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1866, as a member of the city board of education from 1873 to 1879, but has since declined all honors tendered him in the line of official preferment. For nearly a quarter of a century, from 1862 to 1885, he served the national government as president of the board of United States examining surgeons for pensions. Dr. Hupp was married March 1, 1853, to Caroline Louise Todd, daughter of the late Dr. A. S. Todd, of Wheeling, and they have had the following children: Archi- bald, born October 1, 1855, of the firm of Speidel & Co .; Amanda Vir- ginia, born October 9, 1859, wife of Charles L. Harding, of Washington, Penn .; Ann Louisa, born July 30, 1862, wife of Dr. R. H. Bullard, of Wheeling; Francis Julius Le Moyne, born July 8, 1865, surgeon on the medical staff of Presbyterian hospital, N. Y .; Augusta Genevieve, born December 1, 1863, and John C., deceased. Dr. Hupp is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church.
The firm of T. T. Hutchisson & Co., occupies a leading place among wholesale dealers and importers of saddlery hardware, and is promi- nent among the successful business concerns of Wheeling. This house was founded in 1860 by John Knote, who had been engaged in the manufacture of saddles and harness at Wheeling since 1833, having learned his trade in Adams county, Penn., with Robert M. Hutchis- son, father of the present senior member of the firm. Mr. Knote admitted to partnership at the outset, Mr. T. T. Hutchisson, in the business of wholesale dealing in saddlers' hardware. During the war period the business was conducted entirely by Mr. Hutchisson, Mr. Knote being in the south, but after the restoration of peace, the old firm was re-established, and the two gentlemen, as equal partners, conducted the business until 1882, when Mr. Knote withdrew, Mr. Hutchisson purchasing his interest. The latter carried on the busi- ness alone until 1888, when the present firm was formed by the ad- mission of two old and trusted clerks, Jacob Reitz and J. A. Blum. Mr. Hutchisson was born in Adams county, Penn., August 25, 1827. His father, Robert M. Hutchisson, was a native of New Jersey, but lived for some time in Philadelphia. Early in the twenties he settled in Adams county, Penn., and there followed his trade of harness and saddle making. He was married while residing there to Sarah Blint- zinger, by whom he had five children, three of whom are living. The mother died in Adams county about 1845, and the father died in Madi- son county, Ohio, where he had gone to make his home with a daugh- ter in about 1875. Mr. Hutchisson is prominent in the history of the People's bank, having been one of the original stockholders, and as- sisted in its organization in 1860. He became a director of the bank in 1879, and in about 1885 was elected vice-president, a position he still holds. For forty years or more he has been a member of Frank- lin lodge, I. O. O. F. Mr. Hutchisson was married in 1852, to Mary Hervey, of Wheeling, who died June 23, 1874, leaving one daughter, who is still living. In 1881 he was married to Garafelia Nelson, of Wheeling.
Joseph Hydinger, a leading grocer and confectioner of South Wheeling, is a native of Wheeling, born December 22, 1839. His 22-A.
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father, Joseph Hydinger, a native of Alsace, France, came to Wheel- ing about 1833, and became one of the pioneer gardeners. He owned at one time, by purchase of John McClure, the property now occu- pied by the city hospital. In December, 1847, he removed to a ten- acre tract he purchased of Messrs. Jacob and Selby, in what is now the Eighth ward, and there lived until his decease, September9, 1879. His wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, Elizabeth Schopany, by maiden name, was also a native of Alsace. Before her marriage to Mr. Hydinger, which occurred about 1836, she had been twice married, first to Jacob Schæffer, who died in Pittsburgh, leaving one child, Elizabeth, now the wife of Joseph Humes, of Wheeling, and her second husband died in Cincinnati, of the cholera. By Mr. Hydinger she had six children, two of whom reside at Wheeling, one at Point Pleasant, W. Va., and three in Iowa. She came to Wheeling about 1831, and is still living in her seventy-eighth year. The subject of this sketch, in early life, assisted his father in garden- ing, and was also for brief periods engaged in the Washington mill, in trips down the Ohio and Mississippi, and in the summer of 1862, he was employed in the commissary department of the United States army. In 1872 he embarked in his present occupation, as the proprie- tor of a confectionery store at No. 4306 Jacob street. Two years later he added a stock of groceries, and in these two departments of trade he has since done a flourishing business. He was married October 30, 1864, to Elizabeth Rietz, a native of Bavaria, Germany, who accompanied her parents, Christian and Elizabeth Rietz, to Wheeling, in 1852. Mrs. Hydinger is the second of their nine child- ren, eight of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Hydinger have had six children: Elizabeth; Charles F., deceased; Frank, deceased; Minnie and Bertha. Mrs. Hydinger is a member of the German Lutheran church; he of the Catholic. In politics he is a democrat.
Clarence E. Irwin, secretary of the LaBelle Iron works of Wheel- ing, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1843. Mr. Irwin is a representative of one of the pioneer families of the city of Wheeling, his father, R. S. Irwin, being one of the early pioneer merchants and manufacturers. The latter was a native of Wheeling, but in early manhood resided in Ohio, where the subject of this mention was born. Soon afterward he returned to Wheeling, and became subsequently connected with the firm of Morton, Bailey & Co., in the Belmont Iron company, and in 1852 he became a member of the firm of Bailey, Woodward & Co., who were the founders of the LaBelle Iron works, and afterward purchased the Jefferson Iron works of Steubenville. With both firms he was connected until his death in 1872, in his sixty- third year. The wife of R. S. Irwin was Zoraida Zane Fawcett, who was connected with the pioneer Zane family. She died in 1860. Clarence E. Irwin was reared at Wheeling, and educated in the schools of the city and the academy at Morgantown. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in May, 1861, in Company E, of the First Virginia volunteer infantry in the Union service, and after serving his term of three months he re-enlisted for three years. . At the end of that period
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he entered the veteran service, as captain of Company G of the Sec- ond West Virginia V. V. I., and served until July, 1865. At the com- pletion of this extended period of patriotic service, Mr. Irwin returned to Wheeling and was engaged in the office of Bailey, Woodward & Co. until 1876, when he embarked in the wholesale grocery business under the firm style of C. E. Irwin & Co. In the following December he went west with the intention of finding a new location, but not be- ing satisfied he returned to Wheeling in the fall of 1877, and became a resident of Martin's Ferry, and a clerk in the Benwood Blast furnace. Subsequently he took the position of book-keeper in the office of the Standard Iron company at Bridgeport, and in 1887 resigned that posi- tion to accept the one he holds at present. Mr. Irwin is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a comrade of the G. A. R. In 1868 he was married to Hannah B. Woodward, daughter of Simpson N. Wood- ward, of the firm of Bailey, Woodward & Co., and they have two children. He is a member of the board of education from Madison sub- district for the school district of Wheeling.
Ex. Gov. John J. Jacob of Wheeling, well known throughout the state as a distinguished jurist and public man, has served the commun- ity, the county and the state, in various high positions, honorably and with ability. As legislator, judge, and chief magistrate of the common- wealth, he has been faithful and true to the interests of the people. Judge Jacob is a son of Capt. John J. Jacob, a native of Maryland, who during the war of the revolution, served in the famous Sixth regiment of the Maryland line as lietutenant, quartermaster and captain, ren- dering gallant service with that command, which was pre-eminently distinguished for severe and heroic service. At the close of the war he settled on the Potomac river in Hampshire county, Va., where he wedded the widow of Capt. Michael Cresap, one of the most promi- nent characters on the border during the revolutionary period, and who is commemorated, though with unjust reference, in the famous speech of Logan, the Indian chief. Subsequently Capt. Jacob was mar ried to Susan McDavitt, a niece by marriage to Sergt. John Champ, that brave officer who was selected by Washington to make the at- tempt to capture Benedict Arnold, a daring exploit which failed but not for want of courage and skill of the sergeant. By this second marraige four children were born, two of whom died in infancy. One of the survivors, Julia, became the wife of John W. Vanderver, of Mis- souri, in which state she died in 1882, at the age of fifty-five years. The other, Judge Jacob, was born at the Hampshire county home, Decem- ber 9, 1829. The parents died in Hampshire county, the father in 1839, in his eighty-first year, and the mother in 1880, aged eighty-five years. Judge Jacob was reared at Romney, and received an academic and collegiate education, and was graduated at Dickinson college, Penn:, in 1849. He chose the law as his profession; but removing to Missouri, occupied the chair of political economy, etc., at the Missouri university at Columbia, from 1853 to 1860, before engaging in the prac- tice. He subsequently practiced law at Columbia, Mo., until 1864, when he returned to Hampshire county, where he continued in his profession,
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and attained prominence in that region. In 1869 he took an active part in politics as a democrat, and was elected to the legislature. In 1870 he was nominated by the democratic party for governor of West Vir- ginia, and was successful, being the first democratic governor of the state. In 1872, under the new constitution, he was re-elected, and held office during the stormy scenes incident to the putting in force of the new constitution, and the removal of the state capital from Charleston to Wheeling. Upon the expiration of his term as gover- nor, March 4, 1877, he made his home at Wheeling, and resuming practice, at once took rank as one of the leading jurists of the state. In 1879 he was the representative of Ohio county in the state leg- islature. In 1881 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the circuit judgeship, and in the following year he was elected to the office for a term of six years. On retiring from the position of judge of the first circuit he resumed the practice of the law, in which he is still engaged. Judge Jacob was married in 1853, to Jane Baird, a native of Washing- ton, Penn., and daughter of William Baird, a prominent attorney of that state. Three children have been born to this union, one of whom a daughter, survives.
Wilbur Jacobs, a leading brick and stone contractor of Wheeling, was born at Wellsburg, W. Va., in 1854. His parents were B. F. and Elizabeth (St. Ledger) Jacobs, both natives of West Virginia. The mother died in January, 1888. B. F. Jacobs has been a contrac- tor all his life, and is now living a retired life at Wellsburg. The subject of this biography lived in Wellsburg until his sixteenth year, and attended the public schools of that place. When about sixteen years of age he went to Pittsburgh, where he followed the trade of a bricklayer for about two years, and then began contracting for him- self. He resided in Pittsburgh for nearly twelve years, and then re- turned to Wellsburg, remaining there for two years, and then he came to Wheeling, settling here permanently, though he had been doing business here before his removal to this city. He was for some time a member of the Wheeling Mining & Manufacturing company, which he withdrew from in July, 1886. He has since been carrying on a large and successful business in brick and stone contracting, hav- ing erected many buildings in Wheeling, which speak for his ability and honesty. He was the first contractor to introduce steam power in the hoisting of materials for buildings in course of construction, and now owns the only apparatus for that purpose in the city. Among other structures he has erected the First ward public school; Bridge- port Presbyterian church; First Methodist Episcopal church, of Bel- laire; Y. M. C. A. building, in Wheeling; Bloch Brothers' factory; Fifth ward school-house of Bellaire; the Toronto White Ware works; repaired the custom house, and many other buildings too numerous to mention. He is a member of the Bricklayers' union. Politically, he is a democrat. In 1876 'he married Sarah Bowden, of Allegheny City, Penn., the ceremony taking place May 27 of that year. Bessie, B. F., Mazie, Lucy and Charles, are the children which have been born to them.
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Frank P. Jepson, cashier of the Bank of the Ohio valley, is one of the most prominent young business men of Wheeling. He was born at Baltimore, Md., July 11, 1853, but being brought to Wheeling by his parents one year later, he was reared in this city, and here re- ceived his education. His has been an active life from childhood. He was under instruction in a private school from his third to fifth years, and was then placed in the Second ward public school, and being promoted to the Fifth ward school remained there until he was thirteen years of age. He then left school, and shortly afterward, in 1861, President Lincoln having appointed Thomas Hornbrook sur- veyor of customs of Wheeling, entered the office of that official. The latter resigned the office upon the advent of the Johnson admin- istration and engaged in the real estate business, and young Jepson then became his office boy. On April 1, 1867, Mr. Jepson though not yet fourteen years of age, became messenger for the First National Bank of Wheeling. He soon evinced qualifications for higher posi- tions and passed rapidly through the various grades as a bank clerk, book-keeper, teller, etc., the bank meanwhile becoming merged in the Bank of the Ohio Valley, until on February 9, 18So, he was appointed cashier, a position he still holds. He is one of the youngest cashiers of the city, and it may justly be added that he is one of the most efficient. The confidence generally reposed in his integrity and capacity was manifested by his appointment by the city council in 18SI as one of the three commissioners of loans, in which capacity he negotiated a loan of $196,000. Being commissioned for a similar duty in 1885 he negotiated a loan of $270,000, and was recently ap- pointed one of the three commissioners to negotiate the bridge loan. He has been honored with various other trusts. During the last four years he has been a member of the board of trustees of the city gas works, and for two years has served as president of that body. He was commissioned a notary public by Governor Wilson in 1885, was appointed an aid on the governor's staff in 1887, with the rank of colonel, a position he resigned in 1888, and on April 1, 1889, he was appointed by the governor as director of the second insane hospital for the term of six years. In 1889, Mr. Jepson was the projector of the Wheeling Ice and Storage company. He has not taken part in politics as an aspirant for office, but as a political leader has wielded much influence, and has held the secretaryship of the democratic executive congressional committee for the first district, from 1886 to 1888. Mr. Jepson is prominent as a Mason, which fraternity he joined in 1874. He is a member of Wheeling lodge, No. 5, of Wheeling Union chapter, No. I, and of Cyrene commandery, No. 7, K. T. He was the treasurer of Wheeling lodge for several years and is now treasurer of Cyrene commandery. During the floods of 1884 he served as chairman of the Masonic relief committee, and as such visited the sufferers along the river as far down as the Kentucky line, dispensing the funds in the hands of the committee. Mr. Jepson was married in 1876 to Ida E., daughter of Col. Joseph H. Pendleton, a
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member of the Virginia legislature during the war, and sister of Hon. John O. Pendleton, congressman-elect for the first district.
S. L. Jepson, A. M., M. D., a prominent physician of Wheeling, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 7, 1842, a son of John Jepson, one of the early citizens of Belmont county, Ohio. The latter was a native of Lancashire, England, and was born in 1795. He was mar- ried in 1823 to Hannah Hunt, also a native of Lancashire, born in 1803. About 1830 John Jepson came to America, prospecting for a new home and so spent about two years in New York, during which time he was joined by his family and a brother. From New York he came west to Ohio, journeying by way of Cleveland, and made his home in Belmont county, one mile east of St. Clairsville, where he engaged in agriculture. Subsequently, while assisting a neighbor in the raising of a barn, he met with an accident which left him unfit for farm labor, and he afterward gave up farm life and engaged in merchandise at St. Clairsville. He remained there in that employ- ment during the remainder of his active life, with the exception of a period of two years from the spring of 1852 to the spring of 1854 spent at McConnelsville and Wheeling. He was an elder of the Presbyterian church. and a man of strong character. In 1874 he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding, and during ten years longer lived happily together. They died in 1884 and 1885 respectively, deeply mourned by their family and friends. To them were born eleven children, two were born in England. Four children survive: Hannah E., Nathaniel H., a jeweler of Washington, Ind .; George, a merchant of St. Clairsville, and the subject of this sketch. Dr. Jep- son was given a liberal education in the St. Clairsville school, and in 1860 entered the junior class of Washington college, where he was graduated in 1862. His brothers having enlisted in the Union army, he went into his father's store at St. Clairsville, where he clerked dur- ing the war period. Immediately after the close of the war, in July, 1865, he took up the study of medicine, and in 1866 he entered the Ohio Medical college, and was graduated in medicine in 1868. After graduation he was by competitive examination appointed resident physician of the Cincinnati hospital, for one year. He located at Wheeling in 1869, and began the practice of his profession. He soon became prominent in his profession, and in 1873 was elected health officer of Wheeling for a term of two years, and was twice re-elected, serving continuously until 1879. During this period he added to his medical acquirements by study in London, Edinburgh and Vienna, during a year's visit to Europe. The doctor has held various import- ant positions in the gift of the people, having served as a member of the city council from 1880 to 1884, as a member of the board of edu- cation, elected in 18So and 1886, for terms of six years each, and he is secretary of the board of trustees of the Wheeling Female college. He has received a due share of the honors of the medical organiza- tions with which he has affiliated, has served as secretary for four years and president one term of the medical society of the city of
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Wheeling and county of Ohio, was four years secretary of the State Medical society, and was elected president of the state society in 1886, presiding over the meeting held at White Sulphur Springs in 1887. He is also a member of the American Medical association. In 1883 he was appointed acting assistant surgeon of the United States Marine hospital service, a position he resigned in 1890. In May, 1889, he was appointed United States examining surgeon of pensions, and is secretary of the board at Wheeling. Dr. Jepson's contributions to leading medical journals are as follows: "The Duality of the Chan- crous Virus," New York Medical Journal, September, 1871; "Sudden Death in Puerperal Cases," The American Journal of Obstetrics, Au- gust, 1872; "Cholera in Wheeling, W. Va.," Transactions of American Health Association, Vol. I, 1874; " Pyo-pneumothorax Following Acute Pneumonia in a Child," American Journal of Obstetrics, July, 1881; "Cases of Long Retention of Placenta after Abortion," idem, October, 1883; "Treatment of Bursa," 1875. In State Transactions of various dates, "On Typhoid Fever; The Relation of Ovulation to Menstruation; Puerperal Fever, Its Intra-urine Antiseptic Irrigation," and others. His annual address as president of the State Medical society at White Sulphur Springs in July, 1887, met with much favor- able criticism from both the press and the profession. Dr. Jepson was married in 1871 to Isabella, daughter of Rev. Andrew Scott, of Jefferson county, Ohio, and has four daughters. The doctor and wife are members of the First Presbyterian church, and the doctor is an elder.
William J. Johnston, son of William and Mary J. Johnston, both formerly of county Armagh, Ireland, was born in the city of Wheel- ing, W. Va., February 17, 1843. Being of poor parentage he was early cast upon his own resources for subsistence. His father died July 4, 1849, leaving a family of five children, four sons and one daughter, the eldest, John, twelve years of age, and the second child, Robert, age ten years, being the only support of the family. Will- iam J., the third child, at the age of nine years entered a glass factory and worked in various capacities for a term of five years or there- about. In the spring of 1856 he entered the Wheeling Intelligencer job rooms, and January 1, 1857, commenced a three year apprentice- ship as a printer, in the said job rooms then in charge of Col. John Frew. In the spring of 1861, being desirous of getting. some news- paper experience, he accepted a case on the Wheeling Press, and worked at the case until the closing of that establishment by the United States army, by order of Gen. Hunter, some time in 1862, after which event he returned to his former position of job pressman in the Intelligencer job rooms. In the spring of 1865, being desirous of bettering his condition, he purchased an interest in the book and job printing concern carried on under the firm name of A. S. Trow- bridge & Co., but soon becoming dissatisfied with the management, and having been misled as to the financial condition of the establish- ment, he made a proposition to buy or sell, and the latter was ac- cepted. He then associated with him a book binder by name I. Risteau
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Amos, under the firm name of Johnston & Amos, book binders and job printers. In the year 1867, this firm was induced to commence the publication of a temperance weekly paper called the Home Visitory, edited by Mrs. Ada Gregg, grand secretary of the grand lodge I. O. G. T., of West Virginia. After a life of some four months this undertaking had to be abandoned for lack of support. In the year 1868, Mr. Amos disposed of his interest in the firm to Mr. Alfred Glass, of Wellsburg, W. Va., and the business of the firm was carried on under the firm name of Johnston, Glass & Co., who did a good business in the jobbing line for a time, that is until they conceived the idea of publishing an evening paper, which paper was started under the name of the Evening Commercial. This evening paper had the same fate of every effort of the kind ever made in Wheeling. After a short existence it had to be abandoned for want of support. Late in the year 1868, Mr. Glass wishing to sell his interest, his proposal was accepted, and the business was conducted under the firm name of of W. J. Johnston, and so continued until April 1, 1870, when our sub- ject consolidated his plant with the Wheeling Register, taking an in- terest in the firm of Lewis Baker & Co., in payment for same. On entering this firm he was assigned the position of manager of the job department, and contractor for all book and job work, which position he still holds. Representing said firm he was West Virginia state printer and binder from January, 1877, to January, 1879; state printer, binder and contractor for furnishing the state with paper and station- ery, from January, 1879, to January, 1881; state printer and binder from January, 1881, to January, 1883, and representing the West Vir- ginia Printing company, state binder from January, 1889, to January, 1891. He was married September 7, 1865, to Sarah H. Thompson, daughter of Alex Thompson, deceased, of Wheeling, who died No- vember 16, 1880, leaving five children, viz .: John T., now foreman of the Wheeling Register Book Bindery; Mary Belle, Robert D., Jane and Sarah. Mr. Johnston was again married November 26, 1884, to Mary Adela Turner, daughter of Alexander Turner, one of Wheel- ing's most prominent pioneer wholesale grocers, and founder of the now prosperous Wheeling firm in that line of Messrs. Neill & Ellingham.
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