BELMONT COUNTY OHIO - BIO: W.D. BUMGARNER (pub 1880)

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>From the The Ohio Biographies Project
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W.D. BUMGARNER was born in Belmont county, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1851. His father, 
Harvey B. Bumgarner, was born in Pennsylvania, March 26, 1818. He married 
Miss Massie TEETS in 1841, and the same fall removed from Harrison county 
to Uniontown, Belmont county. In 1855 they removed to St. Clairsville. Here 
our subject received his schooling. At the age of twenty-one, he went to 
Wheeling, W. Va., to learn the carpenter's trade with Crawforl [my note: 
sic?] and Morris, serving an apprenticeship of three years. In 1876, he 
returned to St. Clairsville and started business for himself. Shop, north 
side east Main street.

Submitted by: Bonnie Burkhardt
>From "History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, OH" by Caldwell, pub. 1880
page 245
St. Clairsville Bios.