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The following is concerning three generations of the
PARKES Parkes family, as now represented in Fairmont, West Virginia. Ireland was the original country from which this family emigrated.
(I) James J. Parkes was a native of England. He became stew- ard of the New Hall Convent, near London, and remained there throughout his life, having served faithfully for sixty-five years in the same capacity and in the same convent. He married and reared a family of five sons and four daughters.
(II) Thomas J., son of James J. Parkes, was the third boy born
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in the New Hall Convent, London, England, and emigrated to Amer- ica when about thirty years of age. He died in April, 1911, and was buried in Pine Hill cemetery, Buffalo, New York. His wife, whose maiden name was Emily Leadbeater, died December 24, 1909, and was buried in the same cemetery. The family are Roman Catholic in their religious faith. Thomas J. Parkes followed the trade of black- smith for his livelihood after emigrating to this country. He and his wife were parents of five children, as follows: Maud, Alice, James J., Lucy, Enos. The family resided in Bradford, Pennsylvania, at one time.
(III) James J. (2), son of Thomas J. and Emily (Leadbeater) Parkes, was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1875. He was educated in his native city at St. Joseph's School, and when sixteen years of age commenced working out life's problems for himself; he being employed in the glass furnaces of Bradford, where he served as a "flatner." He followed this until 1898, then became manager of the Manhattan Hotel at Mannington, West Virginia, remained there until 1900, then removed to Fairmont and engaged in the restaurant business. In 1911 he sold out and became proprietor of the Jackson Hotel of Fairmont. This is a well-known hotel and is up-to-date in its appointments, having hot and cold water in each of the numerous rooms, also bath accommodations. Everything is of the sanitary order about the entire premises. In this new role Mr. Parkes is succeeding in a remarkable degree. His hotel is situated next to the chief street in the city and is directly opposite the new opera house. Politically Mr. Parkes is an Independent, and in church faith a Catholic.
He married, August 26, 1903, at Clarksburg, West Virginia, by Father O'Conner, Nellie McNally, born in Salamanca, New York, December 26, 1876, daughter of Patrick and Hannah (White) Mc- Nally. Mr. McNally was a railroad inspector in Salamanca for more than forty years; he lost his life in the railroad yards of that city, while on duty, being caught between two cars and killed in the year 1894. His widow resides at the old homestead in Salamanca, New York, a well preserved lady. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Parkes : James J. Jr., born June 2, 1904; Charles France, July 26, 1906; Helen Madeline, December 11, 1907.
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But two generations have been known of this fam- JOHNSTON 3 ily in America, except the children born of recent years to the second generation. John Johnston was a native of Tyrone county, Ireland, died at about the age of seventy- three years, in 1894. He came to America in 1853, first locating at Moorefield, Hardy county, West Virginia, but soon thereafter remov- ing to Petersburg, in the same county. There he spent the remainder of his days. He was a minister of the Presbyterian church at Peters- burg for more than forty years. He married, at Petersburg, in 1854, Sarah C. Welton, now living at Keyser, West Virginia, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine years. Her mind is bright and clear. Children : Joseph E., deceased; William S .; Job Welton, of whom later; Mar- garet A., John E., Felix S., Henry F., Sally McCarty, all living in West Virginia. Mrs. Johnston had seven brothers in the confederate army, showing the family's loyalty to the southern cause.
(II) Job Welton Johnston, M. D., son of John Johnston, the clergyman who emigrated from Ireland, was born in Petersburg, Hardy county, West Virginia, on the South Branch of the Potomac river, in what is now known as Grant county, West Virginia, March 9, 1859. He attended the local public schools and later entered the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, graduating in 1885. He then practiced medicine at Davis, West Virginia, for fifteen years, and in 1900 removed to Clarksburg where he has resided since. In March, 1911, he moved into his present spacious and well- equipped offices at Nos. 301-302 Goff Building. Dr. Johnston is a thorough-going and uncompromising Democrat, and takes an active part in politics. He was nominated for the state legislature from Tucker county, but declined the honor. He is a Mason, and is alive to every local interest of his town and state. He married, December 21, 1887, Mary P. Bye, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, born in April, 1861. Her father, John Bye, died in 1869; he was a farmer; his wife was Sallie W. (Woolens) Bye, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, died 1889, aged about seventy-five years. Dr. Johnston and wife have children, two deceased and two living; the living are: Margarette, born August 2, 1897; Sarah E., June 1, 1900.
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This is an Ohio family of Scotch descent, of whom one BLACK member, James Morton Black, especially made a fine military record in the civil war, and in business enter- prises has been very successful. By intermarriage the family is con- nected with the Hamilton and Bogardus families who have been known for their patriotism in three wars, and have proven their executive abil- ity and business capabilities in more than one branch of trade. In church, as well as state, many of these three families have been a bless- ing to the world.
(II) The first American member of the family was William (2), eldest son of William ( 1) Black, of Scotland. William (2) Black was born in Scotland, March 4, 1817, and became a farmer in his native land. He emigrated to America when twenty-one years old and locat- ed on a farm at Brownsville, Licking county, Ohio. A few years after the civil war he removed to Malvern, Iowa, and engaged in the hard- ware trade. He died in the year 1900 and he and his wife, Martha (Reed) Black, were buried at Malvern. James Morton Black was one of their six children.
(III) James Morton, son of William (2) Black, was born in Brownsville, Licking county, Ohio, December 18, 1846. He was educated in his native town, finishing at Concord College. When only sixteen years of age, he. enlisted in the Ninth Ohio Cavalry Regiment, and accompanied General Sherman on his "March to the Sea," serving his country almost two years, during which time he saw much hard fighting and general army service, on both marches and actual engage- ments. He was in General Kilpatrick's command. After his return from the army he engaged in farming in which he continued until 1892, since which time he has been variously engaged. He now resides at Fairmont, West Virginia; is president of the Wall Plaster Company of that city. At Hanover, Licking county, Ohio, he was president of the school board many years, and assisted in securing the graded school there. He was also president of the Licking County Agricultural Soci- ety, and of the State Agricultural Society of Ohio, during the Centen- nial at Columbus. He has always been prominent in the work of the Presbyterian church. Politically he is a Republican.
Mr. Black married (first) Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, born at Brownsville, Ohio, in 1850, died September 7, 1880, in her native
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town, daughter of Robert Hamilton, of Thoroll, Lanarkshire, Scot- land, and his wife, Mary (Ibbotson) Hamilton, of Cornwall, Eng- land. The Hamiltons were the parents of eight children, four of their sons entering the civil war, and three were killed. Mrs. Hamilton was a remarkable woman, possessed a wonderful mind, and a kind Chris- tian spirit. She lived to the ripe old age of ninety-one years. Mr. Black married (second) Anna Bosworth McGaw, in 1882. She is a Daughter of the American Revolution, and assisted in organizing Will- iam Haymond Chapter, at Fairmont, West Virginia. Children of James Morton Black and his first wife: William Thomas, of whom fur- ther; Arthur R., resides at Port Clinton, Ohio, and is associated with the American Gypsum Company; married Gertrude, daughter of Hon. William Bense. Mr. Black's only daughter, Helen Dean, married J. R. Spease, and died February 19, 1906, without issue.
(IV) William Thomas, eldest son of James Morton and Mary Elizabeth (Hamilton) Black, was born in Brownsville, Ohio, October 19, 1871. He obtained his education at the high school at Hanover, Ohio, and later at Dennison College in the same state. He then en- gaged in farming with his father. In 1890, with his father, he organ- ized the Dresden Rock Wall Plaster Company, in which business he continued ten years and then sold out. For the following four years he was employed at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, with the Cooper Corliss Engine Works. In April, 1904, he removed to Fairmont, West Virginia, and joined in business with his father, James Morton Black, who establish- ed the Fairmont Wall Plaster Company in 1901, William T. Black becoming secretary of the concern. They now have a large business with an annual increase. Politically Mr. Black is a Republican, and in church faith a Presbyterian. While in college he became a member of the Beta Theta Pi order, and is a member of Mount Zion Lodge, No. 9, of the Masonic fraternity, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Mr. Black married, June 22, 1904, Belinda Bogardus, born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, January 12, 1874, daughter of William Penn Bogardus, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. She was educated at Harcourt Seminary, Gam- bier, Ohio, and was graduated from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her father, William Penn Bogardus, was a native of Pennsylvania, born August 26, 1841, and is now engaged in the hard-
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ware trade at Mt. Vernon. He has always taken a very active interest in the National Retail Hardware Dealers Association and was several times reelected president of this organization. He enlisted in the union cause in 1864, as a soldier, and was a member of President Lin- coln's bodyguard, and later became a lieutenant in a colored regiment. He was stationed at Burkeville, Virginia, where he remained until his final discharge. He has long been a member of the local board of education, and has also served on the Mt. Vernon city council. Will- iam Penn Bogardus married Elizabeth Buckingham Sperry, a native of Thornville, Perry county, Ohio, born July 15, 1845, daughter of Jerrad and Belinda C. (Miles) Sperry. The great-great-grandfather, on the paternal side, was Benajah Fuller, who served as a private sol- dier in the revolutionary war. The great-great-grandfather on the maternal side, Benjamin Miles, was a captain in the same great war. After the close of that struggle, Captain Benjamin Miles removed his family with an ox team and cart from Massachusetts, locating in Mari- etta, Ohio, of which he was one of the founders. General Rufus Put- nam was associated with him in laying this first city in Ohio. Captain Miles died in Ohio in 1817, and was buried in Belpre, that state. Chil- dren of William Thomas and Belinda (Bogardus) Black are: Mary Elizabeth, born April 3, 1906; William Bogardus, April 28, 1908.
The Robinsons have been settled in England many
ROBINSON centuries, and before that, as the name indicates, were of Norse origin. The head of the family in England is the Marquis of Ripon. Those Robinsons who came to Virginia in colonial times were from Yorkshire and claimed more or less relationship.
John Robinson, who died at Cleasby in Yorkshire, 1661, was the father of John Robinson, minister to Sweden, bishop of London, etc. Another son, Christopher, came to Virginia in 1666. John Robinson, son of Christopher, was president of the council of Virginia, 1720-40, and for a time governor. President John had sons Christopher, Will- iam, Henry, John, etc. John was many years treasurer of the colony and speaker of the house of burgesses. When Washington was before the house and could not find words to reply to a vote of thanks, the speaker said "Sit down, Major Washington, your modesty is excelled
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only by your valor and that is beyond the power of words to express."
The genealogy of this family has been given quite fully in the mag- azine of the Virginia Historical Society.
The line of Paul M. Robinson is John, Christopher, John, Will- iam, John, John C., John T., Joseph Lewis, Paul Monroe.
(VI) John C. Robinson was an overseer for Dr. Robert Berkeley, near White Post, Clarke county, Virginia, 1818, after the Robinsons were impoverished by the revolution and war of 1812. A brother of Dr. Berkeley, Nelson Berkeley, of "Airewell," Hanover county, mar- ried Lucy Robinson, granddaughter of Henry Robinson, before men- tioned.
(VII) John Thomas, son of John C. Robinson, was born in Han- over or Prince William county, Virginia, 1781. He married Eliza- beth Emerson, whose mother was a Flood. Their children were: William, Richard, Beverley W., Samuel and Joseph Lewis.
(VIII) Joseph Lewis, son of John Thomas Robinson, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, 1827. He came to Harrison county in 1849. He was a shoemaker and merchant, sometime associated with E. W. Tinsman as Tinsman & Robinson, and for many years conducted the principal shoe store in Clarksburg. He married Mary E. Waters, born February 25, 1829, in Montgomery county, Maryland. One child by this union, Paul Monroe; the mother died May 12, 1864. Of the parentage of Mary E. (Waters) Robinson it may be said that she was the daughter of Edward B. and Lucretia (Gardner) Waters. The Waters family is numerous and has been of some prominence in Fred- erick and Montgomery counties, Maryland, since the formation of the counties. The parents of Mary E. Waters both died when she was a child and she was reared by her uncle, James Waters, of Frederick county, Maryland.
(IX) Paul Monroe, son of Joseph Lewis and Mary E. (Waters) Robinson, was born at Clarksburg, West Virginia, October 20, 1863. He was reared by his aunt, Annie (Waters) Monroe, wife of James Monroe, who was sheriff of Harrison county in 1869; also in 1872- 76. Mr. Monroe was clerk of the county court, 1878-90. He re- ceived his education at the Clarksburg public schools. His active career has been made up of the following positions of importance and public and private trust: Treasurer of the Monongahela River Rail-
WRobinson
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road Company, 1890-91 ; cashier of Traders' National Bank of Buck- hannon, 1891-92; cashier of West Union Bank, West Union, West Virginia, 1893-1900; vice-president of Traders' National Bank, Clarks- burg, 1904 ; vice-president of Union National Bank, Clarksburg, 1905, still serving; president of Clarksburg Realty Company; vice-president of Clarksburg Ice and Storage Company; director of Travis Glass Company. Politically he votes the Democratic ticket; has been deputy clerk of the county court of Harrison county, 1880-87; clerk of the cir- cuit court of Harrison county, 1887-88. He is now actively employed as vice-president and director of the Union National Bank of Clarks- burg. He married, at Clarksburg, November 12, 1901, Willa Jarvis, born in Harrison county, West Virginia, September 14, 1864, daugh- ter of Lemuel Davisson and Martha (McCann) Jarvis. Mr. Jarvis was a farmer, cattle dealer and sheriff of Harrison county from 1876 to 1880. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson: Janet, born January 4, 1903; Paul Monroe, October 11, 1904; Jarvis Beverley, August 26, 1908.
MALOY Jesse S. Maloy, a progressive and enterprising citizen of Shinnston, who has recently completed one of the finest and most costly residences there, was born in Highland county, Virginia, March 12, 1873.
(I) Patrick Maloy, father of Jesse S. Maloy, was a native of Ros- common county, Ireland, from whence he emigrated to the United States in young manhood. He devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits and also to that of teacher, serving in the latter capacity in the schools of Highland county, Virginia. He married Susan Jane Lane, born and reared in Highland county, Virginia, daughter of Joseph Lane, who was a native of eastern Virginia. Patrick Maloy died Au- gust 28, 1893, at McDowell, Highland county, Virginia, aged seventy- eight years.
(II) Jesse S., son of Patrick Maloy, attended the public schools of Highland and later the Shenandoah Normal School, after which he matriculated at the Medical College of Virginia, located at Richmond, from which institution he graduated in 1898. He began the practice of his profession in Lorentz, Upshur county, West Virginia, where he 12-2M
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remained two years, gaining for himself a wider knowledge of his call- ing, and in 1903 removed to Shinnston, where he has since remained, being recognized as one of the leading practitioners. As a citizen he is universally esteemed, always sustaining the character of a true man, and his professional transactions are conducted on the principles of strict integrity, he fulfilling to the letter every trust committed to him. He adheres to the tenets of the Presbyterian church, gives his political allegiance to the candidates of the Democratic party, and is a stock- holder in the Farmers' National Bank of Shinnston. He is a member of Harrison County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, No. 24, Free and Accepted Masons; Orient Chapter, No. 9, Royal Arch Masons; Crusade Commandery, No. 6, Royal and Select Masters; Wheeling Consistory, No. 1, Knights Templar; Osiris Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Maloy married, at Fairmont, February 28, 1911, Gertrude Wyckoff, then of Fairmont, but born and reared at Pruntytown, daugh- ter of Claude Wyckoff, a resident of Pruntytown.
SOUTHERN West Virginia is naturally filled up largely with people who emigrated from Old Virginia, or who resided in what since 1863 has been known as West Virginia, long before the war of 1812 and the civil conflict of 1861-65. This family originally resided in Old Virginia.
(I) Samuel Southern, born February, 1804, died February 18, 1878. He lived in eastern Virginia-over the mountains-and was the first man to plant out a nursery in what is now West Virginia, now so famous for its excellent fruit, especially fine varieties of apples. He immigrated to Harrison county early in the nineteenth century. He married and reared a family, including a son named John, of whom further.
(II) John, son of Samuel Southern, was born in 1829, died at the age of thirty years, in 1859. He followed farming which has usually been the vocation of the Southern family. He married Edith Ann Heanstead, who lives at the age of seventy-five years. Their children were: Annetta, James R., George C., Lora Belle, the last two the only
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ones living. Mrs. Southern's father was Robert Heanstead and her mother, Elizabeth (Corbin) Heanstead; they were farmers of Harri- son county, Virginia.
(III) George Cornelius, son of John and Edith Ann (Heanstead) Southern, was born August 6, 1857, on Coons Run, Harrison county, Virginia. After receiving a common school training, at the age of twenty years, in March, 1878, he began in the mercantile business in Clarksburg. August 12, 1879, he established a meat market, continu- ing until November 20, 1886, and in 1890 began to operate in the real estate business, which he still pursues successfully under the name of Southern & Southern, his son, John C., being associated with him. They also conduct a sand bank enterprise, by which an excellent grade of building sand is shipped. He is a stockholder in the Clarksburg Window Glass factory, at Adamson. He is a director in the West Virginia Central Agricultural and Mechanical Society. Politically he is a Republican. He held the office of justice of the peace one term in 1892 and was mayor of Adamson three terms, and is called the "father of Adamson." He moved from Clarksburg to Adamson in March, 1886, and while at Adamson did more than any other man towards its upbuilding; he aided in securing its charter, October 3, 1903. In 1891-92 he was appointed commissioner of lands of lower assessment, district of Harrison county, and in all his appraisals he was reversed in only two or three cases.
He married, December 23, 1883, in Harrison county, West Vir- ginia, Elizabeth C. Gaines, born in Harrison county, March 1, 1857, daughter of Eli Gaines, who was a native of the county, and a farmer, as well as a local Baptist minister. He died in 1891, aged seventy years. The wife and mother was Martha (Morrison) Gaines, who died before her husband. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Southern is John Cornelius, born October 17, 1884, and is now an active member of the firm of Southern & Southern, also attorney-at-law, office in the Goff Building. He married, October 2, 1909, Ida Jackson Gerst, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and they have one son, John C.
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Charles Fletcher Lucas, actively and prominently identi-
LUCAS fied with the varied interests of Shinnston, in the vicinity of which city he has spent his entire lifetime, was born in Harrison county, West Virginia, one mile from Shinnston, June 14, 1868.
(1) George R. Lucas, grandfather of Charles Fletcher Lucas, was born in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, September 26, 1806, died December 5, 1892. In 1818, at the age of twelve years, he removed from his native state to what is now West Virginia, where he spent the remainder of his days. He followed the tilling of the soil, his opera- tions proving both successful and remunerative, and in addition to this raised considerable cattle for the market, being assisted by his three sons, continuing this business up to the time of his death, after which the sons conducted it for many years. He was a man of ability and enterprise, honest and conscientious in his dealings, and therefore was respected and honored in the community. In 1830 he married Amelia Rogers, who bore him three sons and four daughters. Among the sons was James E., see forward.
(II) James E. Lucas, father of Charles Fletcher Lucas, was born July 26, 1841, living at the present time ( 1911) in Shinnston. He was reared and educated in his native state, now West Virginia, and was interested with his father and brothers in business for many years, now engaged in the milling business with his son, Charles Fletcher Lucas, under the style of C. F. & J. E. Lucas, the mill being one of the leading industries of that section. During the civil war he was em- ployed as teamster by the union army, serving as such throughout the entire period of that great conflict. His life has been one of useful- ness and activity, and the success he has attained is attributable to the sterling qualities which he possesses, sound judgment, quick perception, activity and integrity. He married (first) Minerva, daughter of John Chalfant, of Harrison county, West Virginia. She died in 1869. He married (second) Virginia Robinson.
(III) Charles Fletcher Lucas was reared on the farm where his birth occurred, received a practical education in the local schools of Shinnston, and his business experience was first gained in a saw mill at West Shinnston, where he was employed for many years. In 1902, under the firm name of C. F. & J. E. Lucas, his father and he, as part-
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ners, purchased the flour mill in Shinnston, this mill being the only one in the valley between Fairmont and Clarksburg, remodelled the same and installed new machinery, making it one of the most completely equipped for that line of work in the county, and are now in receipt of an extensive and lucrative trade. He is the vice-president of the Clarksburg Automobile Company, is a director of the Opera House Company of Shinnston, also of the banks of that city, in both of which he is a large stockholder, and a stockholder in the gas and water com- panies of Shinnston. He takes an active interest in all that pertains to the welfare of Harrison county, and ranks among the substantial and influential men of his community.
Mr. Lucas married, May 8, 1902, Sarah Marie, born January 22, 1875, daughter of Van B. Fowler, of Pittsburgh, a paper manufac- turer of that city. Children: William Edward, born March 10, 1903; Van Buren, born January 17, 1907.
HAWKINS Among the progressive and enterprising citizens of the Monongahela Valley, resident in Shinnston, is Lawrence E. Hawkins, whose birth occurred in Man- nington, Marion county, West Virginia, October 28, 1874, son of Abraham and Sarah M. (Haught) Hawkins, the former of whom is a resident of Marion county, engaged in the plumbing business at Man- nington.
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