WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 98 Today's Topics: #1 Bio: Chorpenning, Walter E. - Pres [Tina Hursh ] #3 William L. Sutton- Morgantown [Joan Wyatt ] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 17:35:33 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20000409223533.006e41fc@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: Bio: Chorpenning, Walter E. - Preston county 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 111 Pg. 362 & 363 Walter Elmo Chorpenning. The Chorpenning family, while not one of the oldest in Preston County, have for seventy years occupied one of the most historic homes and homesteads of the county. This farm is still referred to occasionally as the old Forman place. The historic log mansion was build there by Isaac Forman in 1794. The apple orchard planted about the same time continued to bear fruit for 100 years. One of the sturdy trees produced regularly fifty bushels annually throughout its mature lifetime. The first newspaper published in Preston County was issued from the old log house on this farm, its publishers and proprietors being Frank Alter and Joseph Miller. The newspaper was called into existence during the memorable presidential campaign of 1840 and was named "The Mt. Pleasant Democrat" or the "Preston County Democrat." The paper's name belied its politics and confused or misled those who did not know its political tendencies, since it was a strong whig organ. In 1850 this farm was acquired by Jonathan Chorpenning, and it has remained in the Chorpenning name ever since, the present owner being Millard Fillmore Chorpenning. Jonathan Chorpenning was a son of Judge Henry Chorpenning, of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Judge Chorpenning married Mary Shoaf. Jonathan Chorpenning had a large family of fourteen children. Among these are named Jonathan, Malinda, Franklin, Mrs. Clarissa Brown, Elizabeth, who marr[i]ed Cyrus Shader, Henrietta, who became the wife of William B. Marks, Hannah, Harrison, Simon Michael and Millard Fillmore. Jonathan Chorpenning spent his life at the old homestead. His son Millard Fillmore Chorpenning was born the year after the family came to Preston County and like his father before him, he acquired a liberal education and used it tot he advantage of agriculture and his community. February 2, 1885, he married Nancy J. Waddell. Their children were Alonzo J., Charles W., Walter Elmo, Lloyd S., Homer O., Henry Ward, Creed McKinley and Lucy A. Walter Elmo Chorpenning was born at Brandonville in 1888, moved to the old Homestead in 1895 and grew up there in a home where education was prized for its value in the training of good citizens. After finishing his education he took up electrical work, and is in the electrical business at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, where he has had his home since 1906. He married Miss Janet Stone. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:06:51 -0400 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38F1A7B7.BD80A8B7@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- William L. Sutton- Morgantwon 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 376 Bio- William L. Sutton- Morgantown Eight miles west of Morgantown in the Scotts Run community of Cass District is the home of William L. Sutton, located a mile north of Cassville. Mr. Sutton has lived in that community nearly all his life, has been successfully engaged in agriculture, and has taken a public spirited part in matters affecting the welfare and progress of the locality, in particular standing for good roads, good livestock, and better conditions generally. He was born December 18, 1858, on a farm adjoining the one where he now lives, son of Thomas and Barbara (Barrickman) Sutton, both natives of that locality. His father was born in the same house April 11, 1836, and died in November 1920, having spent his entire life usefully as a farmer. His main farm was on Cole Hill. He secured the old home of his father and in turn has passed it on to the third generation, its present owner being William L. Sutton. The grandfather of William L. Sutton was Asa Sutton who was born on the same Run, son of Joseph Sutton, who came from Old Virginia and acquired a track of land known as the original Sutton farm, where he lived and where he was buried. After coming to Monongalia County Joseph Sutton married a member of the prominent Snyder family. Asa Sutton was born here in 1809, and died in 1894, at the age of eighty-five. He was laid to rest on the farm now owned by his grandson William L. Asa Sutton married Abigail Milburn, of Green County, Pennsylvania. Their sons were Thomas, Louis and John. Louis removed to Missouri and later to Kansas, where he died in old age. John removed to Ohio and is still living. It was Asa's intention that his old farm should go to his son, John, and he so willed it, but later he changed his mind and willed it directly to his grandson, William L., who had cared for him a number of years and worked the farm. William L. Sutton for two years conducted a store at Cassville, and at the death of his grandfather took possession of the farm, buying out the interest of Asa's widow. The farm comprises 100 acres and its substantial building improvements are the result of the present owner's enterprise. The farm is very valuable because of its deposits of coal, there being four veins underneath the surface. The older Sutton homestead a short distance up the Run is also underlaid with coal, and has four producing oil wells, running five or six barrels a day. William Sutton's sons are interested in this oil production. There is also a gas well operated under lease. Mr. Sutton is a director in the Morgantown & Wheeling Railroad, which has offered opportunity to open the coal mines along Scotts Run. He is a director in the Commercial Bank of Morgantown. Much effective work has been done by him in community affairs, including four years of service as justice of the peace, thirty years as a notary public, and he is a charter member of Cassville Lodge, Knights of the Maccabees, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the age of thirty-three Mr. Sutton married Rosa Reay. Their four living children are: Asa, who married Alta Riley; Franklin, who married Mary Smith; Lillian wife of Cole Brewer, living on the Sutton farm; and David. Franklin was in service during the war, but reached France only a few days before the signing of the armistice. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:33:03 -0400 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38F1ADDA.781A5F28@uakron.edu> Subject: William L. Sutton- Morgantown 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 376 Bio- William L. Sutton- Morgantown Eight miles west of Morgantown in the Scotts Run community of Cass District is the home of William L. Sutton, located a mile north of Cassville. Mr. Sutton has lived in that community nearly all his life, has been successfully engaged in agriculture, and has taken a public spirited part in matters affecting the welfare and progress of the locality, in particular standing for good roads, good livestock, and better conditions generally. He was born December 18, 1858, on a farm adjoining the one where he now lives, son of Thomas and Barbara (Barrickman) Sutton, both natives of that locality. His father was born in the same house April 11, 1836, and died in November 1920, having spent his entire life usefully as a farmer. His main farm was on Cole Hill. He secured the old home of his father and in turn has passed it on to the third generation, its present owner being William L. Sutton. The grandfather of William L. Sutton was Asa Sutton who was born on the same Run, son of Joseph Sutton, who came from Old Virginia and acquired a track of land known as the original Sutton farm, where he lived and where he was buried. After coming to Monongalia County Joseph Sutton married a member of the prominent Snyder family. Asa Sutton was born here in 1809, and died in 1894, at the age of eighty-five. He was laid to rest on the farm now owned by his grandson William L. Asa Sutton married Abigail Milburn, of Green County, Pennsylvania. Their sons were Thomas, Louis and John. Louis removed to Missouri and later to Kansas, where he died in old age. John removed to Ohio and is still living. It was Asa's intention that his old farm should go to his son, John, and he so willed it, but later he changed his mind and willed it directly to his grandson, William L., who had cared for him a number of years and worked the farm. William L. Sutton for two years conducted a store at Cassville, and at the death of his grandfather took possession of the farm, buying out the interest of Asa's widow. The farm comprises 100 acres and its substantial building improvements are the result of the present owner's enterprise. The farm is very valuable because of its deposits of coal, there being four veins underneath the surface. The older Sutton homestead a short distance up the Run is also underlaid with coal, and has four producing oil wells, running five or six barrels a day. William Sutton's sons are interested in this oil production. There is also a gas well operated under lease. Mr. Sutton is a director in the Morgantown & Wheeling Railroad, which has offered opportunity to open the coal mines along Scotts Run. He is a director in the Commercial Bank of Morgantown. Much effective work has been done by him in community affairs, including four years of service as justice of the peace, thirty years as a notary public, and he is a charter member of Cassville Lodge, Knights of the Maccabees, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the age of thirty-three Mr. Sutton married Rosa Reay. Their four living children are: Asa, who married Alta Riley; Franklin, who married Mary Smith; Lillian wife of Cole Brewer, living on the Sutton farm; and David. Franklin was in service during the war, but reached France only a few days before the signing of the armistice.