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There is a record in the Nesheminy Presbyterian church stating that "March 12, 1794, Jacob Madeira was united in marriage to Harris," and it is thought this Jacob was the first child above named (born 1777).
(III) Christian Madeira, fifth child of Jacob and Hester Madeira, is believed to be the Christian Madeira named as a private in Captain David Harris' company, continental army, First Pennsylvania Regi- ment of the line, of May 27, 1776. He died in Monongalia county, Virginia, March 15, 1822, aged sixty-five years. Other members of this family who served in the war for national independence were : Samuel, a private in the Third Pennsylvania line, of the Continental army, and Nicholas Madeira, a private in the Seventh Pennsylvania line, in Captain Samuel Kennedy's company of seven months' men.
(IV) Francis Madeira, son of Nicholas Madeira, the revolution- ary soldier above referred to, married Ann Watts; children : John W., Nicholas B., Mary and Ann. Francis Madeira published the Monon- gahela Farmer.
(V) John W. Madeira, son of Francis Madeira, was born in Mor- gantown, West Virginia (then Virginia), in 1844. He was by trade a marble cutter and followed this business with his brother at Morgan- town and Martinsburg, West Virginia. He later abandoned his trade, having been elected to a position in the county clerk's office, which he held a number of years, acting as deputy clerk. He was also county re- corder four years, until he took over the newspaper business, which he conducted until his death in 1891. He married Miss Colebank, who resided near Stewartstown, West Virginia. Children : Marshall, Elizabeth Florence, who married O. Z. Morgan; James Nicholas, Walter and Bernard Haymond.
(VI) Walter Madeira, son of John W. Madeira, was born in Mor- gantown, West Virginia, January 25, 1868. He received his education in the common schools, and when thirteen years old he went into the New Dominion office to learn the printer's trade, serving a four year apprenticeship. After working at Wheeling three months on a paper he returned to Morgantown, and in 1882 established the first news de-
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pot in the city in which he was reared. He carried on this business two years, when he turned the business over to his father, John W. Madeira, and went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the newspaper business for six years. After the death of his father in 1891 he returned to Morgantown and formed a partnership with his brother, Bernard Haymond Madeira, and they continued the news- paper and confectionary business until 1900, when they bought the old Franklin House, established in 1774. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Elks at Morgantown. He married, June 30, 1899, Minnie Mahler, daughter of William Mahler, of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. Children: Irene Elizabeth, born February 7, 1894, and William Bernard, born March 7, 1897.
(VI) Bernard Haymond Madeira, son of John W. Madeira, was born November 4, 1872. He married, October 12, 1897, Bessie Mary Protzman, daughter of Thomas and Anna Protzman, of Morgan- town. Children : Dorcas, born November 20, 1900, and Martha, born September 7, 1905.
Nicholas B. Madeira, brother of John W. Madeira, was a lieu- tenant in the Union army during the civil war, and was in Anderson- ville prison, which later caused his death. He was employed in the Pension Department at Washington a number of years. He died and was buried at Martinsburg, West Virginia.
At Galena, Illinois, prior to 1850, the name of Colonel George Madeira appeared a resident of that city. He was a brother of the father of Will and John D. Madeira, of Chillicothe, Ohio. During the gold excitement in California in 1849 Colonel George Madeira conceived the idea of going to the new land of gold, so in 1851 he took his family, consisting of his wife, three sons, Frank, Dan and George, and settled at Volcano, Amador county, California, where they went into the mining and storekeeping business; they also had a store at Carson City, Nevada, where he finally died. His sons, Dan and Frank, married sisters-Dora and Charlotte Ives. Frank and wife had no children. Charlotte died at Healdsburg, Sonoma county, Cali- fornia, in 1896. Frank A. is now living at Healdsburg. Dan Ma- deira and wife settled at Santa Cruz, California, having ten children. The mother Dora (Ives) Madeira, died in December, 1887. Chil- dren: 1. Eleanor (or Nellie), born December, 1858. 2. Charles,
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born 1860, now with G. I. Mix & Co., Yalesville, Connecticut. 3. Alice. 4. Frank, deceased. 5. Dora. 6. Donald (Dan). 7. Eu- gene, died in July, 1895. 8. Will. 9. Mabel. 10. Ethel. Of this family Dora married Ambrose Jones, now of Santa Cruz; child: El- mer Madeira Jones, born May 5, 1897. Dan (or Donald) married Clara Rider, of Watsonville, California, and is engaged in the lumber trade at Noyo, California.
George Madeira, youngest son of Colonel George Madeira, mar- ried, and his wife is deceased. Children: Mary, married, living at Healdsburg, California; Lulu, married to Ransom Powell, of Healds- burg; George, married and lives at the above place; Will died 1896; James, married and resides at Healdsburg; Delia, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Bray, of Wheatland, California; Chester, living at Healdsburg.
Many years ago this family resided in Barbour county,
KELLAR Virginia, the great-grandfather of James U. Kellar, now of Morgantown, West Virginia (his name not known), lived there and reached the extreme age of one hundred and seven years.
(II) John, son of the ancestor above named, died at the age of six- ty-one years, and the family was scattered and the family records not preserved. It is known that his father was born, lived and died in Barbour county, near New Philippi. He married and among his chil- dren was a son, James C. Kellar, of whom further.
(III) James C., son of John Kellar, was born in 1827. He fol- lowed farming and lumbering with his father. He enlisted in the Twelfth Regiment of Virginia troops, being a member of Company F, served three years and was captured at the battle of Winchester and taken to Libby and Belle Isle prisons. He married Miss Hobbs and they had one child, after which she died, and later he married Miss Ruanna Taggart. Children: Francis M., Neal C., of Buckhannon; Benjamin W., now on the home farm at Teverbaugh, West Virginia; Emma C., married A. F. Gilmer, at Hundred, West Virginia. The mother died March 19, 1908.
(IV) James U., son of James C. and Ruanna (Taggart) Kellar, was born in Marion county, West Virginia, December 12, 1862. He received his education in the public schools and worked on his father's
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farm until twenty-two years of age. In 1884 he entered the employ of a mercantile company at Round Bottom, where he remained two years, then spent a year at school teaching. His next work was clerk- ing in a store at Hundred, West Virginia, later clerking at Manning- ton in J. T. Koen's store. In 1896 he engaged in the mercantile busi- ness for himself at Mannington, remaining there until 1900, when he removed to Morgantown and engaged in the mercantile business for himself. October, 1906, he united with the Acme Book Store, and formed the Acme Department Store, of which he is president and gen- eral manager, the only department store in the city. He is a director in the Bank of Morgantown, and a steward and one of the members of the official board in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a member. He belongs to both the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias orders at Morgantown.
In 1897 he married Myrtle Hall, daughter of W. H. Hall. One child : James W. Kellar, born July 9, 1902.
WARMAN Some time about the beginning of the nineteenth cen- tury Thomas Warman located in what is now West Virginia, and reared a family in Monongalia county, and among his children was a son named Thomas. By occupation the father was a carpenter. He emigrated to this country from England. He died and was buried in his own private graveyard.
(II) Thomas Warman, son of Thomas Warman, was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, April 20, 1826, and followed farm life the most of his active career. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He served as a member of the Second West Vir- ginia Cavalry Regiment during the civil war, and was wounded at Lynchburg, Virginia. He was what might be termed, in many ways, a representative citizen. Politically he was a Republican. He never held office. He died August 29, 1906. He married Sarah Margaret, daughter of Benjamin Wells and wife. Children: Sarah, Altha, Harlie, Isabel, Russell M., Winnie.
(III) Altha Warman, son of Thomas and Sarah M. (Wells) Warman, was born near Morgantown, West Virginia, September 3, 1870. He had the advantages of the public schools of Morgan dis- trict and the University of West Virginia. In 1893-94 he taught
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school in Mississippi, and for two years was assistant principal at Keyser, West Virginia. From 1898 to 1901 he was instructor in the preparatory branch of the State University at Montgomery. He fin- ished his course and graduated in 1893 as A.B. and as LL.B. in 1902. He was the same year admitted to the bar and commenced to prac- tice law as one of the firm of Warman & Gorman, which later was changed to Snee, Warman & Gorman, until about 1904, when he was appointed assistant clerk of the court of appeals for West Vir- ginia for the term of two years. In 1893 and 1895 he was a member of the House of Delegates of Monongalia county. He is now engaged in the practice of law at Morgantown. Politically Mr. Warman is a Progressive. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and is accounted a worthy member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons and the Knights of Pythias orders. He belongs to the Kappa Alpha fraternity, Alpha Rho Chapter, West Virginia University.
November 10, 1894, he married Alice, daughter of the late San- ford Cobun. Children : Thomas, born December 26, 1905; Adelia, born September 8, 1907; Robert, born June 12, 1909; Leila Ruth, born January 8, 191I.
FISHER This family traces its ancestry back to the days of the revolutionary struggle. The Morgantown branch of this family have descended as follows: Great-grand- father, John Fisher; grandfather, William Fisher; father, Parks Fisher; Dr. Robert Fisher, of Morgantown.
(II) William Fisher married Jane Aldrich Boggs, daughter of Alexander Boggs, of Pennsylvania. His wife was Miss H. Parks, of West Virginia. Alexander Boggs' father enlisted January 26, 1776, as a private soldier in the American army, from Pennsylvania.
(III) Parks Fisher, son of William and Jane Aldrich (Boggs) Fisher, was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1844. He was a stock-broker at Baltimore, of the well-known firm of William Fisher & Sons, bankers and brokers at Baltimore. He married Marie Anto- niette Schley, in 1865; she was a sister of Admiral Schley, of the United States Navy, connected with the Spanish-American war. Chil- dren : Frank S., Parks Jr., Charles McClure, David Gustave, deceased; and Dr. Robert W. Fisher.
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(IV) Robert W. Fisher, M. D., of Morgantown, West Virginia, was born September 15, 1880, at Baltimore, Maryland. He was edu- cated in the public schools, private schools, and the University of Maryland, graduating from the latter institution in 1903. For one year after graduating he entered the University Hospital, going from there to Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1904, where he now enjoys a large practice in medicine and surgery. He belongs to the Monongalia County Medical Society, West Virginia Medical Society and the Amer- ican Medical Association. He is a member of the Episcopal church of Morgantown, and is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Turners and the Modern Woodmen of the World.
HATFIELD The Hatfields of Morgantown descend from Mat- thias Hatfield (also written Heathfield and Het- field), of New Haven, Connecticut, and Elizabeth, New Jersey, son of Thomas Hatfield, of Leyden, a member of John Robinson's church and a native of Yorkshire, England. Matthias Hat- field came to Elizabeth from New Haven, where he took the oath of fidelity, May 1, 1660. In the record of surveys at Elizabeth, August 29, 1676, he is called "Hatfield" and in his will "Hattfield." His house lot contained five acres and he had in addition twenty-two acres of upland "In a triangle," twelve acres of land, one hundred and twelve acres of upland, forty acres of upland, seventeen acres of meadow-in all two hundred and eight acres. He was a weaver by trade, also a boatman, and seems to have been a man of considerable means. "For twelve hundred gilders secured to him by bill" (a large sum in those days), he purchased, December 5, 1673, of "Abraham Lubberson of New Orania in the New Netherlands, his dwelling house and home lott with all other accommodations belonging to a first lott within the bounds of Elizabeth both upland and meadow." This was undoubtedly the oldest house in Elizabeth and stood in good repair for two hundred years and was never out of the family name during that period. (Perhaps it is yet standing and in the family). Mr. Hatfield was the original owner of the land upon which the First Pres- byterian Church of Elizabeth stands, and it was donated by him for church and burial ground. He died December, 1687, his wife Maria,
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of Dutch parentage, surviving with her three sons, Isaac, Abraham and Cornelius.
(II) Abraham, son of Matthias Hatfield, was born in 1670, died July, 1706. He was chosen an associate in 1693, and was the signer of a petition to the King, purporting to be from "The Freeholders Inhab- itants and owners of land of and belonging to Elizabeth-town or town- ship in the Province of East New Jersey in America." He married and left four sons, Abraham (2), Matthias, Jacob, Joseph.
(III) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1) Hatfield, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1695, died 1745. His wife Margaret died the same year. Children: Abraham (3), John, Sarah, Samuel, Elias, Joseph, Jacob, Phoebe, David, Matthias, William.
(IV) William, son of Abraham (2) Hatfield, was born in Eliza- beth, New Jersey, December 28, 1736. He married (first) May 29, 1756, Annie Wright, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, who died April 1, 1762. He married (second) 1764, Sarah Kimball, born April II, 1743, died September 19, 1799. Children by first marriage: 1. Abra- ham, born October 20, 1757, died young. 2. William (2), born Janu- ary 6, 1759; moved with his wife Charity near the site of Washington, Pennsylvania. 3. Elias, born March 11, 1760; served in the revolu- tionary war, then settled in Georges township, Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania; married Ann Lindsay. 4. Samuel, born July 20, 1761 ; settled near his brother William, near Washington, Pennsylvania. Children by second marriage: 5. David, of further mention. 6. Sarah Ann, born October 27, 1767; married Robert Mackey, and moved to the Miami section of Ohio. 7. Abraham, born March 25, 1769; settled in Dutchess county, New York. 8. Jacob, born July 27, 1775 ; mar- ried in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and settled in the Miami Valley. 9. Phoebe, born November 10, 1779; married, June 19, 1799, Joseph Tunis and lived in New York City. 10. Jesse Kimball, born December I, 1781 ; married, November 17, 1803, -; was a mer- chant of New York City, where he died July 18, 1861.
(V) David, son of William Hatfield, was born March 2, 1765. He settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he married and had male issue : Samuel, Jacob, Abraham, William, George W. He was a farmer and later moved to Virginia, now West Virginia.
(VI) George W., son of David Hatfield, was born in Fayette
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county, Pennsylvania. He settled in Greene county, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ritchie, a native of Masontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and she bore her husband the following children: Will- iam; Hiram, of further mention; Madison; James; Jacob, a physician of Mt. Morris, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, married Lindsey Stephens; Frank.
(VII) Hiram, son of George W. Hatfield, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, 1834. He was a prosperous farmer in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, owned considerable property which he devoted to agricultural pursuits and grazing, and dealt extensively in coal lands, etc. For twenty-five years he was justice of the peace in Morgantown, West Virginia, now living retired. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church, and in politics a Democrat. He mar- ried Hannah Leumley. Children: 1. William K., now general man- ager of the Mount Morris & Morgantown Railroad Company, director of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Mount Morris, director of the People's Bank of Waynesburg, and a large owner and operator in coal and coal lands. 2. John L., of further mention.
(VIII) John L., son of Hiram Hatfield, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1874. He was educated in the public school, passed three years at Waynesburg College, one year at the Ohio State Normal University, finishing his collegiate study at the University of West Virginia, whence he was graduated from the legal department with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, class of 1899. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and at once began the practice of his profession as junior member of the law firm of Donley & Hat- field, at Morgantown, West Virginia. He has been very successful in his law practice, ranking with the leaders of the bar. He has important business interests outside his profession; is president of the Citizens' National Bank, director of the Federal Savings & Trust Company, director of the Athens Building & Loan Society, president of the Main Street Building Company, director of the Decker Valley Lumber Com- pany, director of F. W. Crane Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, and has holdings in other companies with which he has no official connec- tion. He is a member of the Local and State Bar associations; past exalted ruler of Morgantown Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; is a Knight of Pythias; member of the Ancient Order United
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Workmen and first vice-president of the Elks Reunion Association of West Virginia. His college fraternity is Phi Kappa Sigma. His club, the Pittsburgh Athletic. In political faith he is a Democrat; in 1906 was elected mayor of Morgantown, giving that city a wise and con- servative business administration. In religious belief he is a Methodist Episcopalian.
WILLIAMS Three generations of this family have resided in what is now known as West Virginia. Farmers and professional men, as well as industrial workers, have come from the scions of this Williams family tree.
(II) Jeremiah, son of William and Sophia (Foresham) Williams, was born on Katyslick, Harrison county, now West Virginia, in 1816, died at the age of eighty-six years, in 1902. He married Susan Ann Morrison. Children : Elizabeth, Margaret, Alpheus, Jonathan, Ruth, Hester, John Wesley, George W.
(III) John Wesley Williams, born on Katyslick, Harrison county, now West Virginia, March 26, 1850, is living at Marshville, same county, and follows farming for his livelihood. He votes the Repub- lican ticket, and in his religious faith is of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. He married Victoria Virginia Chidester, born at Ro- mines Mills, Harrison county, West Virginia, 1858. Children : I. Mrs. Minnie May Jones, born 1876, wife of Howard Jones, of Indian Run, Harrison county. He is a farmer by occupation. 2. Harvey C., born 1878, studying for a veterinary at Indiana College, Indianapolis, In- diana. 3. Jesse Frank, of whom further. 4. Amy V., died aged six years. 5. Mary E., born 1891, at home, unmarried. James J. Chides- ter, father of Mrs. Williams, was born in Harrison county, now West Virginia ; was a farmer and died aged about thirty-six years, in 1866.
(IV) Jesse Frank Williams, M. D., of Clarksburg, West Virginia, son of John Wesley and Victoria V. (Chidester) Williams, was born March 17, 1882. He graduated from the public schools at Marsh- ville, at the age of sixteen years, then graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College, in 1904, after which he entered Baltimore Medical College, from which he graduated in 1908. He spent one year as resi- dent physician in Maryland General Hospital at Baltimore, and then went to Clarksburg, West Virginia, in the autumn of 1909 to begin his
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medical practice in an office of his own. He is located in the Goff build- ing, sharing reception rooms with Drs. Davis & Davis. He is a mem- ber of Harrison County Medical Association, State Medical Associa- tion and the American Medical Association. Dr. Williams is a Repub- lican. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a Methodist in church membership.
He married, July 17, 1907, at Sutton, West Virginia, Anna Morri- son, a native of Braxton county, West Virginia, born January 7, 1883, daughter of Senator James Wesley Morrison, still residing near Sutton, at the age of sixty-eight years. He it was that introduced Republican- ism into Braxton county, and was a very prominent man in his county at an early day. His wife was Martha (McClung) Morrison, a native of Nicholas county ; she died in 1902, aged fifty-two years. Only child of Dr. Williams and wife is : Jesse Frank Jr., born February 14, 1909. Dr. Williams loves out-of-doors sports, and when at college at the Wesleyan was a member of the football club in 1902-03.
POWELL Of an old Virginia family comes the three generations represented by the three several family heads here to be considered.
(I) Joseph Powell was a native of Winchester, Virginia, born in 1800, died in 1840. He was a thrifty farmer. He married Eliza Wiseman and among his children was a son named Samuel R., see for- ward.
(II) Samuel R., son of Joseph Powell, was born in 1847, at Pruntytown, Taylor county, West Virginia, died at the age of thirty- seven years, in 1884, lived at Grafton all his life. He was county superintendent of schools two terms, and was deputy sheriff of Taylor county. He was studying for a lawyer's profession when overtaken by death. He had worked his own way through school, his father hav- ing died when the son was but seven years of age, and he was scant of means with which to educate himself. He became an active Demo- cratic party worker, and placed in nomination, the first time, John T. McGraw for prosecuting attorney. He married Mary Jane Martin, born and reared on Horner's Run, Harrison county, West Virginia, in 1856, died at Boothsville, in 1886. Children : Frank Martin, of whom further: Nellie Virginia, born in 1884, now of Boothsville, West Vir-
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ginia. Robert Martin, the maternal grandfather of Frank M. Powell, was born in 1821, on Horner's Run, Harrison county, and died on his old homestead where he was born. He followed farming all his life. He was the father of four daughters who grew to womanhood: Al- myra, remained single, died in 1883; Bashie A. Elliott, née Martin; Mary Jane Powell, née Martin.
(III) Frank Martin, son of Samuel R. and Mary Jane (Martin) Powell, was born August 18, 1880, in Grafton, Taylor county, West Virginia. After completing his studies in the public schools, he attend- ed Broaddus Institute, at Clarksburg, and then entered Lebanon Uni- versity, Ohio, graduating in 1907, with the degree of LL. B., and in 1909 attended the West Virginia University, taking a law course, and after being admitted to the bar commenced practicing law, April 23, 1909, at Clarksburg, in partnership with Fred Lawrence Shinn. He has succeeded well at law and now owns considerable valuable property in Clarksburg, including three houses on West Main street. He re- ceived the degree of Ph. B. in 1907. He votes the Democratic ticket ; belongs to the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Elks fraternities and also holds membership in the college fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa.
HOUGH In recording the history of counties and states, there are always names and families to which there are more im- portance attached than to others. This is necessarily so, for all individuals do not possess the merit, intelligence and ability found in a certain few whom nature has peculiarly gifted with special genius and whose characters stand out boldly above the ordinary men and women of a community. This signally applies to members of the Hough family now to be considered. The earliest knowledge we have of the family is that connected with Thomas Hough.
(I) Thomas Hough was a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, born 1785. He emigrated to Harrison county, in that section of the commonwealth now known as West Virginia, where he resided for a time and then moved on toward the setting sun, locating at Rushville, Schuyler county, Illinois, his home at the time of his demise, he dying, however, in 1835, at Louisville, Kentucky, while on his way to Harri- son county, Virginia, to visit friends and relatives. His trade was that 17-2m
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