WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 156 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: ARTHUR K. PERRY, Upshur Co. W [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709103855.00c275d0@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: ARTHUR K. PERRY, Upshur 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. 453-454 Upshur ARTHUR K. PERRY, president of the Merchants and Miners Bank of Junior and for a number of years active in the civic and business affairs of that community, in the line of public service performed his best work as a specialist with both the State and Federal Departments of Agriculture as an inspector for the protection of forests and orchards. Mr. Perry was born in Meade District of Upshur County, West Virginia, October 24, 1869. His grandfather, Elias Perry, came from Erie County, New York, and established his home on French Creek in Upshur County, where he spent the rest of his life as a farmer and where he was laid to rest in the community cemetery. His children were Hubbard, John, Edwin, Elias, Wilbur, Fannie, who mar- ried John Love, and Mrs. Marshall Gould. Hubbard Perry, father of the banker, was a native of Upshur County, and was one of the early volunteers for the service of the Union in the Civil war. He was in Com- pany E, of the Fourth Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, and while in the service nearly all the war period and in many arduous campaigns he was never wounded or captured. He was a private soldier, and among other battles he was with Sheridan at Cedar Creek. After the war he returned to the farm and pursued the routine of country life until his death in 1877, at the age of forty-nine. When he went to the polls he cast his vote as a republican, and he was a worshipper in the Presbyterian Church. Hubbard Perry married Harriet Phillips, daughter of Edwin and Sophro- nia (Young) Phillips. The Youngs were an old Massa- chusetts family that settled in Lewis County, Virginia, in that portion now Upshur County. The ancestry of this branch of the family rnns back to an Englishman who was a man of letters and "wrote for the King," probably meaning that he was secretary to King George the first. Among his children was Henry Young, who lived in Eng- land during the latter years of George the second, while Holland and England were at war with France. While in a boat along the coast he was seized and pressed into the English Navy, and for seven years performed his duties with the Royal Navy and finally landed at Martha's Vine- yard, Massachusetts. An educated man, a teacher, he pre- pared three times to return to England, but something prevented his going each time, so that providence seemed to have designed to make him an American. He married Lydia Boss. Their oldest son, Robert Young, was born at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and had two broth- ers, William and Freeman, and four sisters, Anna, Cynthia, Elizabeth and Margaret. Robert Young married Lydia Gould. Their children were Paschal, Ann, Anson, Gilbert, Festus, Loyal, Louisa, Sophronia and freeman. The daugh- ter Sophronia was born November 17, 1812, and on April 22, 1830, was married to Edwin Phillips in Upshur County, where they lived out their lives. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Phillips were: Harriet, who became the wife of Hubbard Perry; Abizer; Josephine, who married Adolphus Brooks; Beecher, Marion, Aletha, Wallace, Linn, and May, who became the wife of William O. Phillips. The children of Hubbard Perry and wife are: Emma, wife of George Talbott and a resident of Elkins; Lucy, who married Jonathan Hathaway, of Buckhannon; Marion, who died in infancy; Orr, of Elkins; Edwin E., of Macedonia, Ohio; Delia, a resident of Pittsburg; Arthur Kirke, the banker; and Grace, who died as Mrs. John Finley. Arthur K. Perry lived in the community where he was born until he was eighteen. He made good use of his advantages in the local schools at that time. After a course in the U. B. Academy at Buekhannon, where he took a business training, he engaged in a private business career until he attended lecture courses in the West Vir- ginia University at Morgantown for special work in agri- culture and horticulture. After finishing the course he was appointed state orchard inspector, and performed the duties of that position for one year in Berkeley County. For another year he did inspection work in the forests of the state against the chestnut-blight. He was then called to the federal Department of Agriculture as an inspector specially detailed to look out for the white pine blister rust. He was in this work from 1916 to 1920, inclusive, and through the forest areas of West Virginia, New Jer- sey, North Carolina and New York. This is one of the most destructive pests ravaging the American forests, and the origin of the rust was placed to Germany, being im- ported to America on young trees. It affects the five- leafed species of pine. Mr. Perry after leaving the service of the Federal Gov- ernment was with the Gage Coal & Coke Company at Junior until the mines of that company closed. He was made superintendent of the State Game Farm in 1922. This farm is in process of development at French Creek, and has been put aside as a preserve for the propagation of game birds, particularly the Chinese ring-neck pheasant. The farm comprises seventy-five acres, and is the property of the chief state game warden, Mr. Brooks, who has set it aside to the state for experimental purposes. Mr. Perry's duties there are in the summer season. He per- sonally owns a tract of land adjacent to the Game Farm, and this and other lands will eventually comprise a State Game Refuge under the care of the commonwealth, where no hunting or fishing will be permitted. As a citizen Mr. Perry has served as recorder and also as mayor of Junior. He was one of the leaders in organ- izing a bank for the community, and in 1917 the Mer- chants and Miners Bank was launched, with him as one of the first vice presidents and directors. Since January, 1922, he has been president of the bank. Mr. Perry is a Master Mason, a Presbyterian, and has been a steadfast republican, casting his first vote for Benjamin Harrison in 1892, and his voting in National elections has been regu- lar except in 1912, when he voted for Roosevelt. At Junior, October 10, 1900, Mr. Perry married Miss Frances Row, daughter of Andrew J. Row, and grand- daughter of Benjamin Row. The other children of Ben- jamin Row were: Mary, wife of Emuel Viquesney; Julia, who married Andrew Williams; and Polly, who became the wife of Samuel Latham. Andrew J. Row was born in Page County, Virginia, but spent the greater part of his life in West Virginia, where he was a farmer, miller and merchant. He died in 1905, at the age of seventy-one. His first wife was Delilah Williams, and their children were Alva; Benjamin; Mary, who married Granville Brady; Virginia, who became Mrs. Columbus Thorn; Celia, who married Clarence Wilson; Rosa, who is Mrs. Washington Arbogast, of Junior; and Margaret, who died as the wife of Adam Thornhill. Mary K. Fitzgerald, second wife of Andrew J. Bow, died in 1915, at the age of seventy-seven. Her children were Lillie Bell, wife of S. S. Bolton and now deceased; Frances Amanda, wife of A. K. Perry; and Icie, wife of Frank Shomo, of Junior. Mrs. Perry was born October 10, 1876. ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 12:37:14 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709114430.00ba1aa0@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: THOMAS E. STALNAKER, Lewis 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. 462 THOMAS E. STALNAKER taught school for several years before getting started as a farmer, but in the main his activities have identified him as a man of practical and progressive leadership in the agricultural community of Horner in Lewis County. He is a well known citizen there, and has exerted an influence for good both in social and civic affairs. Mr. Stalnaker was born near Horner, May 2, 1867, son of Sobieski and Christina (Waggoner) Stalnaker. His father was born in Harrison County, West Virginia, Janu- ary 8, 1839, and his mother, in Lewis County, near Jane- lew, November 6, 1835. Sobieski Stalnaker was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (McWhorter) Stalnaker, the former born near the present site of Janelew in 1800 and the latter born in 1811. Samuel Stalnaker had a family of fourteen children, named Andrew, John, Charles, Julian, Levi 2nd, Marion, Walter, Sobeski, Amanda, Whitman, Margaret, Adam and Elizabeth. Sobieski Stalnaker was reared on McKenney's Run, and after his marriage spent his active life as a farmer near Horner. Of his eleven children two died in early life, one at the age of fifty, and the eight now living are: Elias M., a farmer in Lewis County; Rebecca, wife of A. C. Hardman; Thomas E.; George W., a farmer in Braxton County; Thaddeus S., a Lewis County farmer; Ira A., a salesman; Charles B., a farmer in Lewis County; and Victoria. Thomas E. Stalnaker spent his early years on the farm near Horner. He attended the common schools there, took a commercial course at Buckhannon, and for three winters taught school. During the past thirty years he has been diligently engaged in his tasks as a farmer, and owns a well equipped place of 200 acres. He has also been ac- tive in public affairs, serving four years as deputy county assessor. He is a republican, a charter member of Golden Lodge No. 139, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a past noble grand of the Lodge, past chief patriarch of the Encampment, and has attended sessions of the Grand Lodge. He is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On September 5, 1889, Mr. Stalnaker married Julia V. Hall, who was born in Lewis County, October 16, 1870. Their family consists of seven children: Roy S., who graduated from a commercial course at Buckhannon and now lives at Ashland, Kentucky; Thomas C., formerly a teacher now a farmer in Lewis County; Anna G., wife of Jacob Jackson, of Clarksburg, West Virginia; Frieda O., wife of Ray Harris, of Weston; Ethel, who is a grad- uate of the Weston High School and the wife of Stokes Swisher, of Weston; Mary, wife of Edwin Waggoner, of Weston; and Walter C. ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:00:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709103903.00c44c50@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: LEVI JEWELL, Lewis 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 Lewis LEVI JEWELL is associated with his father, W. R. Jewell, in a very prosperous business as a breeder of Hereford cattle. The Jewell farm has some of the best stock of this kind in West Virginia, and the Jewells are recognized authorities on the Hereford strain and have made a dis- tinctive success of their business. The Jewell Stock Farm is eight miles south of Weston in Lewis County. Levi Jewell was born on another farm, two and a half miles north of Weston, May 2, 1882, and all his life he has been interested in matters of good farm- ing and good livestock. He is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Ancient Order of United Workmen. On August 28, 1903, he married Bertha E. Smith, who was born on a farm in Lewis County, December 28, 1887, and supplemented her advantages in the common schools by attending Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. Her father was Wilson E. Smith. Levi Jewell and wife have nine children, named Ernestine, Walter, Howard, Paul, Robert, Clyde, Irene, Ralph and Ruth. There are three partners in the Hereford cattle industry conducted by the Jewells, W. R. Jewell, and Levi and Al- bert Jewell. W. R. Jewell was born four miles north of Weston November 29, 1852, son of Albert and Catherine H. (Ramsey) Jewell. Albert Jewell was born in the State of Maine in 1816, and his wife was born in Virginia in 1814. Albert grew up on a farm, had a public school education, and when he removed to Virginia he taught school. He married in that state and then came to Lewis County, West Virginia, where he continued teaching and farming. In 1856 he moved to the vicinity of Roanoke, and two years later to the farm three and a half miles north of Weston, where he spent the rest of his life. His wife died in the village of Janelew. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a republican. Albert Jewell and wife had five children, and the two now living are Flavilla C., wife of A. A. Maddox, and W. R. Jewell. W. R. Jewell spent most of his early life on the farm in Lewis County, and had only nominal advantages in the common schools, but later made up the deficiencies by at- tending private school. In the fall of 1874 he became a teacher, and he was identified with the educational affairs of Lewis County for a number of years. In the spring of 1881 W. R. Jewell married Catherine Fisher, who was reared and educated in Lewis County. They have four children: Levi, mentioned above; Florence, wife of I. G. Horner; Albert, who married Arminta dark; and Gay, wife of Z. P. Hammer. The family are members of the Baptist Church. W. R. Jewell is affiliated with Weston Lodge No. 10, A. F. and A. M., the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Vandalia, and is a republican. For four years he held the office of sheriff of Lewis County, and was elected in 1904 to one term in the Legislature. The Jewell Stock Farm comprises a thousand acres. The Jewells have spent a number of years and much money in carefully laying the foundation of their herd of Here- fords. This herd comprises sixty females, and the herd bull is Mapleton Lad 18th. ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:00:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709104322.00c4b320@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: QUINCE JONES, Raleigh 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 Raleigh QUINCE JONES. Starting without a cent of his own or of borrowed capital at the age of twenty-one. Quince Jones in twenty years has earned the right to be classed among West Virginia's bankers, capitalists and men of affairs. His home for a number of years has been at South Charleston, and he has been one of the actuating principals in the development of that prosperous young city. Mr. Jones was born in 1881 in Raleigh County, where he was reared in the home and on the farm of his parents, Dan and Fannie (Mankin) Jones, residents of Raleigh County. He attended the free public schools, worked on the farm, and in 1901 left home and connected himself with the lumber business in the Mankin Lumber Company at Oak Hill in Fayette County. There he learned the fundamentals of the business which has been the basis of his solid prosperity. He was with the Mankin Company until 1908. In that year he entered the mercantile business at Colcord in Raleigh County. He furnishes contracts for logs to the Bowman Lumber Company of St. Albans. The headquarters of his timber business are at Coal River, and in conjunction he conducts a large general store. In 1915 Mr. Jones removed to South Charleston. He is president of the First National Bank of South Charleston, a financial institution which gained additional resources and capital by absorbing the Bank of South Charleston in Sep- tember, 1921. This bank handles the financial affairs of the City of South Charleston. Besides his banking interests Mr. Jones owns business and residence property, and in the fall of 1921 built and owns a modern picture show house. His own home is a spacious brick residence on the hill at Montrose. Mr. Jones is president of the London District School Board and is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. He married Miss Ella Milem, of Raleigh County, and their three children are Daryl, Basil and Quince, Jr. ************** ______________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:00:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000709104340.00ce8980@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: CHARLES W. WATSON, Lewis 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. 457-458 Lewis CHARLES W. WATSON owns one of the good farms and is one of the progressive farmers of Lewis County in the Roanoke community, where he has 160 acres of land. Mr. Watson was born on Hackers Creek, West Virginia, November 9, 1846, son of William A. and Margaret A. (Wallace) Watson. His parents were both born in old Virginia, and the family has a notable record in connec- tion with Colonial and early national affairs. His great- grandfather, Zachariah Watson, was a soldier in the Revolu- tion. The grandfather, John P. Watson, was born April 10, 1789, and served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He died June 20, 1859. William A. Watson was born in Vir- ginia, April 30, 1818, and his wife was born June 2, 1819. After their marriage they moved to Lewis County, West Virginia, and settled on a farm on Hackers Creek, later moved to the vicinity of Roanoke, at the mouth of Sand Fork, and were quiet and industrious citizens in that com- munity the rest of their lives. The mother was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. William A. Watson took an active interest in the affairs of the democratic party, and for a number of years served as a member of the County Court and as justice of the peace. The record of the names and dates of birth of the children of William A. and Margaret Watson is as follows: Mary E., August 19, 1843; John B., February 16, 1845; Charles W., November 9, 1846; Margaret S., April 12, 1848; Sarah A., July 30, 1849; Lucinda C., May 21, 1851; Harriett M., December 31, 1852; Permelia, April 24, 1854; T. A., April 17, 1856; Jacob J., December 26, 1859; and Joseph W., May 11, 1860. Charles W. Watson spent his early life on the old home- stead, and the well improved farm he owns is a portion of the place owned by his father. There were few schools in the locality during his youth, and his education largely came from private instruction. His father died March 13, 1883, and after that he remained at home with his step- mother. On March 1, 1893, he married Emma Wilson, who died with her only child. October 2, 1907, he married Martha Kelley, a native of Barbour County, West Virginia. They have a son, Wallace, born August 8, 1909. Mrs. Watson is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. He is affiliated with W. G. Bennett Lodge, A. F. and A. M., at Walkersville, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Roanoke, of which he is a past noble grand, and he and his wife are Rebekahs. He has been an active worker in the democratic party, and has served as a member of the Board of Education.