History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 125

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matter with his lands devastated, labor scarce and efficient and his farming stock gone. He was furt harassed by being obliged to pay in legal tender w. compelled to receive the discredited Confederate notes any debt due him. He died July 10, 1866.

February 6, 1840, James William Gray married Mar Tane Gilbert. She was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, dangl of Edward and Elizabeth (Patterson) Gilbert, and born in Frederick County, Virginia, April 23, 1823. died February 2, 1893, having survived her husband ove quarter of a century. Her mother, Elizabeth Patters was an only child whose parents died during her infa and she was reared by her grandparents, who had im grated from Ulster and settled in Frederick County. became their sole heir, inheriting from them a large ft and other property. James W. Gray and wife had ei children, six daughters and two sons.

The oldest daughter, Mary, married Frank Silver Now ber 6, 1867. She resides in Martinsburg with her son, lIon. Gray Silver.

Virginia married Lient. Robert Hanson Stewart, the Confederate Army, a number of years her sen Lieutenant Stewart died in 1879 and she in 1880. Th were no children.

Elizabeth married Congressman George M. Bowers ; lives in Martinsburg with her family.

The older son, John David Gray, living at Needmore Berkeley County, a widower without children, was educa at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Virgin is a Presbyterian and a democrat.

The younger son, J. William Gray, was educated at Shenandoah Valley Academy and at the Wherry Sch at Worsham, Virginia, being a member of the Kappa Sig fraternity at Worsham. He offered himself for service the war with Spain but was rejected because of phys disability. He took an active interest in politics, wa, leading democrat of his section, but refused several n inations. Like his father, he was fond of versifying. liked to take his dogs and gun and go afield, but he selč returned with bloody trophies, although a good shot. -

pockets of his hunting coat bulged with pebbles, she bulbs, roots and plants instead of game. He died Octo 5, 1904. He married Harriet Wilson, but had no child Both these sons were men of unimpeachable integrity, g citizens and good neighbors, with a large charity for limitations and short comings of others and frank rec nition of their own. One of the unmarried daughters d young. Two survive. Among the descendants of Ju Gray may be found members of the Daughters of Confederacy, the Daughters of the American Revoluti the Alumnae of the Mary Baldwin Seminary, Fairfax I and other institutions and organizations.

MISS LYNNE WADDELL, principal of the Grant Dist: High School in Preston County, is a native of that cou and one of the best educated of its native daughters. A Waddell has taught in some of the higher institutions education, but the service that has called out her great enthusiasm has been the educational progress and up of her home locality.

Her grandfather, John Matthew Waddell, came fi Frostburg, Maryland, to Preston County in 1844 and est lished his home on the hill overlooking the village of Bri ton. He remained there the rest of his life, continuing trade as a shoemaker. He married Sophia Fogle. T were the parents of two children, Richard B. and Rac. The latter died as the wife of Henry Myers, of Ellio ville, Pennsylvania.

Richard Bonaparte Waddell was born at Frostbl Maryland, September 14, 1837, and was seven years age when his parents moved to Preston County. He quired little or no schooling, but had a practical knowled of affairs and was deeply interested in the progress schools and in later life served as president of the lc Board of Education. He learned the trade of carpen and at the age of twenty-five went into the military serv during the Civil war, being commissioned by Gover Pierpont as captain in the One Hundred and Fourtee

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giment, Third Division, Tenth Brigade of the West rginia Militia. He was afterwards made third sergeant, mpany L, Sixth Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry, and bsequeatly quartermaster sergeant of Company E, Sixth est Virginia Regiment. In the closing months of his ilitary duty he was with his eommand at Fort Laramie, yoming, and while there made the acquaintance of the Indian chieftain Spotted Tail, and a warm friendship rang up between them. He remained on the frontier on lian duty until May 22, 1866. After the war he returned West Virginia, farmed and worked at his trade, and in 94 was elected a county commissioner and re-elected in 98. Ile proved a thorough and capable county official, ad he was also postmaster for six years at Clifton Mills udl was postmaster and merchant at Brandonville from 59 to 1902. The death of this good citizen occurred bruary 24, 1907. Richard Bonaparte Waddell married, ril 11, 1858, Lucy Anne Weyant, who was born January .1835, at Somerset, Pennsylvania, where her parents, .hn and Susan (Fichtner) Weyant, settled when they (me from Germany. She died September 11. 1919. lIer .Idren were: Mrs. Virginia Benson, of Uniontown, nnsylvania; Mrs. N. J. Chorpenning, of Mount Pleasant, Innsylvania; Miss Lynne, of Brandonville, West Virginia; &I Dr. C. W. Waddell, of Fairmont, West Virginia.

Miss Lynne Waddell to the age of twelve lived in the lage of Clifton Mills and thereafter at Brandonville. Le acquired a public school education there. Miss Waddell rs one of the first young women of Preston County to go ctside the state to complete her literary education. She wat four years in the college preparatory seientifie course Mount Carroll Seminary in Illinois. After returning Ime she took up teaching, subsequently taught three mars in the Glenville Normal School, and from there Etered the University of West Virginia, where she Ecialized in English and graduated A. B. in 1908.

For five years following her graduation from university .ss Waddell was in charge of the Department of English 1 Shepherd College, Shepherdtown, West Virginia. On riring from a work that entailed specially heavy duties g took a year's rest and resumed her profession as incipal of the high school at Albright, where she remained ur years, and for one year was at Newburg. She then ined actively in the crusade for better educational ad- Intages in Grant Distriet, and her high standing as an queator and long experience enabled her to give convine- ir arguments in behalf of the establishment of a modern Ich school for the district. She has been principal of the lzh school since 1919. For several years she was a meni- Ir of the County Texthook Board of Preston County, presenting Grant Distriet. She has also spent much time eluh work, boys and girls elub work and eamp fire work, ling girls' elub agent and instructor in sewing and super- tor in various branches of school and home activities. With the constitutional amendment granting universal iffrage Miss Waddell has accepted the opportunity to use Ir vote intelligently in behalf of good government and can candidates. She was reared in a republican home and 1920 voted for Harding for president. She is a mem- r of Shenandoah .Junetion Branch of the Eastern Star .d is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

JAMES ABRAHAM GRAHAM, M. D .. has been engaged in e practice of his profession in West Virginia for more an a quarter of a century, and for the past twenty years s been successfully established in active general practice the City of Fairmont. Marion County. He was born in eston County, this state. April 10, 1868, and is of Scoteh leage. His grandfather, Samuel Graham, was a pioneer Preston County, and there David Graham, father of the Detor, was born in 1536. His death occurred in 1892 and s entire active career was given to farm enterprise. He is a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war as a utenant in a West Virginia regiment. His wife, whose tiden name was Martha Field, likewise was a native of eston County, where she was born in 1840.

Doctor Graham attended the common sehools and summer rmal schools, and as a young man was a successful

teacher in the schools of his native county for three years. In 1896 he graduated from historie old Jefferson Medical College in the City of Philadelphia, and in the same year he engaged in practice at Kingwood, judicial center of his native county. Five years later he returned to Jefferson Medical College for a post-graduate course, and since 1902 he has been established in practice at Fairmont. JIe is an honored member of the Marion County Medical Society and holds membership also in the West. Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

At Kingwood, Preston County, in 1598, Doctor Graham wedded Miss Orpha Christopher, daughter of Irvin and Mary (King) Christopher, she having been born in that county in the year 1874. Doctor and Mrs. Graham have four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded : Pauline (Mrs. Lose), April 25. 1599; James P., October 19, 1904; Ben Irvin, September 17, 1912; and David Field, June 7, 1916.

EDGAR N. DEARDORFF. One of the well ordered and thoroughly modern establishments contributing to the com- mercial prestige of the City of Iluntington is the large and well equipped department store of the Deardorff.Sisler Company, of which Edgar N. Deardorff is president. This establishment, now one of the leading department stores in West Virginia, is situated on Ninth Street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, and it controls a large and representative supporting patronage. II. A. Robson is viee president of the company, and E. B. Sisler is its secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Deardorff was born in Putnam County, West Vir- ginia, November 23, 1864, a son of Isaac N. Deardorff, who was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1827, and who died at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1899. Isaac N. Deardorff was a son of Peter Deardorff, who was born in Virginia, in 1798, and who came to what is now Putnam County, West Virginia, in the year 1849, he having been one of the substantial farmers of this county at the time of his death, in 1880. Isaac N. Deardorff was a young man at the time when the family home was established in Putnam County, where he became a prosperous former and whence he removed to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1880. He there engaged in the hotel business, but he retired from active business a number of years prior to his death. Ile was a democrat, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Deardorff con- tinued to reside at Gallipolis until her death in 1920. She was born in the present Putnam County, West Virginia, in 1832, n representative of a sterling pioneer family of that county. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac N. Deardorff the eldest is Miss Alda W., who resides at Gallipolis, Ohio; Okley M. is the wife of William A. Horner, of that place: Camden R. is a railroad man and resides at Columbus, Ohio; Edgar N., of this sketch, was next in order of birth; William P. is a merchant at Gallipolis. Ohio; Miss Nannie E. likewise resides at Gal- lipolis; Betty R. is the wife of It. L. Cadot, of Columbus, Ohio.

In the publie schools of Putnam County Edgar N. Dear- dorff continued his studies until he was sixteen years of age, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Gallipolis, Ohio. For a time he was employed on a steamboat on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, and for ten years thereafter he was employed in mercantile establish- ments at Gallipolis. On the 4th of March, 1893, he there established a dry goods store, and he is still the head of the business, which has been developed into one of the most important of its kind in Gallia County. In 1915 Mr. Deardorff came to Huntington, where he has main- tained his residence since July Ist of that year. In October, 1912. he had here purchased the stock and business of the firm of Valentine & Crow, dealers in ready-to-wear gar. ments. In the expansion of the enterprise into one of general department-store order he finally effeeted the or- ganization and incorporation of the present Deardorff- Sisler Company, which has built up a large and representa- tive mereantile business, based on effective service and fair and honorable dealings.

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Mr. Deardorff is a democrat and is a liberal and pro- gressive citizen and business man who has had no ambition for public office. He is a director of the Huntington Banking & Trust Company, is president of the Retail Merchants Association of this city, is treasurer of the local Kiwanis Club, and is a director of the Commercial Savings Bank of Gallipolis, Ohio. His modern and attrac- tive residence in Huntington is at 1210 Eighth Street. He and his wife are zealous members of the First Metho- dist Episcopal Church at Huntington, and he is a member of its Board of Trustees. The Masonic affiliations of Mr. Deardorff are here briefly noted: Morning Dawn Lodge No. 7, A. F. and A. M., Gallipolis, Ohio; Gallipolis Chapter No. 79, R. A. M .; Moriah Council No. 32, R. and S. M., Gallipolis; the Rose Commandery No. 43, Knights Templar, at Gallipolis; the Scottish Rite Consistory at Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he has received the Thirty- second degree; and Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Charleston, West Virginia. He is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias and the United Commercial Travelers, as is he also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is an active member of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce and also of the Guyandotte Club and the Guyan Country Club.

At Gallipolis, Ohio, on the 14th of April, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Deardorff to Miss Lanna M. Snead, daughter of the late Frank M. and Sarah (Hap- tonstall Snead, the father having there been a successful contractor and builder for many years. In conclusion is entered the brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Deardorff : Herbert Carroll, born May 28, 1894, is his father's assistant in the department store, and is a veteran of the World war, in which he served as a member of the Fifteenth Field Artillery with the American Ex- peditionary Forces in France, where he took part in the major engagements of St. Mihiel, Chateau Thierry, Bel- leau Wood, and those on the Vesle River and also the Ar- gonne. His service in France and Germany covered a period of nineteen months. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and he married Miss Samantha Miller, of Gallipolis, that state. Frank N., born May 16, 1896, is an assistant in the department store of his father, and completed his education by attending the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia. He served thir- teen months in France, as a member of the Signal Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces. He is a popular member of the American Legion.

CARL ELIAS BEATY has had a well diversified business career in Marion County, but his active interests are now concentrated in the automobile industry, as president and general manager of the Standard Garage Company of Fair- mont.

Mr. Beaty was born at Mannington, West Virginia, July 6, 1884, son of Newton S. and Margaret Ann (Blackshere) Beaty, and grandson of James and Maria Beaty, both natives of Mannington. Newton S. Beaty was born at Mannington in 1838, spent the first part of his life as a farmer, and subsequently had extensive interests in real estate, specializing in the handling of coal and oil lands. In the latter part of his life he was a director of the Ex- change Bank of Mannington, an institution which he helped organize. He held that office at the time of his death in 1898. In the order of Masonry he was affiliated with Mannington Lodge No. 31, A. F. and A. M., Orient Chapter No. 9, R. A. M., Crusade Commandery No. 6, K. T., West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling, and also Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. His wife, Margaret Ann Blackshere, was born at Manning- ton in 1849, daughter of Elias and Eliza (Raymer) Black- slere, natives of Greene County, Pennsylvania, and of Scotch ancestry.

Carl E. Beaty, representing the third generation of the family at Mannington, attended the public schools of his native town, spent one year in the University of West Virginia, and left there in 1904 to continue his studies in Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he graduated with the degree Ph. G. in 1906. In August of that year

he entered the drug business at Mannington, and co tinued successfully in that line for seven years. Sellin out his store, he took up farming and the live stock bu: ness, operating the farm from his home in Manningtc In the meantime he was appointed deputy United Stat marshal, with headquarters at Clarksburg, and held th office for two years, following which he was elected depu sheriff of Fairmont, and performed the duties of th position for two years.

At the close of his term as deputy sheriff, Mr. Beaty I moved to Morgantown and opened a garage, operating a year. He sold this business in order to return to Fai mont and buy an interest in the Standard Garage Con pany, and in 1921 he became president and general ma. ager of this organization, which furnishes complete a. adequate facilities that are greatly appreciated by all t' motor car owners in Fairmont.

Mr. Beaty is affiliated with Mannington Lodge No. 3: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married 1908 Miss Lottie Deveny, who was born at Fairmont 1888, daughter of Thomas A. and Lottie (Burns) Dever of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Beaty have three children Thomas Deveny, born in 1910; Carl Elias, Jr., born 1911; and Robert Newton Beaty, born in 1915.

LUTHER B. BURK, M. D., who is established in successf practice in the City of Fairmont, Marion County, as specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, wi born on a farm at Sand Fork, Gilmer County, this stat January 5, 1862, a son of Archibald and Malinda (Moyers) Burke, the former having been born on the san farm as the son, in the year 1835, and the latter havir been born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, April 9, 184 Her parents were pioneers of Greenbier County, from which they removed to Braxton County. Archibald Burk, who: death occurred August 8, 1902, was a son of John Bur who was born in Virginia and who became a pioneer what is now Gilmer County, West Virginia, where he settle in the midst of the forest and instituted the reclamation ( a farm. His father, John, Sr., was a native of Irelar and came to America as a British sollier in the Britis Army in the Revolutionary war, after the close of which he settled permanently in Virginia, now West Virginia.

Doctor Burke was reared on the old homestead farr and after attending the rural schools he continued h studies in the State Normal School at Glenville, West Vi gina, in which he was graduated in 1886. He had previou ly made a snecessful record as a teacher, and after h graduation he continued his service in the pedagogie pri fession nine years. From May, 1888, to June of the fo lowing year he was editor and publisher of the Gilme County Banner at Glenville, West Virginia. In 1890 } entered the Louisville Medical School, and in the follow ing year, after brief attendance in the Kentucky Schor of Medicine, he matriculated in the medical department ( the University of Louisville, in which well ordered Ke tucky institution he was graduated March 14, 1892, wit the degree of Doctor of Medicine. On the Ist of the fo lowing May he engaged in practice at Flemington, Taylo County, West Virginia, where he remained two years an six months. From October, 1894, until March, 1897, 1 was engaged in practice at Lost Creek, Harrison Count' West Virginia, and since that time he has continuons] maintained his office in the same building at Fairmon save for an interval of one year. He has built up a sul stantial and representative practice in his special field, the of diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nos and throat, to which he confines himself exclusively. I 1896 he did post-graduate work in the New York Polyclini and in the national metropolis he did post-graduate wor also in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital and th Northwestern Hospital. In 1897 he availed himself of th clinical advantages of the Presbyterian Eye and Ear Ho: pital in Baltimore, and in 1899 he specialized further b attending clinics at the Wills Eye Hospital in the City of Philadelphia. In that city in 1899 he graduated in th Eastern College of Electro-Therapeutics and Psychologi Medicine, with the degree of Electro-Therapeutics.

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september 5, 1893, Doctor Burk married Miss Edmonia rence, who was born in Braxton County, this state, a ighter of Layben and Alice (Ward) Currenee. Doctor Mrs. Burk are active members of the Methodist Protes- t Church.

EDWARD F. HOLBERT is one of the young and progressive iness men of Fairmont, where for twenty years he has n active in the insurance business and has built up an anization with all facilities for perfect service in the inguranec field.

[r. Holbert was born January 30, 1881, on the farm in hint District of Marion County, son of Reuben W. and ginia H. (Shaver) Holbert. His parents were also born Marion County, representing early families in that sec- il of the state. Reuben W. Holbert in 1891 removed hig He to Monongah, and died there in 1911. His widow riveg.

edward F. Holbert acquired a publie school education, before reaching his majority began working in the (al coal company's offices at Monongah. He left there November, 1901, to join his brother Samuel in the in- ance business at Fairmont. Somewhat later the firm of !bert Brothers was established, and that title is still mined, though the senior brother has not been connected th the firm since 1912. Mr. Holbert has one of the zest fire insurance agencies in Northern West Virginia. represents several old and well established insurance anizations, two of them being the well known Home of Ex York and the Insurance Company of North America. [r. Holbert is representing the insurance interests of f city in the Fairmont Rotary Club, is a member of the rmont Chamber of Commerce, and is one of the leading sons of the city, being a member of Fairmont Lodge No. A. F. and A. M., past high priest of Orient Chapter, A. M., past eminent commander of Crusade Commandery $ 6. K. T., and a member of Osiris Temple of the Mystic Bine at Wheeling. He is also affiliated with Fairmont Elge No. 249, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Ir. Holbert married Miss Lucy Haymond, daughter of Elge William S. Haymond, of Fairmont. Their family asists of three daughters, Agnes Helen, Mary Haymond u Ann Franklin.

". L. CORDRAY, president and general manager of the B'l Garage Company of Fairmont, has been a progressive utor in business circles of Marion County for the past wonteen years, and his success in the automobile field nes him one of the leading men in that line in the state. le was born on a farm in Winfield District of Marion Anty September 28, 1884. son of William E. and Jennie Y (Irons) Cordray. His father, who was born on a farm Grant District of Monongalia County in 1845, removed x Marion County when a young man, married there, and l'ing an active carcer gained prominence both in business n civic affairs. For twelve years he was a member of County Court. He left the farm when the dwelling destroyed . by fire in 1902 and removed to Fairmont m entered the feed business under the name of W. E. Cdray & Son. W. E. Cordray died in 1913, and his wife, Inie, who was born in Marion County in 1956, died in 1!8.

'. L. Cordray had a farm environment and training, and education of the common schools was supplemented by af nding the Fairmont State Normal School. Upon reach- ir his majority he became associated with his father in từ feed business at Fairmont, but two years later he and hi brother Joseph F. organized the Cordray Carriage Com- pey, manufacturers and dealers in carriages. This firm w dissolved by the death of Joseph F. Cordray in 1910. Flowing the death of his brother Mr. Cordray sold the uriage business. For three years he was deputy county asssor for Winfield and Union Districts. He spent part @the year 1913-14 in the City of Cleveland, where he fr, iliarized himself with the automobile industry. He re- tried to Fairmont, and in the latter part of 1914 engaged inthe automobile business on the East Side. The Hall Gage Company was organized by him in 1917, and this

company now conduets one of the leading garages in the city and also acts as sales agents and distributors for the Maxwell and Chalmers cars over a territory covering fifteen West Virginia counties and a strip in Western Pennsyl- vania.

Mr. Cordray is president of the Fairmont Automobile Association, is a director of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Knights of Pythias, Elks, and the First Presbyterian Church. On April 24, 1912, he married Miss Hallie Hamilton, daughter of the late Joseph E. Hamilton, of Fairmont. They have an adopted son, Robert Luther.

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