West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 126 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Edmond Roger DYER, Barbour Co [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991126132852.007cc710@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Edmond Roger DYER, Barbour Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 334-335 EDMOND ROGER DYER. In the course of a long and active life Edmond Roger Dyer has exercised his abilities in an unusually substantial range of duties and achieve- ments. He has been a farmer and stockman, mill owner and operator, merchant, a leader in introducing and using new improvements, also a public official and liberal con- tributor to the educational advancement of his community and state. Mr. Dyer has been a citizen of Barbour County since 1886, and his home through these years has been about two miles from the Court House at Philippi. He was born in Pendleton County January 25, 1851. Among his ancestors was at least one Revolutionary war soldier, and the Dyers have been in Virginia since Colonial times. One of the family name was at Fort Seybert during the Indian massacre. The grandfather of Edmond R. Dyer was Roger Dyer, who was born in Pendleton County, and died at the close of the Civil war, at the age of ninety-six. His active years were devoted to a farm. In politics he was first a whig and then a republi- can. He married a Miss Dyer, and both were of Scotch- Irish ancestry. This old couple are buried near Fort Sey- bert. Their sons were named Zebulon, James, Morgan and Alien. Their daughters were Susan, who married Jacob Trumbo, and Dianna and Mary, who died unmarried. Allen Dyer, father of Edmond R., was a native of Pen- dleton County, spent his active life there on a farm, and is buried near Fort Seybert in the same county. He served a brief time as a Confederate soldier toward the close of the Civil war. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Allen Dyer died in 1907, at the age of ninety-one. He married Martha Miller, a daughter of John Miller, and she died in January, 1894. They reared four sons and four daughters, and the six surviving children are: Edmond R.; Mary M., who mar- ried C. K. Switzer, of Philippi; Dianna, who is the wife of W. A. Judy, of Pendleton County; Susan L., wife of Elias McWhorter, of McWhorter, West Virginia; Florence, wife of Isaac E. Bolton, of Morgantown; and W. M., of Pendleton. Edmond R. Dyer spent his early life on his father's farm, attended the country schools, and lived at home until past his majority. His early training was largely that of manual labor, and through farm work he earned his first money. His independent career may be said to have begun when he engaged in merchandising at Pendleton. He remained there until 1883, and then moved to Lewis County and was a merchant at Jane Lew four years. From there he came to Barbour County in 1886 and established his home on a farm two miles from Philippi while his home has been in the country, few city men have had wider interests in the program of important affairs. In his home neigh- borhood he developed what is practically an industrial suburb of Philippi. There he built a gristmill, sawmill and planingmill, erecting the Dyer Mill in 1890, and he still continues this operation. He also opened a store, but abandoned merchandising after 1902. Since then his business interests have been associated with his farm, his live stock and his mill. His progressive character is illustrated in the fact that he was the first farmer to introduce such modern machinery as the grain drill and the tractor, and his reaper was one of the first in the county. The Delco Lighting Com- pany declares that his was the first residence in West Virginia equipped with a Delco lighting system. The first residence telephone was also placed in his home. He and another party started the first telephone line in Barbour County. In Philippi, Mr. Dyer took part in the organiza- tion of the Citizens National Bank, and has been vice president and one of the directors of that institution from the beginning. One of the outstanding qualities of his good citizenship has been his deep interest in matters of education. He was elected and served for eight years as president of the Board of Education for the Philippi District. He was also associated with a group of citizens in Philippi in building up a college center in that town. These men purchased the property of Broaddus College at Clarksburg, and secured the relocation of the institution at Philippi His was one of the first live subscriptions to the college fund Mr. Dyer gave the people of Barbour County a highly efficient administration in the office of sheriff, to which he was elected in 1904, succeeding Sheriff Isaac C. Woodford, and served four years. He was elected as a republican, and has been affiliated with that party since young manhood. In Lewis County, West Virginia, June 22, 1882, Mr. Dyer married Miss Philena McWhorter, a member of a very old and prominent family of the state. Her father, Mans- field McWhorter, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and married Sarah Ann Davis. Both are buried at McWhorter in Harrison County. Mrs. Dyer was born in Lewis County June 14, 1858, the only child of her parents, and was reared and educated at Jane Lew. In some respects the outstanding achievement of Mr. and Mrs. Dyer is the splendid family of children they have reared and prepared for the serious duties of life. These children are twelve in number, and there are now a number of grandchildren. The oldest child is Otto M., of Buck- hannon, who married Grace Proudfoot, and their children are: Mansfield McWhorter, Delbert Proudfoot, Otto Mc- Whorter and John Edmond. The second child, Allen M., in the transfer business at Philippi, married Venna Burner and has four children, Arthur Burner, Mary Louise Alien Miller and Philena Grace. Audrey, the third of the family, is the wife of J. Stanley Corder, cashier of the People's Bank of Philippi, and they have a daughter, Ruth Reynolds. Mary was married to T. A. Wilson, of Kingwood, and she is the mother of two daughters, Sallie Lue and Philena Sue. Roscoe F., the fifth of this family, is in the dairy business at Clarksburg, and by his marriage to Maud Woodford has children named Sarabel, Lueille, Irene, Inajane and Edmond Roscoe. Martha Dyer was married to M. M. Strader, of Philippi, and has two daughters, Rosa Lee and Alberta. Ruth is Mrs. Henry J. Peterson, of Graham, Texas. Paul Ed, the eighth child, is a farmer near Philippi and married Ina Martin. The younger children, all still in the home circle, are Annie Lee and Harry (twins), Clifford A. and Stephen. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:38:20 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991126133820.007cb880@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Jasper N. WILKINSON, Harrison Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 331-332 JASPER N. WILKINSON. After a busy career marked by successful and worthy achievement Mr. Wilkinson is now living virtually retired at Bridgeport, Harrison County. He was born on a farm not far distant from the vil- lage in which he now resides, and the date of his nativity was January 22. 1841. He is a son of Jesse and Mary Ann (Preston) Wilkinson, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter in Allegany County, Maryland. The family was founded in Virginia in the Colonial period of our national history, and the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. Jesse H. Wilkinson was one of the successful early farmers of Harrison County, and continued to reside on his homestead farm near Bridgeport until his death. His widow passed the closing period of her life in the home of their only daughter, Sarah A., in Knox County, Missouri. In the family were four sons. Jasper N. Wilkinson was reared on the old home farm, early began to assist in its work, and he continued to attend local schools at intervals until he was twenty years of age, when, in 1861, he went to Morgantown and became a student in Monongalia Academy, of which Professor J. R. Moore was the principal. In 1865 Mr. Wilkinson graduated from this institution, with the degree of Civil Engineer, and thereafter he passed about one month in Iowa, whither he went to visit in the home of his aunt, Mrs. Rebecca Hansel, in Clayton County. He next made his way to Arcola, Douglas County, Illinois, where he found employ- ment in the line of his profession and did surveying work of important order. In Illinois he aided in the defining of the section lines of Grand Prairie in Moultrie County, which borders Douglas County on the west. It is interest- ing to record that at that time land in that section of Illinois could be purchased at prices ranging from $1.25 to $2.50 an acre. In the autumn of 1865 Mr. Wilkinson returned to his native county, and for the ensuing three years he assisted his father on the home farm. In 1868 he engaged in the general merchandise business at Bridge- port, and he successfully continued this enterprise until 1874, when he sold out. In 1870 he had been elected county engineer, an office of which he continued the efficient incumbent four years and then was re-elected for a second term of equal duration. After his retirement from this office he served four years as deputy county engineer under T. Moore Jackson, and he then became associated with J. N. Camden as civil engineer, and had charge of the running of all of the lines on the coal lands owned and controlled by Mr. Camden, said lands lying on both sides of the river and running back three miles. In the autumn of 1888 Mr. Wilkinson became civil engi- neer for the South Pennsylvania Oil Company of Pitts- burgh, and in 1890 this corporation gave him assignment as superintendent of its operations in the West Virginia District, where he had supervision of the company's title rights and other matters pertaining to its land holdings in this state. In this connection he did a large amount of important and responsible executive and technical serv- ice, and he continued his alliance with the company for a term of years. In 1910 Mr. Wilkinson was placed in charge of the Hope Gas Company, and this position he retained until 1913, when ill health compelled his retirement. Dur- ing these years of consecutive and well ordered activity in his profession Mr. Wilkinson did not neglect extraneous opportunities for forwarding his individual prosperity. He made judicious investments, and these today mark him as a man of substantial financial status. He owns and occu- pies one of the beautiful residences of Bridgeport, the same commanding a fine view of the surrounding country, and here he is enjoying the peace and prosperity that prop- erly crown his former years of earnest endeavor. He is aligned loyally in the ranks of the democratic party, has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since the year 1865, and he holds membership also in the Knights of Pythias. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. April 30, 1868, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wilkinson and Miss Anna Barbee Heflin, of Bridgeport, and in con- clusion of this review is given brief record concerning their children: Guy C., who was born June 1, 1871, succeeded his father as superintendent of the Hope Gas Company and retained this position until his death, December 11, 1915, he having been a bachelor and having been one of the popular and representative business men of this sec- tion of his native state. Mary Bessie, who was born July 1, 1873, died on the 13th of February, 1909. She became the wife of Dr. C. L. Lyon, and after her death her only child, Helen, then six years of age, was taken into the home of the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- kinson, with whom she has since remained, she being now a student in the University of West Virginia. Anna Heflin, who was born July 15, 1875, became the wife of Wilbur Gaines, of Salem, this state, and they now reside at Bridge- port. Nellie Virginia was born November 8, 1878, and her death occurred March 8, 1908. Irma N., who was born September 24, 1881, is the wife of Leroy H. Martin, a mem- ber of the firm of Martin Brothers of Haywood, Harrison County. Lucy E., who was born August 2, 1884, remains at the parental home. All of the children were afforded the best of educational advantages. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:38:20 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991126133820.007ccec0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: James E. FORNEY, Barbour Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by bl-14.rootsweb.com id KAA23423 The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 332-333 JAMES E. FORNEY has been a resident of West Vir- ginia for thirty years, and his work and business in the construction trades of bricklaying and masonry have many visible evidences in and around Belington, his home town. That community long since learned to appreciate his worth and value as a citizen. Mr. Forney was born in Allegheny County, Pennsyl- vania, May 10, 1864. His father, Alfred A. Forney, was born on Double Pike Creek, Carroll County, Maryland, left there when a young man having learned the trade of blacksmith, and followed that occupation in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, during the Civil war, in which one of his brothers participated as a Union soldier. He subse- quently moved to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and about middle age he devoted his time to farming. He died in 1914, at the age of eighty-four. His wife was Martha Johnson, who was born in Allegheny County, daughter of James and Mary (Parks) Johnson. She died in 1896, when about fifty-nine years of age. They were Presby- terians, and in politics Alfred Forney was a republican. Their children were: Mary, wife of I. U. Campbell, of Erin, Tennessee; George, who died unmarried in Pittsburgh; James E.; Annie, deceased wife of Henry Ruckhart, of Beaver County; Miss Lillian; Will, who died in Beaver County; and Calvin, of Lawton, Oklahoma. James E. Forney grew up at Sandy Creek in Beaver County, acquired a public school education near Freedom, and was with his father until he was about twenty years of age. He learned the trade of brick layer with W. W. Rickard of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, remaining with him two years, the following summer was an employe of the Lisenring Coal Company, owned by Frick and Company, for about a year was with the Cochrin and Brown Coal Company in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and for another year with J. W. Rainey. Then, in 1892, he came to West Virginia and established himself in Belington. In his business Mr. Forney has performed a long and interesting service in brick, stone and concrete work. His first work of consequence was at Dartmore, where he helped construct the coke oven, and about that time he set down the foundation for a store in front of the Luzerne Hotel in Belington, then the hotel foundation itself, and the foundation for the Methodist Church. When he first came to Belington only three houses stood on the west side of the Tygart Valley River, and he has been a factor in the mason and concrete work in the development of that side of the town. He also did brick work on the chim- neys for the houses in Coalton and at Elkins. As a public spirited citizen Mr. Forney has been a mem- ber of Belington Council several times and a member of the Board of Education. He is a republican, having cast his first ballot for James G. Blaine in 1884. His family are Missionary Baptists. In Barbour County, July 8, 1894, Mr. Forney married Miss Grace Day, who was born in Barbour County, Sep- tember 16, 1876, daughter of Daniel Webster and Martha (Wilson) Day. Her mother was a daughter of W. P. Wilson. Darnel W. Day was born in Barbour County, as was his wife, and he wag a farmer. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Day are—Orestes, of Belington; Mrs. Forney; and Scott Day, who lives near Fairmont. Mr. and Mrs. Forney have reared an interesting family of children, named Cecil Alfred, Wilbnr Orestes, Beulah, Ruth, Ralph, Wilson, George (who died at the age of eighteen months) and Lena. The son Cecil, who now lives at Middletown, Ohio, married Edna Sipe. He went overseas with the air-craft machine gun battalion from Camp Lee, Virginia, and lay between the front lines and the heavy artillery of the American Troops shooting down enemy airplanes. His only injury was gassing. His command returned to the United States in May, 1919, and he was discharged at Camp Dix, New Jersey. The son Wilbur Orestes, who lives at Belington was in the last draft of the World war. He first responded to the Government's request for an operation was in the Crozier Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania, four and one-half months, and finally recovered his health and strength sufficiently to be accepted, but the armistice was signed about that time. The daughter Beulah is now a student in Shenandoah Collegiate Institute at Dayton, Virginia, while the younger children are attending the local schools. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:38:31 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991126133831.007cd2a0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Thomas W. HARRISON, Lewis Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 333 THOMAS W. HARRISON has given a good account of his active years as a prosperous and progressive farmer of Lewis County, still owns a farm, but is now practically retired and enjoys the comforts of a good town home at Weston. He was born at Weston August 15, 1854, son of Mathew W. and Sarah L. (Hoffman) Harrison, his father born in Clarksburg in 1825 and his mother at Weston in 1828. Mathew Harrison was reared and educated in Clarksburg, studied for the law, and for many years practiced his profession in Weston. He was also vice president of the National Exchange Bank and was treasurer of the State Hospital at Weston from 1856 until he resigned a short time before his death. He was also treasurer and pay- master of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. He was con- sidered one of the wealthy men of the county and left a large estate. He was a democrat and served in the Legislature one term. His wife was a member of the Episcopal Church. These parents had seven children, and the five now living are: Thomas W.; Mary, wife of A. A. Warren; R. H., a farmer at Weston; Emma, wife of James Ealston; Anna M., wife of E. G. Davisson. Thomas W. Harrison grew up at Weston, attended the public schools there, had a good business training under his father, and while identified to some extent with com- mercial lines his main work has been farming. On April 22, 1890, he married Genevieve Ralston, who was born at Weston July 11, 1867, daughter of Er and Matilda (Bailey) Ralston. Mrs. Harrison was educated in Weston in private schools, and attended a musical con- servatory at Warren, Ohio. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Harrison moved to a farm two miles east of Weston, and lived in the country until 1918, when they returned to Weston. Mr. Harrison had a place of 451 acres, but has since sold part of it and uses the remainder chiefly for the grazing of cattle. He has been an interested worker in the demo- cratic party of the county, and at one time was nominee for the County Court. He is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America and Weston Lodge No. 43, Knights of Pythias. He and his wife belong to the Episcopal Church. They are the parents of a family of ten children, nine living. Ernestine E. was educated by private tutor and is now superintendent of the West Virginia Children's Home at Elkins. Mary M. is the wife of Dr. John Owens, an army surgeon; Mathew W., a graduate of the Weston High School, enlisted and served as a private during the World war, going overseas with the Eighty-third Division, and later being assigned to the Third Division and was on front line duty for three months, being wounded in the Argonne Forest. He is now a student of agriculture in the West Virginia State University. Eva E. is a graduate of the Weston High School and of the Mountain State Business College at Parkersbnrg. The younger children are: Genevieve, a graduate of the Weston High School; Thomas W., Jr., also a graduate of the Weston High School; William E., deceased; Sallie, in the senior class; Fannie E., in the sophomore class in High School; and Gertrude in the seventh grade of the grammar school. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:38:31 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991126133831.007cd040@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Hon. William JANES, Barbour Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 333-334 HON. WILLIAM JANES, several times mayor of the City of Philippi, is an able lawyer and business man, whose activities have had much to do with the exploitation of the material resources of the state. He is of English an- cestry, but is the direct descendant of a young Englishman who fought on the side of the colonists in the struggle for independence, and the family has been in West Vir- ginia for over a century. His Revolutionary ancestor was his great-grandfather, John Janes, who was born in Staffordshire, England, about 1752, and as a young man came to America. He enlisted from Pennsylvania for the War of the Revolution, and was with the American troops when General Cornwallis sur- rendered to General Washington at Yorktown in 1781, that being the concluding act of the war. John Janes lived for many years in Barbour County, West Virginia, and is believed to be the only soldier of the Revolution buried there. He died in 1842, since in that year he drew his last pension from the Government as a soldier. He was about ninety years of age when he died. His son, Alexander Janes, was a stone mason, and ex- amples of his work were on the bridge abutment on the Parkersburg and Staunton Pike and across Greenbrier River and the steps and the foundation of the old Court House of Randolph County at Beveriy. These old steps are still in use. He spent his last days at Moatsville in Barbour County, where he is buried. Alexander Janes married Louisa Casteel, of the Casteel family of Preston County. Their children were: William, who retained the old English spelling of the name Jennings, and was a prominent resident of Preston County and a member of the County Court; Noah Janes, whose record follows: Thomas Janes; Nancy, who became the wife of George Nestor; Maria, who married James Isner; Margaret, who was the wife of A. J. Cline; Alice, who married Winfield Cox; and Calore, wife of Edward Freeman. Noah J. Janes, father of Mayor Janes of Philippi, was born in Barbour County, in Cove District, February 19, 1849, and spent his active life as a farmer and lumber- man. He acquired a common school education, was elected as president of the Board of Education of Cove District, and spent his last days at Fox Hall in Pleasant District, where he died August 13, 1911, at the age of sixty-two. He was a republican. He was distinguished by certain strong traits of character, he dealt in nothing but the truth, despised shams and camouflage, but in spite of the strength of his convictions was reasonable in his rela- tions with all men. Noah Janes married Catherine England, daughter of Archibald England. She died December 6, 1889, being the mother of William and Ida B., the latter the wife of T. E. Phillips, of Fox Hall, West Virginia. William Janes was born in Cove District of Barbour County, spent his early life on the farm, and beyond the advantages of his immediate home community he had to depend on his own exertions for the higher education which he craved. After completing the work of the com- mon schools he taught school, his first school being in the Bull Run District in Tucker County. While teaching he attended the Fairmont Normal School, and in his senior year was given a scholarship under the Peabody fund as a student in the Peabody Normal College at Nashville, Ten- nessee. This appointment was conferred by the state superintendent of schools of West Virginia, and it paid in addition to the railroad fare both ways $100 a year toward the maintenance of a student in the Normal Col- lege. Mr. Janes continued his studies there two and one half years, and subsequently entered West Virginia Uni- versity, where he graduated A.B. in 1900, and subsequently received the law degree. In the meantime he had done his duty as a volunteer soldier at the time of the Spanish-American war. He enlisted at Morgantown, and at Kanawha City was sworn in as a member of Company D of the First West Virginia Volunteers. The company was sent from Charleston to Chickamauga Park, Georgia, thence to Knoxville, Tennes- see, and to Columbus, Georgia, and be was in that camp until discharged in the spring of 1899. After leaving the army he returned to Morgantown to finish bis university work. Mr. Janes tanght for a brief time, and then located at Philippi, where for some time he was engaged in the business of securing options on coal lands. Thus he be- came interested in some of the companies that were or- ganized for the opening of mines and the development of the field. Although establishing himself in a business way in the community, he entered the practice of law, being admitted to the bar at Philippi. For a time he practiced with Senator W. H. Carter, now of Middlebourne. Mr. Janes has devoted his talent primarily to the business side of law and as a counsel and adviser rather than in court practice. Among other professional connections he is attorney for the Peoples Bank at Philippi and one of its directors. Mr. Janes is a republican, and has done a great deal of work for the party, being acting secretary of the County Committee in 1904, and has been a delegate to congressional, judicial and other conventions. In polities he is primarily interested in good government, and puts the interest of the community and people above party. The most notable era in the progressive administration of the municipal affairs at Philippi coincides with his term of mayor. He was elected mayor by the City Council in 1918 as the successor of Brown Shafer. He then was elected by popular vote for five successive terms, now in 1922, serving his fifth term. Among other outstanding steps of his administration was the extension of the electric light plant, the power for which is purchased from the Monongahela Power Company. When he became mayor the income of the light plant was about $200 a month, and now the gross revenue from the same source is $1,400 a month. A sewerage system has been installed, providing not only for present needs but for future growth. About $20,000 bonded indebtedness has been discharged, and the outstanding debt of the city at the present time is $33,500. Altogether Philippi is on a sound financial basis, and is working out a program of municipal improvements that gives it rank among the best cities of its size in the state. At the signing of the armistice closing the World war Mayor Janes issued a proclamation to the citizens of Philippi, and in the course of the proclamation he said: "The war is over, the rights of man have been vindicated, righteousness and the allied arms have triumphed. Despotic and imperial Germany has been crushed. Downtrodden man now stands erect on the broad plain of equal rights to all. American principles and American ideals have permeated the old world and the Declaration of Independ- ence has become the political textbook of all countries. It is right that we should be thankful and it is but right that we should celebrate this great world triumph with all that it means to humanity, and in order that we may more effectually do so I, William Janes, Mayor of the City of Philippi, call upon our citizens to take such steps to recognize the importance of the event by such public ceremonies as befit the occasion." October 2, 1901, Mr. Janes married Miss Jessie Lee Semmelman, a native of Barbour County, who was reared and educated there. Her father, Samuel L. Semmelman, was born in Baltimore, has spent most of his life as a merchant, coming to West Virginia when about twenty- one years of age, and for some years lived in Grafton, where he married and later was a mechant at Nestorville in Barbour County. He married Mollie (DeHaven) Hub- bard, widow of William Hubbard. Both of them now live in Philippi. Mrs. Semmelman by her first marriage has the following children: Granville Hubbard, of Delphi, In- diana; Perdita, who died as Mrs. Mont Burley; Nettie, Mrs. Howard Bailey, of Flemington; Mrs. Iva Marple, of Hamilton, Ohio. The Semmelman children are: Alice M., wife of J. C. Annon, of Philippi; Charles, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. William Janes; Mrs. Gay Murphy, of Philippi; John Semmelman, of Moatsville; and Carrie, wife of D. C. Gall of Philippi. Mr. and Mrs. Janes have one son, Aubrey Howard Janes, born August 15, 1902.