Marion County, West Virginia Biography of Daniel Clingingsmith TABLER This biography was submitted by Patty Tyler, E-mail address: 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 II, page 124-125 Daniel Clingingsmith Tabler is one of West Virginia's best known school principals and superintendents, sue to an active service of more than thirty years. Mr. Tabler is now superintendent of the Mannington public schools. He was born July 18, 1864, at Orion in Richland County, Wisconsin, son of William and Elizabeth Ann (Barnes) Tabler, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ohio. William Tabler in his early life was a teacher, teaching in Wisconsin for a time, and from that state he removed with his family to Ohio and finally to West Virginia, where for a number of years he was engaged in the tobacco packing business. He finally went back to Ohio, where he died. Daniel C. Tabler acquired his early education in the public schools of Ohio and West Virginia, and received his Master of Arts Degree from Ohio University at Athens. When he was about twenty-one, in 1885, he received his first teacher's certificate in Ritchie County. It was in that county that he gained his first laurels as an educator. he remained there five years, the last two years as principal of Ellensboro School. Mr. Tabler in 1890 went to Noble County, Ohio, taught for a year at Dexter City, and in 1891, on returning to West Virginia, located at Parkersburg and for two years taught an out of town school. In 1894 he was elected supervising principal of the old Park School at Parkersburg, and was a factor in the educational life of that city for the following thirteen years. In 1906 he was elected superintendent of the Parkersburg schools, a post of duty he held for two years. Following that he was principal of the Ravenswood High School in Jackson County, spent one year as superintendent of city schools at Davis, and at the end of that year he was reelected superintendent and at the sane time was elected superintendent of the Spencer schools, and in the meantime had received a call as principal of the McKinley School at Parkersburg. After some consideration he resigned from the Davis schools, declined to call the Spencer, and returned to Parkersburg and for the following ten years was principal of the McKinley School. From Parkersburg Mr. Tabler came to Mannington as superintendent of the city schools, an office to which he was elected in 1919. For about ten years Mr. Tabler was widely known over the state through his services as an instructor in teachers' institutes. He cancelled all engagements for this kind of work when he assumed charge of the Mannington schools. He is a member of the West Virginia State and National Educational Associations, and of the Monongahela Valley Round Table. Mr. Tabler is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and belongs to the Mannington Kiwanis Club. Mr. Tabler married Miss Ella Hall Core, of Ellensboro, Ritchie County, daughter of the late Gen. Andrew S. Core, who was a Federal officer in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Tabler became the parents of four children, all of whom graduated from the Parkersburg High School. William Ray, the oldest, born in 1891, is now in the auditing department of the Gulf Refining Company at Pittsburgh. The two younger children are Robert Allen, born in 1897, and Maude Isabella, who is a student in the West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. A special paragraph should stand as a brief memorial to the son Kramer Core, who was born in 1894. After finishing high school he entered Marietta College in Ohio and when the World war came on he joined the French army and for six months was a camion driver in France. When America entered the war he secured a discharge from the French army and enlisted in the aviation service. He was promoted to first lieutenant at the Somme. He continued on duty until after the signing of the armistice, and on May 16, 1919, he met his death when his ship crashed. ==== WV-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== ********************************************************************** WV-FOOTSTEPS/USGENWEB NOTICE: These messages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. **********************************************************************