West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Frederick G. KLOSTERMEYER, Ka [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO: William B. CALDERWOOD, Kanawh [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 BIO: Hon. Adam Robert SHEPHERD, Ka [SSpradling@aol.com] #4 BIO: Charles W. GOOD, Kanawha Coun [SSpradling@aol.com] #5 BIO: E.C. FISHER, Kanawha County [SSpradling@aol.com] #6 BIO: George W. McCLINTIC, Kanawha [SSpradling@aol.com] #7 BIO: Irvin WOODRUM, Kanawha County [SSpradling@aol.com] #8 BIO: J. Shirley ROSS, Kanawha Coun [SSpradling@aol.com] 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: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:52:29 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4d4fd51b.2519662d@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Frederick G. KLOSTERMEYER, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 362-363 FREDERICK G. KLOSTERMEYER, who is engaged in the drug business at Charleston, W. Va., where he is a representative citizen, was born May 28, 1875, at Manetta, 0., and is a son of Henry J. and Anna (Fluscher) Kiostermeyer. The parents of Mr. Klostermeyer were born and reared at Bremen, Germany, where they subsequently married. After the birth of two of their children, they decided to emigrate to America and in 1865 set out on a sailing vessel which subsequently safely landed them at Castle Garden, New York. Their objective point was Marietta, Ohio, and there Henry j. Klostermeyer followed his trade, that of carpenter, and also his profession as architect. There are yet many substantial and stately buildings standing at Marietta which are testimonials of his skill and ability. His death occurred in 1907 when he was eighty years of age. He cast his vote with the Democratic party. His widow died March 2, 1911, being in her seventy-seventh year, and had continued to make her home at Marietta. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was her husband. They had eight children, namely: Mary, who is the wife of Prof. George Lennon, a well known musician in Philadelphia, Boston, and London, England; Anna, who is the wife of A. E. Price, an attorney at law at Athens, Ohio; Louise, who is the wife of E. C. Hun-singer, who is in the wholesale cigar business at Chicago; Augusta, who is the wife of W. D. Bedillion, who is manager of a glass plant at Marietta, Ohio; Henry D., who resides in Ohio, and married Isabella Sylvester; Frederick G., the direct subject of this sketch; Wilhelmina, who is the wife of Howard Paul Taylor, of Indianapolis, Ind.; and one son who was acci-dentally drowned in the Muskingum River. Frederick G. Klostermeyer was educated in the public schools of Washington County, Ohio, and when he had made his choice of profession, entered the Northern Ohio University at Ada, where he was graduated in pharmacy in the class of 1895. In 1896 he came to Charleston and for four years served as a drug clerk and then purchased the interest of George Ort and has continued to conduct a first class dry store ever since, and enjoys the full confidence of the public in every way. On February 14, 1900, Mr. Klostermeyer was married to Miss Carrie L. Wooton, who was born in 1876, in Kentucky and was educated in Huntington, Cabell County, W. Va. They have one son, Howard R., who was born January 29, I904. Mrs. Klostermeyer is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. Klostermeyer is a Republican. He is a Mason, of advanced standing, belonging to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery at Charleston, and to Beni-Keedem Temple, Mystic Shrine. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:56:26 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <2cc84aa2.2519671a@aol.com> Subject: BIO: William B. CALDERWOOD, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 363-364 WILLIAM B. CALDERWOOD, postmaster at Cedar Grove, Kanawba County, W. Va., and a member of the general mercantile firm of Calderwood Brothers, was born May 6, 1878, at Dana, Kanawha County, and is a son of William B. and Anna (Wilkinson) Calderwood. William B. Calderwood, Sr., who was born in Scotland and was brought to America by his parents, who located at Middleport, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and engaged in coal mining. Shortly after his marriage he came to Kanawha County, W. Va., as foreman for the Campbell Creek Coal Company and resided at Dana, continuing with that company many years and resigning but a short time prior to his death, May 24, 1906, at the age of sixty-two years. He was married in Ohio to Anna Wil-kinson, who was born in England and is at present a resident of Malden, W. Va. The fol-lowing children were born to them: Elizabeth, who is the wife of John F. White, of Mont-gomery, W. Va.; Henry, who lives at Leon, W. Va.; Agnes, who lives in West Charleston; Anna, who is in partnership with her brother William B., in the store enterprise at Cedar Grove; William B.; Andrew, who lives at Putney; W. Va.; Robert and Edward, both of whom are residents of Charleston. William B. Calderwood attended the public schools of Dana through boyhood and then became his father's assistant for two years at the Campbell Creek mines, after which he came to Cedar Grove as a clerk for his brother, Henry Calderwood, who, in partnership with I. F. and C. F. White, started the present mercantile business. On February 1, 1906, Mr. Calderwood with his sister Anna, and his brother Andrew, bought Henry Calderwood's interest, who had succeeded the original firm of White & Calderwood. A good general stock is carried and the firm is prospering. Mr. Calderwood is a Republican and in April, 1906, was appointed postmaster at Cedar Grove. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:03:39 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <488c4089.251968cb@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Hon. Adam Robert SHEPHERD, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 364-367 HON. ADAM ROBERT SHEPHERD, judge of the Kanawha county court, is a man who has rendered much useful public service. He was born in Charleston, W. Va., April 7, 1868, a son of John and Louise (Aultz) Shepherd, and is a grandson of Robert Shepherd, who was born in Salem, Va., of English parents. The latter settled in the American colo-nies just prior to the Revolutionary War. Their son Robert, who was born just after the close of that war, came with his family to what is now West Virginia, some time previous to the Civil War, settling in the Charleston dis-trict. He subsequently purchased a farm in Union district and became a successful farmer and stock raiser. His death took place about twenty-two years ago, when he was 79 years old. He was a member of the M. E. church. He married Mary Good, who came of a promi-nent Virginia family, and who, like himself, was affiliated with the M. E. church. She died six years after her husband, having attained the same age-79 years. They were the parents of three children: John, father of our subject; B. King, and James Robert. B. King Shepherd, who is a retired farmer residing in Charleston, was born at New Salem and was there reared and educated. He married Louisa Aultz, of Kanawha county, who died in 1809 without issue. They were both affiliated with the M. E. church. James Robert Shepherd was born in Salem, Va., and now resides on the old homestead in Union district. He married Eliza, daughter of Robert Young, an early settler in Charleston. She is still living and she and her husband belong to the M. E. Church. They have no children. John Shepherd was born in Prince Edward county, Va., in 1833. When a young man he came to West Virginia, finding employment as a teacher in the public schools and later teaching in private schools. He was very successful as an educator, and in his latter years was recognized as one of the best informed men in the state. He was a resident of South Charleston and devoted much of his spare time to acquiring knowledge in regard to the history of the Kanawha Valley, a subject on which lie was very thoroughly informed. He was an active member of the Methodist church and an un-compromising Prohibitionist. His death occurred March 17, 1911, when he was aged seventy-seven years, five months and twenty-one days. John Shepherd married Miss Louise Aultz, who was a sister of the wife of his brother, B. King Shepherd. She was born in Kanawha county about 1841 and was educated in the public schools. She died April 6, 1907. She was a good wife and mother, and a member of the Methodist church. His father was Adam Aultz, who came of an old family of Rock Bridge county, Va. He came to Charleston about the year i8oo just after his marriage to a Miss Shamules, there being at that time but one house standing here. He could have bought the entire section for 25 cents per acre, but instead purchased a tract of eleven hundred acres of new and unbroken timber land about nine miles from the site of the present city. Wild game was then abundant and he had to protect his family and stock from the bears and wolves, which were frequent if not welcome visitors. He died at the age of 79 years, after having cleared off some four hundred acres of his pur-chase. He was well and favorably known in his district, being in fact a man of sterling and temperate habits. In religion he was a Methodist and in politics a Republican. His wife, who survived until 1890, died in Charleston at the home of her daughter, aged 88 years. The children of John and Louise (Aultz) Shepherd were five in number-Clark W., L. Ella, Adam Robert, J. King. and Mattie. Clark W., born in 1863, was educated in the public schools and at the Wesleyan University of Ohio, where he was graduated. He was subsequently graduated from the medical college at Baltimore with the class of i888, receiving the degree of M.D., and since that time has been practicing as a physician at Spring Hill. He married Lucy Tisdale, of Lennenburg county, Va., and has one son, Tisdale, now aged 20 years, a student in the Charleston High School. L. Ella Shepherd was born in Charleston in 1865 and was well educated in public and private schools. She is unmarried and is now a teacher in the public schools. J. King Shepherd, born in 1867, was educated in Charleston, where he now resides. He holds the office of deputy sheriff. He is unmarried. Mattie, born in 1869, is the wife of C. L. Pauley of the Raleigh Coal Company, of Raleigh county, W. Va. Adam Robert Shepherd, our direct subject, was educated in the public schools of Charleston and was variously occupied until J894, when he engaged in mecantile business, as proprietor of a general store, which he now owns. He was appointed postmaster by President McKinley,June 15, 1897, and ably administered the business of the postoffice until 1900, when he was elected to the office of assessor for a term of four years. In 1906 he was elected to the legislative branch of the general assembly, serving two years. In 1908 he was elected president of the county court, this making him a county commissioner to serve six years, his term as president of the court being three years. His record as commissioner is one for which he deserves the highest commendation. When he took office the credit of the county was at a very low ebb. Its indebtedness was $178,000 and its bonds sold for only 60 cents on the dollar. He has succeeded in reducing the indebtedness to $32,000 and the bonds are now selling at par. It has been provided, moreover, that the indebtedness shall be wholly cancelled by Janu-ary I, 1912. For his work in this connection Mr. Shepherd has been highly praised, and his fellow citizens have congratulated themselves that they made no mistake in judgment when they elected him to his present office. Judge Shepherd is a Republican politically, and has served as representative to county and state conventions. He is also secretary for the Eighth Senatorial district. He is a Mason, belonging to Washington Lodge No.58, A. F. & A. M., of St. Albans; also to Spring Hill Lodge No. 140, I. 0.0. F., of wihch he has been treasurer for fifteen years. Judge Shepherd was married June 30, 1899, in Richmond, Va., to Miss Elizabeth F. Ellett, who was born in that city in 1878, a daughter of Robert Ellett, and was there educated. Our subject and wife are the parents of one son, El-ett Northcott, born January 5, 1900, who is attending public school in Charleston. Mrs. Shepherd is a member of the First Baptist church of Richmond, Va. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:09:44 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: Charles W. GOOD, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 367-368 CHARLES W. GOOD, a prominent member of the Kanawha County bar, who has also taken a conspicuous part in public affairs, was born at Raymond City, Putnam County W. Va,. Sept. 8, 1874, a son of John Wesley and Elizabeth (Archibald) Good. His paternal grandfather, Dr. John Good, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., nearly 100 years ago, and was of German ancestry. He resided in that locality many years, carrying on agriculture and practicing medicine when called upon. After his marriage he removed to what is now Jackson County, W. Va., and later to Kanawha County, settling in Union District, where he carried on farming until a few years before his death. He died about 1848 or '49, on a farm he had purchased in Jackson County. He was a Democrat in politics and a Methodist in religion. His wife, whose name has not been ascertained, but who was a Virginia girl, died in Jackson County in 1878, being then about 70 years of age. She had married a second husband, who died in this state. By her first marriage to Mr. Good there were one son and three daughters, namely: John Wesley, father of the subject of this sketch; Mary J., widow of Dennis Burns, a native of this state who died in Iowa in i886, she now residing at What Cheer, Iowa; Catherine, who became the wife of John Lanham, but is now deceased, together with her husband; and Jenetta, who died after her marriage to a Mr. Kidd, who survives her. John Wesley Good was born in Jackson County, W. Va., Aug. 6, 1841. He became a miner and silversmith and followed those occupations in various localities for thirty years, finally returning to his home in Jackson County, where he still lives, devoting his entire attention to farming, in which he has been very successful. Early in 1862 he enlisted in the Union army as a member of Company A, 13th' W. Va. Vol. Infantry, under Capt. Greenbury Slack. He served until after the close of the war, becoming a sergeant, and receiving his disharge in the latter part of 1865: He had a fortunate experience, being never wounded or captured. He is a member of Blunden Post, G. A. R., at Charleston. Since his earliest voting days he has been a staunch Republican. His religious affiliations are with the Methodist church. John Wesley Good was married in Kanawha County, W. Va., to Elizabeth Archibald, who was born near Liverpool, England, about 1846, and who came to this country with her parents, John and Jane Archibald, they settling in West Virginia in 1865. They are both now deceased, as is also their daughter, who passed away in 1882. She was one of four children, of whom there are now living: Mary A., widow of Robert Smith and residing in Raymond; and Edward G., a farmer in the Poca district, who married Julia A. Samuels. The children of John Wesley Good and wife were as follows: Margaret H., born in 1866, who is the wife of Dr. H. F. Asbury, of Putnam County, W. Va.; Ella Jane, born in i868, who is the wife of Daniel Baumgardner of Jackson County, and has a family of four children; Mary Ann, born in 1870, who is the wife of William Creamer of Charleston; John E., born 1872, now residing in Denver, Co., who married Molly Humphreys and has a daughter; Charles Wes-ley, whose name begins this sketch; E. Katherine, born 1876, who is the wife of F. S. Ransom, resides in Putnam County, W. Va., and has two children: Hattie, born in 1878, who is the wife of James Baumgardner, and has two sons; Daisy, wife of F. M. Monday, residing in Jackson county, who has one son; and Thomas F., born 1882, who married a Miss Monday and has two children. By a later marriage of John Wesley Good with Rebecca Samuels three children were born, namely: Lula E., who married Griffin Clendennen, and died in 1909 leaving two children; William B., a farmer residing in Jackson County, who married a Miss Newbouse and has one son; and Mamie, who is unmarried and resides at home. Charles W. Good, after attending the public schools, began the study of law and, having passed the bar examination in 1901, was admitted to practice that year. He had previously had some experience in mining and has followed the occupation of a school teacher for some seven years. In 1900 he was elected from Jackson County, on the Republican ticket, as representative to the West Virginia legislature. He made a good record in the Assembly and was again elected, from Kanawha County, in 1908, not being subsequently a candidate for reelection. While in the legislature he served acceptably on the Judiciary and other important committees. He was married in Charleston, in 1902, Nov. 12, to Alwilda Abigail Thomas, who was born in Kanawha County in 1878, a daughter of Jesse A. and Mary (Shanahan) Thomas, both now deceased. Mrs. Good's parents were old settlers in this county; they were consistent members of the Methodist church and people highly esteemed. Mr. Thomas died June 25, 1910, aged 70 years. He had survived his wife but a few months, her death having occurred February 12, 1910, when she was 65 years old. By occupation he was a stone contractor. Their daughter, Mrs. Good, and her husband, are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have no family. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:15:11 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <5175a3fb.25196b7f@aol.com> Subject: BIO: E.C. FISHER, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by bl-14.rootsweb.com id QAA23669 History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 368-369 E. C. FISHER, general farmer and stock-raiser in Poca District, Kanawha County, W. Va., where he owns a farm of 140¼ acres, was born December 15, 1850, in Jackson County, Va., three-fourths of a mile west of his present farm. His parents were Greenberry and Julietta Fisher, and of their nine children, be and a sister, Mrs. Emma Belle Rose, of Charleston, are the only ones residing in Kanawha County. E. C. Fisher was educated in Jackson, Roane and Kanawha Counties, attending the High School at Walton, in Roane County. For twelve years he taught school and at the same time kept up an interest in farming, timbering, milling and surveying, and for the past ten years has been concerned, with his son, in a planing, saw and gristmill on Poca River, near Sissonville. After marriage he settled first on a farm across the river from the one now occupied, where he remained for four years and then came to his present property where he has made many improvements. In addition to fencing 100 acres of his land, he has erected the substantial buildings in evidence, and here carries on his agriculttiral operations with satisfying results. He has been a Republican since casting his first vote, and gives hearty support to the candidates of his party. Very appropriately his fellow citizens have made him a school trustee. Mr. Fisher married Miss Melissa Rose, who was born in Kanawha County and is a daughter of William S. Rose, and they have the following children: Everett, who is interested with his father in the milling business, resides at the mill; he married Ella Wines and they have one daughter, Mary M. May, who is the wife of Joseph Miller, lives in Poca District, and they have had seven chldren, six of whom survive. Lloyd, who lives in Poca District, married a Miss Eastys, and they have one son, Seebert. Irvin resides in Charleston. William A. is in business at Detroit, Mich. Albert is employed in Charleston. Myrna E. was educated in Kanawba county and also attended high school at Ripley, Jackson County, and Marshall College in Huntingdon. She taught in the cornmon schools four years and is now a stenographer in the employ of a law firm in Charles-ton. Ruby and Delpha are residing at home. Mr. Fisher and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a stockholder in the Arbuckle Telephone Company. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:19:00 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO: George W. McCLINTIC, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 369-370 GEORGE W. McCLINTIC, a representative memher of the bar at Charleston, W. Va., was born January 14, i866, in Pocahontas County, W. Va., and is a son of William H. and Mary (Mathews) McClintic. The McClintic family is of Scotch extraction and its earliest members in America settled first in Pennsylvania and moved from there to the Valley of Virginia. The family record tells that Robert McClintic served in the Revolu-tionary War and died from the effects of a wound received at the battle of Guilford Court House. William H. McClintic was born in Bath County, Va., in 1825, and died January 20, 1892. He was a son of Moses and Mary (Daggs) McClintic, both of whom were natives of Virginia, where their lives were spent. They belonged to the Presbyterian church. In his political views Moses McClintic followed Charleston to Miss Ethel Knight, who was reared in this city but was educated at other points. She is a daughter of Edward Boardman Knight. Mr. and Mrs. McClintic attend the Presbyterian church. He is prominent in Masonry, being past high priest of Royal Arch Chapter, No.13; past commander of Kanawba Commandery; past potentate of the Beni-Kedem Temple, and past grand master of the Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of West Virginia. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:21:24 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <23a739e3.25196cf4@aol.com> Subject: BIO: Irvin WOODRUM, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by bl-14.rootsweb.com id QAA23669 History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 370 IRVIN WOODRUM, who is proprietor of the best general store on Joplin Branch, Lou-don District, Kanawha County, W. Va., was born May 17, 1877, in Boone§ounty W. V~., a son of Green and Mary Frances (Estep) Woodrum. Green Woodrum was also born in Boone County and has followed farming all his life and is one of the older residents of his neigh-borhood, having reached his seventy-first year. He was married first to a Miss Griffith and they had three children, William, Robert and Letha, the last named being deceased. He married sec-ondly Mary Frances Estep, who was born in Boone County and was a daughter of James Estep, once a well known farmer there. Six children were born to this marriage, namely: Victoria, who married John Kissinger; Olive, who married Albert Hill; James B.; j. C. Mary Ella, who married E. W. Belcher; and Irvin of the present record. Mr. Woodrum married for his third wife, Louisa H. Dolan, and they have had eight children, as follows: J. Mc., the only son living; Bertie, Sarah and Isaac, all of whom are deceased; Belle, who married Nicholas Dol in; Virginia C., who married Olie Dolin: Geneva, who married William Miller; and Loria, who married Wil-liam Triplett. Irvin Woodruin went to work on the rail-road after he was through with his school books and was in the employ of the K. & M. road fdr three years. In 1904 he embarked in the mercantile business at this point and carries a large and well selected stock, including gen-eral merchandise and groceries and draws trade from the entire district. He owns his building and also has property on Roane Street, West Charleston. Mr. Woodrum may be justly styled a self made man and what he possesses he has honestly earned through his energy, temperance and industry and well deserves his prosperity. Mr. Woodrum married Mary Frances Holstein, a daughter of L. D. Holstein, a farmer of Boone County, and they have four children, born as follows: Virgie May, Feb. 19, 1903; Annie Marie, Feb. 28, 1905; Margie Elsie, Nov. 4, 1907; Clarence Irvin, May 11, 1911. Mr. Woodrum is identified with the Odd Fellows and the American Mechanics. ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:29:22 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <9b5e1e83.25196ed2@aol.com> Subject: BIO: J. Shirley ROSS, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens W.S. Laidley Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL. 1911 p. 370 J. SHIRLEY ROSS, city recorder of Charleston, W. Va., who is now serving his third term in that office, was born in this city August 31, 1883, a son of John Tyler and Hannah (Creel) Ross. John Tyler Ross, the father of J. Shirley, was born in Patrick County, Va., in 1841, and died at Charleston in i896. He was reared and educated in Patrick County, where his parents spent their lives. They had a family of six sons and three daughters, all of whom are now living, except John T., and all having families of their own. Some are residents of Virginia and others of New York state. All of the brothers served in the Confederate army, one of them, Capt. D. Lee Ross, being a captain in the 51st Virginia Infantry, under whom his brother, John Tyler, served. The subject of this sketch has lately looked up his father's war record in the War Department at Washington, D. C., and received therefrom the following communication: \VAR DEPARTMENT THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, July 21, 1910. Respectfully returned to Mr. J. S. Ross, Department of Records, Charleston, West Virginia. The records show that one John T. Ross was a corporal and a private in Company C, afterward Company D (Captain D. Lee Ross and later Captain Wm. T. Akers), 51st Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army, and that he enlisted May I, 1862. On the roll of the company dated October 31, 1863, last on file, he was reported, "Absent, detailed as shoemaker since Nov. 10, 1862." The Federal records of prisoners of war show that he was arrested in Roanoke County, Virginia, Decemher 19, 1863, and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, and that lie was transferred thence to Fort Delaware in March, 1864, at which place he was released June 15, 1865, on taking the oath of allegiance. (Signed) W. P. HALL, The Adjutant General. Though John T. Ross was never wounded in action, he caught the small pox while in the Federal prison, so may be regarded as having had his share of disagreeable experieces-to a greater extent, perhaps, than many who saw harder field service. After his return from the war he came to Kanawha County and, settling near the present limits of the city of Charles-ton, engaged in the manufacture of brick. It was through his suggestion that this material was used in street construction in Charleston, this being the first instance also of its utilization in this way in any city. In 1873 a hand-made brick pavement was laid on Summer street, and the result was so satisfactory that the city has used this material extensively ever since. Mr. John T. Ross was a man of acknowledged hosiness ability and of sterling personal qualities. He was a staunch Democrat politically and was affiliated fraternally with the Odd Fellows and other secret orders. John Tyler Ross was married in Kanawha County, W. Va., to Hannah Creel, who was horn at Davisville, that county, in 1848, and who survives him, being now a resident of Charleston. Her father was Bushrod W. Creel, her paternal grandfather being also named Bushrod, while her mother was in maidenhood Alcinda Kinchelo, a member of one of the old Methodist families of what is now West Virginia. She was the third youngest born of her parents' children, the others being John, Bush, George, Henry, Bettie, Lucy, Clara, aud Ella, all of whom survive and have families of their own. The brothers of Mrs. Ross served in the Confederate army during the Civil war. J. Shirley Ross, our direct subject, was the only child of his parents. He was educated in the public schools and for some years was connected with his father in the brick industry. He is identified with a number of fraternal organizations, including the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, the Eagles, and others. In politics, like his late father, he is a Democrat. He has given good satisfaction in the office of city recorder, as is evidenced by his election for a third term and is personally esteemed and his family respected throughout this section. He is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Ross resides with his widowed mother in Charleston.