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It is advised that George Leach be allowed L. B. (Land Bounty) for three years service as a Private in the Va. State line. John Floyd, Gov. Attest, J. W. Pleasants. Jackson Co., Ohio. George Leach, formerly of Va., appointed H. L. Prentiss his Atty. H. L. Prentiss was of Va. Witnesses, Vincent Southard and Thompson Leach. Personally acknowledged before Vincent Southard, J. of P. of the said county and state, 7th Jan., 1835. Certified as to Vincent Southard, Daniel Hoffman, Clerk, Jackson Co., Ohio. The above power of Atty. was vested in H. L. Prentiss of the House of Delegates, Richmond, Va. Warrant No. 8097 was issued to George Leach, Private in the Va. State line for 100 acres. Recorded Book 2, page 371, Va. L. Off. Larry Olson other keywords: bounty land warrant, Wood Co., WV ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:08:05, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ALLAN WATERS - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 73-74 with photo ALLAN WATERS, JR., is state manager in West Virginia for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. His father was one of the early men in the service of the Union Central Life, and Mr. Waters himself has continued this as part of the family tradition, and has enjoyed an interesting succession of interesting promotions and responsibilities with this old established insurance organizations. He was born in the city of Chicago, Illinois, in 1887, son of Allan and Jessie (Fry) Waters, and grandson of David Waters and Daniel Fry. David Waters was a native of Scotland, was a Presbyterian minister, and in the United States held a number of pastorates, including churches at Mt. Vernon,Ohio, and at Decatur, Illinois, where he was in the ministry at the time of his death. Daniel Fry was a native of Virginia, and when nineteen years of age went out to Illinois, traveling by horseback, and acquired a large amount of land in that state, where he lived the rest of his life. Allan Waters, Sr., was born in Scotland, had limited educational opportunities, and gained his real education largely through his own efforts. He became a school teacher, was at one time superintendent of schools in Iroquois County, Illinois, and in 1884 entered the service of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati as a solicitor. He remained with the company until his death in 1924, eventually becoming superintendent of agents and vice president, and finally chairman of the Board of Directors. He had moved his home to Cincinnati in 1893. He was a Republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a Presbyterian, and his wife was a Methodist. She was born in Illinois, and is now sixty-seven years of age. Allan Waters, Jr., only child of his parents was six years of age when the family moved to Cincinnati, and he attended the Franklin School there. He spent two years in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and his first business experience was as assistant secretary for the Cincinnati Sand Blast Company. After selling his interest in that organization he went with the Union Central Life Insurance Company in the home offices, beginning as a clerk at ten dollars a week, in June, 1909. From that he was promoted to purchasing agent, then to chief clerk of the agency department, handling the work of about five thousand agents all over the United States, and in January, 1919, came to West Virginia as state manager. During the past seven or eight years he has built up a tremendous volume of business for the company in West Virginia. He has a staff of fourteen local agents over the state. His offices are in the Kanawha National Bank Building. Mr. Waters married, October 4, 1916, Miss Phyllis Collins, a daughter of Justies Collins of Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Waters are members of St. John's Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Edgewood Country club in Charleston, the University of Queen City Clubs of Cincinnati, and the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:08:09, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HAROLD W. HOUSTON - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 78-79 HAROLD W. HOUSTON, noted labor attorney, with offices in the Citizens Bank Building at Charleston, has practiced law for a quarter of a century, and the larger part of his business has been as representative of labor unions. Mr. Houston was born at Freedom in Noble County, Ohio, March 10, 1872, son of Samuel W. and Emma A. (Guiler) Houston, his father a native of New York State and his mother of Ohio. Samuel W. Houston went to Ohio when a young man, and was in the lumber business for many years, moving to West Virginia in 1874 and locating in Jackson County and about 1890 moving to Charleston. He was a Republican and was a Union soldier in the Civil war, serving as lieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Wool Pasture Mountain, and his brother, John A., was captured and was confined at Libby prison. Harold W. Houston was the third in a family of five children, four of whom are now living. He grew up in Jackson County, attended public schools there, and completed his law education and was given a license to practice law in 1900. Mr. Houston was in practice at Parkersburg until 1912, when he removed to Charleston. His work as a lawyer has brought him connection with many famous cases, and he has probably been counsel in as many criminal trials as any other lawyer in the state. It was Mr. Houston who had charge of the noted treason cases against William Blizzard and others, arising in Mingo County during the labor war there. Mr. Houston showed such skill and resourcefulness in handling these cases that the only man who, against the advice of Mr. Houston, made a concession. Mr. Houston married in October, 1899, Miss Sophia Graff, of Parkersburg, who died in 1907. There were two daughters, Helen and Christine, both of whom attended school at Parkersburg, while Helen continued her education in Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Miss Christine in the Pratt Institute at Brooklyn. Helen is now the wife of Cecil M. King, an optometrist at Charleston. Mr. Houston in October, 1918, married Wilda (Polen) McCool, who was born and educated at Beaver, Pennsylvania. She died October 24, 1925. Mr. Houston attends the Presbyterian Church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:08:14, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: VAN BYRON HALL - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 106-107 VAN BYRON HALL, who has been a member of the West Virginia bar for over thirty years, practices at Sutton, and is a former prosecuting attorney at Braxton County. Though a native of ohio, he represents one of the families that settled in West Virginia when it was part of the Indian frontier. He is a descendant of Thomas Hall, who was born September 24, 1724. A son of Thomas Hall was Jordan Hall, who was born in Kent County, Delaware, June 15, 1760, and a few years after the Revolution war settled in Mongongalia County, West Virginia. He died June 2, 1835. Jordan Hall was the father of Reynear Hall, who was born May 5, 1788, and died August 12, 1862. He was a farmer, living near Fairmont, and he and all his family were devout presbyterians. They attended services in the old log church at Fairmont. In his family were twelve sons and two daughters. All of them received the rite of baptism at one time, and this was such a notable event that people rode for miles around to witness the ceremony. The Hall family traveled to church on horseback, and the number of them put one in mind of a Land of troopers. Their home was about five miles from Fairmont, on a farm now owned by Nelson Hall. The wife of Reynear Hall died October 27, 1842. These were the grandparents of the Sutton attorney. Van Byron Hall was born in Meigs County, Ohio, March 30, 1870, and was six years of age when his parents, Reynear Milton and Sarah Ann (DuVaull) Hall, returned to West Virginia. Rev. Reynear Milton Hall was born August 29, 1829, and died November 21, 1901. His wife was born February 22, 1828, and died February 10, 1884. They were married April 22, 1852. Reynear Milton Hall was a minister of the Methodist Protestant Church, and was widely known for his able work as a preacher and missionary in both Ohio and West Virginia. He was a Democrat in politics and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Van Byron Hall was reared in Ohio and West Virginia, and his first vocation was teaching. After a course in the Glenville State Normal School he taught in Braxton County and at the same time studied law. He was admitted to practice in 1896, and for several years was associated in practice with his brother, Burke P. Hall. Mr. Hall was elected prosecuting attorney of Braxton County in 1920. He was candidate of the Democratic party, and his election in a county carried by the Republican party that year was a high tribute to his qualifications as a lawyer and personal popularity. Since leaving this office he has resumed his private practice. Mr. Hall for a number of years has been one of the leading Baptist laymen, having been honored with the office of moderator of the Elk Valley Baptist Association, has served as a trustee of Broaddus College, as president of the County Sunday School Association and as superintendent of the Sunday School of his home church at Sutton. Fraternally he is affiliated with Sutton Lodge No. 21, A.F. and A.M., Sutton Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons, Sutton Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar, in all of which he has held the principal offices, and he belongs to Beni Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, and Sutton Lodge N. 73, Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor. He married, September 24, 1901, Miss Sarah Anne Boggs. The four children born to their marriage are Byron W., Robert M., Boggs C. and Harold Lee. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:13:09, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HAROLD W. HOUSTON - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 78-79 HAROLD W. HOUSTON, noted labor attorney, with offices in the Citizens Bank Building at Charleston, has practiced law for a quarter of a century, and the larger part of his business has been as representative of labor unions. Mr. Houston was born at Freedom in Noble County, Ohio, March 10, 1872, son of Samuel W. and Emma A. (Guiler) Houston, his father a native of New York State and his mother of Ohio. Samuel W. Houston went to Ohio when a young man, and was in the lumber business for many years, moving to West Virginia in 1874 and locating in Jackson County and about 1890 moving to Charleston. He was a Republican and was a Union soldier in the Civil war, serving as lieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Wool Pasture Mountain, and his brother, John A., was captured and was confined at Libby prison. Harold W. Houston was the third in a family of five children, four of whom are now living. He grew up in Jackson County, attended public schools there, and completed his law education and was given a license to practice law in 1900. Mr. Houston was in practice at Parkersburg until 1912, when he removed to Charleston. His work as a lawyer has brought him connection with many famous cases, and he has probably been counsel in as many criminal trials as any other lawyer in the state. It was Mr. Houston who had charge of the noted treason cases against William Blizzard and others, arising in Mingo County during the labor war there. Mr. Houston showed such skill and resourcefulness in handling these cases that the only man who, against the advice of Mr. Houston, made a concession. Mr. Houston married in October, 1899, Miss Sophia Graff, of Parkersburg, who died in 1907. There were two daughters, Helen and Christine, both of whom attended school at Parkersburg, while Helen continued her education in Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Miss Christine in the Pratt Institute at Brooklyn. Helen is now the wife of Cecil M. King, an optometrist at Charleston. Mr. Houston in October, 1918, married Wilda (Polen) McCool, who was born and educated at Beaver, Pennsylvania. She died October 24, 1925. Mr. Houston attends the Presbyterian Church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:13:06, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ALLAN WATERS - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 73-74 with photo ALLAN WATERS, JR., is state manager in West Virginia for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. His father was one of the early men in the service of the Union Central Life, and Mr. Waters himself has continued this as part of the family tradition, and has enjoyed an interesting succession of interesting promotions and responsibilities with this old established insurance organizations. He was born in the city of Chicago, Illinois, in 1887, son of Allan and Jessie (Fry) Waters, and grandson of David Waters and Daniel Fry. David Waters was a native of Scotland, was a Presbyterian minister, and in the United States held a number of pastorates, including churches at Mt. Vernon,Ohio, and at Decatur, Illinois, where he was in the ministry at the time of his death. Daniel Fry was a native of Virginia, and when nineteen years of age went out to Illinois, traveling by horseback, and acquired a large amount of land in that state, where he lived the rest of his life. Allan Waters, Sr., was born in Scotland, had limited educational opportunities, and gained his real education largely through his own efforts. He became a school teacher, was at one time superintendent of schools in Iroquois County, Illinois, and in 1884 entered the service of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati as a solicitor. He remained with the company until his death in 1924, eventually becoming superintendent of agents and vice president, and finally chairman of the Board of Directors. He had moved his home to Cincinnati in 1893. He was a Republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, a Presbyterian, and his wife was a Methodist. She was born in Illinois, and is now sixty-seven years of age. Allan Waters, Jr., only child of his parents was six years of age when the family moved to Cincinnati, and he attended the Franklin School there. He spent two years in Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and his first business experience was as assistant secretary for the Cincinnati Sand Blast Company. After selling his interest in that organization he went with the Union Central Life Insurance Company in the home offices, beginning as a clerk at ten dollars a week, in June, 1909. From that he was promoted to purchasing agent, then to chief clerk of the agency department, handling the work of about five thousand agents all over the United States, and in January, 1919, came to West Virginia as state manager. During the past seven or eight years he has built up a tremendous volume of business for the company in West Virginia. He has a staff of fourteen local agents over the state. His offices are in the Kanawha National Bank Building. Mr. Waters married, October 4, 1916, Miss Phyllis Collins, a daughter of Justies Collins of Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Waters are members of St. John's Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Edgewood Country club in Charleston, the University of Queen City Clubs of Cincinnati, and the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #73 ******************************************