West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: #1 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] George Hotsinpiller [Bridgette Osz ] #2 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] John William Janes- [Bridgette Osz ] #3 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] Samuel Boylen-obit [Bridgette Osz ] #4 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] Weaver [Bridgette Osz ] #5 [WV-FOOTSTEPS] BIO: Frank W. IRVIN [Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] George Hotsinpiller Thursday April 5, 1962 page 5 Barbour Democrat George Raymond Hotsinpillar, 70y of Felton Community near Arden died at 4 p.m. Saturday, at his home unexpectedly as he was preparing to come to Philippi. Death was attributed to a heart attack. He was born in Moatsville, July 21, 1891 a son of the late Charles and Mary Richards Hotsinpiller August 31, 1936, he married Bly Moats, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters Mrs. Billy (Pauline) Freeman of Philippi and Mrs. Earl (Pearl) Moats three grandchildren one brother Stanley Hotsinpiller of Philippi and one sister Mrs. Icie Bartran of West Palm Beach, FL Mr Hotsinpiller, a retired Coal miner was a member of local union 2999, he was a veteran of WWI and a member of Fairview EUB Church, Buried there. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:18:07 -0400 From: Bridgette Osz Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] John William Janes-Obit Thursday March 23, 1961 page 12 Barbour Democrat John William Janes,78y, of Grafton died unexpectedly on Monday, March 20 at 11:00 p.m. at his home. He had been in ill health for some 14y. He was born in Barbour County on September 7, 1882, a son of the late Thomas and Barbara Bryan Janes. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Audrey McDaniel Janes five children, Bert W, Janes of Bell, CA, Paul and John J. Janes both of Mansfield, Oh Mrs. Troy (Victoria) Kirlpatrick of Grafton and Mrs. Harold (Audrey) Knotts of Kingwood; five sisters, Mrs. Robert Stanton of Philippi, Mrs. Cora Wright and Mrs. Nora Utterback both of Moatsville, Mrs. Dettie Kerns of Rowlesburg and Mrs. Belle Kines of St Petersburg, FL 11 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren. Three brothers and 1 sister are deceased. Mrs. Janes was employed as a carman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for some 40 years and retired in 1946. He was a member of St. John's Methodist Church. Funeral services held in Grafton at 3 p.m. on Thursday with Rev. Joseph A. Kelly and Rev. Harold Fisher officiating. Interment made at Woodsdale Memorial Park Cemetery ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:08:04 -0400 From: Bridgette Osz Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] Samuel Boylen-obit Thursday Aug 24, 1961 page 4 Barbour Democrat Samuel M Boylen 63y of Philippi Rt 2 Ford Run community died at 4 a.m. on Friday August 18 in a Painesville, Ohio hospital where he had been a patient for five days. He was born in Barbour County on March 25, 1898, a son of the late James and Cordelia Cross Boylen. On November 8, 1924 he was married to the former Edna Lyons, who survives. Also surviving are three sons Ray J., Troy D., and Kenneth H. Boylen all of Painesville, one daughter, Mrs Carl (Melrose) Simpson, also of Painesville; one foster son Dennis Upton at home; 12 grandchildren, three brothers, Henry Boylen, George Boylen of Philippi, William Boylen of Kasson. Mr Boylen had been employed by Fisher Body Company at Cleveland, Ohio for the past 6 years. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Connie Dickens of Fairmont at 2 p.m. on Monday in a local funeral home. Burial was made in the Mt. Vernon Memorial Cemetery ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:09:14 -0400 From: Bridgette Osz Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] Weaver Thursday June 8, 1961 Barbour Democrat page 6 Mrs. Lula Weaver 81y of Clemtown community died Tuesday May 30 at 2:00 pm in a Weston hospital after a short illness She was born July 30, 1879 in Barbour County, a daughter of Albert and Melissa Murphy. Her Husband Jacob Rexroad Weaver is deceased. Surviving are four daughters Mrs. Claude (Cordi) Goff of Grafton, Mrs. Glenn (Wava) Sturms of Belington, Mrs. Paul (Ruth) McCartney of Belington and Mrs. Paul (Charlene) Mitchell of Bridgeport with whom she made her home for the past few years one son Camdew Weaver of Moatsville; one sister Alda Satterfield of Muncie, IN and one brother Delbert Weaver of Belington One son and Daughter preceded her in Death She was a member of the Clemtown EUB Church ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:26:55 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] BIO: Frank W. IRVIN, Cabell Co. The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 220 FRANK W. IRVIN is one of the younger group of business men in Huntington, but has been exceedingly busy in im- proving his opportunities since he left school, and for the past two years has been in business as an electrical con- tractor, in the Irvin-Hall Electrical Company. Mr. Irvin was born at Huntington, December 10, 1890. His grandfather was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1820, and his enterprise brought him a wide and varied ex- perience. As a young man he went South and bought a plantation in Louisiana. This property he lost during the Civil war, and he became a Union soldier, rising to the rank of colonel. After the war he lived in Iowa for a short time, and then established his home on a ranch and a farm near Hutchinson, Kansas, living there when that town was out on the frontier, and he had a part in sup- pressing border troubles. After many years as a Kansas farmer he removed to Los Angeles, and retired and died in that city in 1905. He was a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. Walter L. Irvin, father of Frank W., was born in Iowa in 1865, grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and as a young man came to Huntington, where he married and where for several years he worked in the general store of his brother-in-law, E. E. Ward. From that he went into the service of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in the freight department, and was promoted from time to time and was chief clerk when he died at Huntington in 1897. He was one of the prominent republicans of the county, and at one time was candidate for the office of County Court clerk of Cabell County. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. Walter L. Irvin married Carrie H. Lallance, who was born at Syracuse, Ohio, June 4, 1868, and is living at Huntington. Her two children are Frank W. and Doris, the latter the wife of John O. Deering, an insurance man at Huntington. Frank W. Irvin acquired a public school education at Huntington, and attended Marshall College in that city through his sophomore year. He left college in 1908, and for two years following was a clerk in the White Sulphur Springs Hotel in this state, and for another two years was assistant manager of the J. G. MacCrory's Company of Huntington. He then entered the service of the Chesa- peake & Ohio Railroad, and was an electrician with that road until 1920, acquiring a very thorough and well rounded knowledge of everything connected with the electrical in- dustry. On March 1, 1920, the Irvin-Hall Electrical Com- pany began business, his partner in this enterprise being E. R. Hall. This firm has the facilities and the expert or- ganization that fit them for handling electrical contracts of every type. They have done wiring and electrical installa- tion for several large manufacturing and industrial con- cerns. The offices of the company are at 928 Fifth Avenue. Mr. Irvin is a republican, a member of the Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with Hnntington Lodge No. 33, Knights of Pythias. In August, 1915, at Huntington, he married Miss Georgia Lanthorne, daughter of Ezra R. and Rose (Jeffers) Lanthorne, residents of Huntington, where her father is a grocery merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin have two children, Frank, Jr., born February 20, 1918, and James Maurice, born August, 18, 1920. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:27:28 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] BIO: Marshall A. MAXWELL, Cabell Co. The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 208 MARSHALL A. MAXWELL, assistant to the president of the A. J. King coal interests, with headquarters at Huntington, is an electrical and mechanical engineer with twenty years of experience in mining and public utilities in different parts of the United States and Canada. He was born at St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, January 14, 1875, son of Joseph Henry and Emily (An- drews) Maxwell. Both parents were of United Empire Loyalist stock, the families being originally settled in Vir- ginia and Connecticut. M. A. Maxwell was educated in the common and provincial normal schools, spent some time as a teacher, and in 1902 graduated from McGill Univer- sity at Montreal with the degree Bachelor of Science in electrical and mechanical engineering. The same year he moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, became assistant to the chief engineer of the Easton Power Com- pany and was promoted to superintendent the same year. >From 1904 to 1908 he was a member of the firm Beadle & Maxwell, consulting engineers, with office at 82 Beaver Street, New York. From 1908 to 1910 he was at Boston as general superintendent of the Massachusetts Lighting Com- panies, a group of gas and electric public service properties. Going to Alberta in Northwest Canada in 1910, on ac- count of his health, Mr. Maxwell formed the engineering and contracting firm of Maxwell & Mackenzie. This firm covered a broad and successful field of operations until the outbreak of the war, when the entire personnel enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force except Mr. Maxwell, who was rejected on account of age and physical condition. While in Northwest Canada Mr. Maxwell was instrumental in the development and operation of the Round Hill Col- lieries, Limited, of which he was managing director, the Spicer Coal Company and the Stoney Creek Collieries, Limited, of Alberta, in all of which he is a large stock- holder. Mr. Maxwell in February, 1915, came to Logan, West Vir- ginia, as general manager of the Logan County Light & Power Company, a corporation organized to supply electric power to the coal fields of Logan County and vicinity. This company was successfully developed, and was sold to the newly formed Kentucky and West Virginia Power Company in 1919. At that date Mr. Maxwell retired and has since been associated with A. J. King in the administration of coal properties, and is also interested in various other public service corporations. Mr. Maxwell is an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Engineering Institute of Canada, is an executive of the Kentucky and West Vir- ginia Mine, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and is a member of fifteen years' standing on the Engineers Club of New York. He is a member of the Episcopal Church and the Masonic Order. In December, 1902, he married Edna Beatrice Clinch, of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:28:08 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] BIO: Herbert Dewitt McCLINTOCK, Cabell Co. The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 217-218 HERBERT DEWITT McCLINTOCK, a popular citizen and representative business man of the City of Huntington, has developed an important industrial enterprise in the manufacturing of lumber and cooperage stock, and con- ducts the thriving business under the title of the H. D. Me- Clintock Lumber Company, with offices at 420 Tenth Street. In addition to being sole proprietor of this business he is also president of the Tri-State Lumber & Stave Company. Mr. McClintock was born at Dempseytown, Venango County, Pennsylvania, on the 16th of June, 1873. His pa- ternal grandfather, Gen. James R. McClintock, was a suc- cessful farmer in the vicinity of Dempseytown and served as a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania State Militia. He was beyond the age limit for service in the Civil war, but he recruited and trained companies that went to the front and made gallant records in defense of the Union. He married Jerusha Tennant, of New London, Connecticut, a member of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial days. The original American progenitors of the McClintock family came from Scotland to this coun- try in the early Colonial period of our national history. Charles A. McClintock, father of the subject of this re- view, was born on the old homestead near Dempseytown, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1846, and died at Huntington, West Virginia, August 19, 1914. He was reared in his na- tive county, and there his initial enterprise of independ- ent order was in connection with farm industry. Later he engaged in the manufacturing of lumber and barrel staves, and in 1889 he engaged in this line of manufacturing enter- prise at Huntington, where he passed the remainder of his life, a successful business man and highly esteemed citi- zen. He was a democrat in politics, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. In his native county he married on October 6, 1870, Miss Adeline Richey, who was the daughter of William and Angeline Givon Richey. She was born in the year 1847, and died in the same year as did her husband, on July 21, 1914. James Pliny, eldest of their children, is living retired at Los Angeles, California, he being a veteran of the Spanish-American war; the sub- ject of this sketch was next in order of birth; William R., who likewise served in the Spanish-American war, resides at Arcola, Mississippi, and is the manager of a plantation near that place; Miss Emma is a popular teacher in the public schools of Huntington; Mabel is the wife of C. Lloyd Ritter, a prominent lumber manufacturer and finan- cier, and they reside at Huntington; Laura is the wife of Henry C. Walburn, of this city, he being state agent for the Bankers Life Insurance Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, and president of the Huntington Board of Education. Among the teachers who gave effective instruction to Herbert D. McClintock in the public schools at Dempsey- town, Pennsylvania, were Martin Carey, who is now vice president of the Standard Oil Company, and P. M. Spears, who is now chief counsel for that great corporation. After the family removal to Huntington Mr. McClintock here at- tended the high school until he had partially completed the work of his senior year. Thereafter he was for somewhat more than three years a student in Central University at Richmond, Kentucky, from which he withdrew in his sen- ior year to become instructor in Greek and military tactics and science in Jackson College, in Breathitt County, that state, where he remained one year. Within this period in that tempestuous county he had for a time active charge of county affairs, in command of a force of 100 men for one week, and the aggressive work which he thus accom- plished resulted in the hanging of Tom Smith, a leader in the French-Eversole feud. In 1896 Mr. McClintock returned to Huntington, and shortly afterward assumed active management of his fa- ther's lumber mill in Mingo County. In April, 1898, he entered the nation's service, at the inception of the Span- ish-American war, and was sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was made a sergeant, his honorable discharge hav- ing been given on the 4th of February, 1899. He had pre- viously gained wide experience in military affairs. In 1889 he was captain of the Huntington High School Cadets; while attending Central University he was senior captain of its Cadet Corps; in 1895 he was promoted to the rank of major, and his name was placed on the honor roll of the war department of the United States. On the llth of November, 1889, he enlisted in the West Virginia National Guard, in which he served thirteen consecutive years and was a member of the staff of every colonel that has com- manded the Second Regiment. In the World war period he was commanding officer of the Hnntington Militia Be- serves. >From the spring of 1899 until 1910 Mr. Clintock [sic] was actively identified with lumbering operations in the State of Mississippi, and he then returned to Huntington, where he has since been successfully engaged in the manufactur- ing of lumber and cooperage stock, under the title of the H. D. McClintock Lumber Company. Mr. McClintock is a democrat, is a member of the Hunt- ington Chamber of Commerce, the West Side Country Club and the local lodge of Elks, and he and his wife hold mem- bership in the Presbyterian Church. The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. McClintock and Miss Ada Stewart, who was born in Huntington, and in their home resides her father, Isaac Foster Stewart, a retired brick manufacturer, his wife being deceased. Mrs. McClintock graduated from the Wesleyan Female Institute at Staunton, Virginia, this being one of the patrician educa- tional institutions of Virginia. Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs. McClintock the first, Mary, died at the age of nine years; Mabel is, in 1922, a student in the Ens- low School at Huntington; Grace died in early childhood; and Charles is attending the Guyandotte school. These children are the sixth generation of an early settler of Huntington on the Stewart side. ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:28:41 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] BIO: J. K. PARSONS, Cabell Co. The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 199 J. K. PARSONS. Born and reared in old Virginia, where he was a farmer and merchant for several years, J. K. Par- sons since moving to West Virgina has found increasing scope for his abilities in the great coal measures in the southern part of the state. He has developed the Logan- Elkhorn Corporation, owning, operating and selling the product of some of the best bituminous mines in that part of the state. His home is in Huntington, where he also eon- ducts a successful insurance business. Jefferson K. Parsons was born in Lee County, Virginia, December 19, 1882. His father, Henry Z. Parsons, was born in the same county in 1851, spent his entire life there as a fanner, and died in 1913. He was a democrat in politics, and a very devoted member of the Missionary Baptist Church. His wife was Elizabeth Parsons, though they were not related. She was born in Lee County in 1846. These parents had five children: Albert F., a coal operator living at Huntington; Margaret, wife of John M. Kirk, operator of a coal mine in Lee County; Jefferson K.; Amanda L., whose husband, W. S. Peters, lives in Logan County, and is super- intendent of the J. K. Parsons Coal Mine; and George Z., a merchant in Lee County. J. K. Parsons spent the first seventeen years of his life on his father's farm, acquired a common school education, and thereafter farmed on his own responsibility in Lee County until he was twenty-five. Then for several years he was a merchant in the same county, and in 1912 he took up the business of coal operation in the West Virginia hills, and for the past decade his activities and energies have been absorbed in this industry. His mines are in Logan County, this state, and Perry County, Kentucky. The mines owned by him have a capacity of 25,000 tons per month, and they comprise the Logan-Elkhorn Coal Corporation. A sales organization for handling the output of these mines is known as the Logan-Elkhorn Fuel Company, which is also owned and operated by Mr. Parsons. His interest in the insurance field is the Co-Operative Insurance Company of Huntington, of which he is the founder and manager. The offices of the Insurance Company and his own personal offices are in the American Bank Building. Mr. Parsons, who is a democrat in politics, married in Lee County, Virginia, in 1899, Miss Alva Garrett, daughter of George W. and Anna (Newman) Garrett, her mother now living in Logan County. Her father was a farmer and is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons have the following children: Ruby married Harry Pennington, an employe of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company at Huntington; Jack assists in his father's mines in Logan County; Edith, Powell and Blanche are students in the Huntington school; and Marjorie and Jefferson K., Jr., are the youngest of the family. ______________________________X-Message: #9 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:29:17 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: [WV-FOOTSTEPS] BIO: Fred E. WAY, Cabell Co. The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 199 - 200 FRED E. WAY, secretary and general manager of the Kenova Hardwood Flooring Company, has been identified with this concern since 1905, and has also been prominently connected with civic affairs for a number of years, his record both in public and business life having been one of constructive achievements and public-spirited activities. He was born at Wyanet, Bureau County, Illinois, May 3, 1869, a son of Edwin D. and Margaret (Piper) Way. Edwin D. Way was born July 16, 1837, in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and was twenty years of age when he accom- panied his parents to Henry County, Illinois. Early in the war between the states he enlisted in Company B, Nine- teenth Illinois Infantry, as a private, but after a short service received his honorable discharge because ill health incapacitated him for active duty. During the remainder of the war he was in charge of the Soldiers' Home at Pa- ducah, Kentucky, and at Vicksburg, Mississippi, under the supervision of the United States Sanitary Commission. At the close of the struggle he went to Wyanet, Illinois, where he established a hardware business, and was engaged in that line of trade for fifteen years. Disposing of his inter- ests, he went to Peoria, Illinois, where he was in the grocery business until 1892. He was always a friend of education, and while residing at Wyanet was president of the school board. His health failing, in 1892, Mr. Way went to Cali- fornia, where he died January 3, 1893. He married Miss Margaret Piper, who was born in Indiana County, Penn- sylvania, November 21, 1841, and now survives him at the age of eighty years, being a resident of Chicago, Illinois. Two children were born to them: Fred E. and Verna, the latter the wife of H. R. Mardorf, who started as a mes- senger boy for the C. I. & L. Railroad, Chicago, at the age of fifteen, and is now assistant secretary-treasurer of that route. Fred E. Way finished his education at the Peoria High School at the age of nineteen years, at which time he secured employment in the office of the McCormick Har- vester Company, Peoria, where he remained three years. For the two years that followed he was identified with the Acme Harvester Company at Pekin, Illinois, and then went to Dallas, Texas, where he was in the employ of Aultman, Miller & Company, manufacturers of farm implements, from 1894 to 1904. Mr. Way's next experience was in an agri- cultural way, and tilling the soil on a farm near Dallas continued to be his occupation until 1905, in which year he came to Kenova, in the year following succeeding M. A. Hayward, former general manager of what is now the Kenova Hardwood Flooring Company. This business was originally established in 1902, and was then known as the Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company, the president of the concern then being E. W. Houghton and the vice presi- dent, G. A. McClintock. W. O. Houghton, son of the former president, now occupies the chief executive position. In its earlier days the territory of the company was con- fined entirely to the Middle West, but its product now meets with a steady demand not only through this locality, hut in New York and other eastern points. The plant waa taken over by the present concern August 16, 1916. Mr. Way has established and maintained a reputation as a sound, reliable, progressive man of business, and one who is thoroughly familiar with the principles and ethics of commercial life not only as they affect his own concern but as they apply to business matters in general. He has taken an active part in civic affairs at Kenova, where lie has served as mayor and recorder, and his public record is an excellent one. He is an interested and working member of the Chamber of Commerce and local movements for the benefit of the community always have his support and co- operation. During the World war period he was active in Red Cross and other work. As a fraternalist he affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, while his political identifica- tion is with the republican party. On October 5, 1905, at Chicago, Mr. Way was united in marriage with Miss Georgina Stewart, daughter of Peter Stewart, of Edinburgh, Scotland, a sergeant-major in the Royal Scots. He died in his native, land, following which his widow brought her children to the United States. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Way: Edwin W., Warren Stewart, Fred E., Jr., and Martha Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Way are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church of. Kenova, to the movements of which they have been liberal contributors, and in which Mr. Way officiates as an elder. *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. 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