WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 118 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: STOUT, W. Frank, Clarksburg [Vivian Brinker ] #4 Bio-Carl Elias Beaty- Marion Co. [Joan Wyatt ] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:58:02 -0500 From: Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <000417165802.5320@RAVEN.CCC.CC.KS.US> Subject: BIO: STOUT, W. Frank, Clarksburg The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II. pg. 353 W. FRANK STOUT An old family name in Harrison County, West Virginia, honorably mentioned in its annals and through generations back to the present day justifying the esteem in which it has been so long held, is that of Stout and a representative member of this old family is found in W. Frank Stout, of Clarksburg. W. Frank Stout was born on his father's farm near Bridgeport, Harrison County, West Virginia, May 1, 1867, and is a son of Lemuel E. and Eleanor J. (Harter) Stout, and a grandson of Benjamin and Lovey (Reynolds) Stout. The grandfather was born in Harrison County, Virginia, January 25, 1788, in the very shadow of the Revolutionary war days. He developed into a man of local importance and served as high sheriff of Harrison County. His wife, Lovey Reynolds, was born July 10, 1796, and they had the following children: John R., Harriet, Thomas Payne, Kitty Jane, James P., Rheuhanna, Edward, Lemuel E., Benjamin B., Lovey Ann, Porter, Caroline and Charles. Lemuel E. Stout was born in Harrison County, Virginia, February 17, 1829, and died in October, 1915. During his younger years he engaged in business at Bridgeport as a blacksmith, and during a part of the war between the states, served in the Union army as an expert at this trade. He was honorably discharged and in 1866 retired to his agricultural pursuits until within fifteen years of his death. He was an advocate of temperance all his life and after the organization of the prohibition party, was ardent in its support. He belonged to the Masons and the Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife were faithful members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the church edifice at Bridgeport being known for years as the Lemuel E. Stout Memorial Chapel. He married Eleanor J. Harter, who was born in Harrison County, November 16, 1832, and died May 27, 1890, and they became the parents of the following children: Charles Alonzo, Benjamin Filmore, George Harter, Elsworth K., Ella Myrtle, W. Frank and Lillian Estella, all of whom survived to maturity except Elsworth K., who died in infancy. W. Frank Stout was reared on the home farm, attended the public schools of Bridgeport and the John Lowe High School. He spent three years as an educator in his native county, teaching both before and after graduation from the State Normal School at Fairmont, class of 1891. In 1893 he entered the West Virginia University at Morgantown, where he was a student for four years, receiving in 1897 his Baccalaureo Artium in Lege, was admitted to the bar in June of that year. He located at Clarksburg in 1897, where he has practiced his profession. While at the university Mr. Stout had the distinction of being chosen the first representative from the Young Men's Christian Association of the West Virginia University to attend the World's Student's Conference of the Young Men's Christian Association, conducted by Dwight L. Moody, at Northfield, Massacheusetts. In 1900 Mr. Stout was appointed referee in bankruptcy, by Hon. John J. Jackson, united States District Court judge, was twice reappointed by the same judge, and three times by his successor on the bench, Hon. Alston G. Dayton. Hon. C. A. Woods reappointed him during the vacancy of the judgeship. Mr. Stout tendered his resignation but was retained by Judge Baker until July 13, 1921. Mr. Stout had served twenty-one years in this important office, his district in the beginning including Harrison County only, but later being enlarged until at the close of his long period of service, he had jurisdiction over five counties. Mr. Stout is a director in the Clarksburg Trust Company, and treasurer and general manager of the Stout & Alexander Real Estate Company. On October 25, 1900, Mr. Stout married to Mrs. Adah Vascar (Alexander) David, who is a daughter of John I. and Ingaby Alexander, of Clarksburg, the former of whom was prominent in politics and served as assessor and also as sheriff of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Stout have had two children: Alexander, who was born November 27, 1902; and Eleanor, who was born January 31, 1908, and died in December of the same year. Mr. Stout and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the official board of the First Church at Clarksburg. In political life Mr. Stout has always been identified with the republican party, conscientiously advocating its principles, and in many campaigns doing yoeman work for his party as a public speaker. Social by nature, he belongs to various clubs and for many years has had membership in such representative fraternal organizatons as the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. In 1912-13 he was grand chancellor of the West Virginia Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias; was supreme representative at the Portland, Oregon, convention in 1916; at Detroit in 1918, and at Minneapolis in 1920. While at the West Virginia University he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, and his son, Alexander Stout, now in the university, bears the distinction of being the first son of a member of the fraternity to be initiated into its mysteries. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:02:57 EDT From: Sherneff44@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <79.313ec5d.262d3871@aol.com> Subject: Bio: Samuel J Sublette Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 382 Bio: Samuel J. Sublette, Mercer County Samuel J. Sublette is one of the keen and resourceful business men of Bluefield, where he has been a retail and wholesale merchant for a number of years. He took up commercial life soon after leaving school, and has achieved his success without special advantages aside from his own character and determined effort. Mr. Sublette was born at Alleghany Spring, Virginia, February 4, 1876, son of James H. and Aliean A. (Helm) Sublette. Sublette is an old name in American Colonial history and originated in the south of France, whence an ancestor came to the Colonies nearly 200 years ago. One of the important settlements of the family was at Powhatan Court House in Virginia. This family was represented in the Revolutionary War. James H. Sublette and wife were both born in Virginia, where the former was a farmer and stock raiser and took an active interest in politics. However, the only office in which he would consent to serve was that of school trustee, and he held that post for many years, due to his very sincere interest in the welfare of schools. During the Civil war he was in Company G of the Fourth Virginia Regiment, and was in from the beginning to the end of the war, though once he was captured and spent nine months in a Federal prison, where his principal diet was rice. Samuel J. Sublette attended the common and graded schools of Alleghany Spring, and soon after leaving school he went to work as a traveling salesman for Bonsack Brothers of Roanoke, Virginia. He was on the road for that firm for three years and then set up a mercantile business of his own at Alleghany Spring. He did well there, and after five years sold out and moved to Bluefield, West Virginia, being attracted to this town by its great promise for the future. Here he opened a retail grocery store under the firm name of Sublette and Barnes. The partnership was dissolved in 1915, and after that Mr. Sublette continued alone for two years and then organized the Sublette Grocery Company, wholesale. He was the leading spirit in this corporation for a time, but in 1918 retired from the executive control, though he remained financially identified with the company until January 1, 1921, when he resigned and organized the Sublette Feed & Supply Company, Incorporated, with capital of $100,000. Mr. Sublette is president of J. T. McMullin, secretary of this company, which does business all over Southern West Virginia. In 1911, at Bluefield, Mr Sublette married Miss Ethel R. Wall, daughter of James and Margaret Wall. They have two children, Margarette Hill and Samuel J., Jr. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr Sublette has some business and social relations with such organizations as the Chamber of Commerce, Elks Club, is a Royal Arch Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and since coming to Bluefield has worked with other progressive citizens toward the ideal of making this one of the best commercial sites in the state. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:47:52 -0400 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38FC4B66.DF896573@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- Edgar N. Deardorff- Huntington Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York Volume 111 Page- 379 Bio- Edgar N. Deardorff- Huntington Co. One of the well ordered and thoroughly modern establishments contributing to the commercial prestige of the City of Huntington is the large and well equipped department store of the Deardorff-Sisler Company, of which Edgar N. Deardorff is president. This establishment, now one of the leading department stores in West Virginia, is situated on Ninth St., between Fourth and Fifth Ave., and it controls a large and representative supporting patronage. H.A. Robson is vice president of the company, and E.B. Sisler is its secretary and treasure. Mr. Deardorff was born in Putman Co., West Virginia, November 23, 1864, a son of Isaac N. Deardorff, who was born in Bedford Co., Virginia, in 1827, and who died in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1899. Isaac N. Deardorff was a son of Peter Deardorff, who was born in Virginia, in 1798, and who came to what is now Putman Co., West Virginia, in the year 1849, he having been one of the substantial farmers of this county at the time of his death, in 1880. Isaac N. Deardorff was a young man at the time when the family home was established in Putnam Co., where he became a prosperous farmer and whence he removed to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1880. He there engaged in the hotel business, but he retired from active business a number of years prior to his death. He was a democrat, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Deardorff continued to reside at Gallipolis until her death in 1920. She was born in the present Putnam Co., West Virginia, in 1832, a representative of a sterling pioneer family of that county. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac N. Deardorff the eldest is Miss Alda W., who resides at Gallipolis, Ohio; Okley M. is the wife of William A. Horner, of that place; Camden R. is a railroad man and resides at Columbus, Ohio; Edgar N. of this sketch, was next in order of birth; William P. is a merchant at Gallipolis, Ohio; Miss Nannie E. likewise resides at Gallipolis; Betty R. is the wife of H.L. Cadot, of Columbus, Ohio. In the public schools of Putnam Co. Edgar N. Deardorff continued his studies until he was sixteen years of age, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Gallipolis, Ohio. For a time he was employed on a steamboat on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, and for ten years thereafter he was employed in mercantile establishments at Gallipolis. On the 4th of March, 1893 he there established a dry goods store, and he is still the head of the business, which has been developed into one of the most important of its kind in Gallia Co. In 1915 Mr. Deardorff came to Huntington, where he has maintained his residence since July 1st of that year. In Oct. 1912, he had here purchased the stock and business of the firm of Valentine& Crow, dealers in ready-to-wear garments. In the expansion of the enterprise into one of general department-store order he finally effected the organization and incorporation of the present Deardorff-Sisler Company, which has built up a large and representative mercantile business, based on effective service and fair and honorable dealings. Mr. Deardorff is a democrat and is a liberal and progressive citizen and business man who has had no ambition for public office. He is a director of the Huntington Banking & Trust Company, is a President of the Retail Merchants Association of this city, is treasurer of the local Kiwanis Club, and is a director of the Commercial Savings Bank of Gallipolis, Ohio. His modern and attractive residence in Huntington is at 1210 Eighth St. He and his wife are zealous members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Huntington, and is a member of its Board of Trustees. The Masonic affiliations of Mr. Deardorff are here briefly noted: Morning Dawn Lodge No. 7, A.F. and A.M., Gallipolis, Ohio; Gallipolis Chapter No. 79, R.A.M.; Moriah Council No. 32, R. and S.M., Gallipolis; the Rose Commandery No.43, Knights Templar, at Gallipolis; the Scottish Rite Consistory at Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he received the Thirty-second degree; and Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Charleston, West Virginia. He is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias and the United Commercial Travelers, as is he also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is an active member of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce and also of the Guyandotte Club and the Guyan Country Club. At Gallipolis, Ohio, on the 14th of April, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Deardorff to Miss Launa M. Snead, daughter of the late Frank M. and Sarah ( Haptonstall Snead, the father having there been a successful contractor and builder for many years. In conclusion is entered the brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Deardorff: Herbert Carroll, born May 28, 1894, is his fathers assistant in the department store, and is a veteran of the World war, in which he served as a member of the Fifteenth Field Artillery with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, where he took part in the major engagements of St. Mihiel, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, and those on the Vesle River and also the Argonne. His service in France and Germany covered a period of nineteen months. He is a graduate of the Wesleyan University at Delaware, and he married Miss Samantha Miller, of Gallipolis, that state. Frank N. born May 16, 1896, is an assistant in the department store of his father, and completed his education by attending the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia. He served thirteen months in France, as a member of the Signal Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces. He is a popular member of the American Legion. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:33:17 -0400 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38FC560B.A12EC9EB@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio-Carl Elias Beaty- Marion Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia Old and New Publish 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago & New York, Volume 111 Page 380 Bio- Carl Elias Beaty- Marion Co. Carl Elias Beaty has had a well known diversified business career in Marion Co., but his active interests are now concentrated in the automobile industry, as president and general manager of the Standard Garage Company of Fairmont. Mr. Beaty was born in Mannington, West Virginia, July 6, 1884, son of Newton S. and Margaret Ann (Blackshere) Beaty, and grandson of James and Maria Beaty, both natives of Mannington. Newton S. Beaty was born at Mannington in 1838, spent the first part of his life as a farmer, and subsequently had extensive interests in real estate, specializing in the handling of coal and oil lands. In the latter part of his life he was a director of the Exchange Bank of Mannington, an institution which he helped organize. He held that office at the time of his death in 1898. In the order of Masonry he was affiliated with Mannington Lodge No. 31, A.F. and A.M. Orient Chapter No. 9, A.M., Crusade Commandry No.6, K.T., West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling, and also Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. His wife, Margaret Ann Blackshere, was born at Mannington in 1849, daughter of Elias and Eliza (Raymer) Blackshere, natives ofGreene County, Pa., and of Scotch ancestry. Carl E. Beaty, representing the third generation of the family at Mannington, attended the public schools of his native town, spent one year in the University of West Virginia, and left there in 1904 to continue his studies in Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he graduated with the degree Ph. G. in 1906. In August of that year he entered the drug business at Mannington, and continued successfully in that line for seven years. Selling out his store, he took up farming and the live stock business, operating the farm from his home in Mannington. In the meantime he was appointed deputy United States marshall, with headquarters at Clarkburg, and held that office for two years, following which he was elected deputy sheriff of Fairmont, and performed the duties of this position for two years. At the close of his term as deputy sheriff, Mr. Beaty removed to Morgantown and opened a garage, operating it a year. He sold the business in order to return to Fairmont and buy an interest in the Standard Garage Company, and in 1921 he became president and general manager of this organization, which furnishes complete and adequate facilities that are greatly appreciated by all the motor car owners in Fairmont. Mr. Beaty is affiliated with Mannington Lodge No. 388 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married in 1908 Miss Lottie Deveny, who was born at Fairmont in 1888, daughter of Thomas A. and Lottie (Burns) Deveny, of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Beaty have three children: Thomas Deveny, born in 1910; Carl Elias, Jr. born in 1911; and Robert Newton Beaty, born in 1915,