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PICKENPAUGH Three generations of this family have resided in the vicinity of Morgantown, West Virginia. Nicholas Pickenpaugh, born in 1804, settled in Morgantown at an early day and followed mechanics for his liveli- hood. His wife's maiden name was Abigail Chadwick. They were the parents of five children, including a son, Thorton, of whom later. The father died November 5, 1853, and was buried at Morgantown, West Virginia, in Oak Grove Cemetery.
(II) Thorton Pickenpaugh, son of Nicholas and Abigail (Chad- wick) Pickenpaugh, was born at Morgantown, in what is now known as West Virginia, in 1838. He was educated at the common schools of his native place, and when old enough engaged in business, conduct- ing a dry goods store, commencing in 1865 and continuing until his death in 1902, when his son James C. took the business. Besides his mercantile pursuits he was engaged in farming and the timber business. Politically Thorton Pickenpaugh was a Republican, and in church faith he adhered to the Methodist denomination. He was public-spirit- ed, and was a member of the Morgantown city council and school board. He married Mary F. Wagner, daughter of William Wagner
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and wife. Their children were: Lillie, who married Rev. J. L. Roe- mer; and James Clark.
(III) James Clark Pickenpaugh, son of Thorton and Mary F. (Wagner) Pickenpaugh, was born May 10, 1874, at Morgantown, West Virginia. He obtained a good education in the public schools of his native city, and attended the West Virginia University at Morgan- town. He started his business career as a clerk in his father's dry goods store, and upon the death of his father he succeeded to the business, which he has since conducted. He is an excellent business man, and bears the same relation as to respect of the people of Morgantown that was enjoyed by his father and grandfather. He belongs to the Meth- odist Episcopal church, and in politics votes the Republican ticket.
He married, in 1903, Mary Evans, daughter of Thomas P. and Delia (Allen) Evans.
MATHERS Max Mathers, a substantial, thrifty and intelligent citizen of Morgantown, is a native of that city, son of Eugene L. Mathers, grandson of Dr. Joseph R. Mathers, and great-grandson of Rev. E. Mathers, a native of Somer- setshire, England, who married Sarah Ray, of the Isle of Jersey, and whose children were: Waitman T .; William R., killed at Pittsburgh Landing; Mrs. Clara Dunnington, and Joseph R. (see forward).
Dr. Joseph R. Mathers served as a surgeon in the Union army during the civil war, and after his return from the field of battle prac- ticed the profession of medicine at Buckhannon, and in connection therewith conducted a drug store. He was a man of honor and integ- rity, and his influence for good was felt in the community. He married (first) Drusilla Morgan, daughter of Enos D. and Mattie Morgan. Children : Eugene L. (see forward) ; William H., born May, 1856. He married (second) Alsinda Rohrbaugh, who bore him one child, George. Dr. Mathers died April 9, 1897, after a life of usefulness and activity, lamented by all who knew him.
Eugene L. Mathers, son of Dr. Joseph R. Mathers, was born in Morgantown, August 19, 1854. He attended the public schools of Morgantown and the old Monongalia Academy, obtaining a practical education which qualified him for the duties of life. He served an apprenticeship at the trade of printing in the printing office of his uncle,
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Henry M. Morgan, where he was employed for twenty years. He then worked for the Morgantown Weekly Post, and in 1909 entered the printing office conducted by his son, Max Mathers, where he is engaged at the present time (1911). By his straightforward and hon- orable actions he has won and retained in a large degree the esteem and respect of all with whom he is brought in contact. He married, in 1876, Arthelia Morgan, daughter of Johan E. Morgan; she died No- vember 3, 1908. Children : Fay, born December 26, 1877, married George Welsh; Max (see forward) ; Carrie, born August, 1883, mar- ried Homer Hoffman; Harry, born November, 1890; Mattie, born 1891, married George D. Rust; Carl, born 1893.
Max Mathers, son of Eugene L. and Arthelia (Morgan) Mathers, was born December 28, 1880, in Morgantown, West Virginia. He was educated in the public schools of Morgantown, and later learned the trade of printer, thoroughly mastering all of its details. In November, 1905, after serving as a journeyman for some time, he established a printing office of his own, and is now conducting a successful and lucra- tive business. He is one of the public-spirited and progressive citizens of Morgantown, taking an active interest in all that pertains to its wel- fare and growth. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, gain- ing his admission through the services of Colonel Zacquil Morgan (see forward), and Colonel John Evans Sr .; of Modern Woodmen of America, Knights of the Maccabees, Shield of Honor, and the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. He married, July 31, 1902, Anna Mary, daughter of Joseph and Clara DeGant. One child, Margaret May, born April 27, 1903.
Drusilla (Morgan) Mathers, wife of Dr. Joseph R. Mathers, traces her ancestry to Colonel Morgan Morgan, who was born in the principality of Wales, England. He was educated in the city of Lon- don, England, in the reign of William III. When a young man, prior to his marriage, he came to the province of Delaware, during the reign of Queen Anne, and was one of the successful merchants at the place now known as Christiana. He was an ordained minister of the Church of England, and shortly after his marriage moved from Delaware to the Valley of Virginia and established a church at Winchester, of which he and his son, Morgan Morgan Jr., were pastors for many years. Through the influence of Colonel Morgan, General Washington estab-
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lished Ice's Ferry, on Cheat river, in 1770, with Christian Ice as ferry- man. Lord Dunmore, the English governor of the colony of Virginia, made Colonel Morgan a land grant of all the territory on the east side of the Monongahela river between Cheat river and the mouth of the West Fork, and extending back to about the present county line of Preston. Previous to the revolutionary war, Morgan's block house stood on the northwest corner of Main and Walnut streets, Morgan- town. Colonel Morgan married Catherine Garretson, of Delaware. Children: 1. Morgan, remained in Berkeley county, Virginia, on his father's old farm; he was an Episcopal minister of great piety and moral worth, and some of his productions, still in possession of the family, are of the finest order in penmanship, diction and moral senti- ment. 2. Anne. 3. Zacquil (see forward). 4. Evan. 5. David. 6. Charles, died in Berkeley county. 7. Henry, moved to South Carolina. 8. James, was chaplain in the continental army, and while at home on furlough was captured by the Tories and shot at Torytown, Berkeley county.
Colonel Zacquil Morgan moved to the mouth of Decker's creek, and was the proprietor and founder of Morgantown, Monongalia county. In the revolutionary war he commanded the Virginia minute- men, a regiment raised in Monongalia and what is now Marion county. His barracks and recruiting office were in a building which stood on a lot of the late John H. Hoffman property, Main street, Morgantown. He, with about six hundred troops, was with General Gates at the battle of Saratoga, in October, 1777, and in that battle lost nearly half his men. He served all through the war with distinction, and died several years after peace was declared. He lived in the old Morgan homestead occupied by his granddaughter, Drusilla Morgan, until her death, and now owned by Eugene L. Mathers, mentioned above. He married Drusilla, daughter of Count Carl Christopher Springer, a Swedish nobleman, who was the founder of Christiana, Delaware. Their son, Captain Zacquil Morgan, fell in the defense of Washington, at the battle of Bladenburg, Maryland, August 24, 1814. He had his barracks and recruiting office, during the war of 1812, in the old "Grandmother Watts" house, which stood on the lot later owned by Major W. C. McGrew, Main street, Morgantown.
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The family of Lockwoods at Clarksburg, this LOCKWOOD state, came from Ohio, where Ephraim Lockwood was born in 1818, near New Bremen, showing that the family was an early one in the Buckeye State. After his mar- riage he lived at Chillicothe, his death occurring there in 1906. He had an extensive fruit farm near Chillicothe, and was a man of sterling worth in his community. He married Cinderella King, born and rear- ed in the same place in which her husband was. She was born Febru- ary 1, 1822, died in 1907. Eleven children, the living being : Theo- dore E., born 1842; Lyman George, 1848; Lovina (Mrs. Keaton), 1850; William F., 1855.
(II) Lyman George, son of Ephraim and Cinderella (King) Lockwood, was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, July 29, 1848. He attend- ed the local schools of his county, and when old enough he engaged in business in New Jersey for one year, after which he went west and spent one year, and then returned to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, where he worked for the Union Oil Company. Subsequently he was in the employ of the South Penn Oil Company, being with the former corporation twelve years and with the latter five years, as their fore- man. In 1897 he came to the West Virginia oil fields, first locating at Parkersburg, as foreman for the South Penn Company, remaining four years, and in 1900 went to Clarksburg and purchased a half inter- est in the Palace Furniture Company, which he sold in 1901 and estab- lished his present business, known as the Irwin-Lockwood Company, the stock of which Mr. Lockwood now owns, Mr. Irwin only being connected a short time. This business enterprise consists of a complete stock of everything that women need for wearing apparel except shoes. It is located at No. 327 West Main street. Mr. Lockwood is a Repub- lican in politics. He is a Free Mason and also holds membership with the order of Maccabees, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1881, Julia Graf, born in the place just named, April 15, 1855, daughter of John G. Graf, a native of Germany, who came to America when a mere boy and died in Punxsutawney in the spring of 1876, aged fifty- four years; he was a grocer and baker by occupation. He married Wil- himina Muller, who died in 1905. The children of Mr. and Mrs.
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Lockwood are four deceased, and George E., born October 3, 1882, now associated with his father in the mercantile business at Clarksburg, he being the general manager. He graduated from the public schools of Clarksburg in 1901 and then attended the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity, at Delaware, Ohio.
NEWLON The Newlon family was among the early Scotch-Irish families to brave the storms of the wild Atlantic and seek a home on American soil. Their children and children's children have become pioneers in almost every section of the United States. Thrift, industry and integrity have marked the course of the succeeding generations of this family the first immigrant ancestor of which landed on our shores in 1686.
(I) Nathaniel Newlin, as the name was then spelled, immigrated from county Cork, Ireland, to America, in 1686, locating in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in the town of Concord. He descended from one of the Newlands of Carroll, England, who owned large landed estates in the northern and southern portions of Ireland. At the date of this Newland's death his descendants inherited his estates in Ireland and removed to their possessions, some to the north and others of the family to the south. Those in the south intermarried with the Irish natives, and the name soon became known as Newlin, while those mov- ing to the north of Ireland soon intermarried with the Scotch people and the name was then styled Newlon. This accounts for the several ways of spelling the name. It is commonly spelled Newland in Eng- land at the present time. Nathaniel Newlin had a large family who grew to maturity in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, hence many of this name still reside in that state, as well as in New York state. This is all that can now be positively ascertained of the settlement of the family in America, but one J. S. Newlin, a descendant of Nathaniel above referred to, resides in Philadelphia and is at the head of the firm of Newlin, Knight & Company, extensive wholesale hardware dealers, and on authority of mercantile books in his possession, belonging to his forefathers, it seems that the business has been continually kept by one or more members of the family to this time. His books show that Nathaniel Newlin, in 1700, imported more than twenty head of fine horses to this country from Europe, and several packs of blooded
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hounds. There seems little doubt that the Newlins, Newlands and Newlons of this continent are one and the same, when traced back to Europe. It is further thought from the facts known, that the present generation represented at Grafton, Taylor county, West Virginia, by Creed O. Newlon, is the seventh in line of descent from the American ancestor, Nathaniel Newlin. Of the second and third generations nothing definite is known, save that they seem to have been connected with the same hardware trade now conducted in Philadelphia by New- lin, Knight & Company, above mentioned.
(IV) William Newlin removed with his family, in 1799, from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, to Fauquier county, Virginia. He married - Martin, supposed to have been a native of Lancaster county. Children : 1. James, of whom further. 2. Elijah, married, lived and died in Iowa, near Bentonsport, where sons are still living (1912). 3. William, married - Turner, of Loudoun county, Virginia ; some of their descendants still reside in that county and Cul- peper county. 4. John, deceased. 5. Tamer, died unmarried. 6. Debby (Sarah), married Carter, of Loudoun county, where she lived and died.
(V) James Newlon (as he spelled it), son of William and (Martin) Newlin, was born in Shepherdstown, Maryland, August 14, 1782; died March 29, 1867, aged eighty-five years. He married, in Fauquier county, March 1, 1807, Jane Adams, born February 18, 1791, in Fauquier county, died February 12, 1882. Her father was a native of North Carolina. They located in Culpeper county, near the famous Culpeper court house, where they resided and succeeded well until 1824, during which year the family removed to Harrison county, afterwards Taylor county, West Virginia, locating near Pruntytown, and finally moved into the village, where the parents died. Children, born in Culpeper county : 1. Tamer Ann, born June 13, 1808, died April 9, 1884. 2. Lampkin Adams, born May 15, 1810; married and reared a large family. 3. Charles Washington, of whom further. 4. James William, born February 5, 1819. 5. John A., September 16, 1821. 6. Mary Jane, August 23, 1824. Born in Taylor county, Vir- ginia : 7. David Marshall, born March 1, 1827. 8. Edwin Eastham, March 22, 1831.
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(VI) Charles Washington, son of James and Jane (Adams) New- lon, was born September 16, 1816. His family removed to Harrison county, as stated above, but about 1835 he returned to Culpeper county and remained there until 1836 or 1837, when he went to Beverly, Vir- ginia. In the latter place he was engaged in the tailoring business. In 1839 they removed to Pruntytown, where he engaged in the same line. A year or two after his arrival there he embarked in the mercantile business, which he followed until 1859. During that period he was twice elected clerk of the county court, once to the house of representa- tives from Taylor county, and twice to the state senate.
In the spring of 1859, Charles W. Newlon with his family removed to Webster, West Virginia, where he engaged in the milling and mer- cantile business, in company with David Elliott and G. H. A. Kunst, under the firm name of Elliott, Newlon & Company. After the civil war broke out in the spring of 1861, Mr. Newlon and his family, excepting Granville A., moved to Brownsburg, Virginia, where they lived until the war ended in 1865. After the war Mr. Newlon returned to Pruntytown, where he remained until the fall of 1866, when with his family (excepting again Granville A.) moved to Fort Worth, Texas. They traveled by water down the rivers to New Orleans, thence up Red river to Jefferson City and from there by wagon to Fort Worth, where they remained until the spring of 1867, then traveled south through the state by wagon to Galveston, then crossed the gulf to New Orleans, thence returned to Barbour county, West Virginia, where he remained till that fall. He next moved to Grafton, engaged in mercantile business, continuing a number of years. During that time he was made mayor of the city and served one term in the state senate of West Virginia. In 1883 he removed to Buckhannon, where he embarked in the banking business, which he followed until his death, February 18, 1889, aged seventy-two years.
Mr. Newlon married, September 21, 1837, at Beverly, Virginia, Christina M., died September 7, 1891, daughter of Colonel Archibald Earle. Children: 1. Granville Austin, born July 20, 1838, at Beverly. 2. Charles W. Jr., born April 6, 1845, at Pruntytown; died September 8, 1906, at Grafton, West Virginia; married Lou Funk, January 12, 1871, at Charleston, West Virginia; children : James Franklin, July 2, 1872, died March 10, 1881; Edwin Earle, May 10, 1874, at Grafton;
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Christina Halley, July 2, 1876, died March 10, 1881; Charles F., October 9, 1888, Grafton; the last two sons are still living with the mother at Grafton, their father having died July 26, 1892. 3. J. E. Newlon, born December 22, 1846, at Pruntytown; died September 8, 1906, at Buckhannon; married Mollie V. Creel, November 24, 1874, at Grafton; they lived at Buckhannon and had two children, both deceased. 4. Mary J., born January 20, 1850, at Pruntytown; deceased. 5. Creed O., of whom further. 6. J. Lee, born July 30, 1855, at Pruntytown; died October, 1898, at Grafton. 7. George D., born January 26, 1857, at Pruntytown; deceased. 8. Meigs A., born in Webster, West Virginia, October 6, 1859. 9. Ida May, born in Brownsburg, 1862.
(VII) Creed O., son of Charles W. and Christina M. (Earle) Newlon, was born February 17, 1851, at Pruntytown, Taylor county, now within West Virginia, then old Virginia. He attended the schools of his native place until nine years of age, when the family removed to Webster, and the following year to Brownsburg, Rockbridge county, where he attended an academy. He finished his education after the family returned to Pruntytown, after which he learned the machinist's trade at the Baltimore & Ohio railway shops in Grafton, and followed railroading on that road and on the Louisville & Nashville line, as a machinist and other positions for fifteen years. Subsequently he became the manager of the Grafton Gas and Light Company, which position he held nineteen years. In 1902 he founded and became manager of the Newlon Foundry and Machine Company of Grafton, which posi- tion he still holds. He was chairman of the first water works board which installed the water works plant in Grafton. Politically he is a Democrat. He is a member of Mystic Lodge, No. 75, Masons, of Grafton, and is its secretary, a position he has held fifteen years; Cape- stone Chapter, No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; Knights of Pythias order, uniform rank, and has held all offices in that lodge at Grafton. He belongs to the Elks fraternity of Grafton, and is one of the trustees and on the building committee.
He married (first), October 29, 1873, Kate Barbee, at Grafton, West Virginia, by Rev. J. H. Flanagan. Children: Owen Eugene, September 6, 1874; Floyd Andrew, October 22, 1876; Ethel J., June 30, 1879; Maude Earle, June 5, 1882, died May 14, 1893; Bertha
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Kate, February 3, 1890, married, August 24, 1911, Allen Hodges; Ella-May, April 27, 1894; Albert Joseph, March 8, 1897. Kate (Barbee) Newlon died at Grafton, West Virginia, August 16, 1899. Mr. Newlon married (second), October 1, 1901, Katie Belle Miller, of New Hope, Kentucky.
This, not a common name, has, however, been
BARNCORD known in Maryland for over a century at least. Most of the early members of the Barncord family were farmers and highly successful in their undertakings as agricul- turists. Later many chose a profession and others engaged in industrial pursuits.
(I) John Barncord, the earliest of whom anything is positively known, was a farmer in Maryland, and died in the prime of his man- hood, leaving his wife, Catherine, to rear and educate his nine children. The wife and mother still survives, and although more than four score years, is bright, cheerful and active, in the enjoyment of good health. She resides at the little village of Corriganville, and is a prominent, devout member of the Methodist church. She is widely known and universally beloved for her many charitable deeds. She is possessed of a handsome fortune.
(II) Oliver Price, one of the nine children of John and Catherine Barncord, was born in Corriganville, Maryland, August 17, 1864. He is now a retired farmer of Corriganville. He resides on and owns the "Old Barncord Estate," a valuable property that has been owned in the family many generations. In his stables will be found that famous thoroughbred, "Fannie," living a life of ease and luxury. This old animal is now over twenty eight years of age, and is almost as well known in the community as her master. She was the first horse that Attorney Barncord, of Morgantown, West Virginia, ever rode or drove. Mr. Barncord was manager for several years of the County's Stone Quarries. He is a prominent Free Mason. He is a Democrat of the old staunch, uncompromising type. It seems that the deepest regret of his life is in the fact that his son, Norman R., is a Republican, as will be observed by the following, one of his sentences on the subject of politics : "My son Norman has left the good old state of Maryland and
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is now a stand pat Republican and I do not understand how it ever hap- pened for I always did all that I could to bring him up right."
He married Agnes, one of two children of Andrew A. Bough. Before marriage she lived with her parents in Moss Cottage, near Frostburg, Maryland. She is a devout member of the Lutheran church, highly educated, loved and respected by all. She is known as a "home body" and takes delight in fashioning the home for pleasure and com- fort for her family. Andrew A. Bough, Mrs. Oliver P. Barncord's father, came from Germany to America as a minister of the gospel. While a student in a German university he became acquainted with and married his professor's daughter and immediately came to America, first as a minister, but later became a teacher in the public schools of Mt. Savage. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver P. Barncord are: Della, at home; Norman R., of whom further; Henry T., a telegraph operator; Catherine, a public school teacher; Raymond; Francis and Elfrieda, in school.
(III) Norman Roland, son of Oliver P. and Agnes (Bough) Barncord, was born in Corriganville, a small village near Cumberland, Maryland, November 23, 1888. He was educated in the public schools and at West Virginia University. He is an attorney at Morgantown and equipped for his legal profession as but few other young lawyers are, and this is a practical knowledge as well as purely a theoretical knowledge of the law. At the age of fourteen years he left his father's comfortable home and productive farm, beginning the conflict of life's career alone. The first year away from home he worked in a stone quarry at one dollar a day, and then entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company as one of their line workers, between State Line, Penn- sylvania, and Sideling Hill. After a short time he turned his attention to the study of telegraphy, continued the same for five months, and then entered the employ of the Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. He remained two years and he was promoted five times; he commenced at the bottom of the ladder as a freight hustler at Eckhart Mines, Maryland, and after occupying various other positions, before the first year had elapsed was general agent for the company at Alle- gany, Maryland, and the youngest man who ever occupied a like posi- tion anywhere on the system. He also had experience with the Adams Express Company and with other railroad work not here mentioned.
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While attending the university at Morgantown he was employed in the local ticket office of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. He was admitted to the bar and has succeeded remarkably well. His offices are located on Chancery Row, Morgantown, and his practice is large and constantly increasing. He has been appointed a notary public, and is a member of the Railroad Telegraphers, Knights of Pythias and Turn Verein Concordia. Politically he is a Republican. This, with his con- nection with the general interests of the laboring classes, makes him one of the strongest possible friends to labor in its true organized condition.
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