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I have a copy of the Bible above, which belonged originally to Thomas Darnall STEVENS. Send me an email. Melinda Seyler Victoria, B.C. Mseyler155@aol.com ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:04:06 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: BIO: RUSSELL, 1928, Scioto County ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 17-Jan-99 0:13 Subject: Ohio connections ------------------------------------------------------------------ WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 40 Edward H. Russell. In a great center like Charleston the industrial interests are of paramount importance and the work of those successfully conducting them cannot be overestimated. Not only do the product of these great plants give prestige to a community, but the manufacturing of them gives employment to many skilled workman and their money spent with the stores of the city makes possible a great increase in the volume of commercial transactions, while the sturdy support of these good citizens insures safety and proper civic regulations. One of the prosperous manufacturers of Charleston worthy of more than passing mention is Edward H. Russell, manager of the Central Glass Company, one of the important industrial concerns of this part of the state. Edward H. Russell was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, July 17, 1888, a son of G.W. and Lena (Frisbe) Russell. G.W. Russell was born at Bear Falls, Pennsylvania, and there educated. When about twenty years old he left his native place for Portsmouth, Ohio, and there he went into the sheet-metal business, in which he continued until 1905, when he sold his interests and retired, and he is still residing at Portsmouth, where he is regarded as one of the city's most substantial citizens. His wife was born and reared at Portsmouth, and its public schools educated her. She has been all her life a zealous Catholic, and is active in parish work. Eight children were born to the parents, namely: Louis C., Catherine B., John W., Frank N., Anna B., George W., Edward H. and Cornelius W. The educational training of Edward H. Russell was secured in the parochial schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, and when he left school he went with the Summers Brothers Hardware Company of that city, remaining with that concern from 1903 to 1910, in the latter year going into the hardware business himself, and continuing at Portsmouth in this same line for three years. He then sold his business and formed a partnership with Alexander M. Glockner, which connection was maintained for five years, he being manager of their hardware company. In March, 1918, Mr. Russell formed his present connections and until 1924 was salesman for the Central Glass Company, but in the latter year was made manager of the branch plant at Charleston, West Virginia, and he is a stockholder in the company. Mr. Russell is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. In political faith he is a Democrat, but he does not seek public honors. He is a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. On November 11, 1911, Mr. Russell married at Portsmouth, Ohio, Miss Helen Marie Brushart, of that city. She attended the parochial schools and Saint Mary of the Springs Convent, Columbus, Ohio, and is a highly educated lady, active in church work and the Woman's Club. Mrs. Russell is a daughter of Jacob and Hettie Brushart, of Portsmouth, where he was for many years successfully engaged in business as a grocer and realty operator. Edward H. Russell and his wife have three sons: Robert E., John D. and Eugene D. While he has been a resident of Charleston for but a short period, Mr. Russell has already made a strong impression on its life and convinced the people of his reliability and sound business judgement. A conscientious churchman, he and his wife have already become important factors in their parish, and they can be depended upon to give a hearty and effective support to all movements of merit projected for the good of the community. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:03:44 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: BIO: KING, 1928, Columbiana County ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 16-Jan-99 22:27 Subject: Ohio connections ------------------------------------------------------------------ WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry by The Lewis Publishing Company - 1928 Volume 5, page 5 & 6. Austin J. KING, has for many years been one of the outstanding coal operators of the West Virginia and Virginia fields. he has been identified with the coal industry since boyhood and there is scarcely a phase of coal mining which has escaped his practical working experience. Mr. King was born at Salineville, Columbiana County, Ohio, May 19, 1874. His father, Austin King, was born at Portobello, England, July 8, 1851, and in 1870 came to America and entered the coal mines at Salineville, Ohio. For several years he was state mine inspector in Ohio. From 1886 to 1890 he was a coal mining superintendent at Leisenring, Pennsylvania, in 1890 became a state inspector in Pennsylvania, and in 1892 became a mining superintendent for the H.C. Frick Coal & Coke Company. Except for three years as general manager of the Dominion Coal Company in Nova Scotia he was with the Frick Coal & Coke Company until his death in May, 1915, his last position with that corporation being chief mine inspector. Austin King married Mary Maloney, who was born in Lancashire, England, August 15, 1852, and died April 14, 1914. Austin J. King is the eldest of a family of eleven children, all of whom earned something more than commonplace positions in the world of affairs, some of them in the mining industry, others in the professions. Austin J. King acquired much of his early education in the intervals of actual experience in coal mines. For two years he studied engineering at Ohio State University. His first work in a coal mine, beginning at the age of twelve, was in Ohio. From the age of fifteen to seventeen he was in mines at Houtzdale, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. He was with the engineering corps of the H.C. Frick Coal & Coke Company from August 15, 1891, to September 1, 1893. Then, after his engineering course at Ohio State University, he returned to the Frick Coal & Coke Company. From March 1, 1900 , to July 1, 1900, he was division engineer of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. On July 1, 1900, he became assistant general superintendent of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, with headquarters at Pocahontas, Virginia. The name of this company was changed to the Pocahontas Collieries Company, and on December 1, 1901, he was made general superintendent. Subsequently he was general superintendent of the Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Company, general superintendent of the James W. Ellsworth Company in Pennsylvania, in 1905 became chief engineer of the New River Smokeless Coal Company in West Virginia, and when this became the New River Collieries Company, under the ownership of the Guggenheims, Mr. King was made division superintendent. From July 1, 1909, to December 1, 1909, he was assistant to Mr. John Lang, chief of the department of mines, Charleston, West Virginia. For a second time he was general superintendent of the Pocahontas Collieries Company at Pocahontas, and since March 15, 1911, has been identified with properties and companies largely representing his individual enterprise as a coal operator. These eventually came to constitute several companies operating in the West Virginia fields. Mr. King has had his home at Huntington since May, 1917, and his business offices are in the Robson-Prichard Building, that city. He is a member of the Mining Institute of West Virginia, American Mining Congress, Coal Mining Institute of America, American Institute of Mining Engineers and American Association of Engineers. In politics he is a Republican, is a Catholic, and member of the Congressional Country Club, Washington, D.C. He married in November, 1895, Miss Catherine Carroll, daughter of William and Mary (Naylon) Carroll. She died at Charleston, West Virginia, February 8, 1914, mother of nine children: Mrs. H.R. Pinckard; Austin C., who graduated from Yale University in June, 1921, and became associated with his father's business; Mrs. Walter Sebring, a graduate nurse of Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh; William P.; Catherine, who died in infancy; Paul, Virginia, Margaret and Harriet. Mr. King on June 27, 1917, married, Miss Catherine A. Cavey, of Charleston. Their children are: James, born October 22, 1918, died may 1, 1925; John, born December 29, 1919; Anna, born August 19, 1921; Robert A., born December 4, 1923; and Therese, born April 30, 1925. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:04:01 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: BIO: GOHEN, 1928, Hamilton County ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 17-Jan-99 0:13 Subject: Ohio connections ------------------------------------------------------------------ WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 17-18 Charles Marsh Gohen, president of the First Huntington National Bank, has a unique record among West Virginia financiers in that he has served continuously and consecutively practically one institution, since the bank over which he now presides is a successor of the institution which he entered as a boy of fourteen in the capacity of practically janitor. Mr. Gohen was born at Aurora, Indiana, September 18, 1876, but has lived at Huntington since 1884. his grandfather, Thomas A. Gohen, was born in 1832 in Ireland, was educated for a chemist, and on coming to America was associated with the Marsh & Harwood Chemical Company of Cincinnati. he died in that city in 1900. His wife, Anna De Coursy, was born in France, in 1834, and died at Cincinnati in 1902. Several of their sons became prominent. James A. Gohen, father of the Huntington banker, was born in Cincinnati, May 5, 1849, was a carriage manufacturer at Aurora, and on moving to Huntington in 1884 became identified with the motive power department of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. In 1904 he went to Indianapolis. His wife was Malvina Fenton Marsh, who was born at Aurora, Indiana, September 8, 1852. Charles marsh Gohen, only child of his parents, had his school opportunities limited between the years of eight and fourteen at Huntington. He then went to work in the commercial Bank of Huntington, where after a time he was made a messenger, then became teller. he went along with the other property of this institution when in 1894 it was consolidated with the Bank of Huntington in the Huntington National Bank. He remained as teller, was promoted to assistant cashier, cashier, and on July 1, 1919, was chosen president at the age of forty-three, becoming head of a bank with resources of upwards of eight million dollars. Still another merger was made in 1924, the Huntington National and the First National combining as the First Huntington National bank, of which Mr. Gohen is now president. He has also served as president of the Huntington Clearing House Association, president of the West Virginia Paving and Pressed Brick Company, and has been a director in a number of corporations. He is a member of the West Virginia State and American Bankers Associations, and during the World war was county chairman for the war savings drive and active in the Liberty Loan campaign. Mr. Gohen is a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, is a Democrat, member of the Country Club, and other social and civic organizations. He married at Huntington, June 14, 1906, Miss Mary Elizabeth Emmons, her grandfather, Delos E. Emmons, was the resident engineer and manager in the laying out and founding of the City of Huntington, acting in that capacity under a commission from his brother-in-law, the great railroad magnate, Collis P. Huntington. Mrs. Gohen was born at Huntington, daughter of Carlton Delos and Minnie (Gibson) Emmons. Her father was president of the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Company of Huntington. Mrs. Gohen was educated in schools at Huntington and in Hollins College at Roanoke, Virginia. WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 29-30 James B. Kennedy, an ex-service man, has spent most of his active career in commissary work for coal companies and is now manager of the commissary for the Kelleys Creek Coal Company at Cedar Grove, Kanawha County. He was born in Shrewsbury, West Virginia, April 12, 1889, son of James and Anna (Rogers) Kennedy. His father, a native of Ohio, came to West Virginia when about eighteen years of age, being superintendent of the Shrewsbury coal mines, also superintendent of the mine at Shrewsbury for the Sunday Creek Coal Company, and was superintendent of mines for the Winifrede Coal Company. He is now retired from business and a resident of Shrewsbury. His wife, Anna Rogers, was born in old Virginia and was brought to West Virginia when a girl. She attended public schools and was a devout Catholic. Her death occurred July 29, 1916, and she is buried at Coalburg. These parents had the following children: Thomas, Mary, Anna, Rose, James B., Lawrence, william, Edward, Raymond and Helen. James B. Kennedy attended public schools in Kanawah County. When he left school he went to work in the mines, and he knows practically all the work of an actual miner as well as the management of commissaries. About 1905 he became a clerk for Lane Brothers, merchants at Shrewsbury, and after a year became clerk in the commissary of the Ephraim Creek Coal Company. He returned to Shrewsbury as clerk in the commissary of the Sunday Creek Coal Company, and for a time was with the Coalburg Mining Company in their commissary. In 1915 he went with the Winifrede Coal Company, and remained there until he answered the call to the colors at the time of the World war. He enlisted in 1917 and was trained at Camp Lee with the Three Hundred and Fifteenth Field Artillery. A few months later he went overseas and was in France on the front line of duty during the ~St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns. In the Argonne Forest he was gassed, and spent some time at Chaumont, the general headquarters of the American Expeditionary forces. he returned with his outfit to Camp Lee, Virginia where he received his honorable discharge June 10, 1919. After the war Mr. Kennedy resumed work with the Winifrede Coal Company as assistant manager of the commissary, and after a few months was promoted to manager. In June, 1921, he became manager at Montgomery, West Virginia, for the Fayette-Kanawha Coal Company commissary. Since January 1, 1926, he has been located at Cedar Grove as manager of the commissary for the Kelley Creek Supply Company, the subsidiary of the Valley Camp Collieries Company. Mr. Kennedy is a Catholic, a member of the Knights of Columbus, and in politics is a Democrat. he married at Charleston, West Virginia, November 21, 1921, Miss Hartzell Barker, who grew up and attended school at St. Albans, graduating from high school there in 1917. She was an active part in the methodist Church at Cedar Grove. her father, Andrew J. Barker, was for a number of years a miner with the Winifrede Coal Company, and is now associated with a son in the mercantile business at St. Albans. Mrs. Kennedy's mother died a number of years ago and is buried at St. Albans. The one child of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy is Alma June, born October 1, 1922. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #21 ******************************************