Wetzel County, West Virginia    Biography of Russell B. HIXENBAUGH

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 156


RUSSELL B. HIXENBAUGH is one of the aggressive young
liusiness men of Hundred and is proprietor of a hard-
ware store that is the leader in that line of merchandise
for all this section of Wetzel County.

Mr. Hixenbaugh represents an old and substantial family
in this section. His grandfather, George Hixenbaugh, was
born near Hundred in 1810, spent all his life as a prosper-
ous farmer in that vicinity and died in 1892, at the age
of eighty-two. George W. Hixenbaugh, father of the Hun-
dred merchant, was born in the same vicinity in 1851,
and is still living on his farm. He has acquired and im-
proved some of the valuable land in this locality and is
now developing an extensive orchard for the production
of fancy high grade fruit. He is a republican, a promi-
nent member of the Christian Church and is affiliated with
Hundred Lodge No. 200, Independent Order of Odd Pel-
lows. In the paternal line Russell B. Hixenbaugh is a
descendant of the Church family, one of the very first to
establish homes in Wetzel County. George W. Hixenbaugh
married Mollie Elizabeth Johnson, who was born near
Hundred in 1864. Russell B. is the oldest of their three
children. Miss Aera E. is at home and Clement Stanley
was for several years in the banking business and recently
traveled to California for his health.

Russell B. Hixenbaugh was born on the farm near Hun-
dred August 17, 1888. As a boy he attended the country
schools, spent three terms in the Fairmont State Normal
School, and in 1909 graduated from the West Virginia
Business College at Clarksburg. After completing his edu-
cation Mr. Hixenbaugh entered business at Hundred by
purchasing the hardware store of White & Henderson,
and in a dozen years has greatly extended the trade and
volume of business done by this store until it is a leader
in its line over the district between Mannington and
Cameron.

Mr. Hixenbaugh lives on Cleveland Street in a residence
owned by his mother. He is the present city recorder of
Hundred, is a republican, is a past grand of Hundred
Lodge No. 200, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a
member of Littleton Encampment, and is a past chan-
cellor of Hundred Lodge No. 84, Knights of Pythias.

On August 23, 1911, at Moundsville, he married Miss
Irene Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Evans,
now living at Folsom in Wetzel County. Her father ia
passenger agent for the Burlington & Ohio Railway. Mr.
and Mrs. Hixenbaugh have had three children: Kenneth,
who died at the age of four years, Florence Lee, born in
January, 1917, and James Keith, born in 1918.