WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 67 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: OLIVER S. MARSHALL, Hancock C [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319003837.0083c100@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: OLIVER S. MARSHALL, Hancock County WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 362-363 OLIVER S. MARSHALL. Descended from one of the oldest families in the Northern Panhandle, Oliver S. Marshall has always made his home in that section, and as a lawyer and legislator his reputation has become state wide; Hia home is at New Cumberland, and his law offices in the industrial town of Weirton. He was born near Fairview, the old county seat of Han- cock County, now called Pughtown, September 24, 1850. He is a great-grandson of the pioneer Aaron Marshall, who came from east of the mountains, from somewhere in Vir- ginia, and is thought to have been a solddier of Braddock and Washington in the famous campaign of 1755. About 1760 he located on Chartiers Creek in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and about 1780 came to what is now Han- cock County, West Virginia. His land was part of the Johnson survey, granted in 1775, when Patrick Henry was governor of Virginia. The grant was for 7,000 acres, but when it was surveyed it measured 8,100 acres. Of this 205 acres was assigned to Aaron Marshall at ten shillings an acre, payable in whiskey at the rate of five shillings a gal- lon, flour and other forms of currency of that day. Aaron Marshall had the fourth house on that tract. Some of the land is still owned by Oliver S. Marshall, and the original record of the title is at Louisville, Kentucky. The town of Newell stands on part of the original grant. In his minutes George Washington mentions the falls where this tract borders the Ohio River, but the land of Aaron Mar- shall is some five miles from that stream. Aaron Marshall continued to live here until his death in advanced years in 1826. He was a Baptist and fre- quently preached on Kings Creek, where he was buried. His son, John Marshall, was born in 1782 and died in 1859, spending his entire life in Hancock County. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. James G. Marshall, father of Senator Marshall, was born at old Fairview, Hancock County, November 21, 1826, and died October 6, 1902. He left the farm, did considerable surveying, became an attorney and for twenty-four years was prosecuting attorney of Hancock County. He was buried in the old Presbyterian churchyard at Fairview. His wife was Lavina Miller, daughter of John Miller and granddaughter of David Miller. David Miller settled on Tomlinson's Run, where he owned 400 acres, secured from Dorsey Pentecost, one of the two last judges who held court at Pittsburgh under the authority of the British crown. David had the first house in Gas Valley, and died in 1835, in his ninety-ninth year. His son John spent his life as a farmer at the old place, and his daughter Lavina was born there. She died when about sixty years old, and her three children are: Oliver S.; E. D. Marshall, an attorney at Santa Clara, California; and Ila, of New Cum- berland, widow of Dr. J. W. Walton. Oliver S. Marshall graduated from the West Liberty Normal School in 1874 as valedictorian, and is the last survivor of that class. He continued his education in Bethany College, where he graduated in 1878, and in 1881 began a long term of service as one of the trustees of that famous institution. One of his classmates at Bethany was the late Judge Joseph R. Lamar of Georgia, for many years a justice of the United States Supreme Court. Judge Lamar married a Miss Pendleton, daughter of a former president of Bethany College. Mr. Marshall was for a time principal of the Now Cumberland schools, began the study of law while serving as county clerk, and was admitted to the bar and began his long and successful service as a lawyer in 1890. He is a member of the Christian Church and an active republican, having been a delegate to the national con- vention of that party in 1892. He was first chosen to represent the First District in the West Virginia Senate in 1896, served in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Legislatures of 1897-99, and was elected president of the Senate in 1899. Ho was again elected and was a member of the Senate in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Legislatures, 1905-07-08, and rounded out twelve years in that body by representing the same district in 1913-15. On September 8, 1880, Senator Marshall married Miss Elizabeth Tarr, a native of Wellsburg and daughter of Cnmpbell and Nancy (Hammond) Tarr. Her father with- drew from the Richmond convention when Virginia passed the ordinance of secession, and subsequently became a leader in the movement for the creation of West Virginia, and became treasurer of the provisional government and the first treasurer of the new state. Senator Marshall had two children, John and Olive, the latter deceased. John grad- uated at Yalc and West Virginia University, and has earned distinction in the law, business and public affairs at Parkersburg. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:56:53 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319085653.008746a0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: JOHN B. PAYNE, M. D., Barbour County, WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 362 JOHN B. PAYNE, M. D. It is reported that the great Galen once boasted: "I have done as much for medicine as Trojan did for the Roman Empire in building bridges and roads throughout Italy," thus emphasizing with the greatest then-known marvels of accomplishment his own benefactions to humanity. Yet, in the light of modern medical science, how little Galen really did and how radi- cally incorrect, remarkable as they were proved many of his theories and conclusions. To the members of the medi- cal profession the early teachers will ever continue great, but a physician or surgeon of the present day whose pro- fessional knowledge is not vastly broader, higher and deeper, could not lay much stress upon his equipment for his calling. Dr. John B. Payne kept fully abreast of the marvelous developments in the profession, his training was long and thorough and he was engaged in practice for twenty-six years. Doctor Payne was born at Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia. December 31, 1871, a son of Frank E. and Virginia (Simon) Payne, the former a native of Loudoun County, Virginia, and the latter of Barbour County, West Virginia. Frank E. Payne was an agriculturist by occupa- tion and a man of some prominence in his community, where he was held in the highest esteem. He and his worthy wife were the parents of eight children, six sons and two daughters, whom they reared on the farm and brought up to lives of industry and integrity. John B. Payne obtained a good common school educa- tion, and taught in the rural schools two years. As a stu- dent, first in the Fairmont State Normal School and later in the West Virginia University, his literary education, preparatory to that of medicine, was completed. He finished the prescribed course in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1896. For the following six and one-half years he was successfully en- gaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Lumber- port, Harrison County, whence he removed to Clarksburg in the fall of 1902. While engaged in practice there he occupied well-appointed offices in the Union Bank Build- ing. In 1906 Doctor Payne took a postgraduate course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. Soon after locating at Clarksburg, where his reputation had preceded him, he secured a desirable practice, and long held rank among the leading physicians and surgeons of the city. He became an active and valued member of the Harrison County Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He belonged to the staff of St. Mary's Hospital, Clarks- burg. In the fall of 1922 Doctor Payne retired and moved to Washington, D. C., to his thirty-six-acre "city farm," which will be his future home. For eighteen years Doctor Payne has been a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and for three years of the Independent Order of Foresters. He is a state officer in the latter fraternity, being a High Court Physician and has also represented his state in the Supreme Court of Foresters at Toronto, Canada. In his political allegiance he supports stanchly the candidates and ideals of the democratic organization. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Doctor Payne has been twice married. In 1896 Miss Sallie Corpening became his wife. She died in 1911, leav- ing a son and a daughter: John Edward, a graduate of medicine from the University of Maryland in June, 1922; and Virginia, who graduated in the same month from Millersburg (Kentucky) Female College. In 1912 Doctor Payne was united in marriage with Miss Eulainne Strove, and to this union there have come four children: Dorothy Jean, born in 1914; Kirby B., born in 1917; Billie F., horn in 1919; and Benjamin B., born in 1922. All the children were born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:37:03 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319003703.0083b9f0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: WILLIAM GASTON, M. D., Harrison County WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 361-362 WILLIAM GASTON, M. D., of Clarksburg, has practiced medicine successfully for over thirty-six years. After at- tending the rural schools and Fairmont Normal School, and teaching school for four years, he read medicine one year under the preceptorship of his cousin, Dr. Florent Gibson, at Freemansburg, and then completed a course in medicine at the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1884. He at once began the practice of medicine at Good Hope, Harrison County, and soon gained a lucrative clientele, remaining at that point until the spring of 1907, when he transferred his offices to Clarksburg. While residing at Good Hope he took a post-graduate course in medicine at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and Post-Graduate school at New York City, where he took a second course in 1909. Thus he has kept abreast of the advances in his profession. His is a general practice, and he has gained an honorable standing among the reputable medical men of Harrison County and a strong place in the confidence of the people. Doctor Gaston is a member of the Harrison County Medical Society, the West Virginia Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and belongs to the medical staff of St. Mary's Hospital, Clarksburg. He is a Knight Templar Mason and Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and in politics is a democrat. The Doctor has diversified business interests, including oil, as a producer. Dr. William Gaston is a native of Lewis County, West Virginia, where he was born on a farm May 18, 1859. Both paternally and maternally he comes of old and highly respected families of West Virginia. His parents were George and Martha Ann (Gibson) Gaston, the former born in Harrison County and the latter in Lewis County. His paternal grandparents were William and Mary (Post) Gas- ton, and his paternal great-grandparents came to West Virginia from their native state of New Jersey at a very early date, settling on Duck Creek, in what is now Harri- son County. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Gaston were Smith and Malinda (Hall) Gibson. The Gibsons came from old Virginia and settled in Upshur County, West Virginia. The paternal great-great-grandmother "mar- ried John Gaston, and her father was a Davison, a Revo- lutionary soldier. The parents of Doctor Gaston resided for many years in Freeman District, Lewis County, and both lived to bo beyond seventy years of age. They were United Brethren in church faith, and were the parents of six children: Willia; Edwin; Emma; Clark, deceased; Laura, and Ivan, deceased. The boyhood of Doctor Gaston was passed on the farm, where he learned the lessons of perseverance and industry which have been characteristic of his entire life. Doctor Gaston has been twice married and is now a widower. In 1884 he married Miss Nellie Thrash, who died in 1892, without leaving children. In 1894 Doctor Gaston married Mrs. Susan Easter, nee Wolfe, who bore him two sons, Howe Russell and William Bryan. and in June, 1921. was called in death. Both of Doctor Gaston's sons rendered service to their country during the great World war. Howe Russell Gaston enlisted in the United States Regular Army in 1916, and when the United States became involved in the greatest of all wars was trans- ferred from Troop F, Fourteenth Cavalry, to Company C, Third Division Ammunition Train, and went overseas March 2, 1918, then as corporal, but later became acting first sergeant. He rendered service overseas for eighteen months in the Ammunition Train Division of his unit, and took part in the defensive and offensive at the Marne, was in the St. Mihiel and Argonne campaigns, and later was with the Army of Occupation in Germany. His honorable discharge was dated in April. 1920, and he is now a suc- cessful traveling salesman and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. William Bryan Gaston volunteered in the service of the United States Army the day after he wag twenty-one years of age, at Pittsburgh. He was sent first to Camp Meade, later to Annapolis, still later to Wash- ington, District of Columbia, and in February, 1918. went overseas with the Twenty-third Engineers, an entirely vol- unteer organization. He rendered service in the truck train for nineteen months in France, and received his hon- orable discharge in July, 1919. He is a member of the American Legion and Clarksburg Lodge No. 155. A. F. and A. M. He is now a medical student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:36:29 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319003629.0083b9f0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: ROBERT SHIELDS DONEHOO, M. D., Hancock County WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 361 ROBERT SHIELDS DONEHOO, M. D. In the development of a career that has been characterized by faithfulness to duty, integrity in all of life's affairs and the achieve- ment of merited success the younger generation should take interest, for in this way lessons of incalculable value may be learned. Such a career has been that of Dr. Robert Shields Donehoo, of Pughtown, who enjoys the dis- tinction of Being the oldest physician and surgeon in Han- cock County. Throughout his life he has given his best services to his profession and the people among whom he has lived and labored, and now, in the evening of life, he may be content in the knowledge of a career well spent and appreciated. Robert Shields Donehoo was born in the Village of Cross Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1848, a son of James Donehoo. His father was born in County Armagh, Ireland, and as a child was brought to the United States, the family settling in Allegheny County, Pennsyl- vania, in 1800. Later James Donehoo removed to Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania, where he died at the age of seventy-four years. Robert Shields Donehoo grew to man- hood in his native locality, and after attending the public schools pursued a course at Cross Creek Academy. He then taught school for three years in Pennsylvania and for a time was teacher of the Shady Glen School in Clay District, Hancock County, West Virginia. Resolving upon a career in medicine, he began reading for that profession under the preceptorship of Dr. J. N. Boggs, an early Pitts- burgh physician, following which he enrolled as a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1874, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Among his classmates were Dr. John D. Campbell, of Wheeling; Dr. James P. Baldwin, president of a hospital at Columbus, Ohio; and Dr. John B. Roberts and Dr. Ed Montgomery, both of whom afterward became professors at Jefferson Medical College. For a short time Doctor Donehoo practiced at Beaver, Pennsylvania, in association with an uncle, and then went to Dallas, Texas, where he also remained for a short period. Returning in December, 1876, he settled at Pughtown, where he has been in continuous practice to the present, and is the oldest physician and surgeon in Han- cock County. He has a large general practice, to which he continues to devote himself whole-heartedly and unself- ishly, and in addition to the confidence of his patients has their unqualified esteem and affection. He belongs to the various organizations of his calling and stands high in the regard of his fellow-practitioners. A democrat in politics, he has taken an active interest in public affairs, has stood stanchly by his party and at various times has been a delegate to conventions. He is an advocate of out- of-door life and believes in baseball and other forms of athletics. In 1882 Doctor Donehoo was united in marriage with Miss Alice M. Flanegin, of Pughtown, daughter of A. M. C. Flanegin, for years clerk of both the County and Cir- cuit Courts of Hancock County when the county seat was located at Pughtown. He died when past seventy years of age. Doctor and Mrs. Donehoo have been the parents of four daughters and one son: Eunice, who married John Mayhew and died young; Ella, who is the wife of Dr. Fred H. Riney, of Mingo Junction, Ohio; Alice, the wife of Rex H. Jones, a mining man of Huntington, West Virginia; Elizabeth, unmarried, who formerly taught at Newell and Chester in Hancock County, and at East Liver- pool, Ohio, and now teaching at Mingo Junction, Ohio; and Robert S., Jr., who served for a few months in an army camp during the late war and is now associated with his uncle, W. W. Flanegin, in an insurance agency at Pittsburgh.