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Doctor Haworth was born at Portland, Ohio, May 10, 160. The Haworth family is English and for some nerations lived in a hamlet of that name in the north of ngland. Doctor Haworth is a son of Samuel Milton td Hannah Louise Haworth. His father was a practicing ysician from 1849 to 1886.

Clarence Everett Haworth attended public schools at Rav- swood, West Virginia, and finished his literary educa- on in Colgate Academy and Colgate University, then own as Madison University, in New York State. He adnated from the Academy in 1878 and from the Uni- rsity in 1882. He has also done post graduate work the University of Chicago. He has the degrees A. B., , M., Ph. B., while the Doctor of Medicine degree was nferred upon him by Starling Medical College at Co- mbus in 1885. Doctor Haworth devoted himself to his neral practice as a physician and surgeon from 1885 1895. In the latter year he bought the Huntington erald, with James J. Peters. This joint ownership, with octor Haworth as editor, continued until 1897, but from $97 to 1907 his time was fully taken up with his duties sole owner and editor of this newspaper. In 1907 he Id the Herald, at which time be accepted appointment as ce president of Marshall College, together with the air of literature, and his congenial tasks in this institu- on still engage him.

Doctor Haworth served aq a member of the Board of agents of West Virginia University for two terms from ›01 to 1910. He is a republican and a member of the piscopal Church. As a musical composer he has pub-

lished a considerable body of both secular and sacred music. He is author of the words and music of the song, "West Virginia," sacred compositions for Episcopal serv- ice including a Te Deum, Jubilate, Kyrie Eleison, O Dear Redeemer and others. Hia secular compositions include Slumber Song, Tell Me, Roses, Love Ms Till I Die, At Thy Voice, At Last, Love Light, Light of Mine Eyes and others.

Doctor Haworth married at Ironton, Ohio, in 1885, Miss Hattie Vinton, daughter of T. A. Vinton of Parkersburg, West Virginia. At Chicopce Falls, Massachusetts, in 1903, Doctor Haworth married Louise Fay. By his first marriage he has two children, Samuel Vinton who married Mary Watsell in 1920, and James Rodgers who married Mar- guerite Whitaker in 1915. The son James R. Haworth has two children, Vinton and Elizabeth.

OLBERT C. NOBLE is vice president and general manager of the Tygert Valley Glass Company, one of the most im- portant industrial establishments of Grafton. He is him- self a past expert in the glass business, which he has followed since carly youth, and has been an executive in the present plant at Grafton over ten years.

Hs was born at Taylorstown, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1881. His grandfather was a native of Ireland, one of the early stage drivers over the Alleghanies, served as Union soldier in the Civil war, and later was a successful farmer in Washington county. He became wealthy through the development of oil on his farm. He had a family of five daughters and two sons. Lafayette Noble, his older son, was born at Taylorstown, had the advantages of only the common schools and devoted his active life to farm- ing. He died at Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1909, aged fifty-two. He is survived by his widow, whose maiden name was Mary Houston, a daughter of Abram Houston. Of her four children Olbert is the oldest; Harry is super- intendent for the contracting firm of Regan & Hormel at Charleroi, Pennsylvania; Charles ia an upholsterer at Wash- ington, Pennsylvania; and Mahel is married and living in Washington.

Olbert C. Noble began his business career with a com- mon school education. His early training was on a farn. and he was about nineteen when he left the farm and went on the payroll of the Hazel-Atlas glass plant at Washington, beginning as a common laborer at 70 cents a day of ten hours. He liked the work because he felt that ha was accomplishing something for himself as well as for his employers. That has been the spirit dominating him and his work throughout, and is doubtless the chief explanation of his advancement. Within six months he was shipping clerk of the factory, and in 1905 waa made assistant superintendent of an industry with 400 employes. In 1909 he was promoted to superintendent, and con- tinned these duties two years longer at Washington.

The Beaumont Glaas Company, manufacturers of table- ware, moved their plant from Martins Ferry, Ohio, to Graf- ton, in 1894. Later it was converted into a plant for the manufacture of glass food-containers, and about that time the business was taken over by the Tygert Valley Glass Company. Its exclusive output is glass food containers, and from a plant employing 100 men and with a daily output of one carload, it is now an industry with 300 persons on the payroll and manufactures four carloads of goods daily.

Mr. Noble moved to Grafton and assumed the active management of this plant in 1911. He is one of the di- rectors of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce. He was superintendent of the Tygert Valley Company two years, then general manager, and aince 1917 has been vice president and a director and general manager. Edward C. Stewart of Washington, Pennsylvania, is president of the company, and S. A. Waller, secretary and treasurer.

The Christian Church of Grafton was organized in Mr. Noble's home November 7, 1911, with twelve members, and his has been a stimulating and sustaining member ever since. The congregation has recently completed a new house of worship on McGraw avenue. Mr. Nohle is a Maater Mason and in politics a democrat. At Washing-

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ton, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1901, he married Catherine Clemens, youngest of the four daughters of Peter Clemens, a farmer in that county. She completed her education in the Washington high school. Mr. and Mrs. Noble have three children: Harold, who graduated with honors from the Grafton High School in 1921 and is now in West Virginia University; Frances and Olberta, who are in the public schools.

AMOS E. KENNEY, attorney at law at Spencer, is a member of a family that has given a number of success- ful men to the profession in West Virginia.

Mr. Kenney was born at MeConnellsville, Ohio, Septem- ber 13, 1865, but has spent most of his life iu West Virginia. His father, Martin Kenney, was born near MeConnellsville, Ohio, in 1841, grew up in Morgan County, was a flour miller at MeConnellsville, and about 1869 removed to Burning Springs, Wirt County, West Virginia, attracted hither by the newly opened oil fields, the first important oil operations in the state. He finally retired to Parkersburg, where he died in 1916. He was a democrat and a devout Catholic. His wife, Mary Hosey, was born near Pittsburgh in 1836, and died at Parkersburg in 1916, two weeks after the death of her husband. Amos E., the Spencer attorney, was the first of their children. Alfred, who graduated in law from Georgetown University at Washington, is practicing his profession at Parkersburg. Arthur was a gold prospector in Alaska and died during a temporary sojourn at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1906. Rose and Lillie are Sisters in the Visitation Academy at Park- ersburg, West Virginia, their convent names being Sister Mary Baptista and Sister Mary Angela. Frank, who graduated from the University of Maryland, Medical De- partment, is a physician and surgeon at Martinsburg, West Virginia. Miss Evelyn lives with her brother Alfred. Elizabeth is a teacher in a Young Ladies Seminary at Buffalo, New York. George, who graduated in medicine from the University of Maryland, is now practicing in New York City.

Amos E. Kenney was about four years of age when the family moved to Burning Springs, and he finished his education in the high school there and later entered the University of West Virginia, where he took his law course. He graduated in 1898, and was the first to be awarded by the State University the degree Master of Laws. Mr. Kenney practiced two years in Calhoun County, and since then for over twenty years has been one of the active and successful members of the bar in Roane County. Besides his private practice he is secretary of the Roane County Building & Loan Association and a director in the Traders Trust & Banking Company of Spencer, West Virginia, and was for a number of years engaged in the newspaper business. Mr. Kenney is a democrat, a mem- ber of the Catholic Church, a fourth degree Knight of Columbus, affiliated with Parkersburg Council No. 694, a member of Parkersburg Lodge No. 198, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Spencer Rotary Club and the Roane County Bar Association. He has acquired con- siderable property in Roane County, including a farm near Spencer, his modern home on Loenst Avenue and a business building on Main Street. During the war he did committee work for the Red Cross, Liberty Loan and other drives.

In 1885, at Elizabeth, West Virginia, he married Elvetta Wise, daugliter of John and Harriet (Hoffman) Wise, now deceased. Her father for many years was an active lumberman on the Little Kanawha River. Mrs. Kenney, who graduated from Broaddus College, died in 1903 at Spencer. She is survived by two children: Mary Tracy is a graduate of the D'Youville College at Buffalo, New York, with the A. B. degree, and is now teacher of Latin and English in the City High schools at Lockport, New York. The son, Patrick, is completing his education in a Trades School at Arlington, New Jersey.

WILLIAM ROY SHAW. One of the ablest men in the educational affairs of Preston County has been recruited from that county where he grew up and acquired his early

education, and following the vision of important servi for his fellow men has devoted his life so far to enth siastic leadership in school, agricultural development, al practically every other interest and movement associate with the real welfare of his community.

William Roy Shaw, now superintendent of the Teri Alta schools, was born in Portland District November 1: 1877, son of A. Staley Shaw, the venerable justice of th peace and the oldest ex-sheriff of Preston County. Th interesting carcer of his father and other members of th family is sketched elsewhere in this publication.

William Roy Shaw exhausted the opportunities of th common schools in his home locality and at the age o sixteen qualified and began teaching. For three years h taught in a rural school, and then entered upon his own higher educational training. At the University of Wes Virginia he pursued all the studies in both the preparator. and college courses, performing eight years work in fiv. years and one term and graduated with the A. B. degree in the spring of 1903.

After his university career Mr. Shaw was for four years a teacher in the State Normal Sehools at Fairmont and Athens, and in the summer took special courses in Harvard University. Following this he was for three years ir. Florida, where he was principal of the Normal Industrial High School at St. Petersburg, and came into close touch with the educational affairs of that state. Returning to his home state, Mr. Shaw while not immediately resuming his duties in the schoolroom took up what is essentially an educational work, in connection with the organization of a local farm bureau. In association with the county farm advisor and associates he perfected the first farm bureau in Portland Distriet. He also promoted and was made secretary of the first Federal Farm Loan Association in Preston County and one of the first in the state. After two years of energetic labors in this direction Mr. Shaw re- signed, and since then has been head of the school system. at Terra Alta. For two years he was also district super- intendent of Portland District, but declined the respon- sibilities of that position, though he is still secretary of the Distriet Board of Education.

The Terra Alta schools under Mr. Shaw's supervision have held to a high standard, the spirit of thorough education has been completely infused among the pupils, and iu recent years more than eighty-five per cent of the graduates go elsewhere to supplement their education in colleges and universities. Terra Alta has honor students at Wellesley College, Goucher College at Baltimore, Uni- versity of West Virginia, and, in faet, in nearly all the larger colleges of the East. The course of study in Terra Alta has been particularly strengthened in the sciences and languages, and the work done there has generated a repu- tation that attracts many students from outside the district. The schools comprise twelve grades, and the high school is affiliated with the state institutions so that its graduates enter the freshman year at the university.

Mr. Shaw is not altogether the common type of suc- cessful school man. His interest in public affairs led him to serve four consecutive years as mayor of Terra Alta. In that time the greater part of the paving work in the town was accomplished and the program for concrete side- walks put well under way. After leaving the office of mayor he was recorder and a member of the council for a time. Mr. Shaw has had a talented companion and adviser in his wife. Before her marriage she was Miss Mary Edna Mayer. They were married December 28, 1904. Her father was the late John C. Mayer, who was born in Germany and became one of Preston County's leading business men, merchant and lumberman, and widely known over the county. He married Arahell Byrer, of Philippi, West Virginia, who died in 1910. The children besides Mrs. Shaw were: Carrie, wife of Harland L. Jones, as- sistant cashier of the Garrett National Bank of Oakland, Maryland; Frederick B., assistant cashier of the Terra Alta Bank; and Mrs. Virginia Zaccharias, of Chambers- burg, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Shaw completed her college work in the Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, West Virginia. She taught in the schools of Preston County, and whils

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e and her husband lived in Florida she was assistant ia t grade school there.

JAMES A. CAMPBELL, M. D. In 1894, nearly thirty vars ago, Doctor Campbell began the practice of medi- ne and surgery at Beckley, and through the intervening ars he has not only looked after a large private practice t has established and conducted a splendid private hos- tal for this community. Doctor Campbell is one of the st progressive surgeons and physicians in the state, and s kept in touch with the advaneing knowledge of the ofession by association with some of the greatest sur- ons and clinics in the country.

Doctor Campbell was born at Cliff Top in Fayette ounty, West Virginia, October 4, 1873, son of Anthony d Margaret (Nickell) Campbell. The ancestry of the mipbell family is a long and distinguished one, running ick into the earliest times of Scotland and also of Colonial merica. This ancestral record is too long to go into, at some of the facts are interesting in connection with le career of Doctor Campbell. It is a matter of record at Archibald Campbell, the seventh Earl of the House of rgyle, was associated with one of the very earliest projects ) colonize Virginia. There was a Rev. Isaae Campbell who as ordained and licensed by the Bishop of London to reach in Virginia on July 6, 1747. Two cousins, called Hack David and White David Campbell, were among the ioneer settlers of Culpeper County, Virginia, and Black David, who was born in 1710, moved from there to Augusta 'ounty. Another branch of the family' was represented by ohn and Mary Campbell, who immigrated to America, rst settling in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and about 730 moved to Virginia. Robert and Dugal Campbell hoved from Pennsylvania to Orange County. Among the ons of John Campbell, just mentioned, were Patrick, Robert and Davis, who settled in Orange County in 1732. The grandfather of Doctor Campbell was William Camp- ell, and he was descended from the pioneer Campbells in Orange and Culpeper counties. The Campbells were nu- nerously represented in the Revolutionary war period.

The father of Doctor Campbell was alse born at Cliff Top in Fayette county, while his mother was born at Pickway in Monroe County. Anthony Campbell was a farmer. He was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war. He and two comrades were captured by some Bush- whackers. Watching his chance as his captors lay asleep he made his escape, reached the home of Bob Sentts at Crow, near Beckley, and after explaining his identity of a Union soldier and his affliction from rheumatism, he was taken in and cared for and was kept in hiding whenever the Southerners eame around looking for him. Ile finally reached home, and had to stay in bed with rheumatism for six months. He was a man given to adventure and had been one of the California forty-niners in search of gold, going out to the coast when only seventeen. At one time he left West Virginia and went out to Decatur, Illinois, where he took up a land claim, but fell sick with the chills and fever and soon returned to West Virginia. Both he and his wife are now deceased.

James A. Campbell after completing his common school education went out to Concordia, Kansas, where an older married sister lived, and while living with her he worked and paid his way while getting a high school course. Later he entered the University of Louisville Medical School, where he graduated M. D. in 1894. Immediately after qualifying for his profession he located at Beckley, and has long stood in the front rank of physicians and sur- geons of Raleigh County. Doctor Campbell since the early years of his practice has been taking time to attend medieal conventions and clinics and schools of medicine. Ile returned to Louisville in 1899, took a course in the New York Polyelinic in 1906, took special work under Job Prices at Philadelphia in 1908 and also under J. B. Beavers in the same city in that year. He was a student in the Johns Hopkins University in 1920, attended elinies of the Mayo Brothers at Rochester. Minnesota, in 1921, and of Doctor Ochsner at Chicago in the same year, and also the Crile Clinic at Cleveland. In his post-graduate Vol. II-71

work he has largely specialized in diseases of women and abdominal surgery.

February 14, 1910, Doctor Campbell organized and began the building at Beckley of the Campbell Hospital. He also built what was known as Hospital No. 2, both of which were burned in a fire that nearly destroyed the town. He is now financially and professionally inter- ested in the Kings Daughters Hospital, which when com- pleted will rank as one of the very finest hospitals in the state in point of equipment. It contains seventy-six rooms.

Doctor Campbell is president of the County Board of Health in Raleigh County, and during the war was a member of the Examining Board. He served in 1920-21 as mayor of Beckley, and when he retired from office January 1, 1922, it was coneeded that he had given the city the best administration the community had ever had. Doctor Campbell is not in politics, but his heart and soul are in any community undertaking. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, belongs to the County and State Medi- cal societies, the Southern and American Medical associa- tions, and is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner.

October 12, 1906, at Beckley, Doctor Campbell married Hallie Mac Payne, daughter of Charles Henry and Kizzie (Lindsay) Payne, of Newport News, Virginia. Her father was a farmer and stock man. Doctor and Mrs. Camp- bell have a son, James A., Jr., born in 1911.

WILLIAM PALLISTER HUBBARD. The recent death of Hon. William P. Hubbard of Wheeling makes appropriate a re- view not only of his notable carcer but of his father and grandfather. These citizens, constituting three genera- tions, afforded a splendid succession of abilities and serv- iees that are linked with the fundamental history of Wheeling and in many respects with the history of West Virginia as a whole.

Dana Hubbard, the pioneer settler of Whecling, came of a long line of sturdy New Englanders, a descendant in the sixth generation from William Hubbard, whe arrived in Plymouth. Massachusetts, in 1630, and for six years was a member of the General Court of the Colony. His son William was one of the early graduates of Harvard College and a minister and historian. The next three generations were represented by John Hubbard, Rev. John Hubbard, of Connecticut, and Maj. Gen. John Hubbard. Dana Hub- hard, son of General Hubbard, moved with his family from Connecticut in 1815 te Pittsburgh. In 1819 he came with his family down the river in a flathoat. and the family remained on the boat while he was building a log cabin at Wheeling. From that time forward an important share of Wheeling's industrial enterprise originated in the impulse and management of Dana Hubbard. He built in 1927 the first saw mill and the first grist mill at Wheeling, and later set up the first steam saw mill in Western Virginia. Dana Hubbard lived for some years on a farm in Ohio County. He died October 16, 1852. His wife, Asenath Dorman, died April 23, 1878.

His oldest sen, Chester Dorman Hubbard, was not only a leader in the industrial and financial affairs of Wheeling but exercised a great influence in the formative shaping and development of the new state of West Virginia. He was born in Connecticut, November 25, 1814, acquired his early education at Wheeling, worked around his father's mills and later entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conncetieut, where he graduated valedictorian of his class in 1840. He soon returned to Wheeling to assist his father in business, and continued the management of the lumber mills and related industries until 1852. In that year he and others established the Bank of Wheeling, of which he became president, and later for many years, until his death, he was president of the German Bank of Wheeling. His was one of the most important influences in making and developing Wheeling as an important center of the iron and steel industry. C. D. Hubbard & Company in 1859 leased the Crescent Iron Mills, and later he was an or- ganizer of the Wheeling Tin Company and for twenty years was secretary of the Wheeling Iron & Nail Company. He was among the promoters and builders of the Pittsburg,

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Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad in 1873, becoming president of the road in 1874.

A brief statement of his public record is all that is necessary to indicate the great influence he exercised for many years. He was elected and served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1852-53. He was a member of the State Convention of 1861 and strenuously opposed the ordinance of secession. At the beginning of the war he promoted the organization of military com- panies for home defense and these companies proved the nucleus of some of the first Union regiments raised in Western Virginia. He was a member of the Wheeling Convention of May 13th, and also the convention of June 11, 1861. He was a member of the first State Senate of the new state, and subsequently represented the First District in Thirty-ninth and Fortieth congresses. Chester D. Hubbard was for many years a trustee of Linsly Institute at Wheeling and also one of the founders in 1848 of the Wheeling Female Seminary and later presi- dent of the trustees of the Wheeling Female Seminary and later president of the trustees of the Wheeling Female College.

Chester D. Hubbard died August 23, 1891. September 29, 1842, he married Miss Sarah Pallister, who was born in England in 1820 and was brought to the United States when a child. Chester D. Hubbard and wife had five chil- dren: William Pallister, Dana List. Chester Russell. Julia A., who became the wife of W. H. Tyler, and Anna G., who married Joseph C. Brady.

The late William Pallister Hubbard, though he chose the profession of law rather than banking or industry. had the broad and comprehensive spirit of the man of affairs which distinguished his father. He was born at Wheeling December 24, 1843, and was granted seventy- eight years in which to achieve his destiny and service, pass- ing away December 5, 1921. He was educated in the public schools of Wheeling, in Linsly Institute, in his father's alma mater, Wesleyan University, Middletown. Connecticut, where he graduated A. B. in 1863. In 1866 Wesleyan conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. Following his college carcer he read law at Wheeling, was admitted to the bar, and during the closing months of the Civil war served as a lieutenant in the Third West Virginia Cavalry. He was in active practice as a lawyer at Wheel- ing for nearly forty years. From 1865 to 1870 he was clerk of the House of Delegates, served as a member of the House of Delegates in 1881-82, was chairman of the commission to revise the text laws of the state in 1901-03, and in 1906 was elected by the First West Virginia Dis- trict to Congress and served two terms. retiring in March, 1911. He was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1888 and in the same vear on the state ticket for attorney general. In 1912 he was a delegate to the National Convention, and proved a strenuous sup- porter of Roosevelt in that campaign. Mr. Hubbard had put his business affairs in order a number of years before his death. and that left him leisure, with the blessing of good health. to attend to many public and charitable interests. He was a leader in the Liberty Loan and Red Cross campaigns during the World war. He and his brother Chester Hubbard donated a valuable tract of ground in South Wheeling to be used for playground purposes.

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