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William, the father of Mrs. Cuppett, married, first, Malinda Car- roll, by whom he had six children, all dead now but two: Jane Eliza- beth and Helen, both of whom are living at Beaver Falls. By his second wife, Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of James and Deborah Harvey, of Farmington, Pennsylvania, he had : (1) Warland, born November 15, 1860; (2) Alva, who died in infancy; (3) Maude, born July 10, 1879, and (4) Josephine. Mrs. Kimberly was a teacher and glove maker. Mr. Harvey was a wool-carder and had a mill near Farmington, learned his trade as a carpenter and undertaker in Uniontown, and followed that both before and after he came to Brandonville.
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On her mother's side Mrs. Cuppett is a descendant of Robert Forman. Samuel Forman, born in 1775, and Isaac Forman, born March II, 1774, erected the oldest house in the county now standing, one mile east of Bruceton. (See Chorpenning Sketch.)
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Cuppett are: Darlton Alonzo, born October 2, 1899; Harrell Iden, born September 13, 1905; Dorothy Marguerite, born October 14, 1908.
Mr. Cuppett is a member of the Odd Fellows of high degree, also a member of the Woodmen of America. Mrs. Cuppett is also a member of that same order, now having obtained the highest position given in the Rebecca Lodge.
EDWARD ELLSWORTH CUPPETT.
The Cuppett family are of German descent. Many of them of Pres- ton county are descendants of Jacob Cuppett, who died in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Edward Ellsworth Cuppett, son of Alpheus and Elizabeth Ann Cuppett was born at Glade Farms, Preston County, on January 29, 1863. He received a common school education, was reared on the farm and was always a farmer, as his father was before him. He has always been a progressive citizen and a very public- spirited one, but never a candidate for public office. Aside from one year spent in the West and five years in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, he has lived all his life in Preston, and it has been a strenuous one both as a farmer and as a citizen of both county and State. As a close reader and a careful observer, his opinions have obtained par- ticularly as an enthusiastic defender of farmers' rights. As a student of agricultural affairs, he first saw the need of insurance for farmers, and he was the first in organizing "The Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company," of Preston County. For many years also he was president of the Farmers' Local Organization of Grant District. This place of trust he resigned in November. He still owns land, farms for a living and has large interests in other real estate.
Mr. Cuppett has five brothers: M. H .; C. A .; A. R .; C. H .; and D. E., all living. His sisters are Amanda, who died in infancy ; Mary C., wife of R. P. Augustine; Ella S., wife of C. H. Bird, and Silva, who died at the age of twenty-one.
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Mr. Cuppett married Zadie Beerbower at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1890. She is the daughter of Harry and Diana Beerbower, and was born at Glade Farms, May 2, 1868. She has two brothers, Silas and William W. The children of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Cuppett are Nellie Mabel, born April 6, 1891. She is a teacher in the public schools. Mary and Edith, twins, born September 13, 1892. Mary is a teacher in the public schools also; and Fred Russell, who was born January 23, 1897.
Mr. Cuppett is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a charter member of Bruceton Lodge, I. O. O. F., and past master of Pleasant's Grange.
JACOB P. BARNES.
A great number of Preston county residents came from Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Among these was Jacob P. Barnes, a merchant of Brandonville, who was born July 21, 1842, two miles north of Somer- field, in the farm house now owned and occupied by Mrs. Noah Lan- caster and her heirs. His grandfather, Peter Barnes, was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1772. He came to America with his parents in 1779. They located in the wilds of Pennsylvania, in what is now Bed- ford county, where Peter grew up to manhood, then went to Somerset county where he met and married Elizabeth Burger and settled there. Elizabeth Burger was of an old, prominent family of German ancestry. Her father, mother and brothers moved from Somerset county, Pennsyl- vania, to Ohio, and settled in Holmes, Tuscarawas and Coshocton counties, and were among the first settlers of that country. Here their. descendants have been holding annual reunions for many years that are largely attended by relatives scattered over many states.
Eleven children were born to Peter and Elizabeth Barnes: Barbara, Elizabeth, Peter, John, Jacob, David, Christopher, Mary, Catherine, Diana and Sarah. Peter Barnes went to the state of Indiana and never married. Daniel married and located near Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Barbara married A. J. Stanton and settled in Pennsylvania. Sarah married Allen Spear and settled in Pennsylvania also. Christopher married and settled in Ohio. Diana remained single. Jacob went west when the western country was first being settled and was never heard from. Catherine remained unmarried.
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John Barnes, father of J. P. Barnes, was born October 16, 1803, in Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. When he was a boy there were no free schools. They had what they called subscription schools, where each pupil had to pay fifty or seventy-five cents per month tuition, and, because the country was sparsely settled, they had to go long distances to school. With so many disadvantages, John Barnes, nevertheless, acquired a fair education for that day. By trade he was a carpenter and cabinetmaker.
On December 28, 1828, John Barnes married Nancy Ann Cook, a daughter of Jacob Cook of Wellersbury, Pennsylvania, where he was born August 19, 1803. Her father was of German and English extrac- tion and one of the pioneers of that region, and a prominent business man. He had two sons, Jacob and George, and one daughter, Nancy Ann.
After marriage, John Barnes located in Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, where he lived, farming and plying his trade until the death of his wife, February 9, 1889. Of this union eight children were born : (1) Angeline, October 25, 1829; (2) Cintha, May 31, 1832; (3) Anne, May 16, 1834; (4) William Jasper, December 25, 1836; (5) John Andrew, August 8, 1838; (6) Nancy Jane, April 29, 1840; (7) Jacob Peter, June 21, 1842; (8) Mary Elizabeth, January 21, 1846. Cintha, John, Andrew and Anne died in infancy. The father lived nearly ninety-four years and was able to walk without the use of a cane until his last illness and death, which occurred February 16, 1897. He was a Democrat all of his life and voted at every Presidential election from 1824 to 1896. He and his wife were devoted members of the M. E. Church from their youngest days until their death.
Jacob Peter Barnes, the seventh child of John Barnes, was reared on the farm and attended the country schools until he was eighteen years old. By this time he had acquired sufficient education to teach, but on account of his youthfulness he failed to acquire a school until three years later, when he was employed by the school board of H. Clay Township to teach the Flanigan School, near Confluence, Pennsylvania, which he taught successfully. The better to fit himself for a teacher, he attended the Normal School at Centerville, Pennsylvania. Later, while visiting relatives in Ohio, he became interested in the superior advantages offered there and entered the high school in Millersburg, taking two terms. He taught two terms in that state, one in Coshocton and the other in Farmerstown. He then returned to Pennsylvania
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and taught his home school one term, then came to Preston county and taught two terms. Here he met Sarah Ann Guthrie, a daughter of James Guthrie, and married her August 27, 1868. She was born Febru- ary 21, 1847. In 1869, he bought the Prospect Hill farm, where he lived when a boy. Here he managed the farm, working on it during the summer and teaching in the winter for eight consecutive years. On January 30, 1880, his wife died, leaving him the care of six small children, for whom he did the best he could until June 17, 1880, when he married Amanda Jane Harshbarger, a school teacher, born June 9, 1860. She was the daughter of David K. Harshbarger, who was born December 27, 1825, and came from Mt. Solon in the Valley of Virginia to Preston county, where he settled near Brandonville.
After farming Prospect Hill Farm for fifteen years, Mr. Barnes sold it in the spring of 1884, and bought the William Hagans farm near Bruceton Mills, where he lived twelve years. He sold this farm to B. F. Huggins, and in February, 1896, bought the Hagans property in Brandonville, consisting of the stone dwelling and brick store building, and later has purchased other land and property in con- nection with this, where he still resides as a farmer and merchant. The dwelling furnishes hotel accommodations.
Six children were born of Mr. Barnes' first marriage, and five of his second marriage, namely : (1) Lillie Irene, born June 5, 1869, mar- ried Baltus DeWitt, a jeweler of Terra Alta.' They had one child, Lillian, now dead. The father is dead also. (2) Virginia Barbara, born February 12, 1871, married William A. Thornton, superintendent of DuQuesne Steel Works, and resides at DuQuesne, Pennsylvania. They have two children: Raymond and Helen. (3) James Quinter, born May 7, 1873, a jeweler. He married Laura Cole, and resides at DuQuesne also. (4) William Harrison, born May 2, 1875. He is a cashier of a bank in Pittsburg, and is unmarried. (5) John Jacob, born October 22, 1877, married Mattie Mosser, is a merchant at Clifton Mills and has two children, Ralph and Edith. (6) Sarah Alice, born January 23, 1880, is a teacher, is unmarried and resides at Bruceton Mills.
Mr. Barnes' children by his second marriage are as follows: (1) Vida, born March 27, 1881, married David Earl Cuppett, attorney at law, and resides at Thomas, West Virginia. They have one child, Reardon Stewart Cotton. (2) Nannie, born December 15, 1882, mar- ried Charles E. Burner, mine superintendent, VanVoorhis, Pennsyl- vania. They have one child, Grant Irwin. (3) Walter Scott, born
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June 4, 1886, unmarried. He resides at Braddock, Pennsylvania, and is clerk there in the Braddock Steel Mills. (4) Russel Emerson, born March 15, 1891, unmaarried, and resides at home. (5) Leslie Virgil, born March 3, 1893, unmarried, and resides at home.
Mr. Barnes has taken great interest in the training and educating his children. Nine of the older ones have been school teachers. Five are graduates of the California State Normal, Washington county, Pennsylvania.
CHARLES ARNOLD CRAIG.
Charles Arnold Craig was born December 15, 1865. He was raised on the farm, and when twenty-one years old took a trip through Illinois and Iowa, where he remained two years prospecting. After this he railroaded two years, with headquarters at Newark, Ohio. On his return to West Virginia, he went into the saw mill business near Irona, and eventually entered into a partnership in the manufactur- ing of lumber with the late M. C. Gibson, and with whom he remained eleven years, doing in the meantime an extensive business. In 1904, this firm closed up their account, since which time Mr. Craig has con- fined himself to agricultural pursuits, and to those of a man of busi- ness affairs generally. He bought the farm where he now lives near Irona of John H. Garner in 1896, and built his residence there in 1902. This was the old Snyder farm bought by him of the Benjamin Miller estate, February 28, 1843. It consists of 234 acres and is one of the most valuable farms in the county. During the year 1911, Mr. Craig sold off this farm, feed, hay and grain totaling $860.71 and cattle amounting to $531.00. He deals solely in breeded stock, short- horned Durham cattle, Polland China hogs, and sheep of the Shropshire breed.
Aside from interests in farming, Mr. Craig owns and controls much other kind of stock, consisting of shares in banks, of which the National Banks of Kingwood and Masontown are among the number. He is a director, and owns a large share in the Preston County Lum- ber Company; was a manufacturer and dealer in lumber and mine supplies; has considerable of an interest in the Wholesale Grocery Company at Rowlesburg; in the Kingwood Stogie Factory; enjoys also a considerable holding in the Hill Top Peach Orchard Company
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at Romney, West Virginia, and besides he is a real estate owner of valuable property in Kingwood. Withal Mr. Craig may be considered one of the most successful self-made men of Preston County.
On September 30, 1891, Mr. Craig was united in marriage to Miss Mary Avice Martin, daughter of W. D. and Mary Elizabeth Martin now living near Irona. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Craig are as follows: (1) Charles W., born September 24, 1892. He graduated with honor, and was president of the Kingwood High School in 1911, also of Elliott Business College, and is now the efficient bookkeeper and manager of the Gibson Company Store at Kane's Creek. He was formerly clerk for the Kingwood Bank, and his advancement to his present important official position, based solely on merit, has been rather remarkable for so young a man. (2) Virgie E., born September 1, 1895, now in Parkersburg, West Virginia, studying music; (3) Ella A., born November 29, 1896; (4) Mabel G., born December 14, 1899; (5) Lulu B., born September 21, 1902; (6) Harold A., born August 8, 1906; (7) Bertus M., born April 12, 1908; (8) and Juanita Louise, born August 16, 1912.
Mr. Craig is a member in high standing in the Knights of Pythias. Is a Past Chancellor and was elected as a representative to the Grand Lodge. He is trustee of the M. E. Church of which he and his family are members also.
RICHARD EDWARD CRAIG.
The engineer of the Big Mallet No. 2417, has worked himself up from a brakeman to his present position, which, like his Mastodonic engine, is an important one.
Richard Edward Craig was born July 2, 1873, on a farm one and a half miles west of Kingwood, and lived there tilling the soil and going to the country schools until eighteen years of age. In the meantime, he drove The Company's team in the building of the West Virginia Northern R. R., but at the age above mentioned he went to Pittsburg and became a brakeman on the railroad. He went from there to Cumberland, Maryland. After seven years' service as a brake- man, he was made fireman, and on October 4, 1902, he came to Rowlesburg, where on September 30, 1908, he was promoted to the responsible position he now holds.
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July 16, 1895, Mr. Craig was married to Estella Maude Wotring, daughter of William Wotring, Captain Company H. 12th West Virginia Infantry, now of Dayton, Ohio. Captain Wotring enlisted as a private soldier at the beginning of the war, and was promoted from time to time until he reached the Captaincy of his Company. He was born December 15, 1844, married May 17, 1868, to Mrs. Nancy C. DeMoss Harvey, born March 16, 1840. She died August 6, 1900. Their children were, (1) Jerome H., born September, 1869, died of yellow fever in South America; Torbert W., born May 28, 1871, died May 5, 1893; married Orretta Posten, daughter of William L., of Morris Bottom. (3) Roscoe C., born September 28, 1873, and now living in Michigan. He married Jennie E. Emory, September 24, 1873, and now living in Michigan. He married Jennie E. Emory, September 24, 1895. She was born July 12, 1875. (4) Maude Estella, the wife of Richard Edward Craig. Their children are Albridge B., born January 23, 1896; Richard I., born January 5, 1898; Mary C., August 25, 1899.
John Craig came from Ireland in boyhood. He lived first at Cranes- ville, but in 1848 settled at Morgans Run. His youngest son, Charles Craig, the well known auctioneer, married Miss E. C. Castle, January 9, 1862. She was born September 18, 1840. He was a contractor and a wagon master during the war. Their oldest son John W. Craig, born September 8, 1862, was in the railroading business twenty-five years. (2) James L., born May 9, 1864, is a fine stock grower, and in charge of the home place. (3) Charles A., born December 15, 1865, is also a fine stock grower, and owner of the old Snyder farm, west of King- wood. (4) Mary A., born March 20, 1867, married to E. W. Thomas, February 25, 1902, had two children. She died August 20, 1905, near Howesville. She was a very large woman and weighed at one time 296 pounds. (5) Amanda E., born May 5, 1868, died March 17, 1873. (6) Thomas D., born March 1, 1870, was a school teacher. He married Cora M. Savage, daughter of H. G. Savage a well to do farmer living near Kingwood. (7) Sarah F., born February 18, 1872, married Mr. M. G. Wilson, July 2, 1894, and is living in Pitts- burg. (8) Richard Edward, above mentioned. (9) Francis M., born June 21, 1875, is a large contractor in the cement and concrete business at Steubenville, Ohio, of which he is the first vice-president. The name of the company is The VanMeter Company .. (10) Argansette, born September 5, 1877, is at home in charge of her mother. (II) Bertha, born October 6, 1879, was married to E. W. Bolyard, August 2, 1900.
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(12) Loulee, born May 7, 1882, died February 17, 1883. (13) Nora E., born April 14, 1885, married to E. W. Fiser, June 4, 1904, lives at Keyser, West Virginia.
Mr. Richard E. Craig purchased his beautiful home in Rowlesburg, in 1907. He has an interesting little family, and has left them a twenty-five hundred dollar insurance legacy from a policy he holds in the Baltimore & Ohio Relief Department, and $15,000 in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
MARSHALL MORGAN.
This family is traceable to both Celtic and Welch origins-See sketches elsewhere-William Morgan, one of the pioneers of this family in Preston County, settled on Dunkard bottom and became the owner of a large tract of land there. He married Margaret Funk. Five sons and five daughters were born to this union. His sons were: (1) James, who moved to Missouri at the close of the Civil War; (2) John, who moved to Texas; (3) William, now living in Ohio; (4) George, the youngest son of the family, died at home. The daughters were: (5) Malinda, now Mrs. John Herndon; (6) Hannah, who married Jesse Ashby; (7) Betsy, who married John Lawer. They live in Maryland; Jemima, who married John Shaffer and lives in Barbour County, and Harriet, the wife of Joseph Hartley.
(9) David Morgan, son of William, born November, 1822, mar- ried Mary Albright, daughter of David and Susanna (Miller) Albright. She was born October 15, 1834, and died July 28, 1868. See sketch of Albright family.
Their children were: (1) Patrick M., born January 16, 1874. He lived in Missouri, then moved to Texas. He married Ensbe Mc- Collum; (2) Margaret S., born January 9, 1849; (3) Harriet A., born December 28, 1851; (4) Marshall, born October 1, 1852; (5) Joseph, born September 14, 1854
David Morgan's second wife was named Mary A. Morgan. She died January 25, 1873, at the age of thirty-six years. The children by this marriage were: (1) an infant that died December 4, 1871; (2) daughter, Mary A., who died March 24, 1873.
The third wife of David Morgan was Sarah N. Marsden. No issue. David Morgan died June 24, 1898, at the age of seventy-five years.
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The present home of the Marsden family was the old homestead where David Albright and subsequently where David Morgan, his son- in-law, lived. A large tract of land belonged to the family, fifty acres of which, now the farm of Marshall Morgan, being a part of the original farm. The old mill just above the residence, and operated until recently, was one of the historic landmarks of this part of Preston county. It was erected by David Albright, and run by the Albrights and Morgans seventy-five years in all. The brick house was built in 1861.
Mr. Marshall Morgan has been a life-long resident in the vicinity of Albright, with the exception of two years spent in Missouri. He was reared on the old homestead farm and attended school at Albright. His education embraced the curriculum of the common school branches. He has been a close student of the current events of the day, and is a well-informed man.
October 3, 1878, Mr. Morgan married Ruth E. Smith, and in 1879 he built his present residence. Mrs. Morgan was the daughter of Jacob and Catherine Smith, and was born September 2, 1852. Her mother died August 31st, --- , aged seventy years, and was the mother of five children. (1) Mrs. M. L. Crane, deceased; (2) Mrs. Joseph Welch of Terra Alta; (3) Mrs. C. H. Trembly; (4) Mrs. M. Morgan ; (5) Mrs. C. W. Forman. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are as follows: Bruce W., October 6, 1879; David S., November 9, 1880; Marshall Blaine, July 5, 1884; Carr E., August 12, 1888; Frank Curtis, April 20, 1894, died September 2, 1895; William O., June I, 1899.
Mr. Bruce Morgan married Pearl, daughter of Charles Stone, on , and has one child, Charles Marshall. David Scott, married Isa Whetsell. She was the daughter of Buckner Whetsell. They have one child, David Scott, Jr. Marshall Blaine married Anna, daughter of James Menefee. They are the parents of three children : James Marshall, John, Wesley and Geraldine.
RICHARD M. ARTHUR.
Among the prominent citizens and larger farmers of West Vir- ginia is Richard M. Arthur, of Arthurdale, Reedsville, this county. His spacious and palatial residence occupies a beautiful eminence,
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centrally located amidst his broad domain of nearly 1500 acres, and commands expansive and magnificent views for miles around. It is an imposing building and suggests the ancestral halls of great landed estates so popular in former times.
Richard M. Arthur is of Irish descent and is a son of John Newton and Mary Arthur of County -, near Dublin, Ireland.
Mr. John N. Arthur and his wife emigrated to America in , and settled at Mt. Savage, near Cumberland, Allegany county, Mary- land. He was shortly after followed by his mother, his brothers, James and Edward, also his sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, who after- wards married, respectively, John Baker and Jame's Burke, of Pitts- burgh. Each of the sisters reared families, but his brother, James (employed nearly his whole life in the American Iron and Steel Works, Pittsburgh), remained a bachelor, while Edward joined the Union forces in the Rebellion and his subsequent whereabouts was never ascertained.
John Newton Arthur, Richard's father, was a cultured, educated gentleman of exceptional ability and high character. On settling in Mt. Savage, John N. Arthur took up railroading and was a passenger conductor for several years on the - railroad. Removing to Pittsburgh in 1860, and becoming a conspicuous figure in the con- struction and early operation of the old Pitts and Connellsville division of the B. & O. R. R., as General Dispatcher of the road (Correspond- ing to Master of Transportation, in modern railroad terms), he served a long career of usefulness and honor. Under his tutelage several of the highest railroad officials, since directing some of the greatest railroad systems of the United States, received their first lessons. Among these may be mentioned, J. O. Hughart, senior and junior, consecutive Presidents of the Grand Rapids and allied systems, and J. B. Yohe, the present General Manager of the P. & L. Erie or Pittsburgh Division of the New York Central (Vanderbilt) Lines.
Mr. Arthur was six feet and one inch in stature, weighed over 200 pounds, was genial and courtly in manner and of distinguished per- sonality. For these qualities and his thorough-going railroad capacity, J. N. A., (as he was designated by railroad officialdom and the public as well), was well known and respected by everybody throughout the length of his division.
He died in 1883 at his home, 24th Street, South Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the family plot. Mary Arthur, wife of John N. Arthur, was a daughter of - - and McNulty,
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and was from She had two brothers and five sisters. Of her brothers, who likewise came to Maryland, James was a railroad conductor for many years and later went into the brewery business at Mount Savage. In he removed to Pittsburgh, where he established a coal yard on the South Side. He later went with his family to New York City, and after a few years removed to Denver, Colo., where he (and son, Thomas) became active and prominent in business and political affairs, until his death in He left a large family, who are widely scattered, some living in New York, St. Louis, Denver and San Francisco. Thomas, the other brother, took the gold fever and went to California in -
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