West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 58 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Winfield Scott SMITH, MD, Bar [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926155735.00fcd790@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Winfield Scott SMITH, MD, Barbour 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. 283 Barbour County WINFIELD SCOTT SMITH, M. D. Graduated from medical college in 1899, Doctor Smith has been a busy practitioner ever since, chiefly in the community where he was born and reared, Philippi. While in general practice, his suc- cess as a surgeon has attracted attention. Doctor Smith represents through his father and mother two of the old and prominent families of West Virginia. He is a son of J. R. Williamson Smith, whose record is given separately, and Celia A. (Wilson) Smith, of the well known and his- toric Wilson family. Doctor Smith was born on the Philippi townsite, where the Methodist Church now stands, September. 7, 1873. As he grew to manhood he attended the public schools, worked during vacations on the farm, and had plenty of physical training to supplement the intellectual processes of school. After completing his work in the Philippi schools he passed the teachers examination, and for three terms had charge of a country school as teacher. In the meantime he had definitely determined upon medi- cine as his life work, and he pursued the study in the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond, where he was graduated in 1899. Thus qualified for practice, he re- turned to his birthplace and opened an office at Philippi. His continuous practice here was interrupted in 1908 when he removed to Huntington, and was a physician in that city for seven years. For five years of that period he was associated with Dr. E. E. Vickers, one of the ablest surgeons of the state. For the past seven years Doctor Smith has resumed his post of professional duty in Philippi. He is a member of the Tri-county Medical Society, including Randolph, Tucker and Barbour counties. Doctor Smith is a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Elks, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows, has for a num- ber of years been public school physician at Philippi. In politics he is an uncompromising democrat, having cast his first vote for Mr. Bryan in 1900. He served one term as city health officer of Philippi. By his first marriage he has a daughter, Beatrice, who was educated in Marshall College at Huntington and Broad- dus College, and is now a teacher of Elkins. On March 4, 1915, at Huntington, Doctor Smith married Dei Gratia McWilliams. Her father, R. W. McWilliams, was one of the best known men in the public life of Cabell County, serving as circuit clerk for eighteen years. He was born at Grafton, was orphaned in childhood, was crippled by the railroad at Grafton while driving the village ears, and in spite of these two handicaps secured a liberal education and became a successful man, few citizens giving a better account of themselves in the community. Mrs. Smith is one of a family of four sons and four daughters, and she completed her education in the Huntington High School before going to college. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:03:24 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926160324.00fae8e0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: George Loren BAMBRICK, Hancock 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. 273 Hancock County GEORGE LOREN BAMBRICK. Few members of the Hancock County Bar have advanced more steadily to leadership than George Loren Bambrick, of New Cumberland, the prime secret of his uniform success being the union of remark- able business judgment and a keen legal insight into the most involved transactions. In addition to being promi- nent in his profession he has also been active and con- structive in civic affairs and at various times has been the incumbent of public office. Mr. Bambrick was born in Wayne County, Iowa, Sep- tember 4, 1869, a son of Lewis S. and Sarah M. (Baxter) Bambrick, natives of Hancock County, West Virginia. Thomas Bambrick, the grandfather of George L., was born in Ireland, where he received his education and as a young man became a teacher and surveyor. He came to West Virginia about 1820, and at first taught school, but later turned his attention to farming, which he followed in con- junction with his work as a surveyor and in which he traveled all over the county. A man of superior education, he was called upon to do much legal work of the period, especially before the creation of the County Court, and largely in this way came favorably before the people. He became the author of the bill creating Hancock County, which was cut off of Brooke County, sat in the Virginia House of Representatives at the time the county was created, in 1848, as a delegate, and named the county Han- cock in honor of John Hancock, first president of the Continental Congress. He was a stanch democrat. When he died, at the age of eighty-four years, the county lost one of its strong characters. Lewis S. Bambrick, like his father, was a teacher in his earlier years, but later turned his attention to farming and continued to be engaged therein without interruption in Hancock County with the exception of two years spent in Wayne County, Iowa. He is now living retired at the age of eighty years, but continues to take an interest in matters, especially those pertaining to civic affairs, and holds membership on the Board of Equalization. He is a democrat. Mr. Bambrick married Sarah M. Baxter, daugh- ter of Samuel Baxter, who was born in Brooke County and at marriage came to Hancock County, where he spent the rest of his life in progressive operations as a farmer and sheep and cattle breeder, and died at the age of eighty- four years. Mrs. Bambrick died at the age of sixty-six years, a happy married life of about forty-five years. George Loren Bambrick, as had his forebears, entered upon his career as a teacher, and for two years engaged in educational work in the rural districts. He then entered the University of West Virginia, where he finished his law course in 1896, was given his degree of Bachelor of Laws, and at once engaged in the practice of his calling at New Cumberland, where he has been successful in build- ing up a desirable clientele and making steady advance- ment in his calling. A stanch democrat in politics, he has been active in public affairs, served eight years as city attorney of New Cumberland and four years as prosecuting attorney in a county which is normally republican by a majority of two to one, and was special judge of the Cir- cuit Court during the sickness of an incumbent judge. In 1904 he was his party's candidate for the office of state senator, but met with defeat. As a fraternalist Mr. Bam- brick is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Bambrick married Miss Christine Donehoo, and to this union there were born two children, Eleanor McCown and George Donehoo. Mrs. Bambrick is the youngest daugh- ter of the late Hon. John R. Donehoo, who at the time of his death, in 1917, at the age of eighty-two years, was the oldest member of the Hancock County bar, of which he had been a member for more than a half a century. He had studied law under Charles Russell of Wheeling, was at one time editor of the New Dominion at Morgan- town, and served in various official capacities, including state senator and member of the Board of Trustees of the Romney State School. In politics he was a democrat. Recognized as a master of the English language, he was very able in writing opinions, as well as in translating Latin and other languages, and his articles were widely read. One of his sons, the late Rev. J. DeQ. Donehoo, was a graduate of. Washington and Jefferson College and became a minister of the Episcopal Church, serving various charges in Louisiana and Texas. He was also an author of some note, and his "Apocryphal and Legendary Life of Christ" is well known. Mrs. Bambrick is a graduate of the Washington (Pennsylvania) Seminary, and her mother, who bore the maiden name of Eleanor McCown, was a graduate of the Steubenville (Ohio) Seminary. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:04:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926160400.00fcf570@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: R. Osburn JOHNSON, Hancock 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. 273-274 Hancock County R. OSBURN JOHNSON while a young man learned and worked at the plumbing and heating trade in all branches. That is a business he knows from every standpoint. Some years ago he became a traveling representative for one of the largest and most exclusive houses manufacturing and distributing plumbing goods and supplies, the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, and for this company he established a branch jobbing house at Huntington, of which he is the manager. Mr. Johnson is a native of the famous Blue Grass District of old Kentucky, born in Woodford County, January 29, 1889. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His grandfather, Van Johnson, was born in Kentucky in 1838, and spent nearly all his life in Woodford County. He was a distiller by trade, and in that capacity he was in the service of the Old Crow Distillery in Woodford County for a half century, until finally pensioned by the company. He died in Wood- ford County in 1912. His wife was a Miss Jennings, who was born in Kentucky in 1840 and died in Woodford County in 1910. William P. Johnson, father of the Huntington business man, was born in Woodford County, was reared and married there, and was a merchant in the county until 1903, when he removed to Lexington and continued in busi- ness in that city until his death in 1907. He was a demo- crat, a member of the Baptist Church and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. William P. Johnson married Clara Williams, who was born in Woodford County in 1863 and is now living at Lexington. She was the mother of three children. Ola is the wife of George Compton, a bookkeeper for the Second National Bank of Lexington. R. Osburn is the second in age. Sampey is .the youngest, and is asso- ciated with his brother at Huntington as warehouse superin- tendent. He enlisted at Lexington as a mechanic in the navy, was stationed at the Great Lakes Training Station and then at Hampton Roads, became a second-class seaman and was in the service two years before his honorable discharge. R. Osburn Johnson attended rural schools in Woodford County, but left school at the age of sixteen and for three years was clerk in a dry goods store at Lexington. For two years he was bookkeeper for Buford A. Graves, cement contractor at Lexington, and then took up the business in which he has made his real success. For seven years he was in the employ of J. J. Fitzgerald, a plumbing and heating contractor at Lexington, and while with him he acquired every detail in the practical and technical knowledge of heating and plumbing as a business. Mr. Johnson went on the road as a traveling representa- tive for the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company on February 15, 1915. His territory was West Virginia and portions of Virginia and Kentucky, with headquarters at Huntington. His success in building up business for the company led to the opening of a branch jobbing house at Huntington in 1918, with Mr. Johnson in charge as man- ager. The offices and jobbing house are located at tlie corner of Second Avenue and Tenth Street. Through this house an extensive business over the adjacent territory is transacted in plumbing, heating, mill, mining and factory goods, supplies and machinery. Mr. Johnson regards himself as a permanent factor in Huntington's business affairs. He has acquired a home here at 525 Seventh Avenue and the business building at 612 Third Avenue. He is a democrat, a member of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, the Guyan Country Club, the Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce and the Credit Men's Association. In March, 1911, at Georgetown, Kentucky, Mr. Johnson married Miss Grace Bice, a native of Fleming County, Kentucky, and a graduate of Hamilton College, Lexington. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:04:38 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926160438.00faeda0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: John R. PLATTENBURG, Hancock 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. 274 Hancock County JOHN R. PLATTENBURG. Three generations of the Platten- burg family have had as their chief business interest the editing and publishing of the Hancock County Courier, now published at New Cumberland by John B. Plattenburg, the grandson of the original founder. This newspaper has been in existence for more than a half a century, during which time it has become a part of the daily lives of the people of the county, whose opinions it largely moulds and whose actions it greatly influences. John E. Plattenburg was born at New Cumberland, Jan- uary 28, 1888, a son of Jesse T. and Lou (Lockhart) Plat- tenburg. His grandfather, J. W. Plattenburg, was born in Illinois, where his parents had been pioneers, and in young manhood adopted the vocation of teaching. This he fol- lowed for several years, in the course of which he went to Wellsburg, West Virginia, and there learned the printer 'a trade. Later, as a journeyman, he set the first line of type on the old Wheeling Intelligencer, His first newspaper, the Wellsburg News, was founded about 1859, and. was still being published when Mr. Plattenburg joined the Union Army during the war between the states as a captain of West Virginia infantry. He was wounded during his serv- ice, being shot through the shoulder, but continued in the army until the close of the war, when he resumed the printer's trade. In 1869, at Pughtown, then the county seat of Hancock County, he established the first newspaper in the county, known then, as now, as the Hancock County Courier. It was a four-page, six-column publication, demo- cratic in its policies, and while its form and style have changed to some extent during the fifty-three years of its existence, its politics have remained unswervingly the same. The paper continued to be published at Pughtown until 1895, with Mr. Plattenburg as editor and publisher, but in that year the county seat was removed to New Cumberland, and the paper went with the seat of government. The founder continued as its active head until his death in 1907, at the age of seventy-seven years. A good newspaper man and a capable writer, he made the publication well known and its articles and editorials were widely quoted by con- temporaries in the journalistic field. His widow, who was Sarah Wetheral, of Wellsburg, survives at an advanced age. At the time of his death J. W. Plattenbnrg was suc- ceeded in the ownership of the paper by his son Jesse T. Plattenburg, who died five years later, in 1912, after a career which had been devoted entirely to the paper. While attending Bethany College he met Lou Lockhar, also a student, and they did not wait until their graduation to be married. They became the parents of four children: Joseph L., who is identified with the Weirton (West Vir- ginia) Steel Corporation; John B., of this notice; Julia, who is the wife of T. T. Bambrick; and Mary, the wife of A. O. Dorman. John R. Plattenburg received his education in the public schools of New Cumberland and practically grew up in the office of his grandfather's and father's newspaper. From early youth he has been perfectly familiar with its every detail of preparation, make-up and production, and since the death of his father has taken over the duties of editor and publisher. He is now producing an attractive, inter- esting and thoroughly reliable eight-page, seven-column paper, which has a wide circulation throughout Hancock and the surrounding counties in this part of the state, and which wields a distinct influence in directing public opinion and action. Mr. Plattenburg is a democrat. He has a number of business and social connections and has taken an active part in civic affairs. During the World war he served for thirteen months in the adjutant general's depart- ment at Camp Johnson. Mr. Plattenburg married Miss Mary McDonald, and they have two children: John W. and Mary L. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:01:14 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926160114.00fae570@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Charles L. CAMPBELL, Hancock 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. 258 Hancock County CHARLES L. CAMPBELL. In length of service Charles L. Campbell is the oldest member of the teaching admin- istrative staff of the Butler District of Hancock County. His experience has covered nearly all the improvements in school facilities from the crude one-room schoolhouse to a real school system and educational plant. He is principal of schools in the incorporated village of Holliday's Cove, which is included in the Butler school district, embracing the unincorporated adjoining town of Weirton. Weirton and adjacent community are the subject of more extended comment and description on other pages. The postmaster at Holliday's Cove is D. M. Shakley, also president of the Butler District School Board. Mr. Campbell was born at Holliday's Cove April 9, 1876, son of George and Alice (Hammond) Campbell, still liv- ing at the old homestead. The Campbells are one of the oldest families in this section of West Virginia. George Campbell's father was Robert Campbell, and his grandfather was Alexander Campbell. The pioneer of the family in this section of Virginia was James Campbell, who secured a grant of land from Patrick Henry, then governor of Vir- ginia. Some of the old estate is still owned by the family. Robert Campbell died at the age of seventy-eight. George Campbell is now seventy-one. Charles L. Campbell attended high school at Steuben- ville, Ohio, the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and also the State University at Morgantown. In 1898, at the age of twenty-two, he began teaching, taking charge of the school at Holliday's Cove when he was sole teacher with about sixty pupils, all in one room. Prior to that time there had been a school house of two rooms with an opening making them practically one, and used both for school and church purposes. This was replaced by a one-room building on the site of the present eight- room school house. That in turn was followed by a four- room frame building erected in 1902. Mr. Campbell after teaching at Holliday's Cove taught in other schools of the district, but in 1907 returned to his home community. For three years he was a teacher in the Weirton School, and since then has been in regular service at Holliday's Cove. The present eight-room brick building occupies the site of the old frame school house which was burned. While the main building contains only eight rooms, the school population has so increased that fifteen rooms are now re- quired, necessitating the leasing of temporary quarters. Mr. Campbell married Ora Shimer, a native of Ohio. They have six children, Leslie. George, Harold, Ruth, Wayne and Alice. His family is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has held the chairs in the lodge. For eighteen years he has been an enthusiastic advocate of wholesome athletics in this community, and in the school has encouraged a base ball team and otherwise stimulated athletic competition. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:01:52 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926160152.00fcd790@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: W. D. JOHNSTON, Hancock 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. 258-259 Hancock County W. D. JOHNSTON is superintendent of schools at Weirton, that interesting and thriving industrial and agricultural community of which the town of Weirton and the Weirton Steel Works are the central figure. For a century this section of Hancock County was almost entirely agricultural and pastoral. Therefore, while Mr. Johnston has been look- ing after the schools only half a dozen years or so, his work here has been largely coincident with the period of modern growth and development. It was in 1916 that the present Central High School building was erected at Weirton, with Mr. Johnston as superintendent. Prior to that time the educational activ- ities of the Butler District had been centered at Holliday's Cove, while the high school had been maintained for sev- eral years. The Central High School at Weirton and the schools in that group enrolled about 800 pupils, with forty in the high school, twenty-nine teachers all told, and three in the high school. There were only seven schools altogether in the Butler District in 1916. For 1922 the enrollment for the district was 1,720, there were sixty-eight teachers, and the high school had 110 scholars and ten teachers comprising the faculty. Among the veteran teachers at Weirton, whose work has been of the highest degree of usefulness, might be mentioned Miss Nell Cox, Miss Catherine Conlon and Miss Clara M. Smith. Superintendent Johnston was born in Harrison County, Ohio, graduated from Adrian College in Michigan in 1912, took post graduate work in Ohio University at Athens and at Columbia University in New York. For three years he taught in the district schools of his native county, was principal for three years at the high school of Jewett, Ohio, for three years was principal of the Chester High School in West Virginia, and then, in 1916, came to his duties at Weirton as superintendent of the local schools. He is an active member of the National Educational Asso- ciation, the State Association, and is vice president of the District Superintendents Association of the state. He has been superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School at the Cove, and is county chairman of the Junior Bed Cross. He married Dorothy Dennimore, of Jewett, Ohio. She is a talented musician, graduated from Dana's Musical In- stitute at Warren, Ohio, and at Scio College, and for four years was a teacher of music in the public schools of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have one daughter, Lorraine. The school system of the Butler District is a matter of special pride to all local citizens. D. M. Weir, vice president of the Weirton Steel Company, in an address he delivered to the officers and executives of the Steel Com- pany in January, 1922, had this to say concerning the school system: "The school system in Weirton is one that we have every reason to be proud of. The superintendent of schools in the Butler District is a man of high ideals, is a credit to the community and a very able and efficient director. And I think that the results bespeak more for him that any word of praise that I may say at this time. He has the support of a very able school board, Mr. Shakley, Mr. Morris and one of our own employes, Mr. Rowland. These men give their time and thought to advancing educational fa- cilities in the district, which is now taking care of 1,800 chil- dren, having about sixty teachers for this work. In addi- tion to that we have two colored schools, one in the north- east part of Weirton, with about twenty pupils, and one on Calico Hill, with about forty or fifty pupils. The teachers of these schools are just as competent as any others. "We are all justly proud of our High School and I think it compares favorably with any other in the state. This educational work is of the utmost importance. Boys and girls in the schools today will be prime movers in tomor- row's Weirton, and we should encourage educational work in every way. "At the present time there is being considered and it seems an absolute necessity a building for high school pur- poses at a probable cost of from $150,000 to $200,0.00. This bond issue will come before the people some time soon and I am hopeful that it will be approved, because new high school facilities are bady [sic] needed. About seventy-five pupils are being enrolled each year in the freshman class, and if past records for enrollment are any criterion it will increase yearly. "Mr. Johnston would like to have a high school which will accommodate from 400 to 500 pupils. Naturally he is looking ahead. He has vision. We think it will only be a few years hence until we will have that many pupils in our high school. Vocational training is being carried on with much success in our present high school building. In the wood work and machinery class there are some forty boys enrolled, and the work they produce is most commend- able. A recent exhibit of what they made was shown in one of the local stores and proved most surprising to every one who saw it. No one had any idea that such development was taking place in this line of work. Domestic Science is a very popular class in high school, some fifty girls being enrolled. This branch teaches home economics and sewing." ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:02:52 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990926160252.00fcd530@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Lowry M. STOOPS, Hancock 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. 272-273 Hancock County LOWRY M. STOOPS. Among the younger generation of educators who have made rapid strides in their calling with- in recent years and who have contributed through their labors to the advancement of the cause of education in Hancock County, one who is well and popularly known is Lowry M. Stoops, superintendent of schools of the New Cumberland Independent District. Since the start of his career Mr. Stoops has applied himself to educational work with the exception of the period when he was serving in the United States Army in the World war, in which he saw much overseas service. Lowry M. Stoops was born at Tustin, California, April 5, 1892, and is a son of Rev. J. P. Stoops, a minister of the Presbyterian Church. Reverend Stoops came orig- inally from Pennsylvania and has filled pulpits in various parts of the country, including his native state, California, Ohio and West Virginia. In the last named he served eight years, at West Liberty and Warwood, and at the latter place organized the congregation and erected the present church edifice. At the present time he is filling a charge at Wooster, Ohio. The early education of Lowry M. Stoops was acquired in the public schools, following which he pursued a course in the normal school at West Liberty and was graduated from that institution in 1909. In that year he became principal of the Ward School at Benwood, and remained in that capacity for five years, or until 1914, when, feeling the need of further preparation, he enrolled as a student at the West Virginia University. While he was engaged in his collegiate work he conducted an extension course. Mr. Stoops had a brilliant college career and was duly graduated in 1917, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At this time his career was interrupted when the United States became involved in the World war, and he enlisted in the Fifteenth United States Engineers, with which unit he saw two years of service, twenty-one months being in France. This was a railroad organization, in which Mr. Stoops held the rank of sergeant, and its work, principally the building of railroad yards, new roads, bridges, etc., frequently brought them within range of the enemy's fire. Sergeant Stoops was with the Headquarters Com- pany, and his record was one of conscientious attention to duty. On his return, and after he had received his honor- able discharge from the army, he again took up the pro- fession of teaching, and during 1919 and a part of 1920 was principal of the Weirton High School. In the latter year he was elected superintendent of the New Cumberland Independent School District, which includes seventeen teachers and a student enrollment of 500. Of these ninety pupils are in the high school, and in 1921 the graduating class consisted of twenty graduates. Mr. Stoops is greatly interested in his work and is indefatigable in his efforts to improve the system and elevate the standards. In his labors he is being assisted by the teachers and pupils, with whom he has become greatly popular, and his work is also receiving the sanction and appreciation of his fellow- citizens at New Cumberland. Mr. Stoops stands high in the esteem of his fellow educators and is a valued member of the West Virginia Educational Association and the National Educational Association. He is partial to all forms of out-door and indoor exercise, particularly basket- ball and baseball, but primarily the latter. While a stu- dent at West Virginia University he was a member of the varsity team, and at present acts as coach for the local school team at New Cumberland, which under his instruc- tion and guidance has won several county championships in contests with other Hancock County School clubs. Mr. Stoops was united in marriage with Miss Mary L. Williamson, of Ben's Run, Tyler County, West Virginia, whom he met as a fellow-educator at Weirton. Mrs. Stoops has taken an active and helpful part in all work of local progress and has been a leading figure in several move- ments.