History of the Upper Ohio Valley, with family history and biographical sketches, a statement of its resources, industrial growth and commercial advantages, Vol. I, Part 92

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John W. Snediker was born in Marshall county, W. Va., in the year 1838. He was one of eleven children born to Garret and Mary H. (Miller) Snediker; the children were as follows: Elizabeth, married Albert Wait, she is now deceased; Charles, married Mary Pedley, she is deceased, he married for a second wife, Charlotte Simpson, of Wayneburg, Penn .; James died while in the service of the United States; Rebecca married Joshua A. Lancaster, now living in Kansas; Samuel M. married Mary McClarin, of Steubenville; Joseph M. married Adeline Kemple, of Marshall county; Milch married J. M. Dowler, of Wheeling; Mary and William both died in childhood; and two others who died in infancy. The parents were both born in Vir- ginia; the greater part of their lives they lived on their farm in the vicinity of Wheeling, W. Va. They were worthy members of the community, and were both devout communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Snediker's paternal grandfather was a major in the war of 1812. His wife's maiden name was Harris, and both of these grandparents were natives of Germany, settling in Brooke county, W. Va., at an early date. They were very prominent and wealthy people, and members of the Presbyterian church. His ma- ternal grandfather, who was a native of Virginia, moved to Morgan county, Ohio, and both he and his wife were pioneer members of the Methodist Episcopal church of that county, and highly respected and useful members of the community. In 1859 Mr. Snediker married Jane, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Pedley, who were of English birth, they located in Wheeling, where Mr. Pedley followed the trade of a stone-mason, having been engaged on some of the old buildings of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Snediker had seven children: R. Ella

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Charles R., Mary V., Harry L., Laura J., and Minnie M. All of these children are deceased but Ella, Charles and Harry. Mrs. Snediker died in 1872, and her death was a calamity to her neighbors, her family and the church of which she was a consistent member, having joined the Methodist denomination in her early childhood. In 1873, Mr. Snediker married J. Amanda Richey, daughter of James and Joanna (Whittingham) Richey, who were for many years leading members of society in Marshall county, and also members of the Methodist church. Annetta B. and Cora L. are the result of this second union. Mr. Snediker has been township treasurer for sixteen years, and was also an overseer of the poor two years. He has a large farm stocked with the finest breeds of cattle, sheep, etc., and is classed with the progressive and representative farmers of the county. He and wife are members of the Disciples church, and he is a republican.

Jacob Spoon, a prosperous farmer. of Clay district, and a brave volunteer soldier of the republic, was born and raised in Marshall county. He was born October 3, 1819, a son of Peter and Rebecca (Hickman) Spoon, natives of Maryland. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, was married in 1807, and then came to Mar- shall county. He was a zealous Presbyterian and his wife a Meth- odist. His death occurred November 9, 1844, at the age of ninety- two years, and his wife died May 28, 1865, aged eighty-seven. Eight children were born to them: Susan, Rebecca, Mary, Sarah, An- drew, Peter, Hannah and Jacob. Jacob was reared as a farmer, and after, he was married, November 27, 1845, to Catharine A. Bonar, born August 16, 1823, daughter of James and Nancy A. Bonar. He be- gan farming on his own account, and has continued at this with much success here, until recently, when he retired. On July 21, 1863, he en- listed in Company L, Fourth West Virginia cavalry, and served until his discharge, April 10, 1864, on account of wounds. He was detailed to guard the trains from New Creek to Petersburg, a very dangerous task, and when taking the last train through, they were attacked and the train captured, at Medley. He was wounded seriously, a ball tak- ing effect in his left ear, carrying away part of the skull. He was un- able to escape and was captured by the confederates, who took the nearly frozen man to a fire, and when he regained consciousness, the next day he found his wound dressed. He remained there thirteen days, and was nearly famished before he reached the hospital at New Creek. From there he was transferred by way of Grafton, to Wheeling, where he was attacked by lung fever, and was ill six weeks, from the effects of which he never recovered. But he has the satisfaction of knowing that he did his duty faithfully and heroically. Mr. Spoon and wife have had ten children: Amanda A., deceased; James M., who married Maggie Gibson; Hickman, who married Maggie Earlewine; Jeremiah, deceased; Alcinda, Malvina, Jacob H. married Ella B. Jefferson; Franklin Pierpoint, a carpenter in Colorado; Daniel N., who mar- ried Emma Connelly, and Matilda J. Parents and children are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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George K. Steele, a well-known citizen of Moundsville, was born in VanBuren county, Iowa, January 9, 1843, the son of William and Sarah A. (Robinson) Steele, the former of whom was a native of Ken- tucky and the latter of Ohio. The parents settled in their western home in 1838, where the father engaged in mercantile business, and became a prominent man, a county officer for several years and a dis- tinguished Odd Fellow. He died in 1851, aged forty-three years, and his wife, a devout member of the Methodist church and a daughter of Rev. James Robinson, a minister of that denomination in Kentucky and Indiana, died in 1888, aged seventy-six. At the age of eighteen years George K. Steele enlisted in Company E, Second Iowa volun- teer infantry, in May, 1861, and after serving one year re-enlisted in Company K, Fifteenth Iowa, and was in that command until the bat- tle of Shiloh, when he was detailed at Gen. Grant's headquarters to take charge of the government mail from the west. After eighteen months' service in this capacity he was appointed second lieutenant in the Ninth Louisiana colored regiment, and stationed at Water Proof, above Natchez. He served there nine months and then resigned and received the appointment of mail messenger between Memphis and Little Rock, via the river, and continued in that capacity until 1866. Since that date he has been engaged in the show business as agent, with one company, by whom his enterprise and active business quali- ties are highly appreciated. During the past fourteen years Mr. Steele has been a resident of Moundsville, where he is esteemed as a worthy and progressive citizen, and is socially highly regarded. He was mar- ried in 1878 to Nannie, daughter of Theodore Williamson, of Tyler county, W. Va.

S. Marion Steele, M. D., a young physician of Moundsville, skillful and thoroughly grounded in his profession, is a native of West Vir- ginia, born in Tyler county, September 14, 1860. He is a son of John A. and Hannah (Davis) Steele, the former of whom is a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Virginia. The father now living in Ohio county, at the age of seventy years, did patriotic service dur- the rebellion, serving three years and three months in the Tenth West Virginia regiment. The mother died March 23, 1886, aged about sixty-three years. Of their seven children, the oldest, W. G., a minister of Disciples church for some ten years, died March 9, 1889, at the age of forty-two years. John R. is a resident of Ohio county; James M., of the same county; Wesley and Thomas J. re- side at Moundsville, and Sarah M., wife of J. N. Ewing, of Bellaire. Dr. Steele, after attending the district schools of Ohio county, en- tered the Moundsville high school, where he was graduated in 1880. He then began the study of medicine, in the meantime teaching school for four terms. At the end of that time he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was graduated in medicine, March 15, 1886. Settling at Moundsv lle, May 7, 1886, he began the practice of his profession, and has already attained a creditable rank, and is esteemed also as an enterprising and valuable citizen. He is a member of the city council and is

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health officer. Is with his wife a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, and is also affiliated with the Junior Order of American Mechanics. The doctor was married October 20, 1887, to Florence N. Cheadle, daughter of T. D. and Dorcas Cheadle, of Moundsville, and they have one son, Byron W.

James F. Stewart, one of the prominent farmers of Marshall county, W. Va., was born December 20, 1824. His parents were Will- iam and Jane (Cunningham) Stewart, the former one of the oldest men now living in the county. Although eighty-seven years of age, he is in reasonably good health, converses freely, remembers early days quite well, has been a man of more than ordinary physical strength, was quite an athlete in his earlier days, and was never beaten in many of the games that were played years ago. He came to this section with his parents, Robert and Mary (Irwin) Stewart, in 1808, and settled on Wheeling creek, and eight years later his parents bought and moved to land adjoining that now owned by himself. The county was then one unbroken wilderness, except some little im- provement at Beeler's Station. Land was worth $2 per acre. Labor 25 cents per day, making rails 25 cents per 100. His parents were married in Ireland, and came to this country with two children: Irwin and Thomas, and seven others were born to them after coming to America, viz .: Jane, John, Robert, William, Nancy, Samuel and Fleming. These parents and most of the children were worthy members of the Disciples church. Thomas Stewart, the great- grandfather of our subject, came to this country about 1808. His wife probably died in Ireland. William Stewart was born April 3, 1803, and was married to Jane Cunningham, in 1824. This union was blessed in the birth of eight children: Agnes, who married William Foster. She died at the age of twenty-six. Robert married Miss Han- ley, of Illinois. Samuel married Miss Woosley, of Illinois; James F .; Andrew W. married Miss Hanley. Irwin married, first, Isabel Shepherd and afterward Miss Richey. Mrs. Jane Stewart was born in 1804, and passed to her reward in March, 1878, after having spent her life in the service of her Maker, in the Disciples church. William Stewart was justice of the peace for some years in this county, and has always been a man of sterling integrity and irreproachable character, and is now spoken of in the highest terms by those who have known him most of his life. Our subject has been a farmer all his life. He was married in 1858 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have had six children, whose names are: D. Web- ster, John W., William A., Mary J., Belle and Effie, all at home with their father, all well educated, two of whom are teachers in the public schools of the state. Mrs. Stewart died in 1885. She was a life long member of the Disciples church, and a devout, earnest, praiseworthy Christian lady. Mr. Stewart is also a worthy member of the same church. He is one of the prominent, responsible and highly respected farmers of the county. Owning and operating one of the finest and most extensive farms in his district, he is well and favorably known over the county, and in politics is a solid republican.

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Dr. George A. Stidger of Cameron, a well-known and popular physician, was born in Marshall county, December 27, 1844. He is the son of Dr. George Stidger, an early physician and one of the first to practice surgery in Marshall county. He was widely known through- out this part of the state, and highly esteemed. He was born in Jef- ferson county, Ohio, in 1807, and died in Marshall county in 1887. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary A Baker, was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which the elder Dr. Stidger also belonged. She died in 1864, aged fifty-three years. Six sons and three daughters were born to these parents. Dr. George A. Stidger received his literary education at the Iowa Wesleyan univer- sity, where he was graduated in the class of 1866. Subsequently he came to West Virginia and began the study of medicine with his brother, S. B. Stidger, M. D., one of the most noted surgeons of this part of the state. He completed his professional studies in the Jeffer- son medical college, where he was graduated in the class of 1882, and he also attended two terms of the medical department of Wooster University at Cleveland. He has carried on the practice of medicine and surgery since 1871, and has attained a creditable and unquestioned rank among the able and skillful men of his profession in this region. The doctor was married in 1874, to Elizabeth, daughter of U. B. and Susan Williams. Her father, one of the oldest engineers of the Bal- timore & Ohio road, died of apoplexy on his engine, in 1881. Her mother is living with Mrs. Stidger, and is now seventy-six years old. The docter and wife have six children: George H., Mary B., Hugh, Ada, Crafton and Howe. He and wife and two elder children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

E. C. Thomas, prominent among the physicians and surgeons of Marshall county, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 14, 1835, the son of Edward and Catherine (Clark) Thomas. His father was a native of north Wales, and came to America at twenty-four years of age. He was a coal miner, afterward a coal dealer, and in this country a farmer by occupation, and was known as an honest and upright man. He died in 1869 at the age of seventy-five years, and his wife, who was the daughter of Elizabeth Zane, the "powder girl of Wheeling," died in 1872, aged seventy-two years. She was a mem- ber of the Methodist church from the years of the earliest organiza- tions in the west, and her home was always open to the itinerant min- isters. Thirteen children were born to these parents, and eight sur- vive. Dr. Thomas, the eighth child, was occupied on his own account at the age of eighteen as a teacher, and he continued at this for sev- eral years, finally beginning the reading of medicine with Dr. Bates, at Wheeling, in 1857. He was graduated by the Ohio Medical col- lege, of Cincinnati, in 1860, and then entered the service of the United States as assistant surgeon of the Third West Virginia infantry, of which command he was promoted surgeon about a year later. He was mustered out with the regiment in August, 1864, and then served as assistant surgeon in the hospital at Claremonte, Md., until July I, 1865. On the restoration of peace he began his practice at Mounds-

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ville, in which he has ever since been engaged with noteworthy suc- cess. During five years he acted as surgeon of the penitentiary. He has been a member of the State Medical association, also of the I. O. O. F., and is now a member of the G. A. R. In September, 1865, he was married to Mrs. Margaret Jane Williamson, daughter David Patten, of Belmont county, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Henry W. Thompson, a well-known citizen of Moundsville, is a native of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish lineage. His parents were Henry and Ann J. (Burns) Thompson, who came to Wheeling in 1849, the subject of this mention being then four years old, he having been born July 27, 1845. The father was employed in a cotton mill, then in a rolling mill, and at the time of his death, March 6, 1885, he was justice of the peace. His widow survives at the age of seventy-four years. Both were members of the Presbyterian church. Four of their seven children are living. Henry W. began working for him- self at ten years of age, carrying tools for the workmen on the B. & O. bridge, and subsequently found employment in the cotton factory, and then in the rolling mill, learning his trade of boiler maker. Though he had served on the militia his youth prevented his enlist- ment in the civil war until July, 1863, when he became a member of Battery H, First West Virginia light artillery. The command of 500 was captured at New Creek, and were conveyed to Richmond, where they arrived in an almost starved condition, and were then treated to the regular allowance of a loaf of corn bread for four men, and two ounces of meat or fish, when they could get it, twice a day. He was imprisoned in the Pemberton tobacco warehouse, opposite Libby prison, from November 15, 1864, to February 15, 1865, and suffered great hardships. He was taken to Camp Chase and given a furlough of thirty days, after which he returned to his command, but the war was then about closed and he was discharged July, 1865. After peace was restored he resumed his trade, but since 1885 has been engaged in gardening at Moundsville. He was married May 14, 1872, to Mary E., daughter of George and Catherine Blake, of Benwood, and they have had three children: Edna V., George B., deceased, and Hugh W. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic order, the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R.

Joseph Tomlinson, Jr., the first white settler where Moundsville now stands, was born in Maryland, October 12, 1745, the son of Joseph Tomlinson, who was born in Ireland, October 12, 1712. Joseph, Jr., married Elizabeth Harkness, who was born in Maryland, March 2, 1754, and they emigrated and discovered Grave Creek mound, and settled in the flats of that stream in the year 1770. About 1795 he laid out a town, and named it Elizabethtown in honor of his wife, and this name was in use until the town was consolidated with Mounds- ville in 1866. 'The children of Joseph, Jr., were Robert; Drusilla, wife of Hezekiah Bukey; Samuel, Joseph, Isaac; Mary, wife of John Kinnard; Lucy, wife of Samuel Riggs, and afterward of Isaac Hos-

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kinson; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph McMahon; Nathaniel and Jesse. Nathaniel became a farmer, enlisted in the war of 1812, and married Margaret Ransom, by whom he had two children, Alfred Tomlinson, now a prosperous farmer near Moundsville, and Ellen C., wife of William Alexander. Margaret (Ransom) Tomlinson, who died at the home of her son-in-law, Judge Alexander, November 17, 1879, was one of the most widely known and esteemed ladies of the county. She was a daughter of William Ransom, a native of county Armagh, Ireland, who was married June 11, 1790, to Eleanor Carr, a native of Berkeley county, Va., born January 7, 1771. They came to Mounds- ville in 1799, and the father died here March 13, 1804, and the mother, December 29, 1857. Alfred Tomlinson, above referred to, has de- voted his life to agriculture, and is one of the most highly regarded citizens of this region. He was born near Moundsville, October 5, 1822. He was married in 1851 to Mary D., daughter of James D. Morris, and they have two children, James M., and Mary, wife of Rev. M. F. Compton, a Methodist minister, of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Charles W. Vance was born in Wheeling, Ohio Co., W. Va., in the year 1858. Robert A. Vance was born in 1855. They are the sons of Robert and Harriet (McAully) Vance, old citizens of Wheeling, and highly respected members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Robert Vance, Sr., was born at Little Beaver, Penn., about the year 1818. He was a heater in the rolling mill. He enlisted in Company K, First West Virginia cavalry, in September, 1861, and served until the close of the war. He was honorably discharged at Wheeling. He did much scouting and hard marching, and was in all the engagements in which his company participated. Harriet (McAully) Vance, was born in England in the year 1823, and came to the United States when seven years old. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Asbeens) McAully, natives of England, who emigrated to this coun- try in 1830 and settled at Pittsburgh, Penn., where the father died at the age of seventy-six. The mother is still living at the advanced age of ninety years and has remarkably good health for one of her extreme age. The grandfather of our subject, James McAully, was born in Ireland, but was soon after taken to England where he lived and died. He was a weaver of fine carpets. Andrew Vance, the pa- ternal grandfather, married Sarah Wright, and soon after settled near Beaver, Penn. They were Quakers. Andrew was a soldier in the war of 1812. . His father was of Scotch-Irish birth, and also a member of the Society of Friends. Charles Vance was one of a family of seven children: Harriet, who married J. W. Davis, of Ben- wood; George W., married Anne Askin, of Illinois; Sarah E., de- ceased; Marietta married J. F. B. Wilson; Carrie married W. E. Pelly, and is now a resident of Mingo, Ohio; and Robert A. The latter is a member of the firm of Vance Bros., merchants of Benwood, W. Va. Charles Vance began life for himself at a very early age by working in the iron mills of the city, and remained in this pursuit for

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about thirteen years, when he formed a partnership with his brother and embarked in the mercantile business. They now operate a large retail dry goods and grocery business. Charles Vance is a member of the I. O. O. F. Both members of the firm are considered as among the substantial business men of the city, they having gained an enviable reputation for integrity and enterprise.

Antonius T. Warner, a substantial and leading citizen of Marshall county, proprietor of a saw-mill and lumber yard near Moundsville, was born in 1850, at Baltimore, Md. He is the son of a shipbuilder who came to his death by a falling timber striking him while he was engaged in resetting a mast on a ship. His widow, Rebecca (Fay) Warner, is still living. Three children were born to them. Antonius was placed among strangers to earn his subsistence at an early day, and he worked faithfully until he was of age, when he engaged in saw-milling, a business with which he has ever since been connected, also giving considerable attention to farming. He came to Marshall county in 1855, and there and in Ohio county has since made his home. By industry he has in spite of an inauspicious beginning, accumulated enough of a property to make him one of the solid men of the vicinity. In 1879 he was married to Mrs. Laura V. Flannagan, daughter of Jacob W. and Mary Jane Cox, old settlers of the county of Marshall. Her father was a prosperous farmer, for more than fifty years active in the Methodist church, a member of the agricultural society of the county, and a stockholder in the rolling mill at Mounds- ville. By her marriage to Joseph Flannagan, Mrs. Warner. had two children, Willie and Ebert S., and by her union to Mr. Warner she is the mother of five children: Jessie, Russell, Della, Wertie and Stacy Harrison. Mrs. Warner is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Warner is associated with the I. O. O. F. and the Knights of Pythias, and in politics is a republican.

Charles A. Weaver, of Moundsville, a notably successful business man and manufacturer, was born in York county, Penn., April II, 1845. His father, Elijah Weaver, a native of Maryland, was a whip manufacturer by occupation, and died in 1878, at the age of sixty-one years. By his wife, Caroline Erb, a native of Ireland, he had six children, the oldest of whom is Charles A. The latter embarked in the whip manufacture at the age of twenty years, and has ever since followed that occupation, and though burned out in the year 1869, his business has since been enlarged and has greater proportions than before. His establishment at present manufactures about eighty dozen whips per day, and turns out about half the leather whips used in the United States. In this manufacture he is associated with John C. Bardall under the style of Weaver & Bardall, and he is also a member of the firm of Weaver & Humphreys, manufacturers of brooms, the product of whose establishment is about 125 dozen per day. Mr. Weaver's energies as a manager and financier are not confined to these exten- sive industries, but he is also president of the Marshall County bank, of which he is one of the founders, is a charter member of the Moundsville Coal company and director of the same, is a stockholder

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and director of the Citizens' Natural Gas company, of Beaver, Penn., and has business interests in Wheeling, and at various places in Penn- sylvania and the west. His prominence as a citizen has been recog- nized by his election to the office of mayor, and he is now a member of the council. Socially he holds a high rank, is a Mason of the de- gree of Knight Templar, and with his wife is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. Few men in West Virginia are more prominent in business and financial circles, and his success is a creditable nature, and founded on integrity of character, alertness in affairs and superior executive ability. Mr. Weaver was married December 24, 1867, to Mary Etta Richardson, daughter of W. F. and Mary Richardson, of Pittsburgh, and seven children have been born to them: May E., Charles A., William F., Harry E .; Carrie, deceased; Mary Etta and Walter M.

Daniel Winters is one of the prominent farmers of Marshall county, W. Va. He was born on the farm adjoining the one now occupied by him March 17, 1821. Daniel and Mary (Blake) Winters, his par- ents, came to Marshall county in the infancy of that county, and were classed among the first families of the community. Both were con- sistent members of the Presbyterian church. Their ten children were: James, John, Esther, Betsy, Samuel, Margaret, Mary, Nancy, Daniel, and Rebecca J .; all of these are now deceased but Daniel. Mr. Winters had a natural fitness for agriculture and began life as a farmer on a small scale. By close attention to his farm, and by progressiveness in his methods, he has accumulated a fine property, and is classed among the prosperous farmers of the community. February -4, 1847, he espoused Miss Margaret Hartley, a daughter of Thomas and Alice (Warden) Hartley, who were very early settlers in Ohio county, W. Va., and who were prominent in the settlement of that region. Mrs. Hartley was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for years was an active worker of that denomination. Mr. and Mrs. Winters' home has been brightened by the advent of three children: Lemon, the oldest, died in infancy; Alice J. married Abner Campbell; their four children are: Orlena D., Millard L., Pearl M. and Martin D. Mary M. married Martin Thornburg, their children are: Harry L., Fairy O. and Cora I .; these children have lived with their grandparents since the death of their mother, which occurred November 13, 1878; she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, which she joined when thirteen years old, and was a true Christian woman, leaving bright evidences behind her of hav- ing lived a pure and noble life. Mr. and Mrs. Winters, from their life long residence in this community, are widely known, and are very much esteemed. They both went to school in the old log school- houses of their childhood, and have brought many interesting facts of that day up through the years of their life. They are earnest and devoted communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Daniel Wilson, a successful and well-to-do farmer of Marshall county, was born in the same, May 24, 1822, the son of Joseph and Martha (Downing) Wilson, both natives of Virginia. His father, a

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farmer by occupation, died in September, 1856, at the age of sixty-one years, and the mother several years later. Of their ten children, nine are living: James, in Indiana; William, Daniel, Rebecca, Mary J .; widow of Alexander Woodburn; Joseph, Elizabeth, Hannah, Samuel. Daniel began work for himself in 1850, at Limestone, which has since been his home, and followed blacksmithing for twenty-five years, after which he rented a farm for three years, and 1S now the owner of a fertile property of 320 acres. For four or five years just before the formation of the state, he served as justice of the peace. In the autumn of 1850 he was married to Mary J., daughter of James Standiford of Marshall county, and by this union had seven children: James, who is engaged in blacksmithing; Joseph, John, Emma, Lorena, Margaret C., and William S. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been an elder since 1870, and politically he is a republican. Mr. Wilson's success in life has been achieved by untiring industry and integrity, and none are more highly regarded than he by the community. James Wilson, above mentioned, is an inventor of notable genius, and he has produced and secured patents upon a " vehicle top fastening," a "lifting jack " for wagons, and an adjusting seat for use on reapers and mowers on side hills, that are worthy of extensive use.

Edward E. Zane, a prominent young citizen of Glen Dale, Mar- shall county, is the descendant of a family of great importance in the history of the upper Ohio valley. His father, Daniel Zane, was a son of Col. Ebenezer Zane, one of the foremost of the early heroes of the frontier, a brother of the celebrated Elizabeth Zane, whose famous adventure at the siege of Fort Henry will never be forgotten. Col. Zane was a man of great bravery, rare good sense, and was up- right in character. A similar man was his brother, Jonathan Zane, a noted Indian fighter and hunter, whose rifle was known from the river to the lakes by the name of " Old Destruction," so deadly was its aim. Had the advice of these two wary frontiersmen been followed by Col. Crawford, that soldier would have escaped death at the stake and his men a cruel massacre. Daniel Zane, who was born August 3, 1792, was married March 3, 1812, to Cynthia, daughter of his uncle, Jonathan Zane. She, a beautiful woman and a devoted Christian, died of consumption, June 5, 1841. On September 16, 1859, Daniel Zane was again married, to Angeline P. Tomlinson, who was born November 18, 1840, at Kate's Rock (Glen Dale), Marshall county, the daughter of Abelard and Annie Tomlinson. Abelard was the grand- son of Joseph Tomlinson, who settled on the Grave Creek flats about 1770, being the only white settler in Marshall county, and came into possession of a large tract of land, which, including the famous mound at Moundsville, he willed to his son Jesse, the father of Al- belard, who opened the mound in 1838. Daniel and Angeline Zane had one son, Edward E., born June 18, 1860. Daniel died July 8, 1860, and on September 16, 1861, his widow was married to Theodore Fink, a well known river man, who died March 4, 1875. Edward E. Zane at the age of fourteen years began the trade of carpentry, at

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which he afterward worked for several years with Thomas and James Clark, contractors. Subsequently he was employed for three years in the store of H. R. Kingman, at Wheeling, after which he resumed his trade and followed that until 1885, when he bought a farm on which he now resides. On May 14, 1887, he established the postoffice at Glen Dale, of which he is now postmaster, the office being on his farm. June 18, 1884, he was married to Helena, only daughter of Michael Schaub, of Woodfield, Ohio, a worthy member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. He died May 4, 1885, aged forty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Zane have one son, Frank Edward, born April 27, 1886.

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History of the Upper Ohio Valley, with family history and biographical sketches, a statement of its resources, industrial growth and commercial advantages, Vol. I, Part 92

Author: Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Brant & Fuller Number of Pages: 842

Author:
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Brant & Fuller
Number of Pages: 842