Biography of Frank C. SHRIVER, Monongalia County, West Virginia This file was submitted by Jennifer Johnston 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, pg. 42 Frank C. Shriver. The Monongahela Supply Company, of which he is president and general manager, and several other corporations in which he is an official, represent the important business relations of Frank C. Shriver to the commercial life of Morgantown and vicinity. His business career covers only about 20 years and he has achieved a successful position in affairs in advance of most men of his years. He had a good inheritance, and his ancestral history connects his family with pioneer times in this part of West Virginia. His family record begins with Abram Shriver who was born in Frederick County, Virginia, September 6, 1768. March 31, 1791, he married Mary Keckley, who was born in Frederick County, April 19, 1770. Of the 10 children of these parents the first three were born in Frederick County, Virginia, and the others in Monongalia County in what is now West Virginia. The record is: Catherine, born April 16, 1792, was married to Jacob Horner and they settled in Monongalia County; Adam, born September 7, 1793; Elias, born August 9, 1795; Jacob, born in July 1797, the first of the children born in Monongalia County; Christiana, born April 12, 1799, became the wife of Michael Core of Monongalia County; Elizabeth, born April 5, 1800, was married to Ezekial Morris; John, born April 30, 1801, and died in 1885, having married Sarah Morris; Benjamin, born May 27, 1805; Isaac, and Abraham. Isaac Shriver, the ninth of these children, was born in Monongalia County, May 27, 1807, and died March 30, 1880. He married Minerva Sine, who was born in Monongalia County, Feb. 2, 1820, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Kelley) Sine. She died October 1, 1899. The children of Isaac and wife were: William Henry, born May 8, 1840, was a Union soldier in the Third West Virginia Cavalry, spent six months as a prisoner in Libby prison, and died April 27, 1920; Jasper Newton, born October 4, 1841; Elizabeth A., born July 8, 1844, became the wife of Titus Remley; Lee Roy; George W., born September 24, 1848; Moses L., born July 11, 1851; Mary J., born August 28, 1853, and died in 1908; Simon L., born March 24, 1856, now deceased; John L., born August 26, 1858, deceased; and Alfred, born December 2, 1860. Lee Roy Shriver, father of Frank C. Shriver, was born June 24, 1846. In early life he was a farmer, later in the lumber business, but kept his home on the farm until 1910, when he removed to Morgantown. For the last 15 years he has looked after a number of responsibilities and interests. He has secured the rights of way for a number of railroads, has bought and sold coal lands and to some extent has been interested in coal mining. He is justly credited with being a pioneer in the development of the coal resources of Monongalia County. He and his associates in the Scott Run Coal Company opened up the first mine in the Scott Run district, and to him as much as to any other individual is due the honor for this development. He has bought and sold more coal land in this district than any other and though now 75 years of age he is still a thorough business man, and on duty nearly every day. He was one of the promoters of the building of the Wheeling & Morgantown Railroad, a road that contributed in large measure to the growth of Morgantown and the county. For many years he has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Lee Roy Shriver married Margaret A. Clovis. They were the parents of three children, Ernest E., born November 13, 1867, now a partner in the Monongahela Supply Company of Morgantown; Alice, who was born July 24, 1869, and died January 14, 1870; and Frank C. Frank Clovis Shriver was born on the Shriver farm near Wadestown, Battelle District of Monongalia County, November 8, 1881. He grew up on the farm, was educated in the public schools, and began his business career as a lumber merchant. Selling his lumber interests in 1912, in July, 1913, he was one of the organizers of the Monongahela Supply Company, Incorporated, and has since been its president and general manager. This company started business in a modest way as manufacturers agents, and first occupied the basement of the Rightmier Building at the wharf. The trade and service rapidly expanded so that the company took the entire floor space of that building, and it is now known as Warehouse No. 1 of the company. In 1919, the company erected a three-story concrete building on Wall Street, known as Warehouse no. 2 and used principally for heavy machinery, and pipe. In 1921, the company took it next step in progress, establishing its main offices and retail stores in the business block at the corner of front and walnut streets, leasing this building from its owners, Frank C. and Ernest E. Shriver. The company was originally capitalized at $5,000. This capitalization has been raised successively to $25,000, to $50,000 and now to $100,000. The business is an extensive one, handling builders' supplies, mine, mill and farm machinery, and electrical equipment. They have built up and extensive trade all over Monongalia, Preston, Marion, Harrison and part of Barbour counties, West Virginia, and portions of Greene and Fayette counties in Pennsylvania. While the prospering affairs of this company received the greater part of his time and attention, Mr. Shriver is also president of the Marteny Coal Company, vice president of the Shriver Coal Company, secretary of the Scott Run Coal Company, and a director in the Labor Building and Loan Association. Socially, he is affiliated with the Elks, Knights of Pythias, and the Country Club, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club. In 1902, Mr. Shriver married Pearl Coburn, daughter of the late C.C. Coburn of Monongalia County. They have one son, Leroy, born February 14, 1904.