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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 112

Today's Topics:
  #1 CARL R. VARNUM - OH/WV CONNECTIONS   [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:55:27, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: CARL R. VARNUM - OH/WV CONNECTIONS


WEST VIRGINIA IN HISTORY, LIFE, LITERATURE AND INDUSTRY
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 218, 219

        CARL R. VARNUM is the postmaster of Huntington. He was recently
appointed postmaster under the Coolidge administration, but brought to his
duties a thorough familiarity with the handling of men as employer and with
postal routine gained by a service of a number of years as clerk and in
other positions in the local postoffice during the earlier part of his
residence at Huntington.
        Carl R. Varnum, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, 1880, and is of
the eighth generation from the American progenitor, and of the fourth
generation from Hon. John Bradley Varnum, speaker U.S. Congress 1807-11;
senator U.S. Congress 1811-17; major general Massachusetts Volunteer
Militia. (The Varnums of Dracutt, in Massachusetts John Marshall Varnum.
Boston, David Clark & Sons, 1907.) The Varnum family came to America and
settled in New England in 1632, and were members of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, and five of the family were represented as soldiers in the battle
of Bunker Hill. The Varnum descendants still own the Varnum homestead in
New England. The great-grandfather of the postmaster was Moses Varnum, who
was credited with having laid out the town of Belfast, Maine. The
grandfather, Moses Varnum, came West during the '20s of the last century,
settled at Marietta, Ohio, and afterwards at Miller, Ohio, where his old
homestead is now owned by Carl R. Varnum. In 1834 the Va
rnum family settled at Guyandotte, West Virginia, where Moses Varnum was a
builder of flatboats and also operated a saw mill. He married Sophia Stacy,
who was born in the Block House at Marietta, Ohio, a daughter of Col.
William Stacy.
        The father of Carl R. Varnum was also named Moses and was born at
Miller, Ohio, being a year old when his parents moved to Guyandotte, West
Virginia. He became a steamboat engineer and was engineer on river boats
carrying supplies to the Union forces during the Civil war. He served an
apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade in Cabell County. He held the
office of township trustee, was a Republican, and member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. From the age of thirty-four until his death at
seventy-nine he was a very active member of the Methodist Church. His wife
was Mary A. Darling, who was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, daughter of
Isaac and Nancy (Chaplin) Darling, the Darling family being from New
Hampshire, while the Chaplins came from Massachusetts. Moses and Mary
(Darling) Varnum had six children, four of whom are living: Nancy S., wife
of J.T. Thornburg, of Huntington; Jennie L., wife of J.M. Thornburg, a
grocery merchant at Huntington; Carl R.; and Lewis C., as
sociated with his brother in real estate business.
        Carl R. Varnum spent his early life in Lawrence County, Ohio,
attended public schools there and in Cabell County, West Virginia, and
continued his education in Marshall College at Huntington and Morris Harvey
College at Barboursville, his working environment was a farm to the age of
twenty-two. On December 16, 1902, he arrived at Huntington, and during the
next three years worked in a grocery store at thirty-five dollars a month.
Having taken the civil service examination in 1904, he was appointed a
clerk in the Huntington postoffice and was in the postal service until
1916. He resigned to go into the real estate business, having one of the
leading real estate, loan and insurance offices at Huntington, a business
employing a force of five people. Mr. Varnum on May 19, 1926, was
commissioned postmaster of Huntington.
        He married, June 16, 1900, Miss Nannie A. McComas, also a native of
Lawrence County, Ohio, where she was reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs.
Varnum are members of the Johnson Memorial Methodist Church, of which he is
a steward. He is a Republican, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the
Real Estate Board.

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