West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 56 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: James A. PURDY, Hancock Count [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926144708.00f879e0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: James A. PURDY, Hancock 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. 256-257 Hancock County JAMES A. PURDY. One of the most active and progressive men of Holliday's Cove, James A. Purdy, has contributed to the growth and development of his community a sound business ability, high principles of business practice and commendable ideals of the responsibilities of good citizen- ship. During his career he has risen from small beginnings to a leading place among the men who have achievements to their credit, and at this time is senior partner of the prosperous general merchandise firm of Purdy & Marsh. Mr. Purdy was born on a farm in the Holliday's Cove community, July 20, 1869, a son of James and Mary Jane (Knox) Purdy, the latter a native of the same community. James Purdy was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsyl- vania, and at the age of four years was brought to West Vir- ginia by his father, John Purdy, who was a cabinet-maker by trade, but who in 1824 purchased a farm on which he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits. James Purdy early took charge of the home farm in partner- ship with his brother, John Purdy, who later retired and went to Iowa, but James continued as a farmer, cattle grower and sheep breeder until his death at the age of ninety-one years. He was an active democrat in politics, was a great reader, and a man who was well and thoroughly posted on all worth-while subjects of the day. He kept open house, entertaining every traveler who visited the com- munity, and became widely known for his generous and kindly hospitality. His word was as good as his bond, and he was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church at the Cove, of which his wife had become a charter member in her girlhood. She died at the age of fifty-two years, and was greatly mourned as a woman of many admirable characteristics and qualities of both mind and heart. James A. Purdy had to leave school as a lad in order to take charge of the home farm. His father had married very late in life, and as James was one of the younger children he was little more than a boy when he accepted the responsibilities of a man. With his younger sister, Saman- tha, as his housekeeper, he remained on the home farm until the death of his aged father, in the meantime having added the breeding of swine to the other activities of the farm and becoming widely known as a raiser of Berkshire hogs. Farming, however, he felt was not his forte, and when the elder man passed away and the estate was settled Mr. Purdy left the farm and became a clerk in a grocery store for one winter. Subsequently he spent a few months in North- western Idaho and then went on to the Pacific Coast, bnt in 1910 returned to Holliday's Cove, where he rented a store and installed a general stock of merchandise. His original stock was valued at $1,700, bnt during the first year he had sales of $25,000. At the present time he carries a stock of $15,000, and does an annual business approximating $160,000. He sells close and depends on the volume of business for his profits, and this necessitates the employ- ment of six assistants. In 1914 he built the present build- ing, which he has since sold, being now a renter. In 1920 Mr. Purdy admitted to partnership G. H. Marsh, and the business has since been conducted under the firm style of Purdy & Marsh. Mr. Purdy was one of the original directors of the Bank of Weirton, and still holds a place on the board. >From young manhood he has been interested and active in civic affairs. While still residing on the farm he served as a member of the School Board of Bertha District. After locating at Holliday's Cove he was elected mayor, but re- signed from that office to act as a member of the Draft Board during the war period, having been appointed to that position by Governor Cornwall. He has also served several times as a member of the City Council. Fraternally he affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, and as a means of recreation enjoys the sports of fishing and horseback riding. All in all, he is one of the most active and progres- sive men of the community comprising Holliday's Cove and Weirton. Mr. Purdy was united in marriage with Miss Lura Bux- ton, who was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, daugh- ter of J. H. Buxton, who is now deceased, and to this union there were born two sons: John, in the fourth gene- ration of the name; and James G., the third generation to bear the name. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:45:07 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926144507.00f98020@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: John W. FARNSWORTH, Upshur 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. 279 Upshur County JOHN W. FARNSWORTH has been in the lumber industry ever since leaving college, and is now officially identified with two of the prominent lumber manufacturing enter- prises of Weston, one being the Acme Lumber & Manu- facturing Company and the other the Richwood Lumber Company, of which he is president. Mr. Farnsworth was born at Buckhannon in Upshur County, West Virginia, September 24, 1876, son of Dr. Thomas G. and Mary J. (Marshall) Farnsworth. His grand- father came from England to the United States, first settled on Staten Island, New York, and later in Buck- hannon, where he became a man of considerable wealth and prominence. Dr. Thomas G. Farnsworth was born at Buckhannon, and died there at the close of a long and use- ful life of eighty-five years on February 11, 1921.. He was educated in private schools, graduated in, medicine from Jefferson Medical College, and for many years had a busy practice that taxed his time and energies. He was also active in polities and the affairs of good citizen- ship, served as a member of the State Legislature in 1871- 72, for eight terms filled the office of mayor of Buck- hannon and was also a member of the City Council. He was a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a past master of Franklin Lodge of Masons. Of his eleven children six are living. John W. Farnsworth spent the first twenty-one years of his life at Buckhannon. He graduated from high school and also attended Wesleyan College there. Through an experience of a quarter of a century he has mastered the details of lumber manufacture, and the two companies named above owe much of their prosperity and high stand- ing to his capable executive management. Mr. Farnsworth married Mary A. Hammer on April 25; 1899. They have three children: Ernest S., born in May, 1900. now living at Los Angeles, California; Mary M., born October 13, 1901, who is a graduate of high school; and Edna H., born February 1, 1904. Mr. Farnsworth is a trustee and secretary of the Official Board of the Methodist Protestant Church at Weston. He is affiliated with Weston Lodge, No. 10, A. F. and A. M., Bigelow Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., St. John Commandery, No. 8, K. T. He has interested himself in the success of many campaigns of the republican party, and was at one time chairman of the Republican Executive Committee for Lewis County. He is a member of the City Council, and belongs to the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:44:09 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926144409.00f86190@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Jesse H. TETER, Lewis County 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. 279 Lewis County JESSE H. TETER is one of the well known citizens of Lewis County, now a retired farmer, but gave up his active vocation and responsibilities as a farmer only after forty years of successful effort. He was born in Harrison County, January 17, 1856, son of David and Asenath (Lang) Teter. His parents were also natives of Harrison County, where his father was born in November, 1830, and his mother in December, 1820. After their marriage they lived in Harrison County for a number of years, owning and selling two farms there, and in 1872 removed to Lewis County, where David Teter bought a place, of 530 acres on Murphy's Creek. He was very successful in all agricultural matters and also a man of prominence in public affairs. He at one time was super- intendent of the County Farm for Lewis County. He was a republican and a member of the Masonic Lodge. His three children were Jesse H., Margaret, wife of E. C. Fisher, of Lewis County, and Philander K., of Weston. Jesse H. Teter was sixteen years of age when the family came to Lewis County, and his education was acquired in the common schools of Harrison County. For a number of years he was practically manager of his father's farm while David Teter was county superintendent of the County Farm, and at his father's death he succeeded to that public post of responsibility. He received as his share 216 acres of the old homestead, and he accumulated a fine property and a competence which enabled him to retire from the farm to Weston in September, 1914. On February 27, 1878, Mr. Teter married Florence Turner. Two children were born to their marriage. One died at the age of two, and Miss Mamie, born in May, 1902, is still at home. Mr. Teter is a member of Weston Lodge, No. 43, Knights of Pythias, and is a republican in politics. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:43:23 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926144323.00f863f0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Lewis J. MILLER, Ohio 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. 278-279 Ohio County LEWIS J. MILLER, formerly general manager of the Wheeling Wholesale Grocery Company, stands as one of the veteran and representative figures in the wholesale trade of Wheeling, in which city he was born August 25, 1858, a son of Peter Miller, who was one of the sterling pioneer merchants of this city. Peter Miller was born in the Fulda River District of Hessen, Germany, November 1, 1832, a son of John and Anna Maria Miller, he having been a youth at the time of the father's death, but the widowed mother having attained to the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Peter Miller was reared and educated in his native land and was about nineteen years of age when he came to the United States. In 1852 he estab- lished his home at Wheeling, and here he served a three years' apprenticeship in the tailoring establishment of Christian Hesse, working the first year for $10 a year and his board, the second year receiving $20 and board and a suit of clothes. In the third year he became a skilled journeyman at his trade. In 1860 he engaged in the retail grocery business at the corner of Main and Third streets, where he continued operations five years, the brick block which he erected at this location still standing and in ex- cellent preservation. He continued for many years as one of the substantial, reliable and highly respected business men of Wheeling, and through his well directed endeavors accumulated an appreciable fortune, as gauged by the standards of the locality and period. He was eighty-one years of age at the time of his death, and his widow passed away at the age of eighty-three years, their mar- riage having been solemnized November 1, 1857. Mrs. Miller, whose maiden name was Christina Heil, was born and reared in Germany and came to the United States in the same year as did her future husband. Both were devout communicants of the Catholic Church, and in polities he was a democrat. These honored pioneers of Wheeling became the parents of nine children: Lewis J., Christina, Rosa, Mary, Emma, Peter W., Catherine, Lor- etta and Charles B. Lewis J. Miller gained his early education in the schools of his native city, and as a youth he found employment in a local nail factory. During the first week his wages were 44 cents. He continued to be employed in this factory five years, and he then entered the employ of George Feeny, who was here engaged in the wholesale confectionery business and with whom he continued his association eleven years, his compansation at the start having been $3 a week and his final salary having been $12.50 a week. In 1886 he established on a small scale a wholesale grocery business, and erected a frame building of one story, with a frontage of thirty feet, where he continued in business until 1912, when he sold to Miller Brothers and lived retired for seven years. In 1919 he became manager of the Wheeling Wholesale Grocery Company, continuing until he retired, February 1, 1922. Mr. Miller gained success and high reputation in the wholesale grocery busi- ness, and was counted one of the leading representatives of the same in his native city. The Wheeling Wholesale Grocery Company, with headquarters at 302 Main Street, was organized in 1918, on the co-operative plan, and its success under this system led to careful investigation of its methods and policies on the part of committees of busi- ness men from other cities of the Union. John H. Welty, Frederick Viewig and Lewis J. Miller constituted the committee which, in a similar way, made investigation of co-operative enterprises of the same type in other cities, and finally the business was incorporated with a capital of $50,000. John H. Welty became the president of the company and Mr. Miller, the general manager. Unequivocal success attended the concern, which rapidly extended its business throughout the trade territory normally tributary to Wheeling, and after two years it was found expedient to increase the capital stock to its present figure, $100,000. The establishment utilizes 9,000 square feet of floor space, is at all times well stocked in all departments, and its facilities are such as effectually meet the demands of the constantly expanding trade. Mr. Miller is a liberal and progressive citizen and sub- stantial business man of his native city, is a democrat in politics, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic parish of Corpus Christi Church. November 11, 1912, recorded the marriage of Mr. Miller and Miss Lenora Powell, daughter of David Powell, a leading con- tractor and builder at Wheeling. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have no children. For the past fourteen or more years Mr. Miller has cus- tomarily passed the winter seasons in Florida, where he has made for himself a record as a skilled fisherman and where he has captured piscatorial trophies which he has preserved and which have attracted admiring attention in his home city. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:41:49 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926144149.00f87ec0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: James David HORNOR, Harrison 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. 278 Harrison County JAMES DAVID HORNOR was one of Harrison County's best known citizens. His life was a varied one in its relationship. He was a farmer, merchant and also a public official. He was born at Lumberport, Harrison County, August 8, 1847, and was a resident of that town throughout his life. He was a son of Jamea Yardley and Mary A. (Rob- inson) Hornor. James Y. Hornor was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, and was a pioneer settler of Lumber- port. His first wife was Dollie Ferguson, and he had chil- dren by both marriages. James D. Hornor carried on an extensive business in Lumberport. He was also well known at the county seat as one of the prominent county officials. He served two or three terms as county assessor and in 1884 was elected sheriff, serving one term of four years. He was a democrat in politics. James D. Hornor, who died May 13, 1898, married on December 6, 1870, Elizabeth Florence Hood, daughter of William and Hannah (Pindall) Hood. She was born in Marion County November 11, 1850, and is now past three score and ten. She is a Methodist. Her children were: James Hood, Vance Leslie, Goff, Haymond, who died in childhood, Mary, wife of Paul S. Hornor, and Florence E., wife of Oliver Napoleon Hill. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:47:52 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926144752.00f996e0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: George H. DAVIS, Hancock 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. 257 Hancock County GEORGE H. DAVIS, M. D. Not only is Dr. George H. Davis of Weirton, a leading and learned member of the Hancock County medical fraternity, enjoying a high pro- fessional standing, but is likewise a public-spirited citizen who has contributed materially to the advancement of educa- tion and other attending features of modern civilization, His career has been one of constant activity and well- achieved success, worthy of the fine old family of which he is a representative. Doctor Davis was born on the north side of the Ohio River, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where two Davis brothers, soldiers of the Revolution, had settled after the winning of the struggle for American independence. The family has resided in Western Pennsylvania ever since. There have been three generations of physicians in this immediate line, although the father of Doctor Davis was an agriculturist, with two brothers being practitioners of medicine. George H. Davis attended the public schools of his native locality and Mount Hope (Ohio) College, after leaving which institution he began teaching. After six years spent as an instructor, during which time he applied himself in his leisure hours to the study of medicine, he en- tered the Baltimore Medical College (now the University of Medicine) at Baltimore, Maryland from which he was duly graduated as a member of the class of 1895. Among his classmates were Dr. Spillman Follansbee and Dr. Chris Fairmont, of Charleston, West Virginia. Doctor Davis began the practice of his profession at Chester, West Vir- ginia, and remained in that community until coming to Weirton as the pioneer physician and surgeon of this place. He has built up a large and representative practice and has won the full confidence and esteem of his clientele, as well as the respect of his professional brethren. He was formerly surgeon for the Weirton Steel Corporation. Doctor Davis holds membership in the Hancock County Medical Society, the West Virginia Medical Society and the Amer- ican Medical Association. Since his young manhood, when he applied himself to educational work. Doctor Davis has been intensely interested in the public schools. For several years he served as a member of the School Board, and it was during this period that the public school system experienced its greatest era of advancement in the city, having grown from a condition where only five teachers were necessary to one where sixty teachers were demanded for the various classes. Doctor Davis has ever stood for advanced ideas, a uniform program of class recitation and other progressive features, and it was largely through his efforts and influence that the dis- trict supervisor's office was created. The system at this time is creditable, although the lack of suitable buildings is a handicap which the Doctor and others are trying to have removed. Doctor Davis has also interested himself in the cause of religion. In 1910 he established the first Sunday School, the old Union Sunday School, established in the open, under a locust tree, which thereafter held its regular meetings in unfurnished dwellings until the Union Sunday School Building, now the Methodist Episcopal Church, was built. Next, Doctor Davis started a Presbyterian Sunday School, which was followed by the establishment, largely through his efforts of the First Presbyterian Church. He is also active in civic affairs, and belongs to the Masonic Club at Weirton. He is a York Rite Mason, a Knight Templar in the Commandery at Wheeling and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and also holds membership in the Knights of Pythias. While still a medical student at Baltimore, Doctor Davis was united in marriage with Miss Catherine L. Candler, of that city, who is a representative of two royal families. On the German side she is descended from the Hotz family, with a castle on the Rhine, and on the English side is a descendant of Lord Seymour, and retains the coat-of-arms of this family in her home. Doctor and Mrs. Davis are the parents of two daughters: Lydia Ann, who graduated from the Weirton High School as a member of the class of 1922; and Margaret M., attending high school and is a member of the class of 1924. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:42:21 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926144221.00f87ca0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Vance Leslie HORNOR, Harrison 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. 278 Harrison County VANCE LESLIE HORNOR. For upwards of thirty years Mr. Hornor has devoted his time and energies to the busi- ness field, but with a diversity of objects that have re- lieved monotony and no doubt contributed to his aggregate success. His life has been spent in Harrison County, where he has been a manufacturer, banker, and in later years one of the leaders in gas production. He is a son of James D. and Elizabeth Florence (Hood) Hornor. A brief sketch of his father precedes this. Vance Leslie Hornor was born September 29, 1875, at Lumberport, and had a good common school education as preparation for the serious duties of life. For several years he was in the flouring mill business, first at Shinn- ston and then at Lumberport. When the Lumberport Bank was organized in 1903 he became its first cashier, and he continued the duties of that position for twelve years while the bank was improving its resources and its service as the only bank in that part of Harrison County. In the meantime, in 1910, he became interested in the real estate and gas business. During the next five years his interests increased to such an extent that he resigned as cashier of the bank to give his entire time to his interests in the gas district. He is widely known over the state for his holdings and his operations as a gas producer. He is a member of several other business corporations, and is still a director and vice president of the Lumberport Bank. Mr. Hornor in 1903 married Georgia Pauline Richardson, of Shinnston. Their three children are Mary Katherine, Eleanor Elizabeth and James Richardson Hornor. Mr. Hornor is a democrat, a Methodist, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Kite Mason, a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and the Mystic Shrine and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Elks. ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 15:32:06 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926153206.00fcb1d0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Iverson W. CRITES, Upshur 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. 279-280 Upshur County IVERSON W. CRITES, who served with the engineers in France, is a young business man of Weston, and for a number of years his experience has been chiefly in the lumber industry. He is one of the proprietors and officers of the Hope Lumber Company in Weston. Mr. Crites was born in Upshur County, West Virginia, January 19, 1887, son of Gilbert N. and Martha A. (Kerr) Crites. His parents were born, reared, educated and mar- ried in Upshur County, and his father is still numbered among the successful farmers of that section. They are Methodists, and the father is a republican. Of their nine children five are living: Flora, wife of John Prince, a farmer in Braxton County; Albert A., a minister of the United Brethren Church; Iverson W.; Alvin M., a farmer in Upshur County; and Lester W., in a business college in the State of Washington. Iverson W. Crites spent the days of his youth on a farm, attended the common schools, and began working for himself and earning his own living when he was fifteen. He had made every possible use of his advantages while in school, qualified as a teacher and for six years taught winter terms of school. The summers he spent working in lumber camps and around the saw mills, and when In- gave up the teaching profession he turned his complete energies to the lumber industry. Mr. Crites in 1917 ac- quired stock in the Hope Lumber Company. This is an incorporated company with A. O. Harper as president and manager, S. F. White, vice president, J. A. Genderson, treasurer, and I. W. Crites, secretary. Mr. Crites is also a stockholder in the Arch Run Lumber Company. During the World war he enlisted and was trained at Richmond, Virginia, later at Camp Forrest in Georgia, and went overseas with the Four Hundred and Sixty-seventh Engineers. He was on duty in Prance five months and was a sergeant. He is a member of Weston Post of the Amer- ican Legion. Mr. Crites is unmarried, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics votes as a republican. ______________________________X-Message: #9 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 15:32:39 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926153239.00fcb090@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Claude W. RINEHART, Lewis 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. 280 Lewis County CLAUDE W. RINEHART is a successful business man of Weston, where for many years he has devoted his best energies to the lumber business. He is one of the pro- prietors and executive officers of the Central Lumber Company. Mr. Rinehart was born in Lewis County, West Virginia, August 24, 1885, son of William and Sarah (White) Bine- hart. His parents were also born and reared in Lewis County, grew up on farms, attended the common schools. and after their marriage settled on the farm where the father spent the rest of his life. He was progressive and industrious and accumulated a body of 200 acres of first-class farming land. The mother is still living. They were active members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and William Einehart was a democrat. Of their large family of eleven children ten are still living: Statira, wife of Charles E. Lamb, of Coolville. Ohio; John A., con- nected with the Parkersburg Mattress Company; Lloyd of Weston; Theo, a farmer in Lewis County; Jesse M., a contractor and builder at Weston; Elza A., cashier of the Farmers Bank of Clarksburg, West Virginia; Dr. L. G., a dentist in Oklahoma; Claude W.; Laura, wife of W. A. Moneypenny. of Lewis County; and Lona, wife of Oscar Bailey, of Gilmer County. Claude W. Rinehart grew up on a farm, attended the common schools with his brothers and sisters and later graduated from the Mountain State Business College at Parkersburg. As a boy on the farm he determined to enter a commercial career. After his college course lie spent two years as clerk with the E. J. Kane Hardware Company. He then transferred his abilities to the lumber business and for fifteen years was secretary and treasurer of the Sun Lumber Company. In 1919 he took an active part in the organization of the Central Lumber Company, and is the executive head of this corporation. Mr. Rinehart married Miss Effie A. Atkins, of Weston, October 16, 1912. She was reared and educated in Harri- son County, West Virginia. They have a daughter, Mary Louise, born October 6, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Binehart are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a democrat and is prominent in Masonry, being affiliated with Weston Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., Bigelow Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., St. John Commandery, No. 8, K. T., West Virginia Consistory, No. 1, at Wheeling, and Nemesis Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Parkersburg. In the local branches of the order he is a past master, past high priest and past eminent commander.