WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 181 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: WILL A. QUIMBY, M. D., Ohio C [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000722214757.00ca4b20@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: WILL A. QUIMBY, M. D., Ohio 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. 535-536 Ohio WILL A. QUIMBY, M. D. A Wheeling physician. Doctor Quimby after several years or general practice specialized in X-Ray and Radium work, and through his broad study and specialization of the technical facilities on which he has concentrated has made his specialty an invaluable serv- ice to the public and to the medical and surgical profes- sion of Wheeling. Doctor Quimby is a native of Wheeling, where he was born August 19, 1881. His father, Charles H. Quimby, was born in Boston; Massachusetts, in 1838, was reared in Massachusetts and Maine. In 1862 he moved to Marietta, Ohio, and in 1865 located at Wheeling. He was a tanner by trade, and continued to follow that work for some time after coming to Wheeling. He then engaged in the news- paper and stationery business, and was an active merchant of Wheeling until he retired in April, 1920. He is now living at Bridgeport, Ohio. He is a republican, and for many years has been a faithful member of the Baptist Church. He first married in Peabody, Massachusetts, but the two children of that union died in infancy. After coming to Wheeling he married Sarah Baker, who was born at Captine, Ohio, in 1841, and died at Blaine, that state, in 1905. To that marriage were born six children: A. Judson, an X-Ray specialist in New York City; Charles H., Jr., a civil engineer at Washington, D. C.; Miss Jennie C., a graduate nurse and superintendent of the Maternity Hospital at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Will A.; Mary D., wife of Milton Kennedy, a contractor at Bridgeport, Ohio; and John C., a teacher of agriculture in the State Normal School at Dillon, Montana. Will A. Quimby acquired his early education in the pub- lic schools of Blaine, Ohio. He graduated from Linsly Institute at Wheeling in 1903, attended the West Virginia State University, and subsequently entered Starling-Ohio Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he was gradu- ated M. D. in 1908. One year he spent as interne in the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, and also did some gen- eral practice there. Doctor Quimby has been a member of the medical profession at Wheeling since 1909. He was the first physician in Ohio County to use radium in the treatment of certain cases, and his work is practically con- fined to X-Ray and Radium practice, for which he has an equipment probably not excelled in any other city in the Ohio Valley. His offices are in the Wheeling Steel Corporation Building. Doctor Quimby is a member of the Ohio County, West Virginia State and the American Medical Associations, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Radiological Society of North America, and is secre- tary and treasurer of the Curie Radium Society, Inc., of Wheeling. In politics he is a republican, is a member of the Metho- dist Church, is affiliated with Bridgeport Lodge No. 181, F. and A. M., Wheeling Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of Fort Henry Club. His residence is at Lenox, Wheeling. Doctor Quimby married at Bridgeport, Ohio, in 1913, Mrs. Helen Dunlevy Sprott, daughter of Major Seymour and Emma (Rhodes) Dunlevy, both of whom died at Bridgeport. ********************* ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:50:24 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000722214857.00c95c90@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: SEBASTIAN M. MILLER, 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. 556 Raleigh SEBASTIAN M. MILLER is a mining engineer, with a wide and varied experience in the mining district of West Vir- ginia and other states. He has been the engineer and operating official in the development of the most important coal districts in the southern part of the state. His home for the past ten years has been at Beckley in Raleigh County, and he has been manager of the sale of land for a large group of mining properties in the interest of the Interstate Coal and Dock Company of Huntington. This company is incorporated under the laws of Maine, and its officers and directors comprise one of the most powerful groups of coal operators in the Middle West. The general manager and secretary-treasurer of the company is C. H. Mead of Berkeley, and Mr. Miller for a number of years has been associated with the Mead coal interests in this state. Mr. Miller was born February 18, 1868, at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. His ancestors have been in Pennsylvania since Colonial times, and comprise an ad- mixture of English, German and Scotch. About 1750 the German branch of the family acquired an interest in lands in Pennsylvania, and subsequently brought a colony of Germans who settled on the land. The parents of Mr. Miller were George and Katherine (Mull) Miller, natives of Pennsyl- vania. Mr. Miller's grandfather on his mother's side was an Abraham Lincoln elector for Pennsylvania. The Millers were pioneers in the development of the anthracite coal fields of Schuylkill County. Sebastian Miller's grandfather began mining coal in that county in 1827, and subsequently associated with him his sons David, George and another son, and they continued these operations until 1890. George Miller was a Union soldier who joined the army in the closing months of the Civil war. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died in 1881. Sebastian M. Miller attended the common schools 01 Schuylkill County, also Mercersburg Academy, and from there entered Franklin and Marshall College of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he graduated A. B. in 1888. Subse- quently he pursued special courses in mine engineering, and also as a matter of general business education rather than with a view to fitting himself for the profession he read law for about a year. On leaving Pennsylvania Mr. Miller spent about a year and a half as a practical geologist and engineer in the gold, silver and lead fields of Colorado in big own interest. He was also in the coal mining district of Utah and acquired some interest in a considerable acreage of coal land. For about a year he was in the coal mining section around Fort Scott, Kansas. While in the West he became interested in a proposition to build what was to be known as the Utah & California Nevada Railway, and he connected with the construction company as treasurer and director in charge of the survey, and secured the right of way for this line. He returned to New York in the interest of the railroad in 1896. Not long afterward he be- came associated with his uncle in coal mining operations in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. His uncle died in 1905, and the mine properties were sold to New York parties, Mr. Miller remaining in charge for the new owners. These operators subsequently became interested in West Virginia, and Mr. Miller came to the state to represent them in 1906, and he handled many of the matters connected with the purchase of the properties of the New River Smokeless Coal Company, Cunard Coal Company, Brooklyn Coal Com- pany, Red Ash Coal Company, Rush Run Coal Company, the Sun Mines Nos. 1-2-3, the Lanark Coal Company and the Royal Coal Company. These purchases included nine mines in all, and the properties were organized as the New River Collieries Company. Mr. Miller became general manager of this corporation, and he negotiated the lease of 8000 acres from the Crab Orchard Land Company. He was the practical man in charge of the development of this property, and supervised the installation of two sets of shafts and the building of railroads, power plants, store buildings, offices, tipples, dwellings and club house. The first coal was shipped from this property in 1907. Mr. Miller remained with the organization for two and one half years, and then established himself as a consulting engineer at Beckley. In 1912 he became associated with P. M. Snyder, S. A. Scott, J. L. Bumgardner and others in securing leases to fifteen hundred acres of coal lands in the Winding Gulf District. The development of this property was under his personal supervision, and the corporation handling it was known as the East Gulf Coal Company. Mr. Miller sold his interests in this corporation in 1917, and then became interested in the Interstate Coal and Dock Company a Coal Sales Company, becoming its manager in order to round out his experience in the coal business in this district. He is also interested in the Low Volatile Consolidated Coal Company, of which C. H. Mead is president. Mr. Miller is now general sales manager for all the coal produced in the properties of C. H. Mead Coal Company, Bailey-Wood Coal Company, Ragland Coal Com- pany, Ingram Branch Coal Company, and the Low Volatile Consolidated Company, there being six mines producing about a million tons annually. In November, 1907, at Washington, D. C., Mr. Miller married Miss Anna B. Scott, daughter of Samuel Scott, a native of Maryland. Mr. Miller is affiliated with the Elks Lodge and the Kiwanis Club, and is a member of the Episcopal Church. He is also a member of the Raleigh County Country Club, the White Oak Country Club, and the Old Colony Club. ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:50:57 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000722215028.00c95280@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: ROBERT KEMP MORTON, Kanawha 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. 558 Kanawha ROBERT KEMP MORTON brought to the profession of law an education and early training derived from contact as a student with some of the foremost institutions of education in America. He had decided talents for the profession, and his record as a practicing lawyer for fifteen years has brought him deserved prominence. Mr. Morton has been a member of the Charleston bar for the past ten years, and is widely known over the state as state president of the West Virginia Elks' Association. He was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, in 1880, son of William Benjamin and Margaret (Crockett) Morton. His parents were also born in old Virginia, representing families long identified with that commonwealth. The Mortons had their ancestral seat in Prince Edward County. Margaret Crockett represented one branch of the family that produced the famous pioneer Davy Crockett. Robert Kemp Morton was educated in Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, graduating in 1903, with the Bachelor of Arts degree and did postgraduate work in history and political science in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. After one year at Johns Hopkins Mr. Morton decided to take up the profession of the law. and prepared for the bar at the University of Virginia. He began the practice of law at Tazewell Court House in his native county in 1906, but in 1912 moved to Charleston. For some time he was associated in practice with Judge A. S. Alexander, now on the bench. Mr. Morton is now senior member of the firm of Morton and Mohler. They have a large general civil practice and represent among their clients some of the important business and industrial in- terests of the state. Mr. Morton has for a number of years been active in the Charleston Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is past exalted ruler of Charleston Lodge, and the many valuable services he has rendered the Order led to his being elected president of the West Virginia Association of Elks at the annual state convention of the Order at Charleston in September, 1921. He is also a member of the college fraternity Kappa Alpha. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Beni-Kedem Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Morton married Miss Julia Ward Davidson, of Mercer County. West Virginia, in 1909. Their three children are Robert Kemp, Jr., Margaret Elizabeth and William Benjamin III. ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:57:43 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000719062043.00c98640@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: CAPT. FRANCIS W. TURNER, Kanawha 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. 519 Kanawha CAPT. FRANCIS W. TURNER was an officer in the American forces during the late war, is a captain in the West Virginia National Guard, and is a prominent young business man of St. Albans, Kanawha County, where he is engaged in the insurance business with his father. His father, W. T. Turner, was born at St. Albans, repre- senting a pioneer family of Kanawha County. For a num- ber of years he has carried on a general insurance business in St. Albans, the firm being now Turner & Turner. Francis W. Turner was born at St. Albans in 1895, son of W. T. and Dimmie (Wheeler) Turner. He acquired a public school education in St. Albans, and for three years was a student in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of West Virginia. While at the university he received his military training, and was a member of the Cadet Corps. Soon after America entered the war with Germany he en- listed, in May, 1917, at Camp Kanawha with the Second West Virginia Infantry. When this organization was mus- tered into the army it was sent for training to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and while there Mr. Turner was commissioned a second lieutenant. The Second West Virginia became a part of the Thirty-eighth Division, but on going overseas, however, in September, 1918, Francis Turner went into the Twenty-ninth Division. With this division he was in the fighting in the Argonne Forest. He received his honorable discharge in June, 1919, and for some time thereafter at- tended the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. On returning home he joined his father in the insurance business. With the reorganization of the Old National Guard after the war, as a permanent unit in the Federal Military Establishment, Mr. Turner joined Company B, One Hundred and Fiftieth Infantry, and in the fall of 1921 was commissioned captain by Adjutant-General Charnock, of West Virginia. Captain Turner is in active charge of this unit. The National Guard is now formally incorporated in the Federal army, and is no longer officially designated as the First National Guard. Captain Turner is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and is affiliated with the Masons, Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. ______________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:58:01 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000719062052.00b88de0@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, JR., Kanawha 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. 521 Kanawha EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, JR., is a civil engineer by pro- fession, but for several years past his time and abilities have been expended with the Bowman Lumber Company of St. Albans, of which he is manager. His father, E. C. Colcord, Sr., is also prominently connected with that and allied in- dustries at St. Albans, and a separate article gives the details of his career. E. C. Colcord, Jr., is the oldest in a family of seven children, and was born at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, January 15, 1885. He has lived in West Virginia since childhood, and he secured a liberal education in the schools of this state. In 1907 he graduated in the civil engineering course from West Virginia University, and during the next four years he carried on a general practice as a civil en- gineer. For two years he was at work on Ohio River im- provement. Since then he has been general manager of the Bowman Lumber Company at St. Albans. Mr. Colcord married Gertrude Bocke, daughter of Capt. A. A. and Julia Doddrige-Lackey Bocke, of St. Albans. They have one son, E. C. Colcord, III. Mr. Colcord is a republican, and has spent four years in the council of St. Albans and is a Master Mason. The Bowman Lumber Company is a West Virginia Cor- poration organized and capitalized chiefly by men from Baltimore and Williamsport. It was organized about 1880, and its operations as a lumber mill have been conducted steadily at St. Albans. The first plant had a capacity of about 35,000 feet per day and an average annual output of between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 feet. It cut great quan- tities of timber along the Coal River, and those cut-over lands are now leased for coal purposes. In former years it drew much of its lumber from Boone County and later from Raleigh. The company has about 125 men on its pay roll, fifty of them living at St. Albans, while the others are in the woods. Up to about sixteen years ago their plant manufactured only poplar lumber, but it now handles red and white oak, chestnut and maple, and it supplies large quantities of wood used for the high class product in furniture, interior work and automobiles. The same interests who own the Bowman Lumber Com- pany also comprise the Rowland Land Company, which owns coal and timber lands in Raleigh County to an extent of 50,000 acres. These lands are leased for coal operations, and there are seven different mines that have been started during the last fifteen years, known as the Long Branch Coal Company, the Marsh Fork Coal Company, the Birch Fork Coal Company, Colcord Coal Company, Glogora Coal Company, Hazy Eagle Collieries Company and Raleigh Wyoming Coal Company. ______________________________ X-Message: #6 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:58:20 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000719062101.00c96380@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, SR. , Kanawha 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. 521 Kanawha EDWARD CLARK COLCORD, SR. A resident of St. Albans since 1889, Edward Clark Colcord, Sr., came to this state as a timber expert, and for many years has been general superintendent of the lumber, coal and land interests of the Bowman Lumber Company. At the same time he has been an enlightened and progressive leader in the affairs of his community, and several times has gone to the Leg- islature from Kanawha County. He was born in Franklin County, Vermont, September 4, 1851. Now past the age of three score and ten an'd still active, he comes of a long lived and vigorous family, some of whom have reached the age of ninety. He is a son of John and Sylvia Prudentia (Bowman) Colcord. It is an old family in New England, established there before the Revolution. John Colcord served as a member of the State Legislature during the Civil war. His wife's father, Eben E. Bowman, was a contractor in the con- struction of the Erie Railroad. Mrs. Sylvia Coleord died at the old homestead when past ninety. E. C. Colcord, Sr., at the age of seventeen went to the Northwest with an engineering corps, and about 1872 be- came interested in the lumber industry at Eau Claire, Wis- consin, then and for years afterward one of the largest centers for the production of Northern White Pine lumber. He also became interested in lumber manufacture at Wil- liamsport, Pennsylvania, and while there became associated with a group of capitalists who were interested in the purchase of timber lands in West Virginia. The Bowman Lumber Company began the buying of lands in this state in 1886. The first mill was constructed in 1888 and produc- tion began in the spring of 1889. The company were far sighted and desired to secure land not only valuable for the timber, but also for coal. Mr. Colcord made personal inspections of large areas in the mountains of West Vir- ginia, and purchased over 50,000 acres. In 1892 he took charge of all the Bowman manufacturing operations. In connection with this large business he has had much to do with the commercial and civic affairs of St. Albans. He is one of the original directors of the Bank of St. Albans, and is president of the St. Albans Board of Trade. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. As a republican he was elected to the House of Delegates in 1900 for the session of 1901, and in 1902 was elected a member of the State Senate, serving from 1903 to 1905. In 1908 he was again elected a member of the House. For many years he has been a member of the State Board of Equalization. While he has thus been in the service of the state government, his keenest interest is in his home town. St. Albans is one of the choicest residence towns in the state, owing largely to the high stock of citizenship that has been developed there. In 1883 Mr. Colcord married Mary Agnes McManigal, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. She died in 1919. She was a very active .member of the Presbyterian Church. They were the parents of a family of seven children. The oldest is Edward Clark, Jr., now manager of the Bowman Lumber Company at St. Albans. Francis C. and his brother Eugene L. are the owners and operators of the Colcord Coal Company in Raleigh County. Sylvia Prudentia is the wife of M. W. Stark, a lumber manufacturer, formerly at St. Albans with the American Column and Lumber Company and now a resident of Columbus, Ohio. Mary Agnes is a graduate of the Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport and the Colonial School at Washington, and is at home. Tritain Coffin is a mining engineer. William Allison, the youngest, is associated with his brothers in the Colcord Coal Company.