B.F. Shane  Biography  Hancock County, WV

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Submitted by Dale Patterson <Norton750@aol.com>

Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:

B. F. Shane:
    was born June 2, 1825, in Jefferson County, Ohio, and brought up on a 
farm; he attended a common school education.  In 1852 he married Emily 
Stewart.  Their union resulted in six children;  his wife deceased in 1877;  
he has followed the manufacturing of fire bricks since 1871 as his vocation.