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Mr. Furbee succeeds to the responsibilities so long held } his father as a guiding hand in the educational affairs ( Mannington. He was chosen president of the Board of Ed cation in July, 1919. He is a Knight Templar, thirty-secol degree Scottish Rite Masen and a Shriner, an Elk ar Modern Woodman, and is a charter member of the Kiwan Club.

October 4, 1899, Mr. Furbee married Virginia H. Hag dorn. She is ef New England ancestry, and was born : Trey, New York, daughter of Charles H. and Charlot Hagadern, of Bennington, Verment. Mr. and Mrs. Furb have two children: Robert Dater, bern November 10, 1900 and Martha Virginia, bern March 11, 1912.

DANIEL CLINGINGSMITH TABLER is one of West Virginia best known school principals and superintendents, due to : active service of more than thirty years. Mr. Tabler is no superintendent of the Mannington public schools.

He was born July 18, 1864, at Orien in Richland Count Wisconsin, son of William and Elizabeth Ann (Barnei Tabler, the former a native of Maryland and the latter . Ohie. William Tabler in his early life was a teacher, teac ing in Wisconsin for a time, and frem that state he remove with his family to Ohio and finally to West Virginia, whe fer a number of years he was engaged in the tobacco pac ing business. He finally went back to Ohio, where he die

Daniel C. Tabler acquired his early education in the pub! scheels of Ohio and West Virginia, and received his Mast

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Arta degree from Ohio University at Athens. When he is about twenty-one, in 1885, he received his first teacher's rtificate in Ritchie County. It was in that county that he ined his first laurels as an educator. He remained there e years, the last two years as principal of the Ellensboro hool. Mr. Tabler in 1890 went to Noble County, Ohio, ught for a year at Dexter City, and in 1891, on returning West Virginia, located at Parkersburg and for two years ught an out of town school. In 1894 he was elected pervising principal of the old Park School at Parkersburg, d was a factor in the educational life of that city for the Ilowing thirteen years. In 1906 he was elceted superin- ndent of the Parkersburg schools, a post of duty he held r two years.

Following that he was principal of the Ravenswood Ifigh hool in Jackson County, spent one year as superintendent city schools at Davis, and at the end of that year he was elected superintendent and at the same time was elveted perintendent of the Spencer schools, and in the meantime id received a call as principal of the Mckinley School at arkersburg. After some consideration he resigned from e Davis schools, declined the call to Spencer, and returned Parkersburg and for the following ten years was prin- oal of the MeKinley School. From Parkersburg Mr. abler came to Mannington as superintendent of the city hools, an office to which he was elected in 1919.

For about ten years Mr. Tabler was widely known over e state through his services as an instructor in teachers' stitutes. He cancelled all engagements for this kind of ork when he assumed charge of the Mannington schools. e is a member of the West Virginia State and National dueational Associations, and of the Monongahela Valley ound Table. Mr. Tabler is a thirty-seconu degree Scottish ite Mason and Shriner, an Odd Fellow, a member of the odern Woodmen of America, and belongs to the Manning- on Kiwanis Club.

Mr. Tabler married Miss Ella Hall Core, of Ellensboro, itehie County, daughter of the late Gen. Andrew S. Core, ho was a Federal officer in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. abler became the parents of four children, all of whom raduated from the Parkersburg High School. William Ray, le oldest, born in 1891, is now in the auditing department f the Gulf Refining Company at Pittsburgh. The two Junger children are Robert Allen, born in 1897, and Maude sabella, who is a student in the West Virginia Wesleyan ollege at Buckhannon.

A special paragraph should stand as a brief memorial to le son Kramer Core, who was born in 1894. After finishing igh school he entered Marietta College in Ohio and when le World war came on he joined the French army and for x months was a camion driver in France. When America atered the war he secured a discharge from the French rmy and enlisted in the aviation service. He was pro- toted to first lieutenant at the Somme. He continued on uty until after the signing of the armistice, and on May 6, 1919, he met death when his ship crashed.

CLARENCE WATKINS MCCUTCHEON, a civil and mining agineer of marked ability, is the executive head of the [eCutcheon Engineering Company at Morgantown, Mon- ngalia County, and is a young man who has to his credit fine record of practical achievement in his profession. Mr. MeCuteheon was born at Winona, Fayette County, Vest Virginia, on the 27th of January, 1896, and is a on of John Floyd MeCutcheon and Mary L. (Hagerman) IcCutcheon, both of whom were born in Pulaski County, irginia. Perry Mccutcheon, paternal grandfather of the abject of this sketeh, likewise was a native of the Old tominion commonwealth, the family lincage tracing back ) stanch Scotch origin and the original American pro- enitora having aettled in Virginia in the Colonial period f our national history. John Hagerman, the maternal randfather of him whose name introduces this review, "as one of five brothers who emigrated from their na- ive Germany to the United States, four of the brothers ettling in Western Maryland and establishing the settle- hent that eventually was developed into the present City f Hagerman, which perpetuates the family name. John,

the youngest of the five brothers, settled in Virginia, and there he married Snrah Watkins Welgal.

John Floyd MeCutcheon was born in 1862, and his death occurred in 1998. Ile was actively engaged in mercantil business in West Virginia until within a few years of his death. llis widow is now a resident of Morgantown nnd Clarence W., of this sketch, is their only child.

Clarence W. MeCutehron was about two years of age nt the time of his father's denth, and was five years old when he accompanied his widowed mother on her removal frem his native City of Winonn to Richwood, Nicholas County, where he was afforded the advantages of the public schools. the discipline of which he Inter extended by about on . year of study in Morris. Harvey College nenr Huntington, this state. Ile then entered Marshall College at Huntington, where he continued a student about one year, principally in high-school work, which likewise he had pursued in Morris-Ilarvey College. In 1911 he was graduated from the high school nt Richwood and therenfter he was for one year a student in the Concord Normal School of West Virginia. In 1914 he matriculated in the University of West Virginia at Morgantown, in which he was graduated De cember 18, 1917, he having been, however, a member of the class of 1918 and having thus returned to the university to receive in that year his degree of Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineer.

On New Year's day of 1918 Mr. Mccutcheon began prue. tical service as a civil engineer at Knnawhn Falls, and in June of that year he returned to the university for the reception of hig degrees, with other members of his class. Hle then entered the employ of the Monongahela Valley Engineering Company at Morgantown, and in the same year was assigned to the limited-service class in connec tion with the nation's entrance into the World war. In September, 1918, he became an instructor in the College of Engineering of the University of West Virginia, as n representative of war-preparation work, and there he con- tinued in constructive field instruction service until nfter the signing of the historic armistice that brought the war to a close.

After leaving the nation's service Mr. Mccutcheon en tered the employ of the Bertha Coal Company of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, with headquarters at Morgantown, West Virginia, and he continued his professional and executive service with this company until September, 1920, when he organized the MeCutcheon Engineering Company, of which he is the exceutive head and which is developing a substantial and representative general engineering busi- ness in connection with industrial enterprise and public improvements in this section of the state.

Mr. Mccutcheon is affiliated with Morgantown L'nion Lodge No. 4, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and while in the university he was netive in the affairs of "The Mountain" fraternity of that institution.

October 1, 1919, recorded the minrringe of Mr. M. Cutcheon with Miss Ada Margaret Pletcher, daughter of Mrs. Jemima Pletcher-Mulvihill. The one child of th 4 union is a fine little son, Donald Pbtcher MeCutcheon, born September 12, 1920.

RUSSELL L. FURBEE, who was in the nnvy during the World war, is member of a prominent Marion County fam ily, and has already gained recognition as n lawyer prac ticing at Fairmont.

His home is at Mannington, where he was born January 15, 1898, son of Howard R. and Sarah Jane ( Atha) Furic His mother was born at Mannington, November 12, 1-67 The grandfather of the Fairmont lawyer was Senator Jamey F. Furbee, a native of Marion County, who was elected ay n republican and served one term in the West Virginin State Senate. Senator Furbee married Sarah McCoy. The Inte Howard R. Furbee was born at Mannington, February 2- 1866, and in early life was a lumbermnn, later an oil oper ator, and in 1904 was elected sheriff of Marion County. Ju-t before the elose of his four year term in that office he was chosen to the House of Delegates by being elected an a re publican, and was reelected. At the close of his second term he retired from public affairs to devote all his time to his

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oil business, and so continued until his death on December 23, 1919. He was an active member of the Elks, Knights of Pythias, Moose, Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World.

Russell L. Furbee acquired a public school education at Fairmont and Mannington, graduating from the Manning- ton High School in 1914. For seven years he was a student in the University of West Virginia, and completed both the classical and law courses, receiving his A. B. degree in 1918 and his law degree in 1921. Mr. Furbee was an able student and took a prominent part in student affairs, being a member of the fraternities, literary societies and doing his part in athletics. In April, 1918, he left the university to enlist in the navy, and was in training at Norfolk, Vir- ginia, for four months. He was then transferred to the Naval Aviation Ground School at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, Boston, where he remained until Decem- ber 21, 1918, being honorably discharged with the rating of chief quartermaster.

In June, 1921, Mr. Furbee was admitted to the bar in Marion County, and soon afterward opened his office at Fairmont. He is a member of the Marion County, Monon- gahela Valley and West Virginia State Bar associations. He is a Mason and Elk and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

MARTIN LUTHER BROWN, cashier of the Fairmont State Bank, one of the substantial financial institutions of the judicial center of Marion County, was born on a farm in Clinton District, Monongalia County, West Virginia, on the 20th of March, 1867, and is the eldest son of Jabez A. aud Mary V. (Galliher) Brown. The father was born in Monon- galia County in the year 1844, and his entire active career was marked by close association with farm enterprise, his death having occurred in 1903. He was a son of Jabez Brown, Sr., who was born at Brown's Mills, Harrison County, in 1802, a son of Jabez, who was too young for service as a soldier in the War of the Revolution, but whose patriotism was expressed in his service as a teamster with General Washington's army. After the close of the war Jabez Brown (I) came to what is now Harrison County, West Virginia, where he reclaimed a farm at the place now known as Brown's Mills. He was born in New Jersey, where representatives of the family, including, probably, his father, settled upon removal from Connecticut. The father of the subject of this sketch was a republican, and he and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Brown was born in Marion County, a daughter of William Galliher, whose wife was a member of the Miller family that became prominently identified with the pioneer history of this country.

Martin L. Brown was reared on the old home farm that was the place of his birth, and his youthful educational advantages included those of the University of West Vir- ginia. At the age of seventeen he became a successful teacher in the rural schools, and at the age of twenty-three years he was appointed county superintendent of schools for his native county, to fill out an unexpired term, in 1890.

Thereafter he was regularly elected to this office for a term of two years. In Monongalia County he also served as deputy clerk of the Circuit Court for two years, and for several years he was chief clerk in the post office at Morgan- town. He next held for three years the position of teller in the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Morgantown, and later served for a time as assistant cashier of the Citizen's National Bank of that city.

In 1906 he organized the Bank of Morgantown, and of the same he continued the cashier until January 1, 1911, when he resigned to accept the office of warden of the West Vir- ginia Penitentiary. He held this position for four years, and for the ensuing three years was engaged in the insurance business at Morgantown, West Virginia. He had given eleven years of service as a member of the Morgantown Board of Education, of which he was secretary during this period.

In 1917 Mr. Brown was elected cashier of the Fairmont State Bank, and he has since been numbered among the progressive business men and honored citizens of the county

seat of Marion County, where also he is a director of th Fairmont Tool Company. He is treasurer of the local Re Cross, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and th Rotary Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternit and the Odd Fellows. In political matters he has been a active member of the republican party. He is a member o the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The first marriage of Mr. Brown was with Miss Sallie K Duncan, who was born in Clinton District, Monongali: County, a daughter of Charles H. Duncan, and whose death occurred in 1899. She is survived by two children, Nellie G and Ross D. For his second wife Mr. Brown wedded Mis' Cora B. Duncan, daughter of Joseph R. Duncan, of Pitts burgh, and the child of this union is Joseph T.

HERSCHEL LAYMAN SATTERFIELD, D. D. S., a popular anı representative member of the dental profession in Mario County, is established in successful practice in the City o - Fairmont, where he was born at Palatine, now in the Firs Ward of the city, on the 8th of September, 1882. He is : son of Samuel Layman and Virginia Catherine (Wilson Satterfield. Samuel L. Satterfield was born on Pharo's Run this county, August 5, 1846, a son of Francis M. and Susar (Layman) Satterfield, the family genealogy tracing bac! to English origin, and the first representatives of the Satter field family in what is now West Virginia having com from Pennsylvania in 1790 and made settlement at the present site of Colfax, on the Tygarts Valley River. Franci M. Satterfield was a pioneer settler on Pharo's Run, Marion County. He served three years as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and his son Samuel L. ran away from hom in 1862 and enlisted in Company C, Tenth West Virgini: Volunteer Infantry, in which he gave three years of gallan service as a loyal young soldier of the Union. Francis M Satterfield became one of the prosperous farmers of Marion County, but was a resident of Holt, this state, at the tim of his death.

Samuel L. Satterfield was reared on the home farm an later learned the carpenter's trade at Holt. After his mar riage he removed to Palatine, now a part of Fairmont, and his death occurred July 31, 1903. His wife was born a Fairmont, December 12, 1849, a daughter of Arza D. and Catherine (Shrirer) Wilson, the father having been fo many years a cabinet maker at Fairmont. Mrs. Satterfield still resides at Fairmont, as one of its venerable and reverer native daughters.

After having attended the public schools and the Stat Normal School at Fairmont, Doctor Satterfield entered th Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, in which Maryland in stitution he was graduated in 1912, with the degree o Doctor of Dental Surgery. He has since been actively and successfully engaged in practice at Fairmont, and in the meanwhile he has taken effective post-graduate work in th City of Pittsburgh. In the World war period he served a dental examiner to the Draft Board of Marion County, unde appointment by the governor of the state, and lie was activi in the furtherance of the various patriotic services in hi home county. He is a member of the West Virginia Stat Dental Association and the National Dental Association. Iı the Masonic fraternity his basic affiliation is with Fairmon Lodge No. 9, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he has thus far received the fourteenth degree in the Scottish Rite and all of the degrees of the York Rite. He is : member of the local lodge of Elks and the Rotary Club, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Methodis Episcopal Church.

Doctor Satterfield wedded Miss Helen MeClure, who wa: born at Wheeling, this state, a daughter of James H. and Belle MeClure. Doctor and Mrs. Satterfield have three children : Martha Jane, born September 8, 1915; Jame McClure, born May 2, 1917; and Betty Ann, born March 31 1921.

EDWARD CLIFFORD JONES, a representative merchant and citizen of the City of Fairmont, Marion County, was bori at Castleton, Maryland, November 10, 1872, and is a son 0 Hugh A. and Cornelia (Touchstone) Jones, the former o: Welsh and the latter of English lineage. The origina

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American representatives of the Jones family came from Wales to this country at least seven generations ago and made settlement in Maryland. The Touchstone family, allied with the English peerage, likewise has maintained a branch in America for many generations.

Hugh A. Jones was born on the family homestead farm mear Castleton, Maryland. November 22, 1842, his father, Hugh Jones, having been born in that state in 1791, and having there died in 1864. Hugh Jones was a builder of old-time flour mills, many of which he erected in his native state. In 1837 he purchased a farm on the Susquehanna River, near the Pennsylvania line, and from stone quarried on this Maryland farm was constructed the fine old Jones house at Castleton which still stands as one of the well preserved landmarks of that section of Maryland. This venerable mansion is now owned and occupied by Fred C. Jones, brother of the subject of this sketch. Hugh Jones married Ann Kidd, a member of the old and influential Maryland family of that name. Ilugh A. Jones was en- gaged in the study of law at the time of his father's death in 1564, when he abandoned his plans for a professional career and assumed charge of his father's estate. He be- came successfully identified with various lines of business enterprise, and was the owner of a large and valuable estate at the time of his death, May 19, 1910. His wife, who was born at Port Deposit, Maryland, February 27, 1545, passed to eternal rest on the 7th of August, 1907, she having been a daughter of James and Virginia (Owens) Touchstone, the former of English parentage. James Touchstone was a citizen of prominence and influence in his community and served as quartermaster of the Sixth Maryland Volunteer Infantry (Union) during the entire period of the Civil war. Captain Owens, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Cornelia .Jones, was for many years master of sailing vessels on t'hesapeake Bay, and had his home at Perryville, Maryland. The children of Hugh A. and Cornelia A. Jones were: Minnie, who died in infancy; James Touchstone, engaged in the commission business at Darlington. Maryland; Ed- ward C., the next in order of birth; Hugh Roy, who is en- gaged in the hardware business at Cumberland, Maryland; Fred C., who owns and occupies the old homestead at Castle- ton, Maryland, and Virginia Alice, who married E. Charles Wilson, of Darlington, Maryland.

Edward C. Jones was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the public schools at Castleton. In Is9I he began his mereantile career in a store at Darling- ton. not far distant from the home place. In September, 1494. he came to West Virginia and became manager of the store of the Beaver Creek Mercantile Company at Davis, this corporation being a subsidiary of the Beaver Creek Lumber Company. In 1696 he was made manager of the large general-merchandise establishment which the firm opened at Hambleton, Tucker County, and four years later he resigned this position to engage in business in an inde- jendent way. On the 13th of October, 1900, Mr. Jones formed a partnership with A. N. Gorrell. and the new firm of Gorrell & Jones opened a dry goods and women's apparel store at Mannington. Eighteen months later Mr. Jones hecame sole owner of the business and he conducted the same sneeessfully until January, 1906. when he sold the same to his brother, H. R., and bought the department store of George G. Yeager at the corner of Adams and Madison streets, Fairmont. In the autumn of 1912 he removed the stock and business to the American Building, where he developed a large department store. In 1917 he removed to 208 Adams Street and converted his department store into an establishment devoted to the handling of the finest grades of women's ready-to-wear garments and millinery. Ile has made this the largest and leading store of its kind in Fair- mont-one of the largest in Northern West Virginia, and eaters to a substantial and representative patronage. Mr. Jones is a director of the People's National Bank and the Community Saving and Loan Company. both of Fairmont ; is president of the South View Realty Company (real estate and eoal operators); and is a director of the Jerry Run Coal Company, which conduets mining operations near Clarks- · burg.

Mr. Jones has been active and influential in eivie affairs

during the period of his residence nt Fairmont, and has been identified with virtually every local movement teading to advance the social and material progress of the city. llc was one of the organizers of the Fairmont Business SIen's Association, was its first president and is still a member of its board of directors, and is likewise active in the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce He was one of the organizers of th Fairmont Country Club and served as a member of its board of governors until 1921.

On May 5, 1597, Mr Jones married Miss Mary Flor I Erkess, who was born at Rock C'av Epshor County, thos state, a daughter of J. C. and Lucy (Henders n t. k. Her parents removed to Florida, establishing their home ne St. John's River, near Jacksonville, in 1910. Her father still lives there. and her mother died there in 1916. The oldest son of Mr. Jones is Edward C., Jr., who was born March 6, 1899, and is now associated with his father in business, in a partnership which was formed in 1921. 11. 19 a graduate of the grammar and high school, the Stat Nur mal College at Fairmont, and during the World war ju rio he served in the Two Hundred and Twenty first Field Signal Battalion, Signal Corps, at Camp Vail New Jersey After his discharge from the army service he completed courses in advertising, eard-writing and decorating at the Koester School of Chicago, where he graduated in 1919. The secon I son is TIngh Eekess, who was born November 20, 1900, and is a member of the class of 1923 in the engineering depart ment of the University of West Virginia. John Paul, the youngest son, was horn November Is, 1902, and, like his brothers, is a graduate of the Fairmont High School, and is a member of the class of 1924 in the engineering department of the State University.

WILLIAM JEFFERSON SNEE, a well known Morgantown attorney, also referee in bankruptey, is a native of South western Pennsylvania but finished his law course in West Virginia University and for the past twenty years hn- made an enviable record in his profession.

He was born on a farm in Washington County. Pennsyl vania, January 28, 1573. son of Thomas Jefferson ant Sarah Jane (Rue) Snee, the former also a native of Washington County, while his mother was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather was Thomas Jefferson Snee, who was a native of l'ennsylvania. the family having been established in that state by his father, Thomas Snee who came from Ireland. The father of the Morgantown lawyer was born in I$31 and died in Jws1, devoting his active career to farming, and when his son. William J., was a hoy he moved over the line from Washington into Allegheny County The mother was hor October 12, 1544, and is still living. Her father, Alexander Rue, was a native of Pennsylvania

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