West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 142 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: JONES, Clement Ross - Mononga [PJSTON@aol.com] #2 BIO: BEAUMONT, Percy John -Mononga [PJSTON@aol.com] #3 BIO: Joseph W. Stayman ["John \"Bill\" Wheeler" Subject: BIO: JONES, Clement Ross - Monongalia Co., 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 95 + 96 Clement Ross Jones. The State of West Virginia owes an important debt to Clement Ross Jones for his long continued service and his splendid work in reorganizing and equipping the engineering department of the University of West Virginia, where for twenty years he has been professor of mechanical engineering and mechanical arts, and for the past ten years dean of the Engineering College. Professor Jones was born at the old Jones homestead near Knottsville in Taylor County, West Virginia, April 19, 1871, son of Uriah and Pernissa Jane (Ford) Jones. He attended school near home, graduated from the Grafton High School in 1889, and in 1894 received the degree of Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineering from the University of West Virginia. While he has practiced his profession and has acquired several important business and industrial relations, Mr. Jones almost from the first has been devoted to the educational side of his calling. In 1895-97 he was assistant in mechanical engineering and graduate student at the university, receiving the degree of Mechanical Engineer in June, 1897. He was instructor from 1897 to 1899, and assistant professor during 1899-1901. During the summer of 1896 he was a student in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Massachusetts, and in the summer of 1897 at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, while during 1899-1900 he was in the graduate school of Cornell University, from which he received the degree Master of Mechanical Engineering in 1900. During the Spanish-American war the head of the department of mechanical engineering was called to active duty with the navy, and Mr. Jones remained as acting head. Soon afterward the old Mechanical Hall with all its equipment was destroyed by fire, and as the head of the department did not return, it fell to the lot of Mr. Jones to plan the new building and equipment and reorganize the department. In 1901 he was advanced to the grade of professor of mechanical engineering and mechanical arts, and since 1911 has been dean of the College of Engineering and professor of steam and experimental engineering. Under his direct supervision, therefore, the engineering college has been developed as one of the most important adjuncts of technical education in the state. Professor Jones is the author and joint author of a number of text and reference books and notes used in the College of Engineering, and has contributed numerous papers and reports to engineering magazines. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American and International Societies for Testing Materials, is former vice president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, is a member of the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute, the West Virginia Engineers Club of Morgantown, a member of the Natural Gas Association of West Virginia and America, is secretary of the engineering section of the Land Grant College Association, and his work and abilities have earned him a high reputation in technical societies both at home and abroad. He has also done much of the practical work of his profession, and from 1894 to 1898 was a member of the engineering firm of Jones & Jenkins. He is a director in the Federal Savings & Trust Company and of several industrial companies. During the World war Professor Jones was fuel commissioner for Monongalia County, was chairman of the War Service Committee of the University and educational director of the Students Army Training Corps. When he graduated from the University in 1894 he was first lieutenant and adjutant of the West Virginia University Corps of Cadets and subsequently was appointed first lieutenant in the National Guard and was advanced to captain in 1896. He is a member of Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M., Morgantown Commadery No. 18, K. T., and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. He is a member of the honorary scientific fraternity Sigma Xi, the Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa and is a member of the Morgantown Rotary Club and the First Methodist Episcopal Church. July 22, 1915 he married Elizabeth Charles Gambrill, of Parkersburg, daughter of Philip Dodridge and Ione (Kinchloe) Gambrill. They have one son, Ross Gambrill Jones, born September 29, 1917. No family had a larger share in the great adventure which settled the frontier of West Virginia than that of Professor Jones. He is a descendant of Jacob Jones, who was born near Wilmington, Delaware, in 1732. His mother subsequently married Samuel Lewellen, and about 1779 the Lewellens moved to what is now Monongalia County, West Virginia, and established the old Lewellen Ferry near the Pennsylvania line, where Samuel Lewellen obtained a grant of land in 1771. Jacob Jones accompanied his mother over the Alleghany Mountains and proceeded on to the west side of the Monongahela River, near the present town of Pentres. It was Indian country and the settlements were greatly disturbed by Indian raids, beginning in 1774 and continuing through the Revolution. During the outbreak of 1777 Jacob Jones and other members of his family were besieged in the home of a neighbor, and two of his children, Mary and John Jones were taken captive. Mary was adopted into the Wyandot tribe of Indians and spent many years with her chosen people near Sandusky, Ohio. John Jones was not satisfied to remain an Indian, and eventually escaped, going to Detroit, was educated in medicine by his adopted father and later visited his father and other members of the family in West Virginia and for many years lived near the Town of Grafton. Jacob Jones made his escape from the Indian besiegers and subsequently removed to a safer situation on Cheat River. He was a frontier soldier until the close of the Revolution, and about 1794 he obtained a grant of land near Knottsville in Taylor County, where both he and his wife died about 1829 at the respective ages of ninety-six and ninety-three. His wife was Dinah Stanton, who was born in Delaware in 1735. They were the parents of eight children. The fifth was William Jones , one of the ancestors of Professor Jones. William Jones was born May 4, 1774, in Monongalia County. Just before his birth occurred the Indian raid of that year. His mother being unable to leave home, the older children were sent on to the nearest fort and subsequently, following a second warning, Jacob and his wife also started for the fort. The son William was born after they had proceeded about five miles, and a neighbor carried the new-born child while the father supported his wife as best he could until they reached safety. William Jones lived near Knottsville, where he died in 1843. His wife was Sarah Anderson, and they were the parents of ten children. Of these, Samuel, the sixth child, was born February 2, 1808, and was a farmer and shoemaker near Knottsville, where he died in 1897. He married Frances Limber who was born in 1818 and died in 1888. Their second child, Uriah Hones, father of Professor Jones, was born near Knottsville, January 14, 1839. During the Civil war he was a member of the Seventeenth West Virginia Regiment, and devoted his active years to farming. Uriah Hones married Pernissa Jane Ford, who was born September 22, 1843, daughter of Lanty and Rebecca (Jones) Ford, and a great granddaughter of William Ford, who is said to have been a soldier of the Revolution and who some years after that war moved from Fauquier County, Virginia, to the west side of Tygart's Valley River near Webster, West Virginia. His son George spent his active life as a farmer in Taylor County and was the father of Lanty Ford, who was born in December, 1800, and after a long and active career as a farmer in the Knottsville District died in 1881. His wife, Rebecca Jones, was born in 1804 and was a granddaughter of Jacob and Dinah (Stanton) Jones, previously referred to. The children of Uriah Jones and wife were" Harry H., deceased, Clement Ross, George E., Fannie Rebecca and Ethel Belle. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 22:06:45 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.357407d5.257dd3c5@aol.com> Subject: BIO: BEAUMONT, Percy John -Monongalia Co., 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 96 + 97 Percy John Beaumont. For twenty years Percy John Beaumont, vice president and general manager of the Beaumont Company, manufacturers at Morgantown, West Virginia, has been closely identified with the industrial and general business interests of this section of the state. He has borne a leading part in the development of substantial enterprises at Morgantown and elsewhere and as both business man and citizen has won prominence and esteem. Mr. Beaumont is a native of England and was born in the City of Birmingham, a great industrial center, November 15, 1864. His parents were the late John and Elizabeth (Dowell) Beaumont, natives of England, who came to the United States in 1884 and both died at Wheeling, West Virginia. They had two children, a daughter, who is now the wife of Harry Northwood, and experienced designer in the glass manufacturing industry, and Percy J. It was in 1882, when eighteen years old, that Mr. Beaumont accompanied his sister to the United States, where she was to be married to Harry Northwood, who at the time was a designer for the Hobbs, Brockumier Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, but formerly had been a member of the firm of Northwood & Company, glass manufacturers at Kingswinford, England. Mr. Beaumont had been educated in the episcopal schools at Birmingham, and was ready and anxious to acquire knowledge of a trade, and his brother-in-law encouraged him to learn the glass making and decorating business, advice he accepted and became an expert glass worker under Mr. Northwood's supervision. In 1890 Mr. Beaumont organized the Beaumont Glass Company at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, which was a successful enterprise from the start and soon outgrew its quarters. When it became necessary to seek another location, inducements were offered the company to locate at Grafton, West Virginia, and in 1902 removal was made to that city, where it is still operating as the Tyggart Valley Glass Company. Mr. Beaumont disposed of his interests in the Grafton concern in 1905, and became manager of the Union Stopper Company at Morgantown in 1906, and so continued until 1917, in which year that company was reorganized as the Beaumont Company, manufacturers of illuminated glassware and stationers' sundries. Mr. Beaumont at that time became vice president and general manager of the company, and so continues. Although he has numerous other important interests, he has made the manufacture of glass a leading one, and his reputation in this industry is widespread. He is concerned also in the development of coal and oil and is treasurer and a director of the Chaplin Colleries Company of Morgantown; is vice president of the Silver Hill Oil Company; is president of the Seneca Hill Oil Company, and is a director in the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Morgantown. He has been an encourager and often financial helper of many other laudable business enterprises here. In 1889 Mr. Beaumont married Miss Laura Jefferson Dillon, daughter of Benjamin Dillon. Mrs. Beaumont died in 1918, leaving one daughter and two sons: Catherine Elizabeth, who is the wife of Prof. Eugene C. Auchter, Ph. D., a graduate of Cornell University, who (1922) is a member of the faculty as professor of horticulture in the Maryland State College; John Herbert, who is an A. B. graduate of the West Virginia University, is taking his Ph. D. work at the Chicago University (1922) and at the same time he is an instructor in horticulture at the University of Minnesota; and Arthur Brittingham, who is associated with his father in business. Mr. Beaumont is a member of the First Episcopal Church at Morgantown. Political life has never attracted him nor have fraternal organizations, but he enjoys membership in the Turn Verein Society at Morgantown. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 22:11:31 -0500 From: "John \"Bill\" Wheeler" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <002401bf4060$f860e140$1adfbec6@wheeler> Subject: BIO: Joseph W. Stayman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historic Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume ll., pg. 111-112 Joseph W. Stayman. The president of the Potomac State School at Keyser is Joseph W. Stayman, who for more than a quarter of a century has been actively associated with the educational interests in West Virginia. The first year he was in the state he taught a country school, but for the greater part of the twenty years his work has been at Keyser, either in the city schools or what is now the State College. Mr. Stayman was born at Carlise, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Joseph B. and Mary A. (Shelley) Stayman, the latter a daughter od Daniel Shelley. Joseph B. Stayman was born in Cumberland County on a farm, secured a college education in Dickinson College, and began his business career as a forwarder, with headquarters at Mechanicsburg. He was in that business until late in life, then retiring, and he lived for some years at Carlisle where he died in 1898. During the Civil War he was a Union Soldier as a private in a company commanded by his father. This company saw its chief duty within the state, but had some more serious service during the Confederate invasion which terminated in the battle of Gettysburg. The widow of Joseph B. Stayman died in July, 1914. They reared four children: Daniel, of New York City; William, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Garrett Stevens, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Joseph Webster. Joseph W. Stayman lived until he was sixteen with his maternal grandparents near Harrisburg. he was among country people of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and had some excellent intellectual influences. His grandfather, Daniel Shelley, was a well know educator and was the first county superintendent of Cumberland County schools and established the Normal School at Newville, an institution since moved to Shippenburg. After teaching for a number of years, Daniel Shelley entered the service of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, and was in that work until he finally retired. Joseph W. Stayman attended school at Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania, where his grandparents lived, graduated in 1890 from the Dickinson Preparatory School at Carlisle, and in the same fall entered upon his regular collegiate work in Dickinson College, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1894. Dickinson College gave him the Master od Arts degree in 1897, and during his individual career as an educator he has taken post-graduate work in the University of Chicago, in Columbia University of New York, and has recently completed the work leading up to the Doctor's degree in Pitt University in Pittsburgh. In 1896, soon after leaving college, a matter of business brought him to West Virginia, and while here he accepted a proposition to teach a county school at the mouth of Greenland Gap in Grant County. He taught there one term, the following year he was principal of the three room school at Moorefield, and in 1899 came to Keyser to teach the ninth grade in the local schools. After a year he was called to Terra Alta as principal of the town schools, where he remained three years. Since then his work has been in Keyser, where for nine years he was superintendent of the city schools, and resigned that office to become principal of what was then known as the Keyser Preparatory Branch of the West Virginia University. By act of the Legislature in 1921 the name of the institution was changed to the Potomac State School, with Mr. Stayman as its first president. He has completed ten years of work as head of this institution. From a secondary school designed as a feeder to the State University, it is now rapidly building up to the status of a Junior college. The school suffered a great handicap in 1917 by the loss of its building by fire. Since then a second year of college work has been added to the curriculum, and graduates from the school are entitled to enter the junior college class of any standard college or university in the United States. The teaching force has been improved both in number and in qualifications, and in the way of equipment Mr. Stayman has witnessed the building of two dormitories, the acquisition of a farm where vocational education is taught and the institution of vocational departments, home economics and commerce. During his many years of residence at Keyser Mr. Stayman has acquired some substantial business interests, and his enthusiasm is especially directed in the line of fruit growing. he first acquired an interest in the alkire orchard, and in association with four others purchased that property, now known as the Potomac State Orchard, one of the large orchards in this section of the state. There are 15,000 apple trees of bearing age in condition, and under the new management of the property has been greatly improved. Mr. Stayman is also a director of and had a part in the organization of the Potomac farm and Orchard Association, doing a general fruit packing and sales business at Keyser. Plans are now being formulated for the construction of a by-product plant for using the lower grade fruit and converting it into food products. Mr. Stayman took the initiative and was made chairman of the organizing committee of the Keyser Rotary Club in 1921. In Masonry he served three years as Master of Davis Lodge No. 51, A.F.& A.M., was for twelve years secretary of Keyser Chapter, R.A.M.., has been captain general of Damascus Commandery, Knight Templar, and is a member of Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Wheeling. He is a republican, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving fifteen years on its board of stewards. At Keyser, November 19, 1941, he married Miss Margaret Liller, daughter of William A. and Martha (Kalbaugh) Liller. Her father was a contractor and builder who spent most of his life in the eastern part of the state. Mrs. Stayman was born at Keyser, is a graduate of the local public schools and the Keyser Preparatory School's music department and completed her musical education in National Park Seminary at Washington. She has been a teacher of music in Keyser and is active in music circles. The only son of Doctor and Mrs. Stayman is Joseph Webster Jr., born in 1915 and one daughter, Martha Shelley, born in 1921. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:06:54 -0600 From: Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <991207100654.6d73@RAVEN.CCC.CC.KS.US> Subject: Revised List of Deceased Soldiers of the World War P. 39 Revised List of Deceased Soldiers of the World War Domestic Deaths-Continued Died of Diseases and Other Causes Page 39 Phillips, Alvia E Pvt Oct 2-18 Pneumonia Cain 381 Co Tank Corps Plymale, Ernest Pvt Oct 5-18 Broncho pneumonia Prichard Hq Det 17 Bn Inf Repl Poling, Delbert D Pvt Nov 19-18 Pneumonia St. George Co E 71 Inf Postle, Merton M Major Oct 15-18 Disease Ceredo (blank) Power, Joseph R Pvt Oct 13-18 Lobar pneumonia Levels Texas Students Tng Cp Sec B A & M College Price, Carrington M Pvt Jan 24-18 Intestinal obstruction Glen Co H 30 Inf Price, Hill C Pvt Jan 5-19 Broncho pneumonia Crawley 57 Sq Spruce Production Div Price, Raymond W Pvt Oct 10-18 Broncho pneumonia Bunker Hill Co C 31 F A Price, Alonzo L Corp Oct 20-17 Typhoid fever Bulger Co M 1 Inf Puckett, Jake E Pvt Oct 25-18 Pleurisy Farmdale Vet Hosp 17 Puffenbarger, Andrew E Pvt Oct 8-18 Broncho pneumonia Freemansburg Hq Det 17 Bn Inf Repl Pullen, Joe W Pvt Jan 29-18 Diabetis mellitus Porter's Falls QMC Det Pultz, Marshall Pvt Sep 27-18 Pneumonia Romney Hq Det 17 Bn Inf Repl Pyles, Carl Pvt Oct 11-18 Broncho pneumonia New Martinsville Co C 8 Engrs Tng Regt Pyles, William B Pvt Feb 17-18 Lobar pneumonia Wick Btry F 314 F A Cas Det 155 Dep Brig Quinn, Lee R Sgt Jan 13-19 Airplane Accident Broomfield Flying Sch Det Carruthers Field Racey, Herman H Pvt Oct 3-18 Pneumonia Capon Springs Co I 9 Tng Bn Inf Repl Ralston, Doll H Pvt Oct 7-18 Meningitis Williamstown MD Base Hosp No. 143 Ramsey, James W Pvt Dec 23-18 Broncho pneumonia Clay Co D 150 Inf Rayborn, George W Sgt Jan 31-18 Drowning Springton Co D 43 Inf Reed, James E Pvt Oct 11-18 Lobar pneumonia Clay Students Tng Corp Sec B A & M College Tex Reed, Lloyd F Pvt Oct 8-18 Broncho pneumonia Flemington 21 Co 6 Bn 155 Dep Brig Reinhart, Thomas C Sgt Oct 14-18 Brocho pneumonia and influenza Shepherdstown 101 Ord Depot Rhodes, James H Pvt Oct 2-18 Influenza Vickers 154 Dep Brig Rice, James H Pvt Dec 3-17 Accidentally killed by falling tree Fairmont Co D 113 Ammn Train Richeson, John B Pvt Sep 30-18 Broncho pneumonia Sistersville Hq Det 17 Gn Inf Repl Richmond, Ellsworth R Pvt Sep 30-18 Pneumonia Dallas Hq Det 17 Gn Inf Repl Riggle, William A (blank) Feb 23-18 Lobar pneumonia Dallas Btry A 64 Arty CAC Riggleman, Elbert Cook Oct 16-18 Broncho pneumonia Blue Springs Co E 14 Bn Inf Repl Risor, Walter Pvt Oct 11-19 Pneumonia Cameron Co B 1 Tng Bn Cp Forrest Rittenhouse, Owen 2nd Lt Jan 19-18 Disease Parkersburg (blank) Roach, Homer C Pvt Oct 4-18 Broncho pneumonia Forest Hill Co D 11 Am Tn Roberts, Lyda B Pvt Oct 1-18 Broncho pneumonia and influenza Mannington Co B 301 Water Tank Tn Robey, Russell W Pvt May 13-17 Spinal meningitis Fairmont Co G 1 Inf WVNG Robinson, Robert W Pvt Apr 15-18 Suicide Sherrard Btry A 64 CAC Robinson, Fernando A 2nd Lt Aug 16-19 Accident Clarksburg (blank) Robinson, Clarence Pvt Oct 29-18 Acute lobar pneumonia Progress MD Base Hosp 123 Robinson, Howard Leslie Pvt Oct 8-18 Influenza and lobar pneumonia Worthington MD Base Hosp Cp Mills Robrecht, Henry M, Jr. Pvt Oct 6-18 Influenza and broncho pneumonia Wheeling Co B 8 Engrs Regt Rodebaugh, Charles R Pvt Oct 5-18 Influenza Boggs Cas Co No. 1 Tank Corps Cp Dix Rodgers, Howard I Pvt Oct 12-18 Broncho pneumonia Triadelphia 19 Co 154 Dep Brig Rogers, Okey E Pvt Jan 28-18 Empyema Fonzo Ord Det 314 F A Rohrbaugh, Otis F Pvt Oct 6-18 Pneumonia Jordan Run Base Hosp 138 Rockstool, Robert S Pvt Sep 28-18 Pneumonia Blaker Mills Hq Det 17 Bn Inf Repl Ross, Harry Pvt Sep 19-17 Accidental gunshot wound Uler MG Co 22 Inf ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:40:00 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.b7435686.257ee6c0@aol.com> Subject: BIO: BRAND, Clyde-Monongalia Co., 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 99 + 100 Clyde Brand, a progressive young business man of Morgantown, the judicial center and metropolis of Monongalia County, was born in this county August 15, 1880, and is a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families. His paternal great-grandfather Brand settled in this county in the early pioneer days, and here was born the latter's son, James Elliott Brand, who was here reared to manhood and who married Susan Rice. John J. Brand, son of James Elliott and Susan (Rice) Brand, was born in this county on the 1st of September, 1854, and he became a successful school teacher when a young man. He also learned the carpenter's trade, and for five years he followed his trade at Fairmont, Marion County. For the ensuing five years he there operated a planing mill. He then, in 1898, returned to Monongalia County, where he continued his activities as a carpenter and builder until about 1918, since which time he has here lived retired. His first wife, whose maiden name was Mary A. Barbe, died in 1892. Clyde Brand, son of John J. and Mary (Barbe) Brand, gained his early education in the public schools of Fairmont, and there he initiated his independent career by securing employment in a bottling works. In 1900 he established his residence at Morgantown, where for a time he was identified with the real estate business. He next gave his attention to learning the plumber's trade, and to broaden his practical experience in the same he later worked at his trade in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Some time after his return to Morgantown he formed a partnership with J. H. Kennedy, under the title of Kennedy & Brand, but a year later, in 1904, he established himself independently in business. His ability and progressiveness have resulted in his building up a most successful enterprise, and he is now at the head of a leading plumbing, gasfitting, and steam and hot-water heating business in this section of West Virginia. He is loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, is an active member of the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club, is a director of the Union Savings & Trust Company, he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church, and his fraternal affiliations are here briefly noted: Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Chapter No. 30, Royal Arch Masons; Morgantown Commandery No. 18, Knights Templars; Lodge of Perfection No. 1 West Virginia Sovereign Consistory of the Scottish Rite; Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling; and Athens Lodge, Knights of Pythias. April 22, 1903, recorded the marriage of Mr. Brand with Flora Gertrude Niell, daughter of A. M. Niell, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they have two children: Richard Clyde, born June 14, 1907; and Dorothy Virginia, born December 19, 1909.