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On reaching Seattle in 1903 Mr. Hartman spent thre weeka in a logging camp, and then resumed his journey hom arriving in Tunnelton in November of that year. For time it was difficult to readjust himself to the slow routir of the old neighborhood. In the meantime he attended a embalming school at Pittsburgh, where he received a diploma and on returning to Tunnelton engaged in the undertakin and furniture business March 1, 1904. He has continue in this line ever since, and in addition is a coal operato being associated with his brother, A. W. Hartman, in th Hartman Brothers Coal Company. He is developin another property near Grafton, known as the Reynold Coal Company, of which he is the president.

In the spring following his return from the Klondike Mı Hartman married Miss Mary J. Cummings, daughter c George and Jane (Lloyd) Cummings. Her mother was daughter of John Lloyd, a Welshman. Mrs. Hartman, wh was born in Preston County in 1882, is the mother of a sor Ralph Maxwell, born May 31, 1909. Mr. Hartman vote as a republican, ia affiliated with the Junior Order Unite American Mechanics, Daughters of America, Knights o Pythiaa, Pythian Sisters, the Dokeys, and ia a thirty-secon degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.

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ROGER B. MCKAHAN has showu his initiative and exe- cutive ability in the building up of one of the largest and best automotive establishments in West Virginia, and in general equipment and service facilities this modern estab- lishment, at Moundsville, county seat of Marshall County, is maintained on the highest planc. lIere Mr. MeKahan has the agency for the ever popular Ford automobiles, and in his building and its equipment is now represented an investment of fully $100,000. The building was erected in 1915, by H. W. Perkins, who later sold the property to H. W. McDowell, from whom Mr. McKahan purchased the same on the 9th of February, 1920. The present owner has expended $32,000 in enlarging and remodeling the building, which is now 70 by 120 fect in dimensions, a portion of the structure being two stories in height and in bringing the facilities and appointments of the office, sales and storage rooms up to the best modern standard, besides installing the most approved machinery and other acces- sorica in the repair department. In the operation of the enterprise Mr. MeKahan retains a corpa of thirteen assist- ants. Here are handled not only the Ford automobiles but also Fordson tractors, trucks, etc., and at all times is to be found a full supply of accessorica and parts, so that the service is of the best in all of the departments. The original contract into which Mr. McKahan entered with the Ford Company provided for his handling ninety-aix of the Ford cars annually, and the splendid success which has attended his vital enterprise is shown in the statement that in the month of May alone, in 1921, he sold 110 cars. His aver- age on annual sales has now become three times the volume represented in his original contract.

Mr. MeKahan was born April 22, 1890, was reared and educated in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, receiving his col- legiatc degree from Waynesburg College in 1911. He went to Pittsburgh and was later engaged with H. J. Heinz Com- pany, the great pickle manufacturers. He won advance- ment through effective service and the experience which he gained in connection with a nation-wide industrial enter- prise proved of greater value to him than could any salary, and he held responsible positions that gave him a very appreciable income in this connection. He later entered the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland.

When the nation became involved in the World war Mr. MeKahan was among the first to enlist, and from the position of private he won promotion through the various grades and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He con- :inucd in active service two years, and during the major part of this period he was on duty with American Expedi- :ionary Forces in France. Upon entering the United States Army his ability soon led to his being detailed to service as purchasing agent for army supplies in France. He had previously studied the French language, and he loon perfected himself in the colloquial usage of the same, und as a purchaser of government supplies he paid out several millions of dollars and made an enviable record. He received his honorable discharge after the signing of he historic armistice had brought the great war to a close.

A number of years ago Mr. McKahan decided to await only a proper opportunity to establish himself independently n business as an agent for the Ford products, and after evering his association with the Heinz Company and mak- ng extended investigations, he selected Moundsville, West Virginia, as the most eligible point in which to establish imself in business. He was determined to own and equip in automobile establishment second to none in facilities und service, and his achievement at Moundsville has proved is capacity for winning results, besides making him a most valuable acquisition to the local business community. His nterprise and his success have prompted others to emulate is example, with the result that so many other automobile lants have been established at Moundsville that no other ity of its population in the state has superior buildings or nore enthusiastic salesmen in this particular line.

Mr. McKahan married August 28, 1917, Miss Mazie 12. Smith of Port Norris, New Jersey, daughter of B. F. and Elizabeth (Souder) Smith. He is a member of Park Lodge To. 676, Free and Accepted Masons, West Virginia Con- istory No. 1, of Wheeling, West Virginia, Osiris Temple

Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Wheeling, also a member of Moundsville Chapter No. 86, Royal Arch Masons, and tho Moundsville Chamber of Com- merce.

J. ALLEN BUCKLEW, a veteran Union soldier and retired railroad man at Terra Alta, has spent his life in Preston County, and haa contributed his share to the honorable record of the Bucklew family in this section of West Virginia, where they have lived and performed their work since pioneer times.

His great-grandfather waa the founder of the family herc before the close of the eighteenth century. J. Allen Bucklew, his father and his grandfather were all natives of the county. The grandfather, William Bucklew, was born in the Whetsell settlement of this county, where he lived to old age. IJe married & Miss Elzy, and they are buried on the old home farm. Their children were Jacob; Annie, who died unmar- ried; Rebecca who married Baldwin Fairfax; Dellah, who married Andrew Hawley; and John E.

John E. Bucklew with three of his sons served in the Union Army during the Civil war. John E. Bucklew was born in 1818, near the old Fairfax Ford of Cheat River, in the locality of Caddell, and all his life was passed in Preston County. He had no education because of the lack of school facilities in his day, but was a man of great vigor and lived uscfully and honorably. JIe came out of the war much broken in health, and though he kept his home on his farm the rest of his years he could do little of ita practical work. It required the help of two canes to enable him to get about. and he suffered more or less the many yeara he survived. He died near Terra Alta June 6, 1892. He married Abigail Sipolt, who died April 28, 1898. She was the daughter of Christopher and Mary (Martin) Sipolt. The children of John E. Bucklew were: Eugene, a resident of Terra Alta; J. Allen; Christopher C., who died during the Civil war; Mary Ann, whose first husband was John Knotta, a soldier, and her second was Washington Shaffer, and ahe died in Jackson County, Kansas; and Ruth, who married Isaac Whiting and died in Preston County.

J. Allen Bucklew was born January 16, 1843, on Beech Hill, near Albright, but grew up on the Sipolt farm in the same vicinity. The family subsequently moved to Pint Run, where he remained until he entered the army. He had only a common and private school education, but has always passed as a man of substantial knowledge and judgment.

Mr. Bucklew and his father and his brother Eugene were all in the same company and regiment, Company O, Sixth West Virginia Infantry, under Captain Joseph M. Godwin and Colonel Wilkinson. J. Allen enlisted in September, 1861, while his father, John E., joined in February, 1862. Eugene served three years lacking two months, and waa mustered out in June, 1865. The other son, Christopher C. was in Company A of the Seventh West Virginia Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Weldon Railroad, taken prisoner, and while at Belle Isle was atarved to death in that prison. The Sixth West Virginia was broken up into squads and detachments for guard duty along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Martinsburg to Wheeling and Parkersburg. The regiment was never assembled until its fifteen companies were ordered to Wheeling to be mustered out on June 15. 1865. The aquad with which J. Allen served waa captured while guarding the Oakland Railroad bridge, but the Federals were pursuing the party so closely that the prisoners were released after being paroled. The little party remained out of the service and in camp for some days and were then exchanged at Wheeling and returned to duty. Bushwhack- ing formed a part of the service of the regiment, and in thia J. Allen had some part, covering Tucker, Hardy and neigh- boring counties.

The war over, J. Allen Bucklew returned bome and entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Company at Oakland on the section as a track man. For twenty-four years he waa watchman at Rodamers, guarding the tunnel and other intereats there. He then became assistant foreman in the camp of the company and later reaumed aection work. He continued in the service until he retired as a pensioner of the company in 1905, after forty years of usefulness. He enjoys the privilege of an annual pass for himself and wife.

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In 1906 Mr. Bucklew established his home in Terra Alta. He was elected constable in 1906, and served eight years in that office and as town police, after which he resigned to retire permanently.

At Oakland, Maryland, February 19, 1863, Mr. Bucklew married Louisa Chambers, daughter of David and Mary Ann (Bosley) Chambers. Mrs. Bucklew was born and reared near Oakland and died November 27, 1904, more than forty years after her marriage. A brief record of her children is: Mary A., who married Allen Shaffer, of Somerset, Pennsyl- vania, and died January 1, 1893; Ida May, wife of Sam De Witt and a resident of Manheim, West Virginia; John D., an employe of the M. & K. branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway; Albert, also in the Baltimore & Ohio service at Keyser, married Kate Riley; Maude, wife of John Hoben, of Grafton; Margaret, who died in Baltimore as Mrs. Roland Shields; and Eugene, who died at Trinidad, Colorado, while a soldier in the Regular Army, on February 19, 1908.

J. Allen Bucklew in August, 1905, married Mrs. Permelia Henline, widow of John Henline and daughter of Chris Guthrie and Almyra (Smith) Guthrie. Mrs. Bucklew was born in Preston County, February 28, 1850.

J. Allen Bucklew is a republican, and he voted while in the army for Abraham Lincoln for president, but his first ballot was cast when he was only eighteen years of age and in favor of Western Virginia remaining in the Union. For more than fifty years he has been active in the work of the United Brethren Church. He joined the Grand Army of the Republic late in life and is a member of Preston Post at Terra Alta.

JOHN W. KELLEY, of Terra Alta, now retired, was one of the youngest soldiers recruited for service in the Union Army during the Civil war, and the half century or more since the war he has usefully employed in the work and business for which his training and qualifications best fitted him. For a number of years he was in public service in Preston County.

Mr. Kelley was born in Preston County, in Pleasant Dis- trict, July 14, 1847. He is a great-grandson of a native of Ireland, who on coming to this country settled in Old Vir- ginia. While there he enlisted with the volunteers in the War of 1812. In one battle he was struck by a bullet in the forehead, which passed backward. lodging just under the skin on the top of his head. The bullet remained plainly visible, but he declined to have it removed, saying that he wished to carry a British bullet to his grave, and he did. This old soldier ancestor came to Western Virginia after the war, establishing his home in the northern part of Preston County, then Monongalia County, and he was laid to rest on the soil of the farm where he settled.

Edwin Kelley, father of John W. Kelley, was born in Pleasant District and was a prosperous farmer there. He died in 1857, at the age of forty-six years. He married Ann Falkenstein, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Falken- stein, came from Germany soon after their marriage. Mrs. Ann Kelley survived her husband until 1901. Her children were Harrison, Smith, Lucy, James A., Dovie Jane, who became the wife of Sylvester Stockman, John W., Ellis, Margaret, who married Harrison Shaw, and Marshall. Onc other son, James A., was a Union soldier and lost his life when struck by a falling limb.

John W. Kelley was reared near Cranesville and had only the limited educational advantages of the country schools there. He never attended a free school. Of this period of his life he recalls one old log cabin schoolhouse with paper window lights, slab benches, an iron stove known as the ten plate stove, and there were no such modern facilities as maps, charts or globes, though a tough hickory stick stood in the corner close to the hand of the master, and many times he saw boys punished with this implement to the extent that the blood came. Mr. Kelley studied the old speller, the first reader, and some arithmetic, but no geography or grammar. The schoolmasters of that time could usually read, write and cipher, but were not more advanced than their best pupils.

John W. Kelley was only thirteen years of age when the Civil war broke out. He was unable to get into the service until September, 1864, when he became a volunteer recruit of Company F, Seventeenth West Virginia Infantry, joining at Wheeling and serving under Captain Morris Snyder and

Colonel Davis. During the remaining months of the wi his command was in the southwestern part of West Virginl scouting and skirmishing, and his regiment was at Br Town, Braxton County, when the news of Lee's surrend arrived. A few days later the regiment moved on to Clark burg and then to Wheeling to be discharged, July 9, 186 Mr. Kelley received his discharge while in the hospital, ar he was unable to work during the remainder of that summe During the next eight or nine years he remained on the hon farm, spending his winters in the cooperage industry and tl rest of the year in the fields. The first year of his marrie life he spent at Cranesville, and then moved to a farm : the Craborchard community, where he steadily followe agriculture for many years. Mr. Kelley left the farm 1 become superintendent of the County Home, serving eig. years, and leaving that office in April, 1920. Since then : has been retired at Terra Alta.

In February, 1874, Mr. Kelley married Margaret Recor daughter of Lewis Record. She was born in Preston Count and died in 1913. She was the mother of four children: V. Fletcher, of Terra Alta, married Lena Benson, and the children are Darwin, Dade and Carlet; B. Harrison, Masontown, married Jessie Carico, and their family consis of Mary, James, Helen and William; Dessie is the wife George Hahn, of Morgantown; Howard, the youngest chil died unmarried at the age of twenty-three.

In Preston County in July, 1917, John W. Kelley marrie Mary Conner, who was born in Preston County in 1867, 01 of the nine children, eight surviving, of Benjamin and Mai Ann (Feather) Conner.

Mr. Kelley grew up under conditions that naturally incline him to support the republican party. As a soldier in tl field he accepted the privilege of voting for Abraham Linco in 1864, though he was only past seventeen years of age, an curiously enough, when the next general election can around in 1868 he was not old enough to be accorded tl privilege of the ballot. He has been a stanch Methodi for over fifty years, and is one of the Official Board of tl Terra Alta church. Mr. Kelley is affiliated with the Knigh of Pythias and with the D. O. K. K., and for his faithf membership of a quarter of a century wears a veteran's jew of that order.

WILLIAM FORREST DAILEY, M. D. Since 1894 the tin and talents of Doctor Dailey have been subject to the ca of duty in the medical profession. Except for brief period all his practice has been in the Terra Alta community, ar he has been a resident of Preston County since 1889.

Doctor Dailey was born in Forest County, Pennsylvani June 17, 1868. His father is the venerable James Daile a retired lumberman now living at Buckhannon, West Vi ginia, where for some years he served as justice of the peac James Dailey was born in Jefferson County, New York, June, 1836, and when about twenty-four years of age enter the lumber business, which thereafter was his active vocatio He was a manufacturer of lumber in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, his plants in the latter state being at Rowle burg and Newburg. During the Civil war he served with t. New York Zouaves in the Fifth Army Corps and was a parti pant in thirteen battles. One of these was Gettysbur where he was stationed at the post of danger on Little Roun top. He was also taken prisoner, and for ten months e dured the indescribable tortures of Andersonville. Asi from the honorable part he took in preserving the Uni he has never been interested in the practical side of politi merely voting the republican ticket. James Dailey marri Elizabeth Williams, who was born and reared in Clari County, Pennsylvania. They have been married now i more than fifty-five years. Their children are: Doct Dailey, of Terra Alta; Mrs. Olive Hammond, who died 1919 at Moundsville; James Thomas, an attorney at Kin wood; Mrs. Martha J. Francis, of Connellsville, Pennsylvani and Jerome Dailey, present prosecuting attorney at Buc hannon.

William F. Dailey spent most of his boyhood in Jeffers County, Pennsylvania, where he attended public schoo the academy at Corsica, and after coming to West Virgir was a student in the Wesleyan University at Buckhannc He graduated in medicine from the University of Louisvi

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1 1894, and at once located at Terra Alta. In 1896 he iterrupted his practice to do post-graduate work in Johne Hopkins University at Baltimore. In 1898 he responded to be call of patriotic duty and entered the military service for he Spanish-American war. In June, 1898, he was appointed ssistant surgeon in the Second West Virginia Volunteer nfantry, spent a brief time in camp at Charleston, then at 'amp Mesde at Middletown, Pennsylvania, and went into rinter quarters at Greenville, South Carolina. While there rders were received to prepare for transport to the zone of ostilities, but this order was rescinded, and realizing that e would not get into active service Doctor Dailey then re- gned. Before returning home he went to New York and pent three months in the Post-Graduate School of Medicine, om which he received a diploma. He undertook to estab- sh himself in practice at Moundsville, but after a month ecame ill and this caused him to return to the mountain ountry and now for over twenty years he has steadily racticed in Terra Alta, enjoying a large private clientage ad for twenty years has also been a Baltimore & Ohio Rail- ay surgeon. He is a member of the Railway Surgeons' ssociation, the County, State, Tri-State and American Medical Associations.

Other than professional interests have claimed a portion f his abilities. He is vice-president of the First National bank of Terra Alta and a stockholder and director in the lowlesburg Wholesale Grocery Company. He cast his first residential vote as a republican, and has never deviated om that allegiance. In 1908 he was nominated without pposition as candidate for the House of Delegates, was ected, and in the session that began the following year elped elect Speaker Strickland and served on some important ommittees, including public health. He attended strictly › his duties in the Legislature, but declined to serve a second erm. Doctor Dailey is a York Rite Mason, a member of he Lodge and Independent Order of Odd Fellowa, a past hancellor of the Knights of Pythias in Terra Alta and is eeply interested in fraternal work. He was reared in the 'resbyterian faith.

In Preston County in October, 1900, he married Augusta 'odd Adair, daughter of Joseph and Ella (Gill) Adair, of illicott City, Maryland. Mrs. Dailey was born in the old dair house in Terra Alta in 1878 and was educated in the ublic schools and county normals. Doctor and Mrs. Dailey ad two children: their daughter, Eleanor Elizabeth, was orn April 25, 1910, and died May 2, 1916. Their surviving OD, William Lorenz Adair, born April 15, 1903, is now a ;udent in the University of West Virginia at Morgantown.

ENOCH S. GIBSON, whose home since 1912 has been in the icinity of Webster in the Court House district of Taylor County, is a native of West Virginia, comes of an old and sub- antial family, and has given the sturdy efforts of his man- ood to the tasks and responsibilities of farming and itizenship.

His grandfather was Smith Gibson, who came from old irginia in company with his mother and hia brother Enoch, le latter locating near Buckhannon. Smith Gibson estab- shed his home in Lewis County, married there Malinda Hall, ad they lived out their lives on a farm not far from Weston nd were buried on the home place. A brief record of their hildren is: Lucy, who married Fortunatus White and lived 1 Lewis County; William, mentioned below; Joseph J., who as in Minnesota before the Civil war, and afterward returned › West Virginia and made his permanent home at Freemans- urg; Enoch S., who when a young man went to California, ad died in Round Valley, that state; Addie, who married bram Bond, and died near Lost Creek, Harrison County; fartha, who died in Lewis County, wife of George Gaston; Iary, who married Captain Van Lightburn and finished her fe in Arkansas; and Charles K., who resided in Lewis County. William Gibson, father of Enoch S., was born in Lewis 'ounty in 1829, and had the limited education available to je average youth of that time. He was reared on & farm nd devoted his adult life to agricultural interests. He nally removed to California, and died in Round Valley, Iendocino County, in 1913. His wife, who died in 1878, as Elvira Lawrence, her father, Alexander Lawrence, having loved from Eastern Virginia. William Gibson and wife had

the following children: Florence, whose first husband was IIcury Sherwood, and ahe is now the widow of William Sadler and lives at Belpre, Ohio; Enoch S .; Loelle, who married William C. Sherwood, of Doddridge County; Edwin, of Oak- land, California; and Martha A., a resident of Weston and wife of William Kemper.

Enoch S. Gibson was born in Harrison County March 22, 1854, but spent most of his early years in Lewis and Dodd- ridge counties. He representa a family of farmers, people who in every generation have done their share in the improve- ment of the country and the production of agricultural wealth, and have seldom permitted themselves to be known as candi- dates for political office, and few of them became soldiers. Three of Mr. Gibson's maternal uncles were in the Civil war, Union soldiers, George L., William and John Lawrence, the first going out with an Ohio regiment, while the other two went to the army from West Virginia.

Enoch S. Gibson secured a country school education, and as a youth divided his time between the farm and public works. After his marriage he located on a farm in Doddridge County, and in 1912 moved to his present home near Webster in Taylor County. Outside the work that has constituted his main business in life, he has served as a trustee of schoola and has been active in church. He is a republican in national and state politics, but supports the best man in local elections.

In Harrison County November 8, 1882, Mr. Gibson married Miss Alice Davisson, who was born in that county in August, 1858, daughter of William and Eliza (Allman) Davisson, the former a native of Harrison County, where he spent his life as a farmer. The Daviason children were: George; Sarah, who married Marion Stonaker; Mary, Mrs. John McWhorter; Edgar; Mrs. Samantha Edmonds; Parker; Reason; Catherine, who married Alexander Stewart; and Mrs. Alice Gibson.

Wayne E., the oldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, was liberally educated in Salem College, the Wesleyan College at Buckhannon and in summer normala, has devoted seven years to highly successful work as a teacher in Taylor County, and during vacations has written insurance and taken part in the labors of the home farm. The second child, Edwin G., is connected with the Hope Gas Company at Salem, West Virginia, and is the father of two children, Ruby and Paul. Miss Ila K., a teacher in Taylor County, was educated in Wesleyan College at Buckhannon and completed a course in the Fairmont State Normal School in 1922. Gretna, wife of B. Harrison Wolverton, of Doddridge County, is the mother of Catherine, John, Mary, Harold and Eugene. Mrs. Delpha Curran, at home with her parents, has a son, James. Ralph is a miner in Taylor County. Osie, the youngest, graduated in 1922 from the Lost Creek High School.

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