West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 19 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Peyton Randolph HARRISON, Ber [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990919021449.00fe7540@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Peyton Randolph HARRISON, Berkeley County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 242-243 Berkeley County PEYTON RANDOLPH HARRISON bears a historic name, is a member of the third successive generation of that name, and for many years has been an active and prominent citi- zen and business man of Martinsburg. He was born in that city. His father, Peyton Randolph Harrison, was born at Clifton on the James River, and his grandfather, Rev. Peyton Randolph Harrison, was born at Brandon on the same river and represented the distin- guished Harrison family of that state. Rev. Mr. Harrison was a Presbyterian minister, and at an early time was iden- tified with the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Martinsburg. He finally removed to Baltimore, where he spent his last years retired, dying at the age of eighty-one. He married a daughter of Judge Carr, of Virginia. Their children were: Mrs. William Hoge; Mrs. Lyle Turnbull; Mary, who became the wife of Maj. Robert W. Hunter; William Wirt; Peyton Randolph; and Henry Tucker. Peyton Randolph Harrison, II, graduated from the law department of Princeton University and achieved a very suc- cessful practice at Martinsburg. He was appointed to de- liver the oration at the 4th of July celebration at Martins- burg in 1860. Immediately before the outbreak of the war between the states he entered the Confederate Army, with the commission of lieutenant, and he and two of his cousins were killed in the first battle of Manassas. He married Sarah Forrest Hunter, a native of Martinsburg and daugh- ter of Edmund Pendleton and Martha Crawford (Abell) Hunter. Edmund Pendleton Hunter was a native of Mar- tinsburg, an attorney by profession, and died of cholera in early life. He was a grand master of Virginia Masonry before the state was divided, and was one of the first emi- nent grand commanders of Knights Templars in West Vir- ginia. In that capacity he laid the cornerstone of the old Reformed Church at Martinsbnrg. Later, when this church was burned down, his grandson, the present Peyton Ran- dolph Harrison, as grand master officiated at the corner- stone laying. E. P. Hunter's wife was born near Elkwood in Jefferson County. Sarah F. Harrison is still living, at the age of eighty-eight. She became the mother of the fol- lowing children: Jane Cary, wife of Rev. Edward D. Washburn; Edmund P.; Peyton Randolph. Peyton Randolph Harrison, III, was educated in a pri- vate school taught by John Sellers, a Scotchman, and fin- ished his military and technical education in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, where he specialized in civil engineering. On returning to Martinsburg he took up a business career, and since 1888 has been prominent in the insurance and bonding field. He represents gome of the standard companies of fire, life, accident and liability insur- ance. His influence and capital have been identified with a number of commercial enterprises. He helped organ- ize and is principal owner of the Expert Apple Company, being secretary, treasurer and general manager of this cor- poration. Soon after his college career Mr. Harrison was chosen a magistrate. In 1896 he was candidate for re-election, but suffered defeat with the republican landslide of that year. Subsequently he was appointed by the County Court, and served two and a half years. In 1912 he was elected mayor, serving two years, and in 1916 was again chosen the city's chief executive. In 1913 he was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue, with office in the Federal Building at Martinsburg, and he held that post until June 30, 1921, when the office was abolished. In the meantime he had col- lected for the Government a sum totalling $1,450,000. Mr. Harrison is commissioner in chancery for the Circuit Court, and several cases have been referred to him from the Fed- eral Court. He has been twice married. His first wife was Lillian Gorham, a native of Rockford, Illinois, and daughter of Marquis L. and Helen (Meade) Gorham. She died in 1890, leaving a daughter, Lillian, who is the wife of Forrest A. Brown, only son of Forrest W. Brown, of Charles Town, and they have three children, Sarah Forrest, Forrest Wash- ington and Peyton Randolph Brown. For his second wife Mr. Harrison married a daughter of E. Holmes and Lily (Dandridge) Boyd, of Winchester. The two children of this marriage are Peyton Randolph and Ann Spotswood. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Judge Harrison is affiliated with Equality Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Lebanon Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Palestine Commandery No. 2, K. T., of which he is a past eminent commander, and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 02:15:31 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990919021531.00fefec0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Col. Edmund P. HUNTER, Berkeley County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 243 Berkeley County COL. EDMUND PENDLETON HUNTER. The Hunter family has been identified with the important history of the coun- try around Martinsburg for a century and a half. Its members intermarried with another historic family of this region, the Harrisons, as noted in another article. This sketch reviews briefly the well-known older members of the family, Col. David Hunter and Col. E. P. Hunter. Col. David Hunter was born at York, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1761, and was a child when his parents settled in what is now Berkeley County, Virginia. Their home was estab- lished about two miles north of Martinsburg, on what is now known as the Williams Port Pike. The Hunter estate there became known as the Red House Farm. Upon the organization of Berkeley County the first court convened at the Hunter home. David Hunter attended a school in a log building situated near the corner of Queen and Burke streets in Martinsburg. About 1778 ho went to England, and was abroad some three years. After his return to this country he married Elizabeth Pendleton, descended from one of the first settlers of what is now Berkeley County. Her father, Philip Pendleton, was born near the present site of Martinsburg in 1752, was an eminent lawyer and was pres- ent at the organization of Berkeley County in 1772. Philip Pendleton married Agnes Patterson. Col. David Hunter throughout his long life was deeply interested in all the affairs and progress of his home locality, and he was elected and served as clerk of the County Court from 1803 until his death in 1829. Col. Edmund Pendleton Hunter, son of David and Eliza- beth (Pendleton) Hunter, was born in 1809, acquired an education at Jefferson College and was admitted to the bar in Berkeley County in 1831. He became owner and editor of the Martinsburg Gazette. He had many interest- ing associations with public men of his day. He attended thp Young Men's Convention in Washington, where he heard Henry Clay speak, and ever afterward was an ardent sup- porter of that great Kentuckian. Colonel Hunter succeeded General Boyd as commonwealth's attorney for Berkeley County, and he served in the Virginia House of Delegates during 1834-35 and 1839-41. During the war between the states he commanded the Sixty-seventh Regiment of Vir- ginia Volunteers. He rose to the highest honors in the Ma- sonic fraternity in his state, and was a member of the Episcopal Church. On August 2, 1832, Edmund Pendleton Hunter married Martha C. Abell, daughter of John and Sarah (Forrest) Abell. She was born in Jefferson County, and her parents came from St. Mary's County, Maryland. Colonel Hunter and wife reared seven children, named: Sarah, Maj. Rob- ert W., Elizabeth J., David, John Abell, Martha C. and Mary Louisa. The daughter Sarah was the wife of Peyton Harrison, who is elsewhere referred to. The son David was killed at the battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. Martha C. became the wife of Harry Riddle and Mary Louisa mar- ried John H. Doll. Miss Elizabeth Hunter for several years taught a private school in Martinsburg. She and her widowed sister, Mrs. Mary Louisa Doll, now occupy the old home on East King Street, near the Public Square. Elizabeth Hunter is a mem- ber of the Episcopal Church and the Daughters of the Con- federacy. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:39:25 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <507abcb2.2516418d@aol.com> Subject: BIO Philip C. RUSSELL, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia W.S. Laidley 1911 p. 830-831 PHILIP C. RUSSELL, city sergeant at Charleston, W. Va., a well known citizen and popular official, was born at Wellsburg. W.Va.. May 2, 1849, and is a son of Edward and Eliza (Lourey) Russell, and a grandson of Philip Russell. Grandfather Philip Russell was horn in Ire-land and when he emigrated in early manhood located at Baltimore. Md., where he married Maria Coleman, who was also of Irish ancestry. All their children were horn there, the family subsequently removing to Steubenville, 0., and a few years later to Wellsburg, W. Va., this being ahout 1847. Both Philip Russell and wife died there, he having lived out his three score and ten years and she reaching the age of ninety years. She was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Of their ten children, four grew to maturity but all have now passed away Edward Russell was born in 1826, at Balti-more, Md., and died at Charleston in 1854. In early manhood he served in the United States navy during the Mexican War, and then returned to Wellsburg, now W. Va., where he later embarked in a grocery business. In 1854 he came to Charleston and started the first confectionery store in the place but his death occurred one month later. His widow continued the business for seven years and at present the site is one of the best business locations on Kanawha street. Edward Russell was married at Wellsburg to Eliza Lourey, who was born January 20, 1828, at Milton, Pa., and who died at Clendenin, Kanawha county, May 17, 1879. They had three children, namely: Philip C.; Walter S., who was born March 28, 1851, died June 8, i88i (married Cassie McQueen, of Nicholas county and is survived by two chil-dren-William and Lillian); and Anna M., who was born September 15, 1852, and is the wife of Thomas Simms, who is in the jewelry business at Clay Court House, Clay county, Va. Philip C. Russell was five years old when his parents came to Charleston. The death of his father was a very great grief and loss to the family, and resulted in the children not receiving the educational advantages that they would otherwise have had. As soon as old enough he learned the carpent~r's trade, and then served an apprenticeship of three years in the car shops of the Panhandle railroad, at Steubenville, 0. Later Mr. Russell made his main business the building of houses and continued to work as house carpenter for some years and subsequently became engaged in the sawmill business in which he remained until 1900. Five years earlier he had been elected assessor of the Upper district of Kanawha county and served for four years. From 1889 until 1907 he was also interested in newspaper work and in the latter year was appointed, under civil service rules, as city sergeant of Charleston, by Mayor Holley. He has proved a very capable and ef-ficient official and has worked hard for the good of the service Formerly Mr. Russell was a Republican, but later identified himself with the Democratic party In 1876 Mr. Russell was married to Miss Sophia James, a daughter of Samuel and a granddaughter of Jesse James. Samuel James lived in Big Sandy district where he died, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have had three children: John K., who was born June 6, 1877; Virgil, who was born in i88i, and died at the age of twenty five years; and Sybil, who resides at home. Mrs. Russell and daughter are members of the Bowman Methodist Episcopal church. Sergeant Russell has never united with any fraternal organizations. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:45:12 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO William R. MORRIS, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia W.S. Laidley 1911 p. 831 WILLIAM R. MORRIS, superintendent of mines for the Queen Shoal Coal Company and general manager of their mercantile store at Queen Shoals, Clay county, W. Va., was born July 18, 1872, at Clifton, W. Va., and is a son of James Dickinson and Agnes L. (Haymaker) Morris. James Dickinson Morris was horn sixty-nine years ago at Hanley, W. Va., and now lives at Pratt. He was sixteen years old when he enlisted for service in the Civil War. He served four years in Co. I, 8th Va. Vol. Cavalry, and after being mustered out of the army, became a blacksmith, and still does considerable work of that kind. He moved to Clifton ahout 1870 and has resided there continuously since then. He has been a lifelong Democrat. He married Agnes L.' Haymaker, who was born in Botetourt county, Va., and who is a daughter of Michael Haymaker, who was a shoemaker by trade. The Morris family came originally from Kentucky. Of the surviving children of James D. Morris and wife, William R. is the eldest, the others being: Oscar L., who is connected with the railroad at Thurmond, W. Va.; Eugene H., who is bookkeeper for a coal com-pany in Kanawba county; and Henry E., who is a clerk with Armour & Co., at Louisville, Ky. The father of the ahove family has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Clifton, for the past twenty-five years. William R. Morris attended school at Clifton and afterward was a clerk for his uncle, W. S. Haymaker, for five years. He then followed the carpenter's trade for two years. In 1891 he went with the Coal Valley Mining Company in the capacity of clerk and book-keeper and remained for six years. For the following five years he was with the Beury Coal and Coke Company; for one and one-half years was buyer for the firm of Carver Bros, Montgomery, W. Va.; for three years was with the Wacomab Coal Company; and for two years was with the Paint Creek Colliery Com-pany, after which he came to the Queen Shoals Coal Company, and occupies a responsible p~ Sition with this corporation. In politics he is an active Prohibitionist. For two years he was also postmaster at Queen Shoals. Mr. Morris married Miss Edna Hughes, who was born in Fayette county, W. Va., a daughter of Ellis Hughes, who was horn in Wales, and emigrated to America prior to his marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have two chil-dren: James, aged ten years, and Agnes, aged six years. The family attends the First Presby-terian church at Charleston. Mr. Morris belongs to the Khights of Pythias, Uniform Rank, at Montgomery, W. Va. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:35:26 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <5461a10d.25164eae@aol.com> Subject: NARROW ESCAPE OF WILLIAM CARROLL, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Kanawha County George W. Atkinson 1876 p. 122-123 NARROW ESCAPE OF WILLIAM CARROLL The Carrolls came to Kanawba shortly after the Morrises, and settled in the same neighborhood. William Carroll located four miles below the mouth of Kelly's creek, cleared several acres of bottom land, and built a small round-log cabin on the bank of the river. In the spring of 1789, Mr. Carroll, while on his way to the village of Charleston, or Clendennin's settlement, as it was called at that time, was surprised by a body of Indians, who were concealed in the paw-paw bushes near the roadside. He discovered their presence before they had an opportunity to fire, and leaped from his horse. As he was dismounting two of the Indians fired upon him, and the balls from both rifles took effect in the horse, killing it instantly. Carroll ran, with all possible speed towards the river, which was fully three hundred yards distant, and the Indians were in close pursuit. The bottom was covered with large trees, which prevented the Indians from shooting him as they ran. He reached the river, perhaps a hundred yards in advance of his pursuers, and being a good swimmer, leaped into the stream, and struck out for the opposite shore. He evaded the shots from the rifles of the savages by diving every few moments, until he reached the other side. After getting on land he ran along the bank of the river to the Paint creek settlement, a distance ef about ten miles, and thus made his escape. The Indians went to his house, plundered it, set it on fire, killed his milch cow, and left the settlement. Fortunately Mr. Carroll had taken the precaution to send his family to the Kelly's creek fort the morning he left for Charleston, so that none of them were harmed by the savages. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:41:10 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38c986aa.25165006@aol.com> Subject: HIST Massacre of the Wheelers, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Kanawha County George W. Atkinson 1876 p. 123 MASSACRE OF THE WHEELERS. John Wheeler and family came to the Kanawha Valley about 1790 or '91, and remained for a year or two at the Kelly's creek settlement. He decided to move further westward, and accordingly came down the Val-ley to a point a short distance below where Col. William Dickinson now resides, fourteen miles above Charleston, where he bailt a log cabin and cleared a field of grdund. The summer passed without disturbance, but the fall brought with it a band of lurking Indians, who did much damage to all of the frontier settlements. One night, as Wheeler and his family were sitting in the yard roasting chestnuts in a fire, which was blazing brightly, they were fired upon by Indians, and all were killed but one, "Nat," who ran into the darkness and made his escape to the Kelly's creek fort. The Indians scalped all their victims-husband, wife and three children and piled their bodies in the cabin, which they then burned to ashes. When the hunters came down the next day, they found nothing but the charred remains of five unrecognizable bodies, piled in a heap. They buried them in an extemporized grave, and returned to the settlement, which they closely guarded during the remainder of the year. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:41:22 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990919104122.010051d0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Perry Emerson BURT, Wayne County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 243-244 Wayne County PERRY EMERSON BURT. Integrity of purpose, uprightness of dealing, soundness of principle and a keen sense of busi- ness values are qualities which all go towards developing the substantial men of affairs. No man reaches a pros- perous material condition without striving towards some desired end, but he must have something back of the ambi- tion to succeed in order to attain his object. Natural and acquired qualities that are rooted in a foundation of deep- laid principles are absolutely necessary, and it is fortunate for business conditions that so many men have possessed these characteristics. Among the men of Wayne County who through the possession of these qualities have reached positions of prominence and at the same time have con- tributed to the stability of business conditions is Perry Emerson Burt, manager of the Saks Stamping Company of Westmoreland, West Virginia. Mr. Burt was born at West Lafayette, Ohio, December 16, 1866, a son of James Bradner and Margaret Jane (Beall) Burt. His grandfather, Hon. James Madison Burt, was born in 1810, at Warwick, New York, and became a pioneer of Coshocton and that vicinity of Ohio, where he engaged in agricultural operations. He enlisted for service in the Black Hawk Indian war, and was a prominent demo- crat of his locality, serving as county judge of Coshocton County, as state senator and as justice of the peace. He married Mary Ann Bradner, who was born in Orange County, New York, and died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Judge Burt died full of years and honors at Newcomerstown, Ohio, in 1893. James Bradner Burt, father of Perry Emerson Burt, was born April 4, 1837, at Coshocton, Ohio, where he was reared and married, but later made his home at West Lafayette. He was an extensive and successful agriculturist, and a man who was held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens, who elected him to a number of local offices, in which his record was a splendid one. In politics he was a democrat, and as a churchman he was a life-long member of the Baptist faith, in which he died at West Lafayette in February, 1907. Mr. Burt married Miss Margaret Jane Beall, who was born March 16, 1847, near Coshocton, Ohio, and still survives him as a resident of West Lafayette. They became the parents of four children: Perry Emerson; Mary, the wife of Dr. Jesse McClain, a well-known practicing physician and surgeon of Coshocton; Jennie, who is unmarried and a teacher in the kindergarten department of the public schools at Detroit, Michigan; and James Roe, of Westmoreland, West Virginia, formerly associated with his brother in business, but now engaged alone in mercantile pursuits. Perry Emerson Burt attended the public schools of West Lafayette, following which he pursued a course at Gran- ville (Ohio) Academy. He then entered Denison University, Granville, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and during his college career was admitted to membership in the Phi Gamma Delta Greek letter fraternity. For two years thereafter Mr. Burt taught in the Burlington Institute College, Burlington, Iowa, and then took a course at the University of Chicago Post-Graduate School, specializing in English history for one year. He was then retained as principal of the high school at Cambridge, Ohio, for five years, but school work affected his health and he was advised by his physician to seek some other vocation. Accordingly, after a year's rest he bought an interest in the enameling works at West Lafayette, and was manager of this plant until 1916. In the meanwhile he had founded the Ohio Valley Enameling Company at Westmoreland, West Virginia, in 1914, and in 1916 came to this plant and acted as its sole owner and operator until 1920, when he sold out to the American Druggists Syndicate, although retaining the position of manager. At the time of the sale the name was changed to the Saks Stamping Com- pany. In the large brick plant situated on Vernon Street, Westmoreland, along the right-of-way of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the company manufactures enameled sheet steel hospital goods, which are shipped all over the United States and into Cuba, Europe and South America. Mr. Burt's business success has been marked, and that he has gained position and prosperity is all the more creditable in that his earlier inclinations and training had all been along professional lines. His standing as a man of sound integrity and probity has never been questioned, and among his associates he is held in the utmost confidence. Politically Mr. Burt has never sought honors at the hands of any party or his fellow-citizens, and is inclined to be independent in view and action, although where all other considerations are equal he supports the candidates and principles of the democratic party. He is a consistent member of the Baptist Church, in which he serves as deacon. His pleasant modern residence is situated at 2850 Piedmont Court, in a desirable residence section of Westmoreland. In June, 1895, at Zanesville, Ohio, Mr. Burt was united in marriage with Miss Anna Linnard McCann, a daughter of John and Mary (Miles) McCann, both of whom are now deceased. Mr. McCann was a retail dealer in hats at Zanesville and a man of substance and worth. Mrs. Burt is a woman of numerous graces and accomplishments and a graduate of Denison University, class of 1895. She and her liusband are the parents of four children: Frederick McCann, born July 25, 1896, now a merchant of Hunting- ton, who during the recent war was identified with the avia- tion branch of the United States service, stationed at Boston, Massachusetts, and at the time of the signing of the armistice was all ready to go overseas for bombing service. He married in September, 1917, Eleanor McGugin, of Ravenswood, West Virginia, and they have one daughter, Carolyn Ann. Margaret Miles is a senior at Denison Uni- versity. Marian Bradner is a student in the same institu- tion, in the sophomore class. 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