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(II) J. W. McDonald, M. D., only living child of William and Harriet (Smith) McDonald, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 21, 1861. He was educated in West Virginia in the public schools and a two year course of private instruction, after which he entered and graduated from the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He commenced the practice of medicine in March, 1884, at Brilliant, Ohio, and remained there five years, then spent two years out of the pro- fession, on account of blood poison, and in 1891 went to Benwood, West Virginia, where he practiced medicine ten years, and in 1901 removed to Fairmont and opened up and is now the superintendent of
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the Miners' Hospital, No. 3, at that place. In his profession Dr. Mc- Donald makes a specialty of emergency surgery. He has served as the secretary of the Marion County Medical Society for eight years, has been its president two years and chairman of the committee of public policy and legislation of the West Virginia State Medical Association for ten years, and is still in that position. He has been one of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad Company's surgeons for eighteen years, and president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Surgeons, during the year 1903. Politically he votes the Republican ticket, and in church faith is a Presbyterian.
He married, April 23, 1884, Mary Scheetz, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, January 18, 1866. No children. Mrs. McDonald is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is the daughter of James Scheetz, and he was the son of Major-General Henry Scheetz, of the war of 1812. He served as a private under General Muhlenburg in the war of the revolution, his father (grandfather of Henry Scheetz) also served in the war for independence and it was on his farm that the American army encamped after the battle of German- town. The soldiers remained on this farm during the winter, suffering great privations and extreme suffering. Henry Scheetz (2) as well as the father, were of great assistance in procuring supplies for the army. Henry (2) was judge of the court of common pleas; he was the son of a Mennonite, who came from Greyfeldt, on the Rhine, and who at the solicitation of William Penn settled at what is known as Germantown, Pennsylvania. They were persuaded by Penn to come to this country on account of their religious principles.
This Carr family four generations back was represented by
CARR Richard Carr who married Abigail Longacre and among their children was Hugh H. The favorite profession in this family seems to have been the medical, while other members have been engaged in mercantile and other business callings.
(II) Hugh H., son of Richard and Abigail (Longacre) Carr, was born March 29, 1817, near Woodstock, Virginia. He commenced his business career as a druggist and tobacconist, which lines of trade he pursued through his entire life. He was engaged in business at Fair- mont, Morgantown and Wheeling under the firm name of Logan, Carr
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& Company. The business thus continued until the death of Mr. Carr, September 15, 1854. He married Lydia E. Pitcher, born June 25, 1826, died February 28, 1906, daughter of Jonathan J. and Eliza Pitcher. Jonathan J. Pitcher was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He was a Democrat, and in church faith a Methodist Episcopalian. Their children were: Larned Pitcher and Lloyd Logan.
(III) Larned Pitcher, son of Hugh H. and Lydia E. (Pitcher) Carr, was born in Fairmont, Virginia, March 21, 1849. He was edu- cated in Fairmont common schools, began life's career as a newsboy, then clerked in a dry goods house, later became a commercial traveler, and after twenty years on the road established a drug business with his brother, Dr. Lloyd L. Carr, under the firm name of Carr Brothers, continued until 1886. He was postmaster in President Cleveland's administration, and at present is engaged in the coal and land business. He married (first) Alice Hough, born in Fairmont, Virginia, May 29, 1849, died January 22, 1892. (Second), September 22, 1896, Maude Wiles, born in Monroe county, West Virginia, November 17, 1878. The children by Mr. Carr's first marriage: Mamie Pitcher, born in Fairmont, June 9, 1879, married J. Burt Martin and resides at Atlanta, Georgia; Abby Graham, born April 30, 1888, unmarried, resides at Atlanta with her sister.
(III) Dr. Lloyd Logan Carr, son of Hugh H. and Lydia E. (Pitcher) Carr, was born in Fairmont, Virginia, April 26, 1854. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1876, and commenced his practice at Fairmont, West Virginia, remained until 1891, then removed to New York City and there continued in practice until 1909 when he retired, since which time he spends the most of his time in traveling. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and in church affiliation is a Methodist Episcopalian. He married (first) Mary C. McCoy, born in Fairmont, Virginia, died in 1884; (second) Linda Bergen, in 1897. By his first marriage the issue included Dr. Hugh H. Carr, of Fairmont, West Virginia, mentioned below.
(IV) Dr. Hugh Holmes Carr, son of Dr. Lloyd Logan and Mary C. (McCoy) Carr, was born December 3, 1882, at Fairmont, West Vir- ginia. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and gradu- ated from Greenwich Academy, Connecticut, 1897, after which he enter- ed Pennington Seminary, New Jersey, graduating in 1900. He then
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took up medicine and graduated from Cornell Medical College, 1904. The following two years he spent in Bellevue Hospital, New York City; then spent six months in Vienna, Austria, and from there went to Berlin and later visited and studied in Berne, under Professor Kocher, of Switzerland. Having finished his studies at home and abroad, he returned to Fairmont, West Virginia, in 1907. He now makes a spe- cialty of surgery, attending, however, to a large general medical prac- tice. But few physicians and surgeons in this state are better posted along advanced medical and surgical lines than Dr. Carr. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society and the American Med- ical Association, Bellevue Alumni Society, Cornell Medical Society, Phi Alpha Sigma medical fraternity, and is identified with the order of Elks at Fairmont. Politically he votes the Democratic ticket, and is a member of the Methodist church. He married, October 17, 1910, Helen Kirkland, born in Warren, Pennsylvania, in 1886, daughter of J. L. and - ( Alexander ) Kirkland.
ARNETT This account of the numerous Arnett family which sprang from the German ancestor, John Arnett, who first located on the "Eastern Shore," Virginia, at a very early date, but later removed to West Virginia, will be confined to the careers of Hon. Ulysses N., his son Jonathan T., and the latter's son, Thomas W. Arnett.
Ulysses N. Arnett was born in Marion county, Virginia, and fol- lowed farming for his livelihood. He was a state senator for two terms, and died in December, 1882. He married Miss E. Cunning- ham. Child: Jonathan T., of whom further.
Jonathan T. Arnett, son of Ulysses and E. (Cunningham) Arnett, was born in Marion county, West Virginia, July 6, 1843. He was educated at Fairmont. His early years were spent in ill health, but when he had reached manhood he was quite rugged, and settled on a farm where he gradually improved in strength and health. For this reason alone did he remain on the farm until 1901, when he removed to Fairmont and led a retired life, dying February 10, 1903. When young he studied medicine, but abandoned the profession on account of ill health. During the civil war he was a lieutenant in the confederate army, under General Robert E. Lee. He entered the service when but
John Fisher
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seventeen years of age and remained until the close of the war. In 1865 he married Flora Leigh Watson, born in Fairmont, West Vir- ginia, July 21, 1845. She was the daughter of Thomas Watson. A history of the Watson family will appear in this volume, hence will not be referred to at length in this connection. The children of Jon- athan T. and Flora L. (Watson) Arnett were : Thomas W., of whom further; Mary Kate, born October 23, 1869; Nellie G., January 19, 1872; Elizabeth L., January 28, 1874; Ulysses N., June 1, 1876; Alpha H., September 3, 1879. Four of this family were born on the farm, and T. W. and Mary K. were born in Fairmont.
Thomas W. Arnett, son of Jonathan T. Arnett, was born in Fair- mont, West Virginia, August 29, 1867, and educated at the Fairmont State Normal School, and engaged at twenty-one years of age in the coal and real estate business. He is now a coal mine operator. He has always been active in politics, helping others to office, but has not cared to hold it himself. Politically Mr. Arnett is a Democrat, and in church faith an Episcopalian. He takes much interest in lodge affairs, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity to the thirty-second degree, and has held nearly all offices in the order.
He married Lillie J. Hutchinson, born in Monongalia county, West Virginia, in 1864. They were united in marriage in 1891. Mrs. Ar- nett is the daughter of J. J. and Catherine A. Hutchinson, of Monon- galia county ; both are now deceased. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Ar- nett: Susan Watson, born July 1, 1895; Bernard Hutchinson, born March 7, 1898; Katherine Leigh, born March 14, 1901. Susan Wat- son Arnett is being educated thoroughly; she graduated from the Fifth Ward School, Fairmont, 1910, and is now a student of Notre Dame College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The family history which here follows includes a well
FISHER known civil war soldier, Captain John Fisher, of Fair- mont, West Virginia. The facts have been gleaned by research in the military records, as given at Washington, and from personal memoranda furnished in his lifetime by himself to the Sol- diers and Sailors Historical and Benevolent Society, of Washington, D. C. The "Certificate of Record" will be appended in full, pertaining to Captain Fisher.
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Captain John Fisher, third son of Jacob and Mary Fisher, was born at South Easton, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1838, died at Fair- mont, West Virginia, June 16, 1910. The military record, etc., as shown by the official reports of the above-named society, is as follows :
This certifies that Captain John Fisher enlisted from Marion county, West Virginia, to serve three years, or during the war, and was mustered into the United States service on the 6th day of August, 1861, at Wheeling, West Virginia, as first lieutenant of Captain John H. Showalter's company "A" Sixth Regiment West Virginia volunteer infantry, Colonel Nathan Wilkinson, commanding, and on July 22, 1862, was honorably discharged at Weston, West Virginia, by reason of promotion being again mustered the same day as captain of his company.
The regiment was organized in August, 1861, under Colonel Nathan Wilkinson, by authority from the war department, and under instructions from the Federal governor of Virginia, and General Rosecrans commanding the department. By special authority it was recruited to fifteen companies, and having been organized for the purpose of guarding the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, it was stationed in detachments, along the line of that road, which was a necessity to the Union army, in the moving of troops and sup- plies, east and west, and throughout the war was a special object of attack by the enemy. After this regiment was placed on duty, along the line, the good results of its service were apparent in the security of Union citizens, and the improvement of business. The command was in constant and active service, protecting this great thoroughfare, through territory infested with the enemy, scouting the country, and fighting bands of guerillas and prowling rebels, defending the right of way, bridges and stations, repelling numerous attacks, and protecting the lives and property of Union citizens. May 23, 1862, while a detachment of twenty-three men, under Captain Showalter, was escorting a wagon train, from Ravenswood to Spencer, it was attacked by one hundred Confederates, but succeeded in defending the train, while two messengers dashed through the rebel lines, amid a shower of bullets, and returned with reinforcements, when the enemy were driven off, with a number killed and wounded, the valuable train being brought safely into camp. August 31, 1862, companies "A" and "G" at Weston fought the enemy under Jenkins. August 23, 1863, Major Showalter, with two hundred and twenty men, was attacked by one thousand cavalry, under Jones, the battle raging until after dark, when the enemy retired, leaving his dead and wounded. At the same time other detachments were repelling attacks made on the iron trestle bridge and other points on the road. October 13, 1863, two companies took part in the defeat of rebel General W. L. Jackson, with severe loss, at Bulltown, West Virginia. August 4, 1864, companies "A" "G" and "L" bore a conspicuous part in the battle, with three thousand under McCausland, at New Creek, West Virginia. November 28th, 1864, the small garrison at New Creek, was surprised by a large force and nearly all cap- tured, including fifty-seven of company "L" and on the same day Captain
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Fisher with thirty-five men repulsed a fierce attack upon Piedmont, West Virginia, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, being highly complimented by General Crook, in special orders (as shown below). The regiment suffered severe losses, in killed and wounded, in the numerous engagements, and encounters with guerillas, bushwhackers, and roving bands of the enemy, and from death caused by diseases caused by the exposure and hardships of the service, and there were no more faithful defenders of the Union than the Sixth West Virginia Infantry.
The said Captain John Fisher was constantly with his command, bearing a loyal part in all the battles and compaigns as above outlined, and achieving a gallant record as an officer and soldier. He was wounded by gunshot in the left hand.
He received a final discharge with his company at Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, June 10, 1865, by reason of the close of war.
He is a member of Meade Post No. 6, Department of West Virginia, Grand Army of the Republic; also of Lodge, Chapter, Royal Arch, and Com- mandery, Free and Accepted Masons. He served two terms as mayor of Fairmont, West Virginia; also a member of the Council and Justice of the Peace.
These facts are thus recorded and preserved for the benefit of those interested.
Compiled from official and authentic sources by the Soldiers and Sailors Historical and Benevolent Society, in testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and cause to be affixed the seal of said Society. Done at Washington, D. C., this 15th day of May, 1903. (No. 100,115).
H. W. KELLOGG, Historian.
The following special order will explain how "Fort Fisher" at Piedmont, West Virginia, came to be named in his memory, and it stands as a lasting monument to his loyalty and bravery in the civil war :
Special Orders No. 62. Extract
Head-quarters Department, West Virginia. Cumberland, Maryland, Dec. 9, 1864.
9. Captain John Fisher, Sixth West Virginia Infantry, and the men under his command, having particularly distinguished themselves during the late rebel raid upon the line of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, by their hand- some defence of the Post of Piedmont, by which the destruction of a large amount of valuable property was prevented ; the Major-General commanding the Department desires to thank them for their gallantry and soldierly bearing. By command of Major General Crook,
Assistant Adjutant General. Official.
ROBERT P. KENNEDY,
Captain John Fisher married, November 5, 1863, at Pittsburgh,
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Pennsylvania, Dorothy F. Gould, born June 7, 1840, in Fairmont, West Virginia, first daughter of Harrison and Hannah ( Maderia) Gould. Children : Virginia S., born May 30, 1865; Frank C., August 14, 1866; Willard N., June 27, 1868; Cora D., March 13, 1871; William H., October 3, 1875; Fred G., November 16, 1878; Robert E., December 4, 1881.
BEATY The Beaty family is an old one in this country and ante- dates the revolutionary period. For the purpose at hand Alexander Beaty will be considered the earliest American ancestor, but it is possible that he represented at least the second genera- tion in America. The family has now numerous branches scattered throughout many states and territories, especially are they common in the states of Pennsylvania and the two Virginias and Maryland.
(I) Alexander Beaty was born in the North of Ireland, May 12, 1772. He came from that excellent people, the Scotch-Irish, that has given so many men of worth, industry and eminence to the United States. He was a weaver by trade in his native country, and it has been related that he was banished from that country for inventing and trying to introduce in the weaving industry a shuttle loom. After com- ing to this country and settling on the West Fork river, in Marion county, Virginia, he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He also coupled with it successful stock raising. After a number of years thus engaged he retired to Mannington, where he died. He married, July 27, 1797, Sarah S. Carter, born November 16, 1779. Children: 1. Priscilla, born June 9, 1800, died early in life. 2. William M., born October 6, 1802. 3. Alexander, born March 18, 1812. 4. James C., of whom further. 5. Sarah M., born January 14, 1817, married George Dent. 6. Jane Belle, born February 14, 1820, married James Dent. 7. Laura May. 8. John W., married Susanna Farrell. 9. Mary, married a Mr. Sandy. 10. Jeremiah.
(II) James C., fourth child of Alexander Beaty, was born July 6, 1814. He was educated at the subscription schools common in his youth. He became an extensive farmer and stock raiser, also dealt heavily in stock, buying and selling. He was born on his father's farm a mile out of Mannington, West Virginia, and there imbibed the free and independent air of a true agriculturist. He purchased the first
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mowing machine used in Mannington district, as well as other advanced and improved implements to lighten the toil of the farmer. At his death he was known as the heaviest taxpayer in the county. He held liberal and advanced views politically, and was among the first in his section to espouse the cause of the Republican party. He gave the ground on which stood the first Methodist church in Mannington and donated the first church and school building, built of logs, and which stood near the town of Mannington many years. He was a strong and very ardent Methodist, and was originally a Whig in politics. Early in the civil war he was a heavy investor in oil lands and drilled for oil in Wirt county, but on account of secession was forced to abandon his enterprise in oil speculations. After his death these same lands proved very valuable in the production of oil. Each and every human life seems as but a tragedy, and such indeed was that of this successful man. While seeking to save another he gave his own life, when it had just reached its best, most pleasing years. While driving a drove of cattle, with other men, one of the company was taken ill and left at a farm house. That night Mr. Beaty went back to give him aid and found that he had by that humane act exposed himself to smallpox, and from the effects of that dread disorder, after all that could be done, he passed away January 22, 1863. His death occurred on Dent's Run.
He married Myra Berkshire Dent (cousin of Julia Dent Grant, wife of President Grant), born at Parkersburg, West Virginia, Febru- ary 15, 1817, daughter of Dudley and Mahilla (Berkshire) Dent, of Morgantown. The late Judge Berkshire of that city was her brother. Children of James C. and Myra Berkshire Beaty: 1. Captain Newton S., of whom further. 2. Mahilla Berkshire, married John Henry Brown. 3. William D., married Sarah, daughter of James Farbee. 4. Mary Jane, married James A. Hough. 5. Alexander Evans, mar- ried Belle Myers, of Missouri. 6. Alpheus Lindsley, married Anna Metz. 7. Sarah H., died when young. 8. Marshall W., married Laura Scott, of Butler, Missouri.
(III) Captain Newton S. Beaty, son of James C. and Myra B. (Dent) Beaty, was born in Mannington district, Marion county, West Virginia, January 10, 1838. He distinguished himself in the civil war as an officer under General Phil Sheridan in his famous battle month campaign in the Shenandoah valley. He reached maturity on his
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father's farm, attended the common schools of his native county, and in 1859, when full grown, engaged in the general mercantile business at Mannington, but ere long he was called upon to change that peaceful vocation to take up arms in defense of his country's flag. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H, Fourteenth Regiment, West Virginia Infantry, serving until the last months in 1864, when he received an honorable discharge from the federal service in West Virginia. After his com- pany had been organized and sworn into service, he was elected first lieutenant, served two years, participated in all the engagements of his regiment, enduring all of the cold and hunger coincident to camp life and long marches, through a stretch of rough and broken country. He took part in the battle of Cloyd Mountain, and was with Sheridan at Carter's Farm, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. Returning from the army, he operated a saw mill eight months, then opened a dry goods store at Mannington, which he conducted for three years, when he asso- ciated John Blackshere with him in the business, under firm name of Blackshere & Beaty. This relation existed up to 1885, when Mr. Beaty purchased his partner's interest and continued in the dry goods business until 1888, when he disposed of his establishment. He then had supervision of his extensive farm and dealt in coal and oil lands. He was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church, and politically was a Democrat. He was a prominent secret society man, belonging to the Masons in all degrees in this section. He fought well the conflict of life and succeeded in a great measure in accomplishing what he aimed to do for himself, his family and the great world about him. He was one of the organizers of the Exchange Bank at Mannington, of which he was an officer. He was also interested in the Fairmont Develop- ment Company. He owned many fine farms in this section of West Virginia.
He married, December 1, 1870, Margaret A. Blackshere (see Blackshere II). Children : 1. Harriet, born September 12, 1871; edu- cated in Mother Superior School, Emmitsburg, Maryland; resides with her mother. 2. Harry B., born January 23, 1875 ; educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, and at the Pittsburgh Business College; is now conduct- ing a clothing store at Mannington, succeeding his father; married Edna, daughter of John Solly, of Parkersburg, and they have a son, John Newton. 3. James F., born August 16, 1876; educated at Oberlin
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(Ohio) College, graduating with the degree of A. B .; then graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia, at Charlottes- ville, with the degree of LL. B .; he now resides in Mannington, en- gaged in the real estate business; married Blanche, daughter of Jesse T. Koen, of Mannington, and they have a son, James Frederick. 4. Eliza, born December 19, 1878; educated at Oberlin (Ohio) College and at the Pennsylvania College for Women at Pittsburgh; wife of Dr. Charles Cockran. 5. Carlton, born July 6, 1884; educated in West Virginia University, and studied pharmacy at Ada, Ohio; now a farmer in Mannington district; married Charlotte, daughter of Thomas De- veny, of Fairmont, and they have one son, Thomas Deveny, born April 2, 1911. 6. Lawrence, born January 19, 1886; educated at Washing- ton and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and is now teller in the Ex- change Bank, Mannington; he is unmarried. 7. Margaret A., born November 3, 1889; educated at Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh; wife of H. H. Clark; no children.
HAYMOND The Haymond family, through its five generations in America, has been one whose different lines have furnished many men of national and state fame, and especially is this true of the second generation to which Major William Haymond Sr. belonged. The sturdy pioneer band felt the touch of their hands; the early American armies knew of their bravery and tact in handling men at critical times in war; they were known, too, in days of peace as lawmakers, surveyors and county officials. They left the impress of true manhood and womanhood upon their fellow country- men.
(I) John Haymond was the first to come from England, the native country of the family, to American soil, the date of his settlement in Maryland being prior to 1734.
(II) Major William Haymond, son of the English emigrant, John Haymond, was born January 4, 1740, in Frederick county, Maryland, near Rockville, died at Quiet Dell, Harrison county, Virginia, Novem- ber 12, 1821. At the age of fifteen years William Haymond Sr. was with General Braddock's army on the march to Fort Duquesne (de- feated on the Monongahela river, July 9, 1755), and was with General Forbes in 1758, in a successful expedition against Fort Duquesne. In
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