. W. Stark, a lumber manufacturer,
formerly at St. Albans with the American Column and
Lumber Company and now a resident of Columbus, Ohio.
Mary Agnes is a graduate of the Dickinson Seminary at
Williamsport and the Colonial School at Washington, and is
at home. Tritain Coffin is a mining engineer. William
Allison, the youngest, is associated with his brothers in
the Colcord  Coal Company.