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of a cabinetmaker, and at the time of his death he was following that occupation. In politics he was an old line Whig. He married Sarah Bartlett, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. Among the sons were James F. and Joseph Hough.
(II) Joseph, son of Thomas and Sarah (Bartlett) Hough, was born at Clarksburg, in what is now West Virginia, December 10, 1818, died at Mannington, October 26, 1883. He became a large real estate owner near and in Mannington. He was a prominent high-minded citizen. For many years he was worthy master in the Masonic lodge and well up in the mysteries and history of that ancient and honorable body. He moved to Fairmont between the years 1830 and 1840, and to Mannington in 1850. There he embarked in mercantile pursuits, continuing thirty years as a well known and ever honorable merchant. He retired from active business operations in 1880. Up to 1850 he had been known as a painter of much superiority, and many houses in his section of the country had been brightened up by the artistic touch of his paint brush. He voted the Whig ticket, later the Republican, and during the civil war was appointed United States marshall, an office he held several years. He married Elizabeth Van Zant, born May 18, 1822, died June 10, 1865. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hough was James A., of whom further.
(III) James A., only son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Van Zant) Hough, was born at Fairmont, West Virginia, July 18, 1842, died December 24, 1905, and was buried in the private Beaty-Hough ceme- tery, near Mannington, West Virginia. He lived in that city until nine years of age, when the family moved to Mannington, where he received his education in the graded schools. At the age of eighteen years he became a telegraph operator, and three years later, 1863, engaged in the general merchandising business at Mannington in company with his father. Ten years later he retired from mercantile business, and opened a hotel and livery barn which he operated until 1879, then went to Oakland, Maryland, remained one year, then. to southwestern Missouri, where he remained three years. In 1884 he returned from the west and engaged in farming. Joining the city plat of Manning- ton, he owned a fine farm of one hundred acres, and he made as good a farmer as he had a merchant. At the death of his father he took charge of the large estate and remained there until his death. He was an
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active Republican in politics, and public-spirited. For a number of years he held the office of constable, serving in that capacity at the date of his demise. He developed the property left by his father, and in 1894 platted "Hough Addition," a property owned by his widow now. He had several civil war experiences as telegraph operator at Fairmont. At the time of the famous "Jones Raid" he and Governor Fleming were interested and instrumental in preventing Jones' men from seizing some valuable horses, by hiding them away. Mr. Hough was a mem- ber of the Masons, Elks, Red Men and the Knights of Pythias.
He married, December 31, 1863, Mary Jane Beaty, daughter of James C. and Myra (Berkshire) Dent. Children: 1. Clara Elizabeth, born September 7, 1865; married Philip Dietz, deceased, of Manning- ton, and their children are : i. Norma D., born March 13, 1885, mar- ried, December 29, 1905, Carl Busby, of Mannington; children: Carl Deitz, born November 3, 1906; Joseph Carter, February 5, 1909; ii. Nellie Hough Dietz, born May 24, 1887, married Guy S. Clayton, of Mannington, and they have one child, Philip Dietz Clayton, born January 9, 1906; iii. Edna Josephine Dietz, born February 12, 1889. 2. Sarah Carter, born January 15, 1867; married A. J. Simon, oil operator, Marietta, Ohio, and they have children: i. Louis Hough Simon, born September 24, 1885; ii. Mary Ada, born September 30, 1887; iii. Harry Albert, born March 16, 1889; iv. Margaret Catha- line, born June 24, 1891. 3. Willa Edna, born April 1, 1879; married Dr. Clarence S. Thomas, of Fairmont, and they are the parents of two children : James Summerfield, born March 13, 1902; Mary Eliza, born July 14, 1907. Mrs. Hough resides at Mannington, surrounded by her many friends who value her for her womanly graces.
This is a family which has been for several generations MOORE identified with the agricultural and commercial interests of Virginia and West Virginia, and has given to both states useful and respected citizens, loyal to every trust, both as soldiers and civilians.
(I) Michael Moore was a farmer of Old Virginia, and was the father of two sons and two daughters: Solomon, mentioned below; John, Rhoda, Katherine.
(II) Solomon, son of Michael Moore, was born June 16, 1804,
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at Jake's Run, Clay district, Monongalia county, Virginia, now West Virginia. Throughout his active life he engaged in agricultural pur- suits. As a young man he affiliated with the Whigs, but in his later years was identified with the Republican party. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Sarah, born November 4, 1810, at Jake's Run, daughter of James and Prudence (Jones) Eddy, and their children were: Phæbe, born January 20, 1828; Eliza, February 21, 1830; Delilah; Simon; Levi; Emmanuel, mustered into the Union army, October 11, 1862, killed at the battle of Winchester, July 24, 1864, being then about twenty-one years of age; Perry W., mentioned below; Drusilla; David, born June 7, 1849; Julina; Sarah Jane, born April 12, 1858, died September 28, 1865.
(III) Perry W., son of Solomon and Sarah (Eddy) Moore, was born May 28, 1845, at Jake's Run, Clay district, Monongalia county, West Virginia. He received his education in a subscription school. Until twenty years of age he led the life of a farmer, but after that followed the carpenter's trade until his fifty-fifth year, and from that time forth was engaged in mercantile business. He is connected with the Bank of Morgantown, Morgantown, West Virginia, and the Farm- ers' and Merchants' Bank, Amos, West Virginia. In politics he is a Republican, and filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents the offices of township collector of school funds, road sur- veyor, postmaster and notary public. He is secretary of the Order of Grangers, and a member of the Christian church.
Mr. Moore married, November 2, 1867, Sarah Margaret, born May 21, 1849, at Day's Run, daughter of Daniel and Priscilla (Ten- nant) Moore, whose other children were: Anna B., Gilbert, Louisa Jane, Peter B., Rebecca, Louama, Jacob Richard, Nimrod Adam, Enos E. and Ida Belle Moore. Daniel Moore was a well-known farmer. Children of Perry W. and Sarah Margaret (Moore) Moore: I. Savan- nah Ellen, born August 24, 1868; married, January 19, 1889, James H. West, a farmer. 2. Willie Furman, born March 9, 1871; farmer; married, March 10, 1892, Sarah E. Varner. 3. Armina Alice, born June 26, 1874; married, April 18, 1898, Henry S. Sutton, an oil well worker. 4. Alpha Hayes, born September 22, 1877; oil well worker; married, January 5, 1901, Eva Davis. 5. Sarylda Maud, born May 23, 1880; married, February 5, 1910, John W. Yost, oil well worker.
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6. Enos Ervin, born June 19, 1882 ; married, March 3, 1910, Solda M. McCord, died February 16, 1911. 7. Noah Alvadore, mentioned below. 8. Freddie Harrison, born November 3, 1888; married, Au- gust 3, 1910, Jessie Wilson.
(IV) Noah Alvadore, son of Perry W. and Sarah Margaret (Moore) Moore, was born May 19, 1885, at Statler's Run, West Virginia. He received his education in the common schools. At the age of fourteen he entered upon his business career, doing pipe-line work in the oil industry. His next step was that of doing oil land lease work and in course of time he became field foreman, and later foreman, which responsible position he still holds for the J. H. McDermott Com- pany, with which he has now been associated ten years. He has the general superintendence of affairs, and this includes the company's teams and general business. He has duties in connection with each one of the twenty-eight profitable oil wells owned by the company. His position as superintendent, involving as it does responsibility for much valuable property, he fills in the most admirable manner, honorable to himself and satisfactory to the company. He is looked upon as one of the coming men connected with the great oil industry. Politically Mr. Moore is an Independent. He belongs to the Christian church, and holds membership in the Masonic fraternity, the Eagles and the Mod- ern Woodmen of America.
The progenitors of this family were from Ireland, CLIFFORD where Philip Clifford, a merchant of county Mayo, was born and died. He married Ann Loughney, having a son, James, of whom further.
(II) James, son of Philip and Ann (Loughney) Clifford, was born in county Mayo, Ireland, in 1827, died in America in 1892. He came to this country in 1847, locating at St. John's, New Brunswick, and in 1850 settled in Harrison county, now West Virginia, when the railroad was put through to the place upon which he became employed. Afterwards he went into the general merchandise business at Bridge- port, five miles from Clarksburg, in Harrison county, and in 1858 came to Clarksburg, establishing a general merchandise and coal business in which he continued until his death in 1892. In the year 1855 he mar- ried in Gallatin, Tennessee, Sarah Ruddy, who was there resident with
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her mother, Mrs. Cecilia (Farrell) Ruddy, widow of Michael Ruddy, a farmer, who was born and died in Ireland. Mrs. Ruddy, who was also a native of Ireland, came over to this country with her daughter after her husband's death, arriving here in the year 1850; she died in Nashville, Tennessee, during the cholera epidemic in that city. Mrs. Clifford, her daughter, died in Clarksburg, December 8, 1909, at the age of eighty years. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford were the parents of eight children, three boys and five girls, of whom two daughters and one son, all married, are now living; the names of the children being as follows : 1. James Philip, deceased. 2. Mrs. Anna Clifford Brennan, living in Clarksburg. 3. Mrs. E. Stringer Boggers, deceased. 4. Mrs. John McManaway, deceased. 5. Mrs. John J. Dolan, living in Clarksburg. 6. Mrs. C. P. Stout, deceased. 7. Michael, died in infancy. 8. John Henry, of whom further.
(III) John Henry, son of James and Sarah (Ruddy) Clifford, was born in Clarksburg, June 24, 1871. He was educated in the local public schools and at Rock Hill College. He then entered business, becoming superintendent of the Pinnickinnick Coal Company, in which position he continued for a period of six years. In the year 1900 the Clifford-Osborne Undertaking Company was established and incor- porated, the firm succeeding the pioneer concern in this line and being now the largest establishment of this kind here. Mr. Clifford has con- tinued with this business ever since. He is also a director in the Home Bank for Savings, and is prominent as a member of the Democratic party. He served all through the late war as second lieutenant in Com- pany I of the Second West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He is a member of the Local Order of Elks, and belongs to the Catholic church.
Mr. Clifford married, August 19, 1901, in Baltimore, Maryland, Mary Tully, a native of that city, daughter of Mark Tully, who was in the boot and shoe business in Baltimore, and who died at the age of sixty years ; her mother died in the same year. Mr. Tully was a native of Ireland, coming to America in his early youth. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford: Agnes, Francis, James, John, Rose.
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This Moore family, so well and favorably known MOORE throughout north central West Virginia, is an old Mary- land family, whose history dates back to the war for our national independence. Directly, and indirectly by intermarriage with other important families, the history of the Moores is replete with events of interest, living as they have at times and in communities wherein have been enacted many scenes of national importance.
(I) Samuel Preston Moore was a native of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, son of Dr. Mordecai Moore, who came from England with Lord Baltimore as his private physician. At a very early day Samuel P. Moore emigrated into what is now known as Harrison county, West Virginia. He owned immense tracts of land in this county. He also owned a beautiful homestead at Wilmington, Delaware, which is now Eden Park, Wilmington. He was foreman of the first United States court grand jury after he settled in Harrison county. He was a man of much more ability than most of his neighbors and took the leadership in the community in more ways than one. He married Susan Pierson, of a noted "Quaker" or Friend family, of Philadelphia. In the family of Samuel P. and Susan (Pierson) Moore was a son Richard W., see forward.
(II) Richard W., son of Samuel Preston and Susan (Pierson) Moore, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1792, died in 1857. He came to Clarksburg, Harrison county, Virginia, about 1802, with his parents, and lived and died there. He was a superior man and held the office of clerk of the United States court. He was an attorney-at- law. He was also clerk of the United States district court and the United States circuit court at another period in his career. He mar- ried, in 1820, Salina W. Easter, who came to Harrison county, Vir- ginia, from New Kent county, Virginia, where she was a native. She was born in 1798, died in 1876. Her father was a noted Methodist minister, Rev. Thomas Easter. Richard W. and Salina W. (Easter) Moore had children as follows: Thomas L., Theodore E., Alfred A., Eugene, Fred W., Jasper Y., Alexander C., Martha S., who resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, widow of Captain Charles Allen.
(III) Alexander Caldwell, son of Richard W. and Salina W. (Easter) Moore, was born August 26, 1837, at Clarksburg, West Vir- ginia, died December 29, 1911. He attended the Northwestern Vir-
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ginia Academy, after attending the local schools. He was clerk of the county court for Harrison county in 1857, and the first work he did was clerk in the county clerk's office there. While deputy clerk he studied law, and was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of age. His brother, Thomas L. Moore, became county clerk in 1858 and with him he remained until he joined the Union army. He enlisted in 1861 and became captain of Company G, Third Virginia Volunteer Infantry. In September, 1862, he was commissioned captain of a battery in the First Virginia Light Artillery. He saw much severe fighting, and went through the entire civil war. He went to South Branch Valley; was in Mulligan's division and from there went to the Valley of Virginia, under General Crook's command. He took part in Jenkin's raid, at Buckhannon, and was at Snicker's Ferry and Berryville. After endur- ing the many hardships of a bitter fought civil strife, where brother fought against brother, he came home and entered the practice of law at Buckhannon, where he remained one year, and in the latter part of 1866 went to Clarksburg and was immediately elected prosecuting attorney for Harrison county and was reelected several terms, holding that important office eighteen years in all. He had charge of the French spoliation claims, at Washington, under President Harrison's administration, for three years. Prior to this, however, he was ap- pointed by President Harrison United States consul to St. Thomas, later minister to Siam, both of which he declined. He served three years as assistant attorney general. He was member of the West Vir- ginia state legislature for two winters, during the Goff and Fleming contest. He was first a Whig, then entered the Republican ranks in which he has ever labored in earnest. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and has been from post commander to department commander. He served as a delegate to the national conventions- three in number; at the second convention Garfield was nominated and at the third convention Harrison was nominated. He is a member of the Episcopal church.
Mr. Moore married (first) Ada Haymond, April 26, 1866, at Brookville, Indiana, where she was born. Children: George H., born 1873, now private secretary to Judge Goff, Clarksburg; Charles W., born 1876, now an attorney at Clarksburg; Edgar R., born 1879, a bookkeeper at Clarksburg, for R. T. Lownders. The first wife and
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mother of these children died May 3, 1895. Mr. Moore married (second), October 19, 1897, Mary V. Hursey, of Clarksburg, daugh- ter of John A. Hursey, granddaughter of John Hursey. The mother of Mrs. Moore was Susan V. (Steel) Hursey, daughter of James and Anna Steel.
WHITESCARVER This family had its origin in Germany, and is Weisgerber in German, meaning "White Tanner," and in its German form is as old as the Roman Empire, when the Germanic tribes were opposed to the mail-clad legions of Julius Cæsar. It furnishes another illustration of how names were originally derived from occupations and later became common among the descendants. This name was evidently derived from fine tanning of delicate skins, used in the housings and trappings of ancient warfare.
(I) The first of the family under consideration to set foot on American soil was Frederick Whitescarver, who left the Fatherland and came to this country prior to the revolutionary war, settling in Rappa- hannock county, Virginia. He was a man of means and high standing and was thus enabled to purchase a large tract of land on the Rappa- hannock river, where he lived in a style befitting a man of wealth and good ancestry. He married and had sons, including Frederick W., mentioned below.
(II) Frederick W., son of Frederick Whitescarver, American an- cestor of the family, was born on his father's new-world farm, and there spent the most of his early life. He followed the occupation of farming all of his life. He married Browning, a cousin of President Zachary Taylor. Children: John S., mentioned below; G. Harmon; Winston; Addison; Joseph; Rev. William, a Baptist min- ister ; Caroline; Robert; Charles; Connor; Franklin, and Bathina.
(III) John S., eldest son of Frederick W. and - - (Brown- ing) Whitescarver, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, October 12, 1804, died in April, 1897. After 1852 he resided in Harrison county, Virginia, where he owned a large and valuable farm. He was a staunch defender of Democratic party principles, cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, but was never an office holder. In church faith he was a Bap- tist, with which denomination he united in 1835. He married (first)
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Elizabeth Griffin, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1811, died in 1841, daughter of Henry and Grace (Cobbege) Griffin. Grace Cob- bege's mother was a Ball, and lived to the age of one hundred and nine years. Henry Griffin was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Mr. Whitescarver married (second) Celia Bartlett. The children of John S. and Elizabeth (Griffin) Whitescarver were: 1. Mary, deceased; married Charles W. Creel. 2. Frederick, died young. 3. George M., mentioned below. 4. John Thadeus, married Sarah Sinclair; eleven children: Grace, a somewhat noted Sunday school worker; George Henry; James; John S., a physician; Elizabeth, who married Floyd Willis; Charles; Frank; Robert, deceased; Mary; Franklin, and one died in infancy. 5. Frances O., died unmarried. 6. Virginia, deceased; married Josiah Roller. 7. Cornelia R., died unmarried. 8. Thomas W., died young.
(IV) George M., son of John S. and Elizabeth (Griffin) Whites- carver, was born December 18, 1831. He grew to manhood in his native county, attending the common and private schools and then entering Rector college, at Pruntytown, Taylor county, Virginia. When fifteen years old he went to Taylor county, where he followed carpenter- ing a number of years then engaged with the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road Company, with whom he spent twenty-five years of constant service in construction work. In 1882 he became real estate agent for John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio system, and had charge of all his realty. After two years he resigned on account of ill health and engaged in lumbering business at Valley Falls, Taylor coun- ty, Virginia. Soon after this he became general manager of what has now come to be the Baltimore & Ohio line from Grafton to Philippi, and built the extension from Grafton to Belington. He held this posi- tion until 1886, and in 1887 constructed the Tunnelton & Kingwood line, a distance of eleven miles. He was also interested in building the Morgantown & Kingwood railroad with George C. Sturgiss and others. In 1891 he, in connection with other capitalists, purchased a large tract of timber land in Randolph county and founded the town of Pickens, where they erected a saw mill of the capacity ten million feet per year, and several well equipped planing mills. Mr. Whitescarver made, in large quantities, the vitrified brick which took the premium at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. He with others surveyed the rail-
Mr. & Mrs. George M. Whitescarver
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road line from Pickens to Addison, a distance of thirty miles, for the purpose of developing that section. He is liberal and progressive, and it may be said that for thirty years he has been identified with the real estate and coal land business. He is a director in the First National Bank of Grafton, and for twenty years has been a director in the Parkersburg First National Bank, holding this office at the present time (1912). He erected the boy's dormitory for the college at Philippi, known as Whitescarver Dormitory. Politically he is a Dem- ocrat. He belongs to the Baptist church, and has been thus identified since fourteen years of age.
He was married in 1854, in Taylor county, Virginia, to Henrietta A. Sinclair, daughter of James and Rebecca (Yates) Sinclair. They have no children.
REED For about a century and a half this Reed family has been known on Virginia and West Virginia soil. The ancestor, David Reed, was born in 1792, in Virginia, and during the greater part of his life resided in Upshur county, in what is now West Virginia. He was a farmer, and a volunteer in the war of 1812. He died aged seventy-four years, in 1866. Among his children was a son Thomas A., see forward.
(II) Thomas A., son of David Reed, was born in Upshur county, Virginia, at Peel Tree, February 8, 1832, died March 8, 1904. He was a carpenter by trade and followed it nearly all of his active life. He resided at Grafton from 1850 to 1888, when his son removed to Clarksburg, the father assisting him in the work of carrying on his store at that point. He was a staunch supporter of the Democratic party. He married Rebecca A. Crites, born in Upshur county, Vir- ginia, November 13, 1832, died April 21, 1907, daughter of Onias Crites, who resided in Upshur county, West Virginia, died in Ran- dolph county; he was noted especially for his considerable traveling from one part of the country to another. Children: Olive E., born in 1854, wife of George T. Spring, a carpenter of Clarksburg; David Kennedy, see forward.
(III) David Kennedy, son of Thomas A. and Rebecca A. ( Crites) Reed, was born in Grafton, West Virginia, February 25, 1863. He had the advantage of the high school training at Grafton, after which
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he entered the State University at Morgantown. For one year, after leaving the studies at the university, he worked for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, in its machinery department, and in 1885 went to Clarksburg and engaged in the express business, at first for the Baltimore & Ohio Company, later the United States Express Company, where he remained six years. The following year he was employed by the Monongahela River Railroad Company. Next he worked with the Monongah Coal Company, returning to Clarksburg in 1892, and bought the old Spates hardware store, which he conducted for twelve years. He was next a traveling salesman for the Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis for two years. The next three years were spent in running a feed business at Clarksburg. He then established his pres- ent insurance business, beginning in 1906. His offices are in the Reed building, Nos. 341-343 West Pike street. The building is his property and was erected in 1900. He has stock in the Union National Bank of Clarksburg, the Farmers' Bank, the Grafton Bank and other finan- cial enterprises. Politically he votes the Democratic ticket, and is a member of the Masonic order, Knights of Pythias, Red Men and the Elks. He is secretary of the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of the state. He is of the Methodist Episcopal church faith.
He married, in Grafton, in 1894, Addie M. Fordyce, a native of Morgantown, but lived in Clarksburg nearly all of her life, born in 1865, daughter of A. G. Fordyce, now retired at Clarksburg. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have two children : Roland, born in 1895; Maurice, born 1897.
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