WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 163 Today's Topics: #1 Bio- Christian Steinmetz- Wheeling [Joan Wyatt ] #2 Bio- Franklin Marion Brand- Monong [Joan Wyatt ] #3 Bio- Cyrus Haymond Maxwell, M.D. M [Joan Wyatt ] #4 Bio- I.M. Austin, D.O. Monongalia, [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: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:35:27 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <385D79CC.6ADE6B9B@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- Christian Steinmetz- Wheeling, 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 Page 177 Christian Steinmetz Proprietor of the Steinmetz paper box manufactory in the city of Wheeling, was born in the town of Oestrich, on the Rhine, Germany, December 27, 1843, and is today one of the veteran business men and honored and influential citizens of Wheeling, in which city he established his home in 1868. He is a son of Christian and Sophia (Steinmetz) Steinmetz, both of whom passed their entire lives in Germany, the father having died when the subject of this sketch was a child and the mother having passed the closing years of her life at Frankfort-on Main. He whose name introduces this sketch was the only child of his parents and gained his early education in the parochial schools of his native town. At Frankfort-on-Main he learned the trades of book-binding and paper-box making, to which he continued to devote his attention in his native land until 1866, when he came to the United States and settled in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Later, he entered the employ of English & Osgood, book-binders in the City of Pittsburgh, that state, where he remained until 1868, when he came to Wheeling and here engaged in the manufacturing of paper boxes for the Wheeling Hinge Company. From this modest inception he has labored earnestly and effectively in the developing and building of the substantial manufacturing enterprise of which he is now the owner. His former factory was at 1221 Main Street, and November 19,1919, he removed to the modern factory plant which he erected and equipped for the purpose at the corner of Twenty-fifth and Woods streets, the building being four stories in height and 66 by 87 feet in dimensions. The mechanical facilities and all accessories of the plant are of the most approved modern type, and the output includes not only paper boxes in endless varieties but also various types of wooden boxes, including cigar boxes. The products are sold throughout the trade territory normally tributary to Wheeling for a radius of 100 miles, and in the factory is retained a force on an average of from 75 to 100 employees, many of whom are skilled mechanics. Mr. Steinmetz continued as the active executive head of this prosperous industrial enterprise until January, 1920, when he turned the business over to the control of his three sons and one daughter.He is a director of the Citizens Trust Company, is a stockholder in the Wheeling Steel Corporation and various local enterprises, and is one of the capitalists of the city that has long represented his home and had the stage of his constructive activities here. His residence is at 2134 Chapline Street. He is affiliated with the Knights of St. George of America, in which he is a director, and is an earnest communicant of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. In 1870 Mr. Steinmetz wedded Miss Amelia Walter, and she died at Wheeling at the age of twenty-eight years. Agnes, younger of the two children of this union, died at the age of one year; George F., the elder, is one of the owners of the business founded and developed by his father. In 1877 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Steinmetz to Miss Bernadine Schafer, who was born in Germany, in 1855, and whose death occurred in 1914, she having been a young women when she came from her native land to the United States and became a resident of Wheeling. Of the children of this second marriage the eldest is Sophia, who is the wife of George P. Erb, of Wheeling. Clement A. and Lawrence C. are associated with their elder brother in the Steinmetz box-manufacturing business, which is a closed company, all stock being owned by members of the family only. Mr. Steinmetz was far advanced in his foresight of the possibilities that the Wheeling District held, and from time to time invested in many industries that have helped make Wheeling one of the prominent manufacturing cities of this county. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:25:29 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <385D9397.FAC5E0EC@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- Franklin Marion Brand- Monongalia County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit he History of West Virginia, Old and New Published in 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume 11 Page 177 Franklin Marion Brand Member of one of Monongalia's oldest and most honored families, Franklin Marion Brand has on the score of his individual initiative and abilities gained a high place at the Morgantown bar and as a man of affairs in that community. Brand is of the older family names in Virginia. The first ancestor of whom there is definite information was John Brand, who married Joyce McCray. Their son, James Brand, was born October 5, 1788, and married Elizabeth Wade. One of their older sons was Hosea Moore Brand, who was born April 3, 1828, near Laurel Point in Monongalia County. He died June 27,1904. On October 14,1852, he married Emaratta Weaver, daughter of Jacob Weaver. One of their children was James Clark Brand, who was born in Cass District of Monongalia County, September 16, 1853. Like most of his family he followed farming and as a stock raiser was one of the first to introduce Hereford cattle into this section of the state. In 1877 he married Mary Alice Fleming. Her father, John T. Fleming, was sheriff of Monongalia County prior to the Civil war. Franklin Marion Brand was the second in a family of eight children and was born on his fathers farm in Cass District, March 13, 1880. When he was a boy his father moved to Grant District in 1885, and he grew up on the farm there. He made excellent use of his advantages in the Sugar Grove School, and in the fall of 1899, at the age of nineteen, he took the examination and was granted a No. 1 certificate, though he had no experience as a teacher. He then taught in his home district, and in the spring of 1900 entered West Virginia University, where he was a student in the classical and law schools for seven years. He earned a large share of his expenses while in university, partly by canvassing during summer vacations and also teaching. He graduated A.B. with the class of 1906 and LL. B. in 1907. He won five different prizes in scholarship while in university, had the highest average in Greek and mathematics in 1902, and in 1906 represented the Parthenon Literary Society in joint debate with the Columbian Society. After graduating in law he accepted the position of principal of the Smithfield School in Pennsylvania, and on November 2, 1907, was admitted to the bar at Morgantown. He began practice April 1, 1908, and shortly afterward was chosen assistant prosecuting attorney, serving four years. During the fall of 1912 he taught criminal law in the West Virginia University. In 1913-14 he was employed in the legal department of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company in their New York City office. At this writing (1922) he is divorce commissioner of Monongalia County. With his increasing responsibilities as a lawyer he has responded to other calls upon his time and ability in the public welfare. In 1918 he was elected to the West Virginia Legislature, and during the regular session of 1919 was ranking member and acting chairman of the committee on public buildings and humane institutions, and was a member of the committee on Virginia debt, counties districts and municipal corporations, insurance and forfeited and unappropriated lands. Mr. Brand was chosen in 1920 as mayor of Westover, the west side of Morgantown, and filled that office until February 1, 1921. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4,A.F. and A.M., Monongalia Lodge No. 10, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, also with the Encampment, and the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is a prominent member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, was commander of the local Chapter, and is now secretary of the association organized for the purpose of purchasing a Chapter House for the fraternity at the university. November 10,1910, Mr. Brand married Myrtle Ptella Core, member of one of the prominent old families of Monongalia County and daughter of Benjamin and Catherine Core. They had three children: James Core, born May 3, 1913; Mary Kathern, born July 12, 1915; and Freda Louise, born July 4, 1919. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:36:46 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <385DA44A.ABF2464E@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- Cyrus Haymond Maxwell, M.D. Monongalia, 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., Page 178 Cyrus Haymond Maxwell, M.D. Distinguished as a physician, Dr. Cryus Haymond Maxwell occupies a prominent place among the medical men of Morgantown, where for twenty years he has devoted his high attainments to the accomplishment of work that has brought him widespread recognition and numerous honors. His professional achievements are based upon an intimate knowledge of the intricate subjects of human anatomy and scientific therapeutics. Doctor Maxwell was born March 22, 1863, at St. George, Tucker County, Virginia, his birth occurring only a short time before what is now West Virginia, including Tucker County, withdrew from the mother state of Virginia. He is the son of Rufus and Sarah Jane (Bonnifield) Maxwell, and in the direct descent from Thomas Maxwell, who married Jane Lewis, of near Germantown, Pennsylvania. After the death of her husband Jane Maxwell and her six children, accompanied by her parents, came to Harrison County, West Virginia, then Virginia. Levi Maxwell, son of Thomas and Jane Maxwell, was born in Pennsylvania in 1788, and died in West Virginia in 1884. He married Sarah Haymond. Their son, Rufus Maxwell, was born at Weston, West Virginia, October 19,1828, and died in Tucker County in 1908. Educated for the law, he practiced his profession until the breaking out of the war between the states, but after the close of that conflict devoted himself to the pursuits of agriculture. He married Sarah Jane Bonnifield, who was born at St. George, West Virginia, the daughter of Dr. Arnold Bonnifield, one of the earliest physicians west of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia. Dr. Cyrus Haymond Maxwell attended school in Weston, West Virginia, Valparaiso, Indiana and Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, and was graduated of Doctor of Medicine, class of 1898 from Gross Medical School, the medical department of Rocky Mountain University. Prior to taking his medical degree he taught school in West Virginia, Oregon, California and Arkansas. He practiced medicine for four years at Aurora, West Virginia, prior to locating at Morgantown in 1902. From that year until 1920 he served as chief of the medical department of the Morgantown and Kingwood Railway, and since that road was taken over by the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, in 1920, Doctor Maxwell has served as surgeon of the B.&O. system. He is physician on the staff of the Morgantown City Hospital, is an ex-president of the Monongalia Medical Society, of which he has been for a number of years secretary, a post which he occupies at this time, and belongs also to the West Virginia Medical Society, of which he is one of the councilors. He keeps thoroughly informed concerning all that modern research, experiment and investigation are bringing to light bearing upon the practice of medicine and surgery. A well-trained and discerning mind enables him to grasp readily the vital and salient points presented, not only in medical literature but in the discussion of the broad questions which involve the welfare and progress of the individual and country at large. In 1887 Doctor Maxwell married Miss Melvina Jane Adams, who was born at Limestone, Tucker County, West Virginia, the daughter of George W. Adams. Doctor and Mrs. Maxwell have had the following children: Hugh Thurman, born in 1889, who died aged 1 1/2 years; Ruth, born in 1891; Paul born in 1894; Ralph, born in 1898; Cyrus Jr., born in 1899 and a child born in 1900, who died in infancy. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:14:26 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <385DBB2C.F9A488B@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- I.M. Austin, D.O. Monongalia, 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 Page 178 I.M. Austin, D.O. A school of medical science that has gained many enthusiastic adherents in West Virginia in the last decade is osteopathy, a scientific system of healing that has proven marvelous successful in the hands of skilled practitioners. One of these is found in Dr. I.M. Austin, who enjoys a large and lucrative practice at Morgantown, where he is respected and esteemed both professionally and personally. Doctor Austin is a descendant of solid families of Monongalia County, and was born on his fathers farm in Clinton District, March 26, 1882. His parents were I.N. and Samantha A. (Chipps) Austin, both now deceased. The Austin family was established in Monongalia County by the great-grandfather of Doctor Austin in pioneer days. His son, Hugh Austin, was one of the representative men of the county. He manufactured the first brick in this county, and operated a brick yard on the present site of the West Virginia University. With $600 earned in the brick business, he purchased 600 acres of land in the Clinton District, Momongalia County, cleared it and put it under cultivation and spent the rest of his term there. He was a fine, up-standing citizen in all that the term implies. In his religious views he was a Methodist and liberally supported the local Methodist Episcopal Church, and was equally consistant in political life, his convictions leading him into the republican party on its organization. When the war between the states came on he saw four of his stalwart sons leave home to serve as soldiers in the Union Army, and did not restrain them because he believed in the perpetuation of the Union. Two of these brave sons never returned alive, but their sacred ashes rest in the old cemetery at Halleck, brought there by their sorrowing father from the trenches at Gettysburg and the river at Wheeling. The eldest of the four, Harrison Austin, was so seriously wounded during the first day of battle at Gettysburg that he died on the day following. David Austin did not fall in battle, but was accidentally drowned while bathing with his soldier comrades near Wheeling. Henry Austin, the third son, was wounded at Gettysburg and afterward suffered and incarceration in the prison pen at Andersonville, Georgia. When finally exchanged he weighed less than ninety pounds, caused by mal-nutrition. After the close of the war he moved to Coats, Pratt County, Kansas, where he still resides, a substantial farmer and at present assessor of Pratt County. The fourth son, John Austin, served all through the war, escaping both wounds and capture. He then removed to Indianola, Iowa, where his death occurred in 1912. I.N. Austin, son of Hugh and father of Doctor Austin, was born on the old Austin homestead April 11, 1849, and spent his entire life there as a farmer, dying February 19, 1921. Like his father he was a man of fine parts, hospitable and generous, substantial and reliable in every situation in life, a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a conscientious republican in politics. He married Miss Samantha A. Chipps, who was born on the old Chipps farm in Clinton District, Monongalia County, November 29,1849, and survived her husband but a few months, passing away April 23, 1921. She was the daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Frum) Chipps, both of pioneer families of the county. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Austin: Gertrude Gwynn, who is deceased; Hugh F., who is a merchant at Morgantown; Harry N., who is a farmer near Little Falls, West Virginia; I.M.; and Blake who tenderly cared for her parents in their declining years and still resides on the homestead. Doctor Austin remained on the home farm until twenty years old, and in the meanwhile completing the public-school course, and the accepted a clerical position in the store of G.W. John & Company at Morantown, where he continued for nine years following, retiring from the same in 1900 in order to enter the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, for which he had done preparatory studying, for it is necessary for physicians of this school to be well grounded in all the various fundamental sciences which go to make up a medical education. Doctor Austin completed the course at Kirksville and in June, 1913, received his degree of Doctor of Osteopathy, and in the same year entered into practice at Morgantwon, where his professional ability has received generous recognition and where he fells particularly at home, for his fellow citizens have known him almost his whole life. On October 13, 1910, Doctor Austin married Miss Gussie F. Powell, who is a daughter of Dr. M.T. Powell, a practicing physician at Newburg, West Virginia, and surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company. Doctor and Mrs. Austin have two sons: George M., born August 26, 1912: and Richard W., born November 25, 1920. At the same time as Doctor Austin, Mrs. Austin entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, and continued a student there for two years. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his political views Doctor Austin is a republican and intelligently concerned in public affairs. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and aside from his profession has business interests in this city, being president of the Morgantown Laundry Company, of which he was one of the organizers, and owns considerable city realty. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association and the West Virginia State Osteopathic Association, and fraternally is identified with the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.