WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest				Volume 99 : Issue 168

Today's Topics:
  #1 Bio:Frank Emory Furbee, Mannington   [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #2 BIO:Clarence Watkins McCutcheon, M   [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #3 BIO:Howard M. Martin, Masontown, P   [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #4 BIO:Russell L. Furbee, Fairmont, M   [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #5 BIO:Ivan Davis, Kingwood, Preston    [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #6 BIO:Herschel Layman Satterfield, D   [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #7 BIO:Louis Black, West University S   [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #8 BIO:Thomas D. Craig, Kingwood, Pre   [PTyler107@aol.com]
  #9 BIO:William Jefferson Snee, Morgan   [PTyler107@aol.com]
 #10 BIO:Paul G. Armstrong, Fairmont, M   [PTyler107@aol.com]
 #11 BIO:Martin Luther Brown, Fairmont,   [PTyler107@aol.com]
 #12 BIO:Edward Clifford Jones, Fairmon   [PTyler107@aol.com]

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 124

    Frank Emory Furbee has been actively associated with the business life of 
Mannington for over three decades, is head of the very prosperous 
establishment known as the H. R. & F. E. Furbee, extensive dealers in Men's 
and women's apparel and is also president of the Furbee Furniture Company, 
and through his substantial resources and influence he has contributed to the 
upbuilding of the little city, especially in its educational institutions.
    This is one of the oldest American families in West Virginia, and in all 
the generations the name has stood for progress and advancement. The Furbees 
are of English descent. Benjamin Furbee was born in 1693, on the Delaware - 
Maryland Peninsula. His son was named Bowers. Caleb, a son of Bowers, and the 
ancestor of the West Virginia branch of the family, was born at Kent, 
Delaware, November 22, 1752. As a young man he enlisted with the Delaware 
troops to serve the cause of independence in May 1775. He was promoted to 
lieutenant in 1776, and in May 1777, was in command of a detachment of troops 
in Captain Caldwell's company under Colonel Pope. Among other battles he was 
at Brandywine in 1777, and continued with the patriot armies until 
independence was achieved. 
    Caleb Furbee about 1790, with his wife, Sarah and four sons, Waitman, 
John, George, and Caleb, came to what is now West Virginia, settled near 
Morgantown, made large purchases of land on Paw Paw Creek, now in Marion 
County, and lived in the midst of and participated in the development of that 
section for years, but spent his last days in Tyler County, where the life of 
this Revolutionary patriot came to its close on April 16, 1837.
    Three generations intervene between him and the Mannington merchant first 
named above. George Furbee, son of Caleb, was born in Delaware, spent his 
active life as a farmer and stock-raiser on Paw Paw Creek, and died in 1844. 
In 1796 he married Elizabeth Prichard. Their children were James and 
Elizabeth, the latter marrying Jeremiah Beatty.
    James Furbee is the most prominent name associated with the early history 
of Mannington. He was born in the Paw Paw Creek district, and after some 
years as a farmer there he bought 800 acres, including the site of the City 
of Mannington. He founded the town, opened its first store, and guided his 
personal interests to the welfare of the community ever afterward. For many 
years he was a leading stock dealer. James Furbee in 1823 married Mary Ann 
Lindsay, daughter of Lindsay and Nellie (Janes) Boggess.
    Their son was the late Hon. James Hilary Furbee, who was born at 
Basnettsville, Marion County, October 18, 1827. He found his interesting 
duties in connection with his father's early enterprises at Mannington, and 
upon completion of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad through that town in 1852 he 
was appointed station agent. These were his official duties until 1862, when 
he was appointed United States revenue collector. Soon after the outbreak of 
the Civil war he had raised a company for state service, became its captain, 
and was with the command in repelling threatened invasions from the South.
    James H. Furbee in 1878 was elected a member of the West Virginia 
Legislature, and in 1880 was chosen to a seat in the State Senate. However, 
on account of a technicality, he was not seated. In 1886 he was again elected 
by a large majority, and was also elected in 1892. Perhaps his most useful 
service in the Senate was rendered the cause of state education. That was his 
dominating public motive. He was chairman of the committee on education in 
the Senate. hardly less important was the twenty years he served as president 
of the Board of Education of Mannington District. During this period his work 
contributed largely to the establishment of the free school system, and 
introduced something more than nominal standards for the management and 
conduct of the local schools. His long devotion to church culminated in his 
election as a lay delegate to the General Conference of 1900. 
    James H. Furbee, whose life of usefulness closed on November 9, 1899, 
married on October 7, 1855, Sarah J. McCoy, of Tyler County. Her 
grandparents, john and Esther (McCarty) McCoy, came from North of Ireland in 
1801, settling first in the Shenandoah Valley and subsequently removing to 
Middlebourne, Tyler County. Their son, James McCoy, married in Tyler County, 
Jane Martin, and they were the parents of Sarah J. Furbee, who survived her 
husband, passing away July 12, 1921.
    This brings this interesting family narrative down to Frank Emory Furbee, 
who was born at Mannington, October 11, 1867. Both at home and in school he 
was well trained for the responsibilities that awaited him. After the public 
schools he attended the Fairmont State Normal School, and in 1890 graduated 
from Duff's Business College of Pittsburgh. he forthwith entered his father's 
business, known as J. H. Furbee & Sons, dealers in clothing, shoes, and 
furnishings at Mannington. Since 1896 this prosperous business has continued 
under the title of H. R. & F. E. Furbee. Mr. F. E. Furbee in 1910 became 
associated with the organization of the Furbee Furniture Company.
    Mr. Furbee succeeds to the responsibilities so long held by his father as 
a guiding hand in the educational affairs of Mannington. He was chosen 
president of the Board of Education in July, 1919. He is a Knight Templar, 
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner,an Elk, and Modern 
Woodman, and is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club.
    October 1, 1899, Mr. Furbee married Virginia H. Hagadorn. She is of New 
England ancestry, and was born at Troy, New York, daughter of Charles H. and 
Charlotte Hagadorn, of Bennington, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Furbee have two 
children: Robert Dater, born November 10, 1906, and Martha Virginia, born 
March 11, 1912.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 125

    Clarence Watkins McCutcheon, a civil and mining engineer of marked 
ability, is the executive head of the McCutcheon Engineering Company at 
Morgantown, Monongalia County, and is a young man who has to his credit a 
fine record of practical achievement in his profession.
    Mr. Mccutcheon was born at Winona, Fayette County, West Virginia, on the 
27th of January, 1896, and is a son of John Floyd McCutcheon and Mary L. 
(Hagerman) McCutcheon, both of whom were born in Pulaski County, Virginia. 
Perry McCutcheon, paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 
likewise was a native of the Old Dominion commonwealth, the family lineage 
tracing back to stanch Scotch origin and the original American progenitors 
having settled in Virginia in the Colonial periodof our national history. 
John Hagerman, the maternal grandfather of him whose name introduces this 
review, was one of five brothers who emigrated from their native Germany to 
the United States, four of the brothers settling in Western Maryland and 
establishing the settlement that eventually was developed into the present 
City of Hagerman, which perpetuates the family name. John, the youngest of 
the five brothers, settled in Virginia, and there he married Sarah Watkins 
Weigal.
    John Floyd McCutcheon was born in 1862, and his death occurred in 1898. 
He was actively engaged in mercantile business in West Virginia until within 
a few years of his death. His widow is now a resident of Morgantown and 
Clarence W. , of this sketch is their only child.
    Clarence W. McCutcheon was about two years of age at the time of his 
father's death, and was about five years old when he accompanied his widowed 
mother on her removal from his native City of Winona to Richwood, Nicholas 
County, where he was afforded the advantages of the public schools, the 
discipline of which he later extended by about one year of study at 
Morris-Harvey College near Huntington, this state. He then entered Marshall 
College at Huntington, where he continued a student about one year, 
principally in high-school work, which likewise he had pursued in 
Morris-Harvey College. In 1911 he was graduated from the high school at 
Richwood, and thereafter he was for one year a student in the Concord Normala 
School of West Virginia. In 1914 he matriculated in the University of West 
Virginia at Morgantown, in which he was graduated December 18, 1917, he 
having been, however a member of the class of 1918 and having thus returned 
to the university to receive in that year his degree of Bachelor of Science 
and Civil Engineer.
    On New Year's day of 1919 Mr. McCutcheon began practical service

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 128

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 125-126

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 126

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 130

    Louis Black, director of the West Virginia University School of Music, 
has a reputation not short of national for his musical gifts and attainments. 
For a number of years he has been a tenor solist in choir work and on the 
concert stage, doing that in connection with his teaching.

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Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
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Published 1923, the American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 126-127