WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 87 Today's Topics: #1 Bio- William A. Bodell- Blufield [Joan Wyatt ] #2 BIO: KYLE, Karl Byron, Clarksburg [Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38E33C29.39BD2F16@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- William A. Bodell- Blufield Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume 111 Page 372 William A. Bodell- Bluefield A number of business concerns have been developed at Bluefield that have a service and distribution of facilities radiating out over a wide territory. Among them is the heating and plumbing establishment of William A. Bodell, a business service that now extends to at least three states. Mr. Bodell learned heating and plumbing engineering when a young man, and for many years has been in business on his own account. He is prominently connected in business circles at Bluefield, where he is also president of the Acme Motor Company and is associated with the Cole Realty Company. He was born at Newmarket, Shenandoah County, Virginia, December 9, 1874, son of George M. and Ella M. (Clinedinst) Bodell. His father was a confederate soldier and was captured and spent six months in a northern prison. He was a coach painter by trade, afterward became a carriage manufacturer at Newmarket, and in 1888 removed to Charleston, West Virginia. He was an active member of the Methodist Church. He died at the home of his son in Princeton., Mercer County, in 1918, at the age of seventy-two. His first wife died in 1881, at the age of thirty-one. She was the mother of three children: John and Charles, both deceased, and William A. The second wife of George M. Bodell was Miss Mitta Figgatt, who is now living at Roanke Virginia. Her four children are: Russell B., in the heating and plumbing business at Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia; Thomas, in a similar business at Springfield, Ohio; Nellie, wife of Phil Spencer; and Allie, wife of Bailey Wicks, superintendent of schools at New Market. William A. Bodell acquired his early advantages in the schools of New Market and Staunton, Virginia. He began his apprenticeship in a printing establishment at Charleston, West Virginia, at the age of fifteen. For six years he worked for others, and then started filling contracts for himself. For a short time he had J.A. Graham as a partner. He then continued the business alone, and later became associated with the West Virginia Heating and Plumbing Company. This corporation had plants in various localities, and in 1901 Mr. Bodell was sent to Bluefield to take the management of the Bluefield branch. In 1910 he bought the business, and has since continued it as a sole proprietor. He has handled some of the largest contracts for the installation of heating and plumbing facilities in and around Bluefield, and his business also extends over a large number of West Virginia counties and portions of Virginia and North Carolina. Mr. Bodell is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Knight Templar Commandery of the Masons at Bluefield, the Shrine at Charleston, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, and is a democrat. He is much interested in Sunday school work. He is a Methodist, while Mr. Bodell is a Presbyterian. He married Miss Amy Miller in 1897. Her father was James W. Miller, of Hinton, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Bodell have one daughter, Ruth. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 8:09:58 -0600 From: Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <000330080958.4676@RAVEN.CCC.CC.KS.US> Subject: BIO: KYLE, Karl Byron, Clarksburg The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II. pg. 350 KARL BYRON KYLE entered upon the work of his profession as a lawyer with every advantage that good birth, rearing and scholastic training could bestow. He has already made a favorable reputation for himself in his native city of Clarksburg, where he is a junior member of the well known law firm of Carter & Sheets. He was born in Clarksburg, May 29, 1897, son of Aquila T. and Mollie (Boyles) Kyle. His parents represented two old and honored names of Harrison County. His father was born and reared in the county, for many years was engaged in farming and still owns a farm, but for the past twenty years has been a letter carrier with the Clarksburg postoffice. He and his good wife reared eight children. Karl B. Kyle graduated from the Clarksburg High School and then entered West Virginia University at Morgantown, taking one year of academic work and completed his four years' course in law and received his degree in 1920. He was then admitted to the bar and returning to Clarksburg became associated with the well known law firm of Carter & Sheets. He is a member of the County and State Bar associations, in politics is a republican, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Kyle was active in college fraternities at the university and has reached the eighteenth degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 8:14:20 -0600 From: Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <000330081420.4676@RAVEN.CCC.CC.KS.US> Subject: BIO: WILLIAMS, Glenn F., Clarksburg The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II. pg. 351 GLENN F. WILLIAMS. One of the best known citizens of Clarksburg, West Virginia, and one who in many ways has justified the high regard in which he is held, is Capt. Glenn F. Williams, able lawyer, overseas veteran officer of the World war, member of the American Legion, and police judge presiding at Clarksburg. Captain Williams is a native of West Virginia, and was born at Bristol, Harrison County, June 2, 1892. He is a son of Thompson H. and Ollie E. (Conaway) Williams, both of whom were born in Ten Mile District, Harrison County, and now reside at Clarksburg, in which city Mr. Williams is interested in the real estate business. Captain Williams has one sister, Merle, who is the wife of Andrew Edmiston, Jr., of Weston, West Virginia. His paternal grandparents, William J. and Elizabeth (Amos) Conaway, were born in Marion County, West Virginia. When he was ten years old, the parents of Captain Williams came to Clarksburg and he attended the public schools, in 1909 being graduated creditably from the high school, following which he had a year of training and tuition at that notable hoary old institution dear to the memory of thousands of young men in their day, St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland. He spent three years in the study of law at the West Virginia University at Morgantown, receiving his degree of LL. B. in 1913. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, one of its youngest members in Harrison County, and immediately entered into practice at Clarksburg amd soon won a recognized place at the bar. For some years before the great calamity of war cast its shadow over his beloved country, Mr. Williams had been a member of the West Virginia National Guard, and was captain of his company in the First Regiment when, on March 31, 1917, he entered the service of the United States. He was sent first to the camp of the Tirty-eighth Division, at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, retaining his rank, and on June 4, 1918, accompanied this division overseas, it being utilized as a replacement troop in the Fourth Regulars. He was made captain of Company C, Twelfth Machine-gun Battalion, and served as such during the furious battle of St. Mihiel and the never to be forgotten struggle in Argonne Forest. Following the signing of the armistice with the enemy, he was detailed to serve in the army of the occupation in Germany until he received his welcome order home, where he was honorably discharged, with the rank of captain, on August 16, 1919. Faithful in the performace of every military duty, Captain Williams did his share in earning the world's tribute to the splendid courage and noble qualities of the flower of American youth. Upon his return to Clarksburg, he quietly resumed the practice of his profession and since then has been associated with the well known law firm of Carter & Sheets. On May 1, 1921, he was appointed police judge at Clarksburg, an appointment giving general satisfaction, for it is known that Judge Williams has not only intelligent opinions on all matters that can be brought within his jurisdiction, but that no other than a rigid sense of justice can influence him in enforcing them. In 1913 Mr. Williams was married to Miss Elizabeth Heiskell, a daughter of N. C. Heiskell, of Morgantown, West Virginia, and they have one son, Neill Thompson Williams. In political affiliation, Captain Williams is a sturdy supporter of the democratic party, reared in this faith as also in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Harrison County Bar Association, of which he is treasurer, and belongs also to the West Virginia State Bar Association. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias and is affiliated with other organizations that pleasantly connect him with social community life. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 8:23:27 -0600 From: Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <000330082327.4676@RAVEN.CCC.CC.KS.US> Subject: BIOS: MCDONALD, Orville L., Clarksburg The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II. pg. 351 ORVILLE L. MCDONALD. To come into a field already crowded with competitors, a professional man must possess unusual qualities to be able to reach a foremost place in their ranks and in a comparatively short space of time, and this is just what Orville L. McDonald has done since coming to Clarksburg, where he is recognized as an able attorney and is a member of the well known law firm of Strother & McDonald, general practitioners, with offices in the Union National Bank Building. Mr. McDonald was born on a farm in Harrison County, West Virginia, December 7, 1888, and is a son of Mordecai Smith and Emma Virginia (Roe) McDonald, and a grandson of James McDonald. For generations back the name to which its earliest American members came from Scotland. Mordecai Smith McDonald followed an agricultural life and died on his farm in Harrison County at the age of sixty-six years. He married Emma Virginia Roe, who was born in Taylor County, West Virginia, and still survives, and as was her husband, a faithful member of the Baptist Church. They had two sons: Orville L. and Carl Smith. Orville L. McDonald attended the public schools of Harrison County, graduating from Bridgport High School in 1907. He later entered the preparatory school at Keyser, academic and scientific courses, and later entered West Virginia University. Folowing this he completed a full course in law the same year he was admitted to the bar and immediately entered into practice at Clarksburg in association with Ray L. Strother. They are practicing under the firm style of Strother & McDonald. During his nine years at the bar, Mr. McDonald has given a good account of himself and has been professionally and successfully connected with some of the most important litigation coming before the Harrison County courts within this period. Mr. McDonald was married in 1916, to Miss Nellie W. Reese, who was born in Taylor County, West Virginia, and they have one son, Robert Orville McDonald. Mr. McDonald was reared by a Christian mother in the faith of the Baptist Church and has never wavered from his early teaching, and largely dispenses his charities through this worthy medium. In his political attitude he is a democrat, a loyal party man but no seeker for public office. He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner. He is interested in all that pertains to the welfare of Clarksburg and both professionally and personally is held in high esteem in this city.