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He was born in Salineville, Columbiana County, Ohio, December 27, 1866, a son of Edward and Margaret (Collins) O'Toole. The elder Edward O'Toole was born in the town of Shrule, on the banks of Lough Corrib, in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1828, the son of a surgeon. His education was limited, for during his childhood it was a criminal offense to educate Catholics in Ireland, he was forced to become a working man, and was in the mines, continuing his work until he retired. As a general thing he voted the Democratic ticket in national elections. Mrs. Margaret (Collins) O'Toole was born in the Parish of Islandeady, County Mayo, Ireland, 1828. Her father was a noted Irish scholar, and a farmer. The younger Edward O'Toole attended the common schools of Columbiana County, Ohio, and when he was only nine years old he started to work in the coal mines between school terms. In the years that have followed he has filled every position and occupation that is connected with the coal mining. There is nothing about this line of business with which he has not been associated from the mining of coal to the prospecting and purchasing of mines, etc., etc. He has been interested in the coal business and the purchase of coal lands in West Virginia for the last thrity-five years. Mr. O'Toole possesses inventive genius of a high order, and is the inventor of the O'Toole Jeffrey Over Cutting Machine, the O'Toole Cutting and Loading Machine, and the developer of the American Coal Cleaning Corporation's Dry Cleaning of Coal Process. He read a paper before the American Iron and Steel Institute on the advantages of dry cleaning coal; and one of the Pocahontas Coal Field for the American Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; and he addressed the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, on the Machinization of Coal Mines and General Mining, and the operating officials of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, an organization of efficiency of operation. He is the originator and supporter of the present Workmen's Compensation Laws of the State of West Virginia. Another important accomplishment of this versatile man was the building and management of the coal mines of the United States Steel Corporation in West Virginia and Kentucky; and it was he who organized the national banks of Gary, and Anawalt, West Virginia and Lynch, Kentucky. He organized the Central Pocahontas Coal Company, the Crystal Block Coal & Coke Company, the Crystal Block Mining Company, the Crystal Supply Company, the Tug River Electric Company, and the Kentucky River Power Company. In addition to the above Mr. O'Toole has examined the mines of Germany, Belgium, France and England, for the benefit of the coal mining branch of the United States Steel Corporation, and he visited South America for the purpose of investigating the coal market on behalf of the Central Pocahontas Coal Company and the Crystal Block Companies. Mr. O'Toole is affiliated with the Republican party. From 1905 to 1909 Mr. O'Toole served as colonel on the governor's staff under Governor Dawson; and from 1909 to 1913 he served as general on the governor's staff under Governor Glassock. For twenty-four years he served as president of the board of education of Adkins District, West Virginia. While he is a Catholic, Mr. O'Toole is interested in all religious and charitable work, and is a patron and promoter of churches of all denominations. Methodist, Baptist, Catholic and all churches of the colored people. He belongs to the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Mining Engineers of Western Pennsylvania, and the American Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Mr. O'Toole was married in Saint Vincent de Paul's Church, Leisenring, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Miss Sarah Goodwin, who was educated in common schools of Pennsylvania. Her father, James Goodwin, is a farmer, and her mother, Mrs. Mary (Campbell) Goodwin, is connected with the Goodwins and Hays of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. O'Toole became the parents of the following children; William Joseph, who was born March 15, 1894, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from the Catholic University, is now clerk of the county court and manager of the American Coal Cleaning Corporation, Welch, West Virginia, married Deborah Kinney, and they reside at Welch; Julia Cecelia, who was born February 7, 1897, married Raymond A. Wyland, and they live at Anawalt, West Virginia. He attended Saint Aloysius Academy, took her degree of Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, and was a student of the Catholic University. Edward Austin, who was born January 16, 1899, attended the old Point Comfort College and the University of West Virginia, and and the Catholic University, and is now vice president Central Pocahontas Coal Company, of Welch, West Virginia, married Helen Myers; Margaret Mary, who was born February 15, 1901, attended Immaculate Conception Academy, Washington, Trinity College, and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, married Hobart Baldwin, and they live at Sprigg, West Virginia; Anna Regina, who was born November 11, 1903, attended Saint Aloysius Academy, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, took a special course in English at Oxford University, is now teaching in the high school at Gary, West Virginia; James Michael, who was born July 4, 1907, attended Old Point Comfort College, Leonard Hall, Mount Saint Joseph College, Notre Dame University, United States preparatory School, and is at present a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; Lawrence, who was born July 13, 1909, attended Old Point Comfort College, Leonard Hall, Mount Saint Joseph College, and the public schools of Gary, West Virginia and is now at Georgetown University; Sarah, who was born April 9, 1911, attended Saint Aloysius Academy, is now attending Mount Notre Dame Academy, Reading, Ohio; and Thomas, who was born September 20, 1913, is attending the public schools of Gary, West Virginia. His son Edward was at Prattsburg Training camp and was placed in command of battalion at the Catholic University awaiting orders for overseas duty when the armistice was signed. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:11:40, -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, pate 285-286 JAMES LEWIS CALDWELL. This is an honored name in two of the large communities of West Virginia. James Lewis Caldwell, Jr., is active head of the Chrisman Foundry Company at Morgantown. He is a son of the late James Lewis Caldwell, one of the most prominent bankers and industrial leaders of West Virginia whose home was at Huntington. James Lewis Caldwell, Sr., was born at Elizabeth, Wirt County, Virginia, May 20, 1846, and died at Huntington October 18, 1923, when seveny-seven years of age. His parents, John T. and Regina M. (Burns) Caldwell, were born in Ohio, and the former followed the occupation of farming. James Lewis Caldwell during his boyhood attended the rural schools in Meigs County, Ohio, and toward the end of 1862, before he was seventeen years old, enlisted in Company F of the Sixtieth Ohio Infantry. He saw some of the hardest fighting of the war, including the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Appomattox. For a short time after the war he was in the insurance business at Wheeling and then removed to Guyandotte, identifying himself with the community which has since become the City of Huntington. After 1887 his home was in Huntington proper. For some years he was in the lumber business, but in 1884 was the leader in organizing the First National Bank of Hun tington, became its president, and had filled that office continuously nearly forty years before his death. He brought the bank to a point where it was the largest in the state in resources, having assets of over eight million dollars. As a financier he was associated with many of the important organizations in his section of the state. He organized in 1892 the Huntington Electric Light & Street Railway Company which built the pioneer electric railway line in the country. He organized and built the Guyandotte Valley Railway, now part of the Chesapeake & Ohio System; was president of the Consolidated Light & Railway Company at Republican, Illinois; president of the Dingess Run Coal Company, secretary and treasurer of the Logan Cannel Coal Company, a director and member of the executive committee of Huntington Land Company. He served as a delegate at large at the National Republican Convention of 1904, and for many years was an outstanding figure in the party. He was a member of the P resbyterian Church. James Lewis Caldwell, Sr., married in Kanawha County in 1871, Miss Mary O'Bannon Smith. More than a year before his death they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Throughout their married lives they had only two homes. Mrs. Caldwell was born at Louisville, Kentucky, and was reared and educated there. Her father, Nicholas Smith, was a wholesale merchant. Mrs. James Lewis Caldwell died October 3, 1927. James Lewis Caldwell, Jr., one of a family of seven children, was born at Huntington, September 1, 1889, and spent his youthful years in his native city. He was given most liberal education opportunities, and after the public schools at Huntington attended the Bingham School at Asheville, North Carolina, also Marshall College at Huntington, and was graduated in 1913 from the law department of West Virginia University. Mr. Caldwell practiced law for five years at Huntington, being associated during that time with the firm of Campbell, Brown & Davis, and also with Samuel Biern. In connection with his law practice he was also associated with his father in banking and business. Mr. Caldwell in 1918 removed to Morgantown to take an active part in the Chrisman Foundry Company, and has since been vice president of that corporation. This company has a large and well equipped plant, including a foundry and mining car shop, located on Long Street in the industrial suburb of Westover. Mr. Caldwell enlisted in 1917, and was sent for training to the Radio School of the Texas A. and M. College, and after completing the course was with a radio field signal battalion at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, until honorably discharged in November, 1918. Mr. Caldwell is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Masonic fraternity, the Phi Kappa Psi and Theta Mu Epsilon fraternities, is a member of the Morgantown Country Club, a Republican and a Presbyterian. His home is at 130 Prairie Avenue, Morgantown. He married in March, 1914, Miss Mary Louise Chrisman, a daughter of Robert R. and Mary Elizabeth (McLane) Chrisman. A brief sketch of her father, founder of the Chrisman Foundry Company, is given in the preceding sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Caldwell have two children: James Lewis Caldwell III, born in 1915; and Robert Chrisman Caldwell, born in 1917. WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 5, page 298-299 PATRICK F. MALONEY is a veteran of the coal mining industry of West Virginia. It is a business he has followed since boyhood, and at the present time he is superintendent of the Sun Beam Mine at Fort Branch, Logan County. He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 7, 1878, son of John and Ellen (Malley) Maloney. His mother now resides with him. His father was also a miner, and died in 1908. Patrick F. Maloney had the opportunity of common schools, but at the age of fifteen went to work in and around coal mines, and there has been no important interruption to that work down to the present time. He started with what was known as the Y. & O. Company, now the Pittsburgh Railway & Coal Company of Pittsburgh. Following that he was with the Pittsburgh-Buffalo company, the United States Coal & Coke Company at Trig River, West Virginia, the H.C. Frick Coke Company, and has performed every grade of service from a worker underground to mine foreman and superintendent. Mr. Maloney first became superintendent of the Sun Beam Mine in 1913. In 1918 he left to become superintendent of the Brush Collieries at Cold River, Virginia. Then in 1926 he returned to Fort Branch. The Sun Beam Coal Company has daily output of from 500 to 600 tons of coal. The Sun Beam Mine was first opened in 1908 and was operated as an independent producer. In 1919 it was taken over by the present company, which is capitalized at $250,000. Mr. Maloney is a capable mine superintendent and a very popular figure in his home locality. He married, in 1900, Miss Rose Hill, a daughter of Mike Hill. She died in 1913, leaving two children, Francis, born in 1906, and Isadore, born in 1908. Mr. Maloney in 1918 married Lythi Kasee, daughter of Richard and Minnie (Bays) Kasee. Her father was a farmer of Carter County, kentucky. Her grandfather, Col. Sam Bays, was a Federal soldier in the Civil War. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #36 ******************************************