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Edward Bates Franzheimi attended Linsly Institute at Wheeling. Chauncy Hall at Beston, and had private tutoring under Professor Jehn M. Burch and professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later studied under John H. Sturgis, a noted Boston architect, and re- mained with him for six years, until the death of Mr. Sturgis. This long course of training was supplemented by travel and study abroad in Europe.

After the death of Mr. Sturgis in 1892 Mr. Franzheim returned te Wheeling and opened an office as an architect. The City of Wheeling itself contains numerous examples of his werk as an architect and designer, and he has de- signed and erected many netable buildings in other cities as well. Mr. Franzheim was architect for the Court Theater in Wheeling, erected in 1901, and he was then selected te manage the theater for five years. His management laid the foundation for the Court's great fame as a local play- house. Prior to that time and also during the period Mr. Franzheim was director of the noted local "Players Club," which produced many netable plays, and in these

productions Mr. Franzheim usually took leading roles. work on the stage attracted more than local attention, : he was offered opportunities te take up work with leading New York managers. While these offers were f tering and attractive, Mr. Franzheim felt that his t vocation was in architecture, and he has been satisfied w enly an amateur's rele on the stage. However, he ! written several plays.

Mr. Franzheim has held the office of director at differ times n a number of corporations and institutions. He ] been an independent voter since the Palmer and Buck gold campaign of 1896. In that year he took a leadi part in behalf of the republican candidate, and was p. sonally thanked by Majer Mckinley for the assistance gi him. Mr. Franzheim is a member and has held the high offices in Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeli is a Knight Templar in the Order of Masons and is a p: exalted ruler of the Elks. He is a member of the Lar Club of New York, the Southern Society of New York, 1 Fort Henry Club and Country Club at Wheeling, the W Virginia Society of Architects and the American Institu of Architects.

At Wheeling, November 1, 1905, he married May Whit daughter of John and Katherine MeKeruan Whitty.

J. A. EVERLY. Happy is the man who finds his wo and duties within his home neighborhood and makes th werk a matter of increasing satisfaction to himself ar service te the community. Such has been true ef J. . Everly, ef Kingwood, former county assesser ef Presti County, and in carlier years a teacher and merchant.

Mr. Everly was born at Herring in Valley District Mars 8, 1872. He comes of a family that established its hon in Preston County in pioneer days. His great-grandfath and two brothers left Germany and eventually found the way to Preston County, where they became farmers ar where two of them established homes in Grant Distrie The grandfather of J. A. Everly was Peter Everly, a nativ of Grant District, who subsequently meved to Valley Di trict, where he reared his family and was a substanti: farmer. He married Miss Brannon, and one of their chi dren was Absolem Everly. Absalom Everly was born i Valley District August 5, 1839, and as a young man er listed in Company C of the Third West Virginia, and ft more than three years was a brave and faithful soldier i the Army of the Potomac. Like many men who performe their duty in those day of warfare he was reticent in n gard to his army experiences and seldem talked of thei except when ameng old comrades. In ene battle a rifle ba passed through his left thigh, and he was one of the per sioners of the war. After coming out of the army he de voted himself to farming, and reached the age of seventy eight. He married Sarah Jane Carroll, whe was born i the same community as her husband. The Carrolls wer an old family there. Her father was James M. Carroll an her mother was a Burke. Sarah Jane Carrell was bor January 27, 1840, and died March 11, 1900. She wa mother of the following children: Rey C. M., a farmer nea Uniontown, Pennsylvania; William T. S., of Kingwood Ed C., fermer county clerk and a resident of Kingwood Mrs. Cora Calvert, of Morgantown; J. Ami; James J. D who died February 1. 1905, in Monongalia County; Olive M., a dairyman at Morgantown; Mary E., wife of John, McCreary, of Menengalia County; Fester K., a steamboa engineer out of Pittsburgh. All these children were brough up in the faith of Methodism, which their father and mother practiced.

J. Ami Everly grew up on his father's farm, attender the local schools, spent one winter at the Kingwood schoo and spent some time in the summer normal there. Be ginning at the age of eighteen, he taught for eight year in country districts and for two years of that time he wa master of the Long Hellew Schoel, where he himself hac learned his early lessons. When he had finished his last year at Long Hollew he turned to commercial lines, and at Kingwood spent two years as a clerk in a drug store another two years with John H. Garner, and for sever years was associated with the veteran steamboat merchant

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mes A. Lenhart. Following this he entered the service the Tri-State Lumber Company, being bookkeeper of 'e mill and manager of the store and finally superinten- nt of the plant. After almost three years in the lumber siness he joined the Coffman-Fisher Company at Howes- le, but was soon transferred to Albright, and he only 't this service after four years to perform his electivo ties at the court house in Kingwood.

Mr. Everly was a candidate for the nomination for unty assessor at the republican primaries in the spring ( 1916, contesting the nomination against five competitors. was nominated and in November was given the largest ajority on the tieket. He had been a regular party orker for a number of years, though never a candidate r office, and his candidacy was the convincing proof of a great personal popularity. Mr. Everly entered the lessor 's office as suceessor to E. B. Hauber, and handled : responsibilities capably four years. Before the expira- ·n of his term he was appointed campaign manager for eston County in the campaign of 1920. In that year of neral republican triumph he set a new record for the rty in Preston County, sinee never before had the county st so large a number of votes and never before had a publiean ticket received such a handsome majority.

Since leaving the court house Mr. Everly has been in siness. For a time he sold the Ford ear, but is now a aveling representative for the John S. Naylor Company Wheeling.

In Preston County December 24, 1899, Mr. Everly mar- ed Miss Lilly May Wolfe. They have three children: iul D., a graduate of the Kingwood High School and w & student in the University of West Virginia; Mary «, who graduated from high school in 1921 and is attend- 3 the West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon; d Jobn Donald, a pupil in the grade schools at Kingwood. Mrs. Everly represents one of the oldest families in this ction of West Virginia, established here by a branch of ·nnsylvania Dutch. Her great-grandfather, Philip Wolfe, is probably born in Preston County, and lived out his life the eastern part of the county as a farmer. He was ried near Fellowsville. Ilis son, Jonas J. Wolfe, was a viet and industrious farmer in Reno Distriet. He married "argaret Barbara Bolyard, and among their sons were . hn W., Daniel M., Hezekiah, Charles, Philip M., William ' and Henry M., while the two daughters were Rhoda, 10 married Henry Combes, and Alice, who became the fe of John W. Wolfe. Of this family Jolin W. Wolfe is a Union soldier in the Civil war, was wounded in the ttle of Winchester, and after the war he and his others Philip and Henry moved West and settled in Ne- aska.

Hezekiah Wolfe, father of Mrs. Everly, was born in Reno strict January 12, 1847, was a teacher in early life, and ter his marriage settled on a farm in Union Distriet, here he lived until his death on February 19, 1920. His fe was Mary Jane Beatty, who was born at Salt Liek, eston County, daughter of Thomas and Eve (Lantz) atty. Hezekiah Wolfe and wife had thirteen children, ne of whom reached mature years: Charles W., Felix E., rs. Lilly M. Everly, Susan M., deceased wife of G. W. .ne; David F., of Morgantown; Elizabeth, wife of C. E. impleton, of Cumberland, Maryland; Rachel, Mrs. Fred sey, of Keyser, West Virginia; Albert L .; and Pris- la, who became the wife of Lawrenee Jones and is now ceased.

MONONGALIA COUNTY JUVENILE HOME. The County Immissioners of Monongalia County established a Juve- le Detention Home on May 1, 1918. Children are com- tted to this institution through the authority of Judge zelle of Morgantown, and he exercises a general respon- bility over the institution, which, in effect, is an adjunct the judicial office. The present property was acquired ) the commissioners in December, 1919, and the home is opened here July 1, 1920. It is located three miles rth of Morgantown. In the meantime quarters had been tained in a rented house. At the removal there were rty-one inmates, and forty-nine were kept during the nter of 1920. There are accommodations for a hun-

dred, and the average so far has been about forty. These are dependent children, from infancy to those about growa. Surrounding the home is about thirteen acres of ground, located on the Stewartstown Road. The county has so far xpended about twelve thousand dollars on this institution. The farm is well stocked with fruit.

The matron of tho detention home is Mrs. F. M. Harris, who has given practically her entire life to educational work. She was for thirty years a teacher in Mason County, and had been matron of the Montgomery Preparatory School for six years when she was called to Morgantown to supervise the establishment of the Men's Hall at the Uni- versity, and was in charge of the Woman's Hall on the campus until chosen to her present duties. In the De- tention Home she conducts a school, teaching all the sul)- jeets from the first to the eighth grade, the same course as laid down for public schools and following the State Manual.

Mrs. Harris was born in Mason County, West Virginia, and her maiden as well as her married name is Ilarris. She began teaching at the age of seventeen, and after the death of her husband resumed that vocation as a means of supporting herself and children and also as the true exercise of her God given talents for service. She has a No. 1 certificate. Mrs. Harris is the mother of three children : Willie B., wife of Dr. IT. A. Walkup, of Mount Hope, West Virginia; Edward E., a photographer at Morgantown; and Ernest M., a druggist who lives with his mother. Mrs. Harris also direets the general work both in and outside the home, using the garden plot not only for the purpose of growing vegetables, but as a means of training the boys to farming operations. The girls learn housework and are taught both plain and the finer technique of sewing and needlework.

Dr. Esther A. Woodward, the eminent psychologist, at one time spent two days at the Detention Home. All opinion she expressed was that "as other such institutions should be started the matrons should spend two weeks with Mrs. Harris before assuming their duties." Mrs. Harris has the experience and professional qualifications for this office, and even more, her heart and soul are enthusiastically enlisted in what represents one of the important auxiliary establishments of philanthropie enterprise in the state.

IIARRY A. HIGGINS. One of the prosperous smaller towns of Monongalia County is Star City, down the Monongahela River, three miles north of Morgantown. It is located in a mining and industrial distriet. One of its popular citizens is Harry A. Higgins, who is now post- master and also a merchant there.

Mr. Higgins was born in Marshall County, West Vir- ginia, February 13, 1885, son of Chester K., a native of the same county but now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio. Harry A. Higgins had a common sebool education, and at the age of thirteen became a boy worker in the glass industry. Ile was in that work and trade for eight years, and spent three years as a practical coal miner along the Monongahela River.

June 29, 1920, he took the office of postmaster at Star City. The business of the office has been tremendously in- creased within the last two or three years, and on April I, 1921. the office was advanced to third elass. Sinee be be- rame postmaster the number of boxes has increased from 147 to 243, and more are in demand. In connection with the post office Mr. Higgins conducts a confectionery store.

At the age of twenty-two he married Minnio O. Brewer, of Star City, daughter of Goorge Brewer. They have five children, Thelma May, Georgo Everett, Ethel Rosella, Floyd Herman and Harry Kenneth.

EDGAR W. GARLOW. The Garlow family was part of the first tide of civilization that swept over the Alleghany Mountains into the Ohio River Valley in the years pre- ceding the Revolutionary war. They have had their home in Monongalia County for a century and a half. From here various members have scattered to other states, some have been in the professions, while Edgar W. Garlow repre- sents the traditional oeenpation, farming and stock raising and still owns the old Garlow homestead, which was located

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hy one of his ancestors prior to the Revolution. His home is in Cass District, and, while he owns the old Garlow estate, his residence is on the Lazelle farm, situated on a small run in a rugged section characteristic of all the surround- ing country.

Mr. Garlow was born on the original Garlow farm, on Crooked Run, nine miles north of Morgantown, October 3, 1868. The founder of the family in West Virginia was Christopher Garlow, who probably lived at some time in New Jersey, and came over the mountains to Western Vir- ginia from Maryland, settling on Crooked Run in Cass Dis- trict about 1772. He lived there during the Revolution, and his home was subjected to Indian attack. One of his sons was killed in the War of 1812. The next genera- tion was represented by Andrew Garlow, a native of New Jersey, who spent his active life as a farmer and stock raiser on Crooked Run in Monongalia County. Christopher Garlow was probably the first settler in the Crooked Run neighborhood. His will is dated in 1796. His farm, now owned by Edgar W., has never changed ownership out of the direct family line. A son of Andrew and the grand- father of Edgar W. Garlow was Ephraim Garlow, who married Jane Miller. He reared two sons, Josiah and William Edgar. The latter is now living in Nebraska, past eighty years of age. Josiah Garlow acquired the old home- stead and spent his life there. He died at the age of seventy-eight. His wife, Mary Eliza Davis, died young, leaving twin sons, Edgar W. and Ezra C. Ezra is a graduate of West Virginia University, a civil engineer by profession, and since 1893 has had his home at Alliance, Ohio. Ephraim Garlow was a strict democrat in politics all his life, but his son Josiah cast his first vote for Lincolu and continued as a republican, and in that political faith his son Edgar has followed.

Edgar W. Garlow was reared and educated in the old home community and has devoted his time and efforts to farming, particularly stock raising, to which the land of this locality is particularly adapted. On his farm is a vein of the Pittsburgh coal, but it has not yet been worked out.

At the age of twenty-three Mr. Garlow married Mary Elizabeth Haines, whose home was a few miles distant, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. They have two children, both at home, Elsie Marie, a graduate of high school, and Melvin Christopher.

CLYDE O. LAW. The Law family has been one of promi- nence in West Virginia for several generations. Men of this name have figured in agriculture, the various professions, and the name today is one of the most significant in the pure bred livestock industry of the state. Mr. Clyde O. Law is a resident of Wheeling and has exhibited a special genius in the field of insurance. He is general agent for State of West Virginia representing the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Mr. Law was born at the Village of Lawford in Ritchie County, West Virginia, October 14, 1883. His grandfather, Asby Law, was a native of Harrison County, West Vir- ginia, was a farmer and minister of the Methodist Church, and was held in the highest esteem in his community in Ritchie County. Some years later, when a post office was established there, it was the suggestion of his son Martin Luther Law, who became the first postmaster, that the post office department should call it Lawford, in honor of this pioneer farmer and minister. Asby Law married Deborah Gaston, a native of Harrison County, who died at Lawford. Asby Law died at the age of forty-five, during Civil war times, and his wife subsequently became the wife of Phineas Bartlett.

Martin Luther Law was born January 2, 1858, and has always lived in the Lawford community. He has some very extensive interests there as a farmer and livestock man, and he and his sons and other associates have developed what is probably the finest herd of Hereford cattle in the state. As noted above, he was the first postmaster of Law- ford, and for a number of years has been a member of the local school board. He has always been prominent in local republican politics, being a delegate to various state and

county conventions, but has never actively sought an office for himself. He is one of the leading members of the Methodist Church in his home town, and Ritchie County places him among her most substantial citizens. Martin L Law married Mida Mckinley, who was born at Pullman i Ritchie County November 26, 1862. Clyde O. Law is the oldest of their six children. Lura is the wife of Carl Reger an architect at Morgantown. Verner V., a resident of Jane Lew, West Virginia, has made a great reputation in the pure bred Hereford cattle industry, and is manager of the Law & Roberts Company, which owns the largest herd of Herefords in the state. Verner Law had technical training in agriculture and animal husbandry at the University of West Virginia. He is president of the Harrison County Farm Bureau. Russell Lowell, the fourth child, is associateo; with his brother Clyde in business at Wheeling, is a grad- uate in agriculture from West Virginia University, and during the World war was a first lieutenant and assigned to duty training recruits. He is a stockholder and director ir the Law & Roberts Hereford Company. The two youngest children were Glenn G., who died at the age of eighteer months, and Velmah, a member in the senior class in West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon.

Clyde O. Law attended the public schools of his native town, and in 1905 graduated from the Buckhannon Semi- nary, now West Virginia Wesleyan College, and he con- tinued his college work there, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1909. During 1905-06 he was a teacher under the Indian Bureau of the School of Creek Indians in old Indian Territory. In 1909-11 he was principal of schools at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Mr. Law spent two years in Harvard University School of Business Administra- tion, specializing in the subject of insurance, and he grad- uated in 1913 with the degree M. B. A. He had the prize thesis on the subject of life insurance, and it was accorded special and honorable mention.

Mr. Law began his practical work in the insurance pro- fession at Clarksburg, where he was district agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company until Janu- ary 1, 1920. The splendid record he made while there brought him promotion to a state general agency and his removal to Wheeling, where he also has under his jurisdic- tion the adjacent Ohio counties of Belmont and Jefferson. Mr. Law has had a business partnership with George Paul Roberts since May 1, 1915, the title of their firm being Law & Roberts, general agency of the Northwestern Life Insurance Company, with offices in the Wheeling Steel Cor- poration Building.

Mr. Law is also a director and treasurer of the Law & Roberts Hereford Company, is a director in the Concrete Steel Bridge Company of Clarksburg, and a director in the Roberts Oil Company. He is a trustec of West Virginia Wesleyan College, being the first lay graduate to be chosen for that office. He is a member of the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce, is president of the West Virginia Under- writers Association, has been president of the Alumni Asso- ciation of West Virginia Wesleyan College, is a republican, and a member of the official board of the Methodist Epis- copal Church.

June 24, 1914, at Harrisville, West Virginia, Mr. Law married Miss Maude Lininger, daughter of John H. and Dora (Heaton) Lininger, the latter now deceased. Her father is cashier of the People's Bank of Harrisville. Mrs. Law was also a student in West Virginia Wesleyan College, and completed her training in Wooster College of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Law have three children: Helen, born October 23, 1916; John Martin, born August 25, 1918; and Marjory, born October 20, 1920.

JAMES MILLER has lived in the Kingwood community of Preston County seventy years. As a boy he worked on the farm, later became a coal miner, operating on a modest scale, then resumed farming, and finally gave up the re- sponsibilities of farm life to engage in merchandising at Kingwood, where he is still active in the citizenship.

He was born three miles west of Kingwood, July 19, 1851. His grandfather, James Miller, was a weaver by trade, an occupation he learned and followed at Mother-

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xl, Scotland, until 1847, when he brought his family to à United States and established his home near Kingwood. B and his wife, Elizabeth Brownlee, died and were buried Cameron, West Virginia. Their children were: John, T' was a merchant at Cameron and later moved to Keyser, Nat Virginia, and died in Pennsylvania; James, who red the railroad service of the Baltimore & Ohio and r killed when a young man by falling off a train near Cinellton; William M .; Mary, who became the wife of Ines Cunningham; Mrs. Grace White; Mrs. Jane Bever- d .; and Margaret, who was married to William McFar.

'he father of James Miller of Kingwood was William Miller, who came with the family to the United States in Scotland. Later he became a foreman of construc- it and one of the trusted men in the service of the known contractor, John Humbard, for whom he worked niy years. He was foreman of construction during the nding of the Sand Patch tunnel on the Baltimore & Ohio RIroad. Subsequently he went to Brazil as foreman for Humbard, and spent seven and a half years in that antry on tunnel work near Rio de Janeiro. He was vent during the Civil war, but finally the South American iate undermined his health, and he died in 1873, soon ker his return to the United States. William M. Miller aried Elizabeth Turner, daughter of Alexander Turner. I was born in Preston County and lived to the age of Lety.five, passing away February 21, 1919. She reared nr two children: James and Elizabeth. The latter be- ne the wife of James Wolfe and died in Preston County. ames Miller spent his boyhood in the woods around J old home near Kingwood, attended a few terms of pay cool, and assisted his mother in cultivating the home- lid. He thus learned farming and also did coal mining, ". for about twenty years was active in the coal business h as a miner and also hauled the product to market. In banner he kept up his farm at the same time, and Illy gave it his exclusive attention. He still owns the ] homestead of his parents, but about eight years ago gave up its cultivation and has since been engaged in peral merchandising at West Kingwood.

fr. Miller has never been an aspirant for office, is a biocrat, but has not a consecutive voting record, since itics has made no appeal to him. Mr. Miller married Y18 Amanda Wolfe, of Preston County, daughter of illiam and Lucinda (Sidewell) Wolfe. She was born Druary 20, 1855, and was reared near Fellowsville in Pston County. The other children of her parents were Alter, Will, James, Frank, Laura (wife of William Grif- i ), and Mrs. Mary Hyres. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have six l dren : William O., a coal operator at Kingwood; Harley of Morgantown; Arthur Ray, of Kingwood; Ross Finklin, on the home farm; Ada May, wife of Henry H. geway, of Kingwood; and Emma Grace, wife of George d:ring, of Kingwood. Besides these children Mr. and 1. Mrs. Miller have a number of grandchildren: Two by J marriage of their son William to Alice May Smith; :, the child of Harley P. and Carrie (Stone) Miller; a nddaughter by the marriage of their son Ross Franklin Miss Brown; three children of Mrs. Ridgeway; and daughter of Mrs. Herring.

VILLIAM H. EVERLY, of Masontown, is one of the ngest surviving veterans of the Civil war. He was in the J.on service in the closing days of the rebellion and lı on the frontier of the far West fighting Indians. The LE century since the war he has spent as a farmer.

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