The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 213

H. Eugene Shadle.  The Morgan Lumber and Manufacturing Company of which
Mr. Shadle is president, is one of the largest individual enterprises
located at Charleston and the business in its entirety including the
outlying mills, is the direct result of the great energy and extensive
ability of Mr. Shadle who acquired the original plant at Charleston
fourteen years ago.

Mr. Shadle came into West Virginia in 1900 and first engaged in lumber
milling in Tucker County, with headquarters at Parsons.  From there his
enterprise branched into Randolph County and his operations took on an
extended scale, not only lumber manufacturing but also as an owner and
dealer in timber and timber lands.  In the course of a few years he
bought and sold over 50,000 acres of timberlands in Tucker, Randolph,
Clay and Nicholas counties.

Mr. Shadle who was born at Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania,
February 22, 1866, located permanently at Charleston in 1908.  Here he
bought the plant of the Morgan Lumber Company, then located on the east
bank of the Elk River, directly opposite the present plant.  With this
nucleus he extended the scope of the business, changing the corporate
name to the Morgan Lumber and Manufacturing Company and under his
management there has been developed one of the larger lumber industries
of the state, with a business output valued at millions of dollars
annually and a trade that covers all the Eastern states from Ohio.  The
primary operations of the industry are several lumber mills in the
forests, where the timber is worked up direct from the stump.  The
output is West Virginia hardwood, of which there is none better in the
world.  The rough lumber from these outlying mills is shipped to the
woodworking plant in Charleston, where it is unloaded direct from the
cars into the dry kilns, which have a capacity of half a million feet of
lumber.  After thorough seasoning the contents of the kilns are
discharged from the other end into the mills, undergoing at the same
time a thorough and experienced inspection as to quality and grades. 
The lumber from the kilns is worked up according to the orders on hand,
and passing through the complicated machinery consisting of saws,
planers and rippers, is manufactured into the different grades of
hardwood flooring, trim, moldings, base doors, sash, store fixtures,
bank fixtures, shelving and cases suitable for department stores.  The
trim and flooring is sold both locally and shipped in carload lots to
many different states.

Besides the manufacturing department the company carries on an extensive
lumberyard business, carrying all sizes and dimensions of common lumber,
such as framing, sheathing, sub flooring, siding and a varied line of
building supplies.  The company generates its own electric power, all
machines being electrically driven, each equipped with its individual
motor.  There are fifty-nine machines, capable of operating as a unit or
individually.  The plant with its modern buildings constitutes a
prominent and impressive feature of the industrial section and both
buildings and yards cover a little over six acres, situated in the heart
of the city, on the west bank of the Elk River, bounded by Pennsylvania
Avenue, Columbia Avenue and Birch Street.

This business naturally is one demanding practically all of Mr. Shadle's
time and energy, but he has none the less identified himself with all
worthy movements in the city and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce
and was one of the organizers and is an enthusiastic member of the new
Kanawha Country Club, organized in 1921.

He married Miss Sarah C. Bitner, who was born at Center Hall,
Pennsylvania.  His only son, Harold B. Shadle, who was educated in the
Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, is the active assistant to his
father in the management of the lumber industry and vice president of
the corporation.

Mr. Shadle is a Mason and an Elk, a member of the Baptist Church, and is
chairman of the building committee in charge of the construction of the
new Baptist Temple.  He is actively identified with a number of business
enterprises in addition to the particular organization heretofore
mentioned.  He is vice president of the Glade Creek Coal and Lumber
Company; vice president of the Ohio-West Virginia Company, manufacturers
of petroleum products; and is a director of the West Virginia
Manufacturers Association and also of the West Virginia Lumber and
Builders Supply Dealers Association.

Submitted by: burns@asu.edu (Elizabeth Burns)

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