WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 157 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: BERNARD, Nathaniel, D.D.S.-Mo [PJSTON@aol.com] #2 BIO: HOTT, David, A.B., M.D.-Monon [PJSTON@aol.com] #3 BIO: MARCHAND, Donald Kirk-Mononga [PJSTON@aol.com] #4 BIO: ADAMS, David Edward-Monongali [PJSTON@aol.com] #5 Bio: James H. McGrew- Morgantown, [Joan Wyatt ] #6 Re: Surname Simonis ["Robert Crosley" Subject: BIO: BERNARD, Nathaniel, D.D.S.-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 197 Nathaniel Barnard, D. D. S., who is successfully established in the practice of his profession at Morgantown, Monongalia County, is a native of Maryland and a scion of sterling pioneer families in both that state and Pennsylvania, the Barnards being of Scotch ancestry and the Spear family lineage tracing back to Irish origin. Nathaniel Barnard, Sr., father of the Doctor, was born and reared in Maryland, became a miller by vocation and owned and operated the Moscow Mills at Moscow, that state. Subsequently he moved to Westernport, Maryland, where he remained until his death. His wife, who likewise is deceased, bore the maiden name of Nancy Ellen Spear and was a representative of a family early founded in Pennsylvania. Doctor Barnard was born at Westernport, Maryland, March 2, 1884, and in 1903 he was graduated from the high school, after which he took a course in the Sta te Business College at Cumberland, Maryland. After three years of service as a bookkeeper he took a literary or academic course in the Davis and Elkins College at Elkins, West Virginia, and in 1913 he was graduated in the department of dentistry of the University of Maryland. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery he entered active practice at Elkins, West Virginia, where he remained thus engaged until he entered the service of the nation in connection with the World war. In August, 1917, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Dental Corps of the United States Army and assigned to the Eighteenth Division, then stationed at Camp Lee, Virginia. When this division was ordered overseas the Doctor was transferred to the One Hundred and Third Field Artillery, with which he was in active service in France one year, within which he was promoted to the rank of captain. Soon after the signing of the armistice further distinction came to him in his promotion to the office of major in the Dental Corps. Upon his return to the United States he was ordered to Fort Sheridan, whence he was transferred to the Maxsillo Facial Department at Jefferson Barracks, where he remained until he received his honorable discharge, he having been mustered out July 1, 1920. He returned to Elkins, West Virginia, but shortly afterward removed to Morgantown, where he has a well equipped office and is engaged actively in the work of his profession. The Doctor is a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Kiwanis Club of Morgantown. Doctor Barnard married Miss Winnifred Martha Gross, daughter of Cecil Gross, a representative lumberman at Elkins, this state, and they have a winsome little daughter, Nancy Gray. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:16:16 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.57f20a4b.25899760@aol.com> Subject: BIO: HOTT, David, A.B., M.D.-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 195 David Hott, A. B., M. D., who is established in the practice of his profession at Morgantown, Monongalia County, is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native state and a scion of the third generation of the Hott family in West Virginia, his grandfather, Jacob Hott, of French-Huguenot lineage, having settled in Berkeley County, this state, long before West Virginia had been segregated from the mother state of Virginia. David Hott, Sr., father of the Doctor, was born in Berkeley County in 1831, and his wife, whose maiden name was Rachel Hancher, was born in the same county in 1834, she having been of Irish ancestry. David Hott continued his activities as a farmer in his native county until he purchased and removed to a farm in Frederick County, just across the line from his old farm in Berkeley County. There he continued as one of the substantial exponents of farm industry until his death in 1916. His widow passed away in 1919. Doctor Hott was born on the old homestead farm in Berkeley County, November 21, 1873, and was reared in Frederick County, to which the family removal was made when he was two years old. After his well directed public-school training he entered the University of West Virginia, and in this institution he was graduated in 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1902 he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, and in the same year he engaged in the active general practice of his profession at Morgantown, which city has since continued the stage of his effective professional service, save for the period during which he was a member of the Medical Corps of the United States Army at the time of the World war. He entered the medical cops in October, 1917, and was first stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, whence he was later transferred to Fort Hamilton, New York, where he remained until he crossed to France with the Fifty-ninth Regiment of Coast Artillery. With this command he embarked March 27, 1918, and after landing at Brest, France, the regiment proceeded to Villiers-sur-Mare, and saw its first active fighting in the St. Mihiel sector. Thereafter it was in service in the great Argonne Forest campaign, proceeded up the River Meuse, and was at Romain when the historic armistice was signed. Upon the return voyage Doctor Hott landed in the port of New York City, February 15, 1919, and two weeks later he received his honorable discharge, with the rank of captain, his commission as captain having been received when he entered service. He is now a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, with the rank of major. After the close of his patriotic service Doctor Hott returned to Morgantown, where he has since continued his active professional work, in which his success attests alike his ability and his personal popularity. He is a member of the Monongalia County Medical Society, West Virginia State Medical Society, Southern Medical Society, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Doctor Hott married Miss Alene Vance, daughter of George and Mary (Scott) Vance, of Morgantown. Their one child, George David, was graduated in the Morgantown High School, and is a member of the class of 1923 in the University of West Virginia. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:28:24 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.71a7c34f.25899a38@aol.com> Subject: BIO: MARCHAND, Donald Kirk-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 198 Donald Kirk Marchand, vice president of the Morgantown Real Estate Board, took up railroad work after he completed his education, but a few years later resigned and entered real estate and insurance, a field in which his abilities have brought him pronounced success. Mr. Marchand, who is one of the most progressive citizens of Morgantown, was born at Manor in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1885, son of Samuel R. and Elizabeth (Branthoover) Marchand. His father was of French and his mother of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Samuel R. Marchand moved with his family to Connellsville, Pennsylvania, in 1891. His active career was spent in the drug business, and he was a druggist at Connellsville until his death in 1899. His wife was born in 1867 and died in 1919. They had two children, both now living at Morgantown, Miss Garnett and Donald K. Donald K. Marchand grew up at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and after graduating from the high school there in 1903 entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company as an assistant ticket agent. In 1906 he was promoted to ticket agent for that line at Morgantown, and continued his duties until 1909, when he entered the insurance and real estate business. He built up a large volume of business in both lines and continued alone until February 1, 1920, when he was joined by Alva L. Hartley, making the firm Marchand & Hartley. This firm writes fire, life and every other class of insurance, handles city and suburban real estate and coal lands, and they have excellent facilities for thorough service in all these departments. Mr. Marchand takes a deep interest in all the civic affairs of his community. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club in addition to his official relation with the Real Estate Board. Fraternally he is affiliated with Athens Lodge No. 36, Knights of Pythias, and Morgantown Lodge No. 411, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Marchand married Edna Wall, daughter of J. L. Wall of Morgantown. At her death she was survived by two daughters, Rosalee and Dorothy. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:36:37 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.4be25cd2.25899c25@aol.com> Subject: BIO: ADAMS, David Edward-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 199 David Edward Adams is an expert sanitary engineer, but in recent years a broad range of business responsibilities have engaged his service as an able executive. He is general manager of B. M. Chaplin & Company, general contractors, and is connected with several other corporations. Mr. Adams, whose home has been at Morgantown and who grew up at Parkersburg, was born at Newark, Ohio, December 9, 1891, son of Charles E. and Josephine W. (Allen) Adams. His grandfather, John Adams was of a Quaker family. Charles E. Adams was born at Barnesville, Ohio, and has been connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway for over forty years. Since 1903 he has been train dispatcher at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Josephine W. Allen was born at Newark, Ohio, daughter of Judge David Allen of the Federal Court. David E. Adams was reared in Newark until he was about nine years of age, then lived for two years with a family at Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1903 accompanied them to Parkersburg. He had a public school education, spending three years in the Parkersburg High School, and in 1909 graduated from the Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineering degrees from Ohio State University with the class of 1915. Mr. Adams paid his own way through university, and while at the Ohio State did research work in sewerage and sewage disposal for two years in the employ of the City of Columbus. He continued that work for one year after graduating. For two years he was sanitary engineer for the Ohio State Board of Health. Mr. Adams located at Morgantown in 1917. He entered the service of B. M. Chaplin & Company as secretary and chief engineer, but since then has taken the larger responsibilities of general manager and secretary. He has been since its organization a stockholder in the Chaplin Colliers Company, was also its purchasing agent one year and since then a director. He was one of the organizers and has since been president and treasurer of the Riverside Lumber Company and is general manager of the Maxwell Coal Company, an operating corporation. His financial interests extend to several other enterprises. Mr. Adams is a popular member of Morgantown Lodge No. 411, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belongs to the Sigma Psi, , honorary college fraternity, the Kiwanis Club, and the First Presbyterian Church. On August 3, 1915, he married Miss Flora Tucker, who was born at Glenville, West Virginia, daughter of Robert C. and Frances (Smith) Tucker. Her father was a Confederate soldier in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have a daughter, Ruth Lee, born February 7 1918. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:24:24 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38584D53.576C073D@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio: James H. McGrew- Morgantown, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume 11 pg. 173 James H. McGrew- Morgantown James H. McGrew, cashier of the Bank of Monongahela Valley and who is recognized as one of the able bankers and progressive citizens of the City of Morgantown and of that part of the State of West Virginia, has been identified with this institution since 1891. During the more than thirty years that have passed he has not only worked his way to a substantial position with this concern, but has likewise been a prominent factor in the development of some of Morgantown's leading enterprises, and has also contributed materially to its civic progress and welfare. Mr. McGrew was born at Morgantown, October 31, 1873, a son of William Clark and Julia E. (Willey) McGrew, and is descended from an old Scotch family which has been in America since prior to the War of the American Revolution and in West Virginia (then old Virginia) for over a century and a quarter. The American ancestors of this branch of the McGrew family came from Scotland in Colonial days and settled first in Virginia, removing thence to Pennsylvania. Patrick McGrew, son of the original immigrant, was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and in 1786 came to Preston County, now in West Virginia, settling near what is now Brandonville. His son, Col. James McGrew, was born in Preston County, where he spent practically his entire life. He commanded a regiment of Virginia Militia during War of 1812. Colonel McGrew married Isabella Clark, the daughter of James Clark, a native of Ireland, who became an early settler of Preston County. James Clark's first wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Ramsey, died in 1770, and he returned to Ireland, where, in 1773, he married Eleanor Kirkpatrick, and later came back to America. James Clark McGrew, son of Col. James and Isabella (Clark) McGrew, was born September 14,1813, near Brandonville. He began his business life at Kingwood, Preston County, as clerk in a general store, afterward becoming a successful merchant and prominent and influential man of his community. He was a delegate to the Virginia State Convention in 1861, in which body he vigorously opposed the ordinance of secession, and was one of the little band of about twenty men whose opposition to secession resulted ultimately in the erection of the new State of West Virginia. He served as a member of the house of Delegates of the first Legislature of West Virginia and later was elected a member of and served in the Forty-first and Forty-second sessions of the federal congress, but declined a renomination. He served as director of the West Virginia State Hospital for the Insane, and was one of the organizers and the first president of the National Bank of Kingwood, being likewise a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. McGrew was an earnest Methodist and was a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference held at London, England, in 1881. In that and the following year he traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa. In 1841 he married Persis Hagans, daughter of the Hon Harrison Hagans of Brandonville, West Virginia. Hon. William Clark McGrew, son of James Clark and Persis (Hagans) McGrew, was born at Kingwood, Preston County, April 21, 1842, and was educated in select schools and at Preston Academy. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Kingwood from 1862 to 1870, and in the latter year removed to Morgantown, where he made his home until 1919. He was for many years prominent in the affairs of this part of West Virginia, and was frequently honored by election to political positions. He served five full terms as mayor of the City of Morgantown, and in 1878 and 1882 was sent as senator from the Eleventh District to the State Legislature. He was frequently called upon to preside over the deliberations of that body, and served as a member of various important committees. In 1907 he was elected a member of the House of Delegates. He also was active in the building of the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railway, of which he was vice president and for fifteen years its agent at Morgantown; and was one of the organizers of the Economy Glass Company, and served as its treasure, vice president and president through a long term of years. In fact, Mr. McGrew was closely identified with about every phase of the civic and business advancement of Morgantown for many years, and probably no other man did more for the development of that part of West Virginia. In 1864 he was united in marriage with Julia E. Willey, daughter of Hon. Waitman T. and Elizabeth E. (Ray) Willey. Mr. Willey was the first man sent to the United States Senate from West Virginia. William Clark McGrew died in 1919. James H. McGrew was educated in the Morgantown public schools and at the University of West Virginia, and in 1891 entered the Bank of the Monongahela Valley as a clerk, having been continuously identified with that institution as boy and man for more than thirty years. He was made teller in 1893 and later promoted to assistant cashier, and in 1903 was elected to his present post of cashier. Mr. McGrew is president of the Monongahela Building Company, organized for the construction of the magnificent new home of the Bank of the Monongahela Valley, which is the largest and the only "sky-scraper" business block in this section of the state. He was one of the organizers and is vice president and treasure of the Monongahelia Building and Loan Association; was one of the organizers and is president of the Sesamine Coal Company; was one of the organizers and is treasure of the Chrisman Foundry Company; was one of the organizers and is treasure of the Liberty Investment Company; was one of the organizers and is president of the Morgantown Machinery and Supply Company; was one of the organizers and is treasure of the Dellslaw Coal Company; and is one of the owners of the Union Traction Company, the successor to the Smith Morgantown Traction Company. Mr. McGrew is reciever for the Monogalia County Circuit Court. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Morgantown Lodge No. 4, F and A.M., and the Morgantown Country Club, and is an old time member of the Old Colony Club of Everywhere. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:28:22 CST From: "Robert Crosley" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <19991216022822.63932.qmail@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Surname Simonis Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Thanks for this file but it will not open even with me gedcom....please could it be sent the other way to me....I am looking for the Simonis family of Cabin Creek in and around 1870's and 1880's Thanks Bob >From: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com >To: kojack12@hotmail.com >Subject: Surname Simonis > >he, your lame client cant read HTML, haha. > click attachment to see some stunningly HOT stuff ><< bboy.exe >> ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com