West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 28 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Howard C. LANE, Ohio Co. WV [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990920055448.00ff82c0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Howard C. LANE, Ohio Co. 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. 259 Ohio County HOWARD C. LANE, of Wheeling, is a native of that city, is a dentist by profession and had an overseas experience during the World war. He was born at Wheeling September 4, 1889. His father, John Lane, was born in Marion County, West Virginia, in 1856, and was about ten years of age when he accom- panied his widowed mother to Ohio County, West Virginia. He was reared, educated and married there, and for a number of years was employed in one of the nail factories at Wheeling, served four years as jailer for Ohio County, and since 1896 has been in the service of 'the National Exchange Bank, being custodian of its vaults. He is a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. John Lane married Margaret Flynn. who was born in Marshall County, West Virginia, in 1858, Martin, the oldest of their children, is in the train service of the Pennsylvania Rail- road and lives at Wheeling. Howard C. is the second in age. Miss Marie is a teacher in the Webster School at Wheeling. Howard C. Lane acquired a public and parochial school education at Wheeling, finished his high school course at the age of seventeen and subsequently learned the profes- sion of prosthetic dentistry. Mr. Lane is unmarried. He is an independent in polities and for a number of years was a member of the Wheeling Board of Education. He is a Catholic and is affiliated with Carroll Council No. 504, Knights of Columbus, and Wheel- ing Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On June 24, 1918, he entered the United States service, having one month of duty at Camp Meade. Mary- land, and was sent overseas with Evacuation Hospital No. 16. He was stationed at Revigny, France, and was with the Army of Occupation in Germany at Coblenz until June, 1919. when he returned home with Evacuation Hospital No. 16 and was mustered out at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in August. 1919. He at once returned to Wheeling and resumed his professional work. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 05:55:53 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990920055553.00ff8180@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: W. P. SAMPLES, Taylor Co. 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. 259 W. P. SAMPLES has been an active member of the Graf- ton Bar since 1906. and his career both as a lawyer and citizen has exemplified all the qualities that insure success and esteem. Mr. Samples had become a resident of Grafton before beginning practice there. He was born at Mineral Point in Harrison County May 7. 1876. son of James W. Samples. His father was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, April 6. 1844. acquire a liberal education, being one of the first students in the West Virginia State University, and later graduated at Marshall College. His career was one long and steady devotion to educational work, and he was the oldest member of the teaching profession in Harrison County when he died in 1918. at the age of seventy-three. He married Elizabeth Virginia Morris, daughter of George Morris, a farmer at Grassland in Har- rison County. Mrs. James W. Samples, who survives her husband, was born in Harrison County, February 10, 1855. She became the mother of the following children: Manna- duke. of Salem, West Virginia; Heman S., of Norman, Oklahoma; Eve Lee. wife of Truman Coffman, of Salem; Guy E., at the old homestead in Harrison County: Gertrude S.. of Seattle, Washington; Mrs. Ocie M. Goodwin, who died at Dallas. Texas, February 20, 1916; Charles Roy, of Norman, Oklahoma; and Percey Hale, the youngest, who met a soldier's death October 14, 1918, in the Meuse sector on the Argonne front, and his body since being returned to this country lies in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Salem. William P. Samples was reared to manhood at Mineral Point, and the duties that gave him a sound physique were those provided by the farm. He attended the common schools, one term in the Fairmont State Normal, and about that time he became a volunteer in the Spanish-American war, enlisting at Fairmont in June, 1898, in Company A of the First West Virginia Infantry, under Captain Sabel and Colonel Spillman of Parkersburg. The regiment was in training at Chickamauga Park, Knoxville, Tennessee, and finally at Camp Conrad, Columbus, Georgia, where the troops were awaiting orders when the war closed. Mr. Samples was mustered out at Columbus February 4, 1899. He is a member of the United Spanish War Veterans-at- large at Washington. After leaving the army he continued his education as a student for two terms at Salem College and two terms in West Virginia University. He then returned home and spent some time as a clerk at Grafton. While in the uni- versity he passed his bar examinations and was admitted to the bar in September, 1906, and at once established his office at Grafton. He tried his first law suit here in the Circuit Court, and his qualifications early brought him a promising practice. His practice is general in both the State and Federal Courts, and he has been admitted on motion to practice at the Federal bar. Among other cases of importance Mr. Samples was one of the counsel asso- ciated with E. G. Smith and Stephen G. Jackson, of the law firm of Smith and Jackson of Clarksburg, for the Gentry Brothers Show Company, which sued the City of Grafton for damages resulting when one of the company's wagons fell off the bridge over Berkeley Creek. Mr. Samples and associates won their case and a judgment for $2460.00 for their clients. Mr. Samples was employed as general counsel for Isaac C. and William M. Ralph- snyder. claimants of the estate of Adolphus Armstrong. This litigation covered a period of ten years, finally settled by agreement between the heirs. Mr. Samples' clients ob- tained as their share fifty-two and two-ninths of the estate. An important factor contributing to this was the appoint- ment secured by Mr. Samples of William M. Ralphsnyder as administrator of the estate of Louisa Ann Armstrong of Monroe County, Ohio, said to have been the sole heir of Adolphus Armstrong. All attempts to remove Mr. Ralphsnyder from his post as administrator failed, and the larger part of the Adolphus estate finally reached the Ralphsnyders because of this. In 1918 Mr. Samples organized the Newlon Coal Com- pany, a partnership, for the purpose of producing Pitts- burgh coal at Simpson. West Virginia. In 1921 he organ- ized the Adelaide Coal Company, a corporation with a capital of $25.000 00. for the purpose of producing coal on the Galloway Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio at Astor. He is secretary and treasurer of both these companies. Mr. Samples is a member of the Taylor County and West Virginia Bar Associations. He is a past grand of Central Lodge No. 98. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a member of the Encampment and Rebekahs. and for three years was district deputy of the Fifth District. He is a member of Greenhill Methodist Protestant Church in Harrison County. At Grafton July 31, 1902, he married Miss Adelaide Wyckoff. a native of Rosemont. West Virginia, and daugh- ter of D. B. and Virginia (Bailey) Wyckoff. Mr. and Mrs. Samples have two children: William'W. and Virginia. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:06:15 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Lewis Lacy STUART, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J.R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 60 LEWIS LACY STUART Among the well known brokers in this part of the State and large farmers of Greenbrier comes the name of Lewis Lacy Stuart, one of the members of the Stuart family above mentioned. Mr. Stuart is a native of Lewisburg, W. Va., and was reared farmer. He is the son of Henry Stuart, born in Greenbrier county October 31, 1824, and Nannie Edmunds Watkins Stuart, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, August 24, 1842. They were married July 12, 1871, and were the parents of Joel Watkins Stuart, born June 15, 1872, and Lewis Lacy Stuart, born December 3, 1875. Lewis Lacy Stuart has followed farming on an extensive scale all his life. He came to Lewisburg in 1903, since which time his agencies of real estate property have also been on an extensive scale. On October 14, 1903, he was married to Margaret Lamb McClung, and from this union came one child, Lewis Lacy Stuart, Jr., born October 13, 1913. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:19:07 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: The PRICE Family, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J.R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 60-62 THE PRICE FAMILY The numerous Price relationships in Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, West Virginia, Giles and Botetourt counties, Virginia, claim descent from one Samuel Price, who emigrated from near Cardiff, Wales, about 1735 and landed in South Carolina, where some of the name had previously settled, and their descendants are numerous in the Carolinas and in southern Virginia. His wife was Margaret Calvert. They may have had more than three children; there is authentic record of but three boys, Samuel, Jacob and Thomas. About 1748 he moved to Virginia and settled in that portion of Botetourt that was afterwards called Greenbrier, near what is now known as Savannah, where Washington Price, a direct descendant of Samuel, now resides. Jacob Price, Sr., son of Samuel, Sr., was born in 1750 and married Wineford Tillery. They had nine children: James, John, Samuel, William, Jacob, Abraham, George, Isaac, Austin, Margaret Calvert. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, enlisting at Fincastle, Va., in 1776 and belonging to Capt. Thomas Posey's company and Col. Daniel Morgan's famous Seventh Virginia regiment, known as Morgan's Rifles. He was wounded in a skirmish with the British and was not able for active service thereafter. He was pensioned February 23, 1796, on account of his wounds. He resided in Greenbrier county, Virginia, until 1836, when he went to Piketon, Pike county, Ohio, to live with his son, Isaac Austin, where he died January 28, 1841. Jacob Price, Jr., was born November I, 1790, on the old Price place near Savannah, and married Mary B. Cox, of Pendleton county, October 22, 1816. They had eight children: Charles, Abraham. Addison, John Mason, Sarah, Margaret, Mary and Rebecca. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, enlisting in Capt. James Robinson's Greenbrier company, in Col. Dudley Evan's Second regiment, First brigade, Virginia militia, and was wounded at Fort Meigs. He was granted a pension by the United States Government, which he drew until the day of his death, in 1877 John Mason Price was born near Frankford, October 7, 1834; married Elizabeth Mary Erwin, who died in i88i.. By this union seven children were born: Mary B., married R. S. Lovelace; Hentietta M., married K. M. McVey; Jane Erwin; Porteaux Anson, Poplar Bluff, Mo.; Mathew Nolting, New Cumberland, W. Va.; Oscar A., Washington, D. C., and Charles A., East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1882 he married his second wife, Isabella (Campbell) Williams, who had one child, Vera Lee. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted and was made orderly sergeant of Company D, Twenty-sixth Virginia, Edgar's battalion, Confederate States Army, and was promoted to sergeant major in 1862. He participated in all the battles his battalion was engaged in; was captured at the battle of Cold Harbor in May, 1864; taken as prisoner of war to Elmira, N.Y.; was released in February, 1865, and reached Richmond just before its evacuation by General Lee. After the war he engaged in the mencantile business at Price's shop, Irish Corner district, afterward called Organ Cave, and moved to Ronceverte in i885, where he was in the agricultural implement business for years with A. E. White and the Ronceverte Foundry and Machine Shop Company. In civil life he served as justice of the peace, member of the Greenbrier county court, deputy sheriff two terms, 1884-88, 1888-92, and was elected mayor of Ronceverte eight terms of two years each. He died Augtist 17, 1912. Oscar A. Price, son of John Mason Price, was born at Organ Cave, W. Va., November 9, 1873; married Gertrude Fulton, of Augusta county Virginia, February 17, 1898; has three children: Elizabeth Mary, Gertrude Fulton and Alice de Barre. He attended the public and high schools of Ronceverte and the Greenbrier Military Academy, Lewisburg, W. Va., and engaged in the mercantile business at Ronceverte, W. Va., until the outbreak of the Spanish war, April 26, 1898. At that time, having served through all grades to first lieutenant in the West Virginia National Guard, he volunteered and was made second lieutenant of the First West Virginia volunteer infantry in the United States service, and was promoted to first lieutenant June 21, 1898; served as quarter-master, Second division, First corps, on the staff of Brigadier General Arnold at Chickamauga, Ga.; also aid on the staff of Brigadier General Poland; was transferred to office as aide on the staff of Brigadier General Randall, Knoxville, Tenn., August, 1898, and was ordered by the secretary of war to report to Brigadier General McKee, Macon, Ga., on whose staff he served from October, 1898, to February, 1899. He was mustered out of the service with his regiment at Columbus, Ga., February 4, 1899; engaged in the milling business at Port Republic, 1899-1903; bought the old Edgar mill site, Ronceverte, and built the large milling plant now on that site in 1904 and managed the same from that date until March, 1915; served as president of the board of education, Fort Spring district, 1906-1910. Was chairman of Greenbrier county Democratic executive committee, 1910-1915, and was appointed auditor for the interior department, Washington, D. C., by President Wilson on March 3, 1915, and is now occupying that position. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:33:15 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Governor Samuel PRICE, Greenbrier County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Greenbrier County J.R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 62-66 GOVERNOR SAMUEL PRICE Every public life has contributed its share to the age in which it existed. It had its class to which it belonged, the blend in character which it formed, the environment in the affairs of state which it helped to create, all of which make for the upbuilding of its own community and that of the general commonwealth at large. The State of West Virginia had its builders the same as Rome had. Out of the wilderness a production of wealth had to be created for an enterprising and intelligent race of people to make the State what it is. Of those whose life's work largely contributed towards the education and evolution of the present age of progress and enlightenment looms up the towering figure of Governor Price, a man now revered and loved by every citizen of Greenbrier county. The history of the Hon. Samuel Price as a lawyer, as a judge, as a statesman, will be written for this work by a man who was prosecuting attorney of Greenbrier county for twenty-two years, and for a number of years a partner with the Governor in the practice of law. His sketch will be found under the head of Bench and Bar. Our attempt will be a narrative of that life in its simpler form. Samuel Price, the son of Samuel and Mary Price, was born in Fauquier county, State of Virginia, on the twenty-eighth day of July, 1805. His mother, Mary Clymon, whom he resembled, was born of German parents. Her father lived to the age of 104 years. On the paternal side the descent of the Price family was from Major Morris, of Washington fame. Samuel Price, the father of the subject of this sketch, moved to Monongalia county, now Preston county, West Virginia. That was in November, 1815. In 1827, when at the age of twenty-three years, the son left the parental roof for Kentucky to study law, but after having gained his purpose returned to Virginia, where as a lawyer he continued the practice of his profession through life. He located first in Nicholas county, becoming a citizen there on November 10, 1828. At the June court of that year he was appointed prosecuting attorney. In the same year also he was appointed deputy marshal to take the census of the county. The pay was very meager but it gave him a large experience by bringing him in contact with the people. In 1831 he was made clerk, but after three years of that kind of monotonous work he resigned. In 1834 he was elected to the legislattire from Nicholas and Fayette counties. This opened a new field for observation and enabled him to form many new acquaintances, but in that same year he settled in Wheeling to practice law. In December he was appointed by the city council delegate to the legislature to procure an increase of banking capital and some loan in reference to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Associated with him for two months on that work at Richmond, Va., were Dr. Clemens and a Mr. Jacob. In 1848 Mr. Price was elected to the legislature again, but declined a re-election in 1850. In October, 1850, however, he was elected to represent his district in the Constitutional Convention, he representing the counties of Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Nicholas, Kanawha, Fayette and Raleigh, after which he was returned to the legislature, but resigned again. In 1866 C. R. Mason resigned and Mr. Price was appointed one of the directors of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, and this position was held until all the old directors were superseded by new ones appointed by the Republican party when they got control. In 1850 he became a member of a called convention by the legislature to decide whether a member had a right to represent his slaves, giving him more authority to cast so many votes. It was called "the white basis convention," and the people were wrought up over the subject. This question was submitted to a committee to which Mr. Price was appointed because of his sound judgment. In 1837 Mr. Price moved to Lewisburg and on the fourth of February, 1861, the assembly passed an act calling a convention. To this convention Mr. Price was elected to represent Greenbrier county as a Union man, and was one of twenty-one appointed on a committee of Federal relations, of which he was made president. This convention advised against secession but the ordinance of secession was passed by the convention. With reference to this ordinance Mr. Price returned home to consult with his constituents. The question was submitted to a vote of the people and the county voted almost solid for ratification of the secession ordinance, after which Mr. Price signed the ordinance in ac-cordance with the instructions of those whom he had been sent to Richmond to represent. This was the beginning of those troubles that followed and a time which tried men's souls. In 1862, on the twenty-third day of May, General Crook defeated General Heath in the battle at Lewisburg. A few days afterwards General Crook ordered Mr. Price to go to headquarters, and when there ordered him to take the oath of allegiance. This Mr. Price refused to do. al-though under threat of being sent to Camp Chase, Ohio. Mr. Price said: "I acknowledge myself to be in your power, but you and your whole army cannot compel me to take that oath." General Crook then said: "I will send you to the guard house to be kept there until I am ready to send you off." Mr. Price replied, "I do not want to go to the guard house, if I can help it. I live in town and you can easily get me." The general then said, "Give me your parole that you will not leave town without mv permission and report to me daily at 10 o'clock and you can remain at home until I send you off." General Crook sent for Mr. Price to go with the prisoners just as they were leaving for Meadow Bluff, and when Mr. Price found he was going to compel him to walk he signed a parole that he would follow next day and ride his own horse. That night Cap-tain Read came with a half-dozen soldiers to take Mr. Price to Monroe by order of General Loring, but Mr. Price, claiming the privileges of his parole, succeeded in maintaining his rights. Nevertheless, from the time he left home until he reached Charleston, it was one continued series of insults all the way. When Mr. Price arrived in Charleston he was put in jail with the other prisoners for Camp Chase, but Dr. Patrick, Sr., having heard he was there had him released on parole to stay at the hotel and report every morning. Things continued thus for three months and a half, when General Loring drove the Federals out and released the prisoners, and the kindness of Dr. Patrick was never forgotten by Mr. Price. In 1863 Dr. Price was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia, with Gen. William Smith as governor, and served two sessions as president of the senate, until the close of the war. During the last session he received General Lee and General Morgan. After the surrender of General Lee Mr. Price was sent for to convene the legislature so that action might be taken on the new phase of things. President Lincoln had advised such a meeting with assurances that the members of the legislature should not be molested. There was a request for Mr. Price to come to Richmond with a pass from General Wetzel. Mr. Price and the carrier started immediatelv from Lewisburg, and traveled all night on horseback. They reached Covington at daylight and met the car at Jacksons river depot in time to reach Staunton that evening. Here he and a number of the members of the legislature were in consultation when they received the news of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. There was no need of Mr. Price going further and he returned home. He was not permitted to rest, however. Soon after this a squadron of about thirty cavalrymen arrested him and Mr. Caperton and took them as prisoners to Charleston. That was on June 11, 1865, after the war was over. In December, 1869, Mr. Price was elected circuit judge, but Governor Boreman said in a letter to him that he could not take the test oath and he would not commission him. His connection with the Confederacy prevented that. When a convention to amend the constitution of West Virginia was called in 1871, Mr. Price was elected as one of the delegates of the senatorial district, and by that body he was elected its president. In 1877 Mr. Caperton died and Governor Jacob appointed Mr. Price to the United States Senate, in which capacity he served until his successor was elected. These appointments to offices of honor and trust afforded him much pleasure after being persecuted so long because of his refusal to take the test oath. In 1837 Mr. Price was married to Miss Jane Stuart, a grand-daughter of Col. John Stuart, the first county clerk of Green-brier county. In 1838 he moved to Lewisburg, and in 1854 both of them joined the Presbyterian church, and soon after this Mr. Price was made an elder. On the twenty-fifth day of February. 1884, he died, leaving a name enviable for integrity, purity and truth. Mrs. Price died in 1875. One who knew her well, said: "She was the best educated woman I have ever known." Dr. Thomas Knight said in writing of her, after her death, "Blessed with all the comforts of life, she was rich in a noble sense of the word; rich in respect and esteem of the community; rich in the consciousness of a life devoted to pure and gentle pursuits; rich in the gratitude of the distressed and needy; rich in all lovely traits of a pure Christian character, and richer still in the hope and faith of blissful immortality." Mr. Price was a splendid specimen of physical manhood, standing six feet two inches in height and having a fine head and a good face. "Prominent Men of West Virginia" gives us an es-timate of the Hon. Samuel Price worthy of notice here. In that work it is stated: "He was one of the able men of Virginia when both Virginias were one. Not particularly aggressive in spirit or ambitious for distinction he nevertheless by the natural simplicity of his tastes, his habits of life and education, and better still by his enlightened sense of justice and hatred of wrong, was the jealous advocate of truth, morality and right. There was absolutely nothing in his public or private life fictitious or artificial. His success in private, as well as in his professional undertakings and his influence in public positions did not come to him by accident, but by the inherited energy and force of his mental constitu-tion. He was eminent in his profession as a lawyer, as a statesman, and as a public administrative. He did nothing from impulse; cool, deliberate, self-poised, no possible excitement could unnerve him or throw him off his balance. He was a born jurist. 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