Upshur County, West Virginia Biography of C. K. McCALLY 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. 634 C. K. McCALLY is secretary, treasurer and general mana- ger of the Cutright-Sharps Company, which has built up a prosperous industrial enterprise in the manufacturing of window-shade rollers and similar products, its modern plant being established in the City of Buckhannon, Upshur County. Mr. McCally was born in Shelby County, Ohio, August 29, 1869, and is a son of William C. and Margery (McKerch- ner) McCally, both natives of Auglaize County, that state, where the former was born November 19, 1844, and the latter on the 12th of March of the same year. The father was reared on the home farm of his parents, received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, and was but sixteen years old when his youthful patriotism led him to enlist in Company B, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the Civil war. Mr. McCally was twice wounded, and was held as a Con- federate prisoner of war in the odious Andersonville Prison for five months. After the war he returned to his native county, and later engaged in farming and road contracting in Shelby County. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His political support has been given to the republican party, and he served as commander of his post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs. McCally the subject of this sketch is the second in order of birth; E. D. is associated with the Kansas Oil Well Supply Company of Fort Worth, Texas, in the capacity of field manager; Effie A., who became the wife of William A. Mardrie, is deceased; and Olive G., of Sidney, Ohio. C. K. McCally passed his childhood and early youth on the old home farm in Shelby County, Ohio, and continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation in the high school. Thereafter he completed a course in the Tri- State College at Angola, Indiana, in which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then returned to his native county and engaged in teaching in the public schools, his continued pedagogic service having included his tenure of the position of principal of the high school at Wapakoneta, Ohio, one year, and two years' incumbency of the position of superintendent of the public schools of Fremont, Indiana. Thereafter he was engaged in teaching in Ohio until he came to West Virginia, where for seventeen years he was traveling salesman for the Ruhl-Kobleg Com- pany, with which corporation he later became associated. For ten years Mr. McCally was engaged in the general merchandise business at Pickens, Randolph County, and he has been actively identified with the coal and lumber indus- tries in this state, in which his operations have been signally prosperous. His varied business experience and his execu- tive ability have come effectively into play in the developing of the important manufacturing enterprise with which he is now identified at Buckhannon. Mr. McCally is a republican, is affiliated with the Masonic Fraternity, both he and his sons being members of Franklin Lodge No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Buck- hannon, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. August 15, 1895, recorded the marriage of Mr. McCally and Miss Carrie C. Cole, of Steuben County, Indiana. Mrs. McCally is a graduate of DePauw University at Greeneastle, Indiana, and prior to her marriage had been a successful teacher at Angola, that state. Her father, Major William H. Cole, enlisted as a private in an Indiana regiment at the inception of the Civil war and rose to the rank of major. Mr. and Mrs. McCally have one son, William C., who was born December 27, 1898, and who graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, he being now (1921) a junior in the Western Reserve Medical College in the City of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a leader in athletic affairs at the West Virginia Wesleyan College, and is popu- lar and prominent in the student circles of the medical school. He was for five months in service in the United States Army in the World war period, gained the rank of second lieutenant, and for a time was an instructor in military tactics.