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Mrs. E. B. Robinson, lives on a farm near Salem, her husband being superintendent of several oil companies; Clayton M., resides in Salem, engaged in the business of drilling oil wells; Dorsey C., serving his third term in the volunteer cavalry of the United States, enlisted last time during the Mexican outbreak in 1911.
STEEL This is an old Pennsylvania family that resided in and near the city of Philadelphia in the eighteenth century, at least. It has furnished many good citizens in the Key- stone and adjoining states. Some have served their country in the various wars; some have been captains in the industrial world and others have been tillers of the soil, with now and then one entering the professions.
(I) James Steel was born in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died at Clarksburg, West Virginia, suddenly in 1840 of cholera. He with his children went to the vicinity of Clarksburg be- fore the construction of the railroad and purchased a thousand acres of land, where now rests the famous oil, gas and coal fields of West Vir- ginia, but by reason of a defective title they lost their possessions. James Steel was a practical, active miller throughout his years, in fact, the family are noted for having many members engaged in the flour milling business. He married, and among their children was Samuel R., see forward.
(II) Samuel R., son of James Steel, was born in 1820, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, died July 16, 1901. He followed milling throughout his active years, and when advancing to old age retired from active pursuits. He was mayor of Clarksburg, elected to that office four terms in succession. He was also a commissioner of the county court, which was then equivalent to a judgeship. He served in the fifth army corps during the civil war as chief of the commissary de- partment, being in the Army of the Potomac in the Union army. His rank was major, but he was familiarly known at home as "Captain" Steel. He was in the service throughout the entire struggle. He was a highly respected citizen. He married Margaret Fittro, who still lives and resides with her son at Clarksburg, in her eighty-second year. They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom are living at this date (1912). They were: Edwin D .; Lloyd, see forward; Sam-
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uel C., in Cincinnati, Ohio; Charles L., at Philippi; William, in the mill at Clarksburg; Harry, deceased; Alice Sonora, deceased; Anna Winslow, deceased; Nellie Virginia, residing in Washington, D. C .; Margaret, widow of Thomas T. Wallace, she resides in Asheville, North Carolina.
(III) Lloyd, son of Samuel R. and Margaret (Fittro) Steel, was born in the city of Clarksburg, West Virginia, January 3, 1858. His education was received at the public schools of his native town and county. When old enough he became his father's engineer in the flour- ing mills at Clarksburg, which place he filled ten years. At the end of that period, his father having leased a mill in the Shenandoah Val- ley, the son went there to assist in operating the same. He remained a year and returned to Clarksburg, and then rented the limestone mills at Adamson for one year. He learned the trade of miller with his uncle in Edwards county, Illinois, after which he ran a mill a short time in Webster, Taylor county, West Virginia. He returned to Clarksburg in 1886 and operated the mill in which he is still located for J. E. Staley & Company for one year. He then took charge of the Lounds & Courtney milling plant and conducted it ten years, and in 1898 he and his brother purchased the present Anchor Mills. They remodeled the same, putting in a full process of new flour-making machinery. Here he has been successfully located ever since, the firm now being Lloyd Steel Brothers; they manufacture full roller process flour, corn meal, feed and deal in wheat, corn and oats. He and his brothers are stock- holders in the Union National Bank at Clarksburg. He is a member of a fraternal insurance order; belongs to the Christian church and is fully alive to the interests of his home city. He votes the Republican ticket.
He married, March 7, 1901, Bertha Ogden, born at Independence, Preston county West Virginia, in 1880. Her father, Albert Ogden, died when she was a mere child, killed while at work in the mines at Newburg. Her mother was Florence (Fortney) Ogden, a native of Shinnston, Harrison county, West Virginia, and is still living in Cincin- nati, Ohio. She married for her second husband Harry Chromister, a well-known politician of Cincinnati. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Steel are: Samuel R., born January 17, 1902; Margaret, born September 9, 1903; Lloyd Jr., born December 23, 1904; Katherine, born April 4, 1905; Richard, born April 29, 191I.
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Patrick Glancy, grandfather of Patrick John Glancy, GLANCY now of the city of Clarksburg, was a native of the county of Roscommon, Ireland, where he became a tenant farmer. He married Catharine Toolin, and among their chil- dren was a son Michael, of whom further.
(II) Michael, son of Patrick Glancy, was born in the vicinity of the town of Elphin, Ireland, in 1825. He came to America in 1853, his wife following two years later. A child died while on the ocean. At first Mr. Glancy found employment on the railroad near Albany, New York, and before the arrival of his wife located in Virginia, in which state he subsequently became a tenant farmer of some promi- nence. He was the first man to assist in unloading railroad rails on the Clarksburg division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and dur- ing war times was engaged in railroading; after that he engaged in farming for some nine years in the vicinity of Wolf Summit and Bridge- port, all in Harrison county. The remainder of his life was spent in Clarksburg. He died aged seventy-two years. He voted the Demo- cratic ticket, and in his church faith he was of the Catholic denomina- tion. He married Mary Dolan, born in Roscommon county, Ireland, a sister of Patrick and Thomas Dolan, old settlers of Clarksburg, West Virginia. She died November 20, 1909, aged eighty-one years. Chil- dren : Patrick John, Bridget, Margaret J., Mary A., became the wife of Thomas Stanley; Catherine, wife of Patrick Greaney.
(III) Patrick John, son of Michael Glancy, was born at Grafton, Taylor county, West Virginia, March 1, 1856. He attended the com- mon schools of Harrison county, to which location he moved with his father when but six months old. When eighteen years of age young Glancy went to Clarksburg with the family and there he conducted a retail grocery store on Main street, which stock his father had pur- chased. He continued a merchant for fifteen years, and then removed to his thoroughly up-to-date storerooms at the corner of Fourth and Pike streets, which was the old Strother-Prim tavern originally, and was an old-time landmark in Clarksburg. Mr. Glancy is a stock- holder in the two banks of Clarksburg, and has other property inter- ests. He votes the Independent ticket, and in his religious faith is of the Catholic church. He is a member of the Knights of St. John,
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Ancient Order of Hibernians. He married, at Clarksburg, September 8, 1909, Alice Cook, a native of Newburg, Preston county, West Vir- ginia, born April, 1879, daughter of Thomas Cook, who died in 1882. He was a miner, of English descent, and his widow still resides at Newburg.
CARTER
This family has many illustrious men and women con- nected with its history, some of whom held places of
trust and great responsibility in the days that tried men's souls when the foundation stones of this republic were being laid for the good of future generations.
(I) The Right Hon. Thomas Carter, the American ancestor of this family, was master of rolls of Ireland and was killed during the revolutionary war.
(II) Robert, son of Thomas Carter, was born during the struggle for national independence. Nothing is known of his personal history other than that he married and had a son named David, of whom further.
(III) David, son of Robert Carter, was probably born in Old Virginia, for he emigrated from Richmond, Virginia, to what is now within West Virginia. He was born in 1818. By occupation he was a farmer, and was the owner of two thousand seven hundred acres of land on Indian Run, Harrison county, West Virginia. He married Mellison Maxwell; children: Robert Marion, of whom further; Rob- ert, James, Mary, Elizabeth and Julia Ann.
(IV) Robert Marion, son of David and Mellison (Maxwell) Carter, was born in 1856 on a farm about two miles above Marshville, in Harrison county, West Virginia, where he now resides. He is the owner of a good farm. He is, however, engaged in other pursuits, being a stockholder in the Merchants' and Producers' Bank of Salem. He is a member in the Odd Fellows fraternity, and votes the Demo- cratic ticket. He married Mary Rebecca Ritter, a native of Louis- ville, Kentucky, born in 1860. Children : One died in infancy; David J., of whom further; Marietta, Albert Fleming, Ollie Mellison, John H., James.
(V) David J., son of Robert Marion and Mary Rebecca ( Ritter) Carter, was born August 19, 1879, in Harrison county, West Virginia.
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He received a good common school training, later attended Salem Col- lege and from that school went to the State Normal School at Fair- mont. He then studied law in the West Virginia University and was admitted to the bar in March, 1906, immediately beginning the prac- tice of his profession at Clarksburg. He is interested in several enter- prises. He is a Democrat, but is, however, an independent voter. He holds membership with the Elks lodge at Clarksburg, and is a member of Harrison County Association. He married October 19, 1910, Blanche Opal Hardesty, born May 23, 1885, daughter of Rob- ert R. Hardesty, of Shinnston.
DAVIS (I) John Davis, who settled in Virginia four generations ago, was of that good substantial Welsh stock that con- tributed so much physical hardiness and energy to the American type. It was to men of his stamp, men of brawn as well as men of brain, that the new world with its hardships and its hard-won freedom appealed a few generations ago. They brought what the young country needed of pioneer pluck and force of body, mind and character upon which to raise the American commonwealth. His an- cestors were people of worth, the records saying that they were men of solid character, intellectual and of high reputation. John Davis married a young Englishwoman and their son was named William.
(II) William, son of John Davis, was born in Prince William county, Virginia. He was a farmer in that portion of Virginia that attracted the early settlers by the apparently inexhaustible fertility of the soil. Here and there, through Prince William and adjoining coun- ties, remain belts of that original timber whose growth attests the rich- ness of the soil and the wisdom of those making their homes in that re- gion. William Davis married, in 1789, Jane Bromley, and they had nine children: William Mortimer, mentioned below; Peyton, John, Isaac F., Jane, Mary, Margaret, Susan, Amanda.
(III) Rev. William Mortimer Davis, the son of William Davis, was born August 31, 1846, in Loudoun county, Virginia. He has been for forty years a minister of the Baptist church. He has always taken a large-hearted interest in public affairs, especially of an educa- tional character, serving as county superintendent of schools in Grant and Hardy counties, West Virginia. As editor he has had charge of
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the South Branch Gazette, West Virginia. His pastorate is at Prunty- town, West Virginia, and he also preaches in adjoining places. Mr. Davis married Margaret A. Wyckoff, born May 18, 1850, in Loudoun county, Virginia, died March 27, 1911, daughter of and Louisa Catherine (McPherson) Wyckoff. The Wyckoff family had come from Germany at an early date. They were people of sterling worth and probity, and their descendants are now widely scattered over the Union. Mrs. Louisa Catherine (McPherson) Wyckoff was the daughter of William and Sarah McPherson, of Scotch-Irish de- scent. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Davis were: Ella Prudence, born February 15, 1873; Minnie Blanche, October 18, 1874; War- ren Maynard, mentioned below; Guy Wyckoff, November 27, 1881; Cornelius Carter, mentioned below; John Raymond, August 26, 1886; Joseph Harper, March 10, 1890; William Mortimer, September 18, 1892.
(IV) Warren Maynard, eldest son of the Rev. William Morti- mer and Margaret (Wyckoff) Davis, was born February 14, 1879, at Petersburg, West Virginia. His early education was acquired at the Bridgeport high school, but later he went to the University of West Virginia. After a course in that institution he decided to devote his life to the practice of medicine and entered the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, graduating from it in due time. In early life Mr. Davis worked on a farm, gaining those invaluable lessons of in- itiative and industry thus so frequently acquired, even if reluctantly. Later his inclinations drew him toward teaching and he held for a time a position in the public schools of the neighborhood. Through his devotion to medical practice he has become prominent as a physician and surgeon in Bridgeport, West Virginia. In politics, like all the men of his family before him, he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Bridgeport, the Knights of Pythias and the Order of the Eastern Star of Bridgeport. He is also connected with the Bridgeport Bank. He is a member of the Simpson Creek Baptist church.
Warren M. Davis married, October 11, 1911, Josie Laurine, daughter of Abner S. and Mary (Castilow) Stout. Abner S. Stout was a farmer of Harrison county, West Virginia, and had seven chil-
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dren : Strawther, Cletus, Etta, Byrdie, Bertha, Josie, who married Mr. Davis; Dora. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have no children.
(IV) Cornelius Carter, third son of the Rev. William Mortimer and Margaret (Wyckoff) Davis, was born at Petersburg, West Vir- ginia, January 26, 1884. He was educated at the local schools; then entered the State Normal School at Fairmont, and the same type of school at Huntington, West Virginia; going from these to the Uni- versity of West Virginia. Later he matriculated at Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, and graduated from that famous old institution in 1909 with the degree of LL.B. He then entered the practice of law in the city of Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he has met with success and has an important practice. His offices are in the Goff Building. Politically Mr. Davis is a Democrat. He is a member of the Masonic order; in church affiliations he is a Baptist.
Thomas Williams, the earliest known member of
WILLIAMS this family, originally lived in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and followed agricultural pur- suits. Later members of the family have entered the legal profes- sion and held important county offices.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Williams, was born in Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, in 1840, died February 17, 1910. He made farming his life work and was also a soldier in the Union army during the civil war. Politically Samuel Williams was a Republican, and in religious faith of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. He married Jemimah Martin, a native of West Virginia, still living at the age of fifty-four years. Children : Homer Willis, of whom further; Ernest G., Alfred T., John E. and Joe D. Three of the sons are prosperous farmers.
(III) Homer Willis, oldest child of Samuel and Jemimah (Mar- tin) Williams, was born October 18, 1876, in Harrison county, where his parents moved in 1852. He was reared on his father's farm and assisted in the work, attending public schools in his neighborhood. Later he entered Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, West Virginia, graduating in 1899; then went to Morgantown to enter the State Uni- versity and take a course in law, graduating in 1901. He immediately located in his chosen profession at Clarksburg. He was elected soon iii-2M
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after as clerk of the circuit court, beginning his duties January 1, 1903, and serving until January 1, 1909, when he resumed law practice. His present offices are situated in the Williams Building, erected by Mr. Williams in 1908. He is a director in the Home Bank for Savings at Clarksburg; has numerous financial interests, including that of stock in various local corporations; and is a director in the Home Gas Company, of which he is secretary. In 1911 he erected a fine residence at No. 673 Mulberry street, Clarksburg, where he now resides. Politically Mr. Williams is a Republican. Since 1908 he has served as chairman of his county for this party. He is a Free Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Williams married, May 12, 1909, Pansee Ramage, born Feb- ruary 19, 1888, in Fairmont, West Virginia. Her father, Benjamin Franklin Ramage, is an attorney at Fairmont, whose wife was, before her marriage, Allie Hefner. They were both natives of Harrison county, West Virginia, but removed to Fairmont in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have one child, Roger, born November 1, 1910.
HAYNES Exclusively German in its origin this family of Haynes has preserved its original orthography pure and un- changed through the long line of ancestry in Germany. Only two others, besides the German botanist, Frederich Gottlob Hayne, 1763-1832, have not added the final "s," making the name "Haynes," instead of Hayne-these two were Isaac Hayne, a revolu- tionary officer, 1745-1781, and Robert Young Hayne, the American statesman and orator, of 1790-1840.
(I) Isaac Hayne was the father of seven sons who were soldiers in the war for independence. Just who preceded him in this country, and what Hayne was the original German ancestor here the records are silent in the oblivion of colonial days, when men fought instead of preserving records of their daring deeds.
(II) William Haynes, progenitor of the Monroe branch, emerged from the revolution with an additional "s" to his name, and right here it is best to mention some things concerning his brothers: Charles is really without history except the one item of his marriage, November 24, 1781, with Mary Dixon, of Greenbrier. Benjamin belonged to General Morgan's legion of riflemen, and by tradition is recalled as a
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hardy, stout young man. After the revolution he lived and died on Jackson's river, about nine miles below Covington, Virginia. Joseph also lived and died on Jackson's river. April 5, 1782, he married Barbara Riffe, of Greenbrier. The late Major Haynes, who lived near Oakland, in Alleghany county, was a son, and Colonel Charles Haynes, of the "Stonewall Brigade," who died a few years ago, was a grandson of Joseph Haynes. Moses settled in Tennessee at an early day, but nothing of his later history is now known.
Returning now to William Haynes, it may be stated that he was born December 18, 1763, settled in Monroe county (then Greenbrier), on a farm lying between "Gap Mills" and the Sweet Springs. He mar- ried Catherine Shanklin, of Botetourt county, Virginia. About 1795 Mr. Haynes removed to another farm (now Robert McNutt's) at the foot of Little Mountain, near Gap Mills. At this point he farmed until his death, May 1, 1819. Here, too, his wife died in June, 1812. In early life Mr. Haynes was a merchant. He was a prominent citizen of Monroe county. His entire family, four sons and one daughter, were all well educated at Lewisburg Academy. The daughter, Agnes D., was born April 2, 1797, married, in 1819, Michael Erskine, of Monroe; she later removed with her family to Texas, where she died.
(III) James Madison, son of William and Catherine (Shanklin) Haynes, was born February 17, 1794. For many years Mr. Haynes was a magistrate of Monroe county; frequently commissioner of the county court; was appointed as an arbitrator in estate and will cases. He followed farming and declined to be sent to the Virginia legislature. In the autumn of 1840 he removed to Greenbrier river, five miles below Alderson, where, after years of intense suffering from inflam- matory rheumatism, he died January 4, 1858. He married, September 21, 1821, Isabelle Dunlap. They had six children, who grew to man- hood and womanhood, among whom were : 1. Captain William Haynes, of Summers, held many offices of trust, both before and after the civil war, having been a member of the West Virginia convention in 1871 to revise the constitution. 2. Alexander D., a successful merchant at Red Sulphur; represented his county in the legislature in 1856; died November 14, 1857. 3. Robert P., was a major of the militia before the war, but entered the regular service of the Confederate army in the Twenty-sixth Battalion of Virginia Infantry; he was captured at
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Cold Harbor, and a few days after the battle was killed by a railroad wreck, July 16, 1864, while on his way to Elmira, New York, as a prisoner of war. 4. James, of whom further.
(IV) Rev. James Haynes, son of James Madison and Isabelle (Dunlap) Haynes, was born August 16, 1833, died April 25, 1900. He entered Washington College, 1855, graduated in 1859; entered Union Theological Seminary in 1859, graduated in 1862. He was licensed the same year at Muddy Creek and ordained in the Lewis- burg Presbyterian church, 1863. After preaching one year at An- thony's Creek, he entered the Confederate army as chaplain in the spring of 1863, and continued as such until the close of the war. He preached at Muddy Creek from 1865 to 1870, when he was placed in charge of the evangelistic work in Fayette county for two years, making his home at Gauley Bridge. He was a faithful member of Greenbrier Presbytery. He married, May 22, 1862, Susan Elizabeth Shanklin, born December 13, 1841, died November 24, 1910, only child of Andrew Davidson and Rebecca (Thomas) Shanklin. Andrew Davidson Shanklin was of Monroe county, Virginia; a farmer ; voted the Democratic ticket, first the "old line Whig," and in church faith was a Presbyterian. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Haynes: James Madi- son, born November 5, 1863, died August 12, 1896; Davidson Shank- lin, born June 20, 1865; Robert Alexander, born July 22, 1867; Re- becca Isabella, born May 24, 1869; Agnes Catherine, born June 9, 1871; William Mitchell, born June 9, 1873, died August 12, 1908; Andrew Nelson, born July 26, 1874, died November 5, 1876; Mary Jane, born August 4, 1876; Herbert Hodge, born March 21, 1878; Susan Sims, born May 7, 1880; Aurelia Brown, born May 2, 1882; Ella Byrd, born July 21, 1884.
(V) Robert Alexander Haynes, M. D., son of Rev. James and Susan Elizabeth (Shanklin) Haynes, was born July 22, 1867, in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, near Alderson. He attended the public and private schools of Fayette county, and choosing the medical profession entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, graduating in April, 1896. He located at Weston, West Virginia, in May of that year, practicing until November 1, 1897, when he removed to Clarksburg, where he is still a practicing physician and surgeon. He is a stockholder in the West Virginia Bank and is
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one of its directors. He votes an independent Democratic ticket. He is president of the Harrison county Medical Society, belongs to the Masonic and Elk orders and his family are members of the Presby- terian church.
He married, October 14, 1896, at Weston, West Virginia, Hattie Gaylord, born November 28, 1873, in Weston, daughter of James and Harriet Arnold (Butcher) Gaylord. Mr. Gaylord was a mer- chant; he is now deceased. His children are: Lydia M., Charles Moore, died April 9, 1911; Etta Davisson, died aged six years at Weston; Frank Chalifant, William Arnold, Hattie (Mrs. Haynes). Children of Dr. and Mrs. Haynes: Aurelia Christine, born September 15, 1897, at Weston; Harriet Jean, born November 15, 1900, at Clarksburg, West Virginia.
SUPLER For many years this family resided in Greene and other counties within the state of Pennsylvania. Originally they came from England.
(I) John Supler, the first to locate in this country, settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, later moved to West Alexander, Greene county, Pennsylvania, where he died about ninety years of age. He was a farmer by occupation.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Supler, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania. He followed farming for his livelihood. He married and had children: William, of whom further; John, Isaac, Rachael, Elizabeth.
(III) William, son of John (2) Supler, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, died about 1870. He was a farmer in his native county. He was a Democrat in politics and in his religious belief a Methodist. He married Ann Gary, who is still living in Greene county, where she was born. She is now (1912) eighty years old. Children : James Buckhannon, of whom further; Jane, Nancy, Maggie, Elizabeth, Mary.
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