History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 112

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Louis A. Carr, Jr., of this review, was eleven years of age at the time of his father's death, and his early educa- tion was obtained in the public schools of Charleston. In 1900 his mother contracted a second marriage and became a resident of Clarksburg. Here Louis A. continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the high schoool, and in the fall of 1903 he initiated a prepara- tory course in the University of West Virginia, at Morgan- town. He later became a student in the law department of the University, and in the same was graduated in the spring of 1907, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of

Laws having occurred when he was twenty years of a During his university vacations Mr. Carr was identifi with newspaper work at Clarksburg, and in this he cc tinued one year, after leaving the university. He attain to his legal majority and was admitted to the bar in 19( opened an office at Clarksburg and has here continued successful practice of law save for the period of his patrio service in the World war period. In the autumn of 19 Mr. Carr enlisted in the United States Army and was se to the third officers' training school at Camp Sherma Ohio, where he was graduated April 17, 1918, and made sergeant in the machine-gun company of the Three Hu dred and Thirty-ninth Infantry. One month later, wh the Eighty-third Division left for overseas service, Sergea Carr was transferred to Camp Lee, Virginia, and on 1st of June, 1918, he was commissioned second lieutena and assigned to Company F of the Eleventh Battalion Infantry Replacement Troops, at Camp Lee. Septemt 14, 1918, he was promoted first lieutenant and placed command of Company F. He remained in the Camp I replacement service, sending out one company of replac ment troops each month, and in the meanwhile was cc nected also with the law service, in which he defended ma soldiers in court-martial, including a number of officers high rank. In this service he gained high reputation a great popularity.

After retiring from military service, early in 1919, ₪ Carr resumed the practice of his profession at Clarksbur where his success has been unequivocal. In October, 19] at the first state convention of the American Legion West Virginia, at Charleston, he was elected departme adjutant of the legion in this state, after a spirited t. angle contest. During his one year's incumbency of th office Mr. Carr was specially active and influential in t organization work of the order, the number of posts bei increased to 120 and the membership of the Legion in t state being recruited to more than 10,000. At the secol annual convention of the West Virginia Legion, in 192 Mr. Carr was re-elected adjutant, without opposition. I continued the incumbent of this office until February, 192 when, at the request of law clients, he resigned, in order give his undivided attention to his law business.

While a student in the university Mr. Carr was acti in all athletic sports of the student body, and he has be a generous contributor of athletic and sporting articles the newspaper press. He became a member of the ] Kappa Alpha fraternity of the university, is affiliated wi the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is an acti member of the Kiwanis Club at Clarksburg, which he h; served as secretary, and he is loyal and progressive in h civic attitude. Prior to the late war Mr. Carr had ber for several years a member of the West Virginia Nation Guard, in which he was commissioned a lieutenant, 1 Governor Glascock, in 1917. He is a stanch republican ar his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Churc During his first year in law practice Mr. Carr served : city assessor of Clarksburg, but since that time he has n. permitted his name to be presented in connection wil candidacy for public office. He is a bachelor and resid. with his mother and his only sister, Lillian Ainsley, tl wife of Dr. P. M. Pearcy, of Clarksburg.

WICKLIFFE M. CONAWAY has been engaged in the pra tice of law in the City of Clarksburg, Harrison Count since 1902, has secure vantage-place as one of the ah and representative members of the bar of his native count and prior to entering the legal profession he had made record of splendid achievement in that of pedagogy.

Mr. Conaway was born on a farm in Harrison Count West Virginia, December 26, 1866, and is a son of D Joshua B. and Elizabeth (Amos) Conaway, the former ( whom was born in Monongalia County but reared in Mario County, this state, and the latter of whom was born i Marion County, where her father, Peter Amos, was an ear] settler and a substantial and honored citizen. The Cont way family gave patriot soldiers to the Continental Line i the War of the Revolution. The original settlement wa made in Maryland, whence removal was made to Virgini

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por to the war for independenee. Dr. Joshua B. Conaway es graduated in the Eelectic Medical College in the City o Cincinnati, Ohio, and was for half a century engaged in t active practice of his profession in Harrison County, Vat Virginia, where for many years he resided in what ¿now the Town of Bristol. His name and memory are rered in the county in which ho long lived and in which b labored earnestly and effectively in the alleviation of nan suffering. He died at the age of seventy-six years al his widow is still living, at the venerable age of eighty- fır years, in 1922. Mrs. Conaway is a devoted member c the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which her husband wise was a zealous adherent. They became the parents c five sons and two daughters, of whom Wickliffe M., of ts review, was the third in order of birth.

After having prefited by the advantages of the common wools Wiekliffe M. Conaway was for three years a student i the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and he tn entered Albion College, the great Methodist eduea- thal institution . at Albion, Michigan, in which he was Fiduated in 1897 and from which he received the degree c Bachelor of Philosophy. Fer three years thereafter he Is actively engaged in educational work, as superintendent ( high schools in Michigan, and he then took up tho Fdy of law. In 1902 he was graduated in the law de- Irtment of the University of West Virginia, and his eption of the degree of Bachelor of Laws was virtually t neident with his admission to the bar of his native state. ] has sinee been actively and successfully engaged in the metiee of law at Clarksburg, where his offiees are in the tff Building. Ilere be has not only built up a large and i resentative law business but has served also as eom- issioner in chaneery and as commissioner of sehool lands. ]: is a stanch advocate of the principles of the republican arty, is affiliated with the Masonie fraternity and the Iyal Order of Moose.

In 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Conaway t Miss Edva Gerehow whe is a native of Michigan, and ley have two children: Norman B. and Ruth Louise.

CARL WEBSTER NEFF is a native of Maryland, but all l: professional career covering fifteen years has been ment at Clarksburg, where his abilities have won him a ost pleasing reputation as a lawyer.

Mr. Neff was born at Cumberland, Maryland, October 13, 77, second of the four children of John F. and Maria Vilson) Neff. His father was a native of Pennsylvania German aneestry and before the Civil war loeated in .legany County, Maryland. He was a man of therough nolarship and devoted practically his entire life to the use of education. He taught in the publie sehoels and at s time of his death in 1918 at the age of eighty-three is the eldest teacher in Allegheny County. His wife was rn in Maryland and died in 1919 at the age of seventy- ne.

Carl W. Neff grew up at Cumberland and graduated om the high school of that city in 1996. Most of his bsequent education be paid for through his own earnings. 1898 he finished a course in the Allegheny County Aead- y and in 1901 graduated A. B. from Western Maryland ollege at Westminster. Because of his subsequent post- aduate studies his alma mater bestowed upen him the aster of Arts degree in 1905. Mr. Neff studied law in est Virginia University at Morgantown. He was ad- tted to the bar at Clarksburg, gained his first elients in at eity, and ainee 1906 has been associated with Albert Lohm in the law firm of Neff & Lehm.

Mr. Neff is a demoerat in polities, a member of the Itheran Church and the Masonic fraternity, being a night Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.

1908 he married Miss Elsie Evans of Cumberland, aryland. They have two children, Donna and Carl ebster, Jr.

HARVEY BENDER REPPETTO. Reppetto has been a promi- nt name in the industrial affairs of Wheeling for many ars. The family established and built up one of the city's

most distinctive lines of manufacture, steves and ranges, and the corporation, the Wheeling Stove & Range Company, is still under charter, though the plant and business have been aold and are new part of the Wheeling Steel Corpora tion. The president of the Wheeling Stove & Range Com pany is Harvey Bender Reppetto, son ef tho founder. Mr. Reppetto is also proprietor of tho Wheeling Metal Special ties Company, a business he established only a short time age and to which he gives his chief time.

Mr. Reppetto was born in Wheeling, March 17, 1856. This is a family of French ancestry, and one branch was estab lished in New Orleans many years ngo. The grandfuther of Harvey B. and Granville Reppetto, whe was born near Cincinnati, but spent a great many years in Wheeling. where he was bookkeeper and clerk for steamboats. He was a very bighly educated gentleman. He died at Wheeling about 1871. Granville C. Reppetto, father of Harvey, was born at Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1854, his parents removing to Wheeling during the Civil war. He was reared and married in this eity, worked for n time in the nail mills, was then in the hardware business, and in 1900 founded the Wheeling Stove & Range Company, and before his death saw it established as one of the largest stove in- dustries of the country. He took his polities seriously as a republican, and was a Knight Templar Maseu. Granville Reppetto died at Wheeling in 1915. He married Olive Bender, who was born at Pittsburgh in 1866 and died at Wheeling in 1905. They were the parents of four children: Bess Louise, wife of Walter II. MeClure, one of the officials of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company; Harvey Bender; Olive D., wife of Ceeil B. Digby, an auditor at Cleveland; and Charles E., a municipal official at Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Harvey Bender Reppetto acquired a good eduention in the public sehools and graduated in 1903 from Linsly In- stitute at Wheeling. He forthwith entered the steve busi- ness with his father, beeame traveling salesman for the Wheeling Stove & Range Company, and in 1913, when his father retired the management of the business was turned over to him. During succeeding years Mr. Reppetto kept the industry expanding and with an ever widening market for its produets until 1920, when he sold the plant and business to the Wheeling Steel Corporation, but continued as manager of the stove department until resigning in June, 1921. At that date he established the Wheeling Metal Specialty Company, doing a jobbing business in ateves and refrigerators. The plant and offices are at the corner of Nineteenth and Jacob streets. Mr. Reppetto is also presi- dent of the Valley Star Stove Company.

Mr. Reppetto is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Credit Men's Association of Wheeling, is a republican, belongs to the First United Presbyterian Church ef Wheeling and is affiliated with Ohio Ledge No. 1, F. and A. M., Wheeling Chapter No. I. R. A. M., Wheeling Com- mandery No. 1. K. T., Osiris Temple of the Mystie Shrine, and is a member of the Country Club and Fort Henry Club. He was a volunteer for the World war, was eom- missioned a second lieutenant, and was in readiness for duty but the armistice was signed before he was called to the colors. He also has a record of four years with the National Guard of West Virginia, in which he held the rank of captain.

In 1917, at Wheeling, Mr. Reppetto married Miss Helen Johnsten, daughter of Edward O. and Clara (Thompson) Johnston, residents of Triadelphia Distriet of Wheeling. Mr. and Mrs. Reppetto have two daughters: Catherine Ann, born May 8, 1918, and Bess Lonise, horn March &. 1921.

GORDON BOGGS. In addition to whatever distinction might be his from his connection with one of the old and honored families of Pendleton County, Gordon Boggs is known to the people of Franklin as a business man of ability, a former publie official who rendered the com- munity excellent and faithful service and a citizen who has been an uninterrupted supporter of all movements which have promised to better community conditions and heighten community standards. At present he is a mem-

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ber of the mercantile firm of M. K. Boggs & Company and a man of more than passing influence in civic affairs.

Mr. Boggs was born November 6, 1876, the day that Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president of the United States. He was born in Union District, Pendleton County, West Virginia, on a part of the original homestead of his great-grandfather, who had settled there about the close of the eighteenth century, upon his arrival from Ireland, thus founding the family in what is now Pen- dleton County. Mr. Boggs is a son of Aaron Carr Boggs and a nephew of Martin K. Boggs, the latter of whom is mentioned extensively on other pages of this work. Aaron Carr Boggs was born in May, 1853, in Pendleton County, where he received his educational training in the public schools, but his boyhood was passed during the period of the war between the states, when educational advantages were not of the best and consequently his training in this direction suffered. He was a stanelı republican in politics. He never made a formal declaration of church membership. He devoted his business abilities to the conduct of a mill, now known as then as Boggs' Mill, located on the North Fork, which is being operated by his son Frank M. He continued to be identified with that business until his death, which occurred in March, 1920. Mr. Boggs married Martha Susan Hedrick, of Pendleton County, a danghter of Solomon Hedrick. She was born in July, 1853, practically where she now re- sides and where she was reared. The children in the family were as follows: Maude, the wife of John Burton Skidmore, of Franklin; Gordon, of this notice; Wilbur, who is carrying on operations on the old home place for his mother; Arthur L., a resident of Mount Gilead, Ohio; Oscar, a mechanic, who is employed by a manufactory at Lima, Ohio; Warren, who is variously employed; Frank M., who is conducting Boggs' Mill, heretofore mentioned; Louis, a bachelor, residing on the old home place, which he helps to cultivate; Ona, who is a trained nurse at St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; and Catherine, the baby, who remains with her mother.

Gordon Boggs passed the years of his minority on the place on which he was born, and as he grew up on the home farm the public schools of the community furnished him with his education. When he was about twenty years of age he adopted the vocation of educator, and for ten years followed that calling in the rural districts of Pendleton County, where he became known as an efficient and highly popular instructor. During this period he furthered bis own education by attendance at the Shepherdstown Normal School in order that he would be better qualified for his work of school teaching and management, and his last work as an instructor was done at Franklin. When he abandoned teaching as a calling he turned his attention to merchandising as a clerk in the store of his uncle, M. K. Boggs, and continued in the same capacity from 1902 until 1912. In the latter year the office of county and circuit court .clerk became vacant, and it was necessary to find a successor to I. E. Bolton, the former incumbent. For this unexpired term Mr. Boggs announced himself as a republican candidate, and in the election which followed de- feated the democratic candidate in a democratic county. He was elected to succeed himself in 1914, and served the term of six years, retiring from the office with a splendid record in 1921. In the meantime, in 1917, Mr. Boggs had become a partner in the firm of M. K. Boggs & Com- pany at Franklin, and with his retirement from public life he reassumed his duties in the store, with which he has continued to be identified to the present. This estab- lishment enjoys an excellent trade all over the surrounding country, and much of its success is due to the energetic methods, known integrity and unfailing courtesy of M. K. Boggs. For a long time Gordon Boggs has been iden- tified with community matters at Franklin. He it was who assisted in the inauguration of the Chautauqua movement here and stayed with it until it was an assured success. During the World war he was an untiring worker in behalf of the various movements, particularly the American Red Cross, and rode on horseback over a large part of Pendle-

ton County, arousing interest and encouraging peop to respond to the Government's request for assistance irthe winning of the war. His own purse was opened whenver there was the need, and his family were one hundredper cent Red Cross, as every member belonged to the orgaza- tion. Mr. Boggs is a member of the Presbyterian Chich. in which he succeeded his uncle, Isaac P. Boggs, as an fer in 1904, is a member of the building committee of thelem church, and for the past five years has been activ in Sunday school work, being the superintendent the of Mr. Boggs himself laid the foundation for the fina ial success which he has achieved, and every dollar thathas come into his hands has been the result of honest effort

On September 3, 1904, Mr. Boggs married at Fra: fin Miss Elsie Byrd, who was born near Franklin, a dauster of John W. and Phoebe (Meadows) Byrd. John W. . frd was a son of James Byrd, who founded the family in Pe le ton County, coming as a millwright from Peaks of Cer. Virginia, and building what is known as Byrd's Mill, free miles north of Franklin. James Byrd married Mary m Hammer, and they had two sons, John W. and Clayo. and two daughters, Mary Catherine, who married Mo an Trumbo, and Adelaide, who became the wife of Geige W. Davis. John W. Byrd and wife were the parent of three children: Elsie, who became the wife of Goon Boggs; Don, of Franklin; and Ernest, of Bridgew:er. Virginia. Four children have been born to Mr. and 'rs. Boggs: John Byrd, Elizabeth Gordon, Grace Hammer nd Mary Ann.

SAMUEL ALEXANDER McCOY. The proprietor and edor of a newspaper occupies a vantage ground which may E'ke or mar a reputation, build up or tear down a cause wony of public approval or support. Not only the City of Mote field but Hardy County at large has reason for congrata tion that the Moorefield Examiner is in such safe, sagacus and thoroughly clean hands as those of Samuel Alexa:ler McCoy. It is considered one of the best general newspa rs for the family published in its part of Eastern West fr ginia, as well as an outspoken, fair-play exponent of ho ' democratic party; in fact it is in all respects worthy ofhe care and sound judgment displayed in its columns, ad reflects credit on its owner.

Mr. McCoy was born at Franklin, Pendleton Couly, West Virginia, December 25, 1880, a son of Pendleton Kate (McMechen) McCoy. He belongs to a family wh has resided in Pendleton County for a number of gena- tions, and his paternal grandfather was William Mely, who was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Con n- tion and who took a prominent part in the founding id development of Franklin after locating at that place. In- dleton McCoy was born during the '50s, at Franklin, wire he received a common school education, and it was at le Moorefield Hoover School that he first met the young lly who later became his bride. Throughout his career he I- lowed the vocations of farming and stockraising, and is. reputation was always that of a man of integrity id sound business honor. He was not in public life but is one of the stanch democrats of his county, and his chub faith was that of the Presbyterian denomination. MeCoy married Miss Kate MeMechen, a daughter of Sanel A. and Elizabeth (Hutton) MeMechen. Mr. McMeen lived at Moorefield all his life, and merchandising or- pied his energies until his retirement from active affas He died at Moorefield when about eighty years of a. During the war between the states his sentiments me him favor the Confederacy, and he secured a substitute himself for the Southern cause. Of his children, daughters grew to maturity: Kate, who became Mrs. Fr dleton McCoy; Emma, who married Joseph I. Cunninghn and resides at Moorefield; the Misses Carrie and Bett of this place; and one who is deceased. Mrs. McCoy : vives her husband, who passed away in 1889, and she ia resident of Moorefield. They had two sons: Sam Alexander, of this review; and James Curtis, also of Moc field, where he is associated with the Examiner and &0 proprietor of the moving picture establishment of the c'. Samuel Alexander McCoy passed the first years of s

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at Franklin, where he secured his primary educational ening and in his apare time had first insight into the espaper business when rolling newspapers for distribution The office of the South Branch Review. After coming to Arefield he completed his public school training, and at hage of sixteen years went to work in a printing office, na the Hardy County News, owned by Captain Chipley, afounder, a lawyer and politician of Moorefield. Ile re- aned with this paper until 1900, when be supplemented jeducation by a course of one year at Hampden City lege, Virginia, where he took a business course, and hi went to Thomas, West Virginia, and accepted a posi- as clerk in the atore of the Buxton-Landstreet Com- ty. This work did not absorb him long, for during the istmas holidays of 1901 be returned to Moorefield, and 1January, 1902, bought out the interests of Captain foley in the newapaper, the name of which had been tiged, in 1897, to the Examiner. Soon after coming a possession of the paper Mr. MeCoy changed its name the Moorefield Examiner. Since then he has devoted lost his entire time to the publication of thig sheet, ch, while frankly a democratic organ, is a home and catry paper for the dissemination of all local news and a dispensation of local advertising. The Moorefield Ex- Iner is a well-printed and well-edited paper, thoroughly po-date in all respects, and a modern job printing office inducted in connection. The paper is published weekly. ir. MeCoy has been identified with the democratic party c a number of years. He was chairman of the Hardy raty Central Committee two terms, was a member of the gressional Committee of the Second District, and was main factor in bringing to Moorefield the congressional sention which nominated Junior Brown for Congress a first time the congressman was sent to that high office. Qattended as a delegate the state conventions at Parkers- 13 and Wheeling, twice each, and his campaigning for s ticket is done through the columns of the Examiner. ile political position has not appealed to Mr. MeCoy ticularly, he has served as councilman of Moorefield, L was its eity recorder during the administration of itain Chipley as mayor. His general interest in com- fity affairs has extended especially to the public schools, ting a care and concern for their welfare, and he is wit- ting the presence of a progressive public school system, vided over by efficient teachers and officials. Fraternally EIS affiliated with the Masons and the Elks, and his re- pus faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. In addi- to assisting various movements at home during the i-ld war through the columns of his paper, Mr. MeCoy astered in the draft and was ready to give his services never called upon by the Government to do so.

n June 18, 1902, Mr. McCoy married Miss Eunice lor, who was born at Cumberland, Maryland, a daugli- .ef Warfield and Kate (Cunningham) Taylor. Mrs. L'oy was reared at Moorefield, where she attended the Elic schools, and subsequently was a student at Stephen- 1's Seminary, Charlestown, West Virginia. Her parents & four children : Mrs. Walter Williams; Mrs. McCoy, i was born October 16, 1880; William, a resident of [ refield; and Warfield, of Richmond, Virginia. Mrs. L'oy was a member of the executive committee of the 4 Cross of Hardy County throughout the World war, and sted many garments for the soldiers at the front and in 1 training camps. She is an active member of the Pres- serian Church and of the missionary society of Moore- E. While she was not an active suffragette, she accepted 1 ballot when it came to her as a result of the Nine- · th Amendment, and has been able to make an intelli- €; use thereof. Mr. and Mrs. McCoy are the parents of 5 daughter, Katherine, a member of the graduating class [919 at the Moorefield High School, and who is now a *ent at Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg. ginia.

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