Tyler County, West Virginia          Biography of Arthur V. HOENIG

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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,
Page 245

   Arthur V. HOENIG. Elsewhere in this volume is a brief history of The
Carter Oil Company, one of the oldest and most extensive oil producing
companies operating in the state of West Virginia. This company was
incorporated in 1893, and just four years later Arthur V. Hoenig entered
its service in the home offices at  Titusville, Pennsylvania, and with
the exception of a few years since has been continuously with that
corporation.
   He was born at Titusville, Pennsylvania, June 29, 1877, son of Joseph
and Mary (Mayer) Hoenig. His parents were born and reared in Germany,
coming to the United States in 1852, and were married after arrival in
this country. Arthur V. Hoenig grew up in his native city, attended
public schools there, and finished his education in Eastman's Business
College at Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1897 he became a clerk with The
Carter Oil Company. and soon was transferred from their main business
offices in Titusville, Pennsylvania, to their field headquarters at
Sistersville, West Virginia. After about a year in the Sisterville
offices he was successively engaged in the Sistersville Yard in
connection with shipping; in field work in connection with leasehold
operations, drilling, pumping and development purposes. Subsequently he
was returned to producing operations, first as assistant superintendent
and then as district superintendent of general oil well operations.
   In 1903 Mr. Hoenig, together with D.A.Bartlett, of Marietta, Ohio,
engaged independently in the business of prospecting for oil in Ohio and
West Virginia. The partnership was dissolved in 1904, and Mr. Hoenig,
with others from Titusville, entered the Oklahoma oil fields, where he
was similarly engaged for a year.
   Early in 1906 he resumed his connection with The Carter Oil Company
as superintendent of properties in the Woodsfield, Ohio district. The
company in 1909 transferred him to Bremen, Ohio, in a similar capacity.
In 1916 he was sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the same year transferred to
Wichita, Kansas, and in both cities was superintendent of The Carter Oil
Company (Western Division) properties.
   In 1919 Mr. Hoenig had charge for the Standard Oil Company (New
Jersey) of a party of geologists in a survey of Venezuela and Columbia,
South America, for the purpose of taking up land for oil development.
InMay of the same year Mr. Hoenig returned to the United States and made
his official report, but in July again returned to South America. In
September, 1919, he returned to the United States, and since October of
that year has been located at Parkersburg as vice president and general
manager of the Eastern Division of The Carter Oil Company, and also
interested in developing the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
properties acquired in Venezuela and other foreign countries.
   Mr. Hoenig is a republican in politics. He is a catholic and is a
member of the Rotary, Country, Blennerhasset and Elks Club at
Parkersburg. In 1905, at Sistersville, West Virginia, he married Miss
Grace E. Marsh. They have two children, Karl M. and Martha J.