Jackson County, West Virginia Biography of WEBSTER WADSWORTH WAUGH This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. 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 The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 469 WEBSTER WADSWORTH WAUGH. Substantially identified with the business affairs of Ripley as an automobile dealer, Mr. Waugh is an expert in all the mechanics of automotive engineering, and is a young man who has had a remarkably broad range of experience in practical affairs. He was born near Kenna in Jackson County, February 26, 1886. His grandfather, Arthur Waugh, was a native of old Virginia. He was a physician and surgeon, a pioneer of his profession at Given, West Virginia, and later removed to Mason County, where he practiced as one of the leading doctors of his community until he died in 1863, his death being the result of a kick from a horse. His first wife, and the grandmother of W. W. Waugh, was Miss Boswell, who was born in old Virginia and died at Given, West Virginia, in 1854, at the birth of her son Samuel G. A. Waugh. Samuel G. A. Waugh was born in Jackson County, April 17, 1854, and has spent his life in this county, though for several years his father lived in Mason County. His activities have been those of a farmer, and for a number of years he also taught in the rural schools of Jackson County. He and his son Webster W. now own together a farm on Thir- teen Mile Creek. He is a republican, has served as constable of Ripley District four years, is a member of Ripley Lodge No. 16, A. F. and A. M., and was formerly active in the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias and at one time was an organizer of Odd Fellows lodges. Samuel G. A. Waugh married Elizabeth Brotherton, who was born in Jackson County in 1862. The oldest of their children, Edie, died in childhood; Felicia D. is a teacher in the rural schools of Jackson Cornnty and the widow of Matt Bucklew, a farmer who died as the result of accidental injuries; Onie, who died young; Amy, wife of Jesse Bass, a traveling salesman living in Mason County; William O'Connor, who was head electrician for the Scioto Stone Company at Columbus, Ohio, and was accidentally killed in a stone quarry at the age of thirty- four; Webster W.; Edgar, who died at the age of sixteen; Mamie, wife of Lloyd Crane, a farmer near Fairplain in Jackson County; Lilie, wife of Hollie Parsons, a farmer on Parchment Creek, Jackson County; Clarmont Howard, an automobile mechanic employed in the wrecking room of the Ford Automobile Company at Columbus, Ohio; Harry, a farmer at Given in Jackson County; Beulah and Bernice, twins, the former at home and the latter dying in infancy. Webster W. Waugh spent the first sixteen years of his life on his father's farm. Besides making use of the advantages of the common schools he has perfected his varied knowledge through extensive experience and read- ing and study at home. After leaving home he worked three years in Ohio for the Toledo & Ohio-Central, Kanawha & Michigan and the Hocking Valley railroads, for two months was at work for the Coal & Coke Rail- road at Charleston, West Virginia, for three months fired a stationary boiler for a tunnel company at Gassaway, West Virginia, for three months was a stone chipper on a lock on the Cayahoga River in Ohio, then foreman of a stripping gang in a quarry at Columbus four months, and for two years was a municipal employe at Columbus doing landscape wort and tree pruning. He then changed scenes by going to the Pacific Northwest, and for three months drove a delivery wagon in Spokane. For two months he ran a concrete mixer at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and on returning to Columbus, Ohio, was car repairer in stone quarries six months, and for three months was employed in curing tires in the Diamond Rubber Com- pany's works at Akron. Following that he returned home, and for six months operated the home farm on Thirteen Mile Creek. He was next fireman on a steam shovel at Columbus nine months, then operated a crane for a sand and gravel company at Columbus six months, and craned a shovel at Pickaway, Ohio, five months and worked on general repairs for the Marble Cliff Quarry Company at Columbus two years. He then took another job craning a shovel at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, two months, following which he operated a shovel at West Pittsburgh eight months. This brings his record down to 1916. For seven months following he was master me- chanic on a concrete job at Kensington, Ohio. For about a year after that Mr. Waugh operated a farm on Parch- ment Creek in his home county, and after a seven weeks' course in the Y. M. C. A. Automobile School in Columbus he was granted a diploma and in April, 1919, entered the automobile business at Ripley, associated with A. S. McCoy in the ownership of a public garage on Court Street. This firm sells and repairs automobiles and handles automobile accessories, and has the leading busi- ness of the kind in this part of Jackson County. Mr. Waugh owns his home on Court Street. He is a republican and a member of Ivory Lodge No. 394, F. and A. M., at Hillyard, Ohio. May 9, 1915, at Given, he married Miss Ina Myrtle Maddox, daughter of Charles D. and Belle (Hill) Maddox, farmers near Givens.