Kenton County KyArchives Biographies.....Chenoweth, William Arthur July 1, 1855 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page 253

W. A. Chenoweth, the hardware dealer and well known and respected citizen of 
Birmingham, came from Covington, Ky., where he was born July 1, 1855.  He was 
educated at Cincinnati in what is now known as the Chickering school.  He left 
school when a boy of eighteen, and entered the hardware store of R. W. Booth & 
Co., of Cincinnati, and remained in their employ as a clerk for eight years.  
At the age of twenty-six years he went to Philadelphia, where he traveled for 
the Supplee Hardware company throughout the south, until 1886, when he 
determined to locate in Birmingham, and accordingly went into the hardware 
business in company with two partners.  This business flourished and became 
very extensive and in 1889, Mr. Chenoweth bought out one partner, and business 
was merged into a stock company, of which J. B. Francis is president and Mr. 
Chenoweth treasurer and manager.  Mr. Chenoweth is a thirty-second degree 
Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, and a Presbyterian.  He was married in 
Columbus, Ga., in 1881, to Viola Beach, a daughter of William Beach, and to 
them were born two children – William A., Jr. and Beach Mead.  Mr. Chenoweth’s 
father was J. M. Chenoweth, a native of Kentucky, and for many years a 
successful wholesale merchant of Cincinnati.  At the opening of the war he was 
captured by the Federals and compelled to run a gun boat for them, but he was 
always a southern sympathizer.  His wife was Harriet A. Arthur, sister of W. E. 
Arthur ex-member of congress.  She died in 1877

Additional Comments:
William Arthur Chenowith and his wife, Viola Beach, had children William 
Arthur, born September 1883, Beach Mead, born July 1886, and daughter Margaret 
born June 1894.  

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