Cabell County, West Virginia Various Biographies See individual Biographies for the submitter. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm **************************** From: Elizabeth Burns The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 210 Edward B. Jansman. A chemist and veterinarian, former consulting veterinarian under the state commissioner of agriculture, Doctor Jansman is a well known citizen and business man of Huntington, where he is secretary and treasurer of the unique establishment known as "Farmers," the leading cleaning, pressing and dyeing business in that part of the state. He was born at Covington, Kentucky, August 25,1885, only child of Benjamin and Catherine (Runey) Jansman. His father, who was born at Covington in 1847 and died in that city in 1890, was for many years a tobacco dealer. The widowed mother is now living at Ashville, North Carolina, and was born at Covington in 1863. Edward B. Jansman received his education in the schools of Cincinnati, attending high school there, and in 1906 graduated with the degree D.V.M. from the Cincinnati Veterinary College. In the same year he entered the service of the United States Government in the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Animal Husbandry as a research worker, and was in that service for twelve years. The territory in which his duties lay was chiefly Ohio and West Virginia. Doctor Jansman in 1916 removed to Huntington and remained two years longer in the Government service. In 1916 he was appointed consulting veterinarian under the commissioner of agriculture by Governor H.D. Hatfield. Dr. Jansman in 1918 bought an interest in the "Farmers" and became chemist as well as secretary and treasurer of the corporation. The business is incorporated under the laws of West Virginia, and the officers are: A.J. Hogan of New York City, president; Frank Enslow, vice president, and E.B. Jansman, secretary and treasurer. The plant and offices are at 814 Sixth Avenue and the company employs thirty-five hands. Doctor Jansman is a member of the Credit Men's Association, the Business Men's Association, and the Chamber of Commerce, also the Rotary Club, and the Guyandotte Country Club. He as a leader in local war work, assisting in the drives for funds. Later he devoted much time to training disabled soldiers in the technical processes involved in dry cleaning, so that men suffering total disability for other occupations could earn a living at this work. In September 1911, at Cincinnati, Doctor Jansman married Miss Annette E. Phelan, a native of that city. She is a graduate of Notre Dame College of Cincinnati. The only child of Doctor and Mrs. Jansman is Lois Kenrick, born in August 1912. **************************** From: Spelrcg@aol.com The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, Page 160-161 JAMES LEWIS CALDWELL. The First National Bank of Huntington is the largest bank in point of resources in the State of West Virginia. It was organized in 1884, the leading spirit in its organization being James Lewis Caldwell, who at that time was in the lumber business at Guyandotte, a suburb of Huntington. Mr. Caldwell was the first and has been the only president of this institution, and men in touch with its affairs are free to say that its great and solid prosperity is due in no small measure to the effective guidance and oversight of its honored president. Its officers and directors comprise a number of the best known men in the commercial and professional life of Huntington. The vice presidents are R.L. Archer, D.I. Smith, and L.V. Guthrie and the cashier is D.G. Miller. The first National Bank of Huntington has a capital stock of $1,000,000 surplus and profits of $600,000, deposits aggregating $5,500,000 and the total resources are over $8,000,000. It is a great financial institution, and appropriately enough it is housed in the largest and finest business building in Huntington, a modern brick and terra cotta twelve story building, the lower floor devoted entirely to the bank and the upper floors to offices. James Lewis Caldwell is one of the most youthful of the surviving veterans of the Civil war, and his career since the war has been closely identified with the state of West Virginia. He was born at Elizabeth, in what is now Wirt County, West Virginia, May 20, 1846. His father, John T. Caldwell was a native of Steubenville, Ohio, spent his early life in Kentucky, and was a life-long farmer. A few years before his death he retired to Parkersburg and lived with his son Charles T. In that city, where he died at the age of seventy-five. He began voting as a Whig, later became a republican and was a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, whom he married at Letart, Meigs County, Ohio, was Regina M. Burns, a native of that community, and she died there at the birth of her youngest child, at the age of forty-five. Her children were: William B., who helped operate the home farm and was a merchant at Letart, where he died at the age of seventy; Alfred B., who also assisted in conducting the homestead and died at Letart at the age of sixty. George H., who was superintendent of the Dingess-Run Coal Company and died in Logan County, West Virginia, aged sixty-five; James Lewis; and Charles T., an attorney who died at Parkersburg in 1912. James Lewis Caldwell was educated in the rural schools of Meigs County, Ohio, receiving the equivalent of a high school education. In the closing months of 1862, before he was seventeen years of age, he enlisted in Company F of the Sixtieth Ohio Infantry, and thereafter served until the rebellion was put down. He was in General Grant's army, participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, at the mine explosion in front of Petersburg, and thereafter was with the troops on Grant's right wing through the engagements at Weldon Railroad and minor battles until Appomattox. Following the war Mr. Caldwell for a year and a half represented the Peabody Insurance Company of Wheeling, traveling over the state establishing agencies and paying claims. He then established his business headquarters at Guyandotte, now included in the City of Huntington, and for eighteen years conducted a prosperous lumber business. His home has been in Huntington since 1887, removing here three years after the establishment of the First National Bank. Banking has been only one of Mr. Caldwell's varied enterprises in the business field. In 1892 he organized the Huntington Electric Light and Street Railway Company and built that pioneer electric railway line, but sold it soon after it was put in operation. He organized and built the Guyandotte Valley Railway, now a branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio system. He was president and is still a director of the Consolidated Light & Railway Company at Republican, Illinois. He is president of the Dingess-Run Coal Company, which owns 30,000 acres of coal lands, with twenty active mines. He is secretary and treasurer of the Logan Cannel Coal Company, is secretary and treasurer of the Warehouse Land Company, and is a director and member of the executive committee of the Huntington Land Company, which owns a large number of vacant properties in the city, acquired from the estate of the late Collis P. Huntington for $350,000. Mr. Caldwell has been one of the standard bearers and leaders in the republican party in the state for many years. He was delegate at large to the Republican National Convention of 1904 and a member of the committee notifying President Roosevelt of his nomination. He has been in many county and state conventions, and one time was proposed as candidate for the United States Senate, but he withdrew from the race. Mr. Caldwell is a loyal member of the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with West Star Lodge No. 12, F. And A.M., at Huntington, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1871, in Kanawa County, he married Miss Mary O'Bannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Smith, now deceased. Her father was a merchant at Louisville and also at Guyandotte, West Virginia. Mrs. Caldwell finished her education at Louisville. Seven children were born to their marriage. Ida Regina is the wife of William P.H. McFadden, a cattleman, rice grower and owner of rice mills at Beaumont, Texas. Ouida C. is the wife of Charles W. Watts, a wholesale dry goods merchant at Huntington, member of the firm Watts, Ritter & Company. Foree Dabney Caldwell, the oldest son living, was educated under the direction of the noted schoolman, Col. Robert Bingham, at Asheville, North Carolina, graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and has since been actively associated with his father, being treasurer of the Dingess-Run Coal Company and of several other business organizations. George J., the second son, now in the insurance business at Huntington, is a graduate of the high school of that city. James L., Jr., graduated from West Virginia University at Morgantown, and for one year was in service as a lieutenant, being stationed near Houston, Texas, and is now secretary of a mining, car factory, and foundry corporation at Morgantown. Smith Caldwell, the youngest of the family, helped organize the noted machine gun company at Huntington, was commissioned a second lieutenant and had a year and a half of service, chiefly in Texas. He now handles the collection of rents and other business interests of his father. **************************** From: Tina Hursh Subject: BIO: Charles T. Taylor, Cabell county The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II Pg. 70-71 CHARLES TRUEHEART TAYLOR, M.D. For half a century the name Taylor has been prominent in Huntington in connection with the law and medicine. Doctor Taylor is one of the leading surgeons of Huntington, and has practiced medicine and surgery there for over twenty years. He is one of the owners of the Huntington General Hospital and the Kessler-Hatfield Hospital, and is associate surgeon in both these institutions. Doctor Taylor was born at Weldon, North Carolina,August 8, 1872, but his home since early childhood has been at Huntington. His grandfather was born in Old Virginia in 1817, spent the greater part of his life there as a planter and was a slave owner before the Civil war. For a number of years he lived at Oxford, Virginia, and he finally retired to Huntington, West Virginia, where he died in 1897. He married a Miss Harrison, a native of Virginia, who died near Oxford in that state. The Taylors are a Scotch-Irish family who settled in Virginia in Colonial times. Thomas Wallace Taylor, father of Doctor Taylor, was born in Virginia in 1833, was reared and married there, and for four years lived at Weldon, North Carolina, on a farm. He left the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during his junior year to enter the Confederate army, and was in active service about a year. He was severely wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill, and incapacitated for further field duty. Subsequently he graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and in 1874 established his home at Huntington, West Virginia, where he has since become one of the leading lawyers of the state. He was a judge of the Criminal Court of Cabell County for twelve years, from 1907-1919. He is a democrat and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Thomas Wallace Taylor, whose home is at 1134 Sixth avenue in Huntington, married Miss Maria Trueheart, who was born at Prince Edward Court House, Virginia, in 1843. Charles Trueheart Taylor is their oldest child. Mattie F., of 1136 Sixth Avenue, Huntington, is the widow of Rollo M. Baker, who was Huntington attorney and general attorney for the Chesepeake & Ohio Railway and a member of the law firm of Enlow, Fitzpatrick & Baker. The third child, Thomas Wallace Taylor, died at the age of seventeen, Powhatan died at the age of fourteen, and William died at the age of four years. Harvey C., the youngest, is in the real estate business at Huntington. Charles Trueheart Taylor attended the grammar and high schools at Huntington, Marshall College in that city through the junior year, and for thre years was a student in Center College at Danville, Kentucky. He pursued his medical studies in the Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville, where he graduated M.D. in 1897, and again did post-graduate work there in 1899 and 1905. In 1897 he was an interne in the Gray Street Infirmanty of Louisville. On returing to Huntington instead of beginning practice Doctor Taylor served a year as city clerk, but since 1899 has devoted himself completely to his growing practice. His offices are in the First National Bank Building. Doctor Taylor is president of the Cabell Coutny Medical Society and a member of the State and America Medical Associations. He is president of the Sovereign Gas Company of Huntington and a director in the Huntington-Oklahoma Oil Company. Besides his modern home at 1665 Fifth Avenue he has an interest in the Beverly apartment building on Sixth Street. Doctor Taylor is a democrat, a member of Huntington Lodge No. 53, F. and A.M., Huntington Chapter No. 6, R.A.M., Huntington Commandery No. 9, K.T., West Virginia Consistory No. 1, Scottish Rite, Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, and is also a member of the Knights of Phythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Modern Woodmen of America, Reese Camp No. 66, Woodmen of the World, and is a past exalted ruler of Huntington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. During the war Doctor Taylor was chief examiner of the Cabell County Draft Board, a very important and burdensome responsibility, and he also gave his active influence to other patriotic causes at the time. In 1900, at Huntington, he married Miss Bernice Stevenson, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. James Stevenson, who were farmers and died at Beverly, Ohio. Mrs. Taylor died at Huntington in 1910, survived by two children: Bernice, a student in the National Cathedral School at Washington, D.C., and Charles Trueheart, Jr., born September 11, 1906, now in the Huntington High School. In 1912, at Newark, New Jersey, Doctor Taylor married Miss Stella Moore, a native of that city. They have a daughter, Jane, born December 11, 1913. **************************** From: "John \"Bill\" Wheeler" Subject: BIO: Robert Lamley Archer The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 118 Robert Lamley Archer, vice president of the First National Bank of Huntington, has been through every department of that bank's service beginning as messenger. His record of over thirty years constitutes him one of the older active bankers of the state. Mr. Archer is one of the best known of West Virginia's financial leaders, and has been honored with the office of secretary, treasurer and president of the State Bankers Association and he also served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Bankers Association. He was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, August 24, 1871. His father, Thomas Archer, was born at Penrith, Cumberland County, England, was reared and educated there, married his first wife in England, and his career throughout was merchandising. About 1861 he came to the United States and located at Cleves in Hamilton County, Ohio, and in October 1871, came to Huntington, where he established and built up his successful mercantile enterprise, and was an active in its management when he died in 1876. He was a very devout Presbyterian. His second wife was Frances Mather Richey, who was born in 1833 at West Point, New York, and died at Huntington in 1917. her three sons were: Richard M., a newspaper editor at Wheeling; Robert Lamley; and Frank M., a wholesale merchant at Bluefield, West Virginia. Robert Lamley Archer was reared from early infancy in Huntington, attended the public schools there and after leaving high school at the age of fifteen was employed for three year in an insurance office and then became clerk in the lumber agent's office of the Ensign Manufacturing Company, now the American Car and Foundry Company. Leaving there in 1890, Mr. Archer entered the First National Bank of Huntington as messenger and collection clerk, and subsequent promotions gave him a definite working acquaintance with the duties of individual bookkeeper, general bookkeeper, teller, assistant cashier and cashier and in 1920 he was elected vice president of the Huntington Roofing Tile Company, treasurer of the Huntington Orchard Company, and has other business interests. For nine years he was a member of the Huntington Board of Education. He is a Republican. a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Rotary Club, Guyan Country Club and Guyandotte Club, all of Huntington. His home is at 1505 Sixth Avenue. During the World War Mr. Archer was chairman of the Huntington committees for the prosecution of the first and second Liberty Loans drives, and then received appointment from the secretary director of War Savings. In this post he thoroughly organized the state, establishing committees in every county, made many speeches and gave personal direction to the campaign and altogether his organization effected the sale of $20,000,000 worth of War Savings Stamps in the state. In 1893, at West Columbia, Mason County, West Virginia, Mr. Archer married Irma Louise Knight, daughter of Dr. Aquilla L. and Susan Frances (Willis) Knight, now deceased. Her father was an honored and capable p hysician and surgeon at West Columbia. Mrs. Archer is a graduate of Marshall College of Huntington. **************************** From: "John \"Bill\" Wheeler" Subject: BIO: Willian H.F. Dement The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 115-116 William H.F. Dement. During the ten years required to advance himself from the rank of messenger to cashier of the Huntington National Bank, Mr. Dement manifested an unflagging devotion to his work and the ideals of service exemplified by that institution. His influential and useful place in the business community is a reward of merit, a distinction well worth the effort required to achieve it. Mr. Dement was born in Proctorville, Ohio, June 4, 1889. His paternal ancestry came originally from France and Germany. His grandfather, William Dement, was born in Noble County, Ohio, following the trade of blacksmith in Lawrence County, and died near Wilgus in that state. His great-great-grandfather carried the first mail in a canoe, from Mariette to Cincinnati, Ohio. Henry E. Dement, father of the Huntington banker, was born near Wilgus, in Lawrence County in 1853, grew up there on a farm. became a blacksmith at Bradrick, Ohio, where he married, and since about 1880 has lived at Proctorville. With the development of the automobile he adapted his trade to the requirements of that industry, and for a number of years he has owned and operated a public garage. Since 1919 he has owned a farm and large apple orchard in that section of Ohio. He is a republican. His wife, Cors J. Forgey, is a daughter of James Gorey, a captain on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. She is a granddaughter of Gen. A.F. Fuller of the war of 1812. Mrs. Dement was born at Bradrick, Ohio, in 1860. Of their children, Ruby D., a resident of Huntington is a widow of Charles Heinz, who was a blacksmith; Carl is manager of the home farm at Proctorville; Orla E. is associated in business with his father; Roma is the wife of Charles E. Rose, a millwright at Guyandotte, West Virginia; William H.F. is the fifth child; Velmer is also associated with his father in business; and Valgene is connected with the home farm. William H.F. Dement graduated from the Proctorville High School in 1907, and soon afterward came to Huntington, graduating from Booth Business College of that city in 1910. Mr. Dement on October 29, 1911, began his service with the Huntington National Bank as a messenger boy. His increasing experience and ability brought him successive promotions, and he did the work of individual bookkeeper, discount bookkeeper and general bookkeeper, was promoted to assistant cashier and on August 1, 1921, was elected cashier, Besides his executive duties with this large and important bank he is interested in the home farm and orchard. Mr. Dement is a republican, is affiliated with the Proctorville Lodge No. 550, A.F. and A.M., Huntington Lodge No.313, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Tri-State Credit and Adjustment Bureau. Recently, in 1922, he completed one of the excellent homes in a restricted residential section at 51 Ninth Avenue. The only important interruption to his service with the Huntington National Bank came in the World War. June 14, 1918, he enlisted, was sent to the Training Detachment Public Schools at Hughes High School in Cincinnati, was there two months and was then transferred to the one hundred and fifty- fourth Depot Brigade at Camp Meade, Maryland. On August 14, 1918, he was assigned to Company H of the Seventy-first Infantry in the Lafayette or Eleventh Division and later was transferred and assigned to the personnel office. He received his honorable discharge January 31, 1919, with the rank of Corporal. Mr. Dement is unmarried. **************************** From: Kerry Armour Subject: Bio: DUDLEY IRVING SMITH of Huntington, Cabell County West Virginia The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg. 157 DUDLEY IRVING SMITH, of Huntington, has been a resident of Cabell County from the time of his birth and is now one of the more venerable native sons residing in the vital seat city, whose inception and upbuilding have been matters of familiarity to him. He was born at Guyandotte, now a part of the City of Huntington, on the 29th of October, 1845, and is a son of Dudley D. Smith, who was born on a farm near Lowell, Washington County, Ohio, and who received excellent educational training for his day. He taught school in Ohio when a young man and finally, in company with P. S. Smith, came to what is now Cabell County, West Virginia, and the two established themselves in the general merchandise business in the Village of Guyandotte. Within a short time thereafter Dudley D. Smith married Eleanor Miller, of Lawrence County, Ohio. A man of superior intellectuality and sterling character, he became an honored and influential figure in the community, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Church. He was a stanch Union man during the Civil war, and his freely expressed views led to his becoming disliked in the community, which was strongly Confederate in sentiment, with the result that he found it expedient to return to Ohio, where he found more congenial surroundings. Later he returned to Guyandotte, and he was one of the few Union sympathizers not taken captive in the town when it was invaded by a band of Confederate soldiers, who later evacuated the place, when its capture by Union forces seemed imminent. The occupation by Union soldiers led to the burning of thirty-five houses at Guyandotte, and in this both Union and Confederate sympathizers suffered alike, the action having been taken, doubtless, more in reprisal than as a "military necessity" for which claim was made. Mr. Smith and his wife continued their residence in Cabell County until their deaths, and of their eight children only two are now living. Dudley I. Smith, the third child, was attending what is now Marshall College when the unsettled conditions incident to the Civil war caused him to go to Washington County, Ohio, where he followed farm work in the summer season and attended school during the winter. After a year he returned to the parental home, his father having at the time been conducting a small general store at Proctorville, Ohio. After a year or more of work on farms and in a brick yard Mr. Smith took a course in a business college at Cincinnati, Ohio, and thereafter he clerked a few months in a store at Gallipolis, that state. He next became clerk on a steamboat plying the Upper Ohio River, and thereafter he built and operated a wharf boat at Guyandotte, West Virginia. About a year later he sold this business and became associated with his father in mercantile pursuits at Guyandotte. In 1870, as a democrat, Mr. Smith was elected sheriff of Cabell County, and after he had served two years of his four-year term a new election was called, by legislative enactment, and he was again elected for a full term of four years. He thus served six years, and it was within this period that the Younger-James band of desperadoes robbed the Bank of Huntington. After a strenuous pursuit one of the robbers, Budd McDaniels, was killed, one, Clel Miller, captured, and the remaining two, Cole Younger and Frank James, escaped. When the new Town of Huntington was founded its rapid growth attracted to the community all sorts of people, and Ss sheriff of the county Mr. Smith found ample call upon his attention in the suppression of lawlessness and crime. In the meanwhile he had retained his interest in the store at Guyandotte, and had also engaged in the buying and selling of land. After retiring from the office of sheriff he turned his attention especially to the real estate business, and of this line of enterprise he has continued a representative to the present time. In 1902 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners, and by successive re-elections he retained this position eighteen years, during the greater part of which he was president of the board. Upon the organization of the First National Bank of Huntington, Mr. Smith became one of its stockholders and directors, and for many years past he has been vice president of this substantial institution. He is a Royal Arch Mason and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1870 Mr. Smith wedded Miss Hannah C. Miller, and they have three children: Mayme C. (widow of Dr. A. T. Cherry), George Collord and Dudley Irvin. **************************** From: Patty Tyler Subject: BIO: A.M. Hewitt, Huntington The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 120-121 A. M. Hewitt. That all men do not find the niche for which they consider themselves especially fitted is largely due to their inability to fit themselves for those niches which they could occupy with profit and honor. They do not concentrate themselves upon that which they understand and for which nature and training have made them ready, but diffuse themselves over too wide a territory, and in the end accomplish little or nothing. The successful man in any line is he who develops his latent strength by the use of vigorous fitness, innate powers and expert knowledge, gradually attaining to a proficiency not possible in the beginning. Each line of endeavor demands certain special qualifications. Some men are born executives, being able to direct others to carry out plans for which are formulated in the active brain of the leader; while others can only follow. A man who does not possess this power to promote and direct is wise indeed if he bends all his energies to attaining an executive position, for in it he can reach heights he could attain in no other way. Among the able executives of Huntington who have made their mark in the business world by concentrating upon a given line of endeavor, one who demands more than passing attention at this time is A. M. Hewitt, president and treasurer of the D. E. Hewitt Lumber Company. Mr. Hewitt was born at Conneautville, Pennsylvania, December 5,1866, a son of Daniel Elmer and Cora M. (Walton) Hewitt. His grandfather, Francis Marion Hewitt, who is of English descent and still a resident of Conneautville, was born July 26, 1838, probably in Ohio, but for the greater part of his life has made his home at Conneautville, where he was a lumber manufacturer in pioneer days. He is a veteran of the Civil war, having fought as a Union soldier all through the struggle between the North and the South. Mr. Hewitt married Penelope Lampson, who was born at Pierpont, Ohio, and died at Conneautville. Daniel Elmer Hewitt was born May 23, 1865, at Conneautville, Pennsylvania, and was reared and married in his native community, where he learned the lumber business with his father. That business he followed throughout along and eminently successful and useful career. In 1888 he removed to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he became head of the firm of R. F. Wilcox & Company, wholesale lumber manufacturers, but in 1890 moved back to Conneaultville, although retaining the same position with the same concern. Mr. Hewitt came to Huntington in 1903, and founded the D.E. Hewitt Lumber Company, of which he president until his death, and which he developed into one of the leading lumber enterprises in West Virginia, dealing in hardwoods as a wholesale manufacturer. Mr. Hewitt was president of the Kermit State Bank of Kermit, West Virginia, and president of the Buck Creek Coal Company. In politics he was a republican, and his religious connection was with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Huntington, the movements of which always received his hearty and generous support. He held membership in the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar mason, and also belonged to Beni-Kedem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Charleston. Mr. Hewitt married Miss Cora M. Walton, who was born November 11,1865, at Conneautville. She still survives at Huntington, while Mr. Hewitt died at Columbus, Ohio, December 1,1921. They were the parents of three children: A.M. of this notice; Irene, the wife of George H. Parker, manager of the Kentucky Actuarial Bureau at Louisville, Kentucky; and Lina, the wife of Robert J. Foley, a coal operator of Huntington. A.M. Hewitt attended the public schools of Conneautville, Pennsylvania, and after his graduation from the high school there in 1903 entered his father's office at Huntington and began to learn the lumber business from the bottom. He worked his way up the ladder to the position of secretary and treasurer, and at the death of his father became the president and treasurer of the D.E. Hewitt Lumber Company. This concern manufactures a line of West Virginia hardwoods, and at present is operating 17,000 acres of forests. It is incorporated under the state laws of West Virginia, and maintains offices at 1003-4-5-6 First National Bank Building, Huntington. The officers are: A. M. Hewitt, president and treasurer; G. H. Parker, vice-president;and E. F. Sticklen, secretary. Mr. Hewitt is also a director in the Kermit State Bank of Kermit, West Virginia, and president of Buck Creek Coal Company of Huntington. Mr. Hewitt is a republican, but save as a good citizen has had little to do with political affairs. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Huntington. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Huntington Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M.; Huntington Chapter No. 6, R. A. M.; Huntington Commandery No. 9, K. T.; Beni-Kedem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Charleston; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, Wheeling, thirty-second degree; and of Huntington Lodge No. 313, B. P. O. E. He has several other connections, among them the Guyandotte Club and the Huntington Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hewitt owns a modern residence at No. 1116 Twelfth Avenue, in a desirable residence district of Huntington. On November 18,1915, at Huntington, Mr. Hewitt was united in marriage with Miss Ruth Campbell, daughter of Hon. Charles W. and Mrs. (Ratcliff) Campbell. Mr. Campbell is one of the distinguished attorneys of the Cabell County bar, and at present is serving as mayor of Huntington. A review of his career appears elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Hewitt is a graduate of Belcourt Seminary, Washington, D.C., and of the Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio, and is talented both in vocal and instrumental music. She and her husband are the parents of three children: Nancy Frazier, born September 30,1917; Marion born January 13,1920; and Ruth, born September 20,1921. **************************** From: Patricia Sexton Subject: BIO: LUCAS, William A.-Huntington, WV The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II pg 196 William A. Lucas. Among the alert and enterprising men who during the past several decades have utilized the opportunities offered at Huntington for business preferment and attained thereby a full measure of success is William A. Lucas, whose career is typical of modern progress and advancement, and who as a man of affairs ranks among the contributors to his community's betterment. Mr. Lucas, who is engaged in the real estate business, was born at French Camp, Choctaw County, Mississippi, December 6, 1875, and is a son of John and Margaret (Carter) Lucas. John Lucas was born in 1836, at Chester, South Carolina. When the war between the states came on he enlisted under the colors of the confederacy, his commanding officer being General Longstreet. Under this leadership he fought throughout the period of the war, establishing a splendid record for bravery and faithful performance of duty. At the close of the struggle he moved to Choctaw County, Mississippi, where he passed the rest of his life in agricultural operations of some extent, and died at French Camp in 1901, when sixty-four years of age, respected and esteemed by all who knew him. He was a stalwart democrat in his political convictions, was fraternally affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belonged to the Baptist Church. Mr. Lucas married Miss Margaret Carter, who was born in 1850, at french Camp, where she died in 1895. Six children were born to this union: Minnie Lee, the wife of Charles A. Torbert, a banker of Ackerman, Mississippi; James Walter, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Moorehead, Mississippi; Hattie, who died at French Camp when but three years of age; William A., of this review; Edna, who died at the age of three years; and Margaret, the wife of Porter W. Berry, superintendent of the agricultural school at Senatobia, Mississippi. The early education of William A. Lucas was acquired in the public school at French Camp, following which he pursued a course in the academy there, and then enrolled as a student at the University of Mississippi, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While attending college he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Greek letter fraternity. After his graduation Mr. Lucas became an instructor at Jefferson Military College, Washington, Mississippi, and remained with that institution for a period of eleven years. In 1909, he came to Huntington, West Virginia, and embarked in the real estate business, a field in which he has gained something more than ordinary success. His offices are situated at Nos. 1204-1205 First National Bank Building, and he is secretary and treasurer of several land companies and enjoys the full confidence of his associates in his various ventures. In political matters Mr. Lucas supports the principles and candidates of the democratic party. He is a member of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, and has been a generous supporter of worthy civic enterprises. On June 14, 1905, Mr. Lucas married, at Washington, Adams County, Mississippi, Miss Fannie Belle Raymond, daughter of Dr. Joseph S. and Margaret Paxton Raymond, of Rockbridge County, Virginia, both now deceased. Doctor Raymond was for forty years president of Jefferson College. Mrs. Lucas is a graduate of a young ladies' seminary. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lucas: William A., Jr., born May 29, 1906; Margaret Raymond, born August 3, 1908; and Minnie Lee, born May 3, 1913. ****************************