WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 95 Today's Topics: #1 SCHOOLS: Boone County WV Roll of H [Valerie & Tommy Crook ] #4 COHEN, Isadore, Bluefield [Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000407055121.00906640@trellis.net> Subject: SCHOOLS: Boone County WV Roll of Honor 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. Boone County Name and Address Age Herbert Campbell, Racine 12 Mary Campbell, Racine 10 Lulu Cyfers, Racine 15 Ira Cyfers, Racine 8 Indra Foster, Racine 7 Julia Gadd, Racine 14 Earl Harless, Racine 8 Berdice Keffer, Racine 10 Claude Kirby, Racine 14 Siebert Kirby, Racine 13 John Kirby, Racine 7 Forrest Lucas, Racine 10 Sibble Lucas, Racine 6 Willie Holsten, Racine 13 Malen Stone, Racine 13 Gracie Bradshaw, Racine 7 Nella Young, Racine 17 Edna Midkiff, (2), Racine 10 Melvin Midkiff, Racine 7 Ernest Sanders, Madison 14 Oliver Stover, Culloden 12 Nina Smoot, Madison 9 Ernie Price, Madison 10 Fanny Brown, Madison 15 Herman Brown, Madison 12 Haze Price, Uneeda 11 Effie Ballard, Low Gap 10 Winford Vande Linde, Madison 7 Nicholas Craddock, Greenview 13 Evert Barker, Turtle Creek 15 Willie Barker, Turtle Creek 11 Cecil Billups, Turtle Creek 10 Curtis Miller, Turtle Creek 10 Loreta Miller 11 Everet Miller, Turtle Creek 16 Earnest Miller, Turtle Creek 13 Adlai Hill, Anchor 11 Rhoda Miller, Anchor 8 Albert W. Nelson, Turtle Creek 8 Erna F. Nelson, (2), Turtle Creek 9 Lillian L. Beckett, Turtle Creek 9 Ethel Atkins, (2), Foster 14 Clara Atkins, Foster 9 Nannie Miller, Foster 9 Nettie Miller, Foster 6 Blantford Williams, Foster 9 Fanny Miller, (2), Foster 12 Hallie Miller, (2), Foster 9 Halla Fillinger, Foster 13 Malcom Halsted, Foster 11 Valie Halsted, Foster 7 Stella Ellison, Foster 15 Essa Dolin, Foster 13 Delia White, Pond 17 Hursil White, Pond 14 Seigle White, Pond 11 Delphia Horn, (3), Pond 12 Carl Horn, Pond 10 Vivian Coon, Seth 6 Hattie White, Seth 9 Phil White, Seth 11 Graydon Brown, Nelson 12 Hattie Brown, Nelson 10 Norval Ferrell, Nelson 14 Beulah Ferrell, Nelson 11 Lizzie Keener, Nelson 10 Pearl White, (2), Nelson 10 Martin White, (2), Nelson 6 Myrtie Griffith, (2), Nelson 12 Ukle Curry, Danville 14 Fred Ball, Danville 8 Barlow Hager, Danville 9 Vivia Barker, Danville 10 Bertha McNeely, Danville 10 Blanche Comer, Danville 10 Lottie Mullins, (2), Danville 11 Nunie Chandler, Danville 6 Opal Curry, Danville 7 Joseph Henry Easter, Cabell 7 Ellen Easter, Cabell 10 Ellen Smith, Cabell 8 Fernandis Browning, Cabell 10 Laben Smith, Cabell 6 Albert Dolin, Cabell 14 Manderville Cabell, Cabell 10 Dewey E. Williams, (7), Cabell 13 John G. Williams, (7), Cabell 11 Hewey C. Williams, (5), Cabell 9 Sallie E. Williams, Cabell 7 Alcie Workman, (2), Cabell 14 Ada Workman, (2), Cabell 12 Virgie Workman, (2), Cabell 11 Omer Walker, Cabell 9 Grace Dolin, Julian 9 Preston Dolin, Julian 13 Fleetwood Dolin, Julian 6 Carol Dolin, Julian 7 Audrey Rollyson, Julian 10 Joe Hill, Julian 14 Myrl B. Sutphan, Jeffery 9 Nora Doss, Jeffery 6 Pearl M. Doss, Jeffery 14 Myrtie Akers, Jeffery 13 Opie Conley, Jeffery 8 Brookie Jeffery, Jeffery Emerie Ball, Chap 6 Riston Brown, Chap 9 Effie Ferrell, Chap 9 Bernie Barker, Estep 9 Guardy Miller, Estep 13 Robert Barker, Estep 7 Garnette Hatfield, Manila 11 Homer Wills, Uneeda Mannie Price, Uneeda Nadie Price, Uneeda Pearl Ferrell, Uneeda D.R. Lawson, (2), Uneeda 16 Myrtle A. Lawson, (2), Uneeda 10 B.T. Lawson, (2), Uneeda 8 Herbert Peters, (2), Echart 11 Hubert Harvey, (2), Echart 7 Luther Harvey, (2), Echart 6 Myrtle Harvey, Echart 10 Ray Harvey, (2), Echart 13 Vernie Ellis, Banco 12 Margarette Johnson, Banco 14 Dessie Walker, Cabell 8 Lon Cook, Hewett 14 Orpha White, Hewett 10 Joe Barker, Ashford 9 Hattie Barker, Ashford 12 Hattie Pauley, Ashford 13 Marie Price, Ashford 11 Addie Wooten, Broundland 6 Tom Wooten, Broundland 9 Thomas Snead, Peytona 13 Silmen Thompson Charlie Barker Submitted by GDForren. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 07:45:36 -0400 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38EDCA5A.7EFE876D@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- Harry Lambright Snyder- Jefferson Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume 111 Page 374 Harry Lambright Snyder- Jefferson Co. During a period of forty years Harry Lambright Snyder has been editor and publisher of the Shepardstown Register, and in this time has also been an active factor in the promulgation and development of movements which have played a conspicuous part in the progress and advancement of his native place. Aside from journalism his interests have centered principally in the causes of religion and education, but all worthy movements of whatever character have had his support and the benefit of his enfluence. Mr. Snyder was born at Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., West Virginia, Oct. 11, 1861, a son of John Snyder who was born at Saarbrucken, Bavaria, Germany, Feb. 10, 1823, a grandson of Theobold Snyder, of the same place, and a great-grandson of Jacob Snyder, also a native of Saarbrucken. Jacob Snyder remained in his native land until 1827, in which year he immigrated to the United States, and in the following year settled at Shepherdstown, where he followed his trade as a weaver and lived to the advanced age of ninety years. He was buried in the Reformed Church graveyard. His son, Theobold, who participated in one of the early and unsuccessful rebellions in Germany, fled to the United States and spent most of the remainder of his life at Shepardstown. He married Louise Klein, also a native of Saarbrucken, and their children were: John, Peter, Jacob and George. John Snyder was seven years of age when brought by his parents to the United States, and as a youth he learned the trade of a tailor, which he followed until the outbreak of the Civil war. He volunteered for service in the Confederate army, and was accepted and assigned for duty in Company B. Second Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry, with which he served faithfully and valianty until mortally wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, dying at Alexandria June 1, 1864. Mr. Snyder married, June 26, 1845, at Frederick, Maryland, Rachel Lambright, who was born at Frederick, Maryland, Aug. 11, 1823, daughter of George Lambright, and a granddaughter of Michael and Regina ( Sponseller ) Lambright. Mrs. Snyder, who is also deceased, reared the following children: Ella, Rachel Louise, Mary Virginia, Annie Hammond, George B., Rose, John William and Harry Lambright. Harry Lambright Snyder received his education in the public schools of Shepherdstown and at Shepard College, and as a youth served an apprenticeship to the printer's trade in the office of the Shepherdstown Register. From 1879 to 1882 he was employed in the United States Government printing office at Washington, D.C., and then returned to Shepherdstown and became proprietor, publisher and editor of the Shepherdstown Register, of which he has had complete control for a period of forty years. This is a well-edited, well-presented and influential publication, with a large circulation at Shephardstown and the territory contiguous thereto, and is thoroughly reliable in all respects. Mr. Snyder is known as a newspaperman of more than passing ability and has a wide acquaintance in journalistic circles of West Virginia and Maryland. He has served two terms, or eight years, as a member of the Board of Regents of the normal schools of West Virginia, and has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the hospital for the insane in Spencer. Fraternally he is affiliated with Mount Bebo Lodge No. 91, A.F. and A. M. Mr. Snyder has frequently been a delegate of the Virginia Synod and the United Luthern Church of America since its formation, and took an active part in the organization thereof. On April 29, 1884, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mr. Snyder married Miss Ida Baldwin, who was born at Philadelphia, May 29, 1858, and died July 28, 1907. Her father, William Lindsay Baldwin, served as chief commissioner of highways in Philadelphia, and married Angelina Titus. To Mr. and Mrs. Snyder there were born five children: Louisa Anna, who received her prepatory education at Shepherd College, graduated form Goucher College in 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, married Lawrence Lynch, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and has two children, Ida Baldwin and Isabelle; William Baldwin, who graduated from Shephard College in 1909. Supplemented this by attendance at Washington and Lee University, later became manager and local editor of the Shephardstown Register, is a member of A. E. F., having served fourteen months in France in the air service, and married Martha Jean White, by whom he has one daughter, Jean; Rose Eleanor, who graduated from Shepherd College in 1911, married Charles Franklin Lyne and has one daughter, Rose Mary: Rachel, who graduated from Shepherd College in 1911, now makes her home with her father; and Harry Lambright, Jr., a student of West Virginia University, where he is editor of the college journal and also takes an active part in varsity athletics. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:39:43 -0500 From: Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <000407163943.940@RAVEN.CCC.CC.KS.US> Subject: COHEN, Isadore, Bluefield The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II. pg. 352 ISADORE COHEN Iadore Cohen, who is one of the representative young business men of the City of Bluefield, where he conducts a well equipped jewelry establishment, was born in Russia, May 11, 1884, and is a son of Rabbi S. A. and Mollie (Katz) Cohen. The father was graduated in a leading Jewish theological school, and was in charge of a Jewish congregation in Russia until 1905, when at the age of seventy-one years, he came to the United States, some of his children having previously established their homes in this country--located respectively in Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Maryland, the State of Georgia and in Bluefield, West Virginia. Reared in a home of intellectual and cultural influences, Isadore Cohen attended school in the City of Riga, Russia, and at the age of twenty years he graduated from the University of Kiev. In 1905 he came with his venerable father to America and established his residence at Bluefield, West Virginia, where he entered a private school for the purpose of learning the English language, which he could not speak at that time. So effectively did he study that he now speaks the language with fluency and with no foreign accent, besides being able to read and write with the high standard of efficiency that his previous liberal education has made possible. While at the University of Kiev he studied denistry, but he has never entered the practice of the same. After attending private school at Bluefield Mr. Cohen here engaged in the cigar business in 1907, with one stand in the Altamont Hotel, and later another at the Matz Hotel, his original capitalistic investment having been $300. In 1912 he opened his jewelry store, and he has built up a most prosperous enterprise, based alike on his personal popularity and the effective service rendered to an appreciative trade. >From 1916 to 1921 Mr. Cohen was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce. He is one of the loyal, liberal and public-spirited citizens of the Mercer County metropolis. During the World war period he was a member of the local organization of the National Council of Defense, a member of the fuel administration of Mercer County and the Jewish Welfare Board, and chairman of the local committee of the American Jewish Relief Commission, the committee of this body having raised at Bluefield the sum of $25,000 for relief work in Europe. Mr. Cohen is on the Executive Board of the Boys Club of Bluefield, West Virginia, and through the efforts of Rev. S. H. Mabie, a clergyman of the Baptist Church, and those of Mr. Cohen was established the first playground at Bluefield. Mr. Cohen is deeply appreciative of American institutions and advantages, and his loyalty is expressed in service in behalf of communal welfare. He is a charter member of the Rotary Club in his home city, is affiliated with Bluefield Lodge No. 85, F. and A. M., Bluefield Lodge of Perfection No. 8, West Virginia Consistory at Wheeling, No. 1, and Beni-Kedem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Charleston, West Virginia. He and his wife are zealous members of the Jewish congregation at Bluefield, and are popular in social circles of the community. In 1910 Mr. Cohen wedded Miss Flora Charlotte Greenspon, daughter of Solomon Greenspon, and the two children of this union are Helen and Emanuel B. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:41:51 -0500 From: Vivian Brinker To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <000407164151.940@RAVEN.CCC.CC.KS.US> Subject: BIOS: SHINN, Fred Lawrence, Clarksburg The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II. pg. 353 FRED LAWRENCE SHINN Public preferment does not often come to a man undeservedly, and a city like Clarksburg, West Virginia, with its continuous important municipal problems, has been exceedingly alert as to the qualifications and personal standing of those who have been chosen for the responsibilities of public office. A very important part in the handling of city affairs is that played by the city attorney, and in Fred Lawrence Shinn, Clarksburg has a competent, discriminating lawyer and a citizen of high character. Mr. Shinn was born on a farm in Harrison County, West Virginia, May 23, 1881, a member of one of the oldest and best-known families in this section of the state. His parents were Joseph M. and Ella (Short) Shinn, his grandfather was Abel Shinn and his great-grandfather was Benjamin Shinn. In the main it was a agricultural family, and during the latter half of his life, Joseph M. Shinn followed agricultural pursuits, although earlier he engaged in a real estate and insurance business. His death occurred in 1898, at the age of fifty-two years, his widow surviving until 1919, passing away when sixty- four years old. An only child, Fred L. Shinn lived on the farm until he was sixteen years old, in the meanwhile having completed the public-schhol course. He then spent some time as a student in the State Normal School at Fairmont, and later in the prepartory school department of the West Virginia University at Morgantown, in which institution he completed his course in law in 1906. Although he was admitted to the bar in the same year, he did not begin the practice of law until 1908,, since which time he has advanced steadily in his profession, through merit winning a leading position as a lawyer and the respect and confidence of his professional brethern. In the above interval, Mr. Shinn devoted himself to newpaper work, for 1 1/2 years being connected with the Clarksburg Daily News, and during that time gave evidence of versatile talent that might, if cultivated, make him known in journalism as well as in the law. In 1913 Mr. Shinn married to Miss Ruth Hyde, a daughter of the late Hon. H. C. Hyde of Kingwood, West Virginia, who was a prominent attorney and author of Hyde's Digest, of West Virginia Supreme Court Reports. They maintain their hospitable home at Clarksburg. Mr. and Mrs. Shinn are emembers of the Presbyterian Church. In political life Mr. Shinn is a democrat and an influential member of his party in Harrison County, for some years serving as secretary and at times as chairman of the Harrison County democratic executive committee. In 1921 he was appointed city attorney of Clarksburg, and since then has devoted a large part of his time to the law business of the city. He is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, being past chancellor commander of Clarksburg Lodge No. 39, of which lodge he has been a trustee fo several years. Mr. Shinn's offices are in the Union Bank Building, Clarksburg.