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"Harry B. Kight, the Keyser correspondent of the ma zine, acted as summer agent of the Deer Park Hotel ? tion, and proved to be one of the very best agents the h ever had. I met him every Saturday and Sunday dun the heated term and observed his work."

On June 29, 1916, Mr. Kight married at Cumberla Maryland, Miss Elizabeth Glover, a daughter of Den Glover, a railroad conductor of the Baltimore & Ohio R road, who lost his life in front of the Keyser station, was one of the oldest men in the service. Mrs. Glover longs to the Connell family. The birth of Mrs. Kight t place at Hutton, Maryland, June 11, 1895. She was gra ated from the Keyser High School in May, 1916, and married the next month. She is interested with her ] band in church work, and is a member of the varif church auxiliary organizations. Mr. and Mrs. Kight h one son, Harry Donald, who was born November 20, 19 This bright little fellow already displays many of his ther's characteristics, and is a prime favorite among family connections and friends. So popular has Mr. Ki become with the traveling publie that one of his custon remarked of him:

"The fact that Harry Kight's friendly face is at ticket window in the Keyser station of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, and that his cheerful and earnest Wi greets the patrons of the road, is one of the best inv. ments the company has ever made."

CHESTER CUSH CHAMBERS, the efficient and pop !! city attorney of Logan, judicial center of Logan Cou was born at Pecks Mills, this county, December 11, 1890, .

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son of Leroy and Martha (Chambers) Chambers, both i's of this state, where they still reside on their ex- homestead farm near Peeks Mill. The father of re Chambers was born in Virginia, where the family, Fglish lineage, was founded in the Colonial daya, and drame one of the distinguished and eloquent clergy- nof the Methodist Episcopal Church, as a minister of The labored long and earnestly and gained high repu- for his conseerated zeal and devotion.

Jer receiving the discipline of the public schools r C. Chambers was for three years a student in rall College at Huntington, this state. In 1915 he ented in the law department of historie old Washington 1 ee University, Virginia, and after thus receiving his of Bachelor of Laws he engaged in the practice J profession at Logan, where his success marks him d'. of the representative younger members of the bar Izan County. He served one term as county recorder, The year 1922 finds him giving an effective administra- un the office of city attorney of Logan.

) the 6th of March, 1918, Mr. Chambers entered the î.'s military service in connection with the World war. ased one year at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and for ten os thereafter he was stationed at Fort Bayard, New xo. He won commission as second lieutenant, was as- ul to the sanitary corps, and at Fort Bayard he was d adjutant of the United States General Hospital, manding officer of the hospital force of 600 men, tlian of the hospital funds and fire marshal of the Post. preferments denote the high estimate placed upon 'and also the efficiency of his service. He received norable discharge in August, 1919, and then resumed raetice of his profession at Logan. He is affiliated I the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Vetive Order of Elks.

March, 1918, Mr. Chambers was united in marriage Miss Ida Robinette, of Logan County, she being a nter of Preston and Ella (Gore) Robinette, the former 'ive of Kentucky and the latter of the present Logan ly, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers are pop- figures in the representative social activities of their community.

ILLARD F. SNIDER. A successful lawyer and represent- citizen of Clarksburg, Harrison County, is found in rd F. Snider, one of the leaders of the Clarksburg bar, has been in active practice in this eity for near a er of a century. He was born on a farm in Dodd- Couaty, Virginia, now West Virginia, September 24,

traces his family on the paternal side baek to his -grandfather, John Snider, who came from Fauquier ty, Virginia, in the pioneer days, and settled in Harri- County, where he died at about ninety-eight years of His grandfather. Jacob Snider, was born in Harrison ty, in 1804, and died in Doddridge County at the age ·venty-eight years; his father, Jehu Snider, was born arrison County, September 27, 1832.

his maternal ancestors, Mr. Snider's grandfather, ye Apsy, came from England to Loudoun County. Vir- , when a young man and married Mary L. Swan, at locality, to whom were born four daughters, among was Virginia Ellen Apsy, the mother of Mr. Snider. was born July 30, 1837. His grandfather Apsy died t 1839, when the children were all amall, and his Imother, with her four daughters, later moved to tridge County, where his father and mother were mar- in 1854. To this union were born thirteen children, 'e of whom reached maturity, and there are now (1922) ; eleven children, thirty-eight grandchildren, and ty-five great grandchildren of their descendants.

llard F. Snider was the fourth child in this family. father and mother spent most of their lives on the : farm, on Brushy Fork of Meat House Fork, in New › Distriet, to which they moved when Millard was ; years old. They were members of the United Brethren ch, and lived earnest, conseientious, Christian lives. In

1901 they retired from the farm and spent their declining years in quiet enjoyment at Salem, Harrison Couaty, where his father died, Sunday, April 21, 1912, and his mother, Sunday, March 12, 1922.

The family were all industrious and during hia boyhood Millard Fillmore did his share of the hard work that was necessary in elearing away tho forests and successfully operating a farm in that locality. Very early in life he determined to have an education, and by diligent study in the public schools, which were only three and four-month terms at that time, he was ablo to commence teaching school when he was twenty years old, and spent most of the next six years in the schoolroom, alternating as student and teacher. After attending several terms at the State Normal School, at Fairmont, he entered the State Uni- versity, where he graduated from the law department in 1887 with the degree of LL. B. Mr. Snider located at West Union, Doddridge County, in the fall of 1887, and immediately engaged in the practice of the law, where he continued until 1898, when he sought a wider field and chose Clarksburg as the best suited for his professional work. He has been amply rewarded.

Miss Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of the late Judge Chap- man J. Stuart, of West Union, became his wife in 1892. They have one daughter, Virginia Ann, who graduated at Goueher College, and is now the wife of J. Ransel Romine, of Clarksburg. They all live on East Main Street, belong to the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is con- tented and happy.

CHARLES BELL WYLIE, M. D. Morgantown is justly notable for the skill, learning and high character of the individuals who compose its medical fraternity, and the profession here numbers among its members those whose scientific attainments are beyond the ordinary. Among those well known for their accomplishments along apecial lines is Dr. Charles Bell Wylie, whose career is typical of modern advancement, and whose reputation is based upon his achievements as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

Doctor Wylie was born in Haneock County, West Vir- ginia, October 8, 1863, a son of Andrew J. and Elizabeth C. (Atkinson) Wylie. His father was also a native of Haneoek County, and was a son of David Wylie, of Seoteh birth, an early settler of Hancock County, where he was the first man elected to the office of sheriff after the county was created. When he entered upon his career Andrew J. Wylie chose the vocation of farming, and this he followed for a number of years, but later in life owned and operated a machine shop at New Cumberland, West Virginia, where both he and his wife died.

The boyhood days of Doctor Wylie were spent on the home farm and at New Cumberland, where he received his early education. As a youth he learned the machinist's trade, at which he worked for several years, and while not otherwise employed in the shop devoted his every apare minute to the study of medicine. Later he worked at his trade in the summer months and attended the medical de- partment of the Western University of Pennsylvania in the winter seasons, and eventually entered Hering Medical College, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Ile did not cease being a student with the securing of his diploma, for later he took post-graduate work at the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, the Chicago Post-Graduate College, the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York City, the Philadelphia Polyclinic, and the Wills Eye Hospital, Phila- delphia.

Doctor Wylie entered general practice at Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1903, and two years later begaa specializing, limiting his praetiee to treatment of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. On June 1, 1913, he located at Morgantown, where he has since continued in practice as a specialist in treating the organs above named. In his practice he has shown his familiarity not only with old methods but with the new that are constantly being dis-

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covered, and his service has ever been discharged with a conscientious sense of professional obligation, always re- membering that he belongs to a body set apart, one that more than any other is helpful to humanity. Doetor Wylic is a member of the Monongalia County Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medieal Society, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Ophthal- mology and Oto-Laryngology and the International Con- gress of Ophthalmology. He is a past president and past secretary of the county society. As a fraternalist he be- longs to Keystone Lodge No. 35, K. P., of Chattanooga, Tennessee, of which he is a past commander, and also holds membership in the Morgantown Rotary Club. The personal impression given by Doctor Wylic is quieting and satisfy- ing, inspiring confidence and commanding respect.

Doctor Wylie married Miss Cora Hopkins, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who died leaving a son and a danghter: Adda May, who married Norbert Kramer, of Pittsburgh, where they reside; and Charles Raymer, now of St. Louis, Mis- souri, who married Clara Kester, formerly of Urbana, Missouri. The present Mrs. Wylie was formerly Miss Madie Elizabeth Allison, of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

RAYMOND EARL KERR. The profession of civil engineering attracts to it only men of wide vision and serious and con- structive mind, and what it has achieved in America alone, even within the lifetime of a middle-aged man of today, is stupendous to calculate. The pioneering civil engineer is one of the greatest of aids to civilization and world-wide commerce. West Virginia, with her noble mountains to be crossed and her beantiful streams to be bridged, has pro- duced able men in this profession, and one who has become far more than locally prominent is Raymond Earl Kerr, who has been concerned in many important construction projects at Morgantown and elsewhere.

Mr. Kerr was born at Parkersburg, West Virginia, Feb- ruary 12, 1884, and is a son of Charles Hugh and Lillie (Atkinson) Kerr, a grandson of Samuel Kerr, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Charles Kerr, who removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1792.

Charles Hugh Kerr was born in 1849, at Newport, Olio, and died in 1911, at Parkersburg, West Virginia, having located in that city in 1883. He was one of the early oil men in the West Virginia oil territory and became widely known. He married Miss Lillie Atkinson, who still sur- vives and resides at Parkersburg. She was born at Cam- eron, Ohio, a daughter of Isaae Atkinson, a prominent business man for many years at Marietta, Ohio, and largely interested in the oil industry even before the war between the states.

Raymond E. Kerr attended the public schools of Par- kersburg, and later attended West Virginia University, where he took a course in civil engineering. He has prac- tieally devoted himself to this profession ever since, and during the greater part of his professional and business life has made his home at Morgantown. Mr. Kerr's pro- fessional work was in association with the Little Kanawha Syndicate at Parkersburg. When the syndicate built the Buckhannon & Northern Railroad, now the Monongahela, Mr. Kerr was secured as assistant chief engineer, and the contraet was most satisfactorily completed. He later be- came identified with the Morgantown & Wheeling Railroad. This railway line, like many others within the past few years, met with business difficulties and since 1918 Mr. Kerr has been receiver of this property. Aside from his pro- fession he is interested in a number of important business enterprises at Morgantown. He is vice president and treas- urer of the B. M. Chaplin Company, contractors and builders, which he organized in 1914. In 1913 he was one of the organizers of the Monongahela Supply Company of Morgantown, and is present secretary of this concern. In addition he is unofficially identified with a number of coal corporations and holds a large amount of valuable prop- erty in the West Virginia coal fields. He has a wide acquaintance and is held in high regard as a keen, able business man and thoroughly competent in his profession. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

In 1910 Mr. Kerr married Miss Frances Tucker, wl a daughter of Robert C. and Mary Frances (Smith) Tur of Parkersburg, West Virginia, and they have one daug Alice, who was born March 21, 1921. Mrs. Kerr is a D ber of the Episcopal Church. The political field has n attracted Mr. Kerr, but his good citizenship is nnmis able, and he is a valned member of the Morgantown Ch ber of Commerce. He belongs to the Rotary Club Morgantown Lodge No. 411, Benevolent and Prote Order of Elks, and still maintains membership interes his college fraternity, the Delta Tau Delta.

WILLIAM E. ARNETT. A resident of Morgantown for it than three decades and prominently identified with le business and financial interests of the city for an ea period, William E. Arnett, a cashier of the Second Natid Bank, is accounted one of the builders of Morganton's prosperity, a man whose ripened judgment and sterg traits of character have benefitted every enterprise 3h which he has been connected.

Mr. Arnett is in the sixth generation of his famila Monongalia County, where his ancestor, James Art settled soon after the close of the Revolutionary war. If the five sons of this pioncer, Andrew, the eldest, the d ancestor of William E., was born in New Jersey in 10 and died in Monongalia Couny in 1820. He mai Elizabeth Leggett, and their son, James, great-grandfa of William E., was the first postmaster of Arnettse Monongalia Connty, which postoffice was named in honor. His son, Eleazer Arnett, was the grandfather William E. and his son, John B., who married Tali Billingsby, was the father of William E.

William E. Arnett was born at Maidsville, Monongi County, August 3, 1866, and received his education thre attendance at the public schools. He commenced hist dependent career as a clerk in a general store at the agy nineteen years, but in 1889 turned his attention to bang when he entered the Second National Bank of Morgantz in the capacity of teller. In 1901 he was elected cashich that institution, and for twenty years has continued to charge eapably the duties of that post. Primarily a bail and known as a careful, capable conservator of the inte b of the depositors of the institution with which he is nected, Mr. Arnett also bas been identified with numes other interests, and at present is connected with a nura of business and financial concerns which have benef materially through his ability, experience and good jg ment. He likewise has been active in eivie, social and publie affairs. For a number of years he acted in capacity of city recorder, an office in which he rendered people of Morgantown sterling services. He is a meier, of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal Chil and has been a liberal supporter of religion and movent making for a higher order of morality. In fact, any e prise that promises to be effective, constructive and gressive will find a supporter in Mr. Arnett. As a ternalist he holds membership in the Masons, Indepen Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.

In 1888 Mr. Arnett married Miss Della Echart, who in 1900, leaving two children: Grace, who married Chi T. Herd; and Roy. Mr. Arnett married Iva E. Lovett, four children were born to this union: Mildred E., Wil E., Mary Louise and James L.

AARON J. GARLOW. The splendid success which has tended the fortunes of the Second National Bank of gantown attests the sagacity, foresight and financial of its president, Aaron J. Garlow, whose watchful care fidelity have contributed to its upbuilding and perpetua ne The life of the banker is less conspicuous before the wh than that of a member of a learned profession, or of who mingles in public affairs, but is none the less ond arduous labor, through engrossment, and requiring a order or organizing talent, watchfulness of the trendof affairs, and financial skill. The wrecks of financial bb which started on their voyages with favoring winds y brilliant prospects, scattered all along the reefs w. border business waters, prove how uncertain and caprices

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tceess in banking life. The strictest fidelity, the utmost uhfulness, good judgment and experience are often un- vling to counteract the effects of contraction in monetary hits, the casualties of bad crops and unprofitable busi- e, as well aa a multitude of other influences which render .itions unstable. For more than a quarter of a century president of this institution Mr. Garlow has guided its inies into the safe port of prosperity, and its soundness stability redound immeasurably to his credit and estab- a firmly his personal reputation as an able banker.

r. Garlow was a native of West Virginia and is descended wi one of the pioneer families of Monongalia County. Hle born on the old Garlow homestead in Cass District, [ ongalia County, November 4, 1858, and is a son of the @ John Garlow. His paternal great-grandfather was Estopher Garlow, who settled on land secured from the ed States Government in Cass Township in 1772. Estopher Garlow's son, Andrew Garlow, the grandfather faron J., was born in New Jersey, and was a youth la he accompanied his parents to Monongalia County. er his marriage he settled on his farm on Crooked Run 'ass District, and there rounded out a long and honor b career in the pursuits of agriculture. John Garlow, son of Andrew and father of Aaron J. Garlow, was Di in Cass District in 1812, and received a public school lation. In making his choice of a career he followed The footsteps of his father and adopted farming and akraising. A man of industry and good judgment, as « as of inherent ability, he developed large interests in way of landed possessions and was not only a prosperous eral farmer, but was also a leader in the business of eing in horses, cattle and sheep of his own raising. As i possessions increased he utilized his business ability and 1 judgment in dealing in real estate, and in this direc- « greatly increased the value of his estate, which was a Le one at his death. Mr. Garlow was a man of the ·test integrity, who bore an excellent reputation in his munity, not alone in business matters, but beeause of i publie spirited citizenship. He married Miss Susan ka, the daughter of Enoch Ross, an early settler of Liongalia County.

aron J. Garlow acquired his education in the public bols of C'ass Distriet, and, being reared to agricultural Quits, was engaged therein for a number of years. Like ifather and grandfather, he was successful in his opera- os both as a farmer and a raiser of livestock, but his busi- and financial ability eventually led him to the city, he oving to Morgantown in 1900. Prior to this time, in Et, he had become a member of the Board of Directors f he Second National Bank of Morgantown, and in the owing year was elected president of that institution, a tion in which he has remained to the present time. He Iwise has numerous other interests, having been identified 'ı a number of leading industries, all of which have mited through his connection with them. He is presi- t; of the Morgantown lee Company, of the Union Trac- " Company and of the Monongalia Building and Loan sociation. Ile is treasurer of the Rosedale Coal Com- ty of Morgantown, which in 1921 was mining and ping a train of thirty-two cars daily. He was for many 's treasurer of the Morgantown Hardware Company, Il succeeded by his son, Homer G. Garlow, in that [tion. Mr. Garlow is a member of the American Bank- Association. He has always shown a public-spirited in- est in civic affairs, and has lent his influence, time and Ins in the forwarding of movements which have promised .id in the development and progress of his city. With i family he belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of I gantown.

1 1884, in Monongalia County, Mr. Garlow was united laarriage with Miss Rebecca Carothers, the daughter of (a W. Carothers, an agriculturist of this county, and to a union there have been born two children: Sadie, who is h wife of Dr. Harry G. Crow, a practicing physician of 4th Bend, Indiana; and Homer Gay, treasurer of the gantown Hardware Company and operator of the ental farm.

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SPENCER S. WADE, M. D. With thirty-seven years of continuous practice at Morgantown to his credit, Doctor Wade is one of the best known of Monongalia County's many excellent physicians. He has enjoyed some of the substantial honors as well as the heavier responsibilities of his profession, and his life has given increased dignity to a name that has been worthily identified with Monongalia County for four generations.

His father, the late Alexander L. Wade, was a pioncer in education, not only in his home state but in the nation. Alexander L. Wade was a son of George and Anna Wade. George Wade was born in Monongalia County, but soon after his marriage removed to Indiana. He returned to Monongalia County in 1839, and died there in 1846. Ilis wife, Anna, was a native of Washington County, Virginia. Alexander L. Wade was born in Rush County, Indiana, February 1, 1832, and was seven years of age when his parents removed to Monongalia County. Ile was only six- teen when he began teaching. Ile left the schoolroom when he was elected clerk of the Monengalia Court in 1861, and at that time removed his residence to Morgantown. In 1871 he was elected clerk of the county board of super- visors. Following this service he resumed teaching, and for four years was principal of the Morgantown graded schools and also assistant county superintendent. Later he was elected county superintendent of schools of Monongalia County, and by re-election served until 1879. The con- spicuous service be rendered in education was in raising the standards and in giving new vitality and method to country schools. In many states it has been only within comparatively recent years that his plan has been adopted of graduating students from country and district schools. The late Alexander L. Wade undertook the organization of graduating classes in the country schools of his county as early as 1874. The first such classes were graduated and given diplomas in the spring of 1876. It was something decidedly new in metheds of common and grade schools throughout the country, and naturally attracted widespread attention. Alexander Wade was given credit for this work by General Eaton, then commissioner of the National Bureau of Education at Washington in his report of 1878. In 1879 Mr. Wade began writing his book entitled "A Graduate System for Country Schools," which he completed in 1881. In 1880, at his own request, he was appointed principal of the Morgantown colored schools. Ilis object in seeking the appointment was a desire not only to prove the value of his own methods, but to demonstrate the capa- bilities of the colored race in receiving educational train- ing. Ilis experience was gratifyingly successful on both scores. In February, 1884, before the National Association of School Superintendents at Washington, Mr. Wade dis- cussed "Supervision in the Country Schools," his paper being published by the National Bureau of Education. From 1881 to 1884, inclusive, he served as a lecturer and institute instructor.

Ile was licensed as a local preacher by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1860, was constituted a deacon in 1866 and ordained an elder in 1874. As a delegate he repre- sented the West Virginia Lay Electoral Conference in the General Conference of that church held in Philadelphia, and served several years as agent and distributor for the American Bible Society. He was a member of the West Virginia Temperance Executive Committee. For several years he represented the school book interests of the Lippincett Publishing Company of Philadelphia and later the D. C. Heath Company of Boston. Among other honors ha was elected, in June, 1880, to membership in the Amer- ican Institute of Civics at Boston, and later was chosen one of its counsellors.

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