WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 146 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: JAMES S. CRAIG, Nicholas Co. [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000705173332.00cb96c0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: JAMES S. CRAIG, Nicholas Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 419 Nicholas JAMES S. CRAIG. It is difficult to give any one interest or activity the first place of importance in the career of the late James S. Craig of Nicholas County. He was one of those rare men who apparently with equal facility handle tasks and responsibilities in widely separated fields. His record altogether is one that accounts for the honor gener- ally assigned him of having been one of the foremost figures in the development and the public affairs of Nicholas County. He was in the sixth generation of the Craig family in America, founded in 1721 by William Craig, who came from Scotland with his wife, Jean, and their sons, Robert, James and John, landing on the Delaware River and settling in Pennsylvania. The son Robert moved to Virginia in 1740, settling near Staunton. His son Robert, of the third genera- tion, was a Virginia soldier in the War of the Revolution, serving as a member of Capt. John Given's company from March 15, 1777, to March 15, 1782. He was in a number of battles and campaigns and was at the siege of Yorktown, closing the war. In 1795 this old Revolutionary veteran purchased land in the Greenbrier Valley of what is now West Virginia, and lived there until his death in 1804. His only son to reach maturity also bore the name of Robert, and in 1837 he established his home in Nicholas County. His son John James was the father of the late James S. Craig. John James Craig had a long and active life as a farmer and citizen in Muddlety Valley of Nicholas County, where he died April 19, 1912, at the age of ninety- four years and five months. James S. Craig was born at his father's farm in Mud- dlety Valley in 1842. He acquired an education above the average for the use of his time. He attended school in West Virginia and also in Ohio, and was a teacher of pen- manship in Ohio when the Civil war began. A Union man in sympathy, he soon enlisted in Company E of the One Hundred and Forty-first Ohio Infantry, and was in active service, chiefly in the commissary department, until mustered out September 3, 1864. His honorable discharge bore the signature of President Lincoln. October 16, 1865, James S. Craig began a public service at Summersville that con- tinued there almost without interruption until his death. At that date he was made county recorder of Nicholas County and also elected clerk of the Circuit Court and clerk of the county board of supervisors. October 1, 1872, was commissioned postmaster of Summersville, and was in charge of the postoffice at the county seat for eighteen years. His service as commissioner of the Circuit Court covered a period of nearly thirty-five years, until February 6, 1908. For eight years he was commissioner of school lands for Nicholas County, and for about fifteen years was chairman of the Republican Executive Committee. The late Mr. Craig was the pioneer real estate dealer in Nicholas County, and he made that business not only a source of personal profits, but of vital influence in the development and prosperity of the region covered by his operations. He entered that business in 1871, and in 1877 was appointed agent for Hon. James F. Patton and Gen. John Echols, executors of the will of the late United States Senator Allen T. Caperton. He represented these interests about twelve years, until all the lands in Nicholas, Webster and Greenbrier counties belonging to the estate were sold and accounted for, aggregating about 95,000 acres. These lands included the present site of Richwood. It was due to his persistent advertising that the attention of capital was attracted to the fine timbers and other resources of Gauley, Cherry and their tributaries, and finally resulted in the wonderful development of the Richwood community. His business for over forty years represented a wide-spread service, and it has been claimed that no person to whom he sold land and who complied with the incidental contract ever lost the property on account of bad title or failed to make money out of the investment. The late Mr. Craig owned individually or was interested in many parcels of real estate in Nicholas, Braxton, Webster and Greenbrier counties. The Village of Craigsville, Nicholas County, on one of his tracts, perpetuates his memory. He was a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of his home town at Summersville, and was president of the Richwood Banking and Trust Company and had an active part in the building up of that little city. In business or public affairs he stood out as a man of sterling character- istics and broad vision, a natural leader in every matter connected with civic and material progress. The late James S. Craig married Ellen F. Miller. She was born and reared in Monroe County, was educated in private schools, was a teacher prior to her marriage, and became widely known for her literary ability, a published book of poems classifying her among West Virginia authors. James S. Craig and wife had six children: Sterling M., a traveling salesman out of the City of Charleston; Arden L., who in an important, sense is his father's successor in busi- ness and an individual article on his career is published herewith; Charles H., a resident of Charleston; Miss Lillie P., of Summersville; Dainty E., wife of Charles F. Igelman, of Evansville, Indiana; Camilla, wife of E. F. Coleman, of Richwood. ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:47:13 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000705194604.00c25a50@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: DANIEL PENDLETON, Roane Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 457 Roane DANIEL PENDLETON is a prominent lawyer of Spencer, also publisher and proprietor of the Roane County Reporter, and bears a name that has had honorable associations in the bar of Roane County forty years. His father was the late Hon. Walter Pendleton, who earned distinction in law and politics and worthily upheld the traditions of one of the oldest and most prominent families in the South. Walter Pendleton was a descendant of the English family of that name, the line of which is traced back into the Plantagenet era of early English his- tory. The Pendletons were established in Virginia about 1674, and since then the family has produced many leaders in public affairs, and in every war of the nation there has been a Pendleton of high official rank engaged, includ- ing even the World war. Walter Pendleton was born at Buchanan, in Botetourt County, Virginia, March 7, 1856, a son of Dr. Micajah Pendleton, a prominent physician of that state and a de- scendant of Edmund Pendleton, president of the Continental Congress that framed the Declaration of Independence and the first president of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. Walter Pendleton was reared and educated in old Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in that state in 1876, and practiced his profession at Hillsville in Carroll County until his removal to Spencer in 1882. He was a prominent leader in the democratic party in West Virginia and was democratic nominee for Congress in 1896, partici- pating in a campaign in a republican district and when the strength of the republican party was at its high tide. He was defeated by only a small majority. In 1908 he was nominated by his party for judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, and again was defeated, though running thousands of votes ahead of his ticket. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was affiliated with Moriah Lodge No. 38, F. and A. M., Spencer Chapter No. 42, Royal Arch Masons, and Parkersburg Lodge No. 198, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Walter Pendleton died at Havana, Cuba, March 16, 1921. His death brought profound sorrow to his many old friends and associates in Roane County, where he had practiced law almost forty years. He began his professional career in West Virginia practically among strangers, went through a period of considerable hardship while struggling for recognition, but for a number of years before his death was regarded as the foremost representative of the local bar. A professional friend characterized his career as follows: "Walter Pendleton was a lawyer of the old school. The strongest advocate found in him a worthy opponent and one who always played the game fairly. His manner was courteous, his logic convincing, his sincerity was apparent. He believed that his client was entitled to the best that was in him and he rendered it without stint or measure, but he did not seek undue advantage or stoop to the plane of a shyster at any time. Coming as he did from the old State of Virginia and with a family whose name adorns the pages of her history, a fact of which he was always proud, he ever exhibited the traits of the 'Virginia gentle- man' but not with haughtiness or seclusion. He understood the struggle of the young and inexperienced practitioner at the bar because he himself had passed through the same, and he deemed it a pleasure to extend to such a one the glad hand of assistance. He reached a ripe age, yet he never permitted his spirit to grow old. He was happiest when he was surrounded with his younger companions, which we believe was the secret of his heart staying young." The first wife of Walter Pendleton was Nellie McMath, a native of Foster, Kentucky, who died at Spencer in 1892, survived by two sons, Daniel and Dudley. Walter Pendle- [a line of text missing here] not afterward married Miss Pearl Monroe, a native of Parkersburg, who died at Spencer in 1911. Her father was the late Dr. W. W. Monroe, one of the prominent dentists of Parkersburg. Daniel Pendleton was born at Spencer, April 6, 1887, and was liberally educated, beginning in the public schools of Spencer, later graduating from the Parkersburg High School and receiving his law degree from the University of West Virginia at Morgantown. He practiced law at Spencer until 1910, and for the following five years was an active member of the Oklahoma bar at Ada. In 1915 he re- turned to Spencer, and was associated with his father until the latter's death. Among other interests represented by him he is attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company. Mr. Pendleton in 1918 acquired the ownership of the Roane County Reporter, the official democratic paper of this section of West Virginia, and . a journal of great in- fluence and prestige. This paper was established in 1878 as The Bulletin, was later sold to a stock company and finally became the Roane County Reporter in 1911. Mr. Pendleton is chairman of the Democratic County Committee of Roane County. He is president of the Spencer Independent District Board of Education. He is a Rotarian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Moriah Lodge No. 38, A. F. and A. M., Spencer Chapter No. 42, R. A. M., West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling, Nemesis Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Parkersburg, Spencer Lodge No. 55, Knights of Pythias, and Parkersburg Lodge No. 198, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Pendleton is a stockholder in the Roane County Bank and in the Spencer Water & Ice Company, and has a considerable amount of property, in- cluding his home, one of the best residences in the city, his office building on Church Street, the Telephone Exchange Building, and he owns a farm near Ada, Oklahoma, and coal lands in Illinois. During the war Mr. Pendleton was active in all war work in Roane County, and especially exerted himself in publicity work during the various Liberty Loan campaigns. In 1915, at Parkersburg, Mr. Pendleton married Miss Edna Morford, who was born at Morford in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and finished her education in the Wheeling High School. Her father, George L. Morford, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1863, was a teacher there during his early life, and in 1895 established a home and business at Spencer. In 1897 he removed to Parkers- burg, and since 1908 has been active in business at Wheel- ing. He is a democrat and a Baptist. The mother of Mrs. Pendleton was Minnie Miller, a native of Greene County, Pennsylvania. ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:48:05 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000705194721.00c26b00@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: FREDERICK LUTWYCHE ROUND, M. D., Logan Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 456-457 Logan FREDERICK LUTWYCHE ROUND, M. D. Reared in several of the great industrial communities of Pennsylvania, Doctor Round learned the machinist's trade, but left that to train himself for the profession of medicine and surgery, and for the past twenty years has been one of the busy men in his profession in Southern West Virginia. Most of his work has been in the mining district and as a mine physician, and his present location is at Monaville in Logan County, on the Omar branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Doctor Round was born in the City of Birmingham, Eng- land, May 31, 1872, son of Frederick and Arabella (Lut- wyche) Round, both natives of England and of English ancestry. In 1873, when Doctor Round was about a year old, the family came to the United States and settled at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1880 they removed to North Umberland, Pennsylvania, in 1883 to Sunbury and in 1889 to Danville. Later they again lived at Sunbury. Frederick Round became a prominent man in the iron and steel indus- try of Pennsylvania. For a time he was general bookkeeper of the Pottsville Iron and Steel Company, was connected with the Van Allen Nail Works at North Umberland, the Montour Iron and Steel Company, was manager of the Danville Nail Works, and subsequently was general manager of the Sunbury Nail Works. He was a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, and at the time of his death was registrar of his diocese. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Frederick Lutwyche Round was reared and attended schools in the several Pennsylvania cities above named. He was in high school at Sunbury, and on leaving high school began an apprenticeship in a machine shop at Danville owned by the Montour Iron and Steel Company. He served the apprenticeship for four years, but followed the trade eight years. In 1897 he took up the study of medicine under Doctor Paules of Danville, and later entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he gradu- ated M. D. in May, 1902. In search of a field for his pro- fessional work he came to Big Sandy, West Virginia, in November, 1902, was located there about a year, and for ten years was in practice at Davy. For two years his home and professional work were in Huntington, West Virginia, and then after a year at Wilcoe he located at Monaville, and for the past five years has been mine physician for the Island Creek Coal Company. He is a member of the various medical societies, and one of the leaders in his profession. In 1908, at Bluefield, West Virginia, Doctor Round mar- ried Miss Minnie E. Fortner, of Davy, daughter of William and Octava (Darr) Fortner, both natives of Virginia. Her father was a Confederate soldier in the Civil war, and aside from his military experience his life was spent as a farmer. Doctor and Mrs. Round have two children, Virginia Arabella and Frederick William. Mrs. Round is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, while he returns the faith in which he was reared in the Episcopal Church. Doctor Round is a Royal Arch and Scottish Rite Mason.