History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 123

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Mr. Lucas was born in Floyd County, Virginia, October 24, 1890, son of Aquilla Q. and Allie (Iddings) Lucas. His father was a farmer, and by thrift and industry gained a fair competence for himself and family. He was superin- tendent of his Sunday school and a very active member of the Methodist Church and was a Virginian republican. He has reached the age of fifty-five and his wife is fifty years of age. Their family consisted of three sons and three daughters, four of whom still live in old Virginia. One daughter, Mrs. K. E. Barham, lives at Kimball, West Virginia.

Henry A. Lueas attended school at Terrys Fork in his native county and acquired his advanced training at Roan- oke. He took a course in architecture with the Inter- national Correspondence School, and spent one year in the architect's office of H. M. Miller at Roanoke. He then established a business of his own at Kimball, West Vir- ginia, and was soon engaged in contracting as well as in the architectural business. In 1914 he moved his business head- quarters to Bluefield.

The important construction work he has done would com- prise a long and interesting list. It includes the Hill Motor Company Garage at Welch, Via Realty Company Apart- ments at Welch, Hill & Swope Department Store at Welch, Steam Laundry at Welch, residences of A. C. Hufford, J.

H. Crockett; store building for the King Coal Compat at Kimball, residence of the general manager of that er pany at Kimball, the A. P. World Store, two store buildn for L. H. Miller, hotel for L. C. Lucas, First National Ba Building of Kimball; department store for Harry Totz Northfork and the Toney Department Store at Northfor hotel at Mullins; Hemphill-Caples High School and colo' high school at Kimball; Junior High School at Eckm school at Herndon in Wyoming County, Virginia; st building for the Wright Drug Company and many othe

On September 24, 1914, Mr. Lueas married Mabel Sisson, daughter of T. S. Sisson, of Otey, Montgom County, Virginia. They have three children, Beatrice H. A., Jr., and James H. The family are members of Methodist Church. Mr. Lucas is affiliated with the Masc Order, Bluefield Lodge No. 85, Wheeling Consistory No. and the York and Shrine, also with the Elks and Knig of Pythias, is a member of the Chamber of Commer does his voting as a republican and while living at Kimb held the office of recorder.

WILLIAM A. BODELL. A number of business conce: have been developed at Bluefield that have a service a distribution of facilities radiating out over a wide territo Among them is the heating and plumbing establishment William A. Bodell, a business service that now extends at least three states. Mr. Bodell learned heating and plun ing engineering when a young man, and for many years ) been in business on his own account. He is prominen connected in business eireles at Bluefield, where he is a president of the Acme Motor Company and is associal with the Cole Realty Company.

He was born at Newmarket, Shenandoah County, V ginia, December 9, 1874, son of George M. and Ella (Clinedinst) Bodell. His father was a Confederate sold · and was captured and spent six months in a northern pris He was a coach painter by trade, afterward became a c riage manufacturer at Newmarket, and in 1888 removed Charleston, West Virginia. He was an active member of 1 Methodist Church. He died at the home of his son Princeton, Mereer County, in 1918, at the age of seven two. His first wife died in I8SI, at the age of thirty-o She was the mother of three children: John and Char] both deceased, and William A. The second wife of Geor M. Bodell was Miss Mitta Figgatt, who is now living Roanoke, Virginia. Her four children are: Russell B., the heating and plumbing business at Princeton, Mer County, West Virginia; Thomas, in a similar business Springfield, Ohio; Nellie, wife of Phil Spicer; and All wife of Bailey Wieks, superintendent of schools at N Market.

William A. Bodell acquired his early advantages in 1. schools of New Market and Staunton, Virginia. He beg his apprenticeship in a printing establishment at Charleste West Virginia, at the age of fifteen. For six years worked for others, and then started filling contracts j himself. For a short time he had J. A. Graham as partner. He then continued the business alone, and la' became associated with the West Virginia Heating a Plumbing Company. This corporation had plants in varic localities, and in 1901 Mr. Bodell was sent to Bluefield take the management of the Bluefield branch. In 1910 bought the business, and has since continued it as sı proprietor. He has handled some of the largest contra for the installation of heating and plumbing facilities and around Bluefield, and his business also extends over large number of West Virginia counties and portions Virginia and North Carolina.

Mr. Bodell is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal AI Chapter and Knight Templar Commandery of the Masc at Bluefield, the Shrine at Charleston, is a member of t Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, and is a democr He is much interested in Sunday school work. He is Methodist, while Mrs. Bodell is a Presbyterian. He ma ried Miss Amy Miller in 1897. Her father was James ' Miller, of Hinton, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Bod have one daughter, Ruth.

Yours truly OR. Stanard

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SCAR LEE STANARD is one of the fortunate men of his President of the O. L. Stanard Dry Goods Company, intington wholesale house, and head of a large number etail stores, his business success has been on a sub- ial plane for a number of years. But his good fortune ot solely on the score of commercial achievement. has the kindly attitude of a man of affairs and an Ifish interest and leadership in objects and movements dle the scope of his driving business power. More- he has the heritage of old Virginia families of the test social and historieal prominence. While the reader first be gratified with a brief account of his individual pr, it will also be appropriate to add, consistent with permitted. some notes on his aneestry and some of harming personalities in both the dircet and collateral ches of this family.

. Stanard was born at Enon in Nicholas County, Virginia, February 13, 1878. He acquired a good ation through attending publie schools and the Summer- I Normal Senool, and began his career as a school her in the winter of 1897-98. In the following spring ent to work in the store of his uncle, J. D. Carden, lay, West Virginia, and the next step in his rapid ot of the commercial ladder was as traveling salesman the wholesale dry goods house of Abney-Barnes Com-

of Charleston. He began with that firm in 1900, Mafter a short experience was ranked as one of the rest individual contributors to the annual volume of mess of the firm. He became a stockholder in the pany and also went into partnership with individuals blishing a string of retail stores that would add to epermanent value of the wholesale house. For several as he was secretary treasurer of the Abney-Barnes many.

the latter part of 1913 Mr. Stanard moved to Hunt- gn. He established here the Croft-Stanard Company, hich he is still a director and stockholder. Several Es later he founded the O. L. Stanard Dry Goods many as a wholesale dry goods and merchant house, kin four years that business grew from a volume of (.000 to more than $1,500.000, and it now does an ual business of over $1,500,000. Mr. Stanard is presi- ur of this company, and he is financially interested kis president of some thirty odd retail stores located West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, with an annual liess in excess of four and one-half million dollars. es also a director and the first vice president of the u. Bank & Trust Company.

h interested associate and a sharer in his business ess and his career has been Mrs. Stanard. Her maiden it was Mary Marjorie Odgen, daughter of Hon. Howard Ogden. of Fairmont. Mr. and Mrs. Stanard were mied June 18, 1912. Their children are Ella Jean and ley Josephine Stanard.

1. Stanard has served as director of the Huntington miber of Commerce, is a member of the Rotary Club, eArkwright Club of New York, the Country Club at mington, and is a Royal Arch Knights Templar and ry-second degree Seottish Rite Mason. He is a mem- rf the Missionary Baptist Church. His business affairs engrossed his attention to the exclusion of politics, te was elected by his party as delegate to the National meratie Convention in San Francisco, June, 1920. Mr. Bird is still a comparatively young man, has won ess with many years of activity still in promise, and has been exceedingly generous in his association with il younger men and has helped a number to get a real 1. One of the early principles of his life's eonduet, i'fully adhered to, was the habit of systematic giving, the practiced it when his ineome was modest and has Fit up on a proportional scale in the years of his Linee.

3. Stanard represents the eighth generation of this ny, beginning with his first American ancestor. Long fe the family eame to America it was well known orfolk and other sections of England. The earlier r of spelling was Stannard. Many members of the I nglish family were the followers of such skilled trades

as weaving, painting and gilding, and the artistic parents came to tine tlower in such notable artists as Joseph Stanard (1796-1830), Alfred Stanard (1806-1889) and others.

The first settler of the family in Virginia was William Stanard, who was a prominent citizen of Middlesex County during the latter part of the seventeenth century. About 1677 he married Eltonhead Conway, widow of Henry Thaeker and daughter of Edwin Conway, of Lancaster County, representing a family of high rank. She was the niece of the wives of three Council members, and also of the wife of Governor Sir Henry Chicheley. William Stanard was a vestryman of Christ Church Parish. Ile and his wife, Eltonhead, had three children. The young- est of them, named William, was born February 16, 1652, and died in 1732. For seventeen years prior to his death he was elerk of Middlesex County, and, like his father, was a vestryman in Christ Church parish. His first wife was Anne Ilazlewood, who left him a daughter, Ann. In 1717 he married Elizabeth Beverly, daughter of Capt. Harry Beverly and maternal granddaughter of Maj. Gen. Robert Smith. Her paternal grandfather. Robert Beverly, eame to the colonies in the seventeenth century. The Beverly family was one of much prominence in that see- tion of Virginia. The only son of William and Elizabeth Stanard was named Beverly, and that name became in- ereasingly popular in this family. The Stanard family was well to do, and the home was comfortably furnished, statements that are attested by some of the inventories of household property found in the wills of that generation.

Beverly Stanard, representing the third generation, in- herited most of his mother's property. He was twenty-six years of age when he died. He had already served as justice and sheriff of Middlesex County, and in 1750 he moved to Spottsylvania County. His residence at Rox- bury in that county was one of the first built, and is still standing. His estate of about 16,000 aeres passed out of the possession of his descendants about twenty years ago. The wife of Beverly Stanard was Elizabeth Chew, daughter of Larkin Chew. Beverly Stanard died in 1765. and his tombstone still stands at Roxbury. Of his two sons and one daughter the older son was named William, and he was the direet ancestor of the Huntington business man. William and his brother Larkin were soldiers in the war of the Revolution, William with the rank of captain. Both brothers beeame prominent in local polities, William serving as sheriff of Spottsylvania 'County in 1882-84. The name Roxbury was changed to Stanards- ville in his honor, and is now the county seat of Greene County. Both William and Larkin Stanard had sons named Beverly, and the two cousins married daughters of Judge William Fleming. These marriages connected the Stanards with some of the most distinguished Colonial families of Virginia. The Flemings wore lineal deseend- ants from Sir John Fleming, first Earl of Wigton, Seot- land. A great-grandson of Sir John was Col. John Fleming, who married Mary Bolling, great-granddaughter of John Rolfe and the famous Indian maiden Pocahontas. The Stanard-Fleming branch of the family has produced many conspicuous members, ineluding the great Virginia jurist, Judge Robert Stanard, who married the Virginia beauty. Jane Craig, who was the inspiration for some of Edgar Allen Poe's poems. Judge Robert Stanard had one of the most beautiful homes in the old City of Richmond.

However, the direet line of descent to O. L. Stanard from William Stanard of Stanardsville is not through the son Beverly, but through the son William, Jr. This Wil- liam married Elizabeth Branch, of Powhatan County. He was the fourth Stanard in direet succession to take a bride of the name Elizabeth. This couple were the parents of seven children, all of whom reached mature years and married, their allianees being made with such notable families as Taliaferro, Hume, Taylor, Woolfolk, Eddins and LeBarow.

The third ehild in this generation was Lawrence Stan- ard, grandfather of the Huntington merchant. Lawrence Stanard was born at Stanardsville, Spottsylvania County, Virginia, and was the first of his line to move out of

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the old state. In 1836 he settled at Enon, Nicholas County, West Virginia, where he developed extensive agricultural interests. He married Mary E. Taylor, of Charleston, South Carolina. Lawrence Stanard died at Enon in 1890, and his wife, in the same place in 1907.

Their oldest son was William Taylor Stanard, who fol- lowed in his father's footsteps, became the owner of a farm at Enon, and was prominent in the agricultural circles of that section of West Virginia.

William Taylor Stanard, father of O. L. Stanard, mar- ried Mary Ella Carden, and thus became allied with an- other family of distinction. She was of Virginian and English aneestry, and her father, David R. Carden, was a farmer of Buckingham County, Virginia, but died at Enon in West Virginia in 1864. The Carden family is an old English name, represented primarily in Cheshire County and also in County Kent, and after about 1650 in County Tipperary, Ireland. The Irish family of Cardens have been of the landed gentry of that country for over two centuries, and a number of their distinctions rest upon services as soldiers, diplomats and other high public posi- tions.

O. C. JENKINS is one of the veterans in the service of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company. He went to work for the A. M. & O. Railroad in his native city of Appomat- tox, Virginia. He has been in the service for over forty years, and since 1888 has been on duty at Bluefield, one of the pioneers of that town, and through his othee as agent representative for the railroad and through his private enterprise he has done much to stimulate the development of the city.

Mr. Jenkins was born at Appomattox, Virginia, son of William A. and Mary Frances (Tweedy) Jenkins. His father was a native of Appomattox and his mother of Campbell County, Virginia. William A. Jenkins owned a large farm in Appomattox County. He was wounded while performing duty for the Confederate government.

O. C. Jenkins grew up at Appomattox, acquired his edu- cation there, and his first experience in railroading was as office boy for R. F. Burke with the old A. M. & O. Railroad, now a part of the Norfolk & Western system. While per- forming his routine of duties he learned telegraphy and made himself familiar with all the duties of station agent. His first important promotion was to office relief man on the road from Lynchburg to Norfolk, and he also did station work along the line from Lynchburg to Bristol. He was station agent and operator at New River when the road was extended from New River to Pocahontas, Virginia. When this branch was completed the president of the rail- road made a visit to the mines, and on his special train carried out a car of the first Pocahontas coal mined. This car was presented to the mayor of Norfolk, Col. William Lamb, and Mr. Jenkins handled the message of presenta- tion. Later Mr. Jenkins was transferred to Narrows as station agent and operator, and then to Graham, where he was located when the road was extended to Norton, Vir- ginia.

In 1888 he came to Bluefield as freight agent for the Norfolk & Western, and has had a continuous service here for over thirty years, so that his name is practically synony- mous with all the service represented by the Norfolk & Western Railroad. He has been a loyal and faithful employe of the railroad corporation, and at the same time has been sensible to his obligations of trust to the com- munity.

Many years ago Mr. Jenkins and the ticket agent, Mr. L. A. Dunn, became associated in a business way. The firm of Jenkins & Dunn established a coal business, which has since been incorporated as the Standard Fuel and Snp- ply Company, of which Mr. Jenkins is president. He and associates first opened their Twin Branch Mining Company in MeDowell Connty, West Virginia. They also opened the Orinoco mines on Pond Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, selling their property, and then opened the Fall Branch Coal Company in Mingo County, West Virginia, and have been interested in coal and other developments.

Mr. Jenkins has served as a member of the city council.

He is a past master of Bluefield Lodge No. 85, F. ar M., and is a democrat in politics. He is active ir Bluefield Chamber of Commerce and is a member o: Country Club. In religious affiliation he is a Baptist, Mrs. Jenkins is a Presbyterian.

Mrs. Jenkins before her marriage was Lucy D. Ru daughter of Capt. Isaac M. Rucker, of Campbell Co Virginia. They have one son, O. Rucker Jenkins, nc the coal business. Their daughter, Lney Gladys, is wife of Charles W. Scott, of Bluefield, and their unma daughter is Miss Mary V. Jenkins.

ALTON L. SMITH. Long experience in the practical tails has made Alton L. Smith a thoroughly expert trical engineer. For the past ten years he has been expert manager of the West Virginia Armature Com of Bluefield, of which he is vice president and ger manager. This is one of the more important indu; of Bluefield, and the company was organized Septe 1, 1911, with W. A. Bishop, president, Mr. Smith, president, and W. A. Bailey, secretary and treasurer. company started with a very small shop, but there been a steady and satisfactory growth of the bus and its service and output now cover a large teri around Bluefield. The company first rented a small on the north side of the railroad tracks from the Supi Supply Company, but the business is now housed new plant, with every facility of modern equipment cated on Bluefield Avenue and Pine Street.

Alton L. Smith was born in Monroe County, West ginia, at Lillydale, December 24, 1881, son of Jamel and Harriet Houston (Vass) Smith. James P. S was a carpenter, contractor and builder, and for a nux of years lived at Hinton, West Virginia, where he a in 1900, at the age of fifty-one. The mother and two daughters now live at Sulphur Springs, Virginia

Alton L. Smith, being the only son, had to assume sponsibilities as a boy and at the age of sixteen bem the principal support of the family. His two sister in now teachers. He acquired his early education in M.po County and at Hinton, and at the age of fifteen we. work in the marble establishment at Hinton owne by R. E. Moel. He was there two years, and then found in the line where his talents have been chiefly exprepd. For two years he was night engineer at Hinton fo h Light & Power Company, and then took charge of b lighting system of the Dunglen Hotel at Thurman, E was next employed as electrician by the Nutall Coalad Coke Company at Nutall, West Virginia, and two an later joined the Pocahontas Fuel Company as electna at Switchback. He was in charge at Switchback for re years, and on leaving that corporation moved to Bluek and assisted in organizing the West Virginia Armin Company.

In 1910 Mr. Smith married Lulu Crow, daught( P. C. Crow, of Switchback. They have five children, Harry, Helen, Jack and Nancy Jane. Mr. and Mrs. Sit are members of the Methodist Church. In politics he to for the man rather than for the party, and is dph interested in civic affairs, always taking a progrin attitude.

HARRY LAMBRIGHT SNYDER. During a period of my years Harry Lambright Snyder has been editor and al lisher of the Shepherdstown Register, and in this m has also been an active factor in the promulgationm development of movements which have played a conspi auf part in the progress and advancement of his native co Aside from journalism his interests have centered cipally in the causes of religion and education, br worthy movements of whatever character have hachi support and the benefit of his influence.

Mr. Snyder was born at Shepherdstown, Jefferson ty, West Virginia, October 11, 1861, a son of John Sie who was born at Saarbrucken, Bavaria, Germany, Fm ary 19, 1823, a grandson of Theobold Snyder, of the place, and a great-grandson of Jacob Snyder, also a 1 of Saarbrucken. Jacob Snyder remained in his native@

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1827, in which year he immigrated to the United ·s, and in the following year settled at Shepherdstown, e he followed his trade as a weaver and lived to the nred age of ninety years. ITe was buried in the Re- ed Church graveyard. ITis son, Theobold, who par- ated in one of the early and unsuccessful rebellions Germany, fled to the United States and spent the of the remainder of his life at Shepherdstown. He ied Louise Klein, also a native of Saarbrucken, and children were: John, Peter, Jacob and George.

„hn Snyder was seven years of age when brought by warents to the United States, and as a youth he learned trade of tailor. which he followed until the outbreak he Civil war. Ile volunteered for service in the Con- ate Army, and was accepted and assigned for duty ompany B. Second Regiment, Virginia Volunteer In- wy. with which he served faithfully and valiantly until bally wounded at the battle of the Wilderness. dving lexandria June 1, 1964. Mr. Snyder married, June 1845. at Frederick. Maryland, Rachel Lambright, who tonrn at Frederick, Maryland, August 11, 1823. daughter George Lambright, and a granddaughter of Michael le Regina (Sponseller) Lambright. Mrs. Snyder, who Iso deceased. reared the following children: Ella, hel Louise, Marv Virginia, Annie Hammond, George Rose, John William and Harry Lambright.

irry Lambright Snyder received his education in the tie schools of Shepherdstown and at Shepherd College. was a youth served an apprenticeship to the printer's æ in the office of the Shepherdstown Register. From to 1882 he was employed in the United States Govern- e printing office at Washington, D. C., and then returned hepherdstown and became proprietor, publisher and lir of the Shepherdstown Register, of which he has Acomplete control for a period of forty years. This well-edited. well-presented and influential publication, it a large circulation at Shepherdstown and the terri- r contiguous thereto, and is thoroughly reliable in all hets. Mr. Snyder is known as a newspaper man of o than passing ability and has a wide acquaintance journalistie eireles of West Virginia and Maryland. ehas served two terms, or eight years, as a member Je Board of Regents of the normal schools of West iinia, and has also been a member of the Board of istors of the Hospital for the Insane at Spencer. Fra- rilly he is affiliated with Monnt Nebo Lodge, No. 91. .7. and A. M. Mr. Snyder has frequently been a plate of the Virginia Synod and the United Lutheran brh of America since its formation, and took an active 11 in the organization thereof.

{ April 29. 1884, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mir. n or married Miss Ida Laura Baldwin, who was born Philadelphia, May 29, 1858, and died July 28, 1907. e father, William Lindsay Baldwin. served as chief missioner of highways in Philadelphia, and married n.lina Titus. To Mr. and Mrs. Snyder there were born wehildren: Louise Anna, who received her preparatory Itition at Shepherd College, graduated from Goucher ge in 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, mar- Lawrence Moore Lynch, of Chattanooga. Tennesare, whas two children, Ida Baldwin and Isabelle: William win, whe graduated from Shepherd College in 1909, glemented this by attendance at Washington and Lee nersity, later became manager and local editor of the b.herdstown Register, is a member of the A. E. F., big served fourteen months in France in the air service. M married Martha Jean White, by whom he has one Thter, Jean; Rose Eleanor, who graduated from Shep- ht College in 1911, married Charles Franklin Lyne and ne daughter. Rose Mary; Rachel, who graduated from b.herd College in 1911, now makes her home with her Iter: and Harry Lambright, Jr., a student of West Linia University, where he is editor of the college Mial and also takes an active part in varsity athletics.

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