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The University of West Virginia is an institution in which the state takes major pride, and its high standard of service makes its value felt throughout the length and breadth of this commonwealth. In maintaining and advancing its service and its prestige a splendid work has been accomplished by Frank Butler Trotter, who has been its president since 1916, and who had previously served about two years as its acting president - 1914-16. His executive and scholastic policies have inured greatly to the advantage of the university and its work and to giving it its present high rank among similar state institutions throughout the nation. President Trotter was born in Washington County, Ohio, February 27, 1863, a son of James and Elizabeth (Stock) Trotter and a grandson of Robert Trotter, who came from his native Ireland to the United States in 1821 and who first resided in the State of New York, next in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and finally in Washington County, Ohio, where the closing years of his life were passed. James Trotter was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1827, and was a boy when his parents gained pioneer precedence in Ohio, where he was reared and educated, where his marriage was solemnized and where he continued to reside until 1876, when he came with his family to West Virginia and established the home in Preston County, his death having there occurred at Aurora, May 26, 1914. His wife, now deceased, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, a daughter of Henry and Minerva Stock, both of whom were of German lineage. Frank Butler Trotter was a lad of thirteen years at the time of the family removal to West Virginia, where he continued his studies in public and private schools in Preston County until he was fortified for pedagogic service, he having been nineteen years of age when he initiated his activities as a teacher in the public schools of that county. In 1890 he was graduated from Roanoke College, Virginia, with the degree Bachelor of Arts, and in 1895 he received from his alma mater the degree master of Arts. Thereafter he did post-graduate work in historic old Harvard University. After six years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools the future president of the University of West Virginia became professor of Latin and modern languages in West Virginia Wesleyan College until he became professor of Latin in the university of which he is now the president, he having been advanced the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and having been called upon in 1914 to serve as acting president of the university, in which capacity he made so excellent a record that in 1916 he was elected the president, the office of which he has since continued the loyal and resourceful incumbent. It is gratifying to record that the university has been favored in receiving constantly expanding income through liberal appropriations made by the State Legislature, that its faculty has been increased in numbers, that the facilities of the various departments have been augmented and otherwise improved, and that popular appreciation has been manifested in the increased enrollment of students from year to year. Concerning the administration of President Trotter the following estimate has been written: "President Trotter has succeeded in connecting the university with the state as a whole and has extended the advantages of education to every citizen in even the most remote communities. This has been accomplished mainly through the high school, extension departments, teacher's institutes and the students themselves. President Trotter has an extensive acquaintance throughout the state and a broad and accurate knowledge of its schools and school conditions. This knowledge was acquired partly through his service as a member of the faculty of Wesleyan College at Buckhannon and partly through his former connection with the university as a member of the committee on classification and grades. As one of the guardians of the people's treasury he has shown remarkable ability to economize judiciously and to gain full and faithful service from his staff, the while he has assumed the responsibility of safeguarding the character and interests of each and every student enrolled at the university. He has insisted on the highest standards of scholarship and has demanded the best conditions of morality." President Trotter is a man of engaging personality, broad in his sympathies and human tolerance, and he is looked upon as guide, counselor and friend to all students of the great institution over which he presides. he is an effective public speaker, and as such his services are much in demand aside from the work that he has done for the university through this medium. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he has thrice been a delegate to its General Conference. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, he is a member of the Rotary club at Morgantown, the seat of the university, and he is affiliated with the Phi Beta Kappa and the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternities, as is he also with the Knights of Pythias. On the 22d of August, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of President Trotter and Miss Lillian List Steele, and both are popular factors in the general social and cultural circles of their community. They have one son. Lorentz Steele Trotter, born at Buckhannon, in 1896, and at present a senior in the College of Law at Harvard University. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:59:05, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 5, page 229-230 GUY T. MACKEY. The career of Guy T. Mackey adds another to the many illustrations which Monongalia County has furnished of the results attainable by intelligence, tact and perseverance when applied to the building up of an extensive business under the favor which has, for many years, attended all her enterprises. As junior member of the firm of Smith & Mackey, grocers, for the past eighteen years Mr. Mackey has influenced to large extent the development of a stable industry, and one which would have yielded pronounced success only to those who had the sagacity to perceive and the boldness to push to the best results so large an opportunity. Mr. Mackey was born August 18, 1884, at Cameron, West Virginia, and is a son of B.A. and Jennie (Mess) Mackey. His father, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was reared on a farm and received a rural school education, but when a young man was attracted to railroading, and for twenty-two years was identified with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in various capacities. When he left that vocation he turned his attention again to the occupation of his boyhood, and for some years was the operator of a farm in Monongalia County. He is now retired from active pursuits and makes his home with his son at Morgantown, where he is held in high esteem and respect. His worthy and faithful wife, who was born at Cameron, West Virginia, died November 2, 1923. Guy T. Mackey acquired his educational training in the public schools of Mannington, Marion County, and as a young man came to Morgantown, where he applied himself to learning the trade of glass blower. This calling he mastered and worked at as a journeyman at various establishments for about ten years, in the meanwhile carefully saving his earnings and keeping a sharp lookout for a profitable field of investment. Having become acquainted with Jefferson T. Smith, a review of whose career appears elsewhere in this work, and who was a practical grocer of some years experience, a partnership was formed between the two in 1910, and this has continued with mutual profit and congeniality to the preset, their modern establishment being located at 437 Beechurst Street. The business has been built up to large proportions through legitimate channels. Mr. Mackey, like his partner, is a stickler for honesty. He never advertises anything that he has not on hand, and he never resorts to the expedient of questionable transactions. he wins out on merit, good nature, courtesy and patience with women, who are his chief customers, and belief in himself and his ability to succeed. He is an agreeable and obliging man, and his standing in the community rests upon the sure foundation of confidence and respect. Mr. Mackey is interested in fraternalism and is a thrity-second degree mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, belonging also to the B. P. O. Elks for many years and the Junior Order United American mechanics. He likewise holds membership in the Morgantown County Club and the local Kiwanis Club, and in the latter cooperates with other progressive and enlightened citizens of modern tendencies in the promulgation of movements for the public welfare. In politics Mr. Mackey is a Republican, and while he has not sought public office for himself he has been active in his support of party and friends. In his youth he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he still belongs, and is now vice president of the Business men's Bible Class, the largest class of its kind in the State of West Virginia, which has approximately 500 members and is taught by Doctor Armstrong. On July 22, 1914, Mr. Mackey was united in marriage with Miss Emma Deary, a daughter of D.M. and Mary (Whitman) Deary, of Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Deary follows the vocation of a stationary engineer. Mrs. Deary passed away in 1920 at the Cleveland home. Mrs. Mackey is also active in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has many friends in social circles of Morgantown. To Mr. And Mrs. Mackey there have been born two children: Ila Florrie, who was born may 14, 1919; and Bruce Melvin, born November 1, 1917. The pleasant family home is located at 408 McLane Ave. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:59:11, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 5, page 234-235 GORY HOGG, physician and surgeon has practiced more than thirty years with home at Harvey in Fayette County. He has many financial and business relationships with the community and has given much time to public service in unremunerated positions. Doctor Hogg is a descendant of Peter Hogg, who came to America in 1745 and located in Augusta County, Virginia. He was a counselor to King George III, and was given a patent to a large tract of land by the King, this land being located near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He was captain in Colonial and the Revolutionary wars and was a man of high rank and prominence. The old parchment recording his land patent is still carefully preserved by his descendants. Peter Hogg founded a family which has been widely dispersed over West Virginia and other states. One of his descendants was Thomas Gory Hogg, son of Peter (II), and his wife, Patsy Abney, and the grandfather of Doctor Hogg. Abney, and the grandfather of Doctor Hogg, Walter Harden Hogg. Walter Harden Hogg, father of Doctor Hogg, was born and reared in Mason County, and followed farming and stock raising in that vicinity until his death in 1917, at the age of seventy-nine. He married Elizabeth McGuffin, a native of Jackson County, West Virginia, reared in Mason County from early childhood. She is an active worker in the Presbyterian Church and an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is now a resident of Point Pleasant. She and W.H. Hogg had four children: Dr. Robert M., who died in 1893, at the age of twenty-eight; Ora, who is now Mrs. William Henderson Vaught, of Point Pleasant, is present state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a member of the Society of Colonial Dames; Byron Hogg, who died in 1893, at the age of twenty-two, while in his senior year in medical college; and Gory Doctor Gary Hogg was born at Point Pleasant June 29, 1873, and was educated in public schools and at West Virginia University. Taking his M. D. degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore in 1895, in the same year he located at Harvey, where he has been constantly in practice. Doctor Hogg is a director of the New River Banking & Trust Company of Thurmond, a director of the Scotia Coal & Coke Company, director of the South Side Coal Company. Doctor Hogg in 1912 was elected a member of the State Senate from the Ninth District, serving four years. During the World war he was chairman of the Local Draft Board, was chairman of the southern section of the State of West Virginia for the American Protective league, and devoted much of his time to the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. He served in all these capacities without pay, and one of the tokens of recognition of his patriotic service was a personal letter of thanks from President Wilson. Doctor Hogg is a member of the Civil Legion in recognition of honorable and loyal service to the United States of America during the World war. For a number of years he has been local surgeon for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a past potentate and present imperial representative of Beni Kedem Temple of Mystic Shrine at Charleston. He belongs to the Edgewood County Club of Charleston, the Guyandotte Country Club of Huntington, and is vice president of the White Oak Country Club. He is a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa college fraternity, the Business Men's Club of Mount Hope. A Democratic, he has been recognized as a leader in the party. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith. Doctor Hogg married at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 9, 1903, Miss Caroline James Butterfield, only daughter of Alden Pease and Caroline Ida (Baldridge) Butterfield. She and both her parents were born in Cincinnati. Benjamin Butterfield, a native of Kent County, England, came to America in 1630, and was in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1638. Her great-grandfather, John Butterfield, married Sybil Willard, a descendant of Major Simon Willard, who immigrated to America in 1634 and was the first military commander of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was the ranking officer of the Colonies at that time. In the Baldridge line she is a descendant of William Baldridge, who married Janet or Jeanette Holmes of Belfast, Ireland. They came to America in the very early part of 1700, settling in what is now Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1764, the Baldridge family moved to North Carolina. William Baldridge (II), a grandson of the first William, was born in 1763, served seven years in the American Revolution. His father, Alexander, also rendered service with North Carolina troops. He was graduated from Dickinson College of Pennsylvania in 1790, and became a minister of the Associated Reformed Church of Pennsylvania. In 1798 he became pastor of the United Congregation of the ForK of the James River in Rockridge County, Virginia. In 1809 he accepted a call to a congregation in Adams County, Ohio, and was actively engaged in the ministry until his death in 1830. His son, James Ramsey Baldridge, was a stockholder and trustee of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, incorporated in 1834, and was a prominent business man of Cincinnati. He and his wife, Sophia Bradford, were the great-grandparents of Mrs. Hogg. Their son, David Agnew Baldridge, and Caroline James, were her grandparents. Mrs. Hogg was educated at Bartholomew's English and Classical School at Cincinnati. She has long been prominent in the work of patriotic organizations, being a member of the National Societies: Daughters of Barons of Runnemede, Colonial Dames of America, Daughters of American Revolution, the Daughters of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a life member of the American Red Cross, through Sophia Bradford who is directly descended from Governor Bradford, who came on the Mayflower. In Red Cross work she received a special Service Medal during the World war. She has been state chairman of the Constitution Hall Finance Committee of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, also serving on the national committee for five consecutive years. In 1925 she organized the Fayette Study Club of Fayette County, and has been president from its organization. She is also state chairman of Citizenship Training in the State Federation of Women's Clubs. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #35 ******************************************