West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 138 Today's Topics: #1 OBIT: Annie Black Browning [Jean Monk ] #2 Bio: Walter L. Danks of Parkersbur ["Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: OBIT: Annie Black Browning Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit ANNIE BLACK BROWNING Born: June 30, 1911; Died: September 17, 1994; Age: 83 Years, 3 Months, 17 Days. She was a Daughter of the late Arvil and Lizzie Tabor Black; and was the Widow of Leslie F Browning. She was also preceded in Death by Two Brothers: Harold R. Black and Odbert M Black. She was a Member of the Walnut Grove Methodist Church, Hamlin (Trace Creek), West Virginia. SURVIVING: Two Sons: Leo M Browning and Leon F. Browning; One Daughter: Elizabeth M. "Libby" Browning Lawson; One Sister: Flossie Black Lawson; Ten Grandchildren: Grant Browning, Debbie Riggs, Chistina Hawks, Amy Speiss, Greg Browning, Freddie Browning, Todd Browning, Lamont Lawson, Anita Miller and Adam Lawson; and Twelve Great Grandchildren. Funeral Services will be at the Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, WV Monday, September 19, 1994-11:oo O'Clock A.M. with Reverend Billy Browning officiating. Interment will be in Black Cemetery, Myra, West Va. Friends may call at the Funeral Home from 6:00 to 8:00 O'Clock P.M. Sunday evening. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:09:13 -0500 From: "Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001001bf3ec5$e077f2e0$35431104@ChrisKerry> Subject: Bio: Walter L. Danks of Parkersburg, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.69 WALTER L. DANKS, whose technical and executive ability need no further voucher than the statement that he is the efficient superintendent of the Parkersburg Iron & Steel Company, at the metropolis and judicial center of Wood County, West Virginia, claims the State of Nebraska as the place of his nativity and is a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families, though it is to be recorded that is father, a man of independent means and marked resourcefulness, did not consent long to endure the ravages wrought by grasshoppers and drought in the pioneer period of Nebraska history, but soon left that state in whieh many other pioneers were compelled to remain, as they had no financinl resources that permitted them to flee from the dcsolation wrought by the pioneer scourges. Walter L. Danks was born at Cozad, Dawson County, Nebraska, on the 11th of November, 1875, and is a son of John G. and Elizabeth (Vance) Danks, the former of whom was born at Mount Savage, Maryland, and the latter at Muncie, Indiana. Samuel T. Danks, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a native of England, where the family has been one of not minor prominence, among its representatives in the past having been one or more distinguished musicians and composers, one of whom composed music for many of the beautiful chants of the Church of England. Samuel T. Danks was reared and educated in his native land and there acquired his fundamental knowledge of the iron industry, of which he became a prominent and influential pioneer exponent after coming to the United States. He came to this country about the year 1847, and in 1849 he became one of the argonauts of California, where the historic discovery of gold had just been made. He made the long and perilous overl! and trip to California and became one of the first to utilize hydraulic power in connection with gold mining in that state. He did not long remain on the Pacific Coast, however, but established his home at Mount Savage, Maryland, where he became prominently identified with the iron industry, as a pioneer in its development in this country. He was the inventor of the rotary puddling furnace that bore his name and that did much to advance iron production industry in the United States. Both he and his wife continued to reside in Maryland for number of years, and thereafter he became superintendent an extensive iron manufacturing plant in Cincinnati, Ohio, in which state he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives. John G. Danks seems to have inherited a predilection for iron industry, with which the family name had been prominently identified in England for many generations. He was reared and educated in Maryland, where he early gained practical experience in connection with iron industry under the effective direction of his father. As a young man he became mechanical engineer for one of the large iron corpoations at Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father was simultaneously serving as an executive in connection with the same line of enterprise. After the father invented the Danks Puddling furnace John G., the son, went to England to superintend the installation of these improved devices in that country, and after his return to the United States he continued such installation service, in which he met with much opposition and had many remarkable experiences on account of the opposition of the historic organization in Pennsylvania known as the "Molly Maguires." In the early '70s he made his ve! nture in connection with pioneer ranching enterprise in Dawson County, Nebraska, but the adverse conditions previously mentioned in this sketch led him to abandon his activities there and to return to Cincinnati. After his retirement from active business affairs he removed to Los Angeles, California, and there his death occurred in 1914, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest, and two children survive them. Walter L. Danks, the immediate subject of this sketch, passed his boyhood days principally on a farm owned by his paternal grandfather near College Hill, a suburb of the City of Cincinnati, and his early educational discipline included that of the high school and also of a business college, which later he attended at night. He gained under the direction of his father and grandfather his early experience in connection with the iron and steel industry, and in this connection he has well upheld the prestige of the family name, as his entire active career has been one of close and effective association with this important branch of industrial enterprise. He was for five years in the employ of the Inland Steel Company at Indiana Harbor, Indiana, and with the same won promotion to the position of assistant master mechanic. In 1906 he came to Parkersburg, West Virginia, to take the position of master mechanic with the Parkersburg Iron & Steel Company, and this alliance has since cont! inued, while he has served as superintendent of the company's extensive plant since 1913. Mr. Danks is found aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party, and is vital and progressive in his civic attitude. He takes deep interest in all that touches the welfare and advancement, of his home city, and during the nation's participation in the World war he was able to give valuable patriotic service both through the medium of his industrial association and through his personal efforts in support of the various local war activities. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in the Masonic fraternity he has completed the circle of the York Rite, in which his maximum affiliation is with the Parkersburg Commandery of Knights Templars, besides having received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and being also a member of the Mystic Shrine. The year 1902 recorded the marriage of Mr. Danks to Miss Hannah Stephens, of Indiana Harbor, Indiana ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:09:29 -0500 From: "Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001101bf3ec5$e2c1e2e0$35431104@ChrisKerry> Subject: Bio: Arthur Burke Koontz of Kessler's Cross Lanes, Nicholas County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.69 & 70 ARTHUR BURKE KOONTZ was born at Kessler's Cross Lanes, Nicholas County, West Virginia, January 29, 1885, son of John and Alice Groves Koontz. John Koontz was of German extraction, having descended from the German settlement in Pennsylvania. He was born, reared and spent his entire life as a farmer and stock raiser in Nicholas County, West Virginia. For many years he was one of the leaders in local democratic politics, and served one term as sheriff of his county. He died at the age of seventy-six, July 4, 1911. Alice Groves Koontz, who is seventy-six years old, is living at the old homestead. Mr. Koontz's grandfather, James Koontz, married Rebecca Longaneeker. They moved from the German settlement of Pennsylvania to Virginia, and from there to that part of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, which afterward was formed into Nicholas County, West Virginia. Mr. Koontz's grandfather on his mother's side was John Groves, who married Catharine fluffy. John Groves was of Scotch descent, and Catharine fluffy, of Irish descent, having been born in Ireland, a daughter of Hugh and Judith McMahon fluffy, but came to America when she was sixteen years old. Arthur Burke Koontz has been one of the able members of the Charleston bar for more than ten years. His reputation as a lawyer has been spread widely over the state, but he is perhaps best known in popular opinion throughout West Virginia in general because of his candidacy in 1920 for governor of the state. In the present generation the name Koontz is widely and favorably known in the professions, in educational affairs, banking and politics. Arthur Burke Koontz received his early instruction in the public schools of Nicholas County. He attended the Summersville School, graduated from Marshall College at Huntington, and subsequently entered Yale University Law School, where he was graduated with an LL. B. degree in 1910. Mr. Koontz began to practice law at Charleston in 1911, and has appeared in connection with important litigation in practically all the state courts. Aside from his law practice he is interested in a number of business enterprises and is vice president of the Union Trust Company of Charleston, which he was instrumental in organizing in 1918. Nominated by the democratic party as candidate for governor in 1920, he made a most creditable campaign and won a flattering vote in the general republican landslide of that year. Mr. Koontz is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity, a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. He married Miss Mary Watson Sipe, of Fairmont. Her father, the late Conrad Albert Sipe, is well remembered as former president of the Fairmont State Normal School. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Koontz are Mary Watson and Arthur Burke, Jr. Associated with Mr. Koontz in his law practice is his younger brother, Patrick Duffy Koontz, who was educated in Marshall College, in the University of Michigan, and in Harvard University Law School. During the World war he saw service in France, and attained the rank of captain. Another brother, Luther Vaughan Koontz, lives at Clendenin, where he is president of the First National Bank and extensively interested in the enterprises of that town. He brought about the incorporation of Clendenin and was its first mayor. Another brother, Louis K. Koontz, lives in Goldfleld, Nevada, where he is interested in mining, and the two living sisters, Mrs. W. T. Burdette and Mrs. J. D. Peck, live on farms in Nicholas County. An older brother, James William Koontz, who died in 1917, was a well known physician in Western Kentucky, having practiced his profession in Muhlenberg and surrounding counties for twenty years. Two older sisters, Rouena Catharine, who married Dr. A. L. Morris, and Lola Gertrude, who married L. S. Tully, are now deceased. Two other children, Cora Belle and Hubert, died in infancy. Arthur Burke Koontz is therefore a member of a family of eleven, nine of whom grew to maturity. He happens to be the only ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 23:06:41 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.426d1ae5.257b3ed1@aol.com> Subject: BIO: PETTIGREW, Bernard J.- Charleston, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II pg 94 Bernard Joseph Pettigrew is one of the younger men rising to prominence in the affairs of West Virginia. He has substantial connections at the bar of Charleston and enjoys a large criminal practice, and has also had the advantage of experience in the State Legislature. Mr. Pettigrew was born at Summerville, Nicholas County, West Virginia, December 23, 1887, son of S.S. and Margaret Adelaide (Thornton) Pettigrew. Some of his early years were spent at Springfield, Ohio, where he attended school, and he also acquired part of his education in Washington, D.C. Mr Pettigrew attended the law school of the University of West Virginia, and began the practice of his profession at Charleston in 1914. For four years he was a member of the Charleston City Council, and was one of the youngest members ever elected to that body. In the summer of 1918 he was chosen by the republican party as a candidate for the House of Delegates in the State Legislature and was elected in November. At the regular session in 1919 he was designated by the speaker of the House as a member of committees on taxation and finance, and forfeited and unappropriated lands. Mr. Pettigrew is member of the prominent and successful law firm of Barnhart, Horan & Pettigrew, with offices in the Coyle and Richardson Building at Charleston. Mr Pettigrew married Miss Marie Harwood, of Elkins, West Virginia. Their four children are William S., Bernard Joseph, Jr., Thomas E. and Margaret Kathleen. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 23:25:40 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.ad3c350a.257b4344@aol.com> Subject: BIO: SMITH, Roy Clark- Monongalia Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II pg 93 Roy Clark Smith. Few figures are better known in the educational profession of Monongalia County than Roy Clark Smith, who since 1913 has been superintendent of the public schools of Morgantown. Identified with educational work since the beginning of his career, he has been located at Morgantown since 1909, constantly filling places of trust and responsibility, and during this time has impressed himself upon the life and institutions of the community in a manner alike creditable to himself and productive of lasting benefit to the city. Mr. Smith was born at Cambridge, Maryland, December 4, 1883, and is of English-French-Irish stock, being descended from three of the oldest families of Maryland, the Smiths, Harpers and Clarks. His grandfather, Henry Smith, a native of Maryland, married Martha Harper, a daughter of Edward Harper, who was an extensive landholder of Dorchester County, Maryland, owning land which came to the Harper family by grant directly from Lord Baltimore. He married Miss Beauchamp, who was born in France. The father of Roy C. Smith was Marcus H. Smith, who was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, in July 1857, and was in early life a farmer, later a mill owner and operator at Denton, and finally a merchant at that place. He married Sarah Matilda Clark, who was born in Caroline County, Maryland, in December, 1861, a daughter of John W. Clark, who at the time of his death in 1899 was probably the largest land holder in Caroline County. Roy Clark Smith was born at Cambridge, Maryland, December 4, 1883, and secured his primary education in the public schools of Denton, Caroline County, Maryland. Graduating from the high school at that place in 1902, he entered the Western Maryland College, from which he was graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1906. At that time he commenced teaching, but did not give up his studies, as later he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1911, with his Master of Arts degree, and in 1916 he took post-graduate work at Columbia University. Mr. Smith entered public school work as principal of the schools of Preston, Maryland, and next became teacher of mathematics and history at Friends Academy, Long Island, New York, in the fall of 1907. In 1908 he was head of the department of mathematics of the Westchester (Pennsylvania) High School, and in the fall of 1909 came to Morgantown to become principal of the high school here. He continued to act in this capacity until elected superintendent of city schools in the fall of 1913, and has occupied that position ever since. Superintendent Smith has made education and organization and direction of educational activities his life work, and has been remarkably successful. In almost every field of the work from the primary to teaching classes in a university, from grade to superintendent of schools, he has left the mark of an earnest student and apt instructor, an intelligent organizer and a judicious director. In a professional way his connections include membership in the West Virginia State Educational Association and the department of superintendents of the National Educational Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, F. and A. M.; and Lodge of Perfection Rotary Club and the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce, and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. On June 16, 1913, Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Charlotte Wade, daughter of Clark Wade, of Monongalia County, and granddaughter of Alexander Wade, one of the most prominent of West Virginia's public school educators. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Robert Wade, born June 5, 1918. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:08:04 -0500 From: "Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000801bf3f21$c48feae0$77431104@ChrisKerry> Subject: Bio: Andrew Glass of Wheeling WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.68 & 69 ANDREW Glass is one of the very active and influential younger men in the industrial and commercial life of Wheeling, and his practical field of experience since leaving school has been the iron and steel industry. He was born at Wheeling, June 25, 1881, son of Woodward W. and Mary C. Glass. His grandfather, Andrew Glass, was one of the original stockholders of the LaBelle Iron Works, one of the pioneer iron industries at Wheeling, established seventy years ago, and now a subsidiary of the Wheeling Steel Corporation. Mr. Andrew Glass acquired most of his public school education in Chicago, and as a youth became a salesman in the Chicago store of the Wheeling Corrugating Company. Later he was made general manager of the Portsmouth, Ohio, works of the Whitaker-Glessner Company, and for several years past has been president of the Whitaker-Glessner Company and vice president of the Wheeling Steel Corporation and his business offices are in the Wheeling Steel Corporation Building. Mr. Glass is a republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and a member of the Elks, and belongs to the Fort Henry Club, Wheeling Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Association. August 2, 1920, he married Dorothy Varner, and they have an infant son, Alexander Glass. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:15:38 -0500 From: "Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001101bf3f22$d3c36860$77431104@ChrisKerry> Subject: Bio: William H. Magee of Wheeling WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.65 & 66 WILLIAM H. MAGEE, who was born in the country north of Wheeling, is now designer for the Central Glass Works of Wheeling, has concentrated the energy and study of his mature career to the glass industry, and has filled a number of expert and responsible offices with glass plants all over the Ohio Valley. Mr. Magee was born at Wellsburg, West Virginia, October 15, 1878. His father, Joseph Magee, was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1841. He lived there until he was twenty, then crossed the ocean to Hamilton, Canada, and for two years was employed as a physician's assistant in a hospital. On leaving Canada he went to Akron, Ohio, learned the tinner's trade, and followed it as a journeyman for seven years. In 1870 he located at Wheeling, and owned and operated a tin shop and store at the corner of Eleventh and Market streets until 1877. In that year he removed to Wellsburg, where he continued the same line of business. From 1888 to 1898 he conducted his business at one of the leading centers of the Ohio oil fields, Findlay. For twenty years following he was in business at Newark Ohio and in 1918 retired and now, at the age of eighty, is living at Charleston, West Virginia. He is a republican, a stanch member of the Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Jose! ph Magee married Hannah Richardson, who was born at Wheeling in 1849. Her father, William Richardson, was a native of England, came to the United States and settled at Wheeling when a young man, and was a merchant tailor for many years. He married in Wheeling, Elizabeth Barrett, who was born in Ireland in 1808 and died at Findlay, Ohio, in 1892. Joseph Magee and wife had three children, William H. dying in infancy and the third son was also named William H., he being the glass maker at Wheeling. The second son, Charles Frizzell, is a clergyman of the Episcopal Church with home at Charleston, West Virginia. There was also an adopted daughter, Hannah Ethel, who died at Newark, Ohio, in 1918, wife of Franze Bahlke, who is now an employe of the Republic Truck Company at Alma, Michigan. William H. Magee spent the years of his childhood and early youth in Wellsburg, West Virginia, and Findlay, Ohio, acquiring his public school education there. He left school at thirteen, and his labors as boy and man have been entirely devoted to the glass industry. He was a boy worker in the mold department of the Dalzell, Gilmore & Leighton Company at Findlay for seven years. From 1898 to 1902 he was mold maker for the A. H. Heisey Glass Company at Newark, Ohio. He first came to the Wheeling industrial district to take charge of the mold department of the West Virginia Glass Company at Martins Ferry. This plant was abandoned in 1904 and Mr. Magee was then put in charge of the mold department of the Jefferson Glass Company at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1906 went to Rochester, Pennsylvania, to fill a similar position with the H. C. Fry Glass Company, was there two years, and did similar work for the McKee Glass Company at Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He then returned to the Jefferson ! Glass Company, who had relocated at Follansbee, West Virginia, and was general manager of that plant until 1910. For nearly a year he was in charge of the mold department of the Imperial Glass Company of Bellaire, and on January 1, 1911, he organized and opened the Grafton plant of the Columbia Tile Company. He continued as general manager of this West Virginia industry until January, 1915. From that date until January 1, 1921 Mr. Magee had charge of the mold department of the Libbey Glass Company at Toledo, Ohio. On leaving Toledo he came to Wheeling as designer for the Central Glass Works. This is one of the prominent industries of the Wheeling District, located at Fifteenth and McColloch streets. Mr. Magee is a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church, and is well known in glass manufacturing circles and as a citizen of a number of communities. During the war he acted as salesman in every one of the five loan campaigns. He owns a modern home at Park View, Elm Grove, Wheeling. He married at Wellsburg, West Virginia, in 1903, Miss Margaret Frances Spooner, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Carless) Spooner, now deceased. Her father was a rolling mill heater in sheet iron mills. Mrs. Magee was reared and educated in Wheeling, and died at Toledo, Ohio, February 23, 1921. She is survived by four children: William Spooner, born at Steubenville, Ohio, May 1, 1904; Nancy Lee, born at Rochester, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1906; Samuel Joseph, born at Follansbee, West Virginia, December 11, 1908; and Robert Barrett, born at Grafton, West Virginia, November 7, 1912. ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:24:55 -0500 From: "Chris & Kerry" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001a01bf3f24$1f3c95e0$77431104@ChrisKerry> Subject: Bio: Henry J. Hartmann of Wheeling WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.66 HENRY J. HARTMANN. In capital invested and volume of business ice manufacture now stands eighth among the industries of the United States. The oldest and largest ice industry of Wheeling is the Wheeling lee and Storage Company. The efficient manager of this business is Henry J. Hartmann, a native of Wheeling and with a long and successful experience in local business affairs. Mr. Hartmann was born in Wheeling, June 12, 1869. His father, William Hartmann, was born in Waldeck, Germany, in 1843, was reared and educated in his native country, and on coming to the United States in the Spring of 1868 settled at Wheeling. For a period of forty-six years he was a warehouseman with the old Hobbs-Brockunier Glass Company, after which he retired. He died at Wheeling, October 2, 1915. He was a democrat in earlier years, but became a republican at the McKinley campaign of 1896. He was always one of the faithful members and attendants of the Lutheran Church. Soon after coming to Wheeling he married Miss Elizabeth Bremer. She was also born in Waldeck Germany, in 1847 and had come to the United States in the spring of 1868 in company with friends. Henry J. Hartmann is the oldest of his parents' children. Charles is a broker at Wheeling and Fred W. is a salesman for the wholesale candy firm of Ellison Heifer Company, with home at Martins Ferry, Ohio. Henry J. Hartmann was educated in the public schools of Wheeling and attended Frasher's Business College. He left school in 1885, and his first regular work was six months employment in a leather store. For two years he was with the Joseph Speidel Wholesale Grocery Company, and for fourteen years was with Waterhouse Brothers, wholesale grocers. In this establishment he reached the position of head bookkeeper and salesman. It was in September, 1902, that Mr. Hartmann went with the Wheeling Ice and Storage Company, beginning as clerk, was promoted to assistant manager in 1913 and since October, 1921, has been manager. He is also a stockholder and director of the company. The great prestige and business this company enjoys is fully credited to the hard work and splendid management of Mr. Hartmann. The plant and offices are at 2224 Water Street. Mr. Hartmann is a republican, and has long been prominent in Zion Lutheran Church. He has served as corresponding secretary, has on several occasions been a member of the Church Council and has been president, secretary, treasurer and trustee of the various church benevolent organizations. He is a member of Ohio Valley Lodge No. 131, Knights of Pythias, Wheeling Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and LaBelle Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen. He owns a modern home at 15 Kentucky Street in Wheeling. He married in that city June 30, 1897, Miss Matilda Schenck, daughter of Frederick L. and Catherine (Baumberger) Schenck. Both her parents died in Wheeling, her father having been for a number of years an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann have one child, Kathryn born March 1, 1899. She is a graduate of the Wheeling High School and is now bookkeeper for the Wheeling Ice and Storage Company.