History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 49

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April 7, 1897, recorded the marriage of Mr. Howell and Miss Zettie Toney, daughter of Jeremiah Toney, of Racine, this atate, and they have one son and three daughters: Carrie, Grace, Ora and Carl, the oldest daughter having achieved marked success and popularity as a tencher in the public schools.

LESTER EARL SCHOLL learned the technical side of coal mining largely under his father, and both have been prom inent in the coal fields of this state. L. E. Scholl is now superintendent of the Steel & Tube Company of America, with mines at Dehue on Rum Creek in Logan County The coal from this mine is used for by-products by the Milwau- kee Coke & Gas Company, a subsidiary of the Steel & Tube Company of America.

Mr. Scholl was born at Roseville, Muskingum County, Ohio, October 29, 1859, son of Sherman E. and Mary Elizabeth (Patch) Scholl, who now live at Huntington, West Virginia, and both of them are fifty.three years of age, the mother being just eleven days younger than her husband. Sherman Scholl was born at Washington Court House, Ohio, and his wife in locking County in the same state. Sherman Scholl learned the blacksmithing trade in a railroad roundhouse in Ohio. His mechanical ability he eventually turned to the service of the mining industry in Ohio District and became master mechanle, then mine anper- intendent, and in 1901 moved to Fayette County, West Vir ginia, where he was connected with several companies. Leaving there, he was with the Ozark Conl Company at Spadra, Arkansas, and after being in the West for two years returned to West Virginia and had charge of four mines for the M. B. Coal and Coke Company at Kimberly. Fayette County. His next work was at Luhrig, Ohio as mine superintendent, and he was then made gen ral superin tendent of the Avon Coal Company at Accoville, Logan County, West Virginia. At that time his son Lester E. was mine foreman in the same place. Sherman Scholl had

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charge of the six mines in this vicinity. He is now superin- tendent of mines near Rainell in Greenbrier County. His long experience has brought him an authoritative position with regard to all the details of construction work required in opening and developing mines. He taught his son Lester E. Scholl, and the latter in turn taught his brother Frank- lin R. Franklin ig now mine foreman for the Richcreek Coal Company at Wilburn in Logan County. There is also a daughter, wife of a Mr. Watkins, superintendent of the Richcreek Coal Company at Wilburn.

Lester Earl Scholl acquired his early education in the schools at Bremen, Ohio, and for two years was a student in Ohio University at Athens. His higher education came to him long after he had begun his experience in the mines. He was a trapper boy at the age of nine, greased cars, drove mules, operated motors and also mining machines; he was made mine foreman at Luhrig, Ohio, and for five years was foreman for the Avon Coal Company at Accoville in Logan County. In 1916 he was promoted to superintendent of these mines, which later were taken over by the Deegans interests. Mr. Scholl came to his present duties as superin- tendent at Dehue in January, 1921.

During the World war he did double work and sometimes even more, and though he was superintendent he personally operated the mine machinery, ran motors, worked on the tipple and in the store as well as in the office, thus supplying in a measure the vacancies when men were taken into mili- tary service. Mr. Scholl is a republican, and is affiliated with the Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter of Masons at Logan, the Rose Croix Chapter of Huntington, and his father is a York Rite Mason and Shriner. He is a member of the Methodist Church.

On August 14, 1919, Mr. Scholl married Susie Gore, daughter of Joseph F. Gore, of Man, Logan County. They have a son, Lester E., Jr.

ROBERT THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, secretary and treasurer of the Monongah Glass Company, one of the important industrial concerns of Fairmont, Marion County, was born at Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1874, and is a son of Andrew J. and Rachel (Williams) Cunningham, both likewise natives of that county. The father, who was for many years actively engaged in manu- facturing business, is now living retired at Masontown, his wife having passed away in 1902.

After the public-school discipline which he received in his native place Robert T. Cunningham continued his studies in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at California, and in his native state he gained also his initial business experi- ence. In 1894 he came to West Virginia and took a posi- tion in the office of the Montana Coal & Coke Company at Fairmont. He remained with this concern after its title had been changed to the Fairmont Coal Company, and when it became a part of the Consolidation Coal Company he served as auditor of the latter corporation. In 1914 he resigned this position to assume the dual office of secre- tary and treasurer of the Monongah Glass Company, of which he had previously become a director. He is also vice president of the Fairmont Building & Investment Com- pany, treasurer of the Greater Fairmont Investment Company and the Acme Land Company, and president of the Marion County Securities Company, which publishes at Fairmont the daily newspaper known as the West Vir- ginian. He is a director of the Hartford-Fairmont Com- pany, the Fairmont Building & Loan Association, the Fair- mont Hotel Company, and the Fairmont State Bank. He is an active member of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce, and during the World war period was a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Mr. Cunningham is a Knight Templar Mason, and in the same fraternity has received the eight- eenth degree of the Scottish Rite at the time of this writ- ing. He is a past exalted ruler of Fairmont Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. He is one of the aggressive and thoroughly representative business men of Marion County, and his civic loyalty is shown in action as well as sentiment. The maiden name of

his wife was Cecil Peters, and they have two daughters Jane and Joann.

HON. WILLIAM STANLEY HAYMOND, a former judge of th Circuit Court of the Fourteenth District, and long rec ognized as one of the distinguished members of the bar o his native state, is now engaged in the practice of his pro fession in his native City of Fairmont, Marion County, hi birth having here occurred on the 26th of August, 1852 Judge Haymond is a lineal descendant of John Haymond who came from England to America in 1734 and settle( in Maryland, and whose son, Maj. William Haymond, was as a lad of fifteen years, in the command of General Brad dock in the unsuccessful march against Fort Duquesne At a later period Major Haymond served in the comman of General Forbes when the latter made a successful ex pedition against that fort. In 1759 he enlisted in a Vir ginia company in the regiment commanded by Col. George, Washington, who later became the first president of the United States. Upon his removal from Maryland to Vir ginia Major Haymond settled in the district of West Augusta, at what is now Morgantown, West Virginia. II 1784 he removed to Clarksburg, where he passed the re mainder of his life. At the beginning of the war of the Revolution he was appointed captain of a militia company and was in service at Prickett's Fort in 1777. He was promoted to the office of major in 1781, and served in that? capacity as a patriot soldier until the close of the war. His son, William (II), served during the latter part of the Indian wars along the Monongahela River frontier. Thomas S., son of William Haymond (II), served as a member of Congress from Virginia. The maiden name of his wife was Harriet Franklin, and one of their children was Alpbeus. F. Haymond, father of Judge Haymond of this review.

Judge Alpheus F. Haymond was born in what is now Marion County, West Virginia, December 15, 1823, and died at Fairmont, this county, December 15, 1893,-the seventieth anniversary of his birth. He was educated in the common schools, the Morgantown Academy and Willians and Mary College at Williamsburg. In the last named institution he continued his studies one year and he then began the study of law at Morgantown. He was admitted to the har in 1842, and forthwith engaged in practice at Fairmont. In 1852 he was elected a member of the Vir- ginia Legislature, of which he again became a member in 1857. In 1861 he was a delegate to the convention called to determine the part which Virginia should take in the impending conflict between the states of the North and the South. With voice and vote he opposed the secession of the state, but when the Civil war was precipitated he was loyal to his native state and in 1862 entered the military service of the Confederacy. For nearly four years there- after he served in the brigade of General Early, in the army corps commanded by Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson. At the close of the war he was paroled and returned to Marion County. However, the test oath required of lawyers under the conditions of the so-called reconstruction period could not be conscientiously taken by him, and he was thus unable to resume the practice of his profession until an enabling act was passed in his favor by the West Virginia Legislature in 1868, this having been the first special act passed by that body prior to 1870. Judge Alpheus F. Hay- mond soon regained his substantial law practice at Fair- mont, and when the democratic party again came into power in the state he was naturally drawn into public service. He was elected a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, in which he assumed much of leadership. In the election following the adoption of the new state constitution Judge Haymond was elected one of the four judgee of the Su- preme Court of Appeals, and by lot was assigned one of the four-year terms. He was thereafter elected for the full term of twelve years, and for six years of this period he served on the bench of the Court of Last Resort in the state, and at the close of the years 1882 he resigned the office and resumed the private practice of his profession at Fairmont. In 1884, however, he yielded to the importu- nities of his friends and was elected a member of the State Legislature, in which he was made chairman of the judiciary

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enmittee of the House. While on the bench of the Su- me Court of Appeals he served several years as president o that body.

November 18, 1847, Judge Haymond married Maria Jancea Boggess, who was born in Marion County, Novem- R: 25, 1828, a daughter of Thomas Lindsay Boggess, who is born at Fairfax Court House, Virginin, and who came t the present Marion County, West Virginia, in 1810, his ther, Lindsay Boggess, having become one of the pioneer tlers of this acetion, then on the frontier. Judge and s. Alpheus F. Haymond became the parents of eleven ildren, of whom Judge William S., of this review, was te third in order of birth.

William S. Haymond received the advantages of the com- on achoola and thercafter attended the normal school at hirmont until ill health compelled him to abandon his idica. As a youth he learned telegraphy, he having prev- isly served as messenger boy for the Baltimore & Ohio ilroad telegraph office at Fairmont. He continued as operator in the employ of this railroad company for teen years, and worked for a time also for the Western ion Telegraph Company. He finally became operator d switchman at the west end of Kingwood Tunnel, where remained four years. In this period he devoted his sure hours to reading law, and by his independent self- plication he fitted himself for the profession that his ther had so signally honored. On the 12th of April, 81, he passed the required examination and was admitted the bar at Fairmont. Hig was the unusual experience coming direct from a telegraph office to the bar without ving had instruction of any kind save his own study law books. He resigned his railroad position April 1, 381, and twelve days later was admitted to the bar. He mediately opened an office at Fairmont, and his character id ability, together with the prestige of the family name. on him distinctive recognition in his chosen profession. e naturally received much of the law business of his :other, Lindsay B., whose death occurred about this time, 1 the 8th of February, 1881, he having been elected prose- iting attorney of Marion County the year prior to his eath.

Judge Haymond continued in successful practice at airmont until May 1, 1890, when he was appointed, by overnor McCorkle, judge of the Intermediate Court of Marion County, a newly established tribunal created for ne purpose of relieving the docket of the Circuit Court, nd Judge Haymond was the first to preside on the bench f this new court. Judge Haymond continued on this ench until 1894, when in the general election he was de- eated for the office, as a result of normal political exi- encies that defeated the democratic ticket in the county. le resumed the private practice of his profession and ontrolled a large and important law business when, in 912, he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of the 'ourteenth Judicial District, comprising Marion County. Ie continued his able and effective service on the Circuit ench until January, 1921, he having been defeated for P-election in the preceding November. The Judge is now asociated in active general practice with his son, Frank C., nder the firm name of Haymond & Haymond, the firm, s a matter of course, having a representative clientage f important order. Judge Haymond is a member of the Vest Virginia State Bar Association and has twice served s president of the Marion County Bar Association.

January 29, 1879, recorded the marriage of Judge Ilay. hond and Miss Agnes B. Cruise, who was born in Preston County, this state, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Cruise, who settled in that county in 1848, both having been natives f Ireland. Of the children of Judge and Mrs. Haymond he firstborn, Mary Helen, died at the age of aixteen months; Lucy May is the wife of Edward F. Holbert, of Fairmont; Laura Lee died at the age of one year; Frank C. s associated with his father in the practice of law; Paul, sho gerved in the mechanical department of the aviation orps in the period of the World war, now resides in his ative city; Mary Josephine is the wife of Charles G. Hood, of Fairmont; Genevieve is the wife of John M. Wolfe,

and they reside at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Maria B. is the wife of Kennn Clark, of Fairmont; and Mildred S., Martha L. and Frances F. remain at the parental home.

It may consistently be recorded that in November, 1962, a few months after his tenth birthdny anniversary, Judge Haymond became a messenger boy or courier with the Imboden Brigade of the Virginia troops commanded by Gen. John D. Imboden, and with this brigade he was pres- ent at the Battle of Gettysburg, in the summer of 1463. lle thereafter was with his command on its raids into Maryland and Pennsylvanin, and his loyal service to the Confederacy covered a period of eighteen months, he having returned to his homo in the spring of 1664.

WILLIAM BRUCE BORROR, M. D). It wna the brilliant caany ist, Addison, who advised those in his day who would find success in life, that perseverance, enution and hope be made their cherished companions. Undoubtedly these elements are necessary, but in modern days they must often be supple mented by hard, grinding industry, and a flame of ambition that ever burns. In the interesting story of Dr. William Bruce Borror, who is well established in the practice of medicine at Morgantown, an apt illustration mny be found. From n boyhood of comparative country seclusion, a young manhood of manual labor, long and especially honorable service in the schoolroom, he made his way forward until the height of his ambition was reached in his admission to the profession of which he has ever since been nn nble mem- her. Doctor Borror is a member of the Monongalia County and the West Virginia State Medical societies, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Association.

Doctor Borror was born May 25, 1879, on the old family homestead on Brush Run, in Pendleton County, West Vir- ginia, where his great-grandfather had settled when that entire section was but a wilderness. His parents were Daniel and Louisa (Mowery) Borror, the latter of whom survives. She was born near what became known as "Upper Tract," in Pendleton County, West Virginia, where her people were pioneers.

The Borror family was established in West Virginia by the great-grandfather of Doctor Borror, who came from York, Pennsylvania, and took up 400 acres of wild land on Brush Run in Pendleton County, and with the aid of his sons reclaimed the same and established a comfortable fron. tier home for his family. llis aon Simon, grandfather of Doctor Borror, accompanied his father to West Virginia and lived and died on the homestead. There his son Daniel was born in 1855, later removed to Randolph County and died there in 1911.

William Bruce Borror grew to the nge of twelve years on the old home farm which was situated forty milea distant from a railroad. He attended the country schoola, but educational progress was not notable in that section at the time and totally inadequate to satisfy the developing mind of young Borror, and when his parents decided to remove to Randolph County, he gladly accompanied them. For some years, however, after thia change his education wns advanced only through his own efforts, for until he was eighteen years old daily work in a sawmill was his portion, and study was possible only at night. In this way he prepared him aelf for a teacher's examination, in 1897 receiving a No. 2 license, following which he taught a country school for one year. In the spring of 1898 he made use of the money he had earned to take a course in the Fairmont Normal School, and afterward taught country schools for another year. During the three following yeurs he alternated work and study, apending the summers working in sawmills and lumber yards and his winters as a student in Bu hanan Seminary, from which institution he was creditatly grad- uated in 1903, and in that year had the satisfaction of securing his well-earned teacher's state certificate.

In the fall of the above year Doctor Borror was nppoint 1 principal of the West Union High School, a well merit 1 promotion, and he continued in charge there nnti 19 7. when he was elected superintendent af the schools of Davis, West Virginia, from which position he retired in 19 9 to become principal of the high school at Cameron, West

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Virginia, and from 1910 to 1913 he was principal of the graded schools of Grafton. During all these years he attended summer schools during vacation time.

In 1914 Doctor Borror completed the academic course in the West Virginia University, four years, with the exception of a few weeks, and in the same year entered the medical department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, from which he was graduated with his medical degree in 1918. In sympathy with his aims and in recogni-

tion of the hard fight Doctor Borror had so resolutely made for years, Dr. G. B. Puriton, who was then president of the West Virginia University, proffered professional as- sistance at this time which Doctor Borror gratefully acknowledges. On leaving medical college he was appointed as a civilian, in 1918, to have medical charge of the con- struction of the Government army supply base at Norfolk, Virginia, where over ten thousand men were employed for fourteen months. In November, 1919, Doctor Borror took the examination of the West Virginia State Medical Board, was granted his license, and on January 1, 1920, entered into general medical practice at Morgantown. He enjoys the good will of his professional brethren and the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens.

On August 11, 1911, Doctor Borror married Miss Almonta Durrett, who is a daughter of John and Hester Durrett. They have four children, two sons and two daughters: John William, Hester Louisa, Anna Margaret and James Clark, aged respectively seven, five, three and one years. Doctor and Mrs. Borror are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has never been particularly active in politics, but as a citizen is greatly interested in the welfare of Morgantown and is a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a thirty-second degree and Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of Monon- galia Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M.

J. FRANK Fox, M. D. Though thirty-five years have elapsed since he graduated in medicine, Doctor Fox has as yet relaxed none of the intense devotion he has given to his profession, and his service has been such as to place him on a plane with the most eminent men of his calling in West Virginia. Doctor Fox for thirty years has been a res- ident of Bluefield, and is one of the founders and heads of the splendid Bluefield Sanitarium, one of the finest private institutions of the kind in West Virginia.

Doctor Fox was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, April 7, 1863, son of A. J. and Lydia (Bost) Fox, also na- tives of the same state. Doctor Fox no doubt acquired some of his spirit of service from his father, who was both a physician and a minister of the Lutheran Church, and devoted his life to a work that was in every sense an inti- mate and essential service to humanity.

J. Frank Fox attended the common schools of Lincoln County, also the Kings Mountain School, a military insti- tution of very high standing in its day. From there he entered the University of Virginia, taking the medical course during 1882-83, and finished his professional prep- aration in New York at the University of the City of New York, where he graduated M. D. in 1886. In the case of a man like Doctor Fox a degree is noteworthy only as mark- ing the time he was first qualified for professional work. His attainments have been accumulating through every year, not only as the result of his individual experience, but through his constant effort to keep in contact with the great men and the great new ideas of the profession. Practically every year he has devoted some time to post- graduate work, attending such institutions as the New York Polyclinic and New York Post-Graduate College, the elin- ics of the Mayos at Rochester, Minnesota, and other lead- ing schools throughout the country.

Doctor Fox did his first regular practice in his home county of Lincoln in North Carolina, but after three years he went to Waynesborough, Virginia, remaining there six months, and from that time until 1892 was located at Basic City, Virginia. It was in 1892 that he removed to Blue- field in the capacity of division surgeon of the Norfolk & Western Railroad. About 1895 the railroad company cen-

tralized its medical work, and Doctor Fox has continue since then as assistant surgeon. About the time he retire from his duties as division surgeon Doctor Fox and D Wade St. Clair made the first modest beginnings of the:" Bluefield Sanitarium. These two very able and progressiva physicians and surgeons have been closely associated ins this institution ever since, and it stands as a monument til their labors. From time to time the accommodations o the sanitarium were enlarged, and in September, 1921 the Bluefield Sanitarium was incorporated with a capita stock of $200,000. Recently the building has been double in size, and there is nothing lacking in the way of modern equipment and service to give this favorable compariso with any hospital in the state. The staff consists of Drs J. F. Fox, Wade St. Clair, R. O. Rogers and Charles T. St Clair.

Doctor Fox is a Fellow of the American College of Sur geons and member of the Mercer County Medical Society the State Associations of West Virginia and Virginia, the Southern Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He and Mrs. Fox and son Edwin are member of the Lutheran Church, while their son Francke and hi wife are members of the Episcopal denomination. Docto Fox has a life membership in the order of Elks. He i: member of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, Rotar Club and Bluefield Country Club, and has always loved : fine horse, though the motor car has been a source of con venience to him in his profession.

In 1893, at Staunton, Virginia, Doctor Fox married Miss Minnie Fulcher, daughter of Edwin A. Fulcher. Doctor Fox is properly proud of his two sons, Francke Fulcher and Edwin Alfred, both of whom are ex-service men. Ed win, on account of his age, did not get into the service un. til September, 1918, when he enlisted in the Marines, and was trained at Pearis Island, South Carolina. About Octo ber 15, 1918, he went overseas, and was in France about two weeks before the signing of the armistice. He was sent to Germany with the Army of Occupation, returning home in June. Among other duties before he returned he partici. pated in a 200 mile hike.

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