History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 101

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Jobn H. Gorby grew up on the old homestead in W. County, attended rural schools, the high school at Martinsville, and in 1902 graduated in the scientific normal courses from the West Virginia Conference S nary, now West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhan In the meantime at the age of eighteen he had begun to ing and for seven years was in rural school work in W County. Then followed his college work at Buckhannon three years and during 1902-04 he was a teacher in grammar schools at New Martinsville; was principal of West Side School at Grafton from 1904 to 1907, and the latter year was made superintendent of the New Mar ville schools. In fourteen years he has maintained a st. growing efficiency in public school work, and because of length of his service has had the pleasure of seeing n of his early plans mature and result in great benefit to entire school system of his district, which employs fifty teachers and has an enrollment of 1,500 pupils.

Mr. Gorby has constantly kept in touch with adva educational methods, attending summer schools at Virginia University and Wesleyan College. He has th B. degree from Wesleyan College. His own home modern residence at 714 Maple Avenue, New Martins' Mr. Gorby is superintendent of the Sunday School of Methodist Episcopal Church and is a member of the of board and chairman of the Finance Committee of the chi He is a worker in the County and State Teachers asse tions, and a member of the National Education Asse tion. He is affiliated with Wetzel Lodge No. 39, A and A. M. Mr. Gorby during the war devoted much of time to building up patriotic sentiment in the schools also took part in the loan and other campaigns throug the county. He was food administrator of the county, chairman of the Junior Red Cross of the county, an "Four-Minute" speaker. Mr. Gorby served as presi of the Wetzel County Farm Bureau from February, 10 until July, 1921, when he resigned.

In 1908 he married Miss Irene Bucher, daughter of and Mrs. Lewis Bucher, who live on a farm near Martinsville. Mrs. Gorby was a trained nurse.

CHARLES FREDERICK WIENEKE had an active associa" with the business and civie life of Moundsville for twh years, and in 1921 he entered upon his duties as mayo the city. His administration has been commended as of the most progressive municipal governments of the sta

Mr. Wieneke was born near Wheeling in Ohio Couy February 7, 1876, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Fis);) Wieneke. His father was a native of Bremen, Germy came to the United States when a young man, and has s' his active career in the dairy business. He married Es beth Fisher in Ohio County, where she was born, a daug a of Charles Fisher, a pioneer of Wheeling.

Charles F. Wieneke was reared and educated near WI !! ing, and at the age of twenty-one left home and on Oct 8, 1902, came to Moundsville as clerk in the Fostoria Ga Company. He was in the offices of that company six" years. During the past two years Mr. Wieneke has of ated a vulcanizing and tire repair shop, and has a prospe: business as a dealer in tires and automobile accessories.

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I ia a democrat in polities, and in April, 1921, was od mayor in a republican city, beginning his official uts on the first of May. His has been a non-partisan and Ment administration. He has surrounded himself with arble men handling the various departments of the mu- uality. Moundsville has a paid fire department of four « with suitable apparatus, the pressure being furnished y reservoir on the hill above the city at an elevation of tæt 200 feet. There is a police chief with three patrelmen, nethe general public utilities are operated by private eem- ups. Mr. Wieneke has kept city improvements moving Hard, including paving and sewer construction.

avor Wieneke is unmarried. He is a popular member the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd ws and is a member of the Calvary Methodist Episcopal ch.

VID C. LUTES, a leading undertaker and funeral director 1 a City of Moundsville, Marshall County, was born in the ·onan Ridge District of this county, October 13, 1859, a ow of William and Nancy (Jefferson) Lutes. William us passed his entire life in Marshall County and was a u er by vocation, as had also been his father, David Lutes, h was one of the early settlers in the Taylor's Ridge Dis- i of this county. William Lutes was eighty-two years f ge at the time of his death and his wife died at the goof eighty years. Of their children seven attained to ma- my: Isabel (Mrs. G. W. Carmichael) died at the age feventy-six years; Mary A. is the wife ef J. E. Fish and ne reside on a farm near the old Lutes homestead; Eliza- J. is the wife of R. G. Dakan, a merchant at Roseby to:, this county ; Amanda M. is the wife of Osear Yeaders, rehant near the old Lutes homestead farm, which is w'd by his wife; John J. owns and operates a part of the Icheme place; David C., of this sketch, was the next in rer of birth; and James I. is a retired merehant residing tslen Easton, this county.

xvid C. Lutes was reared on the home farm, received the d ntages of the publie schools of the locality and con- wed his association with farm enterprise for six years fr his marriage. He thereafter conducted for eleven es a general store at Rosebys Rock, and after disposing f his business, in 1902, he removed to Moundsville, the 01 ty seat, where he established and has sinee conducted a re ordered undertaking business, with the best of modern mities and equipment. In his store he has also developed osperous trade in the handling of wall paper and china- TE ·. He is a stalwart demoerat but has invariably refused o eeome a candidate for publie office.

t the age of nineteen years Mr. Lutes wedded Miss Aliee L'aylor, who likewise was born and reared in the Bowman Uge District of Marshall County. They have four ehil- rt: Charles Grover resides at MeMechen, Marshall 'city, and is in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- o. Company; Harry H. likewise resides at MeMechen; Ærence R. is associated with his father, in charge of the w2 paper and chinaware department of the business; "I ence A., who is the wife of J. Herbert Riggs, a traveling asman, lives at Moundsville, is a valued assistant in een- heion with her father's undertaking business, she having NEI the second woman in West Virginia to receive a license løn embalmer.

ĐWARD C. GRISELL was numbered among the representa- i' business men and most highly honored citizens ef M ndsville, Marshall County, at the time of his death, rl·h here occurred on the 3d of March, 1919. He was born Id. Jerusalem, Monroe County, Ohio, February 21, 1854, ur. was a son of Rev. Simeon Grisell, who was a minister if he Society of Friends and who came with his family to M shall County, West Virginia, and established his home at Rky Run. Here he continued his ministerial services a 'e years, and he then removed to Bartley, Nebraska, in wh state he became a pioneer and in which he remained ul hia death, when somewhat more than eighty years of 4 The lineage of the Grisell family traces back to stanch Fach origin, and it is interesting to record that one of ;} battles of the great World war was fought en Grisselle Vol. II-85

Ridge, the ancestral home of the family. Representatives of the name went from Franco to England, and thence came three brothers of the nnmo to America, one settling in Pennsylvania and two in Ohio.

Edward C. Grisell was n young man at the time of the family removal to Marshall County, his early education having been acquired in the schools of his native state, where he became n successful teacher in the rural schools of his native county and where also he learned the enr. penter's trade. In 1-79 he found employment in the grain- eradle factory of J. A. Schwob, ut Moundsville, West Vir. ginia, and after the death of Mr. Schwab he became a partner with the latter's two sons, J. W. and C. C., in con- tinuing the manufacturing business, under the title of J. A. Schwob Company. In 1591 an undertaking depart- ment was added to the business, and of this department Mr. Grisell had charge at the time when the factory was de- stroyed by fire, in August, 1910. He thereupon purchased the undertaking department, and sold his interest in the other part of the business. Under the title of Grisell & Son the undertaking enterprise has since been continued, the son having assumed full charge of the enterprise after the death of the honored father. Mr. Grisell was an earnest member of the First Methodist Church of Moundsville, as is also his widow; he was a member of the local lodge of Elks and in the Masonie fraternity had received Scottish Rite degrees, besides being a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was one of the prominent figures in the Masonie fra- ternity in West Virginia and had served as distriet deputy grand master and distriet deputy grand lecturer of the Masonic grand lodge of the state. lle was a liberal and public-spirited citizen, served as a member of the board of education and was always ready to support measures advanced for the best interests of the community. A man of genial personality and highest integrity, he commanded unqualified popular confidence and esteem.

April 1, 1880, recorded the marriage of Mr. Grisell to Miss Amelia L. Schwob, and he is survived by two children, Elmer F., who continued the undertaking business of the firm, and Mrs. Harry Kern, of MeMechen, this county. The son is well upholding the prestige of the family name, in both eivic and business relations. As a professional em- balmer he holds licenses in both West Virginia and Ohio. He is a republican in polities, as was also his father. He married Miss Bessie M. Conner, of Marshall County, and they have two sons, Elwood and Curtis.

MILTON JAMESON FERGUSON. In financial and business eireles of Huntington the name of Milton Jameson Fergu- son is recognized as one of the most capable and successful business men of his day and eity. In the capacity of viee president he is the active head of the Ohio Valley Bank, and his identifieation with numerous other enterprises of an important character entitles him to the recognition which is his and the respeet and confidence in which he is held. He is a native of Wayne County, West Virginia, and was born July 13, 1869, his parents being William S. and Sarah Alice (Bing) Ferguson.

The Ferguson family originated in Scotland and was transplanted to America during Colonial times, when the original immigrants settled in Virginia. Jameson Ferguson, the grandfather of Milton J., was born in Wayne County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and there apent his entire life as a successful farmer, dying in 1869. He married Cynthia Walker, also a native of Virginia, who likewise passed away in Wayne County. His father had been a pioneer of that locality and devoted his career to the pur- suits of agriculture.

William S. Ferguson was born in 1934. in Wayne County. where he waa reared and married. Brought up as an agri- culturist, he followed that vocation during the early years of his life, but beeare interested in medicine and eventually pursued a course at the Cincinnati School of Medicine, from which he was graduated with his professional degree. Dur- ing the last twenty-five years of his career he followed medicine and surgery in Wayne County, gaining a high place in his ealling and winning the affection and trust of a large practice, and died suddenly in 1905, while on a visit

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to Lexington, Kentucky. He was a democrat in politics. Doctor Ferguson married Sarah Alice Bing, who was born August 30, 1827, in Meigs County, Ohio, and died in January, 1906, in Wayne County, and they became the parents of the following children: John B., an attorney at law, who died at Tracy City, Tennessee, May 4, 1918; Sarah Alice, who died at the age of four years; Byron Lee, who died at the age of three years; William Webster, who died when two and one-half years old; Bernard Llewellyn, who passed away at the age of twenty-four years; Milton Jameson, of this review; and Eva Jane, residing on the old homestead in Wayne County, the widow of James T. Dicker- son, a teacher in the public schools, who died in Wayne County in 1914.

Milton Jameson Ferguson received his early education in the public schools of Wayne County, following which he attended Fairview High School at Wayne and the United States Military Academy at West Point. After one year he left the latter institution, in 1889. Prior to this, when only sixteen years of age, he had commenced teaching school in Wayne County, and on leaving the military academy he resumed teaching, which he had followed on and off during the time he was completing his education. His career as an educator covered six years of teaching, and was terminated in 1891, when he entered the First National Bank of Hunt- ington in the capacity of collection clerk and hookkeeper. He won promotion during the eighteen years that followed to the position of assistant cashier, but in April, 1909, resigned his post with the First National to accept the treasurership of the Hutchinson Lumber Company at Huntington. In September of the same year he severed his connection with this concern and became cashier of the American Bank and Trust Company of Huntington, re- maining therewith three years and four months, and in January, 1913, resigned and organized the Ohio Valley Bank of Huntington, of which he became cashier. He was elected vice president in January, 1916, and retains this position today, his fellow-officials being: Dr. H. D. Hat- field, president; second vice president, H. C. Warth; and E. McClane, cashier. The Ohio Valley Bank of Huntington has capital stock of $150,000, surplus and profits of $45,000, and deposits of $1,000,000, and is one of the successful and highly regarded banking houses of this part of the state. Mr. Ferguson also has other interests, being president of the Central States Granite Company, president of the Parker Paint and Wall Paper Company and member of the advisory board of the West Virginia Mortgage and Discount Corporation of Charleston, West Virginia. He owns a modern residence at No. 1131 Fifth Avenue, one of the comfortable homes of Huntington, in addition to which he is the possessor of the old home farm in Wayne County, a fruit farm in Cabell County and a seven and one-half-acre homesite on the Guyan River.

Fraternally Mr. Ferguson is a thirty-second degree Mason and holds membership in Huntington Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M .; Huntington Lodge of Perfection No. 4, A. & A. S. R .; Huntington Rose Croix Chapter No. 4, A. & A. S. R .; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, of Wheeling; and Beni- Kedem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Charleston. His political tendencies make him a republican, although he has not taken an active part in politics. However, he is a public-spirited citizen, possessed of civic pride, and sup- ports all worthy movements. During the World war he was prominent all the time in local war activities, helping in all the drives for all purposes, contributing to the various patriotic organizations to the limit of his means, buying bonds and War Savings Stamps liberally and being espe- cially active in the Liberty Bond drives.

On June 3, 1896, Mr. Ferguson married at Huntington Miss Annie C. Ellis, a daughter of Jacob L. and Ann (Carr) Ellis, both now deceased. Mrs. Ferguson was born No- vember 25, 1868, at Buffalo, Putnam County, West Vir- ginia, and died October 23, 1903, at Huntington, having been the mother of three children: Lilian Ellis, born April 10, 1897, a graduate of Marshall College, Huntington, and of Eastern College, Manassas, Virginia, who later attended New York University, and is now the wife of Dr. Arthur

H. McFarland, a physician and surgeon of Minneapı Minnesota; Kathleen Bing, born October 8, 1898, a gradı of West Virginia University, who attended Wellesley lege, and is now a teacher in the Junior High School Huntington, residing with her father; and Milton Carr, È October 9, 1903, a student of West Virginia University Morgantown. On August 4, 1910, at Huntington, Mi J. Ferguson married Miss Helen K. Baum, a graduate the Dayton (Kentucky) High School, and daughter Nicholas J. and Louisa (Weinmann) Baum, residents Huntington, where Mr. Baum is vice president of Paragon Printing and Publishing Company. Mr. and ] Ferguson have one daughter, Helen Louise, born Noven 4, 1913, who is now attending the Huntington gra schools.

THOMAS M. RICHARDS has shown distinctive resource ness and executive ability in his progressive administra of the extensive business of the Richwood Store Comp. which conducts a chain of general stores, with the h. quarters establishment in the vigorous little city of E wood, Nicholas County.

Mr. Richards was born at Scranton, Pennsylvania, Cr ber 10, 1868, and is a son of David T. and Margaret ( erts) Richards, the former of whom was born at Carbon Pennsylvania, December 25, 1833, and the latter of w was born at St. Clair, that state, in 1835. The fat graduated in a well conducted seminary in the old li stone state, and for many years he was engaged in mercantile business, he being now one of the venerable highly honored citizens of Scranton, Pennsylvania, w the death of his wife occurred. He has been for n years in active affiliation with the Blue Lodge and C ter bodies of the Masonic fraternity, and in the formd a past master. His political support is given unreserv to the republican party. Of the seven children four living at the time of this writing, in 1922: Mary A. i. widow of W. W. Patterson; Thomas M., of this sketci the next younger; Miss Anna M. remains with her venen father; and Edith is the wife of F. W. Mansfield.

Thomas M. Richards is indebted to the public sc. of his native state for his youthful education, and he been actively identified with mercantile business fron early youth to the present time, the while his career been marked by consecutive advancement. In the p of his residence at Richwood, West Virginia, he has an exponent of civic as well as business progressiveness has been a ready supporter of measures and enterprises have tended to conserve the best interests of the commu He was one of the organizers and served as vice pres of the First National Bank of Richwood, the largest most substantial banking institution in Nicholas Col In 1905 Mr. Richards became manager of a general sto Richwood, and since the Richwood Store Company wag ganized and incorporated he has been general manag its chain of stores in this section of the state.

Mr. Richards is loyally aligned in the ranks of the ro lican party, and is a trustee of the ' Presbyterian Cl: at Richwood. In the Masonic fraternity he is affil with Hyde Park Lodge No. 339, A. F. and A. M .; wood Chapter No. 87, R. A. M .; Sutton Commandery 16, Knights Templar; and Beni-Kedem Temple oit Mystic Shrine in the City of Charleston. He is a meb also of Clarksburg Lodge No. 482, B. P. O. E., and of Lackawanna Council of the Royal Arcanum.

In the State of Pennsylvania was solemnized the riage of Mr. Richards and Miss Jeannette A. Penwar and her death occurred in 1919, the surviving childre ing four in number: Thomas R., a graduate of the wood High School, is now his father's business assis Margaret A., likewise a high-school graduate, was grad also from the West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buc non, and she now holds a position in the First Na Bank of Richwood; Eldon graduated from the local school and is, in 1922, a student in Lafayette College David P. is a lad of nine years. For his second wif Richards wedded Miss Juvia J. Martin, of Spartans

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'esylvania, and sho is the popular chatelaine of their lant home at Richwood. To this union was born a Harold Lee, on April 11, 1922.

HAPMAN L. BORDEN is identified with important business atests in the City of Bluefield, and aside from this is .bu and valued as a progressive and loyal citizen who als deep interest in all that concerns the communal wel-

r. Borden was born at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, linia, September 13, 1873, and is a son of .l. 11. and fraret Borden. The father was for many years actively Ietified with the stone-construction work of the Norfolk estern Railroad, and in later years he resided upon and a his supervision to bis farm, situated between Blacks- a and Christiansburg, in Montgomery County, Virginia, ste he remained until his death, at the age of seventy- i.cars. Ile was a Confederate soldier in the Civil war n was wounded while taking part in an engagement at Irper's Ferry. In post-bellum days he became a staunch @ orter of the principles of the republican party, and o he and his wife were earnest members of the Christian b.ch, Mrs. Borden likewise having been seventy-six years fge at the time of her death. Of their five children the weet of this review is the eldest.

lapman L. Borden supplemented his publie-sehool dis- one by an agricultural course in the Virginia Polytech- i. Institute at Blacksburg, he having been reared on the It homestead farm. In the administration of President Ifrison the father of Mr. Borden was appointed post- ater at Cambria. the name of the railway station of , stiansburg, Virginia. The father resigned this office nthe day that Grover Cleveland was inaugurated presi- e' of the United States, but in the meanwhile the subject f his sketch had become assistant postmaster under his aer and had virtual charge of the Post Office at Cam- r .. Thereafter he became steward of the Bluefield Inn tBluefield, West Virginia, a hotel then conducted by the Yfolk & Western Railroad Company for the benefit of he employed in construction work for that road. At the x ration of one year Mr. Borden was appointed elerk and xxkeeper of this hotel, in which dual office he continued o· years. For the ensuing four years he was timekeeper mm he Pocahontas division of the Norfolk & Western Rail- ol, and the next three years found him in service as as- i.int ear distributor for the same system. He then be- ac local manager of the Atwater interests at Bluefield, ofwhich responsible position he has since continued the fient inemmbent. He was associated with the organiz- n of the Mutual Bank & Trust Company, and since its solidation with the Bluefield National Bank be has con- iled a director of the latter. He is likewise a director f.he Bluefield Hardware Company.

Ir. Borden is an active member of the Bluefield Cham- k of Commerce, is a republican in politieal allegiance and 8 member of the Bluefield Country Club and the Rotary . He and his wife are zealous communicants of the nl parish of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which uus serving as a member of the vestry and as a member the building committee to supervise the erection of a l' church edifiee.

n the 20th of October, 1901, was solemnized the mar- ice of Mr. Borden and Miss Arabella Rigby, daughter of Wies Rigby, she having been born in the State of Ohio, vre her parents established their home upon coming from Erland to this country. Mr. and Mrs. Borden have one , James C.

AMES W. GARVIN is one of the leading business men of [ City of Moundsville, Marshall County, where be is sident of the City and County Bank and also of the stal Sand Company. He was born in Ohio County, West v ginia, in August, 1863, and is a son of David B. Gar- , who was born in Pennsylvania and who was a child of ut one year at the time when his father, James Garvin, led on a farm about two miles distant from Wheeling, Sst Virginia, this farm being now owned by J. C. Garvin, brother of him whose name introduces this paragraph.

James W. Garvin was reared on the home farm, received the advantages of the country schools of the locality, and he continued his active association with farm enter- prise until 1596, when he opened a small general store at Moundsville, the business which he thus established being now one of the oldest in this city. Eventually he con- fined his business exclusively to dry goods, and from a modest ineeption the enterprise has growa to one of most prosperous order. He continued the business in an indi vidual way until 1908, when he admitted O. V. Ault to partnership, and it has so continued to the present time. The Crystal Sand Company, of which he is president, con trols a substantial business in the sale of eement, wall- plaster, sand, gravel, etc., and Mr. Garvin finds much de. mand upon his time and attention also in directing the polieies of the City and County Bank, of which he is presi. dent and of which specifie mention is made following.

Mr. Garvin was a member of the Moundsville Board of Education nine years, and was president of the board at the time of the erection of the present modern school build ings. Ile is one of the loyal and liberal business men and influential citizens of Moundsville, where he has achieved success through his own ability and well directed efforts. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in their homo eity, and he is its treas urer, as well as a member of its board of trustees.

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