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Francke F. Fox enlisted in April, 1917, as soon as wai was declared, and entered the First Officers Training Schoo. at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Three months later he was commissioned a second lieutenant and in September was assigned to duty at Camp Sherman. May 10, 1918, he received sailing orders with the First Battalion of the Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, Eighty-third Division. and sailed June 6th, landing in London June 26th, and went to La Havre, July 1st. In the meantime he had been advanced to first lieutenant. About July 10th he entered the Officers Training School at Chattillon sur Seine, and or August 15th returned to Le Mons in command of Company C of the Three Hundred Twenty-ninth Infantry. He was on the move with this company, in intensive training and preparation, until December 22d, when he was transferred to and made rifle inspector of the Sixteenth United States Infantry, First Division, at Dernbach, Germany. He re- mained with the Army of Occupation there until June 24, 1919, when he went to Brest and landed at Hoboken July 5th. He received his honorable discharge at Camp Dix. July 9, 1919.

BENJAMIN GARRISON. The Garrison family of Mononga-) lia County, West Virginia, has belonged to this county for over three-quarters of a century, and from pioneer days to the present generation members of this family have been identified with its development and important history.

The American ancestor of the Morgantown Garrisons was Leonard Garrison, the great-great-grandfather, who came to the United States from Scotland, settled on the Mo- nongahela River in Greene County, Pennsylvania, married Elizabeth Gray, and one of their sons, David by name, was the first of the familly to come to Monongalia County, West Virginia.

David Garrison was born on his father's river homestead in Greene County, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1807, grew

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man'a estate there and then married. After that he moved to Perry County, Ohio, where he acquired land which he lived for a time and then returned to Greene unty, but subsequently went back to Ohio, where he is a farmer in Guernsey County until 1842. la that year settled in the Clay Distriet of Monongalia County, West rginia, where he resided until 1860, when he removed Tyler County, and his death occurred there February , 1878. He married Catherine Engle, who was a daugh- r of Peter Engle, a native of Germany. Peter Engle så a gunsmith by trade and had come to America prior the Revolutionary war, in which his skill and knowledge military equipments were utilized in the office of inspec- r-of-arms in the Patriot Army. David Garrison became e father of five aons aud three daughters, one son bearing e name of Alpheus.

Alpheus Garrison was born in Greene County, Pennsyl- nia, February 26, 1533, accompanied his parents in the rious family removals, and ultimately became one of the Prominent men of Monongalia County, a leader in its publie Yairs and a private citizen of unusual worth. In early anhood his fellow citizens elected him to local offices be- iuse of his stability of character, and he served as consta- de and deputy sheriff of Clay Distriet. In 1861 he was ppointed deputy United States marshal, and later was ppointed one of the first two revenue assessors of the ounty. In 1863 he helped to recruit Company C, Third West Virginia Cavalry, of which he was commissioned aptain; in 1864 he went to the front with Company E, leventeenth West Virginia Infantry, of which he was econd lieutenant and later promoted to the captainey.

When the convention met at Wheeling to take up the Question of organizing the State of West Virginia, in 1863, Ir. Garrison was a delegate to the Constitutional Conven- on and gave aid in establishing the new state, taking an etive part in the deliberations that resulted in withdrawal rom old Virginia. He was mustered out of the army in une, 1865, and in the fall of that year he purchased and rought into the county the first portable sawmill ever perated in Monongalia County. In February, 1866, he was appointed assessor of the Second District of the coun- y, and later was elected to this office. In 1868 he was Jected a member of the West Virginia Legislature, two ears later was elected sheriff of Monongalia County, and n 1890 became a member of the Upper House of the State Legislature. He conferred honor on every public office e held. This statesman and representative citizen died Jan- ary 21, 1917. On April 4, 1853, Alpheus Garrison married Charlotte Henderson, who was born on the old Henderson arm near Core, West Virginia, March 10, 1832, and still urvives. She is a daughter of David Henderson, who was orn in Monongalia County in 1806, a son of Jameg Hender- on, a native of England and a pioneer to this section. One of the aix children born to this marriage bears the ame of Marion Simon.

Marion Simon Garrison was born on the old Garrison omestead in Clay District, Monongalia County, June 4, 854, and for many years was prominent in public affairs n the county. He served in such political offices as as- essor deputy sheriff and sheriff, having been elected sheriff 1896 and served four years. Until 1897 Mr. Garrison ontinned to reside on his farm, but since then his home as been at Morgantown. He married Miss Martha Am. ons, daughter of Anthony Ammons, of Monongalia Coun- y, and they have four children: Harry A., who is a sur- eon in the United States Navy, is an overseas veteran of he World war, and was surgeon on the ship that con- eyed General Pershing and his staff in health and safety France; Olive, who is the wife of Prof. W. H. Kendrick, Iorgantown; David C., who is in the banking business at [organtown; and Benjamin, who is prominent in business ireles at Morgantown.

Benjamin Garrison was born on the old family home- tead in Monongalia County, West Virginia, December 20, 888, and was educated at Morgantown. He early de- eloped a leaning toward mechanics, and acquired auch kill in this field that he built one of the first aeroplanes onstrueted in this county. For many years he has been

identified with the automobile industry, has considerable capital invested, and became one of the incorporators of tha Central Automobile Corporation of Morgantown, of which he is a director and service manager, and stands deservedly high in business cireles.

Mr. Garrison married Miss Carry Hemsley, who was born in Virginia. Ile is a member of Morgantown Lodge No. 4, A. F. nnd A. SI .; Morgantown Commandery No. 14, Knights Templar; West Virginia Consistory, thirty second degree; and Osiris Temple, Mystic Shrine. He belongs also to the Odd Fellowa and to other social bodies and civie organiza- tiona

CHARLES ELLIOTT CORE. In the agricultural, business and publie history of Monongalia County members of the Core family have participated actively since the very beginning of history here. Charles Elliott Core is a well-to-do farmer and business man of Cass District, his home being ten miles west of Morgantown.

His farm here on Scott Run is his birthplace, where he was born February 5, ]>65, aon of Barton Core, grandson of Christopher Core and great grandson of the pioneer, Michael Core, who settled on Dolls Run and who was killed by the Indians, his estate being inherited by his oldest son. Christopher, familiarly called Stoffel, located on the farm now owned by Charles Elliott Core, and the deed to that place is over a hundred years old and is carefully kept by Charles E. Core. Christopher Core died in ex- treme old age. He married JIannah Snyder. All the old buildings on the homestead are now gone. Christopher Core was born May 20, 1770, and died May 20, 1561, while his wife, Hannah Snyder, was born Mareh 5, 1780, and died March 22, 1668. Their children were: John. who left a son, David Clark; Moses, whose sons were David, John, Christopher and Barton, and whose daughter was Drusilla; Michael; and Barton.

Barton Core was also born at the old homestead, Novem- ber 2, 1820, and apent his life there, buying the interests of the other heirs and extending hia investment until he owned about six hundred aeres at the head of Scotta Run. He was devoted to his farm and home, never sought a public office, was a republican, and a member of Zoar Baptist Church. The last ten or twelve years of his life he lived retired at Casaville, where he died at the age of eighty-four on September 29, 1905. Barton Core mar- ried Naney Fleming, who was born October 7, 152], and died in 1912, at the age of ninety-one. They were married December 23, 1841, and had lived together as man and wife nearly sixty-four years. Of their family of eleven children ten reached mature years and seven are still living. The family record in brief is as follows: Martha, wife of Oliver P. Wade, of Maryville, Missouri; Mary Willie, who married James S. Lough and died at the age of seventy- five; Hannah, widow of Corbin H. Alexander, of Topeka, Kansas; Mosea Levin, of Morgantown; Christopher Colum- bua, who died at the age of aixty-right; William Perry, of Buekhannon, West Virginia; Salina Jane, who died in childhood: Rebecca Arvella, who died in middle life, the wife of William A. Loar; Lydia Elmera, who became the wife of Calvin Cordray, of Monongalia County; Lewis Addison, who was for thirty years a Methodist missionary in India and is president of the Barielly Theological Sem- inary; and Charles Elliott Core, youngest of the family.

Charles Elliott Core spent his life on the old farm and owns about four hundred acres, including much of bis grandfather's original holdings. He took charge of this farm as a youth, and has been a anecessful atock and grain farmer. He and his aona recently organized the Core & Conway Coal Company for developing the Waynesburg vein of coal on their farm. The vein has been opened, but at this writing the company haa not begun the shipment of coal.

At the age of twenty-two Mr. Core married Laura Price. They were married September 15, 1887. Laura Virginia Price is a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Tennant) Price. Elizabeth Tennant was a daughter of Richard Bland and Rebecca (Tennant) Tennant. George Price was a BOD of William and Catherine (Brown) Price, while Catherine

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Brown was a daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Core) Price. This last named, Elizabeth Core, was the only child of Michael Core, a son of the Michael Core who was killed by the Indians, as previously noted.

Mr. and Mrs. Core have a family of seven children: Rebecca, wife of E. D. Conway, of Mannington, West Vir- ginia; Addison Leigh, who lives on part of his father's farm; Earl Fleming, a miner; Barton Dayton, who died at the age of twenty-three, while in the army service at the Pittsburgh arsenal; William McKinley, a miner; and Rose Belle and Jessie Louise, both teachers, and the former a junior and the latter a sophomore in West Virginia Uni- versity.

Mrs. Core was liberally educated, supplementing her public-school work in the Female Seminary at Morgantown. For seven years she taught school in the county, and her deep interest in education and other affairs has brought her interesting and perhaps unique honors in the state. It is said that she was the first woman to serve on the school examining board. She is now a member of the Board of Education of Cass District, and it is said that she was the first woman ever chosen to an elective office in the state.

MADISON STATHERS, Ph. D., head of the department of Romance Languages of West Virginia University, is a native West Virginian, and his pronounced inclination for linguistic studies early lead him to an intense devotion to the language and literature of modern Europe, and for over a decade he has been head of the department, including instruction in the French and Spanish tongues at West Vir- ginia University.

Doctor Stathers was born near Alma, Tyler County, West Virginia, August 29, 1877, son of George B. and Sophia (Furbee) Stathers. His grandfather, George Stathers, was born at Hull, England, June 8, 1817, and was a boy when he accompanied his parents, John and Mrs. (Jennings) Stathers, to America, the family settling at Centerville, Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the old National Pike. George Stathers grew up there, and after his mar- riage located at Scenery Hill in Washington County, where his wife, Mary Hill, was born. Subsequently they removed to Tyler County, West Virginia, where George Stathers died in 1895. George B. Stathers was born at Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1846, and four years later accom- panied his father and uncle to Alma, Tyler County, West Virgina, where for many years he engaged in the mercantile and lumber business and where he died December 7, 1916. He was a successful business man and also had a spiritual relationship with the Methodist Church and its Sunday school, with the Masonic Order and frequently was a candi- date for important local offices. He was a democrat in politics. George B. Stathers married Sophia Furbee, who was born at Alma, West Virginia, April 24, 1845, and who is still living at the old home there. Her parents were Bowers and Nancy (Bond) Furbee, the former a native of Delaware and the latter of Baltimore. The Furbees are a very old American family, having been transplanted from England during the seventeenth century. Caleb Fur- bee, great-grandfather of Doctor Stathers, was a captain in the Revolutionary forces from Delaware. Late in life he with his son, Bowers, and other children moved to what is now West Virginia and settled near Rivesville in Mo- nongalia County. George B. Stathers and wife had six children: Miss Mary Emma, at home; Madison; a son that died in infancy; Roy and Ray, twins, the former dying in infancy, while the latter lives at the old homestead at Alma; and George Lawrence, who died in infancy.

Madison Stathers was educated in the public schools of Tyler County, attended. West Virginia Wesleyan Col- lege at Buckhannon from 1896 to 1899, and took his A. B. degree from West Virginia University in 1901. After a brief period of employment in the general offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburgh he returned to West Virginia Wesleyan College as a teacher in the year 1902-03. He then went abroad for advanced studies leading to the Doctor's degree, and in 1905 received the Ph. D. degree from the University of Grenoble, France. His Doctor's

thesis was Chateaubriand et l'Amérique, published in boo form by Allier Freres at Grenoble. During the summer ( 1905 Doctor Stathers continued his studies in Spain, ar for the school year 1905-06-was an instructor in West Vi ginia Wesleyan College. In the fall of 1906 he joined tl faculty of West Virginia University as instructor in Ror ance Languages, was assistant professor from 1907 1910, and since 1910 has been professor and head of tl department.

His linguistic accomplishments include a fluent comman of English, French, Spanish and some German and Italia: and he also has a reading knowledge of the Latin an Portugese. He is author of two school and college tez books, "Lope de Vega, La Moza de Cantaro" publishe by Henry Holt & Company, and an edition of "Erckman Chatrian, Historie d'un conscrit de 1813" published h Ginn & Company of Boston in 1921.

Doctor Stathers was abroad on leave of absence from his duties at West Virginia University studying in Spai and France during 1910 and again in 1921. He is a lif member of the Modern Languages Association of Americ: a life member of the American Association of Teachers ( Spanish, a member of the American Association of Un versity Professors, is a Phi Beta Kappa and a member o the college fraternity Phi Kappa Psi; was a member fo a time (Socio transeunte) of the Atenco of Madrid, Spain a member of the West Virginia University Faculty Club and an honorary member of the English and French club of West Virginia University. He has been a member o the advisory Board American Field Service Fellowships fo French University since 1920.

August 6, 1907, Doctor Stathers married Nellie M. Dat phinee at Colchester, Connecticut. They have one sor George Dauphinee Stathers, born September 6, 1911. Docto and Mrs. Stathers are members of the First Presbyteria Church at Morgantown. Mrs. Stathers was born at Luner burg, Nova Scotia, Canada, daughter of J. Newton an Bessie (Begg) Dauphinee, natives of Nova Scotia, her fa ther of French and her mother of Scotch ancestry. He parents now live at Colchester, Connecticut. Mrs. Stather was educated in Lunenburg Academy, in the Classical Hig School of Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated A. F from Brown University of Providence in 1902.

ADAM GROW, a member of the firm of Jackson & Grow which conducts a well equipped general machine shop i the City of Morgantown, Monongalia County, was born a Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, October 17, 1887 a son of Lewton W. and Anna C. (Davis) Grow, both like wise natives of this state. Lewton W. Grow was born i Taylor County in 1858, a son of Adam Grow, who was a) old-time plasterer and under whose direction the son, Lew ton W., learned the same trade, of which he continued : representative, as a contract plasterer, for many years a Grafton, where he and his wife still maintain their hom and where he is now living virtually retired. Mrs. Grov was born iu the year 1863. Both are active members of th Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Adam Grow (II), the immediate subject of this review acquired his early education in the public schools of hi native city, and there in 1902 he entered upon an ap prenticeship to the machinist's trade. He became a skilled workman, and continued to be employed in the railroad shops at Grafton until the time of the strike of the work men in the shops in 1909. In that year he removed to Morgantown, where for the ensuing eight years he wa: employed as a machinist by the Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad Company.

In 1917 Mr. Grow formed a partnership with Curtis G Jackson, another skilled machinist, and under the firm name of Jackson & Grow they opened a small machine sho] at Morgantown. Excellent service and fair and honorable business policies caused the enterprise to expand fron year to year, and the firm now owns the large and modern brick machine shop building that is the stage of the sub stantial and prosperous industry which they have built up the establishment, on the west side of the river, being the

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Igest of the kind in Morgantown and controlling a rep- rentative supporting patronage.

In 1911 Mr. Grow was raised to the degree of Master lison in Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, Free and Ac- e›ted Masons, and in this lodge he has passed the various cicial chairs, the final honor of being chosen master of t lodge having come to him in December, 1920. He is siliated also with Morgantown Chapter No. 30, Royal ach Masons; Morgantown Commandery No. 18, Knights mplars; Morgantown Lodge of Perfection No. 6, Scottish Ite, and has received the thirty-second degree of this lat- · rite in West Virginia Sovereign Consistory No. 1, be- Fles being a member of Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine Wheeling. He and his wife hold membership in the ethodist Episcopal Church, South.

Mr. Grow chose as his wife Miss Lucy E. Frankhouser, o was born in the State of Maryland and who is a ughter of Ammi and Ellen Frankhouser. Mr. and Mrs. low have three children, whose names and respective dates birth are here recorded: Margaret Lucile, November , 1915; Adam III, November 29, 1917; and Clyde, Janu- iv 12, 1921.

NAHUM JAMES GIDDINGS, PH.D. is plant pathologist at e Experiment Station and professor of plant pathology West Virginia University. While a young man he has rned high rank among the scientists whose work is an valuable auxiliary to the entire domain of agriculture. e has been acting Dean, College of Agriculture, West Vir- nia University, 1921-22, and acting Director, West Virginia gricultural Experiment Station, September, 1921, to Feb- ary, 1922.

Doctor Giddings was born at Ira, Vermont, November :, 1883, son of Silas and Birdie E. (Green) Giddings. e comes of a sturdy line of New England ancestors, chiefly voted to the practice of agriculture. The Giddings name as transplanted to America from France. Originating in rance, on coming to America they settled in Connecticut, ter in Massachusetts and in Vermont, and one branchi ent into Ohio, from which was descended the distinguished ite-bellum statesman Joshua Giddings. The grandparents : Doctor Giddings were Carlton and Nancy (Powell) Gid- .ngs, both natives of Vermont. Silas Giddings was born : Ira, Vermont, October 31, 1838, was a Green Moun- in State farmer, a member of the Grange and the Con- regational Church. He died in 1914. His wife, Birdie . Green, was born at Rutland, Vermont, in 1851, and ied in 1898. Her father, Nahum J. Green was a native ¿ the same state, and this branch of the Green family ime to America prior to the Revolution. Nahum Green as an engineer, employed for some years in test drilling I the Vermont marble fields and also had some consider- ble experience in the coal districts of West Virginia.

Nahum J. Giddings when two years of age went with is parents from Ira to Castleton, Vermont, where he was ared and received his early education. IIe attended dis- ict and graded schools, graduated from the Vermont tate Normal School in 1902, and in the same year entered le University of Vermont, where he received his Bachelor f Science degree in 1906. Remaining at the university s assistant botanist, he continued his post graduate studies nd earned his Master of Science degree in 1909. In Feb- mary, 1909, Doctor Giddings came to Morgantown to ccept the post of bacteriologist at West Virginia Uni- ersity. He was appointed plant pathologist in 1912. He pent a year in residence at the University of Wisconsin uring 1916-17, and in 1918 that university awarded him e Doctor of Philosophy degree. Doctor Giddings has eld the chair of professor of plant pathology in the uni- ersity since 1919.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vice president of the American 'hytopathological Society, the Botanical Society of Amer- a, and is a Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He belongs o the First Methodist Episcopal Church and to the Inde- endent Order of Odd Fellows. June 15, 1907, Professor Fiddings married Amy H. Hathaway. She was born t Clintonville, New York, daughter of Thomas E, and

Mysie Hathaway, who now resido at Norfolk, Virginia. Doctor and Mrs. Giddings have one son, Sylvester Nabum, burn November 2, 1909.

ALVA L. HARTLEY has had an extensive business experi- ence for a man of his years, and since removing to Morgan- town lng been a member of the firm Marchand & Hartley. real estate and insurance, une of the lending firms of the kind in this section of the state.

Mr. Hartley's grandfather was a native of West Vir ginia, but he himself was born in Greene Comty, l'ennyl vania, on a farm, April 24, 1890. Ile is a son of Cornchu, S. and Emma L. (Lemley) Hartley. His grandfather. Elijah W. Hartley, and his grandmother. Lemley are still living. Elijah W. Hartley was born in Marion County, West Virginia, in the Indian Creek neighborhood, but from there removed to Greene County, Pennsylvania. The Hart leys are of Irish and English ancestry. Ehjah W. Hartley married Sarah Headley. Cornelius S. Hartley was born mu Greene County, Pennsylvania, was educated in the publi schools, in the Valparaiso, Indiana, Normal School, and the Waynesburg College of Pennsylvania. lle taught altogether about twelve terms of school in Pennsylvania, Ohiu and Indiana, and later was a farmer for several years and finally engaged in merchandising at Kirby, Pennsylvania, where he is still living. Ile served ay postmaster of Kirby for about thirteen years. Ile is a Methodist. His wife, Emma L. Lemley, was born in Greene County, daughter of Morris and Martha J. (Phillip) Lemley Cornelius Hartley and wife were the parents of three children: Alva L .; Omar G., who is pursuing his studies io higher nc counting at Philadelphia preparing for the profession of certified public accountant; and Martha, who died in 1905.

Alva L. Hartley grew up on n farm until he was ten years of age, and then lived at Newton or Kirby Post Office in Pennsylvania. Hle had a pubbe shoot education, took work in summer normal schools, and in the fall of 1909 entered the Ohio Normal University nt Ada, where he was graduated in 1911 with the degree B. C. S. For a year after leaving college Mr. Hartley was in life insurance work in Greene County, Pennsylvania, after which he he eame bookkeeper in the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Mount Morris, Pennsylvania and in 1915 wns eleeted assistant cashier of that institution. lle continued with this bank until February 1, 1920, when he resigned to come to Morgantown, and has since been associated with D. K. Marchand in the life and fire insurance business. in handling real estate and coal properties.

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