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Barnhart Erlewine is an old and prominent farmer of the vicinity of Glen Easton, W. Va. He was born on the 25th of December, 1812, in what was then Ohio county, but now within the limits of Marshall county. The father, Barnhart, was one of the pioneers who came to this state when Indians held sway. His wife, Margaret Sailor, of Washington, Penn., bore him twelve children. He was one of the old Jackson democrats. His grandfathers on both sides were among the first to settle in this region. Barnhart Erlewine, Jr., began life for himself at the age of twenty-nine years, at which time he was mar- ried to Martha Roe, this event occurred in 1842. Her parents, Eben- ezer and Ellen (Marshall) Roe, were descendants of old families. Ebenezer died early in life, Mrs. Roe living to be sixty-five years old. Both were devout communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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Mr. Erlewine has been engaged in farming and stock-raising all his life, and has met with the gratifying success that generally follows a life of thrift and probity. He has never taken a very active part in politics, but seldom misses an opportunity of voting the republican ticket. At the age of seventy-seven years, he has retired from the active duties of life, and is enjoying the peace and quiet that he de- serves, upon the same homestead he bought in 1854. An honored, peaceful man beloved by his neighbors, revered by his children, he is indeed an honored man. Five children have come to them: Reuben, who married Mary Stanford, their one child is Ellen E .; Ebenezer, husband of Lyda Payne, their five living children are: Martha E., Willard, Emma, Roe and Charles; Margaret E. married Hickman Spoon, to whom she has borne Martha A., John R., William F. and Emma; Francis married Lucinda Knapp, their children are: Reuben M., Margaret E., Harry B .; and the youngest, John Roe, re- mains at home to care for the aged parents.
J. Alexander Ewing, a leading attorney of Moundsville, is one of a family that has been well-known in the settlement of this portion of the Ohio valley from the colonial times. His grandfather, James Ewing, came from the eastern shore of Maryland about 1765, and settled on lands which are now a part of the city of Wheeling. Shortly afterward he occupied land in what is now the northeastern portion of Marshall county, which is still in the possession of one of the grandchildren, William W. James Ewing was much devoted to military service, was first lieutenant of a militia company which served in the war of 1812, and continued to drill until he was eighty years old. He was well educated and had a fine library. His death oc- curred at the age of eighty-four years. His son, William Ewing, father of the subject of this sketch, was a successful farmer, a power in local politics, but not an office seeker, and a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which his wife also adhered. She, by maiden name Martha Martin, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. Her husband died at the age of fifty-two years. Of their eleven chil- dren, ten are living: J. Dallas; Mary W. (Mrs. Alfred McCuskey) ; Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Hartley; Susan A., wife of Robert Taylor; George M., William W., J. Alexander, Samuel H., Robert A .; Thomas E., deceased, and Isaac N. J. Alexander Ewing was born in Marshall county, October 11, 1845. He spent his early years attend- ing an academy and clerking for a brother, until May, 1868, when he returned to Marshall county, and began preparing for the bar, to which he was admitted in 1871. In the law he has attained distinc- tion, and he has also served the public in various honorable public functions. In May, 1876, he was elected a member of the city coun- cil, and in the same year chosen mayor to fill a vacancy. Subse- quently he was twice elected to the council, and in the meantime served three years as city solicitor. In October, 1878, he was elected a member of the legislature from Marshall county for a term of two years. From March until May, 1886, during the controversy between the governor and the senate of West Virginia, he served as superin-
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tendent of the state penitentiary. He is, as is his wife also, a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has been for the past three years president of the Wheeling District Camp Meeting asso- ciation. He is prominent as a member of the Knights of Honor and National Union, and has represented the state in the national assem- blies of both, three times for the former fraternity. Mr. Ewing was married May 14, 1872, to Mary V. Blake, of Moundsville, and they have seven children: William O., Anna V., Olive M., Bessie G., Edith M., Mary A. and Helen B.
Henry L. Faust, a leading business man of Rosby's Rock, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 13, 1843, the son of Joseph and Margaret (Snyder) Faust, both natives of Germany. The father, a stone mason by trade, built some of the oldest walls in Wheeling, and is still living at St. Joseph, named in his honor, enjoying retired life. His wife died October 5, 1888, aged sixty-eight years. Nine children were born to them: Frederick; Henry L .; Maria, deceased; Eliza- beth, wife of John Fallstick; Joseph; Rose, wife of Theodore Koltz; Catherine F., deceased; Maggie, wife of F. Koltz; John. Henry L., at the age of nineteen years, went to learn the boot and shoe trade, at which he was engaged two years. He then was a team- driver in the Union army one year, and then, after working another year as an apprentice, he opened a shop at St. Joseph, where he re- mained seventeen years. He then spent one year at Graysville, and came thence to Rosby's Rock, which has been his home for thirteen years. He is esteemed as one the worthy, responsible and influential men of the district. In 1866 he was married to Barbara Klug, who died in 1875, in the faith of the Catholic church. On January 25, 1877, he was married to Catherine Shutler, daughter of Joseph and Eliza- beth Shutler. The latter have eight children: Joseph, Mary, Bettie, Catherine, John, George, Henry and Andy. Mr. Faust and wife are members of the Catholic church, of which Mr. Faust's parents were members, belonging to the Cathedral congregation. Mrs. Faust's parents are the owners of nearly 1,000 acres of land.
Joseph W. Gallaher, a successful business man of Moundsville, and prominent in affairs of state and local politics and government, was born in Ohio county, W. Va., August 23, 1826, a son of John and Rachel (Hurst) Gallaher, the former of whom was a native of Ire- land and the latter of Maryland. In 1834 Mr. Gallaher came to Moundsville, and here received his education in the common schools, and the academy of Revs. Nicholas Murray and Irwin Carson. He embarked in business on his own account in 1848, and in the square where his store is now located, he has been engaged in merchandise, wool and grain for the past forty-two years. His notable force and strength of character and integrity, have made him prosperous in business, and the same qualities, added to an unfailing tact in dealing with men, and fluency as a public speaker, have brought him to great prominence in the political life of West Virginia. His first public office was a membership in the old county court of Virginia for six years. He was afterward mayor of Moundsville, and in 1856 he was
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on the Fillmore ticket as a candidate for presidential elector for the Fifteenth district of Virginia. He was among the first who resolved upon the reorganization, after the war, of the democratic party of West Virginia as a controlling influence in the state, and as a mem- ber of the first state executive committee, and secretary and treas- urer of the same for ten or twelve years, he was a power in the or- ganization of his party. In 1868 he was a delegate and vice president from Virginia to the democratic national convention which nomi- nated Horatio Seymour, and in 1872, he with Judge A. F. Haymond, represented the second senatorial district in the constitutional con- vention of West Virginia which framed the present constitution of the state; in which he served on the committees on taxation, finance, corporations, education and schedule. In 1876 he was appointed by Gov. Jacob one of the committee of three to equalize the state as- sessment of lands. He served as president of the board of directors of the West Virginia penitentiary for ten years. Mr. Gallaher's readiness and tact as a speaker is frequently called upon, às it was in 1869, as a member of a committee to visit Columbus, Ohio, and pre- sent Judge Thurman, who had assisted in the recent campaign, with a fine goldheaded cane. Socially Mr. Gallaher is very popular. In church matters he is an attendant of the Episcopal church, of which his wife is a member and he a vestryman. He was married in Novem- ber, 1866, to Emily J., daughter of Col. John Thompson, of Belmont county, Ohio, and they have two children, John T., now in the senior class of Lafayette college, Penn., and Joseph W., Jr., in business with his father.
Lindsey T. Gray, a leading business man of Moundsville, at pres- ent extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber, is a son of F. W. and Sarah (Roseberry) Gray, both of whom were natives of Greene county, Penn. The father was a farmer and merchant, a major-general in the militia organization of the counties of Wash- ington and Greene, and a prominent man. He died in February, 1844, and his wife, a devoted member of the Presbyterian church for thirty- five years, died in 1882, aged seventy-eight years. Six of the nine child- ren born to them are living. Lindsey Gray was born in Greene county, Penn., November 6, 1825. When of age he engaged in farming and followed that, five years of the time also being in the mercantile busi- ness, until 1870, when he was elected sheriff of Marshall county. He held the office one term, and discharged its duties efficiently and credibly. In 1873 he embarked in milling at-Moundsville, but three years later returned to the farm and remained there until the spring of 1886. This farm of 162 acres he still owns, and has a grist-mill on the same, but both are rented. In December, 1886, he embarked in the lumber business in Moundsville, and in the mercantile business in the following spring, and in all his enterprises he is meeting with good success. He ranks among the substantial and enterprising citi- zens of Moundsville. Mr. Gray was married in the spring of 1847 to Letitia Glenn, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Glenn, of Wash- ington county, Penn., and they had four children: Sarah E., wife of
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W. P. McNair, died October, 1882; Alice R., wife of E. H. McLain; David L., died in Iowa, August, 1883; James R., drowned in the Ohio, June, 1867. The mother of these died in 1856, at the age of thirty, and in October, 1860, Mr. Gray was married to Susan J. McClean, of this county, by whom he has five children: Anna B., wife of Thomas Gatts; Joseph M., George F., Mary E. and William P. George F. Gray is at present engaged in lumbering and merchandise with Thomas Gatts under the firm name of Gatts & Gray, and with this firm Will- iam P. Gray holds a position.
No business man in Marshall county is more thoroughly respected than W. O. Grimes, dealer in general merchandise at Glen Easton. He is the son of John and Barbara (Hubbs) Grimes, the former of Washington county, Penn., and the latter of Belmont county, Ohio. His grandfather, Isaac Hubbs, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Owing to the fact that schools were few and far between, and the teachers, in many cases, incompetent, Mr. Grimes received a limited education. His further advancement in this line was shortened by the brave step he took when but nineteen years of age, at which time he enlisted in the Third West Virginia infantry, Company I, and served with them until the discharge of the regiment in 1864. But, still faithful in his country's hour of need, he re-enlisted in Com- pany H, Seventeenth West Virginia infantry, and with it passed through the remaining trying years of the war, participating in the following engagements: Battles of Droop Mountain, Harrisburg, McDowell, and all of the principal battles in which his regiment was involved. Mr. Grimes was an actor in the historic " Salem Raid," on which they were cut off from all supplies, and were forced to pull the heavy artillery over the mountains by hand, having no shoes for their feet, no food to satisfy the cravings of hunger, fording rivers through the ice, their feet frozen and their poor starved bodies benumbed with the biting cold. It is honor enough for one man to be able to say that he formed one of the heroes of that expedition. After the war Mr. Grimes traveled through the west for twelve years soliciting or- ders for nursery stock, in which he was very successful. He then re- turned to the place of his selection, where he was married to Miss Martha Burley, the daughter of John and Susan (Ogle) Burley, old and highly respected residents of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes are the parents of four children: Susan, Charles, Elizabeth and Car- ton. After his marriage he operated a farm for four years, then sold out and moved to Missouri, where he worked a farm for two years. Again returning to Marshall county, he launched into the general merchandise business at Glen Easton, where he has since re- mained, having been very fortunate in his business. Mr. Grimes is in the prime of life, having been born in 1842. He is an honored mem- ber of the G. A. R., post No. 77, and of the I. O. O. F., and is a staunch republican.
R. W. Hall, M. D., a leading physician of Moundsville, was born in Carroll county, Md., November 16, 1844, the son of William and Rachel A. (Mullineaux) Hall, both natives of Maryland, and the
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father a descendant of Lyman Hall, one of the signers of the Declar- ation of Independence. The father, Captain William Hall, witnessed the breaking of ground for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, helped in its completion and ran an engine on the same. In 1861 he enlisted in the Sixth West Virginia regiment as a captain of Company F, and served gallantly until 1865. He took down the first rebel flag that was hoisted in Tucker county, and was threatened with death there- for by the notorious guerilla, Bill Harper. At the close of the war, when taking some of his men to Wheeling for their pay, a railroad collision, caused such severe injuries to him that he died seven years later, December 10, 1872, at the age of fifty-two years. His wife, who survives, is a member of the Methodist church, to which he also be- longed. They had two children. William H., the younger, is a res- ident of Mannington, of which he has been mayor. Dr. Hall came to Martinsburgh, Va., with his parents, and removed with them to Pres- ton county in 1853. He was clerking in a store when the war broke out, and on April 1, 1862, he enlisted in his father's company. Sub- sequently he was promoted fifth sergeant, and afterward quarter- master sergeant of the regiment. He participated in the battles of New Creek, Holly Meadows, Rowlesburg and others, and was wounded at Pleasant Run. Returning home, he attended college at Columbus, Ohio, then engaged for a time in the mercantile business and then took up his medical studies, which he had pursued since youth. He graduated in the class of 1874, at the university of Maryland, and he immediately began the practice at Manningtown, W. Va., whence he removed to Moundsville in 1883. Here he has achieved a high stand- ing in his profession, and socially. He is a member of the State and the American Medical associations, of the Masonic order and the G. A. R. In 1869 he was married to Mary E., daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Erwin, of Mannington, and they have had four children: Bertie L .; Belle, deceased; William E., deceased, and Evangeline.
George W. Hammond, an energetic farmer of Marshall county, was born there July 6, 1836, the son of George and Elizabeth (Dar- nell) Hammond, both natives of Virginia. The father was a farmer of considerable fame, having particular success in the raising of corn. He removed to Knox county, Ind., and died there in 1841, a little over fifty years old, his wife dying in 1837, at about the same age. Of the six children born to those parents three reside in Marshall county, and one, Mrs. Sarah A. Springer, at Bellaire. George W. was reared on the farm and engaged in agriculture previous to the war, but when that struggle arose, he enlisted in October, 1861, in Company D, of the First West Virginia infantry. He served in the army of the Shenandoah valley, taking part in the battles of New Market, Cedar Mountain, Thoroughfare Gap, Second Bull Run, Snicker's Ferry, and Moorsfield, and by his arduous service ruined his health. He was discharged November 26, 1865, after over three years in the service. He resumed farming, and in this calling has prospered. In March, 1864, he was married to Lizzie J. Fish, daughter of William and Sarah Fish, of Marshall county, and they have five
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children: William L., a successful teacher, married to Lizzie Gibson; Ida M., Maggie, Martin, deceased; Roscoe, deceased. Mr. Hammond and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R., and in politics is a republican.
H. J. Harris was born on the farm he now owns, and on which he lives, in the year 1844. He is a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Hubbs) Harris. The former died in February, 1866, and Mrs. Harris died October 18, 1886. They were early settlers of Marshall county, and were held in great esteem by the community at large. They left six children: John M., Emily, Joseph, Agnes, Elias R. and H. J. The lat- ter first left his home to offer his life and servives to his country dur- ing the war of the rebellion. He served with Company D, First West Virginia infantry, until discharged in 1864 for total disability. He acted bravely, as it became a patriotic soldier to do, in the battles of Winchester, Fort Republic, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antie- tam, Gettysburg, Piedmont, Lexington, Va., Lynchburg and also in many minor engagements. It is very seldom that a man receives such a wound as his and lives. At the battle of Lynchburg he received a rifle-shot wound in the head. It was an ounce ball, and entered near the front central portion of the forehead, entering the head and pass- ing out at the right temple, carrying away a considerable portion of the skull with it. It has been a subject of much comment from the surgical profession. It is the more wonderful as he was left upon the battle-field, and was taken prisoner by the enemy, remaining in their custody until paroled some three months later. Totally unfit for further fighting. Mr. Harris soon after began farming, which he has since followed with unvarying success, being a progressive, practical farmer. November 8, 1873, he married Mary V., daughter of Thomas and Mary (Davis) Greathouse. Five children are the issue of this marriage: Sophia, Manford, Elmore, Calla and Bertha. An intelli- gent, useful family. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are both members of the church of Latter Day Saints. Mr. Harris is also on the roster of Post No. 77, G. A. R. He is a republican. There is no doubt but that H. J. Harris's farm is one of the finest farm properties in that section of the state.
Martin B. Helms, a highly esteemed citizen of Cameron, was born in Marshall county, W. Va., March 2, 1838. He is the son of Adam Helms, a native of Ohio, who, previous to the war, was occupied as a carpenter. In 1861 Adam Helms enlisted as a private in the Third West Virginia infantry, and was subsequently discharged on account of poor health. In the spring of 1864 he re-enlisted in Battery D, First West Virginia Light artillery, with which he served until the close of the war. He was then occupied as a carpenter until he died at the age of sixty-five years, in February, 1881. He was married to Elizabeth Bonar, who died in the fall of 1852, at the age of thirty-five years. She bore her husband three children: Martin B., George M. and Rebecca S., who married John A. Pierce. Mrs. Pierce died in 1865, aged about twenty years. At the age of fourteen years Mar-
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tin B. Helms began work as a farm laborer, and continued until five years later, when he began a four-years' service as a deck hand on the river. This continued until May, 1861, when, in answer to the call for 75,000 men, he enlisted for ninety days, and at the end of that time re-enlisted for three years in the First West Virginia infantry. He took part in the battles of Kernstown, March 23, 1862; Fort Re- public, June 8 and 9, 1862; Cedar Mountain, August 9; Thoroughfare Gap, August 27, 1862, second battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862. On September II, 1863, he was captured in a skirmish at Morefield, W. Va., and thence taken to Libby prison, where he remained eight months. Here he suffered much hardship, but worse things were to follow. He was sent to Macon, Ga., and was confined in Camp Ogle- thorpe four months without shelter, and from there was transported to Charleston, S. C., where he was kept under the fire of the Union guns for one month. The yellow fever breaking out he and his fellow prisoners were removed to a camp about two miles from .Columbia, S. C., where he was two months, and then at the asylum grounds, three months; Sherman's troops advancing he and his comrades were hastily taken to Charlotte, where they remained four days; thence to Raleigh, for three days, and from there they went to Goldsboro, where they were paroled. His imprisonment covered a period of eighteen months, filled with untold hardships. He entered the serv- ice as private, was promoted sergeant at the battle of Kernstown, and first lieutenant to date from the second battle of Bull Run. He was discharged at Annapolis, on account of expiration of service. Since the war he has been engaged in clerking, and has been in the employ- ment of E. B. Hicks for the past fifteen years, a testimonial to his ef- ficiency and value as a business man. He was married in June, 1865, to Mrs. L. C. Anderson, and they have had two children: Willie T. and Ostie P., who died in 1876. Mr. Helms and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a member of the Masonic order, the I. O. O. F., S. B. Stidger post, G. A. R., and the National Union. In politics he is a republican.
James N. Hendrix, teacher at Wood Hill, on Fairview Ridge, was born in Marshall county, March 17, 1871. He received his education at Benwood, and began actively in his profession in October, 1889. His work has been of a high order of excellence, and his life prom- ises to be one of usefulness and honor. He is a son of Thomas and Luema (Scarlet) Hendrix. His father is one of three brothers, Jesse, Thomas and Isaac, of whom Jesse is the only surviver. Jesse Hen- drix was born in Maryland, but at the age of three years removed to Mechanicstown, Carroll county, Ohio. There he was reared as a far- mer, and in 1851 was married to Luema Scarlet, of Jefferson county. They removed afterward to Sistersville, W. Va., and after living there two years, made their home at Benwood. He and wife had six child- ren: John, who was married in 1879, to Aurelia Peabody, and lives at Benwood; Elizabeth, deceased; Tobitha, deceased; Nancy, deceased; Ida, who married Oliver Williams, and James N. Thomas Hendrix was united with the Methodist Episcopal church at the age of sixteen
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years, and was a class leader for thirty-seven years, and a devout Christian. He died February 7, 1889, aged sixty-four years.
J. B. Hicks, ex-sheriff of Marshall county, was born in that county, July 24, 1841, theson of Josiah G. and Tamar (Burley) Hicks, natives of Virginia. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, died in 1863, aged about fifty-five years, and his wife died about 1844. Of their four children three are living. The subject of this mention was reared on the farm until nineteen years of age, when he became clerk in a store, in which he has ever since controlled an interest. In August, 1863, he became orderly sergeant of Company I, Fourth West Virginia cavalry, and engaged mainly in guard duties until March, 1864. Subsequently he was engaged in merchandise until about 1878, and was then occupied in the stock business until 1880, when he was elected sheriff of Marshall county, which office he held from Jan- uary 1, 1881, four years, to the entire satisfaction of the people of the county. Since retirement from office he has been engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising. Mr. Hicks has also served as president of the board of education of Cameron for several years, and on the school board of Moundsville, and in politics is a republican, having been sec- retary and treasurer of the republican central committee for about nine years. He is a member of the Masonic order and the I. O. O. F .; is one of the charter members and directors of the Marshall County bank, and is one of the originators of the Horse-breeders' association, for which he, as purchasing agent, has expended six to seven thou- sand dollars for fine stock. Mr. Hicks was married in 1861, to Sarah A., daughter of Robert and Maria (Lane) Anderson, of Wash- ington county, Penn., and they have three children: Tamar, wife of W. D. Dunn; Dora, wife of Joseph Roberts, of this county; Clara and an adopted daughter, Mamie. Mrs. Hicks is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Her parents are deceased; the father, August, 1883, aged sixty-seven, and the mother in 1873, aged fifty-two.
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