History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 111

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October 28, 1903, recorded the marriage ef Docter Hol- id and Miss Elsie Ames, whe was born at Fairment, a ughter of the late Justice Elias S. and Annis (Parker) nos, of whom incidental mention is made on other pagea, personal sketches of their sons, Frank R. and Curtis. cter and Mrs. Helland have two children: Eugene nes, bern May 19, 1905, and Mary Edith, born June 20, 11.

LEE S. GOOD. A business that has been growing from aller to greater scope and has been rendering an increas- ¿ aervice as a dry geods store to Wheeling and a large freunding territory for a period of nearly forty years is

I. S. Good & Company, the founder of which, Mr. Lee S. Good, Is atill active in the business, though many of his responsibilities have been assumed by his sons.

Lee S. Good was reared and educated in Germany and came to the United States in 1873, loeating at Wheeling. Besides a common school education he had acquired a thorough training in the dry goods business in Germany, and at Wheeling until 1884. In that year he employed his modest capital to open a business of his own, and under his direction the establishment has grown and prospered until it is one of the larger wholesale and retail dry goods houses of the Ohio Valley. He continued it under his immediate responsibility for a number of years, until his sons Sam and Sidney were old enough to become associated with him, in 1910, and since then the institution has been L. S. Good & Company. Mr. Lee Good owns the modern store building at 1132-36 Main Street, where he has three floors for the use of the general department store, carrying an extensive stock of dry goods and women's wearing apparel.

Lee S. Good is also a director in the Half Dollar Savings Bank at Wheeling. lle is a member of the Le Shem Shomaim Temple, Wheeling Lodge No. 28, B. P. O. E., and the Chamber of Commerce.

He married Fannie Hanauer, who was born at Morristown, Ohio, January 10, 1869. They are the parents of three children. The oldest, Bertha, is the wife of Jay Iglaner, who is secretary and treasurer of the JIalle Brothers Com. pany at Cleveland, Ohio. The youngest is Sidney Good, who married Miss Jeanette Berg, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is partner in the business of his father.

Sam Good, the other son, was born at Wheeling September 10, 1894, was reared and educated in Wheeling, finishing his high school course there, and at the age of sixteen left school te go to work in his father's store. With broadening knowledge and experience he has become the active manag- ing head of the business and has been a partner since 1916. He is a member of the Le Shem Shomaim Temple, Wheeling Lodge No. 5, F. and A. M., and Wheeling Lodge No. 2%, B. P. O. E. In December, 1918, he was sent to Camp Han- cock, Augusta, Georgia, received a commission as second lieutenant, and was mustered out in January, 1919.

In September, 1919, at Canton, Ohio, Mr. Sam Good married Miss Lucille Lowenstein, daughter of Sam and Lina (Sonneborn) Lowenstein, residents of Canton, where her father is a retired merchant and manufacturer. Mrs. Good finished her education in a Young Ladies Seminary at Baltimore. Sam Good and wife have one child, Lee S., second, born August 2, 1920.

JOHN HIAZLETT, who is serving as sheriff of Marshall County and who has here held other offices of trust in his native county, gained a wide experience as a pioncer in the west, but could not be permanently weaned from his native state and county. He was born in the Sand IFill Distriet of Marshall County, September 18, 1862, and is n son of Matthew and Caroline (Hagadern) Ilazlett. The father was born in Baden, Germany, and gained the rank of captain in the German army, in which he served twelve years. He was one of those who took part in the German revolution of 1848, against the Emperor Freiderich Wil- helm, and when the revelution failed he was successful in making his escape to the United States, though two of his brothers were captured. His two younger brothers, John and Jacob, later joined him in America, he having been twenty-eight years old when he came to this country. These two brothers, whe joined him at Wheeling, about 1856, he- came Union seldiers in the Civil war and both were killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. Matthew Hazlett settled at Wheeling about a year after his arrival in America and there worked as a stable boss for the United States Stage Company. Abeut 1858 he removed to Marshall County and settled in Sand Hill District, and four years later he re- moved to a farm near Sherrard, this county, where he passed the remainder of his life. He waa eighty-two years of age when he was killed by a playful horse which he was attempting to catch. His marriage was solemnized at Wheeling this state, his wife having been born in Hanover, Germany, and having ceme to the United States in com-

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pany with two of her sisters. She later sent for her par- ents, who passed the closing years of their lives in her home, she herself having attained to the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Of the children the eldest is Louisa, wife of J. E. MeCombs, of Sherrard, this county; John, of this sketch, was next in order of birth; Louis resides at Sherrard and Henry is a resident of Ohio county, this state; Mary is the wife of William A. Fisher, of Sherrard; and George W. likewise resides at Sherrard.

The public schools of Marshall County gave to John Hazlett his youthful education, and he was eighteen years old when, in 1876, he became a pioneer in the Black Hills. His western experiences involved association with frontier activities in Montana, Wyoming and Dakota Territory, and in Montana he heard the firing of guns at the time of the historie Custer massacre, he having been at the time en- gaged in prospecting on Sand Creek. His mining operations were hampered by his lack of capital to prove needed fa- cilities, and after remaining in the West till 1880 he re- turned to his native county and became a farmer in Sand Hill District. He continued the active management of his farm until November, 1920, when he was elected sheriff of Marshall County, as candidate on the republican ticket. He had previously given effective service as county com- missioner, 1914-17, and during the ensuing three years he was a member of the county board of equalization. Sheriff Hazlett retains ownership of his well improved farm and has here been a successful grower of fine sheep, cattle, hogs and horses.

At the age of twenty-six years Mr. Hazlett married Miss Hettie C. MeCosh, daughter of Wiley MeCosh, who was a prosperous farmer in Marshall County and who died when Mrs. Hazlett was an infant. Mr. and Mrs. Hazlett have two sons: William M. has active charge of the home farm, and James Benton is deputy sheriff under the administra- tion of his father.

FRANCIS L. FERGUSON, circuit court clerk at Moundsville, judicial center of Marshall County, was born at Littleton, Wetzel County, West Virginia, March 5, 1888, and is a sou of R. Lindsay Ferguson and Ellen (Dietz) Ferguson, the former of whom died in January, 1918, at the age of seventy-three years, he having been born and reared in Wetzel County, a son of Andrew and Susannah (Anderson) Ferguson. Andrew Ferguson was a representative of a West Virginia pioneer family that came to this state, as now constituted, from Pennsylvania, where the original representative of the name settled upon immigrating to this country from his native Ireland, after the close of the war of the Revolution. Mrs. Ellen (Dietz) Ferguson, who sur- vives her husband, is of collateral kinship with the Munhall family, one of whose members was a member of "Marion's Wasps," a celebrated patriot command in the war of the Revolution. She is related also to the sterling old Knicker- bocker family of Marshall, in the State of New York. Susannah (Anderson) Ferguson was a member of a family that was founded in America prior to the Revolution. Andrew Ferguson was an old-time river pilot, and continued his service on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, between Pitts- burgh and New Orleans, until he had passed his seventieth birthday anniversary. R. Lindsay Ferguson was a Union soldier, in the Army of the Potomac, in the Civil war. He took part in the Battle of Gettysburg, and thereafter was detailed to special duty. After the close of the war he was identified with lumbering industry in Wetzel and Marshall counties, West Virginia, until the '80s, and in the meantime he served as mayor of his home town of Lit- tleton, as justice of the peace and as a member of the Re- publican County Committee of Wetzel County.

Francis L. Littleton continued his studies in the public schools of Littleton until he had profited by the advantages of the high school, and thereafter he was employed in the oil fields and in stone quarries. At the age of seventeen years he found employment in a factory at Wheeling, and iu that city he initiated his journalistie career as a re- porter on the Wheeling Intelligencer, of which he later became city editor. Later he was city editor of the Wheel- ing News. He also gained newspaper experience as a spe-

cial correspondent for several New York and Pittsbub newspapers. In 1916 Mr. Ferguson engaged in press wk for the Republican State Central Committee. In the autin of that year he married Miss Alice L. Echols, who is reared at Moundsville, and who is a daughter of W. 7. Echols, who served as deputy sheriff of Marshall Couy as a member of the city police force of Moundsville d as a member of the West Virginia Humane Society, is death having occurred at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mah 28, 1921.

After his marriage Mr. Ferguson established his he at Moundsville and became a member of the editorial st of the Moundsville Journal. He made numerous atter's to enter military service in the World war but was e- peatedly rejected, on account of physical disability. clerk of the circuit court resigned in the fall of 1919, a on the 20th of October of that year Mr. Ferguson was pointed, by Judge J. B. Sommerville, to fill the vacay in this office, of which he has since continued the 'effic.it incumbent. The members of the bar of Marshall Couy gave him the strongest of support when he was rect- mended for this appointment, and in the regular electn of November, 1920, he was elected to the office, on the . publican ticket, with a larger vote than the party tiot usually polls in the county. He is a member of the Mours ville Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with the Elks a the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are meml's of the Christian Church.

CURTIS T. ARNETT, M. D. Having practiced medicinen Harrison County nearly twenty years and at Clarksbg since 1905, and being widely known among his fraterry as a man of solid attainments and the highest professici standards, there was recognition of these facts when Doct Arnett was honored by his fellow members in the Harrin County Medical Society in election to society president's 1921.

Doctor Arnett represents one of the oldest families f West Virginia. He, his father, his grandfather and gre grandfather were all born at Arnettville in Mononga County. The founder of the family there was the gre- great-grandfather James Arnett, who secured patent to tract of land in that vicinity direct from the Governme. While all the facts are not available it is probable tt this pioneer West Virginian was the same James Arit whose name appears in the records as a Revolutionary , dier from Boston, Massachusetts. The line of descent fı him is traced through his son, Andrew, his grandson, St. mon, and his great-grandson Thomas Calvin Arnett, v) became the father of Doctor Arnett.

Thomas Calvin Arnett was born August 28, 1834, . voted his active life to farming and the trade of carpen', was a soldier on the Confederate side while he had a brotr in the Union army during the Civil war, and he died t Fairmont, West Virginia, November 3, 1905. His wife 13 Hannah Trippett, daughter of Topliff Trippett. She 1 born in Monongalia County, January 15, 1839, and di December 18, 1907. Her seven children were named M: Catherine, Dennis S., Lydia Belle, Parris, Curtis T., Lill : B., and Lucy A.

Dr. Curtis T. Arnett was born March 14, 1870, and ur he was nearly grown his environment was the home fai plus the advantages of the common schools. Doctor Arn put in eight years as a public-school teacher. He beg the study of medicine in the Hospital College of Medic at Louisville, Kentucky, where he was graduated M. in 1897. He began practice at Marshville in Harris County, moved from there to Rivesville, Marion County, 1903, and since 1905 has had a busy professional car at Clarksburg. In the meantime he has been a consta student in medical science, has taken post-graduate cour in the New York Polyclinic and for a time was interne a New York hospital, and more and more his abilities ha been claimed for the special work of surgery in whi domain he has demonstrated exceptional skill. Doct Arnett is chief of staff and gynecologist of St. Mary. Hospital at Clarksburg and for over eight years has serv as a member of the local United States Pension Exam

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y Board. He is a member of the West Virginia State, e American and Southern Medieal associatiens. Doctor rnett is a staneh demoerat, is a Knight Templar, and has me widely extended business interests, chiefly in oil pro- letion.

January 1, 1900, he married Miss Luey C. Morrison, aughter of Thomas and Matilda (Southern) Morrison, of arrison County. To their marriage were born five chil- ea: Basil Raymond; Marie Bell, now deceased; Thomas orrison; Luey Edna Virginia; and William Jennings rnett.

JOHN ELDON CORBIN, M. D., who is engaged in the prac- ce of his profession in the City of Clarksburg, Harrison ounty, with offices in the Union Bank Building, is honor g his native county by his effective stewardship in his osen vocation, even as he did as a member of the United ates Army with the American Expeditionary Forces in ranee at the time of the World war. At the time of is writing, in the autumn of 1921, Doctor Corbin is serv- g as secretary of the Harrison County Medical Society. Doeter Corbin was born on his father's farm near Good ope, this county, on the 21st of January, 1880, and js a a of Joseph Taylor Corbin and Sabra Ellen ( MeDonald) orbin, both likewise natives of Harrison County, though oseph T. Corbin was a child at the time when his father, eran Corbin, removed from this ceunty to Jackson County. rs. Sabra E. Corbin was reared and educated in Harrison ounty, a daughter of James McDonald and a representative one of the honored pioneer families of the county. Mrs. orbin passed to the life eternal in 1921, at the age of eventy-two years, and her husband, at the age of venty-two years, is now living retired at Clarksburg. Of e two children Dr. John E. is the elder, and the younger, iss Pearle, remains with her father in the pleasant home Clarksburg.

Deetor Corbin as a boy began to aid in the work of the ome farm, and the rural schools of the locality afferded him is preliminary education. Thereafter he was for two years student in the State Normal School at Fairmont, this state, ad for an equal period in the Peabody Institute at Nash- ille, Tennessee, from which latter institution he received the agree of Lieentiate of Instruction. For two years there- fter he was a student in the medieal department in the niversity of West Virginia and then became a student in je College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City ef Balti- ore, Maryland, from which he received his degree of Doetor { Medieine, in the year 1907, the same degree having been onferred upon him in that year by the University of West irginia.

In 1908 Doetor Corbia engaged in the practice of his pro- ession at Welf Summit, Harrison County, and there he eon- nued in successful general practice until 1917, when he abordinated all personal interests to the eall of patriotism ud volunteered for service in the World war. In July of lat year he was commissioned first lieutenant and sent to amp MeClellan, Alabama. In May, 1918, he was ordered › serviee overseas, and in France he was in active service ne year, as a member of the One Hundred and Thirteenth ofantry, Twenty-ninth Division. Though his professional bility would readily have gained him hospital work he pre- erred to serve in the field, and there he made an excellent ecord as a gallant soldier. Doctor Corbin returned to his ative land May 27, 1919, and four days later received his onorable discharge, with the rank of captain. His eon- nued interest in his old eemrades and in patriotie activities shown by his affiliation with the American Legion and ne Veterans of Foreign Wars. In July, 1919, he opened n office in the City of Clarksburg, where he has sinee heen agaged in active general practice, as one of the able nd popular physicians and surgeons of his native county. 'he doctor has received the thirty-second degree of the Seot- ish Rite in the Masonie fraternity, holds membership also 1 the Mystie Shrine and the Independent Order of Odd 'ellows, and is affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta and Psi Beta Psi college fraternities. In addition to being secre- ary of the Harrisoa County Medical Society he is actively dentified also with the West Virginia State Medical Society

and the American Medical Association. His political allegiance is given to the democratie party.

June 5, 1921, recorded the marriage of Doctor Corbin to Miss Vevia Elliott, of Parkersburg, this state, and they are popular in the social activities of their home city.

JACOB JAMES HOLLOWAY has many diverse and important responsibilities in the financial and industrial affairs of the Wheeling District. His interests cover a wide range of pro ductive enterprises, including banking, baking, china, glass and steel. He began his career as a bonker, and has been a factor in the Wheeling District over forty years.

Mr. Holloway was born across the Ohio River at Bridge- port, April 17, 1857, son of William Warfield and Martha (Pryor) Holloway. His father was also a substantial busi ness man, interested in banking, railroading and manu- facturing. The son had a liberal education as a preparation for his serious career. Ile received his B. A. degree in June, 1878, from Western Reserve College at Iludson, Ohio, now Western Reserve University at Cleveland. While in college he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

After leaving college Mr. Holloway took up banking, and it has been his judgment and sound experience as a financier that has brought him numerous connections with outside industries. He is president of the Bridgeport National Bank of Bridgeport. He is also a direetor and a member of the executive committee of the Wheeling Steel Corpora- tion, which is a consolidation of the Wheeling Steel & Iron Company, LaBelle Iron Works and Whitaker-Glessner Company. The wide extent of his other business associa tions are included by a list of some of the more important companies in which he is a director : Hazel- Atlas Glass Company, Superior Coal Company, Superior Tube Company, Wheeling Traction Company, Wheeling Bridge Company, Wheeling Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Winding Gulf Colliery Company and Superior-Pocahontas Coal Company.

Mr. Holloway is a director of the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce. During the World war he was president of the Red Cross Association, of the Pershing Limit Club and the War Chest Association. He is a republican a member of the Fort Henry Club and the Country Club of Wheeling. the Ohio Society of New York and the Delta Kappa Epsilon Association of New York. IIe is a member of the Episcopal Chureh.

November 14, 1543, at Wheeling, Mr. Holloway married Miss Mary P. DuBois, daughter of Joseph Dorsey and Ellen Zane (Armstrong) DuBois, of Wheeling. Mr. and Mrs. Ilolloway have three children: William Warfield, who mar- ried Margaret Glass; Joseph DuBois, who married Nancy Dewey Peterson; and Eleanor Martha, wife of Hannibal Forbes Simpson.

DOLLIVER H. ILAMRICK, the efficient and popular eity clerk of Clarksburg, judicial center of Harrison County, was born at Woodzell, Webster County, West Virginia, on the 19th of April, 1880. Ile is a son of B. Franklin and Martha 1. (Hamrick) Hamrick, both likewise natives of Webster County, they having been of remote family kinship. The parents passed their entire lives in Webster County, where the father was a prosperous farmer and a highly respected citizen, he having been fifty three years of age at the time of his death and his wife surviving him by only a short period, she likewise being fifty-three years of age at the time of her death. Both were carnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in polities the father was a staneh republican. Of the seven children the eldest is Rev. Ballard S. Hamrick, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Anzina is the widow of Jesse Riggleman; Dolliver H., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Susan R. is the wife of P. D. Gregory; Miss L. Olive Hamrick is a popular teacher in the publie schools of Clarksburg; Morgan T., who is better known as "Hiek" Hamriek, is engaged in educational and athletie work; and Parker M., who is now a traveling salesman, served overseas in the United States Marine Corps in the late World war. The Hamrick family was founded in what is now West Virginia in the pioneer period of the history of this section. James and Rebecca (Doddridge) Hamrick, paternal grandparents of the subject

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of this sketch, were born in West Virginia as now con- stituted, as were also the maternal grandparents, Adam G. and Rebecca (Mollohan) Hamrick. The lineage of the Hamrick family traces back to stanch Scotch-Irish origin and the original representatives in America settled in Vir- ginia in the colonial days.

Dolliver H. Hamrick supplemented the discipline of the public schools of his native county by three years of effec- tive study in the West Virginia Wesleyan College, in which institution he thereafter served one year as an instructor in the business or commercial department. At the age of twenty years he initiated his service as a teacher in the public schools, and after three years of successful pedagogic work he became bookkeeper for a lumber company. There- after he devoted several years to service as hotel clerk and bookkeeper, and in this connection he held positions not only in West Virginia but also in other states, includ- ing Florida. He was a popular attache of the Gore Hotel at Clarksburg at the time of his election to the office of city clerk, in April, 1918, for a term of three years. At the expiration of this period he was appointed to the same office, for a term of two years, the city charter having been changed in the meanwhile and the office of city clerk having been made one of appointive order. Mr. Hamrick is a republican in political allegiance, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

In 1906 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hamrick to Miss Lela W. Conrad, daughter of Lee A. and Clara (Wooddell) Conrad, of Webster County, the family having been residents of the State of Kansas at the time of the birth of Mrs. Hamrick. Mr. and Mrs. Hamrick have three children : Leland Franklin, William Dolliver, and Clara Jane.

LOUIS ARNOLD CARR has been continuously engaged in the practice of law at Clarksburg since 1908, with the ex- ception of the period of his service in the United States Army at the time of the World war. He is one of the leading lawyers of the younger generation in Harrison County, and is a representative of old and honored families of what is now West Virginia, his ancestors on both pa- ternal and maternal sides having settled in Virginia in the colonial period of American history.

Mr. Carr was born at Buffalo, Putnam County, this state, November 12, 1886, and is a son of Lonis A. and Rose (Scott) Carr, both likewise natives of West Virginia. Louis A. Carr, Sr., a man of strong individuality and ex- ceptional business ability, conducted a large general store at Buffalo, where he also owned and operated the Progress Mills, then the largest flour mills on the Kanawha River. There he became identified also in the steamboat packet navigation on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers. In 1888 he removed with his family to Charleston, capital of the state, for the purpose of expanding his business activities. There he engaged in the flour-mill business, under the title of the L. A. Carr Milling Company, which he developed into the largest concern of the kind in the state, besides which he became the sole owner of the Kanawha & Ohio Steamboat Packet Line, which operated six steamboats on the Kana- wha and Ohio rivers. So assiduously did he apply himself to business that his health became greatly impaired and in 1898 he died, from a complication of diseases, when but forty-eight years of age. He was a man of thought and action, of sterling character and of large and worthy achievement.

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