WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 158 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: BROWNFIELD, James Hustead, M. [PJSTON@aol.com] #2 BIO: BROWNFIELD, George Hustead, M [PJSTON@aol.com] #3 BIO: KURNER, David C.-Wheeling, WV [PJSTON@aol.com] #4 BIO: McFALL, Robert Raymond-Monong [PJSTON@aol.com] #5 Bio-Cephas Jacobs Morgantown, WV [Joan Wyatt ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from WV-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to WV-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the WV-FOOTSTEPS-D list administrator, send mail to WV-FOOTSTEPS-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:49:21 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.6b055edc.2589ad31@aol.com> Subject: BIO: BROWNFIELD, James Hustead, M.D.-Marion 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 + 198 James Hustead Brownfield, M. D., was a man whose professional and civic stewardship was of the finest type, and at the time of his death he was the dean of his profession in the City of Fairmont, Marion County, where his name and memory are held in lasting honor. He was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1836, and his death occurred January 19, 1921. Thomas Brownfield, a representative of one of the pioneer families of Western Pennsylvania, crossed the Alleghany Mountains and settled in Fayette County. One of his sons, Rev. William Brownfield, became a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman and was a contemporary of Rev. Alexander Campbell in effective Christian service in the State of Pennsylvania, Mr. Campbell having been founder of the Disciples or Christian Church. Another son, James, married Hannah Bowell, and among the children of this union was Judge John Brownfield who was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and who there became a successful merchant, besides which he served ten years, 1851-61, as associate judge of that county. Judge Brownfield married Belinda, daughter of John Hustead, and she died July 2, 1882, at the age of seventy-two years. They were the parents of the subject of this memoir, Dr. James H. Brownfield. In his native state the Doctor received the advantages of old Lewisburg College, now Bucknell University, and thereafter he read medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. H. B. Mathiot at Smithfield, Fayette County. Thereafter he took one course of lectures in historic old Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 1860 he established his residence at Fairmont, West Virginia. Here he was retained as a contract physician for a time, and when the Civil war began he tendered his services to the Union. He became assistant surgeon of the Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and served in this capacity until the close of the war. He then returned to Fairmont, and for many years thereafter he held inviolable place as the leading physician and surgeon in Marion County. The Doctor was one of the organizers of the West Virginia State Medical Society in 1867, and was a member also of the American Association of Railroad Surgeons and the American Public Health Association. He received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, was a member of the Mystic Shrine, and was a republican in politics. From 1867 to 1884 he was elected a representative in the State Legislature. In all the relations of life he was loyal, earnest and helpful, and he was held in affectionate esteem in the community which was long the stage of his labors. October 18, 1866, recorded the marriage of Doctor Brownfield and Miss Ann Elizabeth Fleming, daughter of Matthew Fleming, and her death occurred in 1903. Of the children the eldest is John M., a banker at Fairmont; Clark B. died in January 1909, leaving one son, James H. (II); Dr. George H. is the subject of a personal sketch following; and Arch F. is engaged in the jewelry business at Fairmont. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:49:14 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.1e99f7dd.2589ad2a@aol.com> Subject: BIO: BROWNFIELD, George Hustead, M.D.-Marion 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 George Hustead Brownfield, M. D., a representative physician and citizen of Fairmont, Marion County maintains his residence and office at the old homestead where he was born, on Main Street, his birth having occurred March 31, 1871. His father, the late Dr. James Hustead Brownfield, was long one of the leading physicians and surgeons at Fairmont. Doctor Brownfield gained his early education in the public schools of his native city, and thereafter was for four years a student in the University of West Virginia, where he passed two years in the literary department and two in the medical department. In 1898 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, and in the same year became surgeon for the Murray Mines, three in number in Marion County. He continued his professional service in this connection nine years, and in the meanwhile, in 1903, again became a resident of Fairmont, where he was associated in practice with his father until the latter's death and where he has since continued his substantial and representative general practice, his service as surgeon with the mining company having continued until 1907. He is now retained as physician and surgeon to two of the largest mines of the Consolidated Coal Company. He is a member of the Marion County and State Medical societies, the Southern Medical Association and the American Medical Association. His Masonic affiliations are with the Fairmont Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of the York Rite, and he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. He holds membership in the Fairmont Lodge of Elks and the Fairmont Country Club. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. The Doctor married Ida L., a daughter of Allison Bartlett, of Harrison County. They have no children. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:59:29 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.73a48ce1.2589af91@aol.com> Subject: BIO: KURNER, David C.-Wheeling, 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 + 200 David C. Kurner during his youth at Wheeling learned the painting and decorating trades, and for many years has been active head of a successful business and organization handling painting contracts and is also proprietor of a large and well stocked store handling wall paper, paints, oil and glass. Mr. Kurner was born in Wheeling, July 10, 1859. His father, John David Kurner, was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1832, came to the United States when a young man and settled at Wheeling, was a merchant, and in the course of years achieved an influential place in local business circles. He was a member of the State Militia during the Civil war. He was affiliated with the democratic party and a member of the Lutheran Church. His death occurred at Wheeling in 1891. His wife was Susanna E. Strobel, still living in Wheeling, where she was born in 1838. The children of John David Kurner and wife were: Veronica, now living at Akron, Ohio, widow of Philip Knabe, who was a nail manufacturer at Wheeling; David C., William, a painter and decorator who died at Wheeling at the age of fifty-five; Charles, a painter and decorator at Wheeling; John David, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Harry J., an advertiser at Wheeling; Archibald, who has never contracted the habit of settled residence; Nellie, whose husband, F. Slagle, is an investment broker in Texas; and Joseph, a painter and musician who died at Wheeling at the age of forty-eight. David C. Kurner attended school at Wheeling only to the age of thirteen, and then worked in various lines but served the apprenticeship that gave him an expert knowledge of painting, sign work and graining. He has used this useful mechanical trade as the basis of a permanent business career. In 1886 he established himself in business as a contractor and dealer in decorative materials, starting with a very small capital, and with his own labor, supplem ented by a few employees, and during the past thirty-five years has made his business one of the leading organizations of its kind in the state, with offices and store at 1518 Market Street, and he does both a wholesale and retail business in decorative materials as well as contracting for painting and decorating. He is sole proprietor of his business. Mr. Kurner had three sons in the World war, and was busy throughout that period in local war activities, being captain of teams in drives for the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other causes. A number of years ago he was a member of the Wheeling City Council, is a democrat, a member of the Catholic Church and the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce. In 1886, at Wheeling, Mr. Kurner married Miss Barbara Ebbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ebbert, now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Of the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kurner two died in infancy. The oldest of those living is John Raymond, who for fifteen years has been in the Regular Army service, is a member of the Marine Corps, and was with that famous organization in the war. David C., Jr., whose home is at Logansport, Indiana, was commissioned a captain in the war, was sent overseas to France and was in service there over a year. Robert J., the third son, is foreman for his father's business at Wheeling, and is married to Jaenetta Yeager. Clement O. was in the navy and was one of the 300 Americans who lost their lives when the U. S. S. Cyclops disappeared. Caritas is the wife of Wilbur L. Heinlein, a clerk with the Whitaker-Glessner Company at Wheeling. Miss Martha lives at home. Stella is the wife of Wm. A. Roth, a plumber. Paul J. is an automobile salesman at Wheeling and Ebbert is a student in the Cathedral High School. Mr. Kurner owns a modern residence at 77 Eighteenth Street, and in the course of his business career has acquired much other local real estate, including a house at 73 Eighteenth Street and one at 213 South York Street. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:59:36 EST From: PJSTON@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0.cae316e2.2589af98@aol.com> Subject: BIO: McFALL, Robert Raymond-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 200 Robert Raymond McFall, general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel Company of Mortgantown, has had an interesting diversity of experience in business and in educational circles, and since locating at Morgantown has found ample satisfaction not only for his business energies but for the desires for social and civic service. A native of Northern New York, he was born in the Village of Naumburg, Lewis County, January 29, 1884, son of John and Lillian A. (Eldred) McFall, the former a native of St. Lawrence County and the latter of Jefferson County, New York. His grandparents, William and Mary McFall, were born in Glasgow, Scotland, and were pioneers in St. Lawrence County, New York. John McFall was a carriage maker by trade, and occupation and business he followed for many years at Naumburg, where he died in 1918, at the age of sixty-four. His widow is now sixty-two years of age and lives at Castorland, New York. Robert R. McFall was educated in the Lowville, New York, Academy, and completed his literary education in Adrian College of Michigan. His first regular business experience was as shipping clerk for the Beaver River Lumber Company at Castorland, New York, in 1902. Following that he was paymaster for the Carthage Tissue Paper Mills at Carthage, New York. During his student career at Adrian, Michigan, he was secretary to the president of the college. On leaving college he spent one year at Valley City, North Dakota, as registrar of the State School of North Dakota. He then returned to Adrian, and for four years was registrar of Adrian College and secretary to the board of Trustees. Mr. McFall came to Morgantown in 1914. Here he built and managed the plant of the Barley Foods Company, conducting that business five years. Since 1919 he has been general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel Company. He is also secretary of the Morgantown Wholesale Coal Association and a director of the Union Bank and Trust Company. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity, belongs to the First Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with the Rotary, Masonic and Old Colony clubs, the Morgantown and Pittsburgh Chambers of Commerce. February 14, 1914, Mr. McFall married Miss Lucile Goucher. She was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of Samuel Boone and Anna (McConnell) Goucher. Her father was descended from the Daniel Boone family. Mr. and Mrs. McFall have two children: Anna Gene, born August 8, 1915; and J. S. Robert, born November 5, 1916. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:18:25 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38586808.ED49D76D@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio-Cephas Jacobs 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 Cephas Jacobs- Morgantown, WV Cephas Jacobs became a resident of West Virginia as now constited, in the year 1853, and was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Morgantown, Monongalia County, at the time of his death, on the 2d of February, 1903. He was born in Allegany County, Maryland, January 8, 1826, and was a descendant of Zachariah Jacobs, who immigrated from Wales to America in 1740, and who first made settlement in Connecticut. In 1760 he removed to New Jersey, and Colonial records show that his son Jacob Jacobs served as captain in the Patriotic Army in the War of the Revolution, in which he was with General Washington at Valley Forge. Gabriel, son of Capt. Jacob Jacobs, was born in New Jersey, July 7, 1781, and was a young man when he settled in Allegany County, Maryland, where he remained until his death, October 11, 1848. He married Margaret Jackson, who was born May 27, 1783, and died October 20, 1855. Cephas Jacobs, son of Gabriel and Margaret Jacobs, was reared on his fathers farm in Allegany County, Maryland, and from that state he came to West Virginia, then a part of Virginia, in 1853, and settled in Preston County, where he engaged in farming and where he built and operated grist and saw mills and a tannery. There he continued his residence until 1869, when he moved to a farm on the west side of Monongahela River in Grant District, Monongalia County, opposite the City of Morgantown. He there continued as one of the substantial exponents of farm indusrrrrrrrtry in the country until 1892, when he moved to Morgantown, in which city he passed the remainder of his life. He was one of the organizers and became president of the First National Building & Loan Association at Charlestown, this state, and was a director of the Second National Bank of Morgantown. He was a stanch republican, and he served two terms as justice of the peace in Grant District and one term as a member of the city council of Morgantown. He was affiliated with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his wife were zealous members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Morgantown. April 10, 1851, recorded the marriage of Cephas Jacobs with Margaret Ann Ravenscraft, daughter of Abner and Nancy (Corbus) Ravenscraft, of Maryland, and she survived him by nearly twelve years, her death having occured September 13 1914. Elmer Forrest Jacobs, son of Cephas and Margaret Ann Jacobs, was born on the home farm of his father on Bird's Creek, Preston County, this state, June 11,1866, and was three years old at the time of the family removal to Monongalia County, where he was reared to manhood, recieved the discipline of the public schools and finally entered the University of West Virginia, with the intention of preparing himself for the profession of civic engineering. But upon the advice of Col. T. Moore Jackson, then at the head of the School of Engineering, West Virginia University, Mr. Jacobs decided to take up architecture, Colonel Jackson having given him special insructions along this line. He was impatient at the delay in placing himself in a position to earn a salary, and on this account left the university and entered the office of J.L. Beatty, an architect in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He remained five years with Mr. Beatty and gained a thorough technical and practical training in the architectural art and science. In 1893 he assumed charge of designing and construction with the Pittsburgh firm of W.A. Hoeveller & Company, and later he became superintendant of construction for the Standard Sanitary Manufactoring Company of Pittsburgh. In the fall of 1894 Mr. Jacobs opened an office in Morgantown, where he now stands virtually at the head of his profession in this part of West Virginia, as well as being the oldest architect in point of experience and continous practice at Morgantown. Among many important buildings designed by and erected under the supervision of Mr. Jacobs are the Madeira (formely the Franklin) Hotel; Woodburn Hall and an addition to Science Hall, of the University of West Virginia; chapter houses of the Sigma Chi, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Alpha, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternities at the State University; Farmers and Merchants Bank; the old post office at Morgantown, which was the first fire-proof building in this section of the state and is now occupied by the Union Savings and Trust Company; the plant of the Seneca Glass Company; plant of the Union Stopper Company; Fourth Ward School building; First Methodist Protestant Church, Morgantown; First Methodist Episcopal Church, Mount Morris, Pennsylvania; and residences of George C. Baker, William Moorhead, J. H. Mc Dermott, J.C. McVicker, Francis Heermans, J.C. Frazier, and many others of the most modern type in Morgantown and vicinity. Mr. Jacobs is a member of the American Institute of Architects, his affiliation with that organization dating from May 24, 1902. He married Miss M. Ella Wood daughter of the late A.C. Wood, of Morgantown, and they have two children. Virginia is the wife of Allen Bowie, of Wheeling, this state, and they have one child, Mary Eleanor. David Wood Jacobs is at the time of this writing, in 1921, a student in the Morgantown High School.