History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 17

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David H. Henderson, father of the Wheeling newspaper man, was born at Triadelphia in 1-50, lived in that vicin ty for a number of years and operated a large farm, and in 1880 moved to Wheeling, but continued the operation and ownership of a dairy farm near the city. This farm was noted for its blooded stock. David Henderson died nt Wheeling in 1917. He was a republican, and one of the very active members of the First Presbyterian Church. He married Margaret Garrison, who was born at Wheeling in 1852, and is still living in that city. Campbell H. is the oldest of their children. Thomas is a civil engineer in Orange New Jersey. Charles is chief clerk for the Amer- ican Sheet & Tin Plate Company at Wheeling. Margaret is the wife of Charles Leiphart, a postal employe at Wheel- ing. William is an accountant for the Federal Ship Build ing Company at Newark, New Jersey.

Campbell HI. Henderson attended publie school, graduated from the Wheeling Business College in 1898, and soon after- ward became eirculation manager for the News Publishing Company. Ile was with the News Company four years, and then joined the recently established Wheeling Telegraph as circulation manager. During the next four years he gave the Telegraph its secure position in circulation, and since then has been general manager of the company and business. The Telegraph is an independent republican paper, pub- lished at 68 Sixteenth Street, and has n large circulation throughout the eity and surrounding district.

The only important interruption to his newspaper work eame in 1917, when Mr. Henderson was appointed chief of police of Wheeling, an office he filled two years. He is a republican, secretary of the First Presbyterian Church, and is a past grand of Wheeling Lodge No. 9, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Ilis home is at 121 Nineteenth Street at Warwood. Wheeling. In 1905 he married Miss Mary L. Kindelberger, a native of Wheeling and a graduate of the Wheeling High School and the Wheeling Business College. Before her marriage she taught in the public schools for three years and for one year was a teacher in the Linsly Institute at Wheeling. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have two children, David, born July 27, 1910, and Louise, born December 15, 1913.

SAMUEL SPRIGO JACOB is one of the most venerable and most highly honored native sons of Ohio County, and is liv- ing in gracious retirement at his pleasant home five miles northeast of Wheeling. He was born on the old family homestead on Short Creek, Ohio County, June 23, 1838, and is the eldest son of the late John J. and Mahala ( Ridgely) Jacob. Zachariah Jacob, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Wales, of worthy Jewish lineage, and came to America prior to the War of the Revolution, the personal name of his wife having been Susannah, and their children having been Samuel Ezekiel, William, Susannah, John J. and Gabriel. Gabriel, father of John J. (II), was born July 1, 1759, and died March 20, 1422, he having married Ruth Hurst, of Washington County, Mary- land, and their children having been John J., Joseph, Zachariah and Susan (twins), Ezekiel and Samuel. Gabriel Jacob became the pioneer representative of the family in what ia now the State of West Virginia. About 1790 he settled on Short Creek, in the present Ohio County, and the old homestead farm continued in the possession of his descendants until about 1919, the last of the family to have owned the property having been Absolom R. Jacob, now a resident of Woodsdale, this county. Gabriel Jacob did well his part in connection with the social and industrial develop- ment of this section of the state, and his remains were laid to rest in the pioneer cemetery in connection with the Methodist Church of the Short Creek neighborhood, the

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ancient churchyard, with its numerous graves, now covering also the site of the original church building. Among the graves are those of the maternal grandparents of the sub- ject of this sketch. Mrs. Ruth (Hurst) Jacob survived her husband by a number of years. Their son Joseph became a physician, but passed his active life on his farm, where he died in 1868; Zachariah, the third son, became a suc- cessful lawyer in the City of Wheeling, where he died in 1868, his twin sister, Susan, having become the wife of Rev. James Moore, a clergyman of the Methodist Church, and their home having been in Belmont County, Ohio; Ezekiel, the fourth son, died young; and Samuel became a repre- sentative banker and citizen of Wellsburg, Brooke County, where he died at an advanced age. John J., eldest of the children, was born December 26, 1790, and died October 15, 1848. As a young man he wedded Elizabeth Mitchell Fetter, a widow and daughter of Alexander Mitchell. They became the parents of five children: Gabriel, Alexander M., Anne Susan, Ruth and Sarah. After the death of his first wife John J. Jacob married Mahala W. Ridgely, and they became the parents of four children: Samuel Sprigg, A. Ridgely, John J. (1I1), and Drusilla R., the last mentioned, having become the wife of Abram McColloch, a brother of the wife of ber brother Samuel S., of this sketch.

Gabriel, eldest son of the late John J. Jacob, was a resi- dent of Wheeling at the time of his death, when thirty-five years of age; Alexander M. married a daughter of Andrew P. Wood and was a resident of lowa at the time of his death; Anne Susan became the wife of James Montgomery, of Lewisburg, West Virginia; Ruth married the latter's brother, William Montgomery, and they likewise resided at Lewisburg; Sarah married Isaac H. Patterson, and they died at St. Clairsville, Ohio, where two of their sons still reside.

Mahala W. (Ridgely) Jacob, mother of him whose name initiates this review, was eighty-eight years of age at the time of her death, in 1900. She was a daughter of Absolom and Drusilla (Mills) Ridgely, who died at the respective ages of eighty and sixty-six years, the old Ridgely farm be- ing now in possession of the Jacob family. A sister of Mrs. Mahala W. Jacob became the wife of Dr. L. Edward Smith, of Brooke County, and was ninety-four years of age at the time of her death. A. Ridgely Jacob, next younger brother of Samuel S., resides at Woodsdale, Ohio County; John J. lives at Elm Grove, this county; and Drusilla R., the widow of Abram McColloch, is a resident of Elm Grove.

Absolom Ridgely, Sr., was born near Baltimore, Maryland, in 1769, and came to the present Ohio County, West Vir- ginia, about 1790. In 1799 he married Drusilla, daughter of Levi Mills, and eventually he purchased the old Mills farm, on which he died in 1850, his wife, who was born in this county in 1781, having died in 1847. They became the parents of ten children, of whom Mabala W. was the seventh. John J. Jacob, father of the subject of this sketch, was a first cousin of Hon. John J. Jacob, who served as governor of West Virginia and who was a resident of Wheeling at the time of his death.

Samuel Sprigg Jacob gained his early education in the common schools of the middle-pioneer period in the history of Ohio County, and in 1856 he removed with his mother to Wheeling, where for three years he was a student in Lins- ly Institute. Thereafter be continued his studies two years in the academy at Morgantown, where he boarded in the home of the widow of Thomas P. Ray, on the site of the present State University. After completing his studies Mr. Jacob returned with his widowed mother to the old home farm. In 1914 he sold his fine old farm estate of 300 acres, where he had been especially successful as a wool-grower, and in the same year he established his residence in his present attractive home. Though a stanch democrat in a strong republican district, Mr. Jacob bas secure place in popular esteem and has been called to service in local offices of public trust, including that of supervisor under the old system of county government. For eight years he was a valued member of the State Board of Agriculture. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Church, and he has been affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1866, when he was "raised" in Liberty Lodge No. 26, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at West Liberty. After serving twenty-

nine years as secretary of this lodge he was, in 1916, pre- sented by the organization with a handsome silver loving- cup, and he is now the oldest member of this lodge both in years and in period of consecutive affiliation.

In 1868 Mr. Jacob married Mary L. McColloch, daughter of the late Samuel McColloch, of Ohio County, and of this union have been born six children: Clarence died in in- fancy; Samuel S., Jr., is superintendent of the Triadelphia district schools; Mary Lillian is a popular teacher in the Woodsdale schools; Frank H. died in infancy; Mahala R., widow of Archibald N. McColloch, resides at the paternal home; and John J. is a civil engineer in the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. The loved and de- voted wife and mother passed to the life eternal in 1911, after a married companionship of forty-three years. Mr. Jacob is the only surviving incorporator of the Short Creek Cemetery Association, which was incorporated in 1871 and of which he has been the secretary for fifty years.

OTTO JAEGER as a youth learned the art of engraving OL glass, has been an expert connected with the glass industry for many years, and has given Wheeling one of the largest industries of its kind in the country, the Bonita Art Glass Company, of which he is secretary, treasurer and general manager.

Mr. Jaeger was born at St. Goar in a Rhine province of Germany, June 26, 1853. His father, Frederick William Jaeger, a native of Germany, was a man of most substantial attainments. He served fifteen years in the Prussian army, retiring with the rank of captain and with a pension, at one time was attorney-general at Cologne, and in 1866 he came to the United States and located in New York City, where he employed his skill as an instrumental musician as a professor of music. He died in New York City. He was a republican and a member of the Lutheran Church. His wife, Anna Mary Jaeger, was born in Germany and alsc died in New York City. They had a large family of chil- dren, briefly mentioned as follows: Bertha, of New York City, whose husband, Captain Gehle, was a sea captain; Pauline married H. Meyer, clerk in a large importing house and both died in New York City; Emil was a lithographel and died in New York City; Otto was the fourth in age; Carl was a gilder by trade and died at New York; Emma died at Bridgeport, Connecticut, where her husband, Mr Merkle, was manager of a department store; Louisa is the wife of Emil Leu, a chiropodist at Bridgeport, Connecticut; Alexander is a train dispatcher with one of the elevated railway companies of New York; Josephine is the wife of : railway conductor living at Jersey City, New Jersey; Arthur is a lithograpber at Philadelphia; and Matilda is the wife of Ernst Nauman, who bas charge of a large iron work: plant and lives at Brooklyn.

Otto Jaeger was about thirteen years of age when he came to America. He attended government schools in Germany and while there studied English, French and his native tongue. After coming from New York City he rounded out his knowledge of English, but left school at the age o. sixteen to serve his apprenticeship and learn the trade o: engraving on glass. As a young man, possessing special skil in this line, he came to Wheeling in 1877 and took charg of the engraving and other departments of the Hobbs ở Brockunier Glass Plant. In January, 1888, Mr. Jaeger wa one of the organizers of the Fostoria Glass Company 0: Fostoria, Ohio, and for three years was the company 's chie. traveling representative, covering all the United States and Canada. In 1891 he organized the Seneca Glass Company 0 Fostoria, and was president of this company. In 1901 Mr Jaeger returned to Wheeling, where he organized the Bonit: Art Glass Company and has since been its secretary, treas urer and general manager, and has been the guiding geniu in making this a distinctive industry, not only in the quality of work but in size. The plant and offices of the firm ar on Bow Street in Wheeling and the business is primarily the artistic decoration of glass and china. The Bonit: products go all over the United States and make up a large volume of foreign export, and the firm also does an exten sive importing as well as exporting business. George E House is president of the company, while Mr. Jaeger ha

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e other executive responsibilities. The company employs JO hands, most of them experts.

Mr. Jaeger is a republican in politica, and for eight years t as a member of the City Council of Wheeling. He is a ember of the Presbyterian Church, and is a thirty second gree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. In 1879, at beeling, he married Miss Ida Franees Rateliffe, daughter James and Mary Rateliffe, both of whom died at Wheel- g. The two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jaeger both ed in childhood.

Many of his friends and associates know Mr. Jaeger rough his versatile gifts and attainments in other lines an the glass industry. He is deeply versed in the musical ts, for many years has played the violin, flute and violon- llo, aad as a boy of fifteen he had the honor of playing e violin under the eminent leader, the late Theodore bomas. For over thirty years he directed the choir of reshyterian churches, and a number of singers who subse- iently became professionals, owed much to him for his early couragement of their talents.

Mr. Jaeger's early performances as a rifle shot will always · noted in the records of that sport. During 1885 he made e highest seore in the United States for rifle shooting at range of 200 yards, and his feat stood as the high record til tied six months later by a Boston rifleman. This cord of ten straight bull's eyes at 200 yards, 96 out of a ossible 100, still stands. Mr. Jaeger was formerly a mem- 'r of the Wheeling Rifle Club, which was never beaten in a atch with elubs from other eities. At times be has owned number of thoroughbred horses, and has himself driven em ia races at fairs and other occasions in Ohio and won number of purses and other honora.

HUGH HOLMES CARR, M. D., is a skilled specialist in e surgical department of his profession and is engaged active practice in his native City of Fairmont, Marion ounty, where also be is chief of the staff of surgeons !

Cook Hospital. The doetor was born at Fairmont, ecember 23, 1882, a son of Dr. Lloyd Logan Carr and aria C. (MeCoy) Carr. Dr. Lloyd L. Carr was born Fairmont, April 26, 1854, and is a son of Hugh H. id Lydia E. (Piteber) Carr. Hle was graduated from offerson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1576, and was igaged in the active practice of his profession at Fair- ont until 1891. Thereafter be was engaged in practice New York City until 1909, when he retired from the 'tive work of the profession, which he had dignified and onored by many years of effective service, and he now aintains his home in his native City of Fairmont, save or the intervals which he passes in California. As a jung man he married Miss Maria McCoy, likewise a ative of Fairmont, and she died in 1884, Dr. Hugh H., f this review, being the only child. In 1897 Dr. Lloyd . Carr wedded Linda Bergen. Hugh H. Carr, grand- ather of the subject of this sketeh, was born near Wood- ock, Virginia, March 29, 1817, a son of Riehard and higail (Longaere) Carr. He became a prominent drug nd tobacco merchant in what is now West Virginia, where e was associated in the ownership and eondueting of cores at Fairmont, Morgantown and Wheeling, under the rin name of Logan, Carr & Company. He continued his ttensive business activities until his death, September 5, 1854. His wife, who was born June 25, 1826, died February 28, 1906, she having been a daughter of Jona- maa J. and Eliza Pitcher.

Dr. Hugh H. Carr was graduated from Greenwich .cademy, Connecticut, in 1897, and in 1900 was gradu- ted from Pennington Seminary, in the State of New ersey. In 1904 he was graduated from the medieal de- artment of Cornell University, and in 1905-6 he served s an interne in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, where uring a part of the last year he held the position of ouse surgeon. Thereafter he continued his technical tudies in Vienna, Berlin and Berne, in which last men- coned city he studied under Professor Kocher, the dis- inguished surgeon of Switzerland. After his return from 'urope Doetor Carr established himself in practice at Fairmont in 1907, and since 1914 he has here confined his

practice to surgery, in which he has gninel high reputa tioa. In July, 1918, he was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army and was detailed for service at Rockefeller Institute, New York City. There he took the prescribedl course in military surgery, after which he was detniled to service as virgi a operative at the base hospital of Camp D ven, Mama chusetts. There he remained for some time after the signing of the armistice brought the World war to a elose, and there he received his honorable dh burg. in May, 1919.

Doctor Carr is a member of the Marion County M. laval Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, the American Medical 1% sociation, the Bellevuo Alumni Association, the Cornell Medical Alumni Association, the Phi Alpha Sigma medical college fraternity, and the American Legion. In 1921 he was president of the Fairmont Rotary Club.

October 17, 1910, recorded the marriage of Doctor C'arr and Miss Helen Kirkland, who was born at Warren, l'cnn sylvania, in 1856, a daughter of J. L. and C'utherin ( Alexander) Kirkland. Doctor and Mrs. C'arr have one laughter, Katherine Bergen, who was born in 1915.

JOHN EDWARD MARSCHNER, M. D., is established in the sureessful practice of his profession in his native City of Wheeling, where he was born on the 9th of June, 15-6. 1114 father, August E. Marschner, who is still n resident of Wheeling, was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1861, and was about ten years of age at the time of the family immigra- tion to the United States, where the home was established at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. From the old Bay State the family eame to Wheeling. West Virginin, about 1577, and here August E. eventually hecamo identified with a glass manufacturing enterprise. In 1893 he engaged in the brew- ing business, and he continued as president and general manager of the Sebmuehach Brewing Company until 1913. Thereafter he gave much of his time and attention to the affairs of the Wheeling Bank & Trust Company until he retired from active business in 1919. He served several terms as a member of the City Council of Wheeling, and is one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of the West Virginia metropolis. He is a republican, and is affili- ated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In Wheeling was solemnized the marriage of August E. Marsebner and Miss Sophia Roth, who was born in this eity in 1-58, and of their children Dr. John E., of this sketch, is the elder, the younger of the two, Louis E., being engaged in the plumbing supply business in Wheeling.

The public schools of his native city gave to Doctor Marschner his early educational advantages, and here also he attended Linsly Institute. Thereafter he continued his studies in a preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906. For one year thereafter he was a student in the Wor eester Polyelinie Institute at Worcester, Massachusetts, nnd then, in consonance with his ambition and well formulated plans. he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland. In this great institution he was graduated in 1911, with the degree of Doctor of Medieine. The doctor is affilliated with the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity and also with the Phi Beta Pi fraternity of the medical school. He gained valuable elin ical experience through one year of service as an interne in Merey Hospital in the City of Baltimore, and an equal period of similar service in the Maryland Lying-in Hospital in that city. Thereafter he held a position for one year in the Montana State Hospital for the Insane at Warm Springs, Montana, and in 1914 be engaged in the active general practice of his profession in his native City of Wheeling, where the scope and character of his practice attest alike his technical skill and his personal popularity He held for four years the position of city bacteri logist of Wheeling and was coroner's physician three years. The doetor is an active member of the Ohio County Me lical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He gave three years of rerv-

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ice as a member of the Ohio County Lunacy Commission, and in July, 1919, he was appointed health commissioner of Wheeling, in which position his loyal and effective service led to his reappointment in July, 1921, for another term of two years. Doctor Marschner is a stockholder in the bank- ing institution known as the Community Savings & Loan Company, and he owns his attractive residence property at 2311 Chapline Street, where he maintains his office also. He and his wife are active members of the Second Presby- terian Church, and his Masonic affiliations are here briefly noted: Ohio Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Wheeling Chapter No. 1, Royal Arch Masons; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, Scottish Rite, in which he has received the thirty-second degree; and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of which he has been medical director for the past several years. He holds membership also in Wheeling Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

In 1914, at Fayetteville, this state, was solemuized the marriage of Doctor Marschner and Miss Grace V. Hamilton, daughter of Alexander W. Hamilton, who is a member of the representative firm of corporation lawyers, Payne & Hamil- ton, in that city, and also president of the Fayette County National Bank. His wife is deceased. Mrs. Marschner is a talented pianist, a graduate of the celebrated Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and she is a popular figure in the representative social life of Wheeling. Doctor and Mrs. Marschner have two children: Margaret, born November 7, 1914, and Elizabeth, born in February, 1916.

Reverting to the family history of Doctor Marschner, it. is to be noted that his grandfather, Edward Marschner, a native of Brussels, Belgium, there became a successful glass manufacturer, and after establishing his residence in Wheel- ing, West Virginia, in the '70s, he here became associated with the old Hobbs-Brockunier Glass Works, the business of which is now continued under the title of the H. Northwood Company. In this city Edward Marschner passed the re- mainder of his life, and here his venerable widow still re- sides. Of their children the eldest is August E., father of Doctor Marschner; Jennie is the wife of Henry Rithner, proprietor of a glass factory at Wellsburg, this state; Frances is the wife of Nicholas Kopp, president and general manager of the Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass & Glass Company at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Ernest, a resident of Wheel- ing, is retired from active business.

WILLIAM A. WILSON. The name Wilson has been promi- neutly associated with the commercial life of Wheeling for just a century. There have been three generations of the name represented here, and for more than half a century of this time the senior member of W. A. Wilsou & Sons proved a conspicuous source of the energy and enterprise not only affecting his particular line, but the general welfare and progress of the community.

It was in 1822 that William Penn Wilson came to Wheel- ing. He was born in Delaware, January 1, 1800, of an English Quaker family. En Wheeling he became a builder and contractor, and in 1852 became associated with John MeLure and Anthony Dunlevy in the firm of MeLure, Dun- Jevy & Company, steamboat builders and owners. The firm subsequently was Wilson, Dunlevy & Wheeler, which built three of the finest Ohio River steamboats, the Thomas Swan, the Baltimore and the City of Wheeling. William P. Wilson was also one of the pioneer manufacturers of nail kegs in Wheeling at a time when one-third of all the cut nails manu- factured in the United States was made here. William P. Wilson for a number of years was a member of the Wheeling City Council, also a member of the board of supervisors, was a whig and later a democrat in politics, one of his sons was killed while a Confederate soldier, and he and his wife were among the faithful members of the Methodist Church.

William P. Wilson married Sarah Pannell, who was born at Wheeling in 1803, daughter of George and Jane Pannell. William P. Wilson and wife went through life together and in death they were not divided, dying on successive days and they were laid to rest in one grave July 26, 1873. They had been married a little over forty years.

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