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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 39

Today's Topics:
  #1 Ohio connections                     [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #2 Obituary: Rutledge, 1953, Cuyahoga   ["JRDR" <Rutledgefamily@email.msn.c]
  #3 Ohio connections                     [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]

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X-Message: #1
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:11:28, -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 4, page 3-4

        WILLIAM THOMAS WILLIAMSON, vice president of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia, is easily one of the leading
promoters and solid business men of the state, and one whose presence at
Charleston is an added stimulus to business activities, and a source of
prestige to the capital city. He was born at Marietta, Ohio, April 4, 1871.
The Williamson family is of Scotch ancestry, and in William Thomas
Williamson is to be found many of the sturdy virtues of his forbears. His
grandfather, Thomas A. Williamson, was born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia,
and he married Isabella Brown, whose mother was a member of the Wager
family, and she was born on the Atlantic ocean en route to the United
States while her parents were making the journey from Ireland to this
country. The father of William Thomas Williamson was Thomas W. Williamson,
and he was born at Cambridge, Ohio, May 20, 1835. He married at
Moundsville, West Virginia, September 17, 1857, Miss Lydia Viola Sayre, who
was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1838. Thomas W.
Williamson was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and held
several charges in West Virginia, Kentucky, Cincinnati and Ohio
conferences. He died at Otway, Ohio, June 21, 1906, and the mother died at
Huntington, West Virginia, April 21, 1904.
        After he was graduated from the Huntington, West Virginia, High
School, William Thomas Williamson attended the Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware,
Ohio. After leaving university he spent twelve years in the employ of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, as clerk at Charleston, agent at
White Sulphur and Montgomery, claim agent with headquarters at Huntington
and passenger and ticket agent at Charleston.
        On January 1, 1901, Mr. Williamson began his long connection with
the telephone business as manager of the Charleston office of the Southern
Bell Telephone and telegraph Company. In the years that have followed he
has filled the positions of superintendent, division commercial
superintendent, division traffic superintendent, division plant
superintendent and division manager. In 1917 the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company of West Virginia was formed for the purpose of taking
over the properties of the three Bell Companies then operating in different
sections of West Virginia, and since that date he has been a director of
the company and in 1923 was elected vice president. When Mr. Williamson
entered the service of the  Bell System, in 1901, it had very few exchanges
and  practically no long distance service in the southern end of the state.
Since that time West Virginia has been covered with a comprehensive system
of exchange and toll lines, and the duplication of telephone service, which
existed for a number of years, had been practically eliminated and the
cities and towns as well as the farming sections now enjoy and adequate and
universal telephone service. The construction of this system, the
elimination of duplication of service, and the development of the business
in the state has been under his supervision. In addition to the above
activities Mr. Williamson is a director of the State Bank and Trust Company
and of the Union Mortgage Company, both of Charleston.
        Mr. Williamson expressed his views of the value of the telephone
quite recently in so cogent a fashion that his words are quoted herewith:
"To be able to talk is the greatest asset of the human race. The public
utilities in West Virginia have a bigger job ahead than at any time in the
history of the state. They will spend millions of dollars within the next
five to ten years. In our own line of work we have expert engineers who
make careful surveys of communities and cities to determine what the
telephone needs will be twenty years hence. Our records, based on
scientific investigations, indicate that West Virginia is going to develop
rapidly within the next twenty years. This means opportunities, especially
for those persons who are prepared to take advantage of them."
        While Mr. Williamson votes the Republican ticket, he has never
consented to the use of his name on the party ticket. Under Governor
Glasscock and Governor Hatfield of West Virginia he served as colonel aide
de camp. Reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which
his father was for so long a faithful pastor, he belongs to the First
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his father was for so long a faithful
pastor, he belongs to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Charleston,
and is president of its Board of Trustees, a member of the West Virginia
conference commission on finance, board of education, board of stewards and
the board of home missions and church extension. He was elected a delegate
to the 1924 and 1928 General Conferences of his church,  and at the close
of the 1924 General Conference was made a member of the world service
commission of the church. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of
West Virginia Wesleyan College. His club connections include membership in
Edgewood country Club of Charleston, the Fort Henry Club of Wheeling, the
Guyandotte Club of Huntington and the Rotary Club of Charleston. He is a
Scottish and York Rite Mason and is a past commander of Kanawha Commandery
No. 4, K. T. He is a member of the Shrine and is a past potentate of
Beni-Kedem Temple, Charleston, and six times representative of Beni-Kedem
temple in the Imperial Council of the Shrine.
        On October 23, 1895, Mr. Williamson married at Charleston Miss
Elizabeth S. Slack, a daughter of John and Harriet Y. Slack. John Slack was
sheriff of Kanawha County, West Virginia, from 1862 to 1866. Mrs.
Williamson is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution as a
descendant of Hedgeman Triplett, who was born in Virginia about 1755, and
died about 1826. He served with the Virginia forces six years as
lieutenant, for which he received 2,666 2/3 acres of bounty land. She is
also a member of the Colonial Dames as a descendant of Peter Hedgeman, who
was a justice of Stafford County in 1744. He was also a member of the House
of Burgesses from Prince William County from 1736 to 1738 and from Stafford
County, Virginia, for the sessions 1748-49-53-56-57-58. John Slack was a
son of Greenberry and Emilia H. (Triplett) Slack. Emilia H. Triplett  was
a daughter of Hedgeman Triplett.
        Mr. and Mrs. Williamson have one daughter, Harriet Viola
Williamson, who was born November 10, 1898, and was graduated from the
Charleston high School and was a student of National Park Seminary,
Washington District of Columbia. She was married at Charleston, November
10, 1920, to Clarence L. Barrett, a representative for the Greyton-Knight
Belting Company, and they reside at Silver Springs, Maryland.
        It is a source of pride to Mr. Williamson that just as his
grandfather was a pioneer in railroad construction work in the northern
part of West Virginia, and his father as a circuit rider in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, so has he been privileged to serve in a like capacity in
building the telephone system in the great state in which he lives. The
people of West Virginia are proud of him and what he has accomplished, and
recognize in him the best type of honorable and efficient citizenship.

WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 4, page 4-5

        HAROLD BLAIN CORNWELL, present adjutant general of the state of
West Virginia, has an almost continuous record of service for twenty years
with the National Guard, and was in the Thirty-eighth Division for service
in the World war, reaching the front in France before the armistice.
        General Cornwell was born at Charleston, West Virginia, August 4,
1886, son of George C. and Mollie M. (Farley) Cornwell, his father a native
of Meigs County, Ohio, and his mother of Malden, West Virginia. His
grandfather, Goldsmith Cornwell, was also a native of Meigs County, Ohio,
and a farmer there, descended from one of three brothers who came from
England. The maternal grandfather, Francis Farley, was born in Virginia and
moved to what is now West Virginia, where he followed his occupation as a
tailor. George C. Cornwell was born in 1843, and died in 1924. His widow is
still living. He was a wagon manufacturer and for many years conducted a
shop at Charleston, retiring from business about 1906. He was a member of
the Methodist Church and a republican in politics, and a Union soldier from
1861 to 1864, serving as a private in the Second West Virginia Regiment,
Company E.
        Harold B. Cornwell was the fifth among seven children and grew up
at Charleston completing the second year of the high school there, attended
the Elliott Commercial School at Wheeling, and worked a year as
stenographer in the Benwood office of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway.
Returning to Charleston, he spent a month as an employee of the Standard
Oil Company and from 1907 to 1912 was connected with the Four States Coal
Company at Dorothy, West Virginia, and for a brief time was an employee of
the State Public Service Commission.
        Major Cornwell enlisted as a private in Company K of the West
Virginia National Guard January 20, 1908, was promoted to corporal April 1,
1908, sergeant September 12 of the same year, second lieutenant November 8,
1908, first lieutenant June 11, 1910, and held that rank until promoted to
captain. While with the National Guard he was several times called out for
active duty in the state, being with the National Guardsmen at Mount Hope
after a destructive fire there, and in the riot at Hinton in 1911.
        In June, 1916, he was one of the guardsmen called for duty to the
Mexican border, where he remained until early in 1917. On returning he
resumed his work with the Public Service Commission, but in April, 1917,
was called to the colors in the Army of the United States, and was on guard
duty in West Virginia until September, when the Second West Virginia was
mobilized with other units of the Thirty-eighth Division of Camp Shelby,
Mississippi. In 1918 he sailed for overseas, and the Thirty-eighth Division
was used for replacement service. Major Cornwell getting no opportunity to
reach the front line of action. He was promoted from first lieutenant to
captain on May 28, 1918. He is a member of John Brawley Post No. 20 of the
American Legion and has been post vice commander and district vice
commander of the Department of West Virginia. In 1925 Governor Gore
appointed Major Cornwell adjutant general, thus placing a man in charge of
the military forces of the state who has earned progressive promotion in
the ranks of the service and is a thoroughly trained soldier and popular
citizen.
        Major Cornwell married in 1908, and has three children: Harold B.,
Jr., born July 20, 1909, Donald W., born October 14, 1914, and Mary Ann,
born December 23, 1918. Major Cornwell is a member of the Asbury Methodist
Church, is a York Rite Mason and Shriner and a Republican in politics.

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X-Message: #2
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:33:09 -0500
From: "JRDR" <Rutledgefamily@email.msn.com>
Subject: Obituary: Rutledge, 1953, Cuyahoga County


RUTLEDGE, JAMES A.: We wish to express our sincere thanks to
our relatives, friends and neighbors for there kindness sympathy and
beautiful floral offerings, to James P. Mullany Funeral Home for kindness
and consideration and to St. Mary's Church in Bedford for the beautiful
services in our recent bereavement, the loss of our husband, father and
grandfather, MRS. JAMES A. RUTLEDGE AND
FAMILY.

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X-Message: #3
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:38:05, -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 4, page 5

        WILLIAM BURRISS IRVINE, of Wheeling, is known among bankers and
business men all over the Upper Ohio Valley. His experience since early
manhood has brought him constant contact with banking and finance. He has
the conservative temper of the successful banker, and at the same time
possesses a genuine culture and a personal charm that have made him greatly
admired in the circles of his social contacts.
        Mr. Irvine began his career as a messenger boy in a Wheeling bank
more than forty years ago. He is now president of the National Bank of West
Virginia, the oldest banking institution of consecutive history in the
state, and the third oldest bank west of the Alleghany Mountains. It has
been the National Bank of West Virginia since 1865, having been started
only two years after the passage of the National Banking Act. It is
historically a successor of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia, founded in
1817. The National Bank of West Virginia has resources of over seven
million dollars. For many years the bank occupied one of the landmarks of
the business district, a building erected before the Civil war. In 1914 the
present ten-story bank and office building was completed on the site of the
old bank, and it is one of the handsomest banking structures in the state.
        William Burriss Irvine has lived in Wheeling since boyhood. He was
born at Smithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, June 7, 1866. His grandfather,
John Irvine, a native of Ireland, where he was born in 1804, lived at
Smithfield after coming to America, and for many years practiced as a
lawyer there. He died in 1877. His wife was Rebecca Lemasters, and their
son, George Fleming Irvine, was born in Smithfield in April, 1835. He was a
merchant until the Civil war, and in 1861 enlisted in an infantry regiment
in Ohio and fought all through the war. For several years he was a
government clerk at Washington, and in the early '70s established his home
at Wheeling. For a time he was connected with the Bank of the Ohio Valley,
and from 1891 to 1914, when he died, was in the wholesale produce business
at Pittsburgh. George F. Irvine married Rachel Burriss, who was born at
Smithfield in 1835 and died at Wheeling in 1871.
        Her son, William Burriss Irvine, was five years old when his mother
died. He was educated in the public schools of Wheeling, graduated from the
Linsly Institute of that city in 1884, and during the next three years
served his apprenticeship as a messenger boy with the Bank of the Ohio
Valley. Following that he was correspondence and collection clerk of the
Exchange Bank of Wheeling, and also assistant cashier, remaining with that
institution until 1901. He then became cashier of the old Bank of Wheeling,
and he went along with this institution when it was merged in the National
Bank of West Virginia in 1907. For many years Mr. Irvine performed the
duties of vice president and manager, and recently was given the well
deserved honor of election as president. He has been an officer and
director in a number of financial and business organizations in the
vicinity of Wheeling, acting as treasurer of the Morris Plan Bank and
president of the Fidelity Investment Association. During the World war he
was chairman of the bankers committees in all the Liberty Loan campaigns,
and was also treasurer of the Wheeling Chapter of the Red Cross.
        Mr. Irvine is a Republican, a Knight Templar Mason, and Elk, is a
member of the old Colony Club, Fort Henry Club, and the Twilight Club.
        Mr. Irvine married at Wheeling, February 25, 1886, Miss Eva A.
Drake, daughter of David M. and Virginia (Lindsey) Drake. Her father was a
Wheeling banker. Mr. Irvine has one son, Russell Drake, born December 27,
1890, who was an army field clerk at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan,
during the World war, and since the war has been identified with Wheeling
banking circles.

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