WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 134 Today's Topics: #1 Bio-Phillip D, Neal, Wood County ["Pam Honaker" ] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 17:45:36 EDT From: "Pam Honaker" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000521214536.51029.qmail@hotmail.com> Subject: Bio-Phillip D, Neal, Wood County Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 463 Phillip D, Neal, Wood County PHILLIP D. NEAl. During the past thirty years Philip D. Neal has had an official and directing part in the management of half a dozen or more of Parkersburg's chief industries, commercial and banking institutions. His high place as a business man and citizen ia an additional honor to his family that has been of historic distinction in Wood County from the very beginning of settlement. Mr. Neal is a great-grandson of the historic figure, Capt. James Neal, founder of Neal's Station, the first block house and center of settlement in Wood County from 1807 to 1809, in the latter year was chosen member of the House of Burgessess, and from 1800 until the end of his life he sat on the bench of the County Court. His wife, whom he married in 1796, was Ephlis Hook, then about sixteen years of age, who died in 1852. Sheriff John Neal had thirteen children, and several of his sons carried the line of descent down to the present generation. His tenth child was George B. Neal, who was born February 2, 1816, and died December 24, 1892. He spent all his life at Parkersburg, where he was owner of a wharf boat and widely known in the river traffic. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, a democrat, and while he never attained wealth he was highly respected. He married Caroline McKinley, a daughter of William McKinley, of an old time family of Weston, West Virginia. She died in 1897. Her children were Eva, widow of W. W. George; Annie, wife of Dr. N.L. Guice; Phillip D.; Bettie, wife of Dr. George S. Bowles; Georgie M., deceased wife of Doctor Carr; Edward who died in infancy; and Emma, Mrs. W.C. McConaughey, of Parkersburg. Philip Doddridge Neal was born at Parkersburg October 11, 1865. He was endowed with sound inheritance, had an aptitude for business, was well educated in public and private schools, and his first regular employment was a a runner for the Parkersburg National Bank. He was with the institution five years, then became bookkeeper for the Consumers Coal & Mining Company, and in 1899 organized the Citizens Coal Company, of which he became secretary and manager and of which he is now vice president and treasurer. Mr. Neal in 1895 organized and became secretary and general manager of the Parkersburg Chair Company, and is now president and treasurer of the industry. He also organized as a subsidiary of the Citizens Coal Company the Citizens Concrete Company. For several years he was president of the wholesale grocery house of Shattuck & Jackson Company, a vice president of the Citizens National Bank, and from time to time connected with other local organizations. Mr. Neal is a Knight Templar York Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, and a charter member of the Rotary Club. He is a member of th Episcopal Church. In 1897 he married Miss Daisy Shattuck, daughter of Charles and Annie Shattuck. There three children are: Caroline McK., born in 1898; Phyliss Shattuck, born in 1899; and Annie Shattuck, born 1902. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 17:47:07 EDT From: "Pam Honaker" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000521214707.71979.qmail@hotmail.com> Subject: Bio-EDWIN W. CROOKS, M.D. WOOD COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 463 EDWIN W. CROOKS, M.D. WOOD COUNTY Edwin W. Crooks, M.D., has been established in the successful general practice of his profession in the City of Parkersburg since the year 1908, and his character and ability mark him as one the the representative physicians and surgeons of Wood County. The doctor is an exemplar of the benignant school of Homeopathy, and has become one of its specially successful represtatives in his native state. Doctor Crooks was born at Belleville, West Virginia, on the 15th of September, 1874, and is a son of Horatio N. and Marian (Muir) Crooks. Horatio N. Crooks was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ans was a child of about one year at the time of the family removal to West Virginia, his father, Capt. Horatio N. Crooks, having been for may years a skilled and popular captain of steamboats plying the Ohio River between the cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Memphis, Tennessee. Captain Crooks purchased farm land in the the vicinity of Belleville, West Virgina, and improved the property into a productive farm, he and his wife having there maintained their home until the time fo their deaths. On this old homestead their son Horation N. continiued to reside until the close of his life, and he held prestige as one of the the substanial farmers and influential citizens of the community. Dr. Edwin W. Crooks acquired his preliminary education in the public schools, and in his youth he began reading medicine by utilizing the medical library of his uncle, Dr. Edwin W. Crooks, who had removed to California. Finally he entered Pulte Medical College in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, this institution, one of the oldest and best Homeopathic schools in the West, having been founded by another uncle of the doctor. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1906, and since thus receiving his degree he has continued a close student of the best standard and periodical literature of his profession and thus kept in touch with the advances made in medical surgical science. As previously stated, Doctor Crooks has been engaged in practice at Parkersburg since 1908, and this city has been the stage of his earnest and able representative practice which gives him precedence as one of the leading physicians of the metropolis of his native county. He is a member of the Little Kanawha and Ohio Valley Medical Society and the American Institue of Homeopathy. He gave nine years of effective service as president of the Board of Health of Wood County, is a republican in political allegiance, and the the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has completed the circle of each the York and the Scottish Rites, in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree. His maximum York Rite affiliationis with the Commandery of Knights Templars in his home city, he is identified also with Nemesis Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is an appreciative and popular member of the Parkersburg Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The year 1917 recorded the marriage of Doctor Crooks and Miss Rebecca Dils, and they have two sons, Edwin W., Jr,. and Horation N. (III). Doctor and Mrs. Crooks are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ________________________________________________________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 17:48:02 EDT From: "Pam Honaker" To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000521214802.42664.qmail@hotmail.com> Subject: Bio-HON. WALTER EDMUND McDOUGLE, WOOD COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 463 HON. WALTER EDMUND McDOUGLE, WOOD COUNTY Hon. Walter Edmund McDougle. Thirty years as a lawyer and eight years on the Circuit Bench is embraced in the professional and public record of Judge McDougle of Parkersburg. He is one of the best loved men in that community, and upright and able judge, and a man who has been true to all the heavy obligations of his life. He represents the third generation of this family in West Virginia, and was born on a farm eight miles below Parkersburg, in Wood county, December 4, 1867. His first American ancestor was John McDougle, who was born in Scotland in 1731. Benjamin McDougle, of the second generation, was born in Maryland in 1762, and married Elizabeth Duke. Their only child, Samuel F. McDougle, grandfather of Judge McDougle, was born n Virginia, June 14, 1798, and for some years had his home in that portion of Warren County which is now part of Clark County in old Virginia. In 1848 he moved to what is now West Virginia. All his active career was spent as a farmer. He was pronouced opponent of the institution of slavery, thought essentially true to the institutions of the South. His son, Albert Armstrong McDougle, whose mother was Mary Armstrong, was born in Warren County, Virginia, December 2, 1838, and spent practically his entire life as a farmer and stockman in Wood County, West Virginia. He was killed on a railroad crossing July 5, 1905. He was a student at Williams College in Ohio when the Cival War broke out. He returned home with the intention of entering the Union army. Three brothers had gone into the Confederate service, and he was influenced not to enlist. In his old home community at Washington Bottoms in Wood County, January 11, 1866, he married Louisa Jane Lewis, who was born February 21, 1841, and died October 7, 1870. Her father was Francis Keene Lewis. Walter Edmund McDougle was the oldest of four children, and the only one to survive infancy. His boyhood days were spent on the home farm until 1886, and in the meantime he attended the local schools. For about eightenn months he attended the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana, taking a commercial course, and in 1889 began reading law with Judge John G. McCluer of Parkersburg. In Septtember 1890, he entered the law school of Washington and Lee University, graduating with the law degree in June 1891, and was admitted tothe bar at parkersburg, July 13th. Judge McDougle continued active in his work as a lawyer for over twenty years, until he went on the bench. He was frequently honored with public office, serving four years, 1893-96, as prosecuting attorney of Wood County. During this term in office he never has a mistrial or any case successfully appealed against him in higher court. The judge before whom he tried many of his cases said that he was the best prosecuting attorney that had ever practiced in his court. From 1909 to 1912, he was assistant prosecuting attorney. He was elected judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of West Virginia in 1912, being chosen on the republican ticket, though for his second term he had no opposition. He has never beeen a partisan politician, and his widespread popularity is due to the eminent fitness he has shown for his judicial responsibilities. Judge McDougle is affiliated wht the Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and other fraternal and social organizations, and he and his family are Presbyterians. At Marietta, Ohio, April 18, 1891, he married Myrtle Elizabeth Curry, daughter of George and Eliza (White) Curry. Her father was a Union soldier and later a brick manufacturer. The only son of Judge McDougle is Robert Boreman McDougle, who was born February 7, 1893. He graduated from the Parkersburg High School, from Washington and Lee University in 1916, and during the World war was a first lieutneant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-fourth Field Artillery, serving two years, fourteen months of which time were spent overseas in France. He was in the battle of the Argonne. He is now rated as one of the ablest young lawyers in the section of West Virginia, and is assistant prosecuting attorney of Wood County. ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 21:39:19 -0400 From: Bridgette Osz To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <39288FC7.A5CEEA04@eohio.net> Subject: John W. Ryan - Obit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Barbour Democrat Wednesday October 30, 1974 page 3 John W. Ryan, 59y, a resident of 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fairmont, died unexpectedly, Wednesday, October 23, 1974, in a Fairmont hospital. He was born in Barbour County, November 10, 1914, a son of the late Galford and Alma Ryan. He is survived by his wife, the former Gladys Kelly. one daughter, Mrs. Edna May Triplett, Fairfax, VA; two grandchildren; three brothers; Austin Ryan, Painesville, Ohio, Theodore Ryan, Arnettesville, Paul Ryan, California; three sisters, Mrs. Vonda (Orlen) Cross, Belington, Mrs. Goldie Hess, Elkins, Mrs. Lillie Arbogast, Beverly. Mr. Ryan was a member of the Highland Avenue UM Church in Fairmont and was a retired auto mechanic having been employed by Wilson Sales, Fairmont. Funeral services were held on October 26 in Fairmont, with the Rev. Graham Robertson officiating. Interment followed in Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens, Fairmont