WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 164 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Washington Waters Stonestreet [Joan Wyatt ] #2 BIO: Harry S. Sands- Fairmont, 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, 22 Dec 1999 06:48:16 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3860BA7C.683DF9A@uakron.edu> Subject: BIO: Washington Waters Stonestreet, M.D.- 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 Page 179 Washington Waters Stonestreet, M.D. I there is one thing more than another that native Americans admire in each other is courage, both physical and moral, and this element stands out in considering the interesting career of one of Morgantown's most valued citizen's. Dr Washington Waters Stonestreet, who has been established in medical practice in this city for thirteen years. Starting out alone and unaided in boyhood to make his own way in unfamiliar surroundings, for years subordinating his natural inclinations to the call of necessity, but finally seizing opportunity, pressing onward and succeeding in his life's ambition, Doctor Stonestreet's career offers an example of perseverance, courage and determination that carries with it a message that surely should hearten and encourage many another. Doctor Stonestreet is of pronounced American ancestry. He was born at Rockville, the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, October 19, 1876, a son of the late Thomas Wilson and Anna Helena Dorothea (Treadwell) Stonestreet. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Thomas Stonestreet, was a clerk of the Montgomery County Courts for over fifty years. His father was a graduate of the University of Virginia and of West Point Military Academy, served in the war between the states with the rank of captain, and afterward engaged in the practice of law at Rockville. The mother of Doctor Stonestreet was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and was a daughter of Oliver Wetmore and Helena (Krama) Treadwell, both of whom were born at New Haven, Connecticut. The maternal ancestors came to America from Holland. During early boyhood Doctor Stonestreet attended school at Rockville, where his people were prominent socially. The aims and ambitions of fourteen-year-old boys are not always recognized by their parents, and this was the case when Washington W, Stonestreet quietly slipped away from home and shortly afterward found himself in the great City of New York and entirely dependent upon his own efforts. Perhaps reality may have somewhat dampened his ardor for independence right at first, but he lost no time in securing employment, accepting a position as clerk in a store, with a wage of $3 a week and board. That he proved efficient and reliable is evidenced by the fact that before he was seventeen years old he had become manager of the store. In 1893 the youth returned home for a short visit, and then established himself as a merchant at Middlebrook, Maryland, where he continued until 1902. From early boyhood he had cherished the ambition to become a physician and surgeon, and during his merchandising years had never relinquished it, diligently furthering his education by private study and managing to secure a course in Rockville Academy, receiving the degree of A.B. By the time he was able to enter medical college he had a capital of $2,000, representing his own earnings. He then entered the University of Maryland at Baltimore, from which he was graduated with his degree of M.D. in the class of 1906, the end for which he had worked so hard for sixteen years, Doctor Stonestreet immediately entered into medical practice, locating first in the village of Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, removing in 1908 to Morgantown, West Virginia, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice and enjoys both professional and personal confidence and esteem. On August 14,1907, Doctor Stonestreet married Miss Ola Summit Traunty, who was born in the city of Baltimore and is a daughter of Henry G. and Emma (Underwood) Trauty, and a niece of Hon. Oscar Underwood, United Sataes senator from Alabama. Doctor and Mrs. Stonestreet have one daughter, Ouida Emma, who was born May 18, 1910. On April 18, 1918, Doctor Stonestreet was commissioned first lieutenant in the medical section, Officers Reserve Corps, United States Army, and on May 3, 1918, entered upon his duties at Fort Oglethorpe, Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, taking special courses in sanitary work in preparation for the same. Later he was appointed sanitary inspector at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, where he had 1,000,000 prospective soldiers for the World war under supervision, and continued his work there until December 4, 1918, when with thirty-eight other medical officers of that camp, he was honorably discharged and mustered out of the service. During the whole period of the World war he was active in patriotic endeavor and assisted in many other ways than professional. He is identified with local medical bodies and is a member of the American Medical Association, and on many questions relating to civic health his decisions have been invaluable. He is president of the National Woodmen of America Progressive League, and of the Auxiliary Order of Royal Neighbors, and is examining physician for both, is foreman of the local lodge of the American Brotherhood of Yeomen and its examing physician, and also is President and examining physician of the order of Fraternal Aid Union. In the every-day life of a busy city physician there is comparatively little leisure for many of the lighter occupations and sports seemingly so necessary to bring contentment into the lives of many individuals, but Doctor Stonestreet believes in moderate relaxation and has a wide circle of warm and appreciative friends. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:50:22 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3860D71C.ABAE3212@uakron.edu> Subject: BIO: Harry S. Sands- Fairmont, 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 180 Harry S.Sands One of the best filled professionals today is electrical engineering, due to the enormous development of applied electricity to nearly every phase of life and industry. Thirty years ago, however, the ranks of electrical engineers hardly sufficed to be considered a distinct profession. Harry S. Sands, of Wheeling, proprietor of the Sands Electrical and Manufacturing Company, is one of the veterans of the profession and has been an electrical contractor and engineer at Wheeling nearly thirty years. He was born at Fairmont, West Virginia, August 3, 1867, and his family has long been prominent in banking and the professional life of the state. His grandfather, Dr. William Sands, was a noted physician of his time, who spent his life at Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. He was born at Annapolis in 1804 and died in Baltimore in 1879. His son, Joseph E. Sands, was born on a farm near Annapolis in 1838, spent his early life there and in Baltimore, and as a young man moved to Fairmont, West Virginia. He had extensive farming interests in that locality, and was also a banker, president for many years of the First National Bank at Fairmont. He died in Fairmont in 1913. He was independent in politics, and one of the foremost laymen of the Episcopal Church at Fairmont, serving as vestryman throughout the period of his residence there. He was also a member of the Masonic Order.Joseph E. Sands married Virginia Eyster at Fairmont, where she was born in 1838. She still lives on the old homestead farm near Fairmont. Her father, Dr. George Eyster, devoted the greater part of his life to the practice of medicine at Fairmont. The children of Joseph E. Sands and wife were: Lawrence E., who is president of the First National Bank of Pittsburgh; Sprigg, who was president of the Traders National Bank of Clarksburg, where he died at the age of forty years; Mrs. Lula Vandervort, who died in 1901, at Fairmont, where her husband, also deceased, was assistant cashier of the First National Bank; Harry S.; Oliver J., president of the American National Bank of Richmond, Virginia; Dr. William H., who under the strain of his excessive professional duties during the influenza epidemic lost control of his automobile and in the resulting accident was killed at Fairmont; Emily, wife of W.T.Hartman, a retired wholesale grocer at Fairmont; Anna, wife of H.W. Showalter, a prominent coal operator in the Morgantown District and a resident of Fairmont. Harry S. Sands attended the public schools at Fairmont, also the State Normal School there, and received his professional and technical training in Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. He was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa Greek letter fraternity. After his university career he returned to Fairmont and for several years was engaged in installing mining machinery throughout that section. In 1894 he removed to Wheeling, where he established himself in business as an electrical engineer under the name Sands Electrical & Manufacturing Company This is not only one of the oldest but one of the most extensive firms of its kind in the state, and does a business throughout the Upper Ohio Valley. Mr. Sands is also president of the Carle Electrical Construction Company of Akron, Ohio, is vice president of the Engineering & Equipment Company of Wheeling, and is vice president and treasure of the Penn Mold & Manufacturing Company, a company manufacturing ingot molds in their factory at Dover, Ohio. He is a member of the executive committee of the Security Trust Company of Wheeling. Mr. Sands owns a town home at 209 South Front Street and a suburban residence in Brooke County, West Virginia. Another property, constituting something of a derversion from his profession, is a large stock farm in Ohio County, the specialty of which is the breeding of Holstein cattle. Mr. Sands is an independent in politics and has served as a member of the Wheeling City Council. He is a vestryman of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Country Club and the University Club of Wheeling. In 1892, at Baltimore, he married Miss Helen Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Turner.