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The children born to George B. and Margaret E. Huest ings were as follows: Lynn, of this notice; Charles B, born March 20, 14$9, a resident of Morgantown, married Rose, daughter of Charles Iletrick, who came from l'enn- sylvania, and they have one son, Earl; Isaac N., born Janu ary 29, 1892, a resident of Morgantown, married Beatrice Miller ; Fanny Lou, born December 20, 1-96, who 19 un married and resides with her mother; and George D., born May 10, 1598. a resident of Morgantown, married Jeannett ., daughter of J. F. Smith.

Lynn Hastings was born at Cheat Neck, Union District Monongalia County, February 2, 1>>7, a son of George B. and Margaret E. (Jenkins) Hlastings. He secured all of his elementary education at the Wood Grove public whool ant received his common school diploma in 1903. In 1905 he was granted a first-grade teacher's license, and in that yenr taught the Bush School in his home locality. He was gradu ated from Fairmont Normal School in 1911, as valedictorian of his class, which numbered about eighty graduates, and in the same year became principal of the graded schools of Dingess, Mingo County, West Virginia, holling that position also during a part of 1912. In 1912-13 he taught his hemne school; was principal of the high and graded schools of Sabraton, Monongalia County, in 1913-11-15; and was principal of the Westover schools of the Morgantown Ind pendent School District from 1915 to January 8. 1916, when he resigned to accept the appointment of county superint n dent of schools to fill a vacancy, the appointincot having been made by the presidents of the various district Fogril- of education in the county. In November, 1916. Mr. Hast ings was elected to fill out the unexpired term, and nt th general election of 1918 was clected for the full term of fo ir years, without opposition in the primaries or general eler tion. From the start Mr. Hastings has labore i earnestly in an effort to better conditions in every way and to alvan . the standard of education. A thorough student of th science of education and possessed of a natural in tilt fr child psychology, he has made his school system n vieg. growing organism responsive to the best in the te her and the pupil.

During the World war Mr. Hasting served coty food administrator and as one of the "Four Minato"' spork ers, and was active in all the drives and other wer work Like his forefathers, he is a member of the M tan list Pret estant Church. As a fraternalist he holds membership in Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4. A F. and A. M. ; Chapter No. 30. R. A. M., Monongalla Logo No. 1 1 O. O. F. of which he is a past nohle grand; and Ateen Lode N 36, K. of P., of which he is a past chancell r wenn 1 r. He is a member of the West Virginia State Ft nal Association.

On August 16. 1915, Mr. Hastings married La Mer nn Mercer Mason, who was born at Masonville. Grant Coin'y. West Virginia, November 27, 1542, daugher of Sam el

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Alexander and Louisa (Baker) Mason, the father a native of Petersburg, Grant County, and the mother of Lost River, Hardy County, this state. To Mr. and Mrs. Hastings there have come three children: Lynn, Jr., born July 24, 1916; Grey, born January 22, 1918; and Lyle, born March 27, 1921.

RUSSELL LOVE MORRIS, professor of railway and highway engineering of the School of Engineering at the University of West Virginia, Morgantown, is descended from four old families of what is now the State of West Virginia, namely : The Morrises, the Russells, the Loves and the Sheltons. His paternal grandfather, Capt. Joseph Morris, raised a com- pany of volunteer infantry for the Confederate army during the war between the states, and served as captain thereof until he met his death during the retreat of General Lee after the great battle of Gettysburg. He married a Miss Russell, who belonged to the old and honored Russell family of the Huntington community.

Capt. John O. Morris, son of Capt. Joseph Morris, and father of Russell L. Morris, was born at his father's home in Teay's Valley, near the present Town of Culloden, in Cabell County, West Virginia. He served as first sergeant in his father's company during the war between the states, and after the elder man's death succeeded to the command. He later was commissioned captain, and served gallantly with General Lee until the final surrender of that great general at Appomattox. After the war he served alternately as deputy sheriff and sheriff of Putnam County for many years, and late in life located at Huntington, where he died. His wife, Eliza Love, who is still living at Huntington, was born in Teay's Valley, a daughter of William A. Love, who was a large land owner of that valley, where he was an early settler, and prior to the war between the states was a slave- holder.

Russell Love Morris was born in Teay's Valley, near the present Post Office of Teay's, in Putnam County, West Vir- ginia, November 4, 1868, a son of Capt. Jolin O. Morris. After attending the free schools of his district and spend- ing one term in the graded school at Alderson he entered the University of West Virginia in 1885, and in 1895 was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering, two years later receiving his Master's degree. Between the time of entering and graduation he spent four years away from the university, engaged at various kinds of employ- ment. He became an instructor in the engineering depart- ment in 1895, and from that year on has been a member of the faculty of the university in one capacity or another, continuously, having the distinction of having taught con- tinuously in the institution for a longer period than any other instructor now or ever identified with the University of West Virginia. During the long period of twenty-six years he has been actively engaged, also, in business affairs, principally along the lines of civil engineering and in open- ing up city property for the market, on his own account chiefly. He has gained something more than a local reputa- as an expert in laying out allotments, and in this class of work his services have been in demand in all parts of West Virginia as well as sections of Kentucky and Maryland. Professor Morris owns some city property at Morgantown, and is interested in agriculture and other business enter- prises. Fraternally he is identified with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M., and with the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.

On December 21, 1900, Professor Morris married Miss Olive Hite, daughter of Isaac and Catherine (Hennen) Hite, of two old and honored Morgantown families, and to this union there has come one son, John Hite, born in 1911.

DAVIDSON BROTHERS. The branch of the Davidson family to which belong Henry Alexander and George S. Davidson, of Morgantown, Monongalia County, was founded in Fay- ette County, Pennsylvania, prior to 1800 by Jeremiah David- son (I), who came from his native Ireland and first settled in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, whence he later removed to Luzerne Township, Fayette County. He was of Scotch ancestry, but representatives of the family left Scotland and established themselves in Ireland several generations before

his birth. For many years Jeremiah Davidson operated th old Crawford ferry across the Monongahela River, and late he owned another ferry, besides developing a substantis business in the building of boats both for his own use an for sale. He died at his old home in Luzerne Township Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1850. He married Anni Alexander, and among their children was Henry Alexande Davidson (I), who was born at Davidson's Ferry, Fayett County, in 1805. After his marriage to Elizabeth Gallaghe Henry A. Davidson settled on a farm in Cumberland Town ship, Greene County, Pennsylvania. His son, Jeremiah (II) was born on this farm May 26, 1834, and after arriving a adult age continued his association with farm enterprise until 1875, when he removed to Carmichaels, Pennsylvania There he later engaged in the hotel business, and still later in the livery and undertaking business. He held the various official chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was influential in community affairs. I. 1856 he married Selantha Flenniken, and they became the parents of three children: John Calvin, Franklin Francis and Minnie, the daughter dying at the age of sixteen years After the death of his first wife Jeremiah Davidson marriec Mrs. Harriet Jane (Stone) Hatfield, and they had two sons Henry Alexander and George S. The honored father died in July, 1900, the mother having passed away in October 1898.

Henry Alexander Davidson (II) was born March 24. 1878, at Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools until eligible for admission to the Pennsyl- vania State Normal School at California. Thereafter he became associated with his father's business, and after the death of his father in 1900 he came to Morgantown, West. Virginia, and in April, 1901, engaged in the livery business. March 1, 1903, he added an undertaking department to the business, and in 1914 his brother George S. became his part- ner, under the firm name of Davidson Brothers. Since 1917 the firm has been engaged also in the handling of automo- biles, with a well equipped garage and service station, in which the firm has the sales agency for the Hudson, the Essex and the Marmon cars, and the Republic automobile trucks. The brothers are active members of the Morgan- town Chamber of Commerce and are affiliated with Union Lodge No. 4, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the local Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the Morgantown Com- mandery of Knights Templars, while each has received the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, and also holds membership in Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Henry A. is a past exalted ruler of Morgantown Lodge No. 411, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; is affiliated with Monongahela Lodge No. 10, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and is a charter member of the Morgantown Coun- try Club. He married Miss Agnes Miles, of Buckhannon, this state. They have no children.

George S. Davidson was born at Carmichaels, Pennsyl- vania, January 27, 1884, and in addition to the discipline of the public schools he took a business course in the Uni- versity of West Virginia. He came to Morgantown, May 1, 1901, and after working for his brother until 1909 he here established an independent livery business in South Morgantown. He sold this business two years later and thereafter conducted a similar enterprise at Morgantown until 1914, when he entered into partnership with his hrother, as noted in a preceding paragraph. The Davidson brothers are numbered among the vital and progressive business men and valued citizens of Morgantown. George S. likewise is affiliated with the local lodge of Odd Fellows and is a charter member of the Morgantown Country Club. He married Mary E., daughter of Henry Fenton Rice, the pioneer news dealer of Morgantown.

DAVID CORE CLARK through his private practice and long membership on the State Board of Examiners has been prominent in the profession of dental surgery in West Virginia, is also a former member of the State Legis- lature, and in many other respects a leader in the civic and social life of his home city, Morgantown.

He was born in Monongalia County and is descended from two old families of this section of the valley. His

Declark,

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paternal grandfather, Nehemiah Clark, came from Mary- land and was a pioneer in the Cass District of Monongalia County. The maternal grandfather, John Core, was prob- ubly born either in Cass or in Clay District of the same county. Doetor Clark's father was William James Clark, who was born in Cass District June 19, 1845, and spent his life as an industrious and frugal farmer and died on his farm April 9, 1916. He married Martha Ellen Core, who was born in Clay District May 20, 1848, and is still living at the old homestead.

David C. Clark was born at the Clark liome in Clay District February 4, 1873. He acquired his early edura- tion in the distriet and graded schools, later attended the Fairmont State Normal School, thea taught school in the district schools of Monongalia County for a number of years, and in 1898 received his degree D. D. S. from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. After his gradu- ation Doetor Clark practiced at Blacksville in Monongalia County until 1917, in which year he removed to Morgan town. He was a member of the West Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners from 1915 to 1920. For a period of fifteen years, from 1906 to 1921, he was treas- urer of the State Dental Society, and has taken a prom- inent part in that organization and several of his addresses und technical papers have been printed in dental publi- rations.

Doctor Clark was elected as a republican to represent Monongalia County in the Legislature in 1915. During the regular session of 1916 ho was a member of the com mittees on prohibition and temperance, education, private corporations, and joint stock corporations, immigration and agriculture, and medicine and sanitation. He faith- fully represented the interests entrusted to him, but after his first term he declined renomination.

During the World war he recognized no obligation as superior to the needs of the nation, and gave both of his professional effort and his means to the cause. Не was a member of the National Dental Preparedness League, and shared in its program of work in preparing recruits for the army by dental examination and treat- ment. He was also connected with all the Liberty Loan drives in the county.

Doetor Clark is a director of the Bank of Morgan- town and financially interested in other corporations. He is an official member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, a worker in the Sunday school. and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club of Morgantown, October 6, 1898, he married Miss Joanna Stephens, daughter of Bowen and Ruth E. (Zimmermao) Stephens, of Blacksville. Mrs. Clark is an accomplished woman, liberally educated and active in Morgantown social life. She was trained in the public schools and in the Mount Pleasant Seminary of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Book Lovers and the Musie clubs of Morgantown.

CLEMENT CONDON HILDEBRAND had made a promising start in a business career when he joined the aviation service in the World war, and since leaviog that has resumed his citizenship in Monongalia County, where he is actively iden- tified with business in Morgantown and also in the town of Hildebrand, a little community named for his father.

Hildebrand is in Grant District of Monongalia County, and Mr. Hildebrand was born there December 4, 1591, son of John Marshall and Eliza Jane (Schafer) Hildebrand. The Hildebrands, though of German ancestry, have been in America since Colonial times. The aneestor was llenry Hildebrand, who settled in Massachusetts and was a Minute Man in the days of the Revolution. He married a Miss Coulter. Five generations intervened between him and Clement C. Hildebrand. His son, Henry Hildebrand (II), was born in Massachusetts, married Margaret Launtz, moved to Maryland, later to the vieinity of Richmond, Virginia, and finally to Greene County, Pennsylvania. When he went to Pennsylvania he was accompanied by his sisters, Charlotte and Barbara. Charlotte married a Mr. Lueas, and the Morgantown branch of the Lucas family is descended from Vol. II-12

her. Louis Launtz Hildebrand, of the third generation of the family in America, was born in Greene County, Penn- sylvania, in 1814. He married in that county Maria Cath erine Muheney, nud in 1947 they removed to White Day, ( 'Inton District, Monongalia County, West Virginia. L. L. llildebrand died at the age of eighty four and his wife at ninety-four. A brief record is entered con erning their twelve children: Samantha, who became the wife of J. W. Stevens and was the mother of eleven children; Margaret, married John H. Smallwood and hud six children; Jan . who died in infancy ; John Marshall; Surah Ellen, who hal nine children by her marriage to Elias Keener; Hannah Louisa, whose husband was James Smallwood, by whom she had six children; Clark, who married Anna Ellis an I had a family of two children; Miranda, wifo of John C. Schafer and the mother of two children; Mary, who was the wife of J. Smallwood; Anna, who had ono chill by her marriage to Orril Ilolland; Thomas, who was the father of one child by his first wife, Margaret Thorp, had six children by hin second marriage, to Margaret Steele; and Ida L., who be- came the wife of John Price and the mother of one chod.

John Marshall Hildebrand was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1>45, and has been one of the well known and effective citizens of this locality. For many years he has been active in the general mercantilo business he catab- lished at Hildebrand, where the little community has grown up. In a publie way he has been justice of the pware, deputy sheriff, constable, road commissioner and school trustee. He married Eliza Jane Schafer, who was born near Laurel Point in Monongalia County in 1849. To their marriage were born nine children: Carrie Anna, widow of Dr. E. M Henry, of Laurel Point, and of her three children one is living, Otto H. Henry, a graduate of West Virginia Uni versity and now a professor in the New York Polytechnic School of Engineering; Benton M., who married Lela Ite88 and is manager of the Standard Oil Pumping Station at Summerville, New Jersey; Ella M., wife of Charles Henry and mother of Mifflin, Marie and Wilford; Nora F., who lied in 1920, unmarried; Grace G., wife of J. F. Dugan, Greensboro, Pennsylvania, and mother of Donovan, Doran and Dorothea; Bert B., who married Nettie ,Jolliffe nnd has two sons, Chester and Louis; Louis Launtz, who married Margaret Lambert and has a son, Allan Bryce; John, who lied in infancy; and Clement Condon, ninth and youngest of the family.

Clement C. Ilildehrand attended common schools. gradu ated from the Morgantown High School in 1914 andl in the same year entered the accounting department of the Amer- iean Sheet and Tin Plate Company at Morgantown. In 1916 he was transferred to the Gary, Indiana, punt of that corporation. The following year, when America entered the war, he enlisted in the air department, and received his training at Indianapolis, at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and subsequently was transferred to the balloon service at Fort Omaha, Nebraska. He was top sergeant of bis company and received his honorable discharge at Camp Grant, Il inois. February 29, 1919.

While his old position with the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company was held open for him he decided to return home to be near his parents, both growing old, and neeord ingly took charge of the office work of the Delmar Coal Com pany at Hildebrand and is also junior member of the firm of Hildebrand & Son merchants, nt Hildebrand. March 1, 1921, E. Reece Baker, a Morgantown contractor, became associated with Mr. Hildebrand na accountant, draft man and general assistant. Mr. Hildebrand is affiliatel with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4. A F. and A. M., and has taken fourteen degrees in the Scottish Rite. He is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, the American Legion an 1 the Methodist Episcopal Church.

CLYDE BRAND, a progressive young business man of Mor- gantown, the judicial center and metropolis of Monongalia County, was born in this county August 15, 1840, and Is a representative of one of its sterling pioneer famil os Hin paternal great-grandfather Brand settled in this eventy in the early pioneer days, and here was horn the latter's son, James Elliott Brand, who was here reared to manhood and

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who married Susan Rice. John J. Brand, son of James Elliott and Susan (Rice) Brand, was born in this county on the 1st of September, 1854, and he became a successful school teacher when a young man. He also learned the car- penter's trade, and for five years he followed his trade at Fairmont, Marion County. For the ensuing five years he there operated a planing mill. He then, in 1898, returned to Monongalia County, where he continued his activities as a carpenter and builder until about 1918, since which time he has here lived retired. His first wife, whose maiden name was Mary A. Barbe, died in 1892.

Clyde Brand, son of John J. and Mary (Barbe) Brand, gained his early education in the public schools of Fairmont, and there he initiated his independent career by securing employment in a bottling works. In 1900 he established his residence at Morgantown, where for a time he was identified with the real estate business. He next gave his attention to learning the plumber's trade, and to broaden his practical experience in the same he later worked at his trade in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Some time after his return to Morgantown he formed a partnership with J. H. Kennedy, under the title of Kennedy & Brand, but a year later, in 1904, he established himself independently in business. His ability and progressiveness have resulted in his building up a most successful enterprise, and he is now at the head of a leading plumbing, gasfitting, and steam and hot-water heating business in this section of West Virginia. He is loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, is an active member of the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club, is a director of the Union Savings & Trust Company, he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church, and his fraternal affiliations are here briefly noted : Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Chapter No. 30, Royal Arch Masons; Mor- gantown Commandery No. 18, Knights Templars; Lodge of Perfection No. 1, West Virginia Sovereign Consistory of the Scottish Rite; Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheel- ing; and Athens Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

April 22, 1903, recorded the marriage of Mr. Brand with Flora Gertrude Niell, daughter of A. M. Niell, of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, and they have two children: Richard Clyde, born June 14, 1907; and Dorothy Virginia, born Decemeber 19, 1909.

JOHN MARSHALL, a busy Parkersburg lawyer, represents the third successive generation of that family in the legal profession, and his ancestry altogether is one that has had a close relationship with the history of the Western Vir- ginia country from earliest pioneer times.

His great-great-grandfather, Aaron Marshall, was a sol- dier under General Washington during the French and Indian war, lived prior to the Revolution in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and in 1780 moved to Hancock County, Vir- ginia. His son John, who was born in 1782 and died in 1859, spent his entire life in Hancock County. James G. Marshall, grandfather of the Parkersburg lawyer, was born in Hancock County, November 21, 1826, and died October 6, 1902. He was an able attorney and served twenty-four years as prosecuting attorney of Hancock County. He was a republican, and his example in politics has been followed by subsequent generations. He married Lavina Miller, and her two sons, Erastus D. and Oliver S., both became lawyers.

Oliver S. Marshall, whose home is at New Cumberland in Hancock County, was born September 24, 1850. He graduated from Bethany College in 1878, and has for many years served as a trustee of that institution. He was a member of the State Senate three times, being president of the Senate in 1899, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1892. Oliver S. Marshall married, September 8, 1880, Elizabeth Tarr, who was born at Wells- burg, this state, daughter of Campbell and Nancy (Ham- mond) Tarr. Campbell Tarr was one of the historic figures in the formation of the State of West Virginia, and as a delegate from Brooke County withdrew from the secession convention at Richmond. He was a member of the conven- tions at Wheeling, served as treasurer of the Provisional Government, and was the first state treasurer.

John Marshall, only son of Oliver S. and Elizabeth (Tarr)

Marshall, was born July 28, 1881, at New Cumberland. He finished his literary education at Bethany College, where he graduated A. B. and A. M. in 1902, received his A. B. degree from Yale College in 1903, and graduated in law from the University of West Virginia in 1904. The follow- ing year he began his practice at Parkersburg, and has gained prominence both as an able business lawyer and on the public side of his profession. From 1908 to 1912 he was assistant United States attorney of the Northern District of West Virginia. Mr. Marshall was a delegate from West Virginia to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920. In 1921 he was appointed special assistant to the United States attorney general to try cases involving alien enemy property seized by the Government.

Besides his work as a lawyer he has been a director of the Smoot Advertising Company, Ohio Valley Publishing Company, Parkersburg Publishing Company, Parkersburg- Ohio Bridge Company, United States Roofing & Tile Com- pany, and a director of the Chamber of Commerce. He has been for several years chairman of the Wood County Chapter of the American Red Cross. He was the organizer and first president of the Rotary Club at Parkersburg, is a member of the college fraternities Beta Theta Pi, Delti Chi, Theta Nu Epsilon, and is a member of the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Parkersburg Country Club, Blennerhassett Club, and is a member of the Christian Church.

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