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He married Isophine Powell and their children are: Bert A., of whom later; R. N. Koblegard, born at West Union, West Virginia, September 17, 1878, now at St. Lucie, Florida; Mrs. Mamie Minshall, born at West Union, July 10, 1876, now residing in Oklahoma ; Thorn F., born at Weston, West Virginia, December 31, 1880, now secretary and treasurer of the Weston Fuel and Light Company.
(II) Bert A., son of Jacob and Isophine (Powell) Koblegard, was born at Weston, West Virginia, March 11, 1874. He was edu- cated in the schools of his native city and at Gettysburg College, later he graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1893, from the Ohio Wes- leyan University, after which he joined his father in the Ruhl-Koble- gard Grocery Company, at Weston, where he remained until 1904
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when the business was sold. He then opened his present office. He is the owner of much valuable real estate in Weston and other sections of West Virginia; has large interests in oil and natural gas lands and wells in Harrison and Lewis counties; also near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Koblegard is highly educated in many directions, and is very practical in all of his methods. He loves good literature and is noted for numerous articles from his own pen, which have from time to time appeared in the popular periodicals of this country. He is a keen observer of men and passing events, and a lover of nature, ever seeing the true and beautiful instead of the sordid things of life. Politically he votes the Democratic ticket. He is now (1911) serving his third term as councilman in Weston municipality. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica, the Eagles fraternity, and is ever interested in the benevolences of the great busy world around him, doing his full share with tongue and pen to make the world the better for having lived in it.
He married, in 1907, Flora Davisson, daughter of Captain George I. Davisson, now deceased, who was a prominent Lewis county citi- zen. Children: Jacob, born October 23, 1898; Edwin D., born Janu- ary 31, 1900.
This family was living at Pittsburgh (Ft. Pitt) during
YOUNG the revolutionary war, where the family records say was born John T. Young, in 1775. This narrative will treat of the four generations from that time to the present, especially as they may relate to the West Virginia branch of the family tree.
(I) John T. Young, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when grown to man's estate, moved to Clarksburg, Virginia, where he was engaged in the fulling mill business and sheared and fulled cloth of the homespun variety of goods, then in common use. He also had a grist mill on Sycamore creek which was an old landmark in that section of the country for many years. He died in 1859, aged eighty-four years. He married and reared a family, among whom was John W., of whom further.
(II) Captain John W. Young, son of John T. Young, was born on Sycamore creek, Harrison county, Virginia, in 1828, died in 1864. He was a soldier in the confederate army, under Jackson, was com- missioned captain, and was wounded at Droop Mountain in 1864; he
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died from the effects of the wound and was buried from the church at Lewisburg. He married Dorothy Cowell, a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania, who came to the state of Virginia with her parents. She died in 1904, at the age of seventy-three years. Children: Sarah E., died 1892; Ralph W., of whom further; Mathias, living at Green- wood, a merchant by occupation; Euphemia, unmarried, lives at Green- wood; Edward T., lives in Salem; Catherine H., lives at Greenwood, unmarried; John, a cabinet-maker and carpenter, lives with two unmar- ried children of the family above named. Mathias Cowell, father of Mrs. John W. Young, was born in Pennsylvania, went to Harrison county, Virginia, after his marriage and there followed farming the remainder of his active days, on Sycamore creek; he died at the age of eighty years in Ritchie county.
(III) Ralph W., son of Captain John W. and Dorothy (Cowell) Young, was born December 15, 1853, on his father's farm in Harrison county, Virginia. He attended Cherry Camp school under Dr. D. C. Louchery, and worked on his father's farm until sixteen years old, then clerked in the store of D. W. Boggess, of Cherry Camp, for eight years. Having thus well fitted himself for merchandising, by working for others, he purchased an interest in a general merchandise store in Salem in 1881, in company with his father-in-law, D. W. Boggess, and in 1883 bought the entire stock. He was successful until the year 1901, when his store was entirely burned, after which he went into the timber business in Randolph county. He has made a success of his business career and is now practically retired. He is a director and stockholder in the First National Bank, having served ever since the organization of the bank. In politics he is a Democrat; he has taken considerable interest in educational matters in his county; has served as member of the board of education for Salem independent district for twenty years, except a period of three years. He has numerous valuable town lots in Salem, and is in comfortable financial circumstances, all through his own business sagacity. He is much interested in Free Masonry; be- longs to Salem Lodge, No. 84, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, also is affiliated with the Chapter and Commandery in Clarksburg, as well as the Shriners at Wheeling. He belongs to the Methodist Epis- copal church.
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He married, September 26, 1882, at Bristol, Harrison county, Clara Emma Boggess, born at Bristol, September 26, 1861, died in 1898, daughter of D. W. Boggess, who died in 1895, and his wife, Sarah (Hardin) Boggess, who died in 1904. Children: Bertha B., now Mrs. Dr. F. R. Dew, of Salem; Boggess, died in infancy; John Paul, unmarried, a dentist at Salem; Edward Stanley, engaged in the automobile business; Chester, died in infancy; Ralph Cecil, a book- keeper in the First National Bank at Salem. The children all reside at home with their father.
This is a family of true Scotch ancestry, the first McGREGOR member of which, John McGregor, emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife in 1812, locat- ing in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(II) William, son of John McGregor, the Scotch emigrant, was born in Philadelphia in 1818, died January 29, 1904, in Salem, West Virginia. At the age of six months, he was removed with his father's family to Ritchie county, West Virginia, according to present state geography. Here he opened up the homestead now so well known to the family and the community at large as the old McGregor farm. He was an industrious farmer his entire active life. He held to the faith of his fathers and belonged to the Presbyterian church. Politically he voted the Republican ticket. He married Elizabeth Hall, born in Doddridge county, West Virginia, 1825, and died May 3, 1910. Chil- dren : Harland Page; Virginia, Mrs. Cottrell, died in 1906; Anna, Mrs. Carroll, living in Fairmont; Samuel Homer, a minister, died in 1884; William Burns, living at Fairmont; Rosa, Mrs. Furbee, of Tyler county, West Virginia; Winfield Scott, a hardware merchant of Cairo, West Virginia; Mary, Mrs. Chestnut, of Bremen, Ohio; and James Clyde, of whom further; John Bosler, living in Pennsborough, who was the fourth child in the family.
(III) James Clyde, son of William and Elizabeth (Hall) Mc- Gregor, was born August 12, 1866, in Ritchie county, West Virginia, on his father's farm, the old McGregor homestead. This is still owned by the grandson, James C., and other heirs, it having been in the fam- ily since 1818 when the grandfather purchased it. Of his grandparents Mr. McGregor knew but little, aside from the fact that his maternal
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grandfather, Samuel Hall, was a millwright, born in Harrison county, Virginia, and also followed school teaching. He died, aged forty years, in Indiana. James Clyde McGregor received his education at the local public schools in Ritchie county, West Virginia, and began as a travel- ing salesman for James F. Barnes & Company, Wheeling, dealers in queensware. He commenced at this when twenty-one years old, before which time he assisted his father on the farm. He continued on the road as a salesman for five years, covering West Virginia entirely. He next embarked in a general store enterprise at Hebron, Pleasants county, West Virginia, and in company with his brother, W. B. Mc- Gregor, conducted it three years. Going back to the farm, he remained a tiller of the soil for five years, going to Salem, January 1, 1901, to start a general store, also carrying feed. The business he continued for five years and in 1907 he was joined by L. E. Williams to conduct it four years longer. October 20, 1911, he purchased his present ex- tensive department store known as the "Salem Department Store"; J. C. McGregor and James Chestnut are its proprietors. Here four active clerks and the owners care for a large increasing trade. The present stock is worth fully $15,000. Mr. McGregor votes the Pro- hibition ticket, believing that this issue is paramount to all others polit- ically. He is connected with the Masonic fraternity and is a member of the Presbyterian church.
He married in Ritchie county, West Virginia, April 10, 1895, Flora Mckinney, a native of Ritchie county, born October 3, 1866, daughter of Joseph M. Mckinney, living in Tyler county, this state, a retired farmer, aged seventy-four years in 1912. The mother of Mrs. Mc- Gregor is Margaret (Carlin) Mckinney, now aged seventy-two years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. McGregor are : Lelia, born July 1, 1896, now attending Salem high school; Harold E., born April 22, 1898, in school.
HAYMOND The Haymond family is an old and honorable one in this country, as well as in England, whence the family originally emigrated. Several members set- tled in Monongalia and Harrison counties, Virginia, as early as 1773, two years prior to the "Lexington Alarm," the forerunner of the great revolution which resulted in giving this nation its independence. This
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narrative of the West Virginia branch of the family will treat only of the generations to which belong the two Daniel Floyds and Dr. Hall Herbert Haymond, of Salem, West Virginia. Other sketches of the family appear elsewhere in this work on West Virginia genealogy.
(I) Daniel Floyd Haymond was born in Virginia, and served in the war of 1812. He lived to a ripe old age at Mole Hill, Ritchie county, where he spent his days as a farmer and stock raiser. He married and had among other sons and daughters, a son named for him, Daniel Floyd.
(II) Daniel Floyd (2), son of Daniel Floyd (1) Haymond, was born in 1848, at Mole Hill, Ritchie county, Virginia, now West Vir- ginia, and died at Harrisville, West Virginia, in 1893, aged forty-five years. He was a merchant and was elected sheriff for Ritchie county on the Republican ticket; and was serving as sheriff at the time of his death. In church relation he was of the United Brethren church. He married Laura Anna, daughter of George Ford, born in Doddridge county, West Virginia, now living at the home of her son, Hall Her- bert Haymond, at Salem, aged fifty-seven years. George Ford lived and died at Garwin, Iowa; he was a farmer. After the death of Mr. Hay- mond, his widow married, in 1904, John Webster Williams Sr., who was killed by a train in October, 1911. Children, now living: Homer Clyde, born 1876, an oil inspector in Detroit, Michigan; Price Law- rence, born 1878, assistant cashier of a bank, at Bowling Green, Vir- ginia; Ada Minnie, born 1883, wife of George Harrington, lives in Texas where her husband is in the oil business; Nellie, born 1885, wife of R. T. Smith, lives at Jackson, Michigan, from which city her hus- band travels for an oil company; Hall Herbert, of whom further; Floyda Helen, born 1891, lives at home. Children deceased: Guy, died aged thirteen years in 1898; Hattie, died aged eight years in 1884.
(III) Hall Herbert Haymond, D. D. S., son of Daniel Floyd (2) and Laura Anna (Ford) Haymond, was born at Harrisville, Ritchie county, West Virginia, September 11, 1886. He attended first the Harrisville schools. The family removed to Salem in 1900 and he graduated from the Salem high school, May 1, 1906. After leaving the schoolroom young Haymond entered the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, as a telegraph operator at Clarksburg.
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Two years after that he, in 1908, entered the dental department of the Baltimore Medical College. Graduating from the same on June I, 19II, he immediately located at Salem in the dental business. In July, 1911, his offices were located in the Merchants and Producers Bank building, and thoroughly equipped to practice dentistry after the most improved and advanced stages of the profession. Politically the doctor is in general sympathy with the Democratic party. He belongs to the Order of Railway Telegraphers and was president of the college Greek letter fraternity, Xi Psi Phi, during his senior year at college. He be- longs to the Baptist church and is unmarried.
ATCHISON Singleman Atchison, the first known member of this family, was born in Pennsylvania in 1835; but has resided in Weston, West Virginia, the greater part of his long life of seventy-seven years. Before his retirement he was an architect. He married Julia Marsh, born in Louisville, Kentucky, and died about 1892. Their children were: Cora Marsh, born 1866, living with her brother, Herbert W., and unmarried; Gertrude, born 1872, now wife of William E. Ruthrauff, living in Georgia; Emma, born 1875, now wife of O. F. Hunter, living in Washington, D. C .; Gordon, died in infancy; Herbert Wood, of whom presently.
(II) Herbert Wood Atchison, D. D. S., son of Singleman and Julia (Marsh) Atchison, was born in western Lewis county, West Vir- ginia, September 26, 1885. He was educated at the common schools of Weston; after which school life he entered Broadus College, and from there went to the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, where he graduated in dentistry in June, 1908. Immediately he went to Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he has been ever since in the practice of dentistry, with offices in the Lounds building. He belongs to that class of young professional men who have had the advantages of our modern schooling and has fitted himself for his useful profession. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the order of Elks. In church relations he is of the Episcopalian denomination. The doctor is un- married.
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For a man to have settled in Western Virginia in 1780 NUTTER made him a pioneer of pioneers. Such was the distinc- tion of the ancestor of the present Nutter family of this state. Getting back into revolutionary days, and before is to glean many interesting features of the Nutter family in this country, as well as to trace the line of descent in the families with which this one has intermarried during the last one and a third centuries. It will be ob- served that the Christian name Mathew is found all along down the line in this family, three generations having had such a name among the branches who have resided in Harrison county, Virginia, now within the territory styled West Virginia.
(I) Mathew Nutter came from the east about 1780 and located with his family in what is now Harrison county, West Virginia. He was a farmer and a sturdy pioneer home-builder in a wilderness land, where but few white men and women had ever settled when he arrived, with a determination to do and to dare. He married a Miss Goodwin, and among their children was Mathew, see forward.
(II) Mathew (2), son of Mathew (I) Nutter, was born in Harrison county, Virginia, in 1786, died in 1861, during the civil war. By occupation he was a farmer. But little is known by his descendants of his life, which was perhaps in keeping with the majority of men in his day and generation, who passed through many perplexities in caring for their families at a time when there were no rapid transit methods of conveying products of the soil to and from markets and when people had not many of the luxuries of life. He married Affa Webb. Chil- dren : Betsey, married John Ross; William W .; Mathew H., of whom further; Levi C .; Alvina, married Cornelius Lawson; Maggie, mar- ried Abner Lawson; Jane, married Benjamin Stout.
(III) Mathew H., son of Mathew (2) and Affa (Webb) Nutter, was born in Harrison county in 1824, died June 29, 1873. He made agriculture his vocation throughout life's active years, rearing his family to become useful and true citizens of their commonwealth. In his politics Mr. Nutter was a Democrat, and in his religious faith he was a Methodist. He married Julia, daughter of Thomas McDonald, of Bath county, Virginia, who died in 1868, aged eighty years; he re- moved to Harrison county, Virginia, in 1846; he married Nancy Steward, whose father served in the revolutionary war, as did her hus-
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band's father who received wounds at the hands of the British soldiers. The children born to Mathew H. and Julia (McDonald) Nutter were: Rebecca J., married Frank Wolf; Emma D., died in childhood; Nancy E .; Affa V., married William Smith; Martha, married Clark Roy, she is deceased; Mathew L., married Myrtle Cofindaffer; Thomas Levi, of whom further.
(IV) Thomas Levi, son of Mathew H. and Julia (McDonald) Nutter, was born at Grassland, Harrison county, West Virginia, Sep- tember 30, 1872. He obtained a good education by attending the local public schools of his home district, at the Normal School at Fairmont, and under private instructions of Professor Overfield, of Columbia College. Having determined to become a physician he studied medi- cine under his uncle, Dr. McDonald, commencing at the age of seven- teen years. At the age of twenty-three years he entered Louisville Medical College, graduating in 1898. He then located as a physician at Enterprise, West Virginia, as physician for the coal company at that point. He remained there thus employed for eight years, and in 1906 took a post-graduate course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, and April 1, 1907, located in Clarksburg where he is enjoying a good general practice. He is also interested in the growth and development of Clarksburg and has large real estate interests. He is also interested as owner and stockholder in several other interests, including coal lands and real estate in Washington, D. C., and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has erected a house dur- ing every month since his residence in Clarksburg, which is probably one of the greatest records in the state. He is also president of the Clarksburg & Philippi Traction Company. Dr. Nutter is a Democrat. He belongs to the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Maccabees, Elks and Wood- men lodges, and is a member of the Methodist church (South). He is a linguist, speaking three languages fluently, in addition to his native one.
He married, August 9, 1896, at Grassland, Harrison county, West Virginia, Hattie Virginia Hornor, born September 1, 1874, daughter of Squire James Hornor, retired farmer at Grassland; he is now seven- ty-three years of age (1912). The mother, Viola (Lang) Hornor, was a native of Harrison county, and is now sixty-nine years of age. The only child born to Dr. Nutter and wife is one daughter, Merritt Vir- ginia, born March 18, 1899.
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HOLDEN
(I) Minter Johnson Holden was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, March 21, 1844, and is now a mer- chant doing business at Bristol, Harrison county, with
his eldest son. He received a common school education, and married Mary F. Harbert, born in 1847. Children: Arden J., Hattie L., Grace, Estella, Hezekiah J., and Wilson Browning.
(II) Wilson Browning, son of Minter Johnson and Mary F. (Harbert) Holden, was born January 17, 1881, at Flinderation Run, five miles northeast of Salem, on his father's farm, long years known as the Holden homestead. He acquired his education at the rural schools of his neighborhood, where he was reared and spent his youth- ful days. He aided his father in his labors on the farm until nineteen years of age, when he took a course at the Clarksburg Commercial College. In February, 1905, he accepted a position as bookkeeper with the Merchants and Producers Bank at Salem. In 1908 he became cashier, which place he still holds acceptably to all interested. In poli- tics, he is a Democrat, but supports the best men for local offices. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and in church relations he is of the Baptist faith.
He was united in marriage, at Clarksburg, Harrison county, Sep- tember 22, 1909, to Nina Lee Fittro, born September 20, 1887. Mrs. Holden is the daughter of Noah and Josephine (Brooks) Fittro, both now deceased. Mr. Fittro served for many years as policeman at Grafton, West Virginia, where the family resided at the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Holden have one child: Wilson Browning Jr., born June 11, 1910.
LANGFITT Of this family, to which Dr. Frank V. Langfitt, of Salem, Harrison county, belongs, four generations will be noticed here in a genealogical way.
(I) William Langfitt, the grandfather, was a native of one of the counties of Virginia, which is now within West Virginia territory. He was a successful farmer and died in Harrison county, at the age of sixty-five years. He married and had a son Valentine, of whom fur- ther mention is made.
(II) Valentine, son of William Langfitt, was born in Brooke county, Virginia, February 14, 1833, and died in 1904, aged seventy-one years.
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He spent his life on a farm, near Morgansville, where he died. He was a Democrat in politics and served two terms as member of the state legislature. He married Caroline Davis, born in Harrison county, this state, who now lives at West Union, aged seventy-five years. Will- iam Davis, the father of Mrs. Valentine Langfitt, was a native of West Virginia, and followed farming on Flint Run, where he died January 21, 1865, aged seventy-four years. Children : Elizabeth, wife of Lewis Bond, deceased January 13, 1891 ; Silas W., born 1861, cashier of the bank at West Union; Belle, born 1862, now Mrs. M. A. Summers, re- siding at Parkersburg; Columbia, deceased August 30, 1889, married James Jones; Ila M., deceased April 7, 1892, married J. E. Trainor, present sheriff of Doddridge county; John H., born 1867, living at West Union, and assistant cashier in the bank; Samuel E., born 1869, a dentist at Huntington, West Virginia; W. Creed, born 1871, a hard- ware merchant at Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Effie M., deceased September 16, 1903, aged thirty years; Bruce B., born 1874, is a mer- chant at Jacksonsburg, West Virginia; Mona G., born 1875, wife of Dr. C. L. Parks, of Middlebourne, West Virginia; Dr. Frank V., of whom further.
(III) Frank Valentine Langfitt, M. D., youngest child of Valen- tine and Caroline (Davis) Langfitt, was born at Morgansville, Dodd- ridge county, West Virginia, March 24, 1883. He attended the local public schools and later went to Salem College. Then he entered the school at Buckhannon, and from that place entered the West Virginia State University. Having well prepared himself for the professional life he was to lead, he entered Baltimore (Maryland) Medical College, in 1903, and graduated in 1907. He was appointed resident physician at the Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore, and was there one year. In the autumn of 1908, he went to Salem and commenced to build up the fine medical practice which he now owns. The doctor is giving much attention to surgery, although his practice is general. He belongs to the Baptist church; is politically a Democrat. He is con- nected with the Blue Lodge and Eastern Star degrees in Free Masonry; also holds membership with the college fraternity, Delta Mu; and is a member of the Harrison County Medical, State Medical and the Amer- ican Medical Associations. He is unmarried.
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DAVIS Originally this family came from Wales; the Welsh an- cestor, Jesse Davis, a farmer, lived and died at Lost Creek, Virginia. In his family of children was a son, Edgar S.
(II) Edgar S., son of the immigrant ancestor, Jesse Davis, was born at Lost Creek, Harrison county, this state, in 1842, died at Salem, January 12, 1905, aged sixty-three years. He was a farmer and merchant at Lost Creek and also operated a broom factory at Salem. Politically he was a Democrat, and in his church faith was a Seventh Day Baptist. He married Jane Mearns, now residing in Shinnston with Mrs. Stella Thompson, aged sixty-five years. Mrs. Davis was the daughter of Andrew and Melinda Mearns. He has been deceased many years, and his wife, living at Lost Creek, is now ( 1911) aged over ninety years. Children: Genevieve, deceased; Stella, wife of Cyrus Thompson, of Shinnston; Ernest O., of Salem, a merchant; Earl William, of whom further.
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