WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                           Volume 00 : Issue 195


Today's Topics:
  #1 BIO: JOSEPH H. HOGE, Mercer Co. WV   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #2 BIO: W. B. HAUGHT , Monongalia CO.   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #3 BIO: WILLIAM GRAY BARNHART, Kanawh   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #4 BIO: THE WELLSBURG NATIONAL BANK,    [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #5 BIO: JAMES STANLEY CORDER, Barbour   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #6 BIO: WILLIAM ALONZO CORDER, Barbou   [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. 591
Mercer


JOSEPH H. HOGE is founder and president of the Blue-
field Produce & Provision Company, Incorporated, a com-
pany with established connections radiating all over the
southern counties and one of the leading concerns of its
kind in the state. Mr. Hoge enjoys an exceptionally high
standing in financial and business circles at Bluefield, where,
though one of the younger business men in years, he has
been identified with commercial affairs throughout the period
marking the great forward progress of this city.


Mr. Hoge was born in Hoge Store, Giles County, Vir-
ginia, February 27,1884, son of Samuel S. and Mary (Price)
Hoge, natives of Virginia. His father was a farmer and
a man of intellectual interests, performing his duty as a
good citizen but not mixing in partisan polities. He was a
member of the Masonic order.


Joseph H. Hoge acquired a common school education at
Hoge Store and spent two years in Roanoke College. He
left school at the age of eighteen and soon afterward came
to Bluefield and engaged in the produce business, starting
with limited capital and gradually extending his trade until
in 1904 he incorporated the Bluefield Produce & Provision
Company, and has been steadily extending its plant and
facilities until the company now does an annual business
valued at more than $1,500,000. The company operates on
a capital of $160,000.


In December, 1905, in Rappahannock County, Virginia, Mr.
Hoge married Miss Eliza Strother. She was a daughter of
Judge James and Mary (Botts) Strother. Mrs. Hoge died
February 25, 1911, leaving two sons, Strother and Joseph
H., Jr. On June 24, 1914, Mr. Hoge married Miss Bessie
Ellett, daughter of Dr. R. T. and Sue (French) Ellett. To
this marriage have been born two children: William Ellett
and Robert Sayers. Mr. Hoge is a member of the Episcopal
Church, is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and
Shriner, and is an active and influential member of the
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club. He plays golf as
a member of the Bluefield Country 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. 605
Monongalia


W. B. HAUGHT is cashier of the Dunkard Valley Bank
at Blacksville, West Virginia. This is one of the prosperous
financial institutions of Monongalia County, serving par-
ticularly the community of Dunkard Creek and its tribu-
taries, about twenty-two miles west of Morgantown. The
bank was organized in 1902, and still retains its capitaliza-
tion of $25,000. It now has a surplus of $12,500 and has
paid regular six per cent dividends. The deposits on June
30, 1921, aggregated approximately $250,000.  John W.
Scott is president, W. I. Booth, of Clarksburg, vice presi-
dent, W. B. Haught, cashier. The first cashier of the bank
was T. J. Collins, who served four or five years.


Mr. Haught was born in Battelle District of Monongalia
County, a few miles west of Blacksville, November 14, 1885,
son of J. N. and Nancy C. (Barr) Haught. His parents
were also born in this community, and are still living at
their old home. The grandfather, Henry Haught, was a
native of Germany and was a lad when he came with his
parents to America and settled in Battelle District.


W. B. Haught is well educated, attending college at
Bridgewater, Virginia, and the Ohio Wesleyan University
at Delaware. He studied law with James A. Meredith at
Fairmont, but soon gave up his professional preparation and
entered the Peoples Bank at Fairmont. He Was promoted
to assistant cashier, and remained there until May, 1914
when he was chosen cashier of the Dunkard Valley Bank,
and is also one of its directors. Mr. Haught is a republican,
and is serving his fourth term as town recorder of Blacks-
ville. He has filled the chairs of the local lodge of Knights
of Pythias and is the present keeper of records and seal.
Mr. Haught takes an intelligent and active interest in all
matters connected with the welfare of the community, and
is particularly interested in education. He was a member
of the Christian Church of Fairmont, and now works with
the local Baptist and Methodist churches.


At Fairmont he married Miss Beryl Crim, of that city.
Mrs. Haught assists Mr. Haught in his duties at the bank.


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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. 592-593
Kanawha


WILLIAM GRAY BARNHART, by reason of his four years'
service as United States district attorney for the Southern
District of West Virginia and as head of one of the busiest
law firms at Charleston, achieved a really state wide repu-
tation at the bar of West Virginia.


These achievements were the result of a comparatively
brief lifetime. He was born near Buffalo in Putnam County
April 15, 1880, and died on Christmas Eve, December 24,
1921. He was a son of Lewis and Isabel (Hartley) Barn-
hart. His father, also deceased, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania and of Holland ancestry, and for years enjoyed a high
place at the bar of Winfield, county seat of Putnam County.
A surviving brother of William G. Barnhart is A. J. Barn-
hart, manager of the Charleston Association of Credit Men.
The late Mr. Barnhart was a popular member of the Elks
and Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Nettie E.
Gillespie, of Braxton County. He was the father of two
children, Ruth Frances, by a former marriage, and William
Gray, Jr.


Mr. Barnhart well earned the tribute paid him by the
Kanawha County Bar Association, whose memorial, now
included in the records of the State and Federal Courts
of West Virginia, is a concise review of his life and is pre-
sented herewith:


"The death of William Gray Barnhart was the fifth
among the Kanawha bar in the year 1921, a mortality that
is remarkable. Our deceased brother was born April 15,
1880, at Buffalo in Putnam County, and was educated in
the local schools of that county and in the University of
West Virginia, from which he graduated in 1902. He was
admitted to the bar of Putnam County immediately after
his graduation, and in the same year was elected to the
Legislature from that county, and served in the regular
session of 1903 and the extra session of 1904. In 1907 he
removed to Charleston, and practiced law in this city, and
in 1913 was appointed United States district attorney for
the Southern District of West Virginia, which position he
held until 1917, when he resigned to take up private prac-
tice. His official record as district attorney was very high.
He was prompt, active, energetic, and very able in the prose-
cution of the pleas of the government. In June, 1920, he
entered the law firm of Barnhart, Horan and Pettigrew.
He was a hard working, energetic, strong and successful
lawyer, and an advocate of very marked powers. He was
noted for his fidelity to his clients and the painstaking way
in which he prepared and tried his cases. His practice
extended throughout Southern West Virginia, and this made
his acquaintance with the people very wide. Such a man
could not keep out of politics, but his participation in
politics was not selfish, and he was more often looking
after the political party of which he was a member than
his own personal interest. There were few men in the state
with greater powers upon the 'stump' and he found it
difficult to resist the demands of his friends throughout
Southern West Virginia whenever a campaign was on, and
often he would yield to these demands to the sacrifice of his
own personal interest. Few men had more devoted per-
sonal friends. Just before he died he had settled himself
down to the practice of law to the exclusion of everything
else, and that success was attendant which always comes
to a lawyer from application and ability. His death, from
our narrow viewpoint, seems untimely. Barely in the prime
of life, thoroughly equipped for a professional career, it
seemed that he was just fairly beginning as a successful
lawyer. His fellow members,of the bar deeply regret his
untimely death, and feel that this bar has lost a strong
arm, and a member who would have added still further
luster and honor to our profession."


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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. 601
Brooke


THE WELLSBURG NATIONAL BANK is one of the most sub-
stantial and important financial institutions of Brooke
County and its judicial center, the City of Wellsburg. This
historic old institution dates its foundation back to the
year 1832, when it instituted operations under the cor-
porate title of Northwestern Bank of Virginia, or as the
Wellsburg branch of that pioneer banking corporation, the
parent institution being the National Bank of Virginia at
Wheeling. John C. Campbell, an attorney, became the first
president of the Wellsburg bank, and of him mention is
made in the general historical department of this publica-
tion. In 1863 a reorganization took place, and the institu-
tion acquired charter as the First National Bank of Wells-
burg.  Another reorganization, in 1871, resulted in the
adoption of the present corporate title, the Wellsburg Na-
tional Bank. Mr. Campbell, the first president, eventually
removed from Wellsburg to Wheeling and became one of
the leading members of the bar of that city.  Samuel
Jacob, whose son Frank still resides at the old family home-
stead, was a director of the bank until his death. W. K.
Pendleton, president of Bethany College, became president
of the bank, and thus served until about 1882, when he be-
came president of the college mentioned. John C. Palmer,
who received his personal names in honor of John C.
Campbell, the first president of the institution, became pres-
ident of the bank, and continued its executive head until
his death in 1905, when he was succeeded by his son John
C., Jr., the present incumbent. J. S. Beall, father of Colo-
nel Beall, was active in the affairs of the bank for many
years, as were also his brother, Wilson Beall, and Adam
Kuhn. Since 1871 the Wellsburg National Bank has based
its operations on a capital stock of $100,000. In 1905 its
resources were about $300,000, and to-day the resources
are in excess of $1,000,000. The bank still occupies the
substantial building that was erected for its use in 1836
and which is now one of the venerable landmarks of Brooke
County.


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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. 594
Barbour


JAMES STANLEY CORDER, son of William Alonzo Corder,
is a prominent young banker of Philippi. He was born at
the home of his parents in Barbour County, October 11,
1887, and was liberally educated, graduating from the
public schools and from Broaddus College of Philippi, and
attended the preparatory school of "West Virginia "University
at Keyser, and West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buck-
hannon. He taught school in Barbour County for two years.


His early ambition was for a medical career, and he had
attended college with that in view.  However, upon the
organization of the People's Bank of Philippi on September
15, 1908, he entered that institution as teller, and served
in that capacity until 1914, when he became cashier. He
was the youngest teller and also the youngest cashier in
the city and the county when he entered upon the respective
duties of those positions. The active officers of the bank
are Lee J. Sandridge, president; William A. Corder, first
vice president; B. E. Snyder, second vice president; J.
Stanley Corder, cashier; and Sherman Lindsey, assistant
cashier.


J. Stanley Corder married Miss Audrey Dyer, and they
have one daughter, Ruth Reynolds Corder. J. Stanley
Corder is high in Masonry being a Knight Templar and
Shriner.


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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. 593-594
Barbour


WILLIAM ALONZO CORDER. In Barbour County the name
Corder has come to stand for all those qualities and deeds
that are significant of integrity in business and social rela-
tionship. William Alonzo Corder, popularly known among
his friends as "Lonnie," has steadfastly emulated the
virtues of his father and grandfather in this respect, and
as stockman, banker and man of affairs his personal judg-
ment is as nearly standardized in current acceptation among
his friends and associates as any coin of character can
possibly be. Members of the Corder family have lived
plain and modest lives, have done well for themselves and
have assisted others to the extent of their power-have been
useful, honorable and responsible at all times.


The name Corder is of English and Irish ancestry. The
founder of the American family was Joseph Corder, who
came from England and settled in Virginia about the close
of the Revolutionary war. His children consisted of four
daughters and four sons, the sons being James, Joseph,
William and John. James moved to Ohio and settled at
Circleville, John located near Logansport, Indiana, and
Joseph crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1838 into
Western Virginia.


The other son, William, grandfather of William A. Cor-
der, was born March 29, 1785, in that portion of Frederick
County now Fauquier County, Virginia. On September 14,
1811, he married Sarah Cole, of German ancestry and a
native of Loudoun County, Virginia. In 1814, with two
young children, they crossed the Alleghany Mountains, pass-
ing through the wilderness until in December they reached
what is now Barbour, then a part of Harrison County.
Here William Corder bought fifty acres of land for $450.
He bought this from Peter Robinson, and it was located
on Hacker, near Philippi. On the land he put up a small
cabin of hewn logs, and within its walls started the simple
life of the pioneer. From an humble beginning his indus-
try carried him into the ranks of the well-to-do, and eventu-
ally he became owner of 1,200 acres. He and his wife had
eleven children, named Joseph, William, Joshua, James,
John, Edward, Elizabeth, Martha Ann, Mary, Ingaby and
Hannah. Edward was a captain in the Confederate army
during the Civil war, dying from wounds received while
leading his men in action. His last words as he was bleed-
ing to death were: "Go on men, push forward and save
the day. I am a dead man."


Of this family James Corder was born on Hacker, near
Philippi, January 15, 1824. Pioneer days had not altogether
disappeared while he was a boy, and in a new country he
had only an education supplied by subscription schools a
few weeks each year. He was well prepared for a life of
toil and activity when he reached manhood. Remaining
under the parental roof until he was thirty-five years of
age, he was then given about 200 acres of land by his
father. At that time land was cheap and this inheritance
represented only an opportunity for hard work and long
persevering toil. He paid the price of success on these
terms, and at one time his estate was represented by 1 500
acres and much real estate and personal property besides.
At his death on March 16, 1905, he was regarded as one of
the wealthiest men in the county, and the wealth of esteem
paid his character was even greater. He was a conservative
and careful business man, and an example of his conserva-
tism is found in the fact that he took nearly ten years to
perfect and arrange his will. His old friends still say of
him that while he was slow in arriving at a definite con-
clusion he was always right and he never broke his word.
He made money as a farmer and through cattle, and he
had few equals as a judge of live stock. He had made con-
siderable progress toward accumulating a moderate portion
when the Civil war came on, and before it was over he was
down at the bottom of the ladder and had to begin over
again. A Southern sympathizer, he suffered the inevitable
hostility paid a Southern man, and when the Jones raiders
came through Philippi they ran off his cattle and horses and
took away much other personal property. He met the men
on the road driving off his live stock, and stopping them,
he pleaded that they return him the oxen, which were his
sole dependents for hauling wood.  One of the raiders
threatened to shoot him if he did not get out of the way,
but he refused to yield and in the end he secured his yoke
of oxen. However, the loss of the cattle left him heavily in
debt. In that crisis he went to his father for assistance.
His father was regarded as a wealthy man, but, without
directly refusing the aid asked, felt that it would be a good
test of character for a young man still with his best years
before him if permitted to depend upon his own resources
in this emergency. The young man then borrowed money
at 10 per cent interest in order to restock his farm, and he
proved equal to the test and before long had recouped his
losses and was once more rated as a man of wealth.


James Corder married Mary C. Bond, daughter of Reuben
Bond. She was born in Harrison County, August 10, 1830,
and died November 27, 1904. The children of this good
old couple were: William Alonzo; A. B. Corder, of Taylor
County; Icy, who is Mrs. L. D. Woodford, of Philippi;
Sarah, who married W. F. Cole, of Barbour County; and
Stella, who died when in her 'teens.


James Corder was not a man to regard his responsibilities
ended with looking after his own interests. He was one of
the leading members of the Primitive Baptist Church in his
community. He and his brother Joshua built what is known
as the Mount Olive Church on Hacker, and that house of
worship is still standing. He was not a seeker of public
office, though asked many times to serve. He gave liberally
to church and charitable causes, and was more than willing
to come to the assistance of his friends and neighbors in
time of need, and he served them in the true spirit of
Christian fellowship.


A son of James W. and Mary C. (Bond) Corder, William
Alonzo Corder was born on Hacker in Barbour County,
October 20, 1862. While he has no recollection of the war
itself, his early youth was spent in the period immediately
following the war, when the country in general was recover-
ing and while his father was making valiant efforts to re-
establish himself as a stock man. He made the best pos-
sible use of such educational opportunities as were at hand,
and while he realizes now that conditions were rather hard
and that he was deprived of many of the advantages given
to youth of more modern times, he also feels that his
character was really strengthened In this school of bard
knocks, and the lessons of thrift he thus gained have been
of inestimable value to him in later years. Farming and
stock raising have constituted his primary activities, and
like his father, he is a judge of good live stock and has set
a high standard in his home county as a business-like
farmer. His homestead is frequently pointed out as one of
the best examples of progressive agriculture and stock
husbandry in that part of the state. His farm, which is
known as Meadow Brook Farm, comprises 700 acres, beau-
tifully located about three miles north of Philippi, on the
Beverly and Fairmont Pike, and at all seasons of the year
it is a model of systematic arrangement and efficient man-
agement. Much of the land of the farm is underlaid with
coal.


Supplementing his farming activities, William A. Corder
has had other business concerns. He was at one time in
the mercantile business and was postmaster at Switzers. He
became one of the organizers and a director of the People's
Bank of Philippi on September 15, 1908, and later was
made first vice president of that institution and is also one
of the Discount Committee. His talent for business, his
wide experience and knowledge of men and conditions made
him especially valuable in handling the resources of the
bank. For fifteen years he has been one of the men largely
responsible for the growth and prosperity of this institution,
and gives much of his personal time to the bank. He is also
a director of the Laurel Hill Orchard Company. Mr. Corder
is not a member of any secret or fraternal order, is a
democrat in politics, and is an active member and attends
worship at the Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church,
where his father and grandfather worshipped before him.


On June 19, 1884, Mr. Corder married Nannie R. Rey-
nolds, who was born October 28, 1863, daughter of Ben-
jamin S. and Lucy (Pell) Reynolds. Mrs. Corder graduated
from the Fairmont State Normal School in 1881. The only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Corder is a son, James S. Corder, a
brief sketch of whom follows: