History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 22

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Mr. Doyle's position of county engineer came to him by

appointment from the County Court of Cabell County April, 1921. He is a member of the American Associati of Engineers and the American Society of Engineers. : politics he is a democrat, is affiliated with the Presbyteri: Church and is a member of Huntington Lodge No. 313 Be evolent and Protective Order of Elks. His home is modern residence at 1612 Third Avenue. He married Huntington in 1911 Miss Beulah Stephenson, daughter Vinson W. and Nora (Walker) Stephenson, who reside 402 Main Street, Huntington, her father being a retire timber and lumber man. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle have one so James Thayer, born March 28, 1913.

STATE DEPARTMENT OF MINES. The first law governi the mining industry of West Virginia was enacted by t Legislature in 1883, creating the office of state mine i spector, with one inspector for the entire state. At the se sion of the Legislature in 1887 the act was amended, pr viding for two inspectors, and in 1893 it was again amende increasing the number of inspectors to three. At the sessie of the Legislature of 1897 the original act was furth amended by providing for a chief inspector and four distri inspectors. This number was again increased by the Legi! lature of 1901 to five district mine inspectors, and increase again in 1905 to seven district mine inspectors.

At the session of the Legislature of 1907 the Departme of Mines was created, the head of the department beil given the title of chief of department of mines, with twel district mine inspectors. This act was again amended : the session of the Legislature in 1915 by a provision three additional district mine inspectors, making fifteen i all. At the session of the Legislature of 1917 the law wa further amended by placing all sand mines, sand pits, cla mines, clay pits, quarries and cement works under the juri diction of the department and provided for an inspector fe same.

In the year 1919 the Legislature re-enacted the minir law and provided for four district mine inspectors, makir a total of nineteen inspectors. The Legislature of 1919 als provided for the establishment of seven mine rescue station and for a director of mine rescue, who has headquarte: at Charleston, and since the office has been created hundred of men have been trained in first aid and mine rescue wor The stations are established at Charleston, Mount Hop; Fairmont, Elkins, Wheeling, Logan and Welch.

At the session of the Legislature of 1921 the mining la was again amended and three additional district mine il spectors provided for, bringing the total of the departmer to twenty-two district mine inspectors, one inspector ( sand mines, etc., a director of mine rescue and chief ( department of mines.

In 1920 the first annual first aid meet was held by tl Department of Mines at Charleston. The first concerte action of West Virginia in the International First Aid Col test resulted in the Scarbro Team of the New River Con pany carrying off the championship. The Mine Rescu Team from Searbro took sixth place in mine rescue work and at the International First Aid and Mine Rescue Conte: at St. Louis, Missouri, on September 1, 2, 3, 1921, the Whit Oak Team of the New River Company won the internationa championship for mine rescue work, thus bringing to Wer Virginia both championships in successive years.

Logan County first produced coal in 1904, 52,673 tor being mined that year, and it has had the most rapid growt of any coal field in the world, as they produced 9,824,78 gross tons and employed 1,000 men in and about the mine in 1920. Logan County has seventy-three coal companie operating 146 mines.

According to the reports of the United States Geologica Survey in 1883, 2,335,833 tons of coal were mined in th State of West Virginia, and this has gradually increase until in 1920 there was mined in this state 89,590,274 ton! and at the present time the potential tonnage of West Vir ginia is 140,000,000 tons.

Total available coal yet remaining in West Virginia i estimated to be 159,814,662,527 short tons. In 1920 ther were 882 coal companies operating 1,440 mines and employ ing in and about the mines 105,000 men.

Robert . H. Lombie.

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So far there bas not beca anything discovered that will permanently take the place of coal. It ia true we have oil ind gas, which have been tried out, but no one has been ihle to determine the amount in reserve we have of either, jut we do know that the amount of coal in West Virginia s almost inexhaustible and that the West Virginia coals ire the best quality coala known. It is also true that several coal fields of the United States are rapidly becoming ex- austed, therefore it is only natural that West Virginia with ler great resources will supply the shortage created by these lifferent scetions falling off in production.

The chief of the Department of Mines is Robert Morrison ambie, a native of Scotland, and trained in the practical ind technical business of mining in that country, though iearly all his aetive career and experience have been in the oal industry of West Virginia.

Mr. Lambic was born at Stirling, Scotland, in 1886, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Morrison) Lambie, representing ome of the good families of Scotland that have made that ountry distinguished for its brain and brawn. After Robert M. Lambic came to America his parents followed im, and they all lived together in West Virginia. Robert ambie becoming ill, went baek to Seotland for his health nd died while there. In Scotland he acted as agent for a British Explosive Syndicate. The mother is still living and ivides her time between Seotland and West Virginia.

Robert Morrison Lambie was educated in the schools of Stirling, and spent four years in night school in that eity, tudying mining practice and mining engineering. In 1903, t the age of seventeen, he came to America and located at tone Cliff, Fayette County, West Virginia. Ilis first em- loyment there was as a driver in the coal mines, and he has erformed practically every duty in connection with eoal mining from laborer to managing official. His duty for a umber of years involved important responsibilities with ading coal mine corporations. For three years he had harge of the operations of the Havoea Mining Company n McDowell County. For three years he was employed in managerial capacity by the MeKell Coal & Coke Com- any'a three operations in Fayette County. He resigned to ecome distriet inspector for the State Department of fines, an office he held two years. Ile then became division uperintendent of the New River Coal Company on the White Oak Branch, having charge of eight operations of hat company in Fayette County. Mr. Lambic and family eside in Fayette County, and he is a member of the Ruffner Memorial Presbyterian Church there. Ile married Miss Lnnic Hope Thompson, of that county. Their three children re Bessie Morrison, Robert Alexander and Annic Laurie ambie.

In 1919 Governor John J. Cornwell called Mr. Lambie o the office of chief of the Department of Mines, and he is erving by reappointment in 1921 from Governor E. F. fergan. The outstanding purpose of the Department of fines is to safeguard the miners in their work and to elimi- ate as far as possible the hazards and dangers of their line eperations. Experts have declared the Department of lines of West Virginia possesses the most scientific and fficient safety devices and equipment of any state of the Tnion. Costly and very technical instruments for detecting as, devices to be worn as safeguards from gas effeets, are art of the department's regular equipment. Another in- trument is the Geophone, invented and used in France dur- ig the World war by sappers, ao highly sensitive that in a line where a fire or explosion or falling walls have cut off liners their location can be detected through many feet of olid coal. This safety equipment is so located at strategie eints through the coal mining district that it can be rushed ) the desired points in the quickest possible time.

Mr. Lambie having made these subjects his life work is minently fitted for the responsible office be fills, and is onstantly making experiments and investigations to in- rease the usefulness of the department. He is a Knight emplar Mason and Shriner.

ELIJAH JAMES STONE, assistant manager of the depart- lent atore of Stone & Thomas, one of the largest and most

popular retail mercantile establishments not only in the tity of Wheeling but also in the State of West Virginia, has the further distinetion of having been one of the gallant young men who represented this state in the nation's military surv iee in France at the time of the great World war.

Mr. Stone was born at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, March 17, 1590, but he is a representative of one of the old and hon ored families of what is now West Virginia. llis grand · father, Elijah James Stone, whoso full patronymie he hears, was a native of Massachusetts and was one of the pioneer merchants of Wheeling, West Virginia, the business whurti he here established having been the nucleus around which has been evolved the substantial mercantile enterprise now con dueted by the firm of Stone & Thomns. He was associated with his brother-in-law, the late dacob C. Thomas, in found ing the business at Wheeling, and here he continued as nn honored and representative citizen until his death, which occurred prior to the birth of his grandson and namesake. the subject of this sketch. His wife, Elizabeth ( Thomas Stone, likewise died in this city. Edward 1 .. and Elizabeth (Elson) Stone, parents of him whose name initintes this re view, still maintain their home at Wheeling, where the father is living virtually retired, he having been succeeded by his only son in the netive supervision of the great department store to the upbuilding of which he gave his splendid energies for many years. He sneverled his father in the business, and has lived in Wheeling and vicinity all his life. his wife having been born in this city and the subject of this sketch being the younger of their two children. The elder child, Katharine Elson, became the wife of J. S. Gibbs, Jr., who is engaged in the insurance business at Wheeling. and she was thirty-one years of age nt the time of her death.

After having profited by the advantages of the publie schools of Wheeling, Elijah .F. Stone here continued his studies in Linsly Institute, and thereafter he attended St. Paul's School at Coneord, New Hampshire. He then entered historic old Yale University, in which he was graduated ax a member of the class of 1911 and with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. At the university he became affili- ated with the Chi Phi fraternity. After leaving Yale Mr. Stone returned to Wheeling and identified himself actively with the department store of Stone & Thomas, the modern building of which is situated at the corner of Main and Bridge streets. Under the original firm name the business has been incorporated, and its officers are as here noted: W. E. Stone, president ; E. L. Stone, vice president ; . J. S. Jones, secretary ; W. E. Rowns, treasurer; and E. J. Stone, assistant manager. Mr. Stone is loyal to his home city, is one of its liberal and progressive young business men and popular citizens, is a republican in politics, and holds mem bership in the Wheeling Country Club the Fort Henry Club and the University Club.

In May, 1917, the month following that in which the United States entered the World war, Mr. Stone enlisted and was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, In diana, where he later rrecived commission as a first lieuten ant. On the 10th of September of that year he was sent overseas as a casual, and in France he attended the artillery school at Saumur. He then became a member of the Twenty-sixth Division of the Amerienn Expeditionnry Forces, with which he was in service in the Chemin des Dames sector, northwest of Toule, for three months, next passed two months in the Chateau Thierry sector, and there. after was in the Meuso.Argonne seetor, where he was sta tioned at the time of the signing of the armistice. In cach of these sectors Mr. Stone was with the artillery on the firing line, and in September, 1918, he was advaneed to the rank of captain. He returned to the United States in May 1919, and received his henorahle discharge at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. After this excellent record of patriotic service Captain Stone returned to Wheeling and] resumed his association with the business of the company of which he is assistant manager.

WILLIAM H. MAGEE, who was born in the country north of Wheeling, is now designer for the Central Glass Works of Wheeling. has concentrated the energy and study of him ma

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ture career to the glass industry, and has filled a number of expert and responsible offices with glass plants all over the Ohio Valley.

Mr. Magee was born at Wellsburg, West Virginia, October 15, 1878. His father, Joseph Magee, was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1841. He lived there until he was twenty, then crossed the ocean to Hamilton, Canada, and for two years was employed as a physician's assistant in a hospital. On leaving Canada he went to Akron, Ohio, learned the tinner's trade, and followed it as a journeyman for seven years. In 1870 he located at Wheeling, and owned and operated a tin shop and store at the corner of Eleventh and Market streets until 1877. In that year he removed to Wellsburg, where he continued the same line of business. From 1888 to 1898 he conducted his business at one of the leading centers of the Ohio oil fields, Findlay. For twenty years following he was in business at Newark, Ohio, and in 1918 retired and now, at the age of eighty, is living at Charleston, West Virginia. lIe is a republican, a stanch member of the Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Joseph Magee married Hannah Richardson, who was born at Wheeling in 1849. Her father, William Richardson, was a native of England, came to the United States and settled at Wheeling when a young mau, and was a merchant tailor for many years. He married in Wheeling, Elizabeth Bar- rett, who was born in Ireland in 1808 and died at Findlay, Ohio, in 1892. Joseph Magee and wife had three children, William H. dying in infancy and the third son was also named William H., he beiug the glass maker at Wheeling. The second son, Charles Frizzell, is a clergyman of the Episcopal Church with home at Charleston, West Virginia. There was also an adopted daughter, Hannah Ethel, who died at Newark, Ohio, in 1918, wife of Franze Bahlke, who is now an employe of the Republic Truck Company at Alma, Michigan.

William H. Magee spent the years of his childhood and early youth in Wellsburg, West Virginia, and Findlay, Ohio, acquiring his public school education there. He left school at thirteen, and his labors as boy and man have been entirely devoted to the glass industry. He was a boy worker in the mold department of the Dalzell, Gilmore & Leighton Com- pany at Findlay for seven years. From 1898 to 1902 he was mold maker for the A. H. Heisey Glass Company at Newark, Ohio. He first came to the Wheeling industrial district to take charge of the mold department of the West Virginia Glass Company at Martins Ferry. This plant was abandoned in 1904, and Mr. Magee was then put in charge of the mold department of the Jefferson Glass Company at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1906 went to Rochester, Pennsylvania, to fill a similar position with the H. C. Fry Glass Company, was there two years, and did similar work for the McKee Glass Company at Jeanuette, Pennsylvania. He then returned to the Jefferson Glass Company, who had relocated at Follans- bee, West Virginia, and was general manager of that plant until 1910. For nearly a year he was in charge of the mold department of the Imperial Glass Company of Bellaire, and on January 1, 1911, he organized and opened the Grafton plant of the Columbia Tile Company. He continued as general manager of this West Virginia industry until Janu- ary, 1915. From that date until January 1, 1921 Mr. Magee had charge of the mold department of the Libbey Glass Company at Toledo, Ohio. On leaving Toledo he came to Wheeling as designer for the Central Glass Works. This is one of the prominent industries of the Wheeling District, located at Fifteenth and McColloch streets.

Mr. Magee is a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church, and is well known in glass manufacturing circles and as a citizen of a number of communities. During the war he acted as salesman in every one of the five loan campaigns. He owns a modern home at Park View, Elm Grove, Wheeling. He married at Wellsburg, West Virginia, in 1903, Miss Margaret Frances Spooner, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Carless) Spooner, now deceased. Her father was a rolling mill heater in sheet iron mills. Mrs. Magee was reared and educated in Wheeling, and died at Toledo, Ohio February 23, 1921. She is survived by four children : William Spooner, born at Steubenville, Ohio, May 1, 1904; Nancy Lee, born at Rochester, Pennsylvania, April

7, 1906; Samuel Joseph, born at Follansbee, West Virgini December 11, 1908; and Robert Barrett, born at Grafto West Virginia, November 7, 1912.

HENRY J. HARTMANN. In capital invested and volume business ice manufacture now stands eighth among the i dustries of the United States. The oldest and largest i industry of Wheeling is the Wheeling Ice and Storage Com pany. The efficient manager of this business is Henry Hartmann, a native of Wheeling and with a long and st cessful experience in local business affairs.

Mr. Hartmann was born in Wheeling, June 12, 1869. H father, William Hartmann, was born in Waldeck, Germar in 1843, was reared and educated in his native country, a: on coming to the United States in the Spring of 1868 settl at Wheeling. For a period of forty-six years he was a way houseman with the old Hobbs-Brockunier Glass Compar after which he retired. He died at Wheeling, October 1915. He was a democrat in earlier years, but became republican at the Mckinley campaign of 1896. He wi always one of the faithful members and attendants of t Lutheran Church. Soon after coming to Wheeling he mt ried Miss Elizabeth Bremer. She was also born in Waldec. Germany, in 1847, and liad come to the United States in t; spring of 1868 in company with friends. Henry J. Hat mann is the oldest of his parents' children. Charles is, broker at Wheeling and Fred W. is a salesman for t: wholesale candy firm of Ellison Helfer Company, with hon at Martins Ferry, Ohio.

Henry J. Hartmann was educated in the public scho of Wheeling and attended Frasher's Business College. left school in 1885, and his first regular work was six monti employment in a leather store. For two years he was w! the Joseph Speidel Wholesale Grocery Company, and i: fourteen years was with Waterhouse Brothers, wholes: grocers. In this establishment he reached the position head bookkeeper and salesman.

It was in September, 1902, that Mr. Hartmann went w! the Wheeling Icc and Storage Company, beginning as cle, was promoted to assistant manager in 1913 and since (- tober, 1921, has been manager. He is also a stockholder al director of the company. The great prestige and busin3 this company enjoys is fully credited to the hard work al splendid management of Mr. Hartmann. The plant al offices are at 2224 Water Street.

Mr. Hartmann is a republican and has long been proi- nent in Zion Lutheran Church. He has served as correspon- ing secretary, has on several occasions been a member of 13 Church Council and has been president, secretary, treasur and trustee of the various church benevolent organizatio. He is a member of Ohio Valley Lodge No. 131, Knights f Pythias, Wheeling Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and Protect e Order of Elks, and LaBelle Lodge, Ancient Order of Uni 1 Workmen. He owns a modern home at 15 Kentucky Strt in Wheeling. He married in that city June 30, 1897, Ms Matilda Schenck, daughter of Frederick L. and Cather e (Baumberger) Schenck. Both her parents died in Wheeli;, her father having been for a number of years an emple of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. and Ms. Hartmann have one child, Kathryn, horn March 1, 18). She is a graduate of the Wheeling High School and is nº bookkeeper for the Wheeling Ice and Storage Company.

WILLIAM S. STENGER. One of the most successful ci- cerns in West Virginia handling motor trucks and equi- ment is the Stenger Motor Company of Wheeling, a husins founded and built up with steadily increasing prosperity y William S. Stenger, a young business man of great ener', who has had the faculty of doing well anything he unc"- took. He is a member of a very well known family in e Wheeling District.

He was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, May ), 1885. His grandfather, John Stenger, was born in 1837 n Pennsylvania. and soon after the Civil war moved to e Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and spent the rest f his life as a farmer in Ohio and Brooke counties. He dd at Beech Bottom in Brooke County in 1897. His son, Jon J. Stenger, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in Februar,

Coluna

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1562, spent his early life there, married in Wheeling, and for wenty-five years was employed in the sheet department of ron and steel rolling mills. Since 1907 he has been busied with his farm at Short Creek, West Virginia. He has grown i large acreage in wheat and also has a peach orchard of wenty acres. John J. Stenger is a Catholic, a demoerat, and i member of Carroll Couneil No. 504, Knights of Columbus, it Wheeling. He married Jane Myles, who was born at Wheeling in August, 1862. Of their children the oldest is 'ntherine, wife of Bernard Baker, a stationary engineer iving at Warwood, Wheeling. The second in age is Wil- iam S. John J., Jr., is associated with the Stenger Motor 'ompany. Vincent J. went overseas with the One Hun- Ired and Eighteenth Engineers and died in England in 1918, it the age of twenty-eight. Herbert M. and Earl are with heir father ou the farm. Raymond E. is a student in St. Charles College at Baltimore.

William S. Stenger acquired his early education in the oublie schools of Wheeling, graduated from the Cathedral ligh School in 1904, and during the next five years he man- ged his father's retail dairy in Wheeling. From 1909 to 916 he farmed on his own account in Ohio County, and in he latter year he opened at Wheeling a business known as he Sandow Motor Sales Company. In the summer of 1921 e changed the name to the Stenger Motor Company, of .hich he is sole properietor. Ilis garage, salesrooms and fliees are at the corner of Eleventh and Water streets. The itenger Motor Company is the local distributing agency for he Gramm-Bernstein Motor Trueks, Pilot cars, sells tires nd standard parts for motor trueks, and Mr. Stenger has leveloped a business that is recognized as an indispensable ervice to all truck owners at Wheeling.

Mr. Stenger is a republican, a member of the Catholic "hurch and Carroll Council No. 504, Knights of Columbus. dis home is at 118 Twenty-first Street in Norwood. Novem- er 24. 1909, at Wheeling, he married Miss Sadie E. Smith, laughter of John E. and Mary Catherine (Raab) Smith, of Short Creek, where her mother lives. Her father was a armer and died at Short Creek. Mrs. Stenger completed er education in the West Liberty Normal School. To their marriage have been born six children: Ralph, born in september, 1910; Sarah, January 13, 1912; Gertrude, in Jay. 1913; Ruth, in November, 1914; Blanche, in August, 917; and Angela, in September, 1919.

MAJ. JOHN C. BOND, state auditor of West Virginia, is comparatively young man but with a record of activities hat constitute real distinction. He began earning and aying his own way when a youth. He has been a teacher, newspaper editor and manager, and prior to his election as tate auditor had served as adjutant general of West Vir- inia and is an ex-service man and officer of the World war. Major Bond was born in Pendleton County, West Vir- ;inia, in 1850, son of William H. and Rebecca (Judy) Bond. His grandfather, Capt. John S. Bond, was a native of Pennsylvania, settled in Pendleton County in the early 50s, and during the Civil war was a captain of Home Juards.

John C. Bond was reared on a farm, worked in the ields, in lumber mills, as a railroad brakeman, and in the neantime was acquiring his education in public schools and inally in the Fairmont State Normal from which he raduated in 1902. After teaching he took up newspaper Fork, beeame editor and general manager of the Fairmont "imes, and left that city in 1907 to come to Charleston as litor and general manager of the Charleston Daily Mail. living up the heavy routine of this responsibility in 1909. e became a general correspondent and political writer, and ecame widely known for his knowledge of state politics and political personalities.

In the meantime for several years Major Bond was ctive in the affairs of the National Guard. His first military experience came during the Spanish-American war { 1898, when he joined the First West Virginia Volunteer nfantry. In the National Guard his reputation was based n his expert skill with the rifle. He represented the West Virginia National Guard in various rifle tournaments at

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