History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 137

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[is grandfather was a native of Ireland, and he and his other came from that country and not long after the close .the Revolutionary war and settled in West Virginia, the godfather in the Pisgah community of Preston County, w le the brother located below Morgantown on the Monon- gela River. The grandfather spent the rest of his life & farmer in Grant District of Preston County, and his y was laid to rest on his home farm. He was twice I. ried, his children, all by his first wife, being: Peter, W)se record is given below; Lewis, who spent his life in Eston County; Joseph, who lived in the vicinity of

Terra Alta; William and Henry, who went to one of the states east of the Mississippi and lived out their lives there; Julia Ann, who became the wife of Tine Wolfe and died in the Pisgah community; Mrs. Sallie Cale, who remained throughout her life in Preston County; Nancy, who became the wife of John Smith and spent her years at Terra Alta, where she is burled.

Peter Everly was born in the Pisgah locality, near Hud- son, on the old Everly form, now the Galloway farm. He acquired a subscription school education, attending a log schoolhouse with big wood fireplace, slab benches and greased paper for window lights. He too was a Union soldier. Early in the war he joined the Third Maryland Infantry as a private, and was taken prisoner by the Con- federates at Harpers Ferry, but was paroled instead of being sent to prison. His parole did not prevent his taking up arms again, and he had finished his term of enlistment and was discharged before the war ended. After the war Peter Everly resumed life as a farmer in his native com- munity, and was known as a man of special industry and honor, though never active in public affairs beyond voting the republican ticket and for his active service in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He helped build the Friend- ship Schoolhouse, where religious meetings were also held.

Peter Everly married Margaret Brandon. Her father, William Brandon, was a school teacher in the Hudson community of Preston County and is buried at Brandon- ville, an old village named in honor of the family. Mrs. Peter Everly, who was born at Pisgah, died when about seventy and is buried at Masontown. Peter Everly sur- vived his wife and lived to be nearly a hundred years of age, and at his death was laid beside his faithful com- panion. Their children were: Senath Ann, who married Jehu Taylor and spent her life near the Rohe Post Office and is buried in the Cale Cemetery in Valley District; Absolom, who was a Union soldier in the Third West Vir- ginia Infantry from 1861 to 1864, was wounded at Cloyd Mountain, and after the war spent his life on a farm and is buried at Morgantown; Albert, who died before the beginning of the Civil war; John G., who was & Union soldier in the Fourth Cavalry, and after serving out his term returned to his farm and died near Rohr and was laid to rest in the Cale Cemetery; William Henry; Mary Jane, who is the wife of Aaron Shaffer and lives near Friendship Schoolhouse; Caroline was the wife of William Taylor and died at Rohr; Hosea is a stock dealer at Terra Alta

William H. Everly was born near Pisgah November 16, 1846. He attended schools very much like those in which his father acquired his education, and he also has vivid recollections of the slab bench, the old fireplace, and the hickory withe. He was still a schoolboy when his thoughts became diverted by the war, and in the spring of 1864, before he was eighteen, he enlisted in the Sixth West Vir- ginia Cavalry, under Capt. John Summerville. He was in service with his regiment in the Shenandoah Valley and around the Federal Capital, doing night patrol duty, and among other skirmishes was at Moorefield. In the spring of 1865 his regiment was sent to Kansas to put down a threatened Indian outbreak. The troops took the train at Parkersburg for Cincinnati, thence on to St. Louis, where they were transferred to the Mollie Dozier, a Missouri River boat, for Kansas City. After eight days from St. Louis they reached Kansas City, and thence proceeded west- ward over the plains to Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Jules- burg, Colorado, Fort Laramie, Wyoming, and then to Fort Casper, where they went into winter quarters. Twice they were attacked by the Indians, who were repelled without difficulty. In the spring of 1866 the regiment was or- dered home, marching back to the Missouri River at Fort Leavenworth, and thence by train to Chicago and on to Wheeling, West Virginia, where they were mustered out.

William H. Everly after more than three years of service reached home on the last day of May, 1866. He imme- diately resumed farming as his vocation, and that has been the object of his industrious efforts ever since.

In Preston County be married Louisa Shaffer. She died,

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leaving five children: Lura L., wife of Nester Molisee, Sylvester Ward, Samuel Wakeman, Ivy Pearl and Addie Blanche. For his second wife Mr. Everly married Laurara Shaffer, a cousin of his first wife. She died in September, 1920, leaving five children: James Franklin, Asahel Dell, Isa Pearl (wife of Jacob Radabaugh), Tarlton Ashby and Mrs. Effie Lustella Cutright.

CALVIN MAY CLELLAND, M. D. As a physician and sur- geon Doctor Clelland is well and favorably known in two counties, Harrison, where he practiced thirty years, and in Marion, where he established himself at Fairview in 1911.

Doctor Clelland was born on a farm in Lincoln District, Marion County, September 5, 1858, son of John and Eliza Ann (Clayton) Clelland. His father was born at Barricks- ville, near Fairmont, in 1830, and was killed in a railroad accident in 1894. The grandfather of Doctor Clelland was Patrick Clelland, who was also born in the vicinity of Fair- mont. The great-grandfather and pioneer of the family in West Virginia was James Clelland, a native of Ireland. As a young man he came to America as member of the British Army to fight the Colonies in their struggle for in- dependence. When the opportunity came he deserted from the forces of the King and joined the Colonial Army and fought until the close of the Revolution. Probably his name was originally spelled MeClelland, but when he left the army he dropped the Me. For his services the United States gave him a tract of land situated back of the present City of Fairmont, and he settled there not long after leav- ing the army. He married a Pierpont, of the same family as Governor Pierpont, the war governor of West Virginia. The mother of Doctor Clelland, Eliza Ann Clayton, was born in Marion County in 1842, and is now a resident of Fairmont. Her father, William Clayton, was born at Paw Paw Creek in Marion County, son of Lyttle Clayton, who was also a Revolutionary soldier and a pioneer in that section of West Virginia. The Clellands and Claytons have been progressively identified with the farming in- terests of this section of the state for four or five genera- tions.

As the oldest grandchild Dr. Calvin May Clelland when a year old was taken to the home of his paternal grand- parents and reared there on their farm to young man- hood. In the mean time he attended the district schools, the Fairmont State Normal School, and soon afterward be- gan the study of medicine. He graduated M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore in 1881, and in the same year began practice in Harrison County, where he remained for thirty years. In 1911 he moved to Fairview, Marion County, where his long experience and abilities have commanded for him a continued success as a physician and surgeon.

Doctor Clelland is also interested in politics as a demo- erat, though not an office seeker. He is a member of the Marion County, West Virginia State and American Med- ical associations, and is affiliated with the Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows.

Doctor Clelland in 1882 married Alice Robinson, of Har- rison County, daughter of Wesley Robinson. She died in 1884, leaving no children. Doctor Clelland married in 1885 Hattie Lynch, of Harrison County, daughter of Isaac Lynch. Doctor and Mrs. Clelland have four children: Walter R., now a resident of Mannington, married Lillian White, and they have a family of seven children, named Harriet, Lydia, Calvin H., Eloise, Mary, George and John. The second child, Mary A., is now manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Bertie is the widow of Scott Ingram. Isaac H., the youngest, married Artie Barker, and they have a daughter, Mary Jane.

REV. ISAAC A. BARNES, D. D. The excellent standard of the public school system of Marion County is being admirably upheld and advanced under the administration of Mr. Barnes as county superintendent of schools in this, his native county. He was born on the old homestead farm of the Barnes family in Pleasant Valley, Union District,

this county, and the date of his nativity was August 28 1857. He is a son of Isaac N. and Margaret O. (Holland Barnes, and the names of both families have been lon and worthily identified with the history of what is now th State of West Virginia. The Barnes family branch, o which the subject of this review is a scion, has been on of prominence and influence in England for many genera tions, and the original progenitors in America came t this country in 1623, one or more of the number settlin, in Massachusetts and others in Virginia, of which latte line the subject of this sketch is a representative. Williar Barnes, great-grandfather of him, whose name initiates thi article, came from the George's Creek District of Marylan and settled in what is now Marion County, West Virginia prior to the year 1782. He was a millwright, and prio to this removal had owned and operated a grist mill 01 George's Creek, Maryland. He established one of th first mills in what is now Marion County. Here for sev eral years this progressive ancestor ground the corn for th pioneer settlers of this section. Mary (Marietta) Barnes- the wife of William Barnes, was of German ancestry and had received superior education, and it is supposed that shi was a member of the family in whose honor the City o. Marietta, Ohio, was named. Official records in the Stat of Maryland show that on the 22d of January, 1777, Wil liam Barnes enlisted in the company commanded by Capt James Pendleton and entered service as a patriot soldie: in the War of the Revolution.

Abraham Barnes, eighth son of William the pioneer, wa .. born in Marion County, October 13, 1784, and was here reared under the conditions and influences of the frontier He contributed his aid to the development and genera work of the old homestead farm in the Tygart Valley, anc as a young man he married Miss Mary Ann Hall, daughter of Jordan Hall, of Pleasant Valley, this county. Mrs Barnes passed to the life eternal on the 4th of June 1865, and her husband was one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Marion County at the time of his death, July 25, 1872. He was one of the charter members of the First Presbyterian Church of Fairmont

Isaac Newton Barnes, son of Abraham and Mary Ann (Hall) Barnes, was born on his father's farm in Pleasant Valley, September 24, 1823. As a young man he utilized team and wagon belonging to his father in the hauling of merchandise from Pittsburgh to Clarksburg and Fair- mont, prior to the construction of railroads in this section. On one of these overland freighting trips of the early days he passed the night at the home of Allen Holland, a farmer near Smithtown, and that Miss Margaret O., daughter of his host, made distinct and favorable impression on the young man is evident, when it is stated that two years later their marriage was solemnized. Mr. Barnes became one on the substantial exponents of farm industry in Marion County, and also found much demand for his service as a skilled veterinary surgeon. His death occurred March 20, 1880, and his widow survived him by more than a. score of years, she having passed away on the 7th of July, 1904.

Isaac A. Barnes, son of Isaac N. and Margaret O. (Hol- land) Barnes, supplemented the discipline of the public schools by attending the State Normal School at Fairmont, the University of West Virginia, the Westminster Theo- logical Seminary at Westminster, Maryland, and Kansas City University, from which last named institution he re- ceived his degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, as also the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. After his ordina- tion to the ministry of the Methodist Protestant Church, Doctor Barnes gave twenty-two years of earnest pastoral service as a member of the West Virginia Conference, of which conference he was secretary five years and president one year. He organized a mission at Weston, Lewis County, and erected the first church building at that place. He also organized the Methodist Protestant Church in the Vil- lage of Watson, Marion County. The list of his various pastoral charges in the West Virginia Conference is here briefly recorded: Harrisville (two terms), Newburg, Graf- ton, Morgantown, St. Marys and Spencer. In each of these

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arges bls pastoral administration was characterized by je Christian stewardship and progressive policles, his work ving been of the best constructive order and having stered both spiritual and temporal prosperity in his trlous parishes. In 1901 Doctor Barnes was transferred

the Pittsburgh Conference, after having accepted a Il to the pastorate of the Second Methodist Protestant durch in the City of Pittsburgh. Within his four years' storate of that historie old eburel its membership was creased by 100 per cent, and the salary 50 per cent.

After forty years of zealous and able service in the inistry Doctor Barnes shows no desire to abate his labors behalf of his fellow men, and continues his labers in e vineyard of the Divine Master. He served two years president of the West Virginia Christian Endeavor Union, ad in this capacity presided over the greatest Christian adeavor convention ever held in the state. Before en- ring the ministry, and for short intervals sinee, Doctor srnes has taught in the public schools of his native state. 1 1921 he was president of the Board of Edueation of e Union District of Marion County. On the 27th of ovember, 1920, he was appointed county superintendent of hools for Marion County, to fill out the unexpirated term ' the regular incumbent, who had resigned, and this term ill expire July 1. 1923. He is discharging the duties this offiee with characteristic energy and ability.

On June 16. 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Doetor arnes and Miss Margaret A. Linn, daughter of Robert and Rachel ( Hull) Linn, of Bentons Ferry, Marion County. oneerning the children of this union, brief data is given conclusion of this review: Lena L., born September 17, 381. died October 19, 1892. Fred N., born October 7, 382. was for two years a student of mechanical engineer- ag in the University of West Virginia, thereafter took :1 ourse in a business college at Pittsburgh, and for a num- ar of years he was in the employ of telephone companies, eluding his service, 1910-11, as superintendent of the lephone company at Maqueketa, Iowa. After returning West Virginia he held a elerical position in the offices E the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad until August, 1918, when e enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, in which e served uutil December, 1919, he having been stationed most of the time on the island of Haiti. He is now in ne railway mail service. In October, 1920, he married ena Durritt, of Fairmont. and they have one son, Dale elson, born on the 6th of August, 1921. Frank R. arnes was born July 23, 1887, attended the State Normal chool at Fairmont and the Mountain State Business Col- ge, was for three years a teneher in the public schools of Marion County, and has since held a position in the post ffiee at Fairmont. September 9, 1914, he married Martha .. , daughter of James E. Bainbridge, of Bentons Ferry, nd they have two children: Margaret Linn, born April 9, 1916; and James Allen, bern April 13, 1918. Herbert . Barnes was born September 17. 1988, was graduated rom the State Normal School at Fairmont, taught one year the publie schools, thereafter served at telegraphist in Je employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and in 910 he was appointed to a clerical position in the Depart- ient of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C. In May, 918, he was graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and he is now engaged in the practice f his profession at Fairmont. While in the dental eel- ge he enlisted in the Medieal Reserve Corps of the United tates Army, and in October, 1918, he was ordered to Fort glethorpe, Georgia, where he was statiened at the time he armistice brought the World war to a close, he having een commissioned first lieutenant. October 15, 1918, he edded Goldie M., daughter of J. A. Swiger, of Fairmont, nd they have two sons, Robert Allen, born September 18, 920, and Mancer Swiger, born November 16, 1921. Mary 'irginia Barnes was born March 25, 1894, and was grad- ated from the State Normal School at Fairmont, when ighteen years of age. Thereafter she taught several ears in the public schools of Shinnston and Fairmont, nd December 1, 1917, she became the wife of Lawrence

R. Linn, a corporal in the United States Army. Corporal Linn was in service with the American Forces in France until the close of the war, he having been n member of the famous Eightleth Division that "went over the top"' at Argonne Forest on September 20, 1918. 1le Is now in the telegraph service of the Government, and his wife is assisting her father in the office of county superintendent of schools. Esther Willard Barnes was born July 17, 1896. She attended the normal school at Fairmont and Inter : business college, after which she accepted a position in the People's National Bank at Fairmont. October 23. 1919, she became the wife of Morgan B. Stanley, son of C. M. Stanley, of Bentons Ferry. Her husband had en- listed in the United States Navy and was assigned to serv- ice on the transport "Westerner," on which he made seversl trips aeross the Atlantic in conveying American troops to the stage of eonfliet in the World war. lle is now following his trade, that of machinist. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley have one daughter, Eleanor, born April 4, 1921.

CHARLES EDWIN WEMPLE is secretary, treasurer and gen- eral manager of the American Stono Company, whose gen eral offices and business headquarters are at Wheeling. This company has several factories in West Virginia and Ohio, manufacturing the grinding stones used in paper mill industries.

Mr. Wemple was one of the original producers of the first successful pulpstone producers in this country, and for fifteen years was manager of a quarry in Ohio where was produced the only good pulpstone on the Western hemi- sphere. The supply at that time was more or less limited, making it necessary for the United States and Canada to look to England for part of their supply. When the World war eut off the supply of the English produet he imme- diately set out to find additional deposits of roek suitable for producing these large wood pulp grindstones, and it fell to the lot of West Virginia to become the second largest producer of these stones in the United States, which under rapid development took first place the third year after Mr. Wemple started producing stones in this state. The in- dustry has grown rapidly, and is still expanding iu order to keep up with the needs of the paper mills in this country, Canada. Mexico and Japan.

Mr. Wemple comes of a family noted for mechanical and business ability and was born at Loekpert, New York, October 23, 1878. His grandfather, Myndert Wemple, was horn in llelland April 9, 1810, and as a young man came to America and settled near Amsterdam, New York, where he followed farming until he retired in the Village of Amster- dam. lle died there November 4, 1885. In New York he married Miss Catherine MeKenney, a native of Scotland, who died in Greenwich, Connecticut, June 30, 1906. Me- Kenney Wemple, father of Charles E. Wemple, was born in Ellenville, Schenectady County, New York, October 30, 1887, was reared there, learned his trade in the locomotive shops of Schenectady, and as a young man removed to Loekport. At the age of thirty-five he engaged in a repairing and gen- eral contracting business, and was an expert builder of high pressure municipal waterworks pumps. He continued a sneeessful business career at Lockport until his death, January 26 1918. Ile was a democrat, a faithful Presby- terian in religious affiliations, and a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. At Loekpert he married Miss Eliza Jakeway, who was bern in that city November 7. 1849, and is still living there. Her father, Edwin Jake- way, was born in Gloucester, England, in 1806, and as a young man settled at Lockport, where he became a mill- wright. He died at Lockport May 16. 1888. His wife was Jane Bradfield, who was born in Southampton, England, in 1810 and died at Leekport September 7, 1896. MeKenney Wemple and wife had the following children: Miss Martha, whe died at Lockport at the age of thirty: Kate .I., depart- ment manager of a department store at Lockport; Minnie J., wife of Austin B. Morrill, a Loekport merchant; Myn- dert, a millwright with the Federal Milling Company at Lockport; Charles Edwin; Arthur 8., accountant for the

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Stratton Fire Clay Company, living at Toronto, Ohio; and McKenney, Jr., a carpenter and contractor at Toronto, Ohio.

Charles Edwin Wemple acquired his early education in the public schools of Lockport, graduating from high school in 1898. For three years following he was employed in the joint offices of the Lockport Pulp Company and the Lock- port Felt Company. Practically his entire business experi- euce has been in some phase of the paper manufacturing industry. On leaving Lockport he removed to New Phila- delphia, Ohio, and was with the Tippecanoe Pulp and Grind- stone Company until the business was dissolved in 1905. Subsequently he became secretary and manager of the Smallwood Stone Company at Empire, Ohio, but in 1915 he removed to Mannington, West Virginia, and bought the stone properties of J. A. Connelly at Littleton. With these properties he organized the American Stone Company, and has since been secretary, treasurer and general manager. Mr. Wemple moved the business headquarters of this com- pany to Wheeling in November, 1920, the offices being in the MeLain Building. The company produces a large line of wood pulp grindstones, nsed in grinding wood pulp for different mills. The factories where the stones are produced are at Littleton, West Virginia, Hammondsville, Ohio, and Sattes, West Virginia.

Mr. Wemple has been welcomed into Wheeling's circle of prominent business men. He is an elder in the Presby- terian Church, a member of the Wheeling Gun Club, Wheel- ing Rotary Club, and Wheeling Tennis Club, and is affiliated with Mannington Lodge No. 31, F. and A. M., Mannington Chapter, R. A. M., Wheeling Commandery No. 1, K. T., Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling, and be- longs to West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite. He is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Toronto, Ohio, and while living at Toronto was a member of the city council and a director and vice president of the Bank of Toronto. He is independent in politics. His home is a modern residence at 13 Laurel Avenue in Lenox, Wheeling. In June, 1903, at Lockport, Mr. Wemple married Miss Minnie B. Rignall, daughter of Charles P. and Louie E. (Bowden) Rignall, residents of Lockport, where her father is a shoe merchant. Mrs. Wemple is a graduate of the Lockport High School.

They have four children: Martha Louise, born in May, 1905; Ella Kate, born in October, 1907; Priscilla, born in August, 1909; and Philip Edwin, born in November, 1921.

JAMES GORDON STONE organized and is manager of the Bluefield Candy Company, a successful commercial concern with a widely extended market for its products not only in Bluefield but over a large surrounding territory. Mr. Stone was formerly connected with the wholesale grocery business, and his commercial training began in early youth.

He was born at Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia, November 29, 1877, son of William and Mary (Parker) Stone. He was named in honor of General Gordon, the great Confederate leader, who was a friend of his father, William Stone. The latter was a native of Pittsylvania County and his mother of Franklin County, Virginia. The father was related to the Irish Fitzgeralds. William Stone, who died in 1908, at the age of seventy-two, was all through the war in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army, serving as lieutenant and captain. He was a member of Lee's staff at Appomattox. In business he was a farmer, growing crops of tobacco, wheat and corn, and was always interested in local politics. The Stone family is an old one in Virginia, and some of the earlier members were soldiers in the Revolution. Mrs. William Stone is still living at Rocky Mount. Of her four sons and three daughters James Gordon was one of the youngest.

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