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His home is at Glen Jean, and he is vice president, secretary and treasurer of the K. G. J. & E. Railroad Company. He was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, June 12, 1870, son of Samuel F. and Jane (Carson) McCoy, and grandson of John McCoy. Both the McCoys and Carsons came from Pennsylvania, the McCoys from Lancaster and the Carsons from Philadelphia. John McCoy, the grandfather, was a pioneer merchant at Chillicothe and had an active part in the organization of the First Presbyterian Church there. He died a few years before the Civil war and is buried at Chillicothe. Samuel F. McCoy was born and reared at Chillicothe, graduated in law from Miami University at Oxford, Illinois, and became one of the leading lawyers of the old and historic City of Chillicothe. He served several times as judge of the Probate Court. Judge McCoy was a California forty-niner, going out to the West and sharing in its experiences before he took up the law. He died in 1898, and is buried at Chillicothe. His wife, Jane Carson, was born and reared in Chillicothe, was active in the Presbyterian Church and for many years was associated with that band of religious and temperance workers known as the Woman Crusaders, who during the '70s succeeded in destroying the curse of the saloon in a number of Ohio communities, before public opinion had been educated to the point of local option or prohibition. She died in 1908. her father was William Carson, a Chillicothe merchant. Judge McCoy and wife had seven children: Eliza, deceased, who married Dr. Frank Sproat, of Chillicothe; Janet, of Chillicothe, who for a number of years taught school in Ohio; Rev. John McCoy, who graduated from Princeton Seminary, won a Hebrew scholarship there, traveled abroad and studied in Berlin University and spent a number of years in the Presbyterian ministry, until his death in January, 1925; Alice McCoy, of Chillicothe, who was also a teacher in Ohio; William C., in the grain business, associated with the Orthwein Grain Company at St. Louis, Missouri; Oliver F., the next in age; Robert, who was educated in Chillicothe and studied law with his father, practiced successfully for a number of years at Columbus, Ohio and died in 1923. Oliver Finley McCoy was reared in in Chillicothe, where he obtained a public school education. As a young man he went into the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company at Chillicothe, beginning in the store department, and was with this road ten years, rising to the responsibility of storekeeper in charge of stores on the division between Parkersburg, West Virginia, and cincinnati. Mr. McCoy has been a resident of Glen Jean, West Virginia, since 1901, coming here as auditor of the McKell Coal & Coke Company and its allied companies. He has been with these financial and industrial interests ever since, his present title being that of vice president, secretary, treasurer and of vice president, secretary, treasurer and auditor of the K.G.J. & E. Railroad Company. He is also secretary of the Nichol Colliery Company and is a director in the Bank of Glen Jean. He has taken a warm interest in the organizations for local welfare, being superintendent of the Glen Jean Union Church Sunday School. He is a Presbyterian, a Republican, is a Knight Templar Mason and member of Beni Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. While living at Chillicothe he was affiliated with the B.P.O. Elks. Mr. McCoy married at Baltimore, Maryland, June 22, 1910, Miss Mabel R. Willson, of Baltimore, where she was reared and educated, later attending school at Lykins, Pennsylvania, and Keene, New Hampshire. She was reared in the Episcopal Church, and since moving to Glen Jean has taken an active part in the religious work of the community and has charge of the branch of the Girls Friendly Society. She is a member and secretary of the Fayette Study Club. Her parents were Edwin H. and Susan (Keiser) Willson, who lived at Baltimore. Her father for many years was identified with anthracite coal interests at Lykens, Pennsylvania, and since the death of his wife in July, 1926, has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. McCoy, at Glen Jean. Mr. and Mrs. McCoy have one son, John, born, May 9, 1915, who is now attending the Fessenden School for Boys at West Newton, Massachusetts. WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 76-77 CLAUDE A. LATHAM, physician and surgeon, is one of the prominent younger group of doctors at Huntington, rated as a skilful surgeon and a man of thorough training and sound capabilities. He was born at Ravenswood, West Virginia, in 1895, son of M. H. and Mary Elizabeth (Parks) Latham, and grandson of Frank Latham and Elmer Parks. Elmer Parks was born in Ohio, but at an early day moved to West Virginia and spent the rest of his life as a farmer. His daughter, Elizabeth Parks, was born in Ohio. M. H. Latham is a native of West Virginia, and he and his wife now live at East Liverpool, Ohio, where he is a dry goods merchant. Both are members of the Methodist Church and he is a Republican in politics. They had two sons: Dr. Claude A. and Carl Rodney. Claude A. Latham attended high school at Ravenswood, West Virginia, graduated Bachelor of Science from West Virginia University in 1920, having taken his pre-medical course there, and in 1922 graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He spent one year as an interne in the Grant Hospital at Columbus, Ohio, and began practice at the Holden Hospital in Logan County, West Virginia. From there in 1924 he located at Huntington and has since engaged in general private practice. His surgical work is handled in the Guthrie and St. mary hospitals. He is a member of the Cabell County, West Virginia State and American medical Associations. Doctor Latham married, October 6, 1926, Miss Mary Rebecca Werninger, a native of Huntington, daughter of A. W. Werninger, a well known insurance man. Doctor Latham is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and his wife belongs to the southern branch of the church. He has membership in the college fraternities Phi Sigma Kappa and Alpha Kappa Kappa, and is a Scottish Rite Mason. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:04:26 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: BIO: SNOW, 1928, Montgomery County ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 17-Jan-99 14:37 Subject: Ohio connections ------------------------------------------------------------------ WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 49-50 CHARLES PINDER SNOW. In a comparatively brief span of years the late Charles Pinder Snow lived a life of usefulness and prominence that have made an indelible impress on the community and City of Huntington. He was one of the most loyal friends of that city, and never neglected an opportunity to advance its wholesome prosperity as represented in its commercial, religious and social institutions. Mr. Snow was born at Dayton, Ohio in 1872, and was fifty-three years of age when called by death in October, 1925. He acquired his early education in his native city and began work there in the offices of the Big Four Railroad. Later he went to Lexington, Kentucky, and for two and half years was in the service of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, and for a little more than two years was located at Ashland. Mr. Snow in 1905 was transferred to Huntington, and continued with the Chesapeake & Ohio Company there until 1911, when he resigned. He became associated with Mr. Prichard in the organization of the Huntington Banking & Trust Company, and served as vice president and cashier of that institution up to the time of his death. Outside of the bank his two chief hobbies were the Chamber of Commerce and his church. He served as president of the Chamber of Commerce six different terms and was head of that body when he died. He was vice president of the Foster-Thornburg Hardware Company. In the Presbyterian Church he was president of the Men's Club and for five years president of the Bible Class. He served two years as president of the Credit Men's Association and for one year was president of the Huntington Clearing House Association. He was a Republican in politics, and a Knight Templar Mason. Mr. Snow married, February, 1898, Miss Josephine Brink, who was born at Covington, Kentucky. She survives her honored husband and resides at 347 Sixth Avenue, Huntington, and is a very active member of the Presbyterian Church. her parents were Joseph and mary Brink. her mother died in December, 1926, and her father was a retired railway man living at Covington when he passed away in 1927. WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 59-60 (has family photo) RAYMOND J. RYAN, generally known as "Ray" proprietor of the Ryan Auto Company of Oak Hill, is one of the sound business men of his community, and he is one of those who proves the broadness and sincerity of his character and his sense of the heavy responsibility devolving upon him both as to his private interests and his relation to public affairs in everything he undertakes, so that his success is lasting and well deserved. Preparedness and efficiency for whatever life brings are valuable assets in the formation of character and the accumulation of material prosperity. Without a sane, sound outlook on life no man can hope to produce on others that impression so desirable in order to firmly establish permanent prosperity, a fact early learned by Mr. Ryan. Therefore from the first his career has been filled with big accomplishments and public-spirited actions that lend themselves to producing the light in which the community regards him. His probity is unquestioned, and his standing has been long an accomplished fact. Mr. Ryan was born at Saint Martins, Ohio, February 18, 1883, a son of Dennis J. and Mary Frances (Root) Ryan, and grandson of Thomas E. Ryan, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1822, and, after a stop at New Foundland, Nova Scotia, located at New Orleans, Louisiana, and there lived for twelve or fifteen years. Later he moved to Ohio, took up a section of land in Brown County in 1841, and engaged in farming, continuing to reside on his farm until his death in 1895, when he was eighty-seven years old. Dennis J. Ryan was born and reared in Brown County, Ohio, and there he attended public schools. A farmer and stockraiser all his life, he died in 1921 at Cincinnati, Ohio , where the last four years of his life had been spent, he going to that city when he retired, and there he is buried. His wife was born and reared at Saint Martins, and educated in the Ursuline Convent of that community. All her life she has been a devout member of the Catholic Church, and is still active at the age of sixty-eight years, and resides at Cincinnati. There were fourteen children born to the parents, of whom the first two died in infancy. Annie and William, twins. The others were as follows: Raymond J., whose name heads this review; Gertrude; Cora, who is deceased; Rose and Lilly twins, Rose being Sisters of Mercy Superior in Wisconsin and Lilly is deceased; Florence, who is living; Clara Maud, who is deceased; Edward and Catherine, both of whom are deceased; the others are also deceased. Raymond J. Ryan attended the public schools of Saint Martins and the Hayden, Indiana, High School, and was graduated from the latter in 1901, and he was also a student of Saint Edwards parochial school of Cincinnati, Ohio. Upon leaving school he entered the employ of the William S. Merrill Chemical Company of Cincinnati, and remained with that concern for eight years, and during the summer seasons played professional baseball at Newark, Ohio, and Ashland, Kentucky, being in 1903 and 1904 at Greensburg, Indiana and Sydney, Ohio and at Welch, West Virginia. in 1905. He was at Greensboro, North Carolina, Wheeling, West Virginia, Lima, Ohio Auburn, Indiana, Lancaster, Ohio, in 1906, and he caught in 136 games. In 1907-1908 he was with the team of Danville, Virginia; and in 1909 was with that of Roanoke, Virginia, and helped the team win the pennant, catching in 124 of 126 games played that season. In the fall of 1909 he was drafted by the Chicago Americans, and was with them in 1910, and made training trips with them to California. In 1910 he went with the team of Birmingham, Alabama and in 1911 was with the Youngstown, Ohio, and the Meridian, Mississippi, and the Charlotte, North Carolina teams. In 1912 he became manager and catcher of the team of Chillicothe, Ohio, but left, July 1, 1912, to go with the team of South Bend, Indiana, and Springfield, Ohio. In 1913 he was with the Wheeling, West Virginia team as catcher and manager, and later served in similar capacities with that of Norfolk, Virginia. In 1914 he was manager and catcher of the Richmond, Virginia, team; and in 1915 and in 1916 and a part of 1917, was manager and catcher of the team of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, but in the latter part of 1917 he became manager and catcher of the team of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. From 1918 to 1920 Mr. Ryan was an automobile dealer at Welch, West Virginia, and in 1921 became part owner and manager of team of Richmond, Virginia, and was so connected until 1922, when he became catcher of the team at Syracuse, new York, and scout for the Cleveland, Ohio, teams of the American League. In 1923 he resumed business as an automobile dealer, establishing himself at Oak Hill, where he now has a very modern garage, and is the agent for the Chrysler automobile in this territory. In connection therewith he has a well-equipped shop, and carries a full line of accessories and supplies, and operates an oil and gas station, as well as the Minden-Oak Hill & Lochgelly Bus Line. Mr. Ryan also owns a farm in Clairmont County, Ohio. He is a valued member of the Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce, and has been one of its directors since it was organized. In politics he is a Democrat and in religion, a Catholic. On June 14, 1911, Mr. Ryan married at Versailles, Ohio, Miss Cora Emeline Dapore of that community, educated in its public and parochial schools, and Antioch University, Oxford, Ohio. For three years she was engaged in teaching in the public schools of Versailles, leaving the schoolroom to be married, and is now a very important factor in the community life of Oak Hill, her education and general knowledge being of great value. She is a daughter of Frank and Mary Alice (Pequinot) Dapore, the former of whom was for many years a prominent merchant of Versailles, but he died in February, 1922, and is buried at Versailles, where his widow is still living. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ryan; Frank Raymond, who died at the age of three years; Romaine Paul, who is a student in the Dayton, Ohio, University; Joseph Edward, who is attending the Oak Hill public schools; Mary Virginia, who died at the age of six years and six months; Robert John, who died at the age of five years and six months; Rose Jeanette, who is four years old; and James Dennis, who is a baby. In addition to their own children Mr. and Mrs. Ryan are rearing Cornelia Ramsey with the same care and affection, and she is a student of Oak Hill public schools. Mr. Ryan is a wholesouled, kind-hearted man, who has made friends wherever he has been located, and at Oak Hill he is held in the warmest affection, not only by his business associates, but in the different organizations with which he affiliates, including the Kiwanis Club. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #24 ******************************************