WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 173 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: ALFRED L. SETTLE, Fayette Co. [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000716210836.00b84c40@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: ALFRED L. SETTLE, Fayette 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. 504-505 Fayette ALFRED L. SETTLE is the freight agent with general super- vision over all the complex system entailed in the handling of freight traffic for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in the Charleston city and industrial district. He has been in the service of this railroad corporation for thirty years, and for the past six has had the responsibilities of the freight de- partment at Charleston. In volume of freight traffic Charles- ton ranks as one of the capital centers along the Chesapeake & Ohio system, in the same class with Newport News, Rich- mond, Huntington, Cincinnati and Chicago. On October 23, 1894, Mr. Settle entered the service of the Chesapeake & Ohio as assistant agent at Sewell, West Virginia. He was there two years, and following that was agent and operator at various stations, including four years at Deepwater, West Virginia, six years at Springhill, and six years as agent at Cattlettsburg, Kentucky. Then, in 1916, he came to Charleston as freight agent. The great development of Charleston as an industrial city has taken place since then, and the business of the freight department of the Chesapeake & Ohio has correspondingly expanded and increased. In 1918 the new outbound warehouse, 20 by 672 feet, was built. All the team tracks and the streets leading to this warehouse are paved. The interchanging traffic facilities were also greatly increased in 1918, there being five interchange tracks at Bridge Junction, with a capacity of sixty cars. In 1917 there was created a sub- station in Kanawha City, also under the supervision of Mr. Settle as freight agent at Charleston, this sub-station being primarily for the convenience of the Libby-Owens Glass Company and the Owen Bottle Company, which industries have ten sidings, with a capacity of from twenty-five to thirty cars, and in an emergency seventy-five cars can be handled in a day. The general freight office at Charleston was erected in 1907, and by additions made in 1912 is now 48 by 548 feet. The tracks at the main station can accom- modate ninety-five cars, and there is also room for seventy- five cars on the inbound and outbound landings. Pew cities have equal facilities for handling freight. The gross volume of business done by the Chesapeake & Ohio in the Charles- ton district has increased from $1,500,000 in 1916 to $3,- 500,000 in 1921. In 1916 there were thirty-five office and thirty-five warehouse employes, and in 1922 there were fifty- one office and forty-eight warehouse workers. There is a yard office at Elk, where freight is collected and distributed over the several industrial cities surrounding Charleston. For that work thirty-five men are employed, twenty-five of them being yard men and trainmen. Mr. Settle is a native of Fayette County, West Virginia, and has been in railroad work since he was fourteen years of age. He married Lucy Matthews, of Springhill, where they reside. Their five children are: Hallie May, wife of E. J. Will; A. L., Jr., an employe of the Chesapeake & Ohio freight office; E. M., now in Arkansas; T. M., in school; and W. A. Settle, the baby of the family. Mr. Settle is a member of the Knights of Pythias and D. O. K. K. fraternities. ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:09:46 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000716210923.00bb7660@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: T. J. SAYRE, Jackson 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. 505 Jackson T. J. SAYRE has been a member of the Jackson County bar twenty years, practicing at Ripley, and is largely a business lawyer and business man, though he has given due share of his attention to public affairs and civic movements in his community. Theodore Joseph Sayre was born near Angerona in Jack- son County, February 14, 1875. Practically all the Sayre families in the United States are descended from one of four brothers who came from England in the army commanded by General Braddock at the beginning of the French and Indian wars about 1754. The grandfather of the Ripley lawyer was Elijah Sayre, who was born in that portion of Mason County that is now Jackson County in 1817, and spent all his life in that locality, a farmer by occupation. He died at the advanced age of eighty-two. His wife, Mary Jane Hunt, was born in what is now Jackson County in 1824, and is still living at Ripley, well in the shadow of her hundredth year. Her children were seven in number: Wesley; Sarah Ann, wife of Allen Shinn, a farmer at Angerona; John O., a farmer at Evans in Jackson County; Jasper, a farmer at Cow Run, Jackson County; Daniel, a farmer at Danstown, Jackson County; Elijah, a farmer at Evans; and Belle, who died in Jackson County, wife of James Barnett, a farmer now living in Putnam County. Wesley Sayre was born at Angerona in 1844, and spent all his life in that one community, where he died in 1907. Besides owning and operating a farm he was postmaster of Angerona during Cleveland's two terms. Wesley Sayre married Annie Wink, who was born at Pomeroy, Mason County, in 1853, and is living at Ripley. The children of their marriage were: Adam W., a farmer at Angerona; T. J.; Miss Marie, a teacher in the Ripley High School; Marguerite, wife of Charles C. Cunningham, a farmer at Evans in Jackson County; Belle, wife of Raymond Vied- horfer, agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Girard, Ohio; David, a traveling salesman living at Angerona; Clara, wife of Russell Baker, a farmer at Angerona; Freda, wife of Gay Casto, a dentist at Beckley in Raleigh County, West Virginia; and Leo, who died at the age of five years. T. J. Sayre acquired a public school education in Jackson County, graduated in 1899 from Marshall College at Hunt- ington, where he was a member of the Erosophian Literary Society, and from there entered the Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson, Tennessee, where he took his law degree in 1901. Mr. Sayre at once returned to Ripley and began the practice of law, and has had a generous share of the wort in both the civil and criminal branches of his pro- fession. His offices are on Court Street, and he also has his home on the same street. He is a director of the Citizens State Bank of Ripley, is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Ripley, and owns considerable real estate in town and a large body of farming land in Jackson County. Mr. Sayre served one term as mayor of Ripley. He is a democrat and a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. During the war he was food administrator for Jackson County, made speeches in behalf of the various campaigns, and put the demands of the Government ahead of all his professional engagements. In 1904, at Ripley, he married Miss Lida E. Hyre, daugh- ter of John A. and Dora (Board) Hyre, residents of Ripley, where her father is a retired farmer. Mr. Sayre lost his wife by death March 7, 1920. ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:11:39 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000716211027.00c6fc40@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: GEORGE AUGUSTUS MACQUEEN, M. D., Nicholas Co. 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. 506-507 Nicholas GEORGE AUGUSTUS MACQUEEN, M. D. West Virginia has a share in some of the finest surgical ability of the world, but it was due not only to his exceptional standing in sur- gery but to his constructive leadership in the medical and surgical profession in general, to the task which he suc- cessfully performed in founding and building up a great private hospital, and his disinterested service in the pro- fession and as a citizen that the West Virginia Medical Association so well bestowed upon Dr. George Augustus MacQueen of Charleston the honor of president at its fifty- fourth annual meeting held in Charleston in 1921. Doctor MacQueen is a native of West Virginia, born in Nicholas County in 1879, son of David and Mary (Mc- Cue) MacQueen. His father was a native of Nova Scotia and. his grandfather of Scotland. David MacQueen as a young man moved to Nicholas County, West Virginia, married there and reared a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters. Mary McCue was born in Nicholas County, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, her family having been among the pioneer settlers of Nicholas County, moving to that vicinity from Rockbridge County, Virginia. Reared on a farm, Doctor MacQueen attained a thorough academic and medical education. He attended normal school in Nicholas and Fayette counties and Marshall College in Huntington, and spent two years in the study of medicine in the Baltimore College of Medicine. After passing the examination of the State Board of Medical Examination he began practice, and continued until he could earn the money to finish his advanced course. He received his M. D. degree from Baltimore College of Medi- cine in 1906, and soon after graduating moved to Charles- ton. Doctor MacQueen continued in the general practice of medicine for ten years, but since then his work has been almost entirely in the domain of surgery. It was primarily to accommodate and afford proper facilities for his surgical practice that he founded and built the original Kanawha Valley Hospital in Charleston, of which he is owner and chief surgeon. Since then he has personally financed the successive additions that make it now perhaps the leading private hospital in West Virginia. In 1921 a new building was constructed, providing an addition to the above named hospital. This new building is four stories high, and now the hospital has a capacity of seventy beds. Its equipment is thoroughly modem including X-ray laboratory, Biological and Pathological laboratories, and every facility found in the larger hospitals. Each of the laboratories is under the direction of an expert and specialist. These laboratory facilities are open to the Medical profession in general. Charleston is justly proud of the Kanawha Valley Hospital, but it is primarily and almost solely a monument to the work of Doctor MacQueen. Doctor MacQueen is typical of many modern surgeons in their whole hearted devotion to their work and to work that lies outside the strict limits of the profession. Dur- ing the war he was chairman of the first Draft Board for Charleston. He was also the "war" mayor of the city, being elected in the spring of 1917. He was mayor eighteen months, and then resigned to go into war service in Septem- ber, 1918. He was assigned with the rank of captain in the Army Medical Corps. He was assigned to Evacua- tion Hospital No. 47, at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and re- ceived his honorable discharge in December, 1918. As mayor Doctor MacQueen had very difficult tasks to perform. The country was at war, the city treasury was embarrassed by lack of funds, and the ordinary resources could not be drawn upon because they were already taxed by heavy war demands. Public works and public duties within the ordinary scope of a municipal government had to depend upon extraordinary exertions on the part of Doctor MacQueen and his associates. Among other things he had to police the city with only twenty men. That force, adequate in normal times and with the population Charleston had before the war, was entirely insufficient due to the rapid influx of people attracted by the many industries established here, particularly the great muni- tions plant at Nitro. For all these difficulties Mayor MacQueen gave the city a splendid administration, marked by good order and efficiency. Doctor MacQueen was chairman of the committee on Legislation and public politics of the West Virginia State Medical Association from 1907 to 1921. It was largely due to his work and influence as chairman that practically all of the present laws relating to public health were put on the statute books. It may properly be a lasting source of pride to Doctor MacQueen that he sponsored the legis- lation leading to the building of the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Terra Alta. It was a project for which he fought alone for a long period. He personally wrote and presented the original resolution No. 17 covering this project for the joint session of the Legislature of 1907. Doctor MacQueen married Miss Nimmie Goad, of Brax- ton County. Mrs. MacQueen, who died in 1914, was a daughter of the late George Goad, of that county. George Goad was sheriff of the county, a leading citizen, and mem- ber of a family that has been prominent in that section of the state from early times. Doctor MacQueen has one daughter, Anna Mary. Doctor MacQueen is a member of the American Medical Association, also of the Southern Medical Association. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He is also a member of the Elks, and of both the Edgewood Country Club and the Kanawha Country Club at Charleston. ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:20:26 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000716211844.00cc8aa0@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: HON. WILLIAM EDWIN CHILTON, Kanawha Co. 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. 517-518 Kanawha HON. WILLIAM EDWIN CHILTON. While his distinguish- ing public service was in the United States Senate, where he was one of the most resourceful members who formu- lated and shaped the laws and policies of the Government during the first term of the Wilson administration, William E. Chilton in his home state has for forty years been a remarkably successful lawyer, and in and out of his pro- fession has been a leader in West Virginia affairs. He was born March 17, 1858, at the place then known as Colesmouth, now Saint Albans, in Kanawha County. The Chiltons were a well known family in old Virginia. His grandfather, Blackwell Chilton, was a planter in West- moreland County, and about 1830 came from Fauquier County to West Virginia. He had been a boat owner on the Potomac River, and in Kanawha County he was a farmer and merchant. He died at the age of eighty-nine. William E. Chilton, Sr., father of former Senator Chilton, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, and was a child when brought to West Virginia. He served as a captain in the State Militia, and for many years was a merchant at Clendenin, Kanawha County, and was twice democratic nominee for the office of sheriff. He died in 1881, at the age of fifty-six. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Wilson, a native of Kanawha County, who died in 1918, at the age of eighty-seven. Her father, Samuel Wilson, was brought as a child from Kentucky by his father, James Wilson, who was a native of County Tipperary, Ireland. Samuel Wilson was a tobacco manufacturer and also a manufac- turer of staves and lumber and a merchant at Saint Albans, where he died at the age of eighty eight. William Edwin Chilton secured his early education in public and private schools and under private tutors, one of whom was H. B. Mickey, whose chief enthusiasm was Latin and Byron, still another instructor of his youth was W. R. Jones, still living. He attended the Baptist school known as Sheldon College at Saint Albans, whose proprietor was Peter B. Reynolds. One of his fellow students at the same time was George B. Foster. Senator Chilton had experience as a teacher, and for a time was principal of Saint Albans School. He was admitted to the bar and began his law practice at Charleston in 1880. He was ad-- mitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1891, and for thirty years has handled a large volume of busi- ness in the Federal Courts. Mr. Chilton has steadily espoused the cause of the demo- cratic party, and for many years worked for the success of the party and its candidates without thought of any reward for himself. Being in a locality where the party was in the minority, he accepted nominations for the good of the cause rather than through hope of election. In 1883 he was appointed prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County for an unexpired term. He was the democratic nominee for the same office in 1884, and was also nominated for the State Senate in 1886. In 1892 he was chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee, and he served a term as secretary of state of West Virginia from 1893 to 1897. In the early years of his practice he was a partner of John E. Kenna, and was active in the campaign that elected Mr. Kenna to the United States Senate, in which he served ten years beginning in 1883. The State Legislature was democratic in 1910, and Mr. Chilton became a candidate before that body for the United States Senate. He was elected for the long term, from 1911 to 1917. In 1916 he was a candidate before the people for re-election. When Mr. Chilton entered tlie Senate, March 4, 1911, the republicans were still in the majority. He was placed on the judiciary committee and the printing committee, and after the democrats secured the majority he was made chairman of the census com- mittee and later became chairman of the printing commit- tee, one of the most important in the Senate. It is possible to review only some of the outstanding features of his work in the Senate. The Democratic Caucus and Judiciary Committee put him in entire charge of the matter of con- firming Judge Brandeis' appointment to the Supreme Court. He was chairman of the subcommittee that took evidence, and he wrote the majority report and made the fight that after many weeks of delay and obstruction resulted in the confirmation. LaFollette was the only republican to vote for the confirmation of Justice Brandeis. The evi- dence on this subject made two large volumes. Owing to the illness of Senator Culbertson of Texas, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Chilton was named to take charge of the Clayton Bill on the floor of the Senate. This bill, now a law, dealt with the interlocking directorates and other subjects in the field of interstate commerce, and the relations of capital and labor. He had charge of that bill while it was in conference, where he was active in the debate, and some of the sections of the bill were written by Senator Chilton. He was one of the Senate members who used their influence to carry out Wilson's policy for the repeal of the free canal tolls. It was Senator Chilton, who discovered by digging through the records, that when in 1784 Virginia conveyed the Northwest Territory to the General Government of the colonies it did not deed it outright, but in trust, and that all the subsequent dealings of the Government dis- regarded the spirit of the words "in trust," and that all the revenues from the sale of the land in the Northwest Territory had been applied to the Federal Treasury and without any benefit to Virginia. West Virginia as an original part of the old State of Virginia was competent to sue in the Federal Court to share in the recovery of any moneys that might be recovered on this account. Senator Chilton was author of the bill authorizing West Virginia to sue for this purpose. His proposal met a great deal of ridicule, and among others Senator Cum- mings called his bill the "coldest trail and the longest line to the United States Treasury he ever heard of." Yet Cummings after studying carefully the document Sen- ator Chilton had prepared and the latter's argument be- came a supporter of the bill. Similar ridicule was en- countered from Senators Gallinger and Lodge, and they too became converted and the bill passed the Senate, but failed in the House through the congestion of business that piled up at the close of the session. Senator Chilton has been chairman of several state conventions, including the Wheeling convention of 1920. He is chairman for West Virginia of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. For twenty years he has been interested in oil development in West Virginia and more recently in Kentucky, and also in the development of the coal lands over the state. For eighteen years he has been owner of the Charleston Gazette, now the paper with the largest circulation in West Virginia. He was appointed a colonel in the National Guard of West Virginia in 1897. Senator Chilton is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Elks, Modern Woodmen of America, Knights of Pythias and the Moose. On December 19, 1892, he married Mary Louise Tarr, of Wellsburg, West Virginia, daughter of Campbell Tarr, who was the first treasurer of the State of West Virginia. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Chilton are four in number. William E., Jr., is president of the Daily Gazette Company of Charleston, is married and has a son, William E. Chil- ton, third. Joseph Eustace is completing his education abroad, in the University of Paris, where he is making a special study of French literature and institutions. The older daughter, Eleanor Caroll, graduated in 1922 from Smith College at Northampton, Massachusetts, and while in college distinguished herself as a playwright, being the author of several dramatic compositions that have won favor. The youngest child, Elizabeth Leigh, is the wife of Girard Rice Lowrey, of Essex, New York, and they have a son, Girard Rice, Jr.