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PINNEY - Ohio connection [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:13:01, -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: #2 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:18:13, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: BURTON T. INGLES - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1925 - Volume IV, page 370 BURTON T. INGELS. One of the basic industries of West Virginia is lumbering, the magnificent forst regions of this great state furnishing an almost unlimited supply of the raw material for countless enterprises connected with the supplying of the immense demand for lumber. One of the concerns long connected with meeting this demand is the Graham Lumber Company of Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, of which one of the prime factors is Burton T. Ingels, its secretary and treasurer. Mr. Burton was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, July 19, 1886, a son of Jasper C. and Emma (Gilbert) Ingels, both of whom are living and residing at Gallipolis, where the father is serving as president of the First National Bank. He is an active Republican, and has held the offices of probate judge, county treasurer and county recorder of Media County. Seven children were born to the parents, namely: Stella C., who married C.H. Booton; Jesse, who died in 1918; Dolly, who married W.P. Kling; Clyde C., who is cashier of his father's bank; Burton T., whose name heads this review; Chauncey C., who died in 1924; and Marie, who married M.W. Cornwell. Graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus, Burton T. Ingels was sent to Herndon, West Virginia, as sales manager for the Guyan Lumber Company. While there he became active in politics as a Republican, and was a justice of the peace from 1910 to 1912, a member of the school board from 1912 to 1916, and in the latter year he was elected president of the board and served in that capacity until 1926. In the latter year he came to Bluefield, bought into the Graham Lumber company, and became its secretary and treasurer. On September 30, 1911, Mr. Ingels married Miss Belva Lillian Price, born at Huntington, West Virginia, July 23, 1892, a daughter of Peter and Marie (Griffith) Price, of Herndon, West Virginia, where for years Mr. Price has been master mechanic for the Guyan Lumber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Price have had the following children born to their marriage: Ellen, who married J.A. Hammersley; Chilton; Mrs. Ingels; Clyde; and Ilma, who married W.A. Finney, of Mullens. Mr. and Mrs. Ingels have no children. He is a Blue Lodge Mason, with membership at Rock, West Virginia, and he belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Bluefield and the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Herndon. A Methodist in religious faith, he belongs to the Bluefield Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A very interesting bit of pioneer history relative to Ohio centers about Mary Ingels, an ancestor of Mr. Ingels. She was captured by the Indians and carried from Pennsylvania over the Alleghany Mountains into Ohio, where she soon thereafter gave birth to what is claimed was the first white child born west of these mountains. She subsequently escaped from her captors, and, with her baby, managed to get back to her husband and family. It is difficult in these days, not so far off as history regards it, to realize the conditions under which the pioneers of any frontier struggled, especially when they had to also contend with the red foes. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:18:17, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CLARENCE JOSEPH CHAPMAN WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 201-202 CLARENCE JOSEPH CHAPMAN, vice president of the W.H. Chapman & Sons Company, wholesale painters' and builders' supplies, is of the third successive generation of the family in the paint business at Wheeling. The Chapmans have been dealers in paints forty-three years. The family have lived in the Upper Ohio River Valley since pioneer times. Aaron Chapman, a native of New Jersey, settled in Jefferson County, Ohio, between 1828 and 1830. He was a carpenter and contractor. At Tiltonville, Ohio, in 1834, he erected a substantial frame house, which is still standing after nearly a century of use, and in that house were born seven of his ten children. Aaron Chapman married Comfort Shumar, a native of West Virginia. She died in 1884, at the age of seventy-six, while Aaron Chapman passed away in 1889, aged eighty-six. The oldest of their ten children was William Hamilton Chapman, who was born at Tiltonville, Ohio, January 24, 1838. He grew up in Jefferson County, attended the common schools there, and at Warrentown, Ohio, in 1852, began learning the trade of chair maker. In 1855 he moved to Wheeling, finished his trade and followed it as an occupation until the outbreak of the Civil war. On September 21, 1861, he enlisted in Company C of the First Virginia Infantry, under the command of Col. Joseph Thoburn. He was in the service three years and then reenlisted for another year, not being mustered out until August, 1865. He went in as a private, was made corporal, then commissary sergeant, and after his second enlistment was commissioned first lieutenant of Company B of the Second Veteran Regulars, being assigned duty as acting regimental quartermaster. After the war he engaged in the retail grocery business at Wheeling for a time, then sold sewing machines, representing the Florence Machine Company, again resumed the grocery business, and finally formed a partnership in Haynes, Wilson & Company, a firm with which he remained in its consecutive changes until his death, part of the time acting as salesman and part of the time as manager, and after 1884 as a partner in the business. William Hamilton Chapman was affiliated with Lodge No. 40, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonged to the Encampment, was a charter member of Lodge No. 12, and Alpha Lodge No. 424, Knights of Honor, belonged to the National Union, and Halliday Post, Grand Army of the Republic. William Hamilton Chapman married, December 29, 1859, Virginia E. Phillips, of Wheeling, and they had a family of six daughters and two sons. The younger of the sons was Walter H. Chapman, who was born at North Wheeling in 1867, and before reaching his majority entered the paint business with his father, then known as Wilson & Chapman, wholesale dealers in paints and builders supplies. Walter H. Chapman married, Elizabeth M. Hosenfield. Clarence Joseph Chapman, a son of Walter H. and Elizabeth M. (Hosenfield) Chapman, was born at Wheeling, March 13, 1893. She was educated in parochial schools, graduating from the Cathedral High School in 1909, and in 1911 completed the course of the Linna Hennig Sherman Dramatic Art school. He was sixteen years old when he finished his high school course, and at once became associated with his father and grandfather in the W.H. Chapman & sons Company, his first work being that of clerk in the retail department. For over fifteen years he has been a factor in the steady growth and development of this house, one of the old and substantial ones of the Wheeling district. Mr. Chapman in 1912 was put in active charge of the mantel and tile department, with a crew of ten men, overseeing the work on some of Wheeling's largest buildings. After this department was discontinued in 1918 he went on the road as a salesman of paints, varnishes and other supplies. In 1920 he became sales manager of the company and in 1926, vice president in direct charge of all wholesale trade in the Wheeling territory. Mr. Chapman is well known in Wheeling in civic and social life. He is a Republican, was formerly a member and in 1922 deputy grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, and was a trustee from 1921 to 1924 of St. Michael's Catholic Church. He married at Cleveland, Ohio, October 21, 1914, Miss Anna Margaret Sanders, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Sanders. Her father, whose home has been in Cleveland for thirty-five years, was born in Wheeling and was in the contracting business until he removed to Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have four children, Marcella Anna, Walter Henry, Anna Margaret and Mary Theresa. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:54:03, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: EDWARD L. PINNEY - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, Inc., 1928 - Volume IV, page 191-192 w/photo EDWARD L. PINNEY. Among the younger members of the banker's calling in Fayette County, one who has won success and recognition while still in the early years of his career is Edward L. Pinney, cashier of the Bank of Gauley Bridge. He has been identified with this institution since 1923, during which period he has established many friendships, and an excellent reputation for thoroughness, ability and courtesy, and during his residence at Gauley Bridge has identified himself with several movements calculated to redound to the the welfare and progress of the community. Mr. Pinney was born at Bidwell, Ohio, October 30, 1898, and is a son of P.J. and Alice (Russell) Pinney. His father, a native of the Buckeye State, was given the benefit of a public school education, following which he secured a position with the Hocking Valley Railway Company, with which he has been identified to the present. Starting in a humble capacity, by exercise of natural and acquired ability and constant fidelity to the interests of the concern he has been promoted step by step until today he holds the important position of supervisor of maintenance, with his home and headquarters at Logan, Ohio. He married, Alice Russell, who was born at Bidwell, Ohio, where she was reared and educated, and has always been active in the Baptist Church, which she joined in young girlhood. There were seven children born to this union: Clara, who is the wife of H.C. Hesse; Louise, the wife of H.F. Scott; Marie, who died in 1921, at the age of twenty-five years, the wife of W.M. Rupe; Edward L., of this review; Luther B., who died in 1925, at the age of twenty-five years; Bernice, the wife of J.P. Stewart; and Pauline, who is attending high school at Logan, Ohio. The public schools of Bidwell and Cheshire, Ohio furnished Edward L. Pinney with his early educational training, following which he entered Ohio University in 1915, and there spent one year. On leaving this famous institution at Athens he took a position in the employ of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and later was a clerk in the offices of the New York Central Railroad. In 1923 Mr. Pinney accepted the position of assistant cashier of the Bank of Gauley Bridge, and two years later was made cashier of the institution, a position which he has since retained. This bank was organized in 1920 with a capitalization of $40,000, and its present officers are: C.E. Mahon, Jr., president; L.R. Harliss, vice president; and Edward L. Pinney, cashier, while the following compose the Board of Directors; C.E. Mahon, Jr.; L.R. Harliss, physician and surgeon of Gauley Bridge; Prof. Otway Gunnoe, professor of the Ansted schools of Gauley Bridge; George T. Lancaster, of Glen Ferris; W.B. Cabell, of Glenn of Glen Ferris; G.D. Brown, of Gauley Bridge; R.H. Miller, E.H. Nuckalls, W.O. Crandall, H.B. Clark and Edward L. Pinney. Mr. Pinney is treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Club Holding Company of Charleston, the plan of which corporation is to build a club house at Lovers Leap, Hawk Nest, West Virginia. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner of Beni-Keden Temple. He is a Democrat without personal desire for preferment, and his religious connection is with the Baptist Church. During the World war he attended the Officers' Training Camp at Ohio University, and for some time was a member of Gallipolis Post (Ohio) of the American Legion. On August 30, 1924, at Dixie, West Virginia, Mr. Pinney was united in marriage with Miss May Vencill, of Dixie, who attended the public schools at Charleston as a member of the class of 1922. The year previous to her marriage she taught school at Dixie. She is possessed of numerous accomplishments and is active in the work of the Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star and the White Shrine. Mrs. Pinney is a daughter of H.G. and Ruby (McGraw) Vencill, of Dixie. Her father for many years was a lumberman in West Virginia and for some years previous to his death in 1923, at Dixie, was representative from Nicholas County in the House of Representatives. Mr. Vencill owned several large tracts of timberland and was accounted one of the substantial and highly respected men of his community. Mrs. Vencill survives her husband and continues to make her home at Dixie, where she is the center of a wide circle of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Pinney are the parents of two young sons: Edward L., Jr., born November 11, 1925, and Jerome Vencill born December 30, 197. Mr. and Mrs. Pinney are the owners of a comfortable home at Gauley Bridge. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #74 ******************************************