WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 7 Today's Topics: #1 Bio: John Thomas West - Monongalia [Tina Hursh To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20000103200442.0068c480@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: Bio: John Thomas West - Monongalia 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 II pg. 74 and 75 John Thomas West, B.S. The thinking world agrees that knowledge is the master key to unlock the hidden mysteries of life made worth while through achievement. It is the great human leveler, giving to the poor and obscure the same tools to work with as the rich and more fortunate, and rewarding them alike according to the use made of them. Leaders in educaitonal work in the United States, those who have been chosen because of particular fitness to lead, direct and encourage seekers for knowledge throughout the great school system of the country, find themselves, perhaps, more deeply interested than ever before as they see their fields of usefulness growing wider. Like the good soldiers that they are, they keep their armor bright and stand ready to do battle with the cohorts of ignorance and superstition. With the coming of Prof. John Thomas West to Morgantown as pricipal of the high school this city took a long stride forward. Professor West was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1882, and is a son of John B. and Sarah Jane (Stewart) West. Looking back along the genealogical line it is found that the first of the West family recorded in America was a soldier in King George's Army who was killed in battle during the Revolutionary war. He left descendants, and after the war other members of his family came from England and established themselves in Greene County, Pennslyvania, where Professor West's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were born as well as himself. John B. West now makes his home at Morgantown, West Virginia. He married Sarah Jane Stewart, who died Ocotber 12, 1884. She also was born in Green County, and was a daughter of James and Lucinda (De Berry)) Stewart, the Stewarts being of Irish and the De Berrys of Holland stock. Losing his mother in infancy, John T. West was reared by her people in Marshall county, West Virginia, where he obtained his early educational training. His talents received recognition, and he prepared for college in the preparatory department of the West Virginia University, afterward taking the full course and was graduated in the class of 1907 with his B.S. degree, continuing at the university during 1907-08 for special work. In the latter year, in association with Prof. Lawrence B. Hill, principal of the university he opened a county high school at Middlebourne in Tyler county, a most creditable enterprise, the first of its kind in West Virginia, and one of the first county high schools east of the Mississippi River. In this school Professor West was an instructor from 1908 until the fall of 1913, during the last year being principal. At that time he was made acting principal of the Morgantown High School, and a few months later, at the beginning of 1914, became principal in fact and so continues. On December 31, 1908, Professor West married Miss Mary Elizabeth Sturgiss, who was born at Morgantown and is a daughter of A. Howard and Elizabeth (Pretzman) Sturgiss, the former of whom is deceased. Professor and Mrs. West have four young daughters: Margaret Sturgiss, born November 15, 1909; Ruth Elizabeth, born March 2, 1913; Mary Jane, born December 24, 1914; and Anna Eleanor, born August 8, 1919. Professor West and his family belong to the First Baptist Church at Morgantown. He is a Mason, a member of Middlebourne Lodge No. 34, A.F. and A.M., and of Morgantown Lodge of Perfections No. 6; belongs to the Chamber of Commerce; the Kiwanis Club; his old college fraternity, the Sigma Phi Epsilon, and is a member of the National Teachers Assocaition and of the county and state bodies. As an educator he occupies a foremost position, and is broad-minded policies have proved him exceptionally able as an executive. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 14:04:49 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20000103200449.00687848@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: bio: Samuel J. Morris - Monongalia 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 II pg. 75 Samuel John Morris, M.D. The distinguishing services of Doctor Morris in the medical profession have been as one of the most popular members of the faculty of instruction in the medical school of the University of West Virginia, where he is professor of anatomy. Doctor Morris was born at Morgantown, August 3, 1887, son of Samuel Hall and Elizabeth D. (Morrison) Morris. One of his forefathers, a native of Maryland, moved to Western Pennsylvania prior to the Revolution and settled in Fayette County, where the place of his settlement became known as Morris Cross Roads. Here the great-grandfather of Doctor Morris, Thomas Morris, was born. It was also the birthplace of his son, John Jarrett Morris, who was born in 1825 and subsequently became a farmer in Monongalia County, West Virginia, and spent his last years at Morgantown, where he died in 1900. Samuel Hall Morris was born on the Morris farm in Fayette County, October 22, 1850. His mother was Eliza Ann Hall, who was born of Hopwood, a settlement at the foot of the Alleghany Mountains near Uniontown in Fayette County. She was born there in 1826 and died in Morgantown in 1902. Her father, Samuel Hall, was a Quaker and was born in 1799 at Kenneth Square, now a part of the City of Philadelphia. He was a stone mason by trade and went to Western Pennsylvania to work during the construction of the National Road. In Fayette County he met and married Margaret Kendall, and the settle at Hopwood, where after giving up his trade he followed farming the rest of his life. Samuel Hall Morris married Elizabeth Delia Morrison, who was born in Morgantown, September 7, 1852, daguther of Robert and Delia Thomas (Watts)Morrison. robert Morrison was a bridge builder, and wa the engineer who constructed the bridge from Grafton to Fetterman over Tygarts Valley in West Virginia. This was built for the Baltimore & Ohio, and was the first railroad bridge in taht part of the state. Later for many years he was a well-known contractor and builder at Morgantown. The two children of Samuel Hall and Elizabeth Morris were Samuel John and Mrs. Nellie M. Rider. Samuel John Morris was reared and educated in Morgantown, attending the public schools, the preparatory department of the university and in 1906 entered the university proper. He spent two years in general courses and two years in medicine, receiveng his M.D. degree in 1912, and in the same year he also graduated with the M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore. This was followed by one year in Mercy Hospital at Baltimore, and after his return to Morgantown he became an instructor in anatomy at the University. In 1916 he was promoted to associate professor of anatomy in charge of that department, and since 1920 has held the chiar of anatomy. Doctor Morris is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations and the Phi Sigma Kappa college fraternity. June 12, 19122, he married Edna Leyman, daughter of Michael Layman, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. They have one son, John D., born February 27, 1919. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 14:04:40 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20000103200440.00686644@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: Bio: Nat T. Frame - Monongalia/Berkeley 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 II pg. 74 Nat T. Frame, A.B. Among the modern leaders of achievement in the field of agriculture in west Virginia perhaps none are more widely known than Nat Terry Frame, of Morgantown, who fills the important position of director of Agricultural Extension of the West Virginia University. He is a man of college training and versatile gifts, one to whom opportunity offers many paths in which these gifts would crown him with success, but for a number of years he has devoted himself closely to the study of scientific agriculture. Professor Frame was born at Depauville, Jefferson County, New York, February 25, 1877. He is a son of the lateDr. S. W. and Harriet Antoinette (Terry) Frame, a grandson of Doctor Luke and a great-grandson of Dr. WilliamFrame, his paternal ancestry for generations back being continuously professional. The Frames were known in the Colonial history of New England. Dr. William Frame was a native of Vermont and removed from there about 1810 to Northern New York, settling in Jefferson County, where he spent the rest of his existence pursuing the arduous life of a country doctor. Dr. Luke Frame, a grandfather of Professor Frame, had somewhat better advantages than had his father, whom he succeeeded in practice, being a graduate of the Geneva (New York) Medical College, and in turn was succeeded by his son, Dr. S.W. Frame, a graduate of Bellevue Medical College, New York City. He is well remembered in Jefferson County as a farmer and horse breeder, where he became eminent, and practically spent his entire life. He married Harriet Antoinette Terry, who was born in Jefferson county, New York, a daughter of Richard Terry, a country merchant. Her maternal grandfather, John Little, was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, where he received university training and from there came to Jefferson County at an early date, settling there about the same time as did the Frames and Terrys. The early annals of that county mention their importance in its development. Nat Terry Frame obtained early educational training in village public schools, but in 1890 he entered Union Academy at Bellville, New York, where he completed the entire course in two years, and when he was graduated in 1892 had the distinction of being the youngest graduate who had ever received a diploma from that institution. After teaching school for one year at Rual Hill, Jefferson County, he entered Colgate University, New York, from which he was graduated A.B. with the class of 1899. After completing his univerity course Professor Frame became principal of the high school at Black river, New York, where he continued for two years, retiring in order to accept the position of superintendent in chare of vocational training at the George Junior Republic, New York, in which work he remained greatly interested for two years. He then turned his attention to other interests for a time, in 1905 becoming identified with the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company in New York, Indiana and Maryland, and during the latter part of 1907 had his headquarters in New York City, where his executive ablity was manifested at the head of the company's school for the training of agents. It is some fifteen years ago since Professor Frame came first to West Virginia. He joined with John W. Stewart in the business of manufacturing and distributing horticultural supplies at Martinsburg, under the style of the American Horticultural Dustributing Company. In 1910 he became further interested in association with Alexander Colhan, Gray Silver and C.B. Hart in the development of orchards and farms. This association continued for three years, during which time Professor Frame, in addition to his other duties, served as secretary of the Eastern Fruitgrowers Association and also of the Berkley Horticultural Society, being also actively concerned with the affairs of the West Virginia State Horticultural Society and additionally with civic and community movement in Martinsburg. On June 19, 1900, professor Frame was united in marriage with Miss Grace Boomer, who was born at Bellville, New York, a daughter of Edward and Mary (Overton) Boomer, who belonged to old pioneer families of Jefferson County. Four children have been born to Professor and Mrs. Frame: Luke W., born April, 1901; Richard N., born in 1902, died in 1907; Robert, born in March, 1911; and William, born in May, 1912. In 1913 professor Frame went fo Louisville, Kentucky, in answer to a call to become agent in agricultural extension for Jefferson County, but on January 1, 1914, he retuned to West Virginia to become state agent in charge of county agents in the extention service, and on January 1, 1919, he was made director ofAgricultural Extension in the West Virginia University. He has many associated interests and is one of the busy men of the university and city, enthusiastic on the subject of his specialty, but not unmindful of the claims of other important world-wide interests to the attention of scholarly men, and to the real need taht may arise for the help of their trained understandings in solving many public problems. He is field secretary of the American Country Life Association; is a chairman on Co-relations of the State Social Workers Conference; and is a member of the Morgantown Kiwanis Club and of other organizations, including his old college Greek letter fraternity, the Phi Kappa Psi. he has never been a politician but always a sincere citizen, and naturally is proud of his true American ancestry. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 17:53:22 -0500 From: Lorna Workman To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38712862.B9392792@newwave.net> Subject: Marriages (misc.)- Marion Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marion County Marriages (Misc.) Record Book C, page 16 #3. Fetty, Samuel S. age 24, born in Monongalia County, son of Moses and Polly Fetty; Mary E. Hill, age 24, born in Marion County, daughter of Isaac and Mina Hill, married in Marion County, Nov. 29, 1860. Fast, R.M., age 29, born in Marion County, son of Jonothan and Elizabeth Fast; L.E. Doolittle, age 20, born in Marion County, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Doolittle, married in Marion County, Nov. 19th., 1860. Gallahue, Alpheus A., age 25, born in Marion County, son of Henry and Pheobe Gallahue; Saphia Hughes, age 21, Born in Marion County, daughter of William N. Hughes, married in Marion County by Thomas E. Lancaster, Dec.13 th.,1860. Hayhurst, David, age 41, born in Marion County, son of William H. and Catherine Hayhurst; Elizabeth Tucker, age 23, born in Marion County, daughter of John Tucker, married in Marion County by Finley Oaks, July 8, 1860. Hunsaker, John, age 32, born in Marion County, son of John and Jane Hunsaker; Isabel Wilson, age 19, born in Marion County, married in Marion County by William E. Campbell, Sept. 18, 1860. Hayhurst, John, age 20, born in Monongalia County, son of James and Anne Haggerty; Mary L. Kinser, age 17, born in Monongalia County, daughter of Samuel and Catherine Thompson, married in Marion County by Thomas H. Trainer, Sept. 20, 1860. Haggerty, James, age 41, born in Hampshire County; Mary Thompson, age 30, married in Marion County, from Humingdon, County, Pa., Married June 22, 1860. Hess, Jasper N., age 22, born in Marion County, son of Abraham and Isobel Hess; Sophrona Jones, age 17, born in Marion County, daughter of James and Sarah Jones, married in Marion County by Isaac Nay, Dec. 6, 1860. Hunsaker, George W., age 38, born in Marion County, son of John and Jane Hunsaker; Eliza D. Fleming, age 29, born in Marion County, daughter of Boaz and Eliza Fleming, married in Marion County by William W. Campbell, Nov. 13, 1860.