WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 72 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: DUNCAN CRUIKSHANKS KENNEDY, K [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319180401.00877b20@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: DUNCAN CRUIKSHANKS KENNEDY, Kanawha Co. 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. 370-371 Kanawha DUNCAN CRUIKSHANKS KENNEDY. Through the succes- sive steps of mine worker, mine union official, mine super- intendent and mine operator Duncan Cruikshanks Kennedy in the thirty years of his residence in West Virginia has attained a distinctive power and leadership in this fore- most industry of the state. Rather remarkable is the fact that his prestige is hardly less among the miners them- selves than with the coal operators. Mr. Kennedy is sec- retary-commissioner of the Kanawha Coal Operators Asso- ciation, with home and headquarters at Charleston. He was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1873. He grew un in a mining district of Scotland, and while he acquired a good common school education he went to work in the coal mines of that country as a boy. He was still only eighteen when in 1891 he came to the United States. Since then his work and experience have been in West Virginia. He began as a miner at Prince, Fayette County, in the New River coal fields, under James Kay, one of the pioneer operators in that district. In time he became mine fore- man for John Laing at Caperton and Brooklin, but subse- quently returned to the mines as a miner. In 1901 Mr. Kennedy was made sub-district president of the United Mine Workers of America for the New River District. A year later he was elected president of District No. 17, which at that time embraced all of West Virginia. When the Kanawha Coal Operators Association was or- ganized in 1904 he accepted the post of first secretary, and for seventeen years he has been the responsible executive official in achieving the essential purposes of that organi- zation. It is one of the largest and strongest operators' as- sociations in the state, embracing the great corporations and companies whose mines are in the Kanawha Valley. Besides his duties as secretary and commissioner of the association Mr. Kennedy is an independent coal operator. He organized the Anchor Coal Company and opened its mines at Highcoal in 1913. He has since sold his interest in this industry. He is a stockholder, director and member of the executive committee of the American Eagle Colliery Company in Raleigh County, director of the Hopkins Fork Coal Company in Boone County; vice president and director of the Imperial Smokeless Coal Company in the New River District of Greenbrier County. Perhaps the most striking evidence of his power and prestige in the coal industry is found in the fact that from the time he became manager of the Kanawha Coal Op- erators Association in 1904 until about 1919 there was not a strike or serious trouble of any kind among the miners employed by the companies embraced in the association. Mr. Kennedy came by his authority in a way to command respect and allegiance. He was a miner himself for many years, knows and appreciates the miner's standpoint, un- derstands the personal factors and problems of the industry fully as well, if not better, than the workers themselves, and he possesses that broad sympathy and understanding that are the essence of the Golden Rule in industrial affairs. On a number of occasions, particularly in the year 1914, Mr. Kennedy represented the coal operators as a commis- sioner in the settlement and arbitration of disputes. Here his advice, counsel and decisions were of the greatest bone- lit to both sides. He is one of the very few operators whose official acts as a commissioner and arbitrator have received unstinted commendation from the miners them- selves. Mr. Kennedy was a member of the Board of Directors of Miners Hospital No. 2 at McKendree by appointment of Governor M. O. Dawes. He served as a member of the first board of examiners under John Laing, chief of the Depart- ment of Mines of West Virginia. During his earlier life in West Virginia Mr. Kennedy had his home at Gatewood in Fayette County, bat for several years past has been a popu- lar resident of Charleston. He is a member of the board of Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. By his marriage to Miss Eunice Martha Rodes he is the father of four children, Jean, John C., Harry G. and Duncan C., Jr. The son John is a graduate of the Univer- sity of West Virginia and now a student in Jefferson Medi- cal College, preparing for a medical career. Harry is a student of engineering in West Virginia University. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:07:26 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319180726.00841c90@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: ANDREW M. DOUGLASS, Ritchie Co. 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. 373 Ritchie ANDREW M. DOUGLASS, surveyor, engineer and farmer living near Cairo, has for a number of years been a man of affairs in Ritchie County, has served both officially and in his private capacity and in every way possible has advanced the best interests and progressive improvement of his section. Mr. Douglass was born November 17, 1855, son of John and Elizabeth (Marsh) Douglass. His father, a native of Scotland, came to the United States at the age of seven years, and after his marriage settled near the present site of Cairo. He was well educated, graduated in engineering at Athens, Ohio, and for many years was engaged in pro- fessional work in his home county, serving as county sur- veyor and justice of the peace. He died at the age of seventy-four. He was a member and elder of the United Presbyterian Church, was a republican, and during the Civil war served with the Home Guards. His three chil- dren were: Andrew M.; Laura, wife of Rev. S. P. Crum- mett, of the Methodist Church; and Emma, wife of D. G. McGregor, of Cairo. Andrew M. Douglass spent his early life on the farm, attended the common schools, and after graduating in engineering worked with his father, remaining at home until he was twenty-one. During his active career Mr. Douglass served as county engineer four years, was then elected and served eight years as county surveyor, and since 1903 has used his professional skill and also his business ability in the oil and gas industry. He was later appointed and served two years as county engineer, resigning that post, and now divides his time between his professional engage- ments and his farm. For two years Mr. Douglass was a member of the County Court, then resigning. He is vice president and a director of the Bank of Cairo, and since about 1903 has been interested in merchandising at that point. His land ownership comprises about 350 acres. He is a republican in politics. On July 3, 1879, Mr. Douglass married Jennie Marshall, a native of Ritchie County. They have four children: Ethel, a graduate of high school, wife of Roy Adams; Edwin P., a high school graduate and a graduate of the Ohio Northern University, now in the insurance business at Parkersburg; Ernest C., who after graduating from high school spent one term in the State University in the civil and mechanical engineering department, and is now located at Charleston; and Andrew, in high school at Cairo. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:07:00 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319180700.00841c90@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: ROBERT LOGAN WALKER, Kanawha Co. 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. 373 Kanawha ROBERT LOGAN WALKER. One of the finest establishments in the retail shopping district of Charleston is that of the Walker Dry Goods Company, a house that has kept its service well within the lines of dry goods staples. The four- story store building is one of the most popular centers of the retail trade, and the business at its present prosperous stage represents in an important degree the enterprise and commercial ability of its president, Robert Logan Walker. While the title of Walker Dry Goods Company is com- paratively new, the business itself represents a consecutive development over a long period of years. There was a firm name of Sterrett Brothers, who were in business here for thirty years. About ten years ago R. L. Walker and W. B. 6eary purchased this business, and for a year continued it as the Walker-Geary Company, which was incorporated October 11, 1912. Mr. Geary then sold his interest to Mr. Walker, and since then the name has been the Walker Dry Goods Company. The capital was doubled, increasing it to $150,000. The investment represented in the stock of the old Sterrett Company was about $50,000. Mr. Walker is president and general manager of the present company, and his active associate and partner from the beginning has been C. W. McClurg, who is vice president of the company. They now employ from forty to fifty persons in their store, and while the sales the first year ran to about $130,000, the volume of business is now equivalent to $500,000. They use all the four floors of the store, 42 by 100 feet. Mr. Walker was born on a farm at Tipton in Nicholas County, West Virginia, February 28, 1872, son of John A. and Fannie Walker. The father was a farmer, and his youth was spent in a rural environment. After a limited period of schooling he began clerking in a store near home, and for two years he taught school in Nicholas and Fayette counties. Then followed several years of experience in stores and commissaries of coal companies in Fayette County. At the age of twenty-two he became clerk in the store of the Fire Creek Coal Company, then was manager and bookkeeper of the store of the Harvey Coal and Coke Company, and as a member of the firm Mosley & Walker he was engaged on a modest scale in coal production and merchandising at Cliff Top in Fayette County. He sold his interest there and came to Charleston for the purpose of improving his school advantages. Soon afterward he bought an interest in the Diamond Shoe Store, but several months later accepted the opportunity to become associated with W. B. Geary in the purchase of the Sterrett Brothers store, and now after ten years he is head of a business that is one of the most successful in its line in the state. In 1918 Mr. Walker helped organize the Bank of Dunbar, with a capital of $25,000, and now with assets of $150,000. He is presi- dent of this institution. In 1909 he organized the Winona National Bank and soon became its president. This bank has also a capital of $25,000, but its assets are now around $500,000. Mr. Walker was the war time mayor of Charleston, serv- ing for about eight months. He was chosen by the council to fill the unexpired term of Dr. George MacQueen, who entered the army. Mr. Walker has served as delegate to several democratic conventions, is a member of the Elks Lodge, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a Rotarian, a member of the Edgewood Country Club, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South- In Fayette County he married Miss Stella M. Norris, who died in the fall of 1917, leaving two daughters: Helen, Mrs. Dick Sterling, of Charleston; and Lucille, Mrs. Phillip Stewart. In 1919, at Charleston, Mr. Walker married Miss Elizabeth Burns. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:36:36 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319213636.0083e870@trellis.net> Subject: SCHOOLS: Hardy County Honor Roll, 1911-12 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" WV Schools Boys' and Girls' Roll of Honor 1911-12 The following students were neither absent nor tardy during the school year 1911-12 The figures in parantheses following names indicate that the pupil has been perfect in attendance for that number of years. Hardy County, WV Name, Address, Age Aaron Baker, Wardensville, 11 Helen Baker, Wardensville, 9 Paul Donovan, Wardensville, 9 Lucile Heltzel, Wardensville, 12 Mary Keckley, Wardensville, 8 Pauline Kotz, Wardensville, 9 Harold Kotz, Wardensville, 13 Dora McKeever, Wardensville, 10 Ralph Sloop, Wardensville, 11 Charles Snider, Wardensville, 9 John D. Snider, Wardensville, 7 Virgie Baker, Wardensville, 16 Grace Brill, Wardensville, 17 Marie Coffman, Wardensville, 13 Hazel Bradfield, Wardensville, 8 Roy Sloop, Wardensville, 7 Willy Rudy, Wardensville, 6 Bernie T. Heishmen, Perry, 13 Tursey L. Heishman, Perry, 11 Joe E. Heishman, Perry, 9 Mary E. Sager, Perry, 10 H. Guy Sager, Perry, 7 Lee Ridenour, Perry, 7 Mary Ridenour, Perry, 8 Mazie Ridenour, Perry, 9 Robert Heishman, Perry, 13 Sadie Everett, Old Fields, - Minnie Willis, Ols Fields, - Joe Mongold, Masonville, 8 Beatrice Kelley (2), Flats, 15 Beulah Smith (2), Flats, 10 Creed Sions, Flats, 6 Chas. Kelley (2), Flats, 8 Gladys Kelley (2), Flats, 10 Nellie Smith (2), Flats, 7 R. Mae Mathias, Mathias, 11 Virgil Mathias, Mathias, 9 Eston Mathias, Mathias, 8 Raymond Mathias, Mathias, 6 Mayme Snider, Mathias, 10 Fay Dean Snider, Mathias, 8 Jesse Shipe, Mathias, 14 Lory See, Mathias, 13 Bessie Shipe, Mathias, 12 Lula See, Mathias, 12 Melvin Shipe, Mathias, 10 Garrett See, Mathias, 10 Lory Shipe, Mathias, 14 Ernest R. Jenkins, Mathias, 7 Elmer Geets, Mathias, 10 Waldo B. Moyers (2), Mathias, 11 M. Etta Stultz, Mathias, 12 Harry D. See, Mathias, 16 Maggie Whetzel, Mathias, 13 Annie B. Flotz (2), Mathias, 11 Essie G. Dove, Mathias, 7 Melvin B. Riffey, Mathias, 6 Susie Cleaver, Mathias, 17 Franklin L. See, Mathias, 12 Guy F. Dispanet, Mathias, 12 Laura Halterman, Mathias, 11 Belle Bradfield, Baker, 13 Daisye Funkhouser, Baker, 15 George Funkhouser, Baker, 11 Roy Funkhouser, Baker, 13 Katie Miller, Baker, 9 Ethel Riggleman, Fisher, 10 Emma I. Keller, Fisher, 13 Frank Gapp, Fisher, 8 Lemuel Halterman, Kessel, 9 Annie E. Weese, Brake, 8 Murlin A. Weese, Brake, 11 Edna Wilson (3), Milam, 11 Bessie Simon, Milam, 10 Viola Wilson, Milam, 8 Lula Wilkin, Needmore, 13 Nora Park, Fabius, 13 Myrtle Park, Fabius, 10 Ruby Park, Fabius, 6 Roland Parki, Fabius, 11 David Park, Fabius, 9 Walter Park, Fabius, 7 Bertha Park, Doman, 12 Ora Doman, Doman, 15 Marvey Doman, Doman, 8 Robert Barker, Doman, 8 Benj. Baker, Doman, 12 Doland Lofton, Doman, 6 Leaffe Bean, Inkerman, 13 Marie Bean, Inkerman, 7 Marlin Bean, Inkerman, 6 Raymon Bean, Inkerman, 7 Aaron Wilson, Bass, 11 Dora Crites, Bass, 8 Luther Crites, Bass, 7 Minnie Crites, Bass, 10 Virgie Combs, Needmore, 10 Gladys Lee Combs (2), Needmore, 12 Harvey Delmer Combs, Needmore, 11 Laura Clower (2), Moorefield, 10 Hazel Wheaton, Moorefield, 9 Edna Godlove, Moorefield, 9 Lillie Mae Harper (2), Moorefield, 9 Lloyd Wiley, Moorefield, 8 Etta Hamman, Lost River, 10 Hazel O. Grady, Lost River, 11 Jessie F. Grady, Lost River, 13 Sylvia E. Grady. Lost River, 18 Bessie Teets, Lost River, 14 Herbert Keller, Lost River, 13 Kerby Teets, Lost River, 10 A. Lee Miller, Lost River, 21 Mabel C. Branson, Lost River, 14 Ruth G. Longacre, Lost River, 11 Forrest C. Haggerty, Purgitsville, 13 Grace V. Haggerty, Purgitsville, 7 Mary S. Haggerty (2), Purgitsville, 10 *George Robert Fout, Purgitsville, 16 C.J. Moyer, Dovesville Va, 18 M.L. Moyer, Dovesville Va, 18 Nettie Caldwell, Dovesville Va, 9 Stella Halterman, Dovesville Va, 8 Willie Caldwell, Dovesville Va, 12 Charley Heishman, Fabius, 10 Lynn Heishman, Fabius, 10 Eiffie M. Fitzwater (2), Fabius, 12 Harry L. Kessel (2), Kellel, 13 Leslie Kessel (2), Kessel, 10 Virginia C. Kessel (2), Kessel, 8 Willie L. Cook, Lost City, 12 * Perfect in attendance every year but one since he started school Transcribed and submitted by Lee Ann Crook. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:06:36 -0500 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000319180636.008409c0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: EUGENE BUCKLEW, Preston 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. 372 Preston EUGENE BUCKLEW, of Terra Alta, is one of the oldest surviving native sons of Preston County, now past the age of four-score, was a soldier in the Civil war, devoted half a century to the tasks and responsibilities of agriculture, and is now comfortably retired among his children and grandchildren at Terra Alta. While the record of his family is more completely re- viewed on other pages, some of the chief facts concerning his parentage should be set down here. Mr. Bucklew was born near the old Fairfax Ford on Cheat River, now the Caddell community of Preston County, March 30, 1840, son of John Elzy and Abigail (Sipolt) Bucklew. His father was also a soldier in the Civil war, and the family was one of the first to settle in Preston County. Eugene Bucklew grew up at the old home farm, and he gained only a little knowledge from the community schools of that day. The chief text books were the spelling book and the New Testa- ment. His knowledge of reading was largely acquired from reading the Testament. He never studied arithmetic at all in school, though he learned something of the multiplication table. When he left school to enter the army he could little more than write his name. While a soldier in camp he got most of his education, learning to write and do some- thing with figures. One of his comrades set the copy and he practiced until he was proficient enough to write letters home. This was in every sense a practical education, and he put it to good use in the varied activities and responsibili- ties of his subsequent life. In 1863 Mr. Bucklew joined Company O of the Sixth West Virginia Infantry. This regiment was broken up into detachments for guard duty along the Baltimore & Ohio Railway from Parkersburg and Wheeling to the eastern border of the state. Mr. Bucklew participated in this guard, scouting and skirmish duty, and remained with his company until discharged at Wheeling, June 11, 1865, and mustered out a few days later. Having done the part of a patriotic citizen in preserving the Union, Mr. Buckley returned home and went to work on the farm in Portland District. From that time until December, 1918, his lot was that of a hard working and progressive farmer in the rural community, and then with the burden of years he retired from the country to Terra Alta. Mr. Bucklew began voting even before he reached his majority, and he cast a ballot at Kingwood in 1860, voting for Abraham Lincoln for president. There has not been a national election in the past fifty years in which he has not contributed his ballot for republican principles and candi- dates. He has been equally devoted to the religious phase of life, was reared in the Methodist Episcopal Church, but for convenience of attendance he has for many years been identified with the United Brethren. He joined the Grand Army of the Republic when its ranks were full of veteran and is a member of Terra Alta Post, perhaps one of the most active of the remaining posts. In Preston County in 1861 he married Miss Rachel Wil- son, daughter of John Wilson. The only surviving child of this union is Lydia, wife of George Shaffer, of Elkins. September 11, 1873, Mr. Bucklew married Miss Mary Free- land, who was born near Terra Alta and reared there, being one of the ten children of Hiram and Nancy (Bucklew) Freeland. The other children to grow up were: George Freeland; Susan, wife of John Braham; Sarah, who mar- ried Wilber Teets; Rachel, wife of Nicholas Braham; and Philip Freeland, of Cumberland, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Bucklew had five children, and their grand children number fourteen. Vernie is the wife of Daniel F. Metheny, of Taylor County, West Virginia, and their chil- dren are Ray, Hazel and Clarence. Laura married George Nine, of Preston County, and they have three children, Asa, Clara and Walter. Ella, who died as Mrs. Walter Listen, left six children, Mary, Densel, Isa, Ethel, Ruby and Georgia. Robert H., who lives in Fayette County, Pennsyl- vania, has two daughters, Dorothy and Velva Goldie. The youngest of the family is Russell Bucklew, still at the family home at Terra Alta and who married Cora Teets, daughter of Bert and Mary Virginia (Rodeheaver) Teets. Russell Bucklew is an ex-service man, having trained as a soldier at Camp Meade, Maryland, but the war ended before his command reached overseas.