History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 11

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Mr. Masterson maintains an independent attitude in poli- ties and gives his support to candidates and measures meet- ing the approval of his judgment. In his native county he still maintains affiliation with Gallipolis Lodge No. 861, I. O. O. F. At Huntington he owns and occupies a modern residence at 1209 Seventh Street, and he has identified himself fully and lovally with the eivie and business inter- ests of his adopted eity.

At Cornwall, Missouri, in 1886, was solemnized the mar- riage nf Mr. Masterson and Miss Mary A. Stephens, and the one child of this union is Aliee B., wife of Herman C.

Daniels, of whom individual mention is made in following paragraphs.

Herman ('. Daniels was born at Akron, Ohio, June !, 1847, gained his early education in rural schools of Law rence County, that state, and in 1901, when but fourteen years of age, he entered the employ of the American Car & Foundry Company. Two years later he went to Louisiana, where he worked in the lumber woods about one year, and the ensuing year he was again in the employ of the Amer- ican Car & Foundry Company, in the Imilding of steel railway ears. He next passed a year in the employ of the Pullman Company, the great car building concern at Pull- man, Illinois, and during the next five years he was again in the service of the American Car & Foundry Company at Huntington, West Virginia. He then became manager of the Columbia Gas Stove Company of this city, a position which he retained until 1918, when he organized the Winner Gas Stove Company, of which he has since continued vice president and general manager. He and his wife are mem- bers of the Johnson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as are also Mrs. Daniels' parents. They have two children : Louise, boru June 17, 1915, and Dorothy, born July 4, 1921.

Thomas Masterson, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born and reared in County Cavan, Ireland, and died in Gallia County, Ohio, at the age of eighty-eight years. The maternal grandfather, James F. Snowden, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1809, and died at Cornwall, Missouri, in 1599. He gained high reputation as an educator, was for several years a teacher in the schools of Steubenville, Ohio, was for two years principal of the Fourth Ward School at Wheeling, West Virginia, and later served as principal in the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri. In that state he became the owner of a valuable farm of 400 acres. He married Ann JJane Stevenson, who was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, and who died at "Cornwall, Missouri, at a venerable age. The father of James F. Snowden was born near Mount Snowden, Wales, and mpon coming to Ameriea settled in Pennsylvania.

Herman C. Daniels, son-in-law of Mr. Masterson, is a son of Frank M. Daniels, who was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1860, and who followed the cooper's trade in Ohio, principally at Toledo and Akron, until June, 1921, since which time he has lived retired at Huntington, West Vir- ginia. He is a democrat and is affiliated with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife, whose family name was Lewis, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1>60, and died at Akron that state, in 1885. Of the chil- dren the eldest is Samuel, a resident of F'airport Harbor, Ohio; George S. is a resident of Barberton, that state; Miss Lizzie resides at Huntington, West Virginia; and Herman C. is the youngest of the number. Frank M. Daniels is a son of Morrow Daniels, who was born in Ire- land, in 1828, and who died in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1914, he having been a pioneer farmer in that eounty.

THOMAS SEDGWICK NEPTUNE, treasurer and general man- ager of the Fairmont-Sewickley Company, and also see- retary-treasurer and general manager of the Clarksburg- Sewickley Company, has his executive headquarters in a well appointed office in the Deveny Building in the City of Fairmont, Marion County. He was born in Paw Paw District, this county, January 26. 1876, and is a son of William II. and Caroline (Prichard) Neptune.

William H. Neptune was born in Marion County in the year 1847, a son of John and Serena (Straight) Nep- tune, the names of both families having been closely linked with the history of this section since the early pioneer days. William H. Neptune was for many years one of the substantial and representative exponents of farm in- dustry in his native county, and is now living virtually retired at Fairmont. His wife, who likewise was born and reared in Marion County, died in the year 1899. She was a daughter of Thomas and Mahala ( Morris) Prichard. William H. Neptune was a gallant young soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war.

Thomas S. Neptune passed the period of his childhood

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and early youth on the old home farm and in the mean- while made good use of the advantages offered in the local schools. In 1902 he severed his alliance with farm enterprise and entered the employ of the Fayette County Gas Company and the Treat & Crawford Oil Company of Pittsburgh, for which corporations he had charge of leases and rights of way in West Virginia. In 1908 he left the employ of these companies and engaged in the real estate business at Fairmont, in which line of enter- prise he still continues operations, in the buying and sell- ing of land, principally coal and oil tracts. Mr. Neptune was one of the organizers of the Fairmont-Sewickley Com- pany and the Clarksburg-Sewickley Company in 1917, and much of his time and attention have since been given to his executive service with these important corporations.

Mr. Neptune is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his wife and son hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

In the year 1899 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Neptune and Miss Rose M. Hibbs, who likewise was born and reared in Marion County and who is a daughter of Alpheus T. and Lydia (Wilson) Hibbs. Mr. and Mrs. Neptune have one son, Harry Alfrod, born June 2, 1906.

ARTHUR HAMILTON ADAMS, vice president of the Hunt- ington Wholesale Grocery Company and recognized as one of the vital and progressive citizens and business men of the City of Huntington, was born in Pittsylvania County, Vir- ginia, September 24, 1879, and is a son of Thomas J. and Mary Jane (Jones) Adams, both likewise natives of that county, where the former was born in 1834 and the latter in 1842. Their entire lives were passed in their native county, where the death of the father occurred in 1913 and that of the mother in 1917. Thomas J. Adams owned and operated a large tobacco plantation in Pittsylvania County, was a scion of an old and influential family of that section of the Old Dominion commonwealth, was a democrat in politics, served as a gallant soldier of the Confederacy during virtually the entire period of the Civil war, and was a man whose character and ability gave him no small measure of influence in connection with community affairs. In religious faith he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, while his wife was a member of the Baptist Church. Of their children the eldest is James S., who is a retired farmer and resides in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia; John A. died at Roanoke, that state, at the age of forty-eight years, he having been in the service of the Norfolk & Western Railroad; Selena B. is the wife of John Motley, a merchant at Shockoe, Virginia; Patsy is the wife of John Thompson, a farmer in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; Virginia Rosa is the wife of William T. Shelton, who is engaged in the mercantile business at Westmoreland, West Virginia; Lnla L. resides at Danville, Virginia, and is the widow of Adamı T. Clement, who was a successful meat packer in that city at the time of his death, in 1920; Carrie S. became the wife of Thomas J. Watson, who was an extensive farmer and dealer in cotton near Byhalia, Mississippi, and after his death she became the wife of John Keesee, their residence being on a part of the old homestead plantation of her father, which property they own and operate; William W. owns the remainder of the old homestead farm and has active charge of its operations; Arthur H., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and Edna Gertrude is the wife of Eugene A. Smith, of Christiansburg, Virginia, he being a grower of and dealer in live stock.

In the rural school near his birthplace Arthur H. Adams acquired his youthful education, after having previously been instructed by a private tutor, but he was only four- teen years of age when his boyish ambition led him to leave the parental roof and take a position in the general store of W. P. Hodnett at Danville, Virginia. He was thus em- ployed three years, and he supplemented his education by a course in the Danville Business College. In 1897 he was suddenly called upon to settle the affairs of the estate of Thomas J. Watson, his brother-in-law, in Mississippi, a work that engrossed his attention one year. He then returned to Danville, where he was employed in a retail grocery one

year and the following year in a dry goods establishment il that city. He next passed a year in the wholesale grocer house of Overbey-Swanson Brothers at Danville, and ir 1900 he there engaged in the general merchandise busines: on Union Street, as a member of the firm of Adams & Allen Three years later his impaired health compelled him to retire from active business, and two years passed ere he recuper ated sufficiently to resume his activities. In 1905 he became a traveling salesman for Clifford Weil, of Richmond, dis tributor for the American Tobacco Company, and in 1907 he came to Huntington, West Virginia, and took the position. of bill clerk in the offices of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail road. He was promoted to chief bill clerk, and upon resign ing this position in 1909 he took a place in the shipping department of the wholesale grocery house of the Sehon Stevenson Company. He was eventually advanced to the post of shipping clerk, and after remaining two and one; half years with this company he became shipping clerk for the Loar-Berry Company, likewise engaged in the wholesale grocery trade at Huntington. He gained comprehensive knowledge of the various details of the business and in May 1913, upon the reorganization of the Loar-Berry Company under the title of the Huntington Wholesale Grocery Com. pany Mr. Adams became buyer and sales manager for the new corporation. In 1914 he became vice president of the company, of which office he has since remained the incum. bent, the offices and warehouse of the company being estab- lished at the corner of Eleventh Street and Second Avenue. F. C. Pritchard is president of this vital and progressive corporation, and H. S. Ivie is its secretary and treasurer. The concern has the most modern equipment and facilities, and is one of the important commercial corporations con- tributing to the prestige of Huntington.

Mr. Adams is aligned loyally in the ranks of the demo- cratic party, he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church and he is specially active in the work of its Sunday school. His Masonic affiliations are with Hunt- ington Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M .; Huntington Chapter No. 6, R. A. M., and the local Masonic Club. He is a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias and also of its club in his, home city.

At Richmond, Virginia, in 1907, Mr. Adams wedded Miss Florean Forbean, who was born at Bristol, Tennessee, and whose death occurred in 1911, the one surviving child of this union being a son, Hamilton Joe, born October 20, 1911. In November, 1912, at Ashland, Kentucky, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Adams and Mrs. Emma (Matthews) Wilson, daughter of John W. and Delia Matthews. Mr. Matthews was a contractor and builder at Huntington at the time of his death, and his widow resides in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have two children: Mary Jane, born in December, 1914, and Patsy Leona, born in August, 1916.

WILLIAM JEFFERSON HARVIE is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Miller Supply Company, one of the largest and most important jobbing concerns engaged in distributing mining, mill and contractors' supplies in the coal districts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Southern Ohio, with offices and warehouse at 742 Third Avenue in the City of Huntington. He is one of the repre- sentative business men of this vital city, and of the com- pany with which he is identified adequate mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of its president, J. Craig Miller.

Mr. Harvie was born in Amelia County, Virginia, No- vember 16, 1875, and is a scion of a family that was founded in that historic commonwealth in the Colonial period of our national history. His grandfather, Lewis E. Harvie, passed his entire life in Virginia, was the owner of a large and valuable plantation in Amelia County, was influential in public affairs as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the democratic party, and was president of the old Richmond & Danville (now the Southern) Railroad. He married Sarah Blair, and both died in Amelia County, when well advanced in years. The lineage of the Harvie family traces back to stanch English origin.

Maj. William O. Harvie, father of the subject of this

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review, was born in Amelia County, Virginia, in 1939, and here his death occurred in October, 1921. He passed his ntire life iu his native county, was one of its extensive andholders and agrieulturists, was a democrat of unwaver- ng loyalty, beld various public offices of local order, served hroughout the Civil war as a gallant soldier of the Con- 'ederaney, with the rank of major, and was a zealous mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, who still resides on the old homestead farm. Her maiden name Was Anna Jefferson, and her birth occurred in the State of Louisiana, in 1843. Of their children the firstborn, Mar. yaret, became the wife of John J. Allen, and both died in Amelia County, she having passed away at the age of forty-eight years; Lewis E. resides in Amelia County and s cashier of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company of Richmond, Virginia; Lelia is the wife of Samuel J. Bar- nett, a member of the faculty of Carnegie Institute in the City of Washington, D. C .; William J., of this sketch, was next in order of birth; Westmore Gordon resides in his native county and is a member of the insurance firm of Jefferson & Harvie; Armistead Taylor is actively identified with the real estate business in the City of Richmond, Vir- zinia; and Miss Otelia G. remains with her widowed mother bn the old homestead.

After attending the rural schools of his native county William J. Harvie entered Smithdeal Business College in the City of Richmond, and in the same he was graduated in 1892. Thereafter he was identified with the insurance business in that eity until 1900, in December of which year be eame to Iluntiogton, West Virginia, and allied himself with the Miller Supply Company, of which he became a director in the following year, and of which he is now secretary and treasurer, as well as general manager. Ile is secretary and treasurer of the Kentucky-Eikhorn By-Prod- uets Coal Company of Dorton, Kentucky; is secretary and treasurer of the Sharlow Gas Coal Company of linntington, which operates mines at Sharlow, Boone County; is seere- tary and treasurer of the Maxine Coal Company of Hunt- ington, which operates mines at Maxine, Boone County; is treasurer of the Bull Creek Mining Company of Charleston, with mines at Javins, Boone County; and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Huntington National Bank he is serving on its executive committee. He is a member of the Citizens Board of Huntington, is a democrat in politics, is a deacon and president of the official board of the First Presbyterian Church of Huntington, is a valued mem- ber of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, and holds membership in the Guyan Country Club, the Guyan- dotte Club, and Huntington Couneil No. 53, United Com- mercial Travelers. He owns and occupies one of the attraetive and modern residenecs of the city, the same being at 818 Thirteenth Avenue. As a member of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, a continuous military organization since 1793, Mr. Harvie entered the nation's military service in the Spanish-American war.

At Charleston, this state, on the 30th of July, 1921, Mr. Harvie was united in marriage to Mrs. Julia Lewis (deGruy- ter) Anderson, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. deGruyter, reside in that eity, where her father is serving, in 1922, as postmaster. By her former marriage Mrs. Harvie bas one sen, Lane Anderson, Jr., who was born February 6, 1915.

RUSSELL E. BARNHART, distriet freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, with residence and official head- quarters in the City of Huntington, is a native of the old Buckeye State and a seion of one of its honored pioneer families. The original American progenitors of the Barn- hart family eame from Holland and settled in Pennsyl- vania in the Colonial period of our national history. Wil- liam Barnhart, great-great-grandfather of the subject of this review, made his way down the Ohio River to Cincin- nati, Ohio, in the year 1811, became a pioneer ia real estate operations in that section of the state and ereeted some of the first brick buildings in Cincinnati. Daniel W. Barnhart, grandfather of Russell E. of this review, was born in Cin- einnati in the year 1816, was there reared to manhood and there beeame a manufacturer of pianos. Abont 1850 he removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he conducted a musie store

about ten years. lle was thereafter engaged in the business at Tiffin, that stat , and finally he r mov i t Kokomo, Indiana, where his death oc urre l in 140 -. If served as a gallant soldier of the I'non in the tis war, as a member of an Ohio regiment. His wife, whe- mailes name was Anna Gabriel, wng Fern at Covington, Keith ky, and died at Titlin, Ohio. Their som Lugere er way fern at Dayton, Ohio, December 30, 15.5, and dial at Tiflin, that state, December 3, 1917, He was rer d nr l . je to ] at Tiffin, and there he passed virtonly lis entr lf 11. was long in the servier of the Chi ago, Crveien () 1 nati & St. Louis Raffroad, and was At ot tone garcia agent for the (. S. & C. and the Cincinnati Midinii rae roads. He was a stalwart republican, was a member of th Knights of Pythias and the dumor Order I'mted Aner in Mechanies, and was a commun ennt of the Ergie 1. tirar Church, as is also his widow, who still re des at Tion where she was born in Dreember, 1-55. Her masden mann was Laura J. Schonness. Of their children the pho t Edward W., is manager of the Ohto Jewelry Company .t Tillin; Mabel A. is the wife of Amandes Krois, of Tis, Russell E., subject of this sketch, was next in order of birth; and Jesse A., who was born in 1450, died in 199t

Russell E. Barnhart was born at Tillin, Ohio, Ajr1 6 1879, and after there continuing his studies in the table schools until his graduation in the high school in 1-96, he took a special scientific course of three years in HI wiederg University at Tiffin. In 1899 he entered the employ ef th. Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis (Big Four Railroad Company at Tiffin, where he won advanc ment to the position of chief elerk. In June, 1903, he entered the servire of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company at North Baltimore, where he served eleven months us chief ark. In July, 1904, he became chief clerk and cashner for the same road at Deshler, Ohio; in May, 1906, he w. H 11 joint agent for the Baltimore & Ohjo and the In tren. Toledo & Ironton railroads for the Pacific and the Nation. I Express companies at Hlamler, Ohio; in 1907 he was made freight and ticket agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Rai roa l at Walkerton, Indiana, and in September of the same year was promoted to a similar position at Huntington, West Virginia. In 1911 the functions of vardmnster at this point likewise were assigned to him; in April, 1917, he wn« appointed commercial freight agent for the company nt Huntington; and in July, 1918. he was appointed to h . present office, thst of district freight agent, his offices bang established at 400-401 First Nationni Bank Ituilding, and his distriet covering the territory from Point Pleasant to Kanova, this state. He is a director of the McGuire M eine Company of Huntington, is a republican in jofit cil allegianee, and he and his wife are members of the Fost Presbyterian Church in their home city. Mr. Bart art the owner of valuable real estate in this city, in lulg ! attractive home property at 606 Thirteenth Avenue Hle a member of the local Rotary Club, his basic Masin affiliation is with Syeamore Lodge No. 620, A. F. an1 1. M and in the Scottish Rite of the time-honored fraternity 1 is affiliated with Huntington Lodge of Perfection No. 4 H. was a vital factor in local patriotic activities in conne !jun with the World war, served on various committees that Ind direction of drives in support of Government war lonn. Red Cross work, etc., and made his personal contribut is nº large as his financial resources permitted.

At Paulding, Ohio, on the 7th of January, 1906, wa solemnized the marriage of Mr. Barnhart and Mis Mary .I. Collins, whose mother, Josephine, by a second rarr' is now the wife of J. II. Long, an extensive farmer .r Ashtabula, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Barnhart lenme tjer ents of five children, of whom the first two, Dor all F g. n and Virginia Bloom, died in early infancy, and the tel Evelyn Louise, at the age of eighteen months T two surviving children are: Margaret, born Ints 26, 19 11 f Richard Carlisle, born June 6. 1914.

RAYMOND I1. WILLIAMS, of Huntingt n ager of the Hercules Powder Con dary progressive business men of this city. He was her City of Baltimore, Maryland. Deember 4 1si, a n of

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Jacob F. Williams and Anna Garland ( Green) Williams, both of whom were born in Baltimore and lived there luring their lifetime. The parents of Mr. Williams are deceased.

The lineage of Mr. Williams on the paternal side traces back to Welsh origin, and the original representatives came from Wales and settled in New England in the Colonial period of our national history. On the maternal side his lineage traces back to Scotch origin, the original representa- tives having come from Scotland and settled in Virginia in early Colonial days.

The public schools of Baltimore afforded Raymond H. Williams his preliminary education, which was supplemented by his attending the Baltimore City College two years and also the Maryland Institute of Art and Design, in which he attended the night sessions and was graduated in mechanical drawing as a member of the class of 1908. In the mean- while, at the age of seventeen years, he entered the employ of a Baltimore firm of consulting engineers, with whom he remained from 1901 to 1903, after which he was in service with the engineering corps of the Western Maryland Rail- way Company until August, 1904, when he was appointed assistant engineer in connection with the topographical survey of Baltimore, a service in which he continued until February, 1906. From that date until April, 1917, he was assistant engineer with the Baltimore Sewerage Commis- sion, and he then engaged in the engineering and general contracting business in an independent way, with offices in his native city. From April 1917, to July, 1921, he was a salesman for the Hercules Powder Company in Southern and Eastern Ohio, with headquarters in the City of Co- lumbus. He was then advanced to his present office, that of resident manager for this great corporation at Huntington, West Virginia, where he maintains his offices in the Amer- jean Bank Building, his assigned territorial jurisdiction covering Southern West Virginia and a part of the State of Kentucky.

Mr. Williams is loyally aligned in the ranks of the demo- cratic party, and he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In the Masonie fraternity his basic affiliation is with Goodale Lodge No. 372, A. F. and A. M., at Columbus, Ohio, where also he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Scioto Consistory, and is a member also of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

At York, Pennsylvania, in October, 1915, Mr. Williams wedded Miss Edna Marie Heinekamp, daughter of the late William and Laura V. (Riddlemoser) Heinekamp. her father having been a member of the firm of William Heine- kamp & Sons, piano manufacturers in the City of Baltimore. a concern founded by his father, William Heinekamp. Sr. Mrs. Williams is a graduate of the art school of the Mary- land Institute at Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have two children: Raymond Hartman II, born July 11, 1916 and Virginia Garland, born September 16, 1919.

FRANCIS GUY ASH, prominently connected with real estate, insurance and other business organizations at Morgantown, is a native of Tennessee, but represents two West Virginia families that have been in the state for four generations. Mr. Ash has an interesting record of service as a military man, beginning with the National Guard of West Virginia before the World war and continuing throughout the period of those hostilities.

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