History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 16

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His birth occurred within what is now the city limits f Bluefield, at Beaverpond Springs, April 20, 1865. His p - ents were Capt. John Madison and Sarah Antoinette (Ke) Bailey. John M. Bailey was a native of Tazewell Coun, Virginia, and served throughout the entire Civil war in e Confederate Army, being captain of his company, and to of his brothers lost their lives in the war. Captain Baiy was a prosperous farmer, but in later years lost his pr ,- erty through paying security debts. His death was due ? an accident at Bluefield when a freight yard engine Ju over him. He was active in politics as a democrat, ¿ was a member of the Christian Church. His home was e second house erected in Bluefield. He was of English :- cestry and of a very sturdy race of people. His wife, San Antoinette Kerr, was born in Berlin, Germany, and vs thirteen years of age when her family settled in Tazewi County, Virginia. She died in 1915, at the age of eigh - four. Of her ten children eight are living, Emmet L. . ing the sixth in age.

Emmet L. Bailey finished his education in Mulligan ( - lege near Johnson City, Tennessee, but left school at e age of sixteen to become elerk in a store at Lowell, Wt Virginia, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. A year lar he became a brakeman in the service of the Norfolk t Western Railroad between Radford and Pocahontas. 1. Bailey was very competent in railroading, evidence of wh1 is found in the fact that eight months after he became brakeman he was promoted to freight conductor, and the years later was a passenger conductor on a run betwir Roanoke, Virginia, and Bluefield and from Bluefield ) Kenova. He was eonduetor of the first passenger train 11 over the division between Bluefield and Kenova. At tit time the operation of trains over this road was attencì with difficulties and numerous hazards. He continued s work as a passenger conductor for twelve years and becas personally known to a large part of the citizenship patror - ing the road from Roanoke to Kenova, and is still refer:] to by them as Captain Bailey.

In 1898, while still in the service of the railroad, 1. Bailey became a member of the partnership Suddith Bailey, operating circular saw mills in Seott County, V- ginia, and MeDowell County, West Virginia. At one tie the firm had three mills in operation in McDowell Coun, one in Scott County, while Mr. Bailey personally opera ] one in Mercer County. He gave up his position with e railroad in 1901 to give his entire time to his lumber g and other interests. Early in November, 1912, the Baiy Lumber Company was incorporated, of which he has sie been president. The main plant of this company vs ereeted on land belonging to Mr. Bailey at Bluefield. Ts plant is equipped with modern machinery, making up ce of the most efficient lumbering plants in the southern pt of West Virginia. The produet comprises a large and - portant line of construction material. Only recently a la e amount has been expended on new equipment and enlar - ment. Mr. Bailey is also president of the Bluefield Garte Company. He is a director of the Flat Top National Bak of Bluefield, of which he was one of the original organize. He is also a director of the Bluefield Supply Company, f which he was also one of the organizers. This is a $500,(0 corporation. In 1903 he assisted in organizing the Willia - son Coal & Coke Company, and had an active part in s early management. He also opened the Suddith Mine & the Bailey Mine on Pond Creek in Pike County, Kentuc . Mr. Bailey sold his coal interests in 1920. Since 1903 e has been an influential factor in the building up of Bl- field, hoth from the material and civic point of view. e has had complete faith in the community where he vs born, and his good citizenship has caused him to be urgi many times for the post of mayor, but he declined tit honor until recently. The City of Bluefield is to be c - gratulated on the able man it now has in charge of its r - nicipal affairs.

June 20, 1893, Captain Bailey married Mabel Gertrue Kutz, daughter of James A. Kutz, of Allentown, Penne - vania. Their four children are Paul H., Loraine, Glacs

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and Richard. Mrs. Bailey and her children are members of the Lutheran Church, while he is affiliated with the Chris- tian Church. He is a member of the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Knight Templar Commandery of the Masons at Bluefield, West Virginia Consistory at Wheeling, and also the Shrine at Charleston. He still retains member- ship in the Order of Railway Conductors and is a member of the Kiwanis Club and Country Club.

ROBERT MILLIGAN ADDLEMAN during an incumbency of six years has made an impressive and dignified record as a judge of the First Judicial Circuit of West Virginia at Wheeling. Judge Addleman has allowed no large outside aspirations to interfere with his success within the striet field of the legal profession. He has practiced law at Wheeling a quarter of a century, and the official honors he has enjoyed have been only those for which members of the bar are qualified.

Judge Addleman was born in Greene County, Pennsyl- vania, July 21, 1866. There were three Addleman brothers who came from Germany and settled in America shortly after the Revolutionary war. One of them became a resi- dent of Pennsylvania, another of Ohio, and the third went still further west. Judge Addleman belongs to the Pennsyl- vania branch. His father, Solomon Addleman, was a life- long resident of Greene County, where he was born in IS36 and died in 1906. He owned extensive farming in- terests, and throughout his farming career was a leader in the rural affairs of Southwestern Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the School Board. voted as a re- publican, and for many years was a faithful member of the Christian Church. He married Naney Hill, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1841, and died in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1889. Of their ehil- dren Elizabeth is the wife of James K. Gayman, a farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania; Decima, living in Washington County, is the widow of James R. Hawkins, a farmer; James Curtain, a farmer in Greene County; Thomas Stewart was a farmer and died in Greene County at the age of forty; Robert M. was the only son to take ap a professional career: Ella, who died in Washington County at the age of thirty-five, was the wife of William Wise, a farmer still living in that county; Cora was aeci- dentally killed at the age of fourteen; and another daugh- ter died in infancy.

Robert M. Addleman spent his boyhood on a farm, enjoyed its healthful work and pastimes, attended rural schools, and finished his literary education with a year and a half in Waynesburg College in Pennsylvania and com- pleted his junior year in Bethany College at Bethany, West Virginia. Mr. Addleman took his law course at the Uni- versity of Michigan, graduating LL.B. in 1895. In the fall of the same year he came to Wheeling. where he soon won for himself a place of secure advantage in his pro- fession, and where he was successfully engaged in general practice until his elevation to the bench. Judge Addle- man had been in practice more than ten years before he recepted any of the public duties of the profession. From 1908 to 1912 he was eity solicitor of Wheeling, and was the prosecuting attorney for Ohio County from 1912 to 1914. It was by appointment from Governor Henry 1). Hatfield that he went on the bench as judge of the First Judicial Circuit of West Virginia. In the fall of 1916 he was elected by popular vote to fill out the nnexpired term. and in November. 1920, was elected for a full term of ight years. this term expiring in December, 1928.

Judge Addleman is a well-known member of the Ohio County and State Bar associations. Ile is a republican, ind in Masonry is affiliated with Wheeling Lodge No. 5, A. F. and A. M., West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite. and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. He also belongs to Wheeling Lodge No. 4. Knights of Pythias. His home is an attractive residence at Birch Lynn, Wheeling.

October 1, 1896. in Washington County. Pennsylvania, Indge Addleman married Miss Margaret Jobes, daughter of Rev. Alexander Campbell and Phoebe (Mitehell) Jobes, he latter deceased. Rev. Mr. Jobes is a retired minister

of the Christian Church and lives with Judge and MIrs Addleman. Mrs. Addleman is a graduato of Bethany Col lege.

RICHARD ROBERTSON has been a resident of Wheeling more than seventy years. As n youth he lenrned the print er's trade, for a long time was identified with the printing business and at times had a part in the fortunes of several newspaper ventures. Mr. Robertson is now pra tically re tired, though still financially interested in one or two bank ing organizations.

lle was born at llagerstown, Maryland, November 7, 1845. Ilis grandfather was of Irish descent, ajunt most of his life at Hagerstown, and enjoyed a grent reputation as an earnest and eloquent minister of the Presbyterian Church. He finally came to Wheeling, where he died. William Robertson father of Richard, was born nt Hagers town, where for a number of years he was a merchant, and in 1549 moved to Wheeling and adled his enterprise to the mercantile interests of the city about the time the first railroad came. He conducted a prosperous store at Market and old Union streets. Ile died at Wheeling at the age of sixty years. He was an old-line whig in politics, fille I the office of alderman in Wheeling for a number of tern .. and was a very liberal contributing member of the First Presbyterian Church. He married Elizabeth ('lark, a native of Hagerstown, who died at Wheeling. They had a large family of twelve children, and several of the sons bream soldiers during the Civil war: John, who was a L'nion soldier, left this community soon after the war and was never heard of again by his family; Mary, his twin sister. never married and died at Wheeling; William went into the Confederate Army, was killed in the Virginia Valley early in the war; James, a I'nion soldier and a mill worker in civilian life, died at Wheeling soon after the war; Clagget, a Union sollier, died at Wheeling at the age of thirty-five; Richard; Edward, twin brother of Richard, was also a printer, had a record as a Union soldier and diet at Wheeling; Ilarry. a mill worker, died at Wheeling! Marsh, who also worked in the mills, died at Wheeling; George died at Wheeling in early life; Sallie, of Wheeling. widow of William S. Meck, who was a printer; and Miss Ilelen of Wheeling.

Richard Robertson acquired a public-school education at Wheeling, but left school at the age of fourteen and en tered a printer's office. Ile learned the printing trade ne eording to the old-time standards of that profession, and for many years was recognized as one of the experts. In 1875 he established a printing offire of his own, and con dueted it for several years and also established The Wheeling Sunday News Letter, which he edited. Hle 1 came associated with Mr. Ogden in printing an even ny paper, but eventually sold his interests to Mr. Ogden H. continued in the job printing business for a number of years, but has been practically retired since 1903. Mr. Robertson is a director in the Center Wheeling Bank, of which he was one of the founders, and is also one of the founders and a director of the Community Savings & Loan Company.

He was twice cleeted and for twelve years held the office of clerk of the Court of Ohio County. He is a republi nn. has for many years been a member of the Chamber of Commeree, and is affiliated with Wheeling Lodge No. : > B. P. O. E. He is owner of some valuable real estate in Wheeling. ineluding his modern home at 96 Fourteenth Street another fine dwelling on the same street and one on Nineteenth Street. At Wheeling Mr. Robertson married Miss Mary Emmert. a native of that city, where sho was reared and educated.

ARCHIE Q. MOFFAT is a native of Wheeling and for a quarter of a century has been closely identified with the growth and development of the Wheeling Corrugating Com- pany, of which he is vice president. Mr. Moffat is a leader in industrial affairs, and is well known in business cirel « throughout the East.

He was born at Wheeling, February 11. 1$75. Hls grand- father, John Moffat, was a native of Scotland, came to the

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United States when a young man and settled in Belmont County, Ohio, and later moved to the east side of the river at Wheeling. He was a minister of the Presbyterian Church and died at Wheeling in 1878. Thomas C. Moffat, son of Rev. Mr. Moffat, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1848, but since early boyhood has lived at Wheeling. He was a merchant tailor for twenty-five years, for eighteen years was clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, and has since been identified with the automobile business in con- nection with the Engineering and Equipment Company of Wheeling. Thomas C. Moffat is a republican, and is very faithful in his membership in the Presbyterian Church. He married Blanche Quarrier, who was born at Wheeling in 1853. Archie Q. is the oldest of their children. Mary is the wife of John W. Storer, a dentist at Wheeling. Blanche is the wife of Harry C. Hazlett, a Wheeling broker. Jessie is the wife of Hon. Jesse A. Bloeli, first vice president of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company.

Archie Q. Moffat attended public school in Wheeling to the age of seventeen, following which he had a valuable commercial training as an employe of the wholesale house of the Speidel Grocery Company. On January 1, 1897, he entered the service of the Wheeling Corrugating Company as clerk, and has enjoyed a most gratifying promotion through various stages with that corporation and has been its vice president since January 1, 1921. For ten years he was manager of the branch warehouse at Philadelphia. The main office and plant are at the east end of Seventeenth Street in Wheeling.

Mr. Moffat is a member of the Fort Henry Club and Wheeling Country Club, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh and the Union League Club of New York City. He is a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. In 1902, at Wheeling, he married Miss Sue M. Caldwell, daughter of Col. George B. and Sue (Smith) Caldwell. Col. George B. Caldwell was one of the eminent lawyers of his day in Wheeling, where he practiced for many years, and had at- tained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Union army.

FRANK RANDOLPH LYON, vice president in charge of operations of the great industrial corporation known as the Consolidation Coal Company, with headquarters at Fairmont, Marion County, was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, on the 27th of September, 1871, and is a son of the late Locke L. and Sarah (Bowman) Lyon, both likewise natives of Bradford County. In the earlier part of his career the father was engaged in mercantile business in Bradford County, and later, when the son Frank R. was a boy, removal was made to the State of Colorado, where the father was for a number of years interested in mineral properties and mining developments, his death having occurred in the City of Denver, that state, in 1909, when he was sixty-five years of age. Mrs. Lyon also passed away in Denver, her death occurring in 1898.

Frank R. Lyon did not accompany his parents on their removal to Colorado, and for a number of years there- after resided in the home of one of his uncles in Penn- sylvania. He supplemented the discipline of the public schools by a course in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Mansfield, in which he was graduated in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Aside from his 'egular studies he also took up the study of engineering, inder the preceptorship of Professor Ewing, a member of the faculty of the normal school, and in his vacation periods he gained practical experience through employ- ment in the engineering offices of the Blossburg Coal Com- pany at Arnot, Pennsylvania. After leaving the normal school he found employment as transit man in the employ of the coal company mentioned, and later he came to West Virginia and assumed a position under Chief En- gineer Tyler, of the Monongah Coal Company, near Fair- mont. Upon his return to Pennsylvania he joined the survey and location corps in charge of the construction of a broad-gauge railroad which was being constructed in connection with the development of lumbering industry. After being thus employed about eighteen months Mr. Lyon passed four years at Evansville, Indiana, as chief

engineer in charge of the Sunnyside Coal Company. H next became chief engineer for the Rock Hill Iron { Coal Company of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, an his service in this connection continued about four years In 1901 he engaged independently in practice as an en gineer, opening an office at Somerset, Pennsylvania. I the following year he became identified with the Somerse Coal Company, at its organization, and was made dis triet superintendent. Shortly after the organization o the Somerset Coal Company the Watson interests becam interested in this company. Six months later Mr. Lyo was advanced to the position of assistant general super intendent, and in the fall of 1904 he became assistan general superintendent of the Consolidation Coal Con pany at Frostburg, Maryland, this likewise being a Wai son interest. A year later he became general superis tendent of the Somerset Coal Company, of which he wa made manager in 1906. In 1913 Mr. Lyon establishe his headquarters at Fairmont as general manager of ope ations of the Consolidation Coal Company, and in Apr: 1919, he was made vice president of the company, in whie office he has since continued, with effective functionin in charge of operations.

Mr. Lyon is affiliated with the Masonic Order, and a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knigli Templar, and a Shriner. At Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he a life member of the lodge of the Benevolent and Protectiv Order of Elks, and in his home City of Fairmont I is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce an the Rotary Club. Mr. Lyon is a director of the Fai mont Mining Machinery Company, is vice president ( the Fairmont Supply Company, and is a director of tl Fairmont Building & Investment Company. He and h wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Churc

In 1906 Mr. Lyon wedded Miss Mary E. Beerits, daug ter of Henry Beerits, a representative wholesale and r tail merchant of Somerset, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mı Lyon have three children: Sarah B., Frank R., Jr., ar Robert B.

JOSEPH H. REASS, JR., who was a captain in the arn service during the World war, has been prominent in bu: ness affairs at Wheeling for many years. He is secreta and treasurer of the Wheeling Savings & Loan Associatio

Captain Reass was born at Wheeling, April 17, 1881. T Reass family has been in Wheeling for seventy years. H grandfather, Mathew Reass, was born at Frankfort-on-th Main, Germany, in 1822. He was prominent in the repu lican movement in Germany during the '40s, was preside. of one of the republican governments in 1848, and becau: of his prominence as a leader after the collapse of te Revolution he suffered exile, went to Paris in 1849, then: to London, and in 1850 settled at Wheeling, where he spe. the rest of his life as a carpenter contractor. He died ! 1887. His wife was Catherine Limburger, a native : Germany, who died at Wheeling.

Their son, Joseph F. Reass, was born at Wheeling, N vember 15, 1858, and has spent a busy and honored life 1 this city. For many years, until he retired in 1913, : conducted a transfer business. Some years ago he ma) the race for the city council, received the largest majorir ever given a candidate for that office, but after one term ? this service he refused reelection and never again has sougt any political honor. He is a republican, a member of OD) Valley Lodge Knights of Pythias and John A. Logi Council No. 95, Junior Order United American Mechani. Joseph F. Reass married Margaret Wilkerson, who was bc1 January 15, 1856, and was reared and educated at Ne- castle on Tyne, England. After losing her parents by dez she came at the age of twenty to the United States al located at Wheeling. Joseph F. Reass and wife had to children, Joseph H. and George M. The latter represes the Pinkerton Tobacco Company of Toledo and lives t Wheeling. 1

Joseph H. Reass was educated in the public schools f Wheeling, graduated from Linsly Institute in 1898, and :F about two years was a traveling representative for te Block Brothers Tobacco Company, covering Pennsylvar-

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Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. He then entered business with his father, under the name Joseph Reass & Sons, and gave much of his time to this transfer and local transportation concern until 1913.

Ia the meantime, in 1902, Mr. Reass established the Reass Advertising Company, of which he is still proprietor. Be- ginning merely as a local auxiliary to Wheeling business, it has grown and developed as an organization with an almost national seope. It makea a specialty of outdoor advertising and eard tacking, and is said to be the largest card taeking firm in the United States, its service being availed by firms and business houses in every state of the Union. From 1913 until he entered the army Mr. Reass gave his entire time to the advertising business.

Ile offered his services to the Government the very day war was declared against Germany. May 13, 1917, he entered the First Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, was commissioned second lieutenant, was ordered to Camp Sherman, Ohio, and there organized the first teamsters' school in the National army. lle commanded Wagon Company No. 318, and in December, 1917, was transferred to Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, South Caro- lina, with the Twenty-seventh Division as assistant to the commanding offieer, A. R. D. No. 307. Next he was at Camp Upton, New York, in March, 1918, and organized and commanded Wagon Company No. 302, known as the New York Gunmen. He had in the meantime been ad- vaneed to a first lieutenaney and then to the rank of captain. Captain Reass next organized the Embarkation Remount Depot at Jersey City, and this organization supervised the shipment of every horse and mule that went out of New York Harbor for the American Expeditionary Forces. Captain Reass after nearly two years of army serviee re- signed March 1, 1919.

Soon after his return to Wheeling he organized Wheeling Post No. 1 of the American Legion. He was a delegate to the St. Louis convention of 1919 when the various posts through their delegates organized the National Association of the American Legion. In 1920 Captain Reass organized the Wheeling Savings & Loan Association, of which he has sinee been secretary and treasurer. This association bas grown under his direction faster than any building and loan association in the state, and in point of resources and sub- stantial service now stands in the front rank. Its offiees are at Fourteenth and Market streets and the officers are: Charles Hartman, president; H. L. Kirk, vice president; and Joseph H. Reaas, secretary and treasurer. Captain Reass is also treasurer of the Wheeling Foreign Corporation.

He is allied with the republican party in polities. He has several times been a candidate for alderman-at-large in Wheeling. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, Ohio Lodge No. 1, F. and A. M., Wheeling Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite is a past chancellor of Baltimore Lodge, Knights of Pythias, a member of Wheeling Lodge No. 9, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Wheeling Couneil ND. 37, United Commercial Travelera. Hia home is at 41 Kentucky Street.

In 1907, at Wheeling, Captain Reass married Miss Julia Loftus, daughter of Michael J. and Julia Loftus, now de- ceased. Her father for some years was superintendent of the Wheeling Traction Company. Captain Reass lost his first wife by death in 1914. She was the mother of three children: Julia Margaret, born in 1908; Joseph Loftua, born in 1911; and Rose Catherine, who died at the age of nine months. In 1917 Captain Reasa married Miss Viola Winters. She was born at Elm Grove, Wheeling. They have two daughters, Viola Jeanette, born in 1918, and Mary Catherine, born in 1920.

CAMPBELL H. HENDERSON. Soon after completing his edu- cation Campbell H. Henderson was diverted into the newa- paper business, beginning as a cireulation manager, and has been actively identified with the fortunes of the Wheeling Telegraph almost throughout its existence, covering nearly twenty years. He is general manager of this, one of the strongest and most influential newspapera in Upper West Virginia.

Mr. Henderson was born at Wheeling, Jannary 2, 1881.

This branch of the llenderson family has been in West Vir ginia for a number of generations. His grandfather, Thomas Henderson, was born in the state, and spent practically all his life at Triadelphia in Ohio County. For n number of years he was enptain on Ohio and Mississippi River steam. boats, making frequent voyages between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. In later years he devoted his timo and energies to the operation of his farm at Triadelphia, where he died about 1577.

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