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LEANDER FIRESTONE., M.D. L.L. [LeaAnn ] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:50:16, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: OLIVER BERNARD WENDELN - OH connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page149 OLIVER BERNARD WENDELN, resident chemist of the Pure Oil Company Refinery, Cabin Creek Junction, West Virginia, was born at Saint Marys, Ohio, October 18, 1900. Oliver Bernard Wendeln is a son of Antone F. and Lula (Jay) Wendeln, and he was reared in a home of refined influences, for his father was a practicing attorney and a graduate of Wesleyan College, Delaware, Ohio. In 1904, after years spent in the practice of his learned profession, Antone F. Wendeln died at Saint Marys, but his wife survives him and is now residing at Los Angeles, California. She was born and reared at Saint Marys, and after she had completed the public school courses she entered Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, from which she was later graduated. All her life she has taken an intelligent part in community work, and has been active in the Presbyterian Church, of which she is a member. She is also a member of the Eastern Star. Four children were born to the parents, of whom two died in infancy. Mr. Wendeln is the youngest born, his elder sister, being Mariam, who married John P. Campbell, a retail hardware merchant of Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had one child, Jay Mathers Campbell, who died at the age of seven years. It is with them that Mrs. Wendeln is now living. Oliver Bernard Wendeln attended the public schools of Saint Marys, completing the first two years at Rutgers Preparatory School, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Following that he was a student of Purdue University for one year, and completed his work in the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1923. While in Purdue University he was made a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and to the Presbyterian Church. In political faith he is a Republican. After graduating from the university he was with the Shell Oil Company, Martinez, California, for a few months, leaving it for the Pure Oil Company at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Later he was transferred to its Columbus, Ohio, plant, as geologist. In 1925 he was brought to Cabin Creek Junction as resident chemist, and here he has been continued. Mr. Wendeln is unmarried. Needless to say he is enthusiastic with reference to the possibilities of West Virginia, for he not only likes it, but he has trained and technical knowledge of geological formations which makes it possible for him to predict the future, for he knows what wealth has been stored up during past ages, some of which can now be released for the profit and comfort of this generation. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:50:24, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CLIFFORD WEBSTER JACKSON - OH connection WEST VIRGINIA, In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 345-346 CLIFFORD WEBSTER JACKSON, principal of the high school of Bluefield, is an educator of mature experience and equipment, and has been connected with West Virginia schools for twenty years. He enjoys a place of well earned leadership among the state's school men. He was born in Russell County, Kansas, March 26, 1879, son of Isaac Newton and Sarah Emmaline (Gates) Jackson. His father was born and educated in Illinois, moved to Russell County, Kansas, for some years was in the real estate business at Topeka, and he and his wife spent their later years in Columbus, Ohio, where she died in 1905. He passed away in March, 1925, both being buried in Greenlawn Cemetery of that city. They had two children, Clifford Webster and Mayme Ida. The daughter is the wife of Carl H. Young, a prominent attorney practicing law at Columbus, Ohio, who served as public defender in that city until the office was abolished. Mr. and Mrs. Young have five children, Clifford and Clay, twins, Earl, Robert and jean Eleanor. Clifford Webster Jackson attended school in Kansas and at Portsmouth, Ohio, prepared for college at Washington Court House, Ohio, and spent four years in Ohio State University at Columbus, where he was graduated with the A.B. degree in 1904. He took the Master of Arts degree there in 1912 and has also done post-graduate work in Columbia University at New York and at Harvard University. Mr. Jackson spent four years in school work in Ohio, two and one-half years at Plain City and a year and one-half as principal of the high school at Uhrichsville. Since coming to West Virginia his work has been done in two localities. For nine years he was principal of the high school at Elkins, and in September, 1917, took up his duties as high school principal at Bluefield. He has the resources of a fine personality, a highly trained mind, and broad experience to give to his work, and his influence is not limited to the Bluefield High School, which has enjoyed growth and improvement along all lines under his principalship. He is a member of the National Education Association, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the West Virginia State Principals Association and the West Virginia State Education Association. He was president of the State High School Division in 1922-23 and in 1923-24 was a member of the State Legislative Committee. He was president of the Southern West Virginia Round Table in 1920-21 and is a member of the National Travel Club of America, having spent a hundred days on a literacy tour of the British Isles in 1910, and his summers in 1925, 1926 and 1927 in Europe. During the World war he was a four minute speaker, and for his service in promoting the success of the Liberty Loan campaigns he received a certificate of commendation signed by President Wilson and the Secretary of War. He also had charge of the occupational classification work in Mercer County. Mr. Jackson is a Knights Templar Mason, member of Beni-Kedem Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, the Bluefield Rotary club, Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, is independent in politics, a deacon in the First Baptist Church at Bluefield and was president of the Men's Club of that church for three years. He married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in June, 1910, Miss Leslie Fargher Purdy, of that city. She was educated in the public schools at Michigan City, Indiana, in Rockford College at Rockford, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. She was a teacher at the high school at Elkins prior to her marriage and always took a deep interest in the Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member. She died in April 1912, and is buried at Michigan City, Indiana. Her one child, Eloise Mae, now lives with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Purdy, at Cincinnati. Mr. Jackson on June 27, 1917, married, at Elkins, West Virginia, Miss Velma Belle Currence. She was reared and educated at Elkins, and graduated at Davis-Elkins College in the class of 1914. She taught in the high school at Elkins before her marriage and for a number of years has been one of the instructors in the Bluefield High School. She keeps in close touch with the church and educational and community work. Mr. and Mrs. jackson have one son, Craig Currence Jackson, who was born at Elkins, West Virginia, March 23, 1920. Another son, Clifford Webster Jackson, Jr., died in infancy and is buried in Maplewood Cemetery at Elkins. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:50:18, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JAMES A. SHAVER - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 122-123 JAMES A. SHAVER, agent for the New York Central Lines at Dunbar, has spent practically all his mature life in the railroad service. He also has important interests in the industrial suburb of Dunbar as a manufacturer and in other lines of business. Mr. Shaver was born at East Bank in Kanawha county, West Virginia, December 2, 1883, son of James L. and Aurilla (Wiseman) Shaver, and a grandson of James and Mary (Edwards) Shaver. His grandfather was born in Ireland and his grandmother in Scotland. James L. Shaver was born and reared in Gallia County, Ohio, attended public schools there, and up to the age of twenty-one lived on a farm and shared in its work. He then moved to East Bank, West Virginia, and became manager of the store of the Stewart M. Buck Coal Company. He was with that corporation fourteen and a half years and then engaged in business for himself as a merchant at East Bank. Fifteen years later he retired, in 1908, and he and his wife now reside on their farm in Gallia county, Ohio. He became a charter member of Morning Star Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife still retain their membership in the Freewill Baptist Church at East Bank, a church of which they were charter members. James A. Shave grew up in the East Bank community, attended public schools there, and continued his higher education in Ohio University at Athens. When he left college in 1903 his first employment was with the old Kanawha & Michigan Railroad, now a part of the New York Central Lines. He has given undivided loyalty and service to that railroad for over twenty-three years, starting as yard clerk and receiving several promotions. Since July 1, 1915, he has been the local agent of the company at Dunbar, which is an original source of large volume of traffic for this road. Mr. Shaver is president of the Dunbar Supply Company, a wholesale and retail flour and feed business. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Dunbar. His activity in business has had a counterpart of his interest in public affairs. From 1919 to 1912 he was president of the Dunbar School Board and was mayor of the city from 1923 to 1925. Mr. Shaver is a member of the traffic committee of the New York Central Railroad Company and a member of the freight claim prevention committee. He is a Republican in politics, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Freewill Baptist Church. He married at Charleston, April 3, 1907, Miss Ethelyn Grimsley, who was educated in the grammar and high schools of Charleston. She is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, the Eastern Star, the Woman's Club. Her parents were J.H. and Sirilla (Clemans) Grimsley. Her father, a native of Culpeper County, Virginia, was a school man and taught in the public schools of Kanawha County, West Virginia, until his death in 1890. Her mother is still living in Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Shaver have four children, James Dana, Byron G., Nell Virginia and Dorothy Louise. The son James is a member of the class of 1930 in Ohio University at Athens. Byron is attending the Union District High School, and Nell is a grammar school pupil at Dunbar. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:40:57 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: HON. LEANDER FIRESTONE., M.D. L.L.D. History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 HON. LEANDER FIRESTONE., M.D. L.L.D., superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane near Columbus, is one of the most remarkable and successful examples in the State of the self made man. By his own unaided efforts he has climbed triumphantly from one of the humblest to one of the most exhalted walks of life. His career affords to young men everywhere, a shining illustration of the possibilities inherent in energy, pluck and persistence of character and purpose, especially in the free life amid the abounding opportunities of this republic. Dr. Firestone is of Teutonic extraction. His father, Daniel F. Firestone was an immigrant in 1815, from Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to Wayne County, Ohio. In Salt Creek township, in the latter county, on the eleventh of April, 1819, the subject of this notice was born. His general education was received altogether in the country schools of that region, and at Salem academy, wither he went at the early age of fourteen, supporting himself while there by manual labor, a part of the time by chopping cord wood at three shillings a cord. He began teaching district schools when in his sixteenth year, receiving at times, but twelve dollars per month, and boarding himself. His first school was in what is now Perry Township, Ashland County, but he afterwards taught nearer home, in Wayne County. He continued in his profession, if such it may be called, during about four years, and also "kept school" at intervals during his study of medicine, which he began in 1838, at the age of nineteen. Towards this branch of the worlds work, he showed a decided bent while still a boy; and determining to excel in whatever he undertook, he was frequently remarked as being studiously engaged with his books, while other juveniles were at play. In 1839, he entered the office of Dr. Stephen F. Day, in Wooster, who was renowned as one of the most skillful surgeons in the State, and to whom Dr. Firestone attributes much of his own proficiency in this line of practice. During the winter of 1840, the young candidate for medical honors and emoluments attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, and in 1845, at the Cleveland Medical college, where he was graduated in the latter year. He then located, as a practitioner, at Congress Village, in Wayne County, but shortly took a vacation for special studies in practical and surgical anatomy, and the principles of operative surgery, the latter under professor H.A. Ashley, M.D., of Cleveland. In 1848, he was elected demonstrator of anatomy at his alma mater, the Cleveland Medical college (or medical department of the Western Reserve college). He retained this appointment until 1853, when he was called to a higher and more important duty, as the first superintendent of the Northern Ohio Insane Asylum, at Newburg, now the eighteenth ward of Cleveland. Getting this institution thoroughly organized, and well upon its feet, he retired from its superintendency, in 1856, to enter upon general practice in Wooster. In this, however, his eminent abilities and reputation did not suffer him long to remain. He was recalled to Cleveland, in 1863, by an election to the chair of midwifery in the Charity Hospital Medical college, now in the same city, the Medical Department of the University of Wooster. In 1868, he was elected to the chair of surgery, which he held until 1872, and was then made professor of medical and surgical diseases of women, in the same institution, holding at the time, also the position of class lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene in the University proper. In 1874, he received the honorary degree of doctor of laws, from the Ohio University, located at Athens. Four years afterwards he received from Governor Bishop, the high honor of appointment to the superintendency of the new Hospital for the Insane, occupying a picturesque and commanding site on the hills, west of Columbus. He accepted the post with much reluctance, and after much hesitation, on account of the pecuniary and other sacrifices it made necessary; but was finally induced to take it, upon the pledge that the legislature should be influenced to increase the salary of the office, by one thousand dollars. In this position he has won his crowning reputation, being now regarded as one of the first superintendents of the kind in the country. Dr. Firestone was married August 23, 1839, when but twenty years old, to a distant relative, Miss Susannah Firestone, also of Wayne County. They have had eight children, but one of whom is now living; Dr. William W. Firestone, of Wooster, also a physician of considerable note. Another son, Melvin O., became assistant physician at the Columbus Asylum, and died at his post of duty there, of apoplexy, January 23, 1879. He had previously, for some years, been a practitioner of medicine, with much success. Most of the boyhood and youth of General S. Stanley, of the United States army, were passed in the elder Dr. Firestone's family, he having taken the boy from obscurity and poverty, out of pure goodness of heart, to rear for honorable and distinguished service, sent him to college, and secured him an appointment to the military academy. Dr. Firestone became a mason, in 1847, and has filled many high offices in the order. He is also a member of the Ohio State Medical society, which he has served as president, and of the American, Northwestern and Wayne County Medical associations, and is an honorary member of the Gynecological society, of Boston, Massachusetts. -- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #75 ******************************************