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JESSE D. MARPLE, who resides at McMechen, Marshall County, and is division superintendent of the Wheeling Traction Company, was born at Sherrard, this county, October 6, 1866, a son of William H. and Sarah Jane (Vana- man) Marple. The father was born in New Jersey and was a child at the time of the family removal to Marshall County, where he was reared to manhood and where he learned the cooper's trade. In 1872 he established his residence at Ben- wood, this county, where are located the Wheeling Steel & Iron Works and the shops of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and here he engaged in the manufacturing of nail kegs for the Benwood Iron Works. His son Jesse D. began to assist him at the bench when twelve years of age, and learned the cooper's trade, at which he became a skilled workman. The father and son later engaged in business aa contract painters, and from 1886 to 1895 the aon was in the employ of the River- aide Iron Works at Benwood, where he became a shearman and earned a substantial salary. The father continued his activities as a contracting painter until his death in 1921, at the age of seventy-aeven years. William H. Marple was a musician of much ability, and gained high reputation in the organizing and training of church choirs, he having been a devoted member of the Church of God, as is also his widow, who is aeventy-seven years old at the time of this writing

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id who is loved for her gracious character and unfailing ndliness. Of the twelve children four sons nad four ughters survive the honored father.

Jesse D. Marple attended the public schools in his boy- hod and youth, but early gained practical experience by sisting his father, as noted in the preceding paragraph. In $95 he entered the employ of Hughes & Wareham, con- actors in the construction of the Benwood & Moundaville lectric Railroad. He aided in the construction work from enwood to McMechen and thereafter to Moundsville, a stance of eight miles, and most of the time he served as a reman. In the fall of 1896 he ran the first passenger train rer the Narrowa, and this first electrie ear on its initial trip id two passengers. Mr. Marple continued his service as otorman five years, and in 1901 was promoted to the posi- oa of road foreman. Three years later he was advanced his present office, that of division superintendent. He so did temporary service in the security department of e company's main office in the City of Pittsburgh. IIe .8 aupervision of shops, trainmen and other employes.

Mr. Marple was active in local patriotic service in the World ar period, he having been chairman in war netivities in his strict, served as a "Four Minute" man, and was an active ember of the local Red Cross. He is a director of the bio Valley Playgrounds Association, is a member of the ommunity Health League and is serving as trustee and acon of the Church of God at MeMechen, he having aue- eded his father in these offices at the time of the latter's ath. lle is a staunch republican, and has served as a mem- er of the MeMechen Board of Education, and was a member the time of the construction of the present high school ilding. He assisted in drafting the first city ordinances of cMechen, and was the first treasurer of the city after its corporation as a city. lle is affiliated with the Knights of vthias and Loyal Order of Moose, and is an enthusiastic seball fan.

Mr. Marple married, in 1911, Misa Nell B. Riddle, of enwood, where her father, the late Henry Riddle, long rved as justice of the peace. Mr. and Mrs. Marple have ro children: Dorothy and Frances.

WILLIAM EDWARD COOK, M. D. The Pageton community, ne of industrial importance in McDowell County, is the age of the able professional activities of Doctor Cook, ho in addition to his general practice is physician and argcon for the Page Coal Company and the Blackwolf oal Company.

The doctor was born at Sweetsprings, Monroe County, is state, February 20, 1871, and is a son of John enry and Julia Ann (Baker) Cook. The father, now ghty-three years of age (1922), is a resident of Centennial, is atate, but his wife, who was born in Monroe County, ied in May, 1911, at the age of seventy-four years. Of le five children the subject of this sketeli was the third i order of birth; Rev. John F. is pastor of the First Bap- st Church at Welch, MeDowell County; Walter J. is a rosperous farmer in Monroe County; Randolph G. has large of a large estate at Middlebrook, Virginia; and lorenee G. is the wife of Lee Walker, a grocery mer- ant of Greensboro, North Carolina.

John Henry Cook, the father, was born in Prince Ed- ard County, Virginia, a representative of one of the old od influential families of that historic commonwealth. lIe ¿quired his early education under the direction of a rivate tutor at Salt Sulphur Springs. He was one of le gallant young men of Virginia who went forth in efense of the Confederacy in the Civil war, took part in le battle of Winchester and many other engagements, ad he was held a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware dur- g the latter part of the war. He gave twenty years of fective service as a school teacher, was long identified Iso with farm enterprise, served as a justice of the peace ad was for four years county superintendent of public hools for Monroe County. He has been for many years zealous member of the Baptist Church, as was also his ife, and he has never wavered in his allegiance to the emocratic party.

The schools of Monroe County afforded Doctor Cook

his early education, and his father was one of his teachers. He himself eventually taught two terms of school, and in 1897 he entered the Medical College of Virginia in the C'ity of Richmond. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1901, and after thus gaining his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was in charge of mine practice at Algoma, MeDowell County, until 1918, in January of which year he entered the medical corpa of the United States Army. He won promotion from the rank of first lieutenant to that of captain, was assigned to the aviation eamp at Morrison, Virginia, in July, 1918, was transferred to Garden City, Long Island, and on the 8th of the following month he sailed for England, still attached to the medical branch of the aviation service. In Lincoln- shire, England, he was assigned to service in treating and otherwise caring for wounded soldiers sent there from the front. In December, 1918, Doctor Cook returned to the United States, and was assigned to aervice on the Demobilization Board at Garden City, Long Island, where he remained until September, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge, after faithful and efficient service in connection with the greatest war in the annals of history. Soou afterward he assumed charge of his present profes- sional service at Pageton, and he has secure vantage-place as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of MeDowell County. He is a member of the American Medi cal Association, the West Virginia State Medieal Society and the MeDowell County Medical Society. He is affiliated with the Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in his home village of Pageton and with the Chapter of Royal Arch Maaons at Northfork. He is a democrat and is a member of the Baptist Church, his wife being a communicant of the Catholic Church, in the faith of which she was reared.

In 1906 Doctor Cook wedded Miss Maude Kingsbury, who was born at Lambsburg, Virginia, a daughter of M. A. Kingsbury. Mrs. Cook died in 1913, and the only child. William, died in early childhood. In 1917 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Cook and Miss Rocine Heuscher, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Swiss ancestry, and the three children of this union are Betty, Ruth and the son, David Wherry.

JESSE W. WATERS. The progressiveness and excellent business judgment of Mr. Waters are definitely shown in the general appearance and well aelected stock of his modern jewelry establishment in the Law & Commerce Building in the city of Bluefield, Mercer County. He was born at Ellaville, Florida, November 29, 1590, and ia a son of John Shaw and Lucretia Elizabeth (Bell) Waters, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Vir gina. The mother died in 1913, at the age of fifty-seven years, and the father survived her by only a few days, he having been sixty-five years of age at the time of his death. The father of John S. Waters was the owner of a large plantation in North Carolina and in the operation of the same retained a corps of fully two hundred slaves, the ravages of the Civil war having extinguished the greater Fart of the family estate. John S. Waters became identified with lumbering operations in Florida, as an inspector, and in that state he lived in turn at Ellaville, Jacksonville and Levson, in which last named town he passed the closing years of his life. Both he and his wife were zealous men- bers of the Baptist Church. Mr. Waters was twice married and his second wife was the mother of him whose name introduces this review. The family name of the first wife was Townsend, their having been one son by this union and six children by the second marriage.

Jesse W. Waters was an infant at the time of the family removal to Jacksonville, Florida, and he gained his early education in that city and at Bellevue, that state. He thereafter took a one-year course in the Philadelphia College of llorology, where he gained excellent technical knowledge of watebmaking and engraving, as well as of optical work. Upon first coming to Bluefield, West Virginia, he was em- ployed in the jewelry store of Randolph & Company, and somewhat more than a year later he here entered the employ of Isadore Cohen & Company, with which he re-

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mained three and one-half years. In September, 1916, with a capital of $1,600, he established himself in independent business, at his present location, and in the meanwhile he had gained a reputation which gave him excellent credit with wholesale houses, so that he was able to put his jewelry establishment on a high standard at the start. He has developed a substantial and prosperous enterprise and is one of the representative young business men of Blue- field. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club of his home city, affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery Bodies of York Rite Masonry at Bluefield and with the Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, both he and his wife being members of the Presbyterian Church.

In 1914 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waters to Miss Agnes Hanche, who was born and reared in Bluefield and who is a daughter of C. H. Hanche. Mr. and Mrs. Waters are popular factors in the representative social ac- tivities of their home city.

RUCKER JENKINS, a representative citizen and progressive business man residing in the City of Bluefield, Mercer County, is Eastern manager of the Great Eastern Coal Com- pany, selling agents for various coal mines in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Mr. Jenkins was born at Graham, Virginia, March 29, 1887, and is a son of O. C. and Lucy D. Jenkins, specific mention of the father being made on other pages of this work. In the year following the birth of Rucker Jenkins his parents came to Bluefield, in 1888, and here he was reared to adult age, his early educational advantages being those of the public schools. Thereafter he completed a three years' course in mechanical engineering at the VAI ginia Polytechnical Institute. For twelve years thereafter Mr. Jenkins was in the service of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company,-first as secretary to the assistant super- intendent, and thereafter as secretary to the general super- intendent. After leaving the employ of the railroad com- pany Mr. Jenkins was in turn connected with the traffic department of the United States Coal & Coke Company, with the sales department of the Central Pocahontas Coal Company and the Eastern Coal & Export Company. He then became resident manager of the Inter-State Coal & Dock Company, and during the final year of his connection with this concern he had charge of purchasing and shipping large tonnage of coal from the West Virginia fields to tide- water, for exportation to foreign countries.

In the World war period Mr. Jenkins gave loyal and effective service as a member of the United States Fuel Administration, in which connection he directed the ac- tivities of various public speakers who were furthering the Government's policy of fuel production and conservation. Mr. Jenkins brings to bear wide experience and resourceful policies in the ordering of the affairs of the important com- pany with which he is now connected as noted in the open- ing paragraph of this review. He is a loyal member of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with the Country Club and Old Colony Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.

November 26, 1910, recorded the marriage of Mr. Jenkins and Miss Martha Bosworth Becker, daughter of William S. Becker, formerly general superintendent of the Norfolk & Western Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have one son, William Becker Jenkins.

HERBERT HUDSON THOMPSON is a graduate of the West Virginia University Agricultural School, and is the present county agricultural agent for Wetzel County. He is full of enthusiasm for the newer agricultural and stock raising movements, has qualities of leadership, and has done much already to build a well coordinated program for the coun- try life of this section.

Mr. Thompson was born in Roane County, West Virginia, November 28, 1894. His father Thomas A. Thompson, was born in Old Virginia in 1858, as a young man moved to Roane County, where he married and where he was active in the farming community until 1906, and from that year until 1920 conducted a mercantile business at Spencer in

Roane County, where he still resides. He is a democrat an a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. Thome A. Thompson married Martha Pursley, who was born & Eagle Rock, Botetourt County, Virginia, in 1865, and he, came the mother of nine children: Guy C., connected wit the United Fuel Gas Company at Spencer; Ona, who die at the age of sixteen; Ola, wife of Ferd E. Rhodes, business man at Spencer; Maude, who died when eightee years old; Grace, wife of Rupert Barr, an employee of th South Penn Oil Company of Ritchie County; Herbert Hue son; Leota, wife of Glenn Miller, a railroad man with th Baltimore & Ohio, living at Parkersburg; Freda, who die when three years old; and Gladys who died at the age o two years.

Herbert Hudson Thompson spent his early youth on farm in Roane County and attended the public schools : Spencer, graduating from the Spencer High School in 191: In the fall of that year he entered West Virginia Univer sity, where he carried his studies until he joined the color in May, 1918, at Camp Lee, Virginia. He remained ther a little over six months, the first two months in the ir fantry and one month in the Medical Corps. Later he wa selected to go to the Officers Training School, and he ro ceived a second lieutenant's commission just about the tim the armistice was signed. He received his honorable dis charge November 30, 1918, and soon afterward resumed hi studies at Morgantown. In January, 1920, Mr. Thompso entered upon his duties as agricultural agent in Wetze County. At that time he had completed all the work re quired for his degree as Bachelor of Science and Agricu) ture, but he returned to the University to receive the degre in June, 1920.

Mr. Thompson is active in all farming organizations and was a member of the Grange at the University. He i affiliated with the American Legion, with Wetzel Lodg No. 39, A. F. and A. M., and is a democrat and a membe of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In April, 1920, a Pennsboro in Ritchie County, he married Miss Myrtle Iren Barrows, daughter of Guy V. and Mary (Dumont) Bar rows, residents of Parkersburg, her father being an oi operator, Mrs. Thompson is a graduate of the Parkersburg High School. They have one daughter, Mary Martha, bor at New Martinsville, January 21, 1921.

RAYMOND HANSFORD LEU, M. D., a prominent young physician and surgeon at New Martinsville, joined th navy about the time he graduated in medicine, and wa a medical officer with the Marines in France during twenty three months of the great war.

Doctor Leu was born at Adeline in Lawrence County Kentucky, October 26, 1893. His grandfather, Michael Vor Leu, was a native of Austria and spent most of his lif at Schaufhausen, Switzerland. He was a lawyer by pro fession, was a soldier in the Franco-Prussian war of 187( and died at Schaufhausen, Switzerland, in 1895. His son Daniel Leu, now living at New Martinsville, was born il Schaufhausen in 1859, was reared and educated in Swit zerland and learned the trade of stone cutter and ston mason. In 1870 he came to the United States and settlec at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and in 1898 came to New Martinsville, where he has done an extensive business as : stone contractor. He has built many bridges in Wetze County and throughout the state. Daniel Leu is a democra: and an active worker in the Presbyterian Church. H. married Miss Clara Miller, who was born at Adeline, Ken tucky, in 1869. They have two sons, Raymond H. and Julius Frederick. The latter is a florist and owner of greenhouses at New Martinsville.

Doctor Leu acquired his early education in the public schools of Wetzel County and in 1912 entered West Vir ginia University. He remained there through regular year: and two summer terms, taking one year and two summer courses in the pre-medical work and two years in the med. ical school. In the fall of 1915 he went to Washington D. C., entering George Washington University Medica. School for one year. In the fall of 1916 he resumed hi medical studies in the medical department of the University of Tennessee at Memphis, where he graduated M. D. ir

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'17. Ha is a member of the Phi Chi medical fraternity. Doctor Leu entered the Naval Medical Corpa in May, .17. The first month he was attached to the United ates Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Virginia. Then fol- wed a period of training with the University of Pennsyl- nia and Jefferson Medical College, following which he ined the Marines at Quantico, Virginia, and August 22, .17, sailed for France, landing at St. Nazaire. He was tached to the First Battalion, Sixth Regiment, U. S. Ma- nes, and for thirty days was on the firing line in the Ver- in sector. While there he was gassed and shot in the : by a piece of shrapnel. For two months he was a tient in a base hospital at Brest, and then for seven onths was on Vincent Astor's private vacht. U. S. S. oma and for six months on the U. S. S. Bridgeport. ily 22, 1919, after twenty-three months in France, he is returned to the United States. Doctor Len was com- ssioned a first lientenant at Norfolk, Virginia, and was omoted to captain while at Brest, in January, 1918. bllowing the period of hostilities he was put on the S. S. Rochester, and on that ship served while on cruise rough the Gulf of Mexico, Panama Canal, the Orient, and is finally transferred to the U. S. Hospital at Fort Lyon, lorado, where he received his honorable discharge, Oc- her 31, 1920, after more than three years in the service. On returning to New Martinsville, Doctor Leu at once ened his office, and has had a rapidly growing clientele. is offices are in the Federal Realty Building. Doctor Len, 10 is unmarried, is a republican, a member of the Presby- rian Church, is affiliated with New Martinsville Lodge No. 1. Loyal Order of Moose, and is a member of the Amer- in Legion and the Forty and Eight.

CASSIUS MCCARL LEMLEY, C. E., who is geological engineer charge of investigation and special reports in the service the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad system, with residence and icial headquarters at Morgantown, Monongalia County, us born at New Freeport, Pennsylvania, on the 29th of av. 1866, and is the eldest of the children of Elihu Showalter mley and Victoria (Dalrymple) Lemley. The Lemley nily of this branch was settled in Western Pennsylvania ior to the War of the Revolution, and George Lemley, great- pat-grandfather of the subject of this review, was a private Captain Philip Gable's Company, Fifth Battalion, Phila- Iphia County Militia, for the year 1781. His son. George () was born in Greene County, that state. May 17, 1786, d in his native county the latter died on the 10th of June, 62. February 27, 1806, recorded the marriage of George Imley (II) to Christena Shriver, who was born June 18, 85, and whose death occurred December 19, 1877. The mes and respective dates of birth of their children are here corded: Alza, June 15, 1807; Henry, May 26, 1808: Rachel. ay 30, 1811; Sarah, April 7, 1815; John S., grandfather of le subject of this sketch, November 27, 1817 (died November 1. 1902); Jane, June 4, 1820: Abraham, November 27, 1822; izabeth, May 13. 1825: and Jacob. October 4, 1831.

On the Ist of December, 1839, John S. Lemley wedded iss Elizabeth Heingardner, who was born in Rockingham unty, Virginia. June 10, 1819, and whose death occurred igust 19, 1908. Mrs. Lemley was a daughter of Michael Hein- rdner, who was widely known in the South as a successful erb doctor" and who traveled extensively throughout rginia and other Southern states and as far north as Penn- Ivania, for the purpose of healing the sick bv medium of 3 herb remedies. John S. and Elizabeth (Heingardner) mley became the parents of eight children: Elihu S., father the subject of this review, was born October 21, 1840; rah was born February 2, 1843, and died in infancy; omas P. was born January 21, 1849; Hannah S. was born oril 7, 1851, and died in childhood; Dr. William H., who is born March 29, 1853, was graduated from the medical partment of the University of Ohio, and took a special urse in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, aryland; Alfred J. was born May 24, 1856, was graduated in e College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Mary- ad, and also took a special course in the Historic Old Jeffer- n Medical College in the City of Philadelphia; Solomon S. as born March 1, 1859; and Jefferson D. was born October , 1861. 1

Elihu S. Lemley was reared and educated in his native county and as a young man he wedded Miss Victoria Dal- rymple, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1839, a daughter of Charles Dalrymple, whose father was a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution. Mrs. Lemley had two sisters, Priscilla and Mary, the latter of whom became the wife of Dr. John McCarl of Wadestown, West Virginia (then Virginia), who was official aurgeon of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in connection with the con- struction of its line from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling. He retired from the practice of medicine in 1879 and engaged in the grain brokerage business at Chicago, Illinois, where he lost all of his material property in the great fire of 1871. With cash resources which he retained Dr. McCarl purchased a farm of one thousand acres near Clifton, Illinois, where he engaged in agricultural and dairy enterprise on a large scale, he having continued in active management of this business until 1902, when he turned the property over to his sons, after which he lived retired until his death in 1916, at the patri- archal age of ninety-one years.

Elihu S. Lemley was born on the old homestead farm in Greene County, Pennsylvania, near the West Virginia line, and as a young man he drove cattle from West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania to the City of Baltimore. Thus he became thoroughly familiar with the topography and roads in what is now West Virginia. At the time of the Civil war his sympathies were entirely with the cause of the Confed- eracy, with the result that he ran away from the parental home, made his way to the South and entered the secret service of the Confederate government. His knowledge of West Virginia made his services of great value to the Con- federacy, and he was many times detailed to guide bands of men through the mountains of this state to enlist in the Southern armies. He was many times fired upon, was twice captured, and while on this first occasion he made his escape, on the second his good fortune failed in this respect, with . the result that he was held as a prisoner of war at Columbus, Ohio, until after the close of the war. At Columbus, he formed the acquaintance of Miss Victoria Dalrymple, who was assisting in the care of ill and wounded soldiers, and on the 10th of February, 1865, their marriage was solemnized. They settled at New Freeport, Greene County, Pennsylvania, but in 1868 they came to Monongalia County, West Virginia, and settled on a farm in Battelle District. In that district Mr. Lemley owned and resided for varying intervals on three different farms, and in 1878 he removed to Burton, Wetzel County, this state, where he now maintains his home. For years he owned and operated a threshing machine, besides which he gave attention to teaming and to dealing in lumber and timber, as well as to the raising of horses. He has always had a great fondness for horses, and today, at the age of eighty-one years, can jump astride his horse from the ground. He and his wife are earnest members of the Baptist Church, and he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Of the children, Cassius McCarl, of this review, is the eldest; Miss Florence Anna, who was born in 1868, remains at the parental home; Alburn McCarl was born in 1870 and died at the age of five years; John S., who was born in 1872, resides in Houston, Texas; Miss Elizabeth May, born in 1874, remains with her parents; Miss Mary Veronica, born in 1876, died at the age of thirty-nine years; and James Harrison Cleaver, born in 1882, is a resident of Baltimore, Maryland.

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