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PARKERSBURG 1907
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Photographic Views of Residences, Business Places, Churches, Schools, Public Buildings, Landscapes and Places of Interest In and About Parkersburg,
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Symposium of the Industrial, Commercial, Professional, Social and Religious Life, together with a Complete City Directory of Parkersburg and her Suburbs.
Copyright, 1907. by THE W. M. BARNES DIRECTORY CO. Parkersburg, West Virginia.
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Introductory
It is with great p'easure we offer to Park- ersburg our New Industrial Souvenir and City Directory of this beautiful city. We have sincerely tried to present the manifold constructive interests of the city in a pleas- ant and interesting way, and to give you a book that would serve as a guide to the social, professional, commercial and indus- trial life of the city, and have illustrated same so profusely that the pictures alone tell nearly the whole story. While we have spared no expense to verify facts and pro- vent blunders, and have bent every effort 1: give you a correct City Directory and Sym- posium of the Industrial, Social and Ro- ligious life of the city, we know that owing to the training of new help in the work, some mistakes will creep in or some names or faets be overlooked. These errors will be corrected in future editions, when assist- ants more fully understand their work.
Our gratitude goes out to those who have so earnestly helped us in making this work of interest and of such educational value. that it should be in every home for the in- struction of the youth, and some not so young, regarding the merits and advantages of their home city. Our purpose has been to make a work not only useful but neces- sary in the home, as well as a beautiful Souvenir to send to friends elsewhere, and so secure their interest in Parkersburg and lier future.
Especially do we wish to thank the force of Parkersburg young ladies who personally canvassed the city and obtained the names.
occupations and addresses for the Directory; and to those enterprising citizens who have given us of their time and encouragement in preparing this work, notably Col. Charles B. Kefauver, the President of the Dispatch - News, that hustling and wide-awake news- paper man who is earnestly laboring for a greater and better Parkersburg; to A. C. Davis, general manager of the West Virginia. Western Telephone Company, who is a double-distilled and forceful compound of brains, energy, courage an.l grit, whose con- structive work in Parkersburg's interest has made telephone rates so reasonable that a telephone exists in almost every home; to Mr. T. R. Cowell, the Vice President of the Cairo & Kanawha Railway, who is repr ?- sented in many of the city's leading indus- tries as a stockholder or director; to Mr. C. R. Kerr, the photographer, for the por- trait work herein; to Mr. H. C. Fischer, of Marietta, for the many beautiful views of Parkersburg taken in the summer time, as well as the winter scenes; and to many others too numerous to mention for helpful work in preparing this beautiful Souveni:, showing the social, professional, commercial industrial and religious life of our city, il- lustrated so profusely that every one must see the beauty and desirability of our city as a place of residence, of business, as a manufacturing center, or a shipping point, trade center and outlet for the natural wealth of West Virginia to the markets of the North, Northeast and West.
THE W. M. BARNES DIRECTORY CO.
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Index to Advertisers
The Telephone Numbers in parenthesis following the name and address throughout this Book are the subscribers' numbers of the West Virginia Western Telephone Co.
Page.
Adair R. H. (architect )
Acme Fishing Tool Co. 65
Anderson Shoe Co ..
Baab, Cbas. E. (jeweler and optician ) 71
Barlow's Pool & Billiard Parlors.
73
Beisser, Alice (millinery )
Belcher, Chas. B. (furniture and stoves) . 77
Bentley & Gerwig Carpet Co. (furniture and carpets)
Blennerhassett Pressing Co .. 80
Brady Construction & Engineering Com- pany, The 21
Braniger's Business College. 79
Broida & Adams (dry goods). 82
Brown-Kendall Co, The (wholesale no- tions and furnishings) 28
Brown, Mis. S. T. (hair dressing) .
Bryan & Speece (men's furnishers)
35
Buffington Millinery Parlors. 86
Burke Supply & Plumbing Co.
Bush Plumbing Shop. .. 89
Camden, C. C., & Co. (electricians) 90
('ambron & Lewis (advertising)
Camden Theater 33, 34
Camden Theater
94, 95
Central Banking & Security Co, The 12
Citizens Transfer & Storage Co .. 96
Commercial Banking & Trust Co. The ... 15
Crotty, J. J., & Co. (manufacturers of drilling and fisbing tools) . .102
('rystal Springs Water. 30
Curry, John W. (general contractor) .103
Cutlip, J. D. (attorney-at-law )
104
Davis Studio (photographer) 106
Hotel De Witt
198
Dils Bros. & Co. (dry goods). 109
Discher's Exclusive Umbrella Store .. .110
Dunkle, B. F. (livery and sales stables) . . 112 East End Plumbing Co. 114
Epstein. Sid., Toggery Shop.
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Farmers & Mechanics National Bank 19
Feldner Transfer Company 118
First National Bank, The.
Fleming, C., & Son (shoes) 120
Flower, M. H. (insurance, real estate) .. 121
Globe Printing & Binding Co. 126
Gold Mine Store .. 7.27
Graham-Bumgarner Co. (manufacturers
and jobbers of boots and shoes) 29
Greek-American Candy Kitchen. 120
Grogg & Dudley (real estate) .130
Hall & Prescott (furniture, carpets and
stoves)
132
Halsey, Memel & Strong (funeral direc- tors and embalmers) . 133
Hanes, B. E. (real estate) 134
Herschel's Turkish-Russian Baths. 137
Hotel Monroe
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Hotel Schaefer 141
Hub Clothing Co. . 142
Jackson, A. G., & Co. (fire insurance) ... 144
Johnson & Mead (furniture, carpets and stoves) 1 15
Jones, Thos. A. (dancing school) . 116
Jenkins, M. G. (paving contractor) 118
Kahn, S. (clothing) . 149
Kesselman & Co. (drilling and fishing
tools)
22
Key, Elizabeth P. (manicuring and hair dressing) . 152
Leavitt, G. E., & Co. (undertaking, ve- hicles and harness ) . . 156
Leonard, A. D. (auctioneer)
167
Locke Bros. (shoes)
158
Lloyd-Baxter Music Co.
159
Pago. Logan, N., & Son (meat market) .160
McGregor-Amiss Furniture Co. 164
Maihl & Loritsch (tailors) 163
Marchetti, Astolfo (candies, cigars, etc.) . . 169 Mather, John W. (jeweler) 171
Mead, Geo. G. (optician) . 173 Mehen, Thos. G. (plumbing). 174
Mitchell, John M. (real estate and life insurance) .176
Moss, H. P., Bookstore Co. 179
Mountain Iron & Supply Co.
179
Muncy, H. P. (livery and sales stables) . . 189
Nathan, Ben (clothing) . .
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National Plaster & Supply Co., The ..
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Neal, Olin V. (jeweler) .
183
Newberger, Harry, & Co. (hatters and furnishers) 181
Niswander, G. W., & Co. (hardware) . . .185
Niswander, G. W. (millinery )
186
Oppenheimer, M. (clothing) . 187 Paden & Luttrell (insurance) 188
Parker & Co. (painters and general con- tractors) 189
Parkersburg Artificial Stone Co ..
Parkersburg Brewing Co., The ...
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Parkersburg Candy Kitchen & Bakery ... 190
Parkersburg Dispatch-News, The
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Parkersburg Furniture Co ..
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Parkersburg Iron & Steel Co, The.
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Parkersburg Mi'l Co.
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Parkersburg National Bank, The
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Parkersburg
Steam Laundry.
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Parkersburg Mantel & Tile Co.
194
Parkersburg Transfer Co ..
207
Parkersburg Supply & Plumbing Co. 19G
Patton & Neal Co. (furniture, carpets,
stoves, etc.).
195
Patton, Wm. Howe (architect)
197
Perkins Grocery Co. 198
Peoples Credit Clothing Co. 199
Peters Cafe. ..
200
Powell & Co. (real estate). 141
Radeker Lumber Co, The. 2
Ranch, Henry (clothing). .203
Reid, W. H., & Son (jewelers)
205
Richardson & Smith (real estate)
506
Robinson, J. N. (paving contractor)
208
Rymer, E. M., & Co. insurance 210
Safford, Mrs. J. H. (bakery and confec- tionery) .211
Reps & Co. (house furnishers) 212
Soberf & Hodgkiss (groceries) ..
.215
Second National Bank of Parkersburg ... 11
Sellers Grocery Store.
216
Setron, A. H. (jeweler) 217
Smith, Wm. F. (attorney-at-law) 222
Smith W. H., The, Hardware Co. 27
Spence, Smith & Kootz (second-hand oil well supplies} 20
Standard Oil Company, The. 22, 23
Star Grocer Co., The.
Stern Brothers (clothing) 227
Stiles Foundry & Supply Co. .229
U. S. Grocery Co ...
235
Varley Bros. (livery stable ) .236
Waxelbaum, Max ( tailor )
239
West Virginia Mantel Co. 241
West Virginia Western Telephone Co. . 16, 17
Wentz. Chas. C. (real estate) . 242
West Virginia Veneer Door Co.
213
West Virginia Real Estate Co. .2.14
White. Hull & Co. (shoes) .. 216
Wetherell & Son (jewelers) 2.15
Woodward Manufacturing Co. (saddlery ) . 250 Young Plumbing Co. 251
CANNAN ON
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PARKERSBURG, 1907.
PARKERSBURG, a hustling and up- to-date city of 25,000 population, lies at the confluence of the Ohio and Lit- tle Kanawha Rivers, and at the termi- nus of the canal now being construct- ed to connect the Great Lakes at Cleveland with the Ohio River, and be- ing situated at the crossing of these waterways, iron ore and cokeing coal can be assembled here at less cost than at any other place in the United States, making it the best location in the Ohio Valley for manufacturing enterprises, and it is now one of the valley's prin- cipal manufacturing cities.
It was settled more than one hun- dred years ago, but its modern devel- opinent began not more than fifteen years ago. It now has fifteen miles of brick-paved streets, twenty miles of electric street railways, good sewer- age, good water and light systems, splendid schools, handsome churches, public library, costly club houses, two large theatres, three daily newspapers, and many advantages of a city even larger than this.
The people are cordial, hospitable, and extend a warm welcome to stran-
gers. The population is practically all American, and is about equally divid- ed between the Old Virginia element, the first settlers, the Ohio element, and the Pennsylvania element, and happily blends the comfortable home life of a Southern city with the hust- ling business enterprise of a Northern one, making an ideal city 'both for residence and business.
Parkersburg has ten banks, all in a flourishing condition. Their depos- its are, in round numbers, Five Milliou Dollars, and their aggregate resources are more than Eight Million Dollars. The average deposit in Parkersburg banks per capita is $232, while in the United States the average is about $85, a fair illustration of the comfort of its citizens. In addition to the banks there are three Building and Loan Associations with aggregate re- sources of more than Two Million Dol- lars.
Parkersburg, owing to its splendid railroad and river facilities, is a nat- ural distributing point in a commer- cial way, and its wholesale houses keep about 125 salesmen on the road. They
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View Up Market Street, Parkersburg, W. Va.
do an annual business of about Five Million Dollars, making this city a wholesale center for almost all lines of merchandise.
There are nearly two hundred indus- trial establishments here, employing three thousand persons. paying out a million and a half dollars a year in wages, and turning out six million dol- lars worth of finished product annual- ly The lines of manufacture include steel products, foundries, forges, ma- ehme shops, wood working plants of all kinds, including furniture fac- tories, chair factories, mantels, house furnishings and cabinet works, oil re- fineries and chemieal plants, potteries, tile and briek works, artificial stone works, engine works, brewery, railroad repair shops, boiler works, and a great variety of other factories.
As a manufacturing site, Parkers- burg has many advantages. It pos- sesses the three essentials for suitable manufacturing sites, cheap raw materials, eheap eost of manu- facturing, ineluding labor and power, and accessibility to market, with cheap transportation. Parkers- burg has cheap raw materials of al-
most every variety. Especially is this true of all kinds of timber and hard woods, iron and steel, which enter largely into most lines of manufacture. It is elose to the immense forests of West Virginia, where every variety of timber known to the temperate elime is found. Much of it is floated from forest to factory on the rivers, making the eost here about the same as in the forests. Iron and steel can now be had by water transportation from the furnaces at little more than the cost at the furnace. When the canal to Cleveland is completed, within two years, iron ores from the Great Lakes can be delivered here at 40 cents a ton less than at Pittsburg, and with coke- ing coal of the finest quality at the very door of Parkersburg, this city will become a great iron making een- ter. Fire and potters clays, glass sand, fruits and vegetables for ean- neries, wool, cotton and a great varie- ty of other raw materials for manu- facturing are to be had here at such low rates that all raw material may be said in a general way to be cheap and plentiful.
The best steam eoal can be had de-
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View Down Market Street, Parkersburg, W. Va.
livered in factory here at $1.25 per long ton, but it is not used because natural gas at eight cents per thou- sand feet is so much cheaper and more satisfactory in every way. At this price gas is considered the equivalent - of coal at 95 cents per ton.
Labor is plentiful and reliable and is native American. The heads of several large manufacturing concerns here, who have had years of experi- ence in other places, say that labor is the best to be had. The cost of living is low, and labor troubles are practic- ally unknown. Plenty of good female help can be had for work which is snitable for women.
Parkersburg is centrally located and accessible to the general markets. It is about the same distance from New York, Chicago and St. Louis. It has ample railroad facilities in every di- rection, with five roads running into the city, and is also on the Ohio Riv- er, which United States Engineers say affords the cheapest transportation in the world. Freight rates are satisfae- tory to all points and railroad rates are regulated by the competition af- forded by river transportation, thus varied manufacturing interests at
insuring a permanent equitable ad- justment.
One of the most important fea- tures of this city is the low rate of taxation, being less than one half of one percent on each hundred dollars of valuation in the city and about two- thirds of one percent for county pur- poses. After the year of 1908 no tax- es whatever will be paid for State pur- poses. Therefore Parkersburg and West Virginia can offer greater in- ducements to manufacturing enterpris- es seeking location than any State in the Union.
More than $2,750,000, is being ex- pended at the present time in improv- ing industrial conditions and making a permanent and solid foundation for a great industrial city. The greater portion of this amount is being used to improve the railroad and water transportation facilities and to supply additional and cheaper fuel. More than $500,000 is being expended in the erection of additional industrial plants or the enlargement of present ones. The permanent improvement of industrial conditions helpful to the
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View on Ann Street, Parkersburg, W. Va.
present with us and to attract new ones, is the Parkersburg idea, and it is along these lines that the organized commercial forces of the city are working, so as to improve its already favorable conditions in order that suc- cess and prosperity will attend every factory which is established in the city.
The United States Government is constructing a lock and dam in the Ohio River five miles above the city of Parkersburg, at a cost of $850,000. which will provide continuous naviga- tion between the Little Kanawha Riv- er and the Muskingum River in Ohio. Five miles below Parkersburg another lock and dam in the Ohio River will provide a permanent pool of deep wa- ter in the Parkersburg Harbor. More than $125,000 has already been appro- priated for this work, which will cost in the neighborhood of $850,000 when completed. A lock and dam to cost $110,000, has been provided for in the Muskingum River by the United States and will be completed next sea- son. From the Muskingum river to Lake Eric at Cleveland the State of Ohio is re-constructing, widening and
deeping the old canal. It will be com- pleted and boats will be passing through it within twelve months. So that, within the next year direct water communication between Parkersburg and Cleveland will have been estab- lished, with a minimum depth of five feet, and after years of persistent ef- fort Parkersburg is about to realize her dream of a waterway connecting the ore fields of the Great Lakes with the coal fields of West Virginia, and water transportation of the product to the wide markets of the world.
Fully $300,000 is being expended in Parkersburg for the improvement of its freight terminals by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., the construction of new roundhouses, repair shops and yard improvements, and upon the com- pletion of these improvements a large and comfortable passenger station will be constructed here.
Parkersburg has suffered from a lack of suitable sites for factories. To remedy this condition, the Parkers- burg Industrial Company, headed by United States Senator J. N. Camden, C. H. Shattuck, Judge Reese Blizzard and others, have secured about 1500
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View on Juliana Street, Parkersburg, W. Va.
acres of land on the south bank of the Little Kanawha River, near the Eas- tern part of the eity. A bridge is now being eonstrneted aeross the river and as soon as completed, the Parkersburg, Marietta and Inter-Urban Railway Company will extend its eleetrie lines across the bridge and through the property, providing adequate street ear facilities. The Little Kanawha Railroad already runs through the property and the Little Kanawha Riv- er with water transportation passes in front of it. And a maeadamized boule- vard eighty feet wide and two miles long is being eonstrueted, thus pro- viding ideal sites and transportation facilities for manufacturing enter- prises.
With cheap natural gas which has not failed for a single day sinee its in- troduction thirteen years ago, with the splendid coal fields of West Vir- ginia at her door, with manufacturing sites ideal in character, with eheap transportation by both water and rail to the markets of the world, with $850,000 being expended on Loek and Dam No. 18; with $125,000 being ex-
pended on Lock and Dam No. 19 be- low Parkersburg: with $83,000 being expended improving Loeks and Dams on the Little Kanawha River; with $300,000 being expended on the Balti- more and Ohio shop improvements ; with $300,000 being expended on bridge and street railway and boule- vard to South Side; with $500,000 be- ing expended on enlargements at Stan- dard Oil Refinery and $50,000 having just been expended on betterments and improvements of the Parkersburg Iron & Steel Company's Plant; and with thousands more to be expended upon additions to their plant to eare for their inereasing business through- out the country; with $50,000 being expended on the Agrieultural Fair Grounds and buildings, making a grand total of approximately $2,758,- 000, being expended on industrial im- provements, a wonderful development is with us, bright prospeets are before ns, and Parkersburg will take front rank as one of the leading commercial and manufacturing centers of the Great Ohio Valley, the Richest Indus- trial Valley in the World.
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The First National Bank Corner of Market and Seventh Streets (W. Va. 316.)
Has watched over the growth and develop- ment of Parkersburg from the time when she was a struggling village of three thou- sand inhabitants, with an uncertain future, until now, when she stands the second city in the State in population and importance. Not a little of this development is due to the direction and care of the officers and directorate of this old and conservative bank. Always to the front when the needs of the city are in question, many a deserving enter- prise has been nursed and brought from a weak and questionable future to a pros- perous fruition by her helpful fellowship, and hardly a street exists in the city but what bears her imprint, among them such beautiful edifices as the new First National Bank building, in which is located the Hotel Chancellor and the First National Bank.
The First National Bank was organized in 1863 on a capital stock of $50,000. Twice it has been compelled to increase this capital, the first time to $150,000, and again 'to $250,000.
also heen in the service of the bank since shortly after it was organized.
When the First National Bank commenced business they were located on the east side of Juliana street, a little north of Third. Later on a huilding was erected on the southwest corner of Juliana and Third streets, which was occupied for about 25 years, from whence they removed to the corner of Market and Fourth, id when 11 was found that these quarters were inade- quate for their great and increasing volume of business, the present magnificent struc- ture was erected at the corner of Market and Seventh streets, in which they are now lo- cated, the banking fixtures of which, de- signed in beautiful mahogany, are considered among the most elaborate to be found any- where in the country.
The present officers of the bank are: J. N. Camden, President; W. N. Chancellor, Vice President; H. H. Moss, Cashier, and W. Armstrong, Assistant Cashier, and the Di- rectors are J. N. Camden, W. N. Chancellor, T. B. Camden, W. T. Wiant, C. C. Martin, W. W. Van Winkle, F. S. Smith, E. L. Davidson and George M. Whitescarver.
The President of the Bank, Senator J. N. Camden, and the Vice President, Mr. W. N. Chancellor, have been connected with the The Capital Stock is now $250,000, togeth- er with a surplus fuud of $170,000, and the bank is also a United States Depository. institution since its organization, Mr. Cam- den as its first President and Mr. Chancel- lor as its first Cashier. Mr. H. H. Moss, the A prosperous future, the result of the careful and conserving management of every interest entrusted to their care, is but the present Cashier, has been identified with the bank for fifteen years, being formerly cashier of the Parkersburg National Bank for about | just reward to this tried and tested faithful twenty-three years. Mr. W. Armstrong has friend of Parkersburg.
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The Parkersburg National Bank,
" THE OLD BANK" Corner of Fourth and Market Streets, (W. Va. 367.)
The Parkersburg National Bank was orig- inally called the Western Bank of Virginia, and was doing business about 1815. It was afterward changed into the Northwestern Bank of Virginia, about 1830, and was in- corporated as the Parkersburg National Bank in 1865.
From 1830 until 1904 the old bank building on Third street was occupied. In 1904 they removed to their present beautiful and com- modious quarters in the Blennerhassett Ho- tel Building, corner of Fourth and Market streets.
The capital stock is $150,000, and the surplus fund is $105,000, and this solid old institution has over $400,000 deposits. Its history has been one of uniform success throughout the many years of its existence, an existence that almost spans a century. In fact, the Parkersburg National Bank is the oldest banking institution in the city, and is commonly spoken of as the "Old Bank."
Mr. C. Nelly (of the wholesale grocery firm of C. Nelly & Co.) is the President of the Bank, and has been identified with the bank as a Director, and later as President, for many years. Charles A. Bukey, the
Cashier, has been connected with the Bank, occupying various positions, since 1881. The Directors are: C. Nelly, H. B. Hogg, Jas. S. Wade, W. D. Paden, W. Vrooman, M. W. Mullen, B. F. Tracewell.
This bank does a general banking busi- ness, issues drafts on all foreign countries, payable at sight; makes collections, etc., and in short, transacts all the various kinds of business usually conducted through such an institution. As a financial agent, its many patrons have always found this bank emi- nently worthy of confidence, and a safe guardian of their interests.
The liberal patronage accorded the Park- ersburg National Bank by the business firms of the city, and the public generally, shows how firmly established is its reputation in this community for stability and sound financiering. The safe deposit vaults of this bank are among the strongest in the city, and are provided with the most effectual precautionary devices against loss by burg- lary or fire, being proof against the attacks of either.
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