BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK B. HAYMAKER, HARRISON CO,
WEST VIRGINIA

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Submitted by Valerie Crook
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 598
Harrison

FRANK B. HAYMAKER. His forty-five years of residence
in Clarksburg also measures Mr. Haymaker's experience in
the drug business here. He is one of the oldest active mer-
chants in continuous service, and among both his older and
younger associates he is esteemed as a business man of
sterling integrity.

Mr. Haymaker was born at Morgantown, West Virginia,
September 9, 1861. His grandfather, Leroy Haymaker, was
born at Winchester, Virginia, in 1808, and in 1824 moved to
Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where in 1829
he married Sarah Sutton, who was born in that county in 1809.

A son of Leroy Haymaker was John Hamilton Haymaker,
who was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, May 19,
1833. Early in life he learned the tailor's trade, and did his
work in that line at Morgantown for a number of years. At
Morgantown he married, September 4, 1859, Mary Virginia
Wells, who was born at Paw Paw, West Virginia, July 17,
1843. Her parents were Marmaduke and Elvira Jane
(Smith) Wells, the former born at Paw Paw, October 2, 1818,
and the latter in Loudoun County, Virginia, July 23, 1816.
The parents of Marmaduke Wells were Richard and Nancy
(Evans) Wells.

John Hamilton Haymaker and wife had the following
children: Charles M., Frank B., Ella S., Horace L., William
C., Edward E., Flora M., Sallie E., Richard B. and Blanche
L. All were born at Morgantown, and lived there until
their parents in 1877 moved to Clarksburg. At Clarksburg
John H. Haymaker continued to work at his trade as a tailor,
and followed that vocation the rest of his life. At the time
of the Civil war he was a Union soldier four years in Com-
pany I, First Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, Maryland
Cavalry. He was a republican and a Methodist. His
widow lives at Clarksburg at the age of seventy-nine.

Frank B. Haymaker was sixteen years of age when he
accompanied his parents to Clarksburg. He acquired his
common school education at Morgantown. Soon after com-
ing to Clarksburg he entered the drug store of his uncle,
Horace L. Wells, and that early experience proved the open-
ing for his permanent career. In 1892 he acquired an interest
in his uncle's business, and the firm name was then changed
to the Wells-Haymaker Company, and though the senior
partner has been dead some years Mr. Haymaker still con-
tinues the business under the old name.

Mr. Haymaker is a republican, has served several terms
on the Clarksburg City Council, and for four years, 1888-92,
was deputy revenue collector under A. B. White. He is
affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
and Knights of Pythias and the Clarksburg Rotary Club. In
addition to the business over which he has presided for so
many years Mr. Haymaker has interests in the oil and gas
fields, and is a director of the Clarksburg Light & Heat Com-
pany and the Empire National Bank of Clarksburg.

On December 28, 1888, he married at Tullahoma, Ten-
nessee, Miss Florence Edna Gray. Their children are:
Genevieve, wife of George G. Lynch; Alma Earle, wife of
Charles G. Coffman; Grace B., wife of J. Lee Hornor; and
Edna V., wife of John Koblegard, all residents of Clarksburg.