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He has been a member of the Board of Directors of dif- ferent local banking institutions. At present he holds a directorship in the Merchants and Farmers Bank at Mar- tinsburg. He was appointed commissioner on inland waters by President Taft. During the World war he was appointed by President Wilson as chairman of the County Liberty Loan Board, as well as controller of food and fuel and rep- resentative of labor distribution.

In the selection of Mr. Silver for his present important responsibilities with the American Farm Bureau Federation his qualifieations rested not only upon his very elose touch with the practical side of American agriculture, but also upon his familiarity with and experience in the publie af- fairs of his home state. For eight years he was a member of the State Senate of West Virginia and a leader in that body. He was elected to the Senate in 1906, beginning his work in the session of 1907. The distriet he represented embraced Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan and Hampshire eoun- ties. Ile was president of the Senate, being thereby ex- officio lieutenant governor of the state.

Mr. Silver is a member of the Masonic fraternity being a thirty-second degree, a Knight Templar, Scottish Rite and a Shriner; Benevolent and Proteetive Order of Elks; the fol- lowing patriotie and hereditary societies: National Society of Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims, with forty-two ancestral gold stars to his eredit; the American Clan Gregor Society, Deputy Chieftain for West Virginia; the National Society Sons of the American Revolution; Sons of Confederate Veterans; the Imperial Military Order of the Yellow Rose. ile is a member of the Presbyterian Church; holding the office of Deacon.

Because of the interests he represented and also for his leadership he was one of the group of American farmers who were most active in the organization of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 1919. He had been interested in all farmer movements, particularly the Grange, and state lecturer in his home state for that organization.

He was active in the work which began and led up to the organization of local Farm Bureaus. Some 850 County Farm Bureaus had been organized into their respective state federations, and these were the units which made the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation in 1919. When the organiza- tion was completed he was put in charge of the legislative department at Washington. This Washington office is designated as a general aid ageney to all farmers' activities in the national capital, and has been particularly helpful in furthering the Federation's program of national legisla-

tion affecting the farm industry in general, and in providing a nueleus of influenee to bring agricultural questions to the attention of Congress. Undoubtedly the legislative office shares to a large measure the credit for the extensive pro- gram of legislation passed during the year 1921, including such vital measures as those increasing the capital and the working efficiency of the Federal Farm Loan system, the limitation of foreign immigration, the regulation of grain exchanges and packing houses. Mr. Silver not only under- stands the farmers' immediate problems, but his long eon- taet with mea of affairs and his experience in polities makes him familiar with the avenues of approach to Congress and higher Government officials.

Mr. Silver and his wife, Kate (Bishop) Silver, have five young children, as follows: Mary Gray Silver; Gray Silver, Jr .; Anne Beall Silver; Franeis Silver 5th; Catherine du Bois.

Mrs. Kate (Bishop) Silver was educated at Randolpli Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, elass of 1907, is an accomplished musician, and is an active member of the Wednesday afternoon Music Club of Martinsburg. She is a member of the Alumnae Association of Randolph Macon Woman's College; member of the American Association of University Women's College Club, a Chi Omega; is a mem- ber of the Martinsburg Golf Club, and of the following patriotie and hereditary societies: National Society of Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims, and by an interesting eoin- cidence is entitled to forty-two ancestral stars, exactly the number accredited to her husband by the same society, in- dieating that they have the same number of Pilgrim an- eestors. Mrs. Silver is also a member of the National So- eiety Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and an associate member of the American Clan Gregor Society.

SAMUEL FULLER GLASSCOCK, of the law firm of Glass- eoek & Glasseoek at Morgantown, has been distinguished for his ability and very successful work as a lawyer, and while well known in the public life of his state, his chief ambition has been in his profession, in which for a number of years he has been associated with his brother, former Governor W. E. Glasseoek.

The Glasseoek family of Monongalia County was estab- lished here more than a century ago by John Glasseock. John was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and he and his brother Hezekiah settled on Indian Creek in Monongalia County. One of the grandsons of John Glasseoek was Arthur C. Mellette, the first governor of South Dakota.

Charles Glasseoek, son of the Revolutionary soldier, was born in Virginia July 20, 1775, and was a young man when he came with his father and uncle to Monongalia County. He was a miller in Grant Distriet of that county, and died in February, 1840. His wife was Mary Arnett, who was born in 1794 aud died in 1878.

Among the children of Charles Glasscoek was Daniel Glasseoek, father of the Morgantown lawyers. Daniel Glass- eoek was born at Arnettville in 1828 and spent a long and industrious life as a farmer. He died in 1910. He was one of the early members of the republican party in the state and was a member of the Methodist Church. In 1859 he married Prudenee Michael, who died in 1904. Her children were: Stephen A. D., William E., Louverna, Samuel Fuller, James F., Sarah, Mary J., Alice and Zana.

Samuel Fuller Glasseoek grew up on his father's farm, acquired his early education in the publie sehools, and was a successful teacher for several years. He graduated in law from the West Virginia University in 1893, was admitted to the bar the same year, and at onee began his profes- sional work in Morgantown as a member of the firm of Moreland & Glasseoek. About nine years later he became associated with his brother William E. in the firm of Glass- eoek & Glasscoek, and they have practiced law together except for the four year period when William was gov- ernor of the state. As a law firm it stands in the front rank both in point of ability of the members and the importance of its clientage. Among other corporations whose legal affairs they have handled are: General counsel

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for the Morgantown & Kingwood Railway Company, now part of the Baltimore & Ohio System; general counsel for the Elkins Coal & Coke Company and its successor, the Bethlehem Coal Company; attorneys for the Bank of Mor- gantown, Glasseoek Collieries Company, the Cheat Canyon Coal Company and others.

Mr. Glasseock is a past grand of Monongalia Lodge No. 10, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was the first president of the Morgantown Rotary Club and a delegate to the National Convention of Rotary Clubs at Atlantic City in 1920. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the County and State Bar asso- eiations. July 29, 1908, he married Mabel C. Reynolds, daughter of Dr. P. B. Reynolds, who for many years was professor of metaphysies in the University of West Vir- ginia, of which Mrs. Glasseock is a graduate.

HON. WILLIAM ELLSWORTH GLASSCOCK, governor of West Virginia from 1909 to 1913, is a member of the Morgan- town law firm of Glasseoek & Glasseoek, and a brother of Samuel Fuller Glasscoek.

He was born on his father's farm in Monongalia County, December 13, 1862, was reared on the farm, and is a product of West Virginia environment and institutions. He attended the public schools, later the University of West Virginia, and for a number of years devoted his time to teaching. He taught school in Iowa and Nebraska as well as in his native state, and during 1887-90 was superin- tendent of schools for Monongalia County.

He was admitted to the bar in 1902, and in the same year joined his brother S. F. Glasscock in the practice of law at Morgantown, His interests as a lawyer are deseribed in the sketch of his brother.

He was a member of the Republican State Central Com- mittee from 1900 to 1908 and was its secretary and chair- man at different times. From 1905 to 1908 he was United States eolleetor of internal revenue for the District of West Virginia, resigning that office to become candidate on the republican ticket for governor. He was elected, and his term as governor was from Mareh 4, 1909, to March 3, 1913. In 1912 he was delegate at large from the state to the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

August 15, 1885, Governor Glasscock married Mary Alice Miller, of Monongalia County. She is a descendant in the sixth generation from Col. John Evans, one of the promi- nent leaders in the settlement of the Monongahela Valley of West Virginia.

CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER. In that broad zone of in- terests and affairs where the life of the community merges with that of the state and nation and the local eitizen be- comes a power and influence in the web of a larger destiny, one of the most interesting figures supplied by West Vir- ginia was the late Charles James Faulkner of Martinsburg. In his varied experience as lawyer, legislator, diplomat and soldier he was of a rank and character that puts his name easily among the first in the "Great Men of the Virginias." Hardly less distinctive, though wronght in the medium of a later and less turbulent age, is the eareer of his son and namesake, familiarly known in Martinsburg, his home, as Senator Faulkner.

Charles James Faulkner, Sr., was born at Martinsburg in 1806, son of Maj. James Faulkner and Sarah (Mackey) Faulkner. The grandfather was a native of County Ar- magh, Ireland, whither the family had settled on leaving England during the reign of William and Mary. Maj. James Faulkner was born April 2, 1776, and served as a major of artillery in the War of 1812, and was in command of the fortifications and American forces that defeated the British at Craney Island, near Norfolk, Virginia. He was a merchant by occupation, and spent his last years in Mar- tinsburg, where he died in 1817. Major Faulkner married in 1803 Sarah Maekey. Sarah Mackey, who died in 1808, was a daughter of Capt. William Maekey, who lived from 1738 to 1819, and his wife, Ruth Cromwell. Ruth Crom- well was the daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Murray) Cromwell. Elizabeth Murray, whose second husband was Samuel Chenowith, was the daughter of Josephus Murray

by his second wife, Ruth Hawkins. Josephus Murray vs the son of James Murray, of Baltimore County, Maryla :. , and his wife, Jemima Morgan, who married seeonsy Thomas Cromwell. Jemima Morgan was the daughter f Captain Morgan. Capt. William Mackey commanded a regiment in the Revolution at the battle of Brandywine, vs a member of the Order of Cincinnati, and his memberslp diploma is now in possession of his great-grandson, e oldest male deseendant.

Charles James Faulkner was only two years of age wło his mother died and about eleven at the death of his ther. With no relatives in this county, he was reared amog strangers. The village doctor gave him a home. At a early age he began the study of law under Chancelr Tucker at Winchester, and he was also a graduate of Geor. town University, near Washington. Ile was admitted o the bar in 1829, and almost from the first was accordi recognition in his profession and in polities. His first pil lie effort was in behalf of the Constitution of 1830, a] he led the campaign in his district for its adoption, whe Tom Marshall was bitterly opposed to it. In the eontt Marshall had the advantage of wit and eloquence, but » .. Faulkner by his industry secured for the constitution a large majority in Berkeley County. Two years after 's admission to the bar, in 1832, he took his place in the V- ginia House of Delegates. Ile was then a boy in age al appearance, but a man in mind. While in the Legislatie he introduced a measure for the gradual abolition of slavcy in Virginia, upon what was known the "post nati" prin- ple, declaring that all children born of slave parents af r July 1, 1840, should be free. The proposition was - feated and it was used against him the following yer when he was a candidate for the Legislature, but he ws re-elected by a unanimous vote. In 1833 he declined 2 election and was appointed a commissioner on behalf f Virginia to examine and report on the disputed questia of boundary line between Maryland and Virginia. He ws successful in settling this dispute and won a clear title ir Virginia. During the next fifteen years he applied hi- self steadily to his profession, and from his praetice : quired a fortune. However, there were some interruptics 1 even during this period of abstention from polities. 1841 he was elected state senator, but resigned the follc ing year. In 1843 he was an advocate of the annexatil of Texas and in 1846 a warm supporter of the Mexiel war. In 1848 he was elected to the House of Delegat., and during the following session hie introduced a series E resolutions which were passed by the Legislature and trait mitted to Congress, where the bill became the basis of te famous fugitive slave law passed by Congress in 1850. was a member of the Convention for the revision of te State Constitution in 1850, and worked hard for the interit of Western Virginia, gaining for that section the position 3 the Council of States to which it was entitled. The eo- promise of 1850 changed the political affiliations of mar men, and Mr. Faulkner drifted to the side of the Unii and in 1851, when he was a candidate for re-election, tis was an issue against him, but he won by a good majori. He was elected a member of Congress and in 1852 left te whig party, joining his political fortunes with the den- crats, by whom he was re-elected, and served four st- cessive terms, from December 1, 1851, until March 3, 18 :. During his first term he delivered a speech in Congress €- titled "The Compromise-The Presidency-Political P :- ties." This was a big effort in behalf of Franklin Pien for the presidency, and more than 125,000 copies of t; speech were printed and distributed. He also took t. stump and carried his distriet for Pierce. He was an :- tive opponent of the "know nothing" party and workl for the election of Buchanan in 1856. Buchanan on 1- coming president in 1857 offered Mr. Faulkner the positi! of Minister to France. But as he was in Congress and 3 Hon. John Y. Mason, a personal friend, was then Minist; to Franee, he declined in favor of Mr. Mason. On ti death of Mr. Mason in 1859 Mr. Faulkner was nominatl to fill his place and accepted. He was recalled in 1861 President Lineoln, and on his return he was arrested al confined as a disloyal citizen. He demanded of the Secr

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ory of War upon what charge he had been arrested and tained, and received the following message from Simon meron, secretary of war: "You are held as a distin- tished citizen of Virginia, as a hostage for James Mc raw, State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, who while search og for the dead body of a friend on the battlefield of ull Run was taken and thrown into prison by the people f your state now in rebellion against the authority of the overnment, and, so help me Ged, you shall never be re- vedl until James MeGraw and his party are set at lib- ty and are safe." He was confined in Washington one vonth, then transferred to Fort Lafayette, and while there a- offered his liberty if he would take the oath of alle- hanre to the United States. This he refused, saying that had been guilty of no offense and that he would submit i no conditions for his release. Soon after this he learned hat MeGraw of Pennsylvania had been set at liberty, and again wrote to the Secretary of War, whose answer as: "You are no longer in my custody. You have been ansferred to the Secretary of State as a political pris- aer." The charge against Mr. Faulkner now was that he 'id refused the oath of allegiance. Soon afterward he as removed to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor and finally ax "exchanged " for a Mr. Ely of New York, a congress. jan who had been captured while a spectator at the Battle f Bull Run.

Though then nearly sixty years of age, and exempt by ww from military service, as soon as he was released he utered the army as a member of the staff of Gen. Stone- all Jackson, ranking as senior adjutant general and lieu- inant colonel. General Jackson referred to him as being of reat service to him in the making of his reports. There re only twenty of these reports now in existence, and they rere all written by t'olonel Faulkner. During his ab- once in the war his old home was ordered to be burned by 'en. David Hunter, and an officer appeared to put the ommand into effeet, giving the ladies of the household one our in which to take their clothing and leave. During hat hour Mrs. Faulkner sent a telegram of appeal to President Lincoln and received an answer in time to save he property. Some years after the war Colonel Faulkner as debarred the rights of citizenship on account of having orne arms against the Government, but in 1872 his polit- ·al difficulties were removed. He was deeply interested n the affairs of the new State of West Virginia and exer- ised a powerful influence in favor of incorporating the wo rich counties of Jefferson and Berkeley in the new state. le was the leading counsel for West Virginia in this matter when the case was argued before the Supreme Court of the 'nited States in February, 1>71, and decided in favor of Vest Virginia. He was elected a member of the Constitu- ional Convention in 1872, and in 1874 was elected to C'on- ress for the term which expired March 3, 1877. He de- lined re-election in order to become a candidate for the "nited States Senate, but was defeated in the Legislature y a combination of republicans with some of the demo- rats. Later he was mentioned as candidate for governor. Iis last years were spent in retirement, and he died No- ember 1, 1884, at Boydville, West Virginia, and was uried with Masonie honors.

In 1833 Charles James Faulkner, Sr .. married Mary Wagner Boyd, daughter of Gen. Elisha Boyd and Ann Holmes) Boyd. Ann Holmes was the daughter of Joseph nd Rebecca (lIunter) Holmes. Joseph Holmes was a son f Hugh Holmes. Rebecca Hunter was the daughter of `aul Hunter, who was a son of William and Martha Hunter. William Hunter was a son of Andrew Hunter, of Cloghan Farm in County Londonderry, Ireland, and was born in 640 and died in 1733. He was a descendant of the Hunt- ·rs of Ayreshire, Scotland.

CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER, distinguished son of a dis- inguished father, Charles James Faulkner, Sr., was born it Martinsburg, September 21, 1847. When he was abont welve years of age he accompanied his father when the atter went abroad as Minister to France, and while in Eu- ·ope he attended schools in Paris and Switzerland until returning to America in 1561. Then, in his fifteenth year,

he entered as a student the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. When, during the desperate fighting in 1864 the little battalion of cadets was rushed into service and rendered such heroic assistance in the battle of New Mar. ket, there was no further talk of schooling, and from that time until the end of the war he was on duty first as an aide on the staff of Gen. John C. Breckenridge, and later on the staff of Gen. Henry A. Wise, and was with General Wise when Lee's army was surrendered at Appomattox. Following his return home after the war he studied under his father until October, 1866, and then entered the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in June, 1868, and being admitted to the bar the following September, when he was just twenty-one years of age. En tering practice in his native town, he quickly justified the brilliant promise of his university career and his family prestige. He devoted himself with scarcely any interrup- tions to the general practice of law for twelve years before answering a call of public duty.

In 1580 he was elected and served a term of six years as judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of West Vir- ginia, composed of the counties of Jefferson, Morgan and Berkeley. In 1557, before he was forty years of age, but with reputation thoroughly established as an able lawyer and judge, he was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Johnson N. Camden. Though formally he was elected by the Legislature, he was in a peculiar sense the choice of a great majority of the people, who had unlim- ited confidence in the integrity as well as the intellectual strength of Judge Faulkner. He entered the Senate at a time when party feeling ran high, and speedily made a reputation as one of the strong men on the democratic side. He served with distinction for six years, and in 1893 was honored by re election and was in the Senate uu- til the beginning of 1599. During his second term his party was in the majority in the senate, and he was made chairman of the committee on territories. During the twelve years he was a member of many of the most impor- tant committees, including judiciary, appropriations, Dis- triet of Columbia, Pacific railroads, territories, Indian dep- redations, claims and others. One of the great contests staged on the floor of the Senate and in which he took a leading part was the Blair Educational Bill, in which he organized and led the contest in the Senate against its passage, and was successful in securing its defeat. He was also the conspicuous figure in the filibuster used to defeat the iniquitous Force Bill. In that contest the late Senator Gorman of Maryland was floorleader of the demoerats, and Senator Faulkner one of his ablest lientenants, At the re- quest of his party associates Senator Faulkner kept the floor, speaking from 10:00 P. M. on one evening until 10:00 A. M. of the next day as a necessary means of meet- ing a move of the republicans which would have forced a vote on the main question which, had it succeeded at the time, would have carried the bill.

After his retirement from the Senate in 1599 Senator Faulkner devoted his time to the practice of law, to his large agricultural interests in the Eastern Panhandle and on a number of occasions to important public affairs and interests. He is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, a member of the American Society of International Law, the National Geographic Society, the Committee of One Hundred of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a trustee of the Alumni Endowment Fund of the University of Virginia. In the democratic party he was permanent chairman of the Democratie State Convention of 1955, both temporary and permanent chairman of the Convention of 1892, and was chairman of the Congressional Committee in 1494, 1896 and 1898.

While he was in the Senate he was appointed in 1598 a member of the British-American Joint High Commission for the adjustment of differences in respect to the Domin- ion of Canada. Senator Faulkner enjoyed the distinctive honor of being chosen grand master of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia Masons in 1879. lle was initiated into the society of The Ravens of the University of Virginia in 1909, and into the society of Phi Beta Kappa of Virginia,

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June 12, 1912. He is a member of the Metropolitan and Cosmos Clubs of Washington, the Delta Psi of the Univer- sity of Virginia, and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows.

In November, 1869, he married Sallie Winn, daughter of John and Ann Winn, of Charlottesville, Virginia. She died in March, 1891, the mother of five children. On January 3, 1894, Senator Faulkner married Virginia Fairfax Whit- ing, daughter of H. C. and Martha Whiting, of Hampton, Virginia. There is one child by the second marriage.

ROBERT ALLEN ARMSTRONG has achieved many of the genuine honors and attainments of scholarship, but with them has gone a devoted service in the cause of education, social and intellectual ideals, so that it is not difficult to understand the appreciation and admiration given him throughout the State of West Virginia.

Doetor Armstrong, who for many years has been head of the English Department of West Virginia University, was born at Frenehton, Upshur County, West Virginia, Sep- tember 23, 1860, son of Jared M. and Eliza (Bennett) Armstrong. His father was born in Highland County, Virginia, in 1814, son of John and Elizabeth (Wilson) Armstrong, who in 1840 moved over the mountains to Lewis County, now Upshur County, West Virginia. Jared Arm- strong died in June, 1899. His wife, Eliza, was the daugh- ter of David and Mary (Stuart) Bennett.

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