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Mr. Orr was elected and served as mayor of Newburg in 1903. He is a republican, has served almost continuously as election commissioner of his district, and has been a delegate to many state conventions of the party, beginning in 1888. He was in the state conventions at Wheeling, Parkersburg, Huntington, Charleston, and helped nominate Governor George W. Atkinson, A. B. White, W. M. O. Daw-

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on and others. He has had a wide acquaintance with old epublicaa leaders in the state from Stephen B. Elkins own. Mr. Orr is affiliated with Grafton Lodge No. 308, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a member f the Methodist Church.

Near Newburg in October, 1884, he married Miss Mary Boogher, daughter of Alfred Boogher, whose active arcer was spent in the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, and who was a pensioner of the company when he ied at Newburg. Mrs. Orr was born at Newburg in 1863. of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Orr the oldest is Lottie B., ifc of Charles Geldbaugh, a B. & O. conductor, of New- urg and they have two children, George and Charlotte; Nellie A. is the wife of Frank Densmore, Jr., a Baltimore t Ohio engineer at Newburg; Lucy M., of Cumberland, Maryland, is the wife of A. J. Cozad, a telegraph operator with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, and they have a daugh- er, Dorothy; Naomi is Mrs. George Barnes, of Homestead, Pennsylvania; Dayton Uriah, the only son, was one of the irst young men drafted for the World war in this sec- ion, was at Camp Lewis, Washington, and was employed n drilling troops there. He is now ranching at Lower bake, in Lake County, California.

HAYES SAPP, now serving his second term as postmaster of Newburg, was called from the cultivation et his farm hearby to these duties under Unele Sam, and his previous associations as a railroad man, coal miner, farmer and itizen, earned for him the solid support and confidence of the community which have been completely justitied by the service he has rendered.

Mr. Sapp is a native of Preston County, born in the Gladeville community, September 27, 1875, son of Benjamin Franklin Sapp and grandson of Benjamin Sapp. Benja- mia Sapp moved from Monengalia County to Gladeville about the beginning of the Civil war, and spent the rest of his years there as a farmer. He married Sarah Githrie, and their children were: Selby, Samuel, William, Edwin, Joseph, Benjamin F., Steenred, James N., Mrs. Sarah Bun- ner, Rebecca, who became the wife of Joshua Shuttles- worth, Lottie, who married Philip Shuttlesworth, and Phoebe, who married Benjamin Sapp.

Benjamin F. Sapp, who was born in Monongalia County, February 12, 1837, grew up there, was a farm boy and bad a limited education. He joined the Union Army at the very beginning of the Civil war, in Company A of the First West Virginia Cavalry. Before the war was over he was promoted and commissioned a lieutenant of his company. He was in the battle of Antietam September 17, 1862, in the Wilderness campaign, and at Danville, Virginia, was captured. He goon escaped from prison but was retaken, and at the second attempt succeeded in reaching the Fed- eral lines in safety and then rejoined his command and fought until the close of the war.

The war over, Benjamin F. Sapp bought a farm at Glade- ville, and for more than half a century has been busy with the affairs of agriculture in that community and still lives on his farm and works enough to create an appetite. He is a democrat and a member of the Church of the Dis- ciples. Just after coming out of the army he married Mary L. Weaver, daughter of John and Mary Ann ( Wolfe) Weaver. She is several years the junior of her husband, and they have gone along life's highway together for more than half a century. A brief record of their children is as follows: Ulysses, who died on the home farm, married Minnie, a daughter of D. C. Zinn, and he is survived by three children; Kate is the wife of W. E. Danks, of Glade- ville; Fannie was married to E. M. Cale, of Terra Alta; Ray is unmarried and still at home; Hayes is the next in age; Wade married Ada Pool, and at his death at Blaine, West Virginia, left three children; Bruce, a farmer near Gladeville, married Mary McDonald, and they have a fam- ily of five; Page was sixteen years of age when he died; W. Creed, a traveling man, enlisted with the Canadian forces in 1915, was in the battle of Vimy Ridge, later was severely gassed, and at the end of his service was on police duty in the City of London; Grace and Gail are both un- married and live at Washington, D. C.

Hayea Sapp aa a practical farmer is in the vocation to which he was rearcu during his youth. He acquired a country school education, and on leaving the home farm he entered the train service of the Baltumore & Ohie and for five years was a freight brakcman. The succeeding live years he dug coal in the mines. After that came a brief experience in the lumber industry, chietly working around a sawmill, and he then bought his farm adjoining the Village of Newburg, and was busy with its cultivation and improvement when he became postmaster.

Mr. Sapp cast his first presidential vote for Mr. Bryan in 1896, and has been quite active in the democratic party in the county ever since. In 1912 he was elected a county commissioner from the Lyon District, succeeding Commis- sioner H. A. Bailey, and served a term of two years. As a delegate te conventions he has made the acquaintance of county and state leaders. February 4, 1915, he was ap- pointed postmaster of Newburg, having no opposition to that office, and succeeded W. O. Parriot. He was re-ap- pointed August 5, 1919, and has now completed two years of his second term.

Near Kingwood, June 13, 1901, Mr. Sapp married Mary S. Shaffer, who was born in Preston County in April, 1882, daughter of E. C. and Annis L. (Miller) Shaffer, both of whom were reared in West Virginia. Her father for many years was a locomotive engineer for the Baltimore & Ohio system, and is now a farmer near Kingwood. Mrs. Sapp was the oldest of their children, and the others are: Lucy; Warren E., a Baltimore & Ohio engineer, living at Newburg; Ethel, Mrs. David Edwarda, of California, Penn- sylvania; Roland E., who was a soldier in France, was wounded in the battle of Argonne Forest and died after returning home; and Clara, Grace and Ray, all at home.

Mr. and Mrs. Sapp are the parents of three sons, Clay, Carl and Carter. Clay is a graduate of the Newburg High School.

CHARLES D. HYLTON brings to bear beth technical and executive ability in the discharge of his responsible duties · as superintendent of the Wanda Mine of the Logan Mining Company at Ethel, Logan County. He was born at Willis, Floyd County, Virginia, February 20, 1884, and is a son of Darius F. and Lucinda (Jenkins) Hylton, the latter of whom died at Radford, Virginia, in 1891, and the former of whom was a resident of Otway, Scioto County, Ohio, at the time of his death in 1917, at the age of sixty-five years. Darius F. Hylton was a stone mason and contractor, and built many coke ovens in the Pocahontas coal fielda in Vir- ginia and West Virginia at an early stage in the develop- ment of the coal industry here. In this line he filled con- tracts for the Pulaski Iron Company and the Eureka Coal Company, and in his later business activities he did general stone contracting work. After the death of his first wife he contracted a second marriage, and he was the father of four sons and five daughters. Of the other three sons it may be noted that Harry G. is in the employ of the Logan Mining Company at Monaville, Logan County, and that Posey D. and Monroe D. are locomotive engineers on the Southern Railroad, with headquarters at Knoxville, Tennes- see.

Charles D. Hylton attended school in his native town and was but a boy when he found employment with the Poca- hontas Consolidated Coal & Coke Company at Lick Branch, McDowell County, West Virginia. Later he was employed by the United States Coal & Coke Company at Gary, that county, where he won advancement to the position of motorman and foreman in the electrical department. He later served as mine foreman at Twin Branch and Berwind, at which latter place he had charge of two minca, and in 1911 he joined the Ethel Coal Company, a corporation later chartered under the present title of the Cleveland Cliff Iron Company. In 1912 Mr. Hylton assumed his present execu- tive office, that of superintendent of the Wanda Mine of this company. In earlier years he proved his ability as a ball player and all-round athlete, and he continues his inter- est in the better class of outdoor sports, as shown by his willingness to coach the boys of his home community. He has won success through his own well ordered efforts, and

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had become a mine foreman when but twenty years of age. Mr. Hylton is aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, is a member of the Lodge of Elks at Logan, the county seat, and he and his wife are earnest and zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which he served two years as Sunday school superintendent. His advice and general influence go to promote clean and honorable living on the part of the young folk, in whom he maintains a most lively and helpful interest at all times.

On the 23d of December, 1910, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Hylton and Miss Ada Rose, daughter of Thomas and Louisa Rose, of Davy, McDowell County, and the three children of this union are Lucille, Charles D., Jr., and Harold W.

CLYDE WHITLEY VICK, M. D., has made an excellent rec- ord of professional service and has been engaged in mine practice in the coal fields of West Virginia since 1905, his residence and headquarters being now established at Jen- kinjones, McDowell County.

The doctor was born in Southampton County, Virginia, December 9, 1877, and is a son of Franklin and Josephine (Whitley) Vick, both natives of Virginia and representa- tives of families long resident of that historic common- wealth. Franklin Vick was a merchant and the postmaster at Berlin, Virginia, where also he operated a cotton gin and was a successful dealer in cotton and peanuts. He was forty-nine years of age at the time of his death, and his widow passed away in 1909, at the age of sixty-four years. As a young woman Mrs. Vick was a successful teacher, and after the death of her husband she succeeded him as postmaster at Berlin, besides which she gave a general su- pervision to ber farm property and made the best of pro- vision for her children, to whom she gave excellent educa- tional advantages.

Doctor Vick was six years old at the time of his father's death, and in the public schools of Berlin he continued his . studies until he had profited by the advantages of the high school. He then entered Suffolk Military Academy, in which institution he continued his studies until he was nine- teen years of age. In 1900 he graduated in the Maryland Medical College at Baltimore, and in 1905 he received the supplemental degree of Doctor of Medicine after a post- graduate Course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the same city. He has since fortified himself still further by effective special work in the Post Graduate Medical Col- lege in the City of New York.

Doctor Vick initiated the practice of his profession hy establishing himself at Bramwell, Mercer County, West Virginia, and his practice was extended through the Crane Creek District of that county. He had also a large practice in railroad construction camps at the time when lines were being built through the coal fields. In 1905, after his post- graduate course in Baltimore, he engaged in practice at Wilcoe, McDowell County, and five years later he removed to Thorpe, as physician and surgeon in charge of mine practice for the United States Coal & Coke Company. In July, 1918, he transferred his residence to Jenkinjones where he has since been physician and surgeon for the Pocahontas Fuel Company, one of the leading mining cor- porations of this section of the state. He holds member- ship in the McDowell County Medical Society, West Vir- ginia State Medical Society and the American Medical As- sociation. The doctor is affiliated with the Masonic Blue Lodge at Bramwell and with the Lodge of Elks at Blue- field.

In 1910 Doctor Vick wedded Miss Mattie Selfe, of Rus- sell County, Virginia, her father being a local clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of which she also is an earnest member. Dr. and Mrs. Vick have four children : George V., Robert, Clyde W., Jr., and Eugenia.

EDWARD HUGHES EVANS is one of the able and popular executives in connection with the coal industry in the McDowell County field, with residence and headquarters at Pageton, where he is general manager of the Page Coal & Coke Company's mining operations. He has been associated with coal operations on the Tug River since 1891, his initial

service having been as an engineer, and he can claim muel of pioneer distinction in connection with the development of the great coal industry of West Virginia.

Mr. Evans was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania January 5, 1875, a son of Samuel and Caroline (Mason) Evans, both likewise natives of that county. Samuel Evans was an authority in all details of coal mining, his origina. work being as a miner in the anthracite mines of Pennsyl- vania. He eventually became general manager of the Page Coal & Coke Company, an office now effectively filled by his son Edward H., of this review. Samuel Evans came to McDowell County in 1890, in the employ of the Crozer Coal & Coke Company at Elkhorn, when he later went to Roanoke, Virginia. Later he returned to McDowell County where he was general manager for the Page Coal & Coke Company at Pageton at the time of his death, in 1912, aged sixty-one years. His widow now seventy-one years of age (1922), resides at Columbus, Ohio, she being an earnest member of the Methodist Church. Of their four children the subject of this sketch is the eldest; Bertram B. is out- side foreman at Pageton; Annie M. is the wife of J. V. R. Gardner, of Columbus, Ohio; and Samuel is a ma- chinist at Pageton.

The public schools of his native county afforded Edward H. Evans his early education, and while still a boy he be- came interested in engineering. After the removal of the family to West Virginia he was for two years a student in the engineering department of the State University. He worked as a civil engineer in connection with the early de- velopment of the Page Mine, and it was after this experience, that he attended the university. For five years thereafter he was superintendent of the Crozer mines, and he then became general manager of the mines at Pageton, where his service has since been continued in this capacity. During six years of his residence at Crozer he was president of the School Board of the Elkhorn District, and he has always taken lively interest in the cause of education, as has he also in bettering the conditions in general for those em- ployed in the miues. He has been influential in civic affairs at Pageton, has served in connection with numerous com- mittees and commissions of public order, and in the World war period was a member of the McDowell County Draft Board.

In politics Mr. Evans is a republican, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which he is serving as a steward. His York Rite Masonic affiliations are with the Blue Lodge of Pageton, the Chapter at Northfork, and the Commandery of Knights Templars at Bluefield, where he is also a member of the Lodge of Perfection of the Scottish Rite, besides which he is a member of the Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Charleston.

In 1898 Mr. Evans wedded Miss Flora Dundor, daughter of A. J. B. Dundor, of Reading, Pennsylvania, and the children of this union are four in number. Earl B. was a member of the Students Army Training Corps at Emory and Henry College in the World war period, and he is now (1922) a student in Marshall College. Edward L. is a stu- dent in the dental department of the University of Louis- ville, Kentucky. Ruby C. is attending Virginia College at Roanoke, Virginia. Samuel is attending the high school at Gary, McDowell County.

JOHN T. LOGSDON has been a resident of the Newburg community nearly forty years, and in that time has done a successful business as a building contractor, as a mer- chant, and has several well established and substantial en- terprises today, making him one of the most successful citizens of that community.

Mr. Logsdon was born on a farm near Cameron, in Marshall County, West Virginia, November 19, 1864. His grandfather, James Logsdon, was born near Cumberland, Maryland, as a young married man crossed the Alleghenies to the Ohio River and settled at Moundsville, and ten years later bought a farm on the headwaters of Little Grave Creek. His energies as a farmer came to a pause with his death in April, 1867, at the age of sixty-seven. He married Joanna Dickson, and their children were: Hezekiah, a

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nion soldier; John T., who served four years and ten onths in the Federal Army; Willinm and Joseph, who re also in the army; Levi William; and Martha, Mrs. borge Harris, only survivor of the family and a resident Moundsville.

Levi William Logsdon was born at Moundsville, Angust 3, 1543, and spent his life uneventfully on his farm, where , died in March, 1921. He married Emily Richter. Her ther, Gustav Richter, was born in Hamburg, Germany, ad came to the United States when seventeen years of age, rating near Cameron, in Marshall County. He was a binet maker by trade but subsequently moved to a farm hich came to his wife from her father. He went to work the woods where there was not a single improvement, eared away the timber and made a farm and practically ished his life there. His wife was Rebecca Chambers. mily Logsdon was one of their family of four daughters id four sons, and she died July 17, 1904. Her children ere John T., of Newburg; Joanna, wife of Milroy Wait, f Moundsville; James W., a farmer in Marshall County; ewis F., a resident of Iola, Kansas, where he is in the mploy of the United Iron Works; Irwin G., a farmer on ish Creek, in Marshall County; Amanda A., who died 'n years ago, the wife of Thomas Liley; Caroline V., ife of Albert Hunt, of Moundsville; George, who died at ne age of about thirty; and Ida, wife of William Coe, a sident of Glen Easton, West Virginia.

John Thomas Logsdon spent his boyhood on the home arm, and its duties were more important in training his nergies than the district schools. From these schools he btained a limited education, measured by an acquaintance ith the third reader, the subject of division in arithmetie, continuous struggle with the contents of the old MeGuffy pelling book, but he never saw the inside of a grammar, istory or geography while in school.

Mr. Logsdon when he left home says that he had twenty- ve dollars in cash and two ready and steady hands to ;ork with. He had been a dutiful son, and when he went ut into the world he was already an inveterate hater of ntoxicants, and has steadily worked for an extension of emperanee and has lived to see prohibition the law of the ation.

Mr. Logsdon eame at once to Newburg to learn the car- enter's trade with some relatives who were mechanics. Ie went to work for his uncle, Fred Richter, staying with im until he learned the trade and also for a time was in partnership. Later he became a contractor for himself, nd many of his substantial buildings are still standing .nd doing service as evidence of his work. His own store building at Newburg was about the last piece of construc- ion he did. As an aid to his contract work he erected . small planing mill and feed mill, and contracted most of he finished material for interior work. After about twenty- ive years with building and contracting he left to enter the undertaking business, and he finally disposed of his mill und turned his attention altogether to merchandising. He a still continuing his general store, under the name J. T. Logsdon.

Mr. Logsdon in 1915 became an operator in the eoal usiness under his own name as a "team track" propo- ition, and this is still a phase of his business enterprise. n 1921 he organized the Marshall-Preston Oil and Gas Pro- neing and Manufacturing Company, with holdings in Mar- hall County, West Virginia, and Greene County, Penn- ilvania. The first well of the company was drilled at verson Station in Greene County, was capped in Novem- er, 1921, and has a capacity of abont a million cubic feet er day. Mr. Logsdon is proprietor of a garage, car ator- ge and car sales business at Newburg, and besides was he loeal Chevrolet representative.

On a number of occasiona he served as councilman of Newburg, but beyond that has never gone into active polities. He is a partisan of the republican party, cast his irst vote for President in 1988 in favor of Benjamin Har- ison, and has never missed an opportunity to attend the olls at national elections. For thirty-six years he has been a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, has

served as trustee of the congregation and for ten consecu- tive years on the Board of Stewards.

April 26, 1885, Mr. Logsdon married at Newburg, Miss Ida R. Richter, who was born in Preston County in April, 1866, daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Hunt) Richter. ller father was a native of Marshall County. Mrs. Logsdon has one brother, Dent Richter, of Lonaconing, Maryland. The only child born to Mr. and Mrs. Logsdon was Abbie MeClellan, who died at the age of nearly eleven years.

EaVIN H. YOST. Abilities and natural talents of more than ordinary range have enabled Ervin II. Yost to perform an interesting program of activities, as a lawyer, in ath- leties, in politics, and in the duties of a patriotic citizen.

Mr. Yost, a prominent member of the New Martinsville bar, was born on a farm near New Martinsville, January 25, 1878. His grandfather, William Yost, was born in Alsace Lorraine in 1808 and as a young man came to the United States and settled in Monroe County, Ohio, where he married a Miss Krebs, also from Alsace Lorraine. They lived the rest of their lives in Monroe County, where they acquired a large and valuable farm. William Yost died in 1888. Their son, Christian Yost, was born in Monroe County in 1842, and lived there and followed farming until 1866. He removed to Wetzel County, West Virginia, buy- ing a farm five miles east of New Martinsville. He atill owns this farm, though he is how practically retired and lives at Paden City. Before coming to West Virginia he had served as a Union soldier, joining the Seventy-seventh Ohio Infantry in 1861. He was all through the war, was at the battle of Shiloh, and on the Saline River was cap- tured and endured a long and tedious confinement in a southern prison in Texas for nine months. Due to ex- posure he lost the sight of his left eye during the war. He is a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church. Christian Yost married Caroline Grall, who was born in Monroe County in 1847. They became the parents of a large family of children: Mary, now living in Florida, widow of Frank B. Palmer, who was a heater in iron mills and died in Middletown, Ohio, being drowned while bath- ing; Charles, who died in infaney; Ella, wife of William Cox, a steel mill worker at Wheeling; William G., deputy sheriff and jailor of Wetzel County, living at New Mar- tinsville; John S., who for a number of years was a roller in steel mills, and is now proprietor of a farm near Cleve- land, Ohio; Nora, who died in infancy; Ervin H .; Alice, wife of Harry Games, a worker in the steel mills, living at Niles, Ohio; Maggie, wife of Henry Mittendorf, living on the old homestead farm five miles east of New Martins- ville; Addie, wife of a steel mill worker, living in Martins Ferry, Ohio; and Chester A., a worker in the steel mills at Niles, Ohio.

Ervin H. Yost attended rural schools in Wetzel County, spent three years in the West Liberty State Normal School, and in 1900 entered the law department of West Virginia University, where he was graduated in 1902. He made a name in athletics, and while at the University was a mem- her of the football team. In 1903, he coached the Elliott Commercial team at Wheeling and during 1904-05 coached the Magnolia High School team. at New Martinsville. Dur- ing 1906 he was captain of the famous Magnolia Football team. In the meantime, in 1903, he was admitted to the bar, and for nearly twenty years now has enjoyed a very successful career as a lawyer, with a record in both the civil and eriminal branches. He is a member of the West Virginia and American Bar associations.

Mr. Yost, whose home is at the Riverview Hotel at New Martinsville, entered the Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, in August, 1917, and in November of that year was commissioned a first lieu- tenant of infantry. He was ordered to report for duty at Camp Dodge, Iowa, December 15, 1917. and remained there as a training officer until February, 1918, when the War Department ordered him to report for duty at Jefferson Barracks. He was judge advocate there of both the gen- eral and special courts for two months. He was then ordered to return to Camp Dodge, where he was assigned

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