History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 59

Author:
Publication date:
Publisher:
Number of Pages:

USA > West Virginia > History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2 > Part 59

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

On August 5, 1920, at Morgantown, Mr. Davies was united in marriage with Miss Martha Elizabeth Snyder, a daughter of Allison W. Snyder, a well-known agricultorist carrying on operations on his valuable property located in the vicinity of Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia.

IRVIN HARDY, M. D., F. A. C. S. Among the prominent men of Morgantown, using the term in its broadest sense to indicate high professional skill, sterling character, public beneficence and upright citizenship, is Dr. Irvin HIardy, owner and surgeon in charge of the City Hospital and Train-

176

HISTORY OF WEST VIRGINIA

ing School for Nurses. Doctor Hardy is a native of Dunbar, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and was born July 4, 1873, a son of James and Elizabeth (Keffer) Hardy.

The branch of the Hardy family to which the doctor be- longs traces its genealogy to William Hardy, the great- grandfather of Doctor Hardy, who came with troops, either from Virginia or Maryland, into Pennsylvania to suppress the historic "Whiskey Rebellion," a local insurrection oc- curring in opposition to the excise law passed by Congress March 3, 1791. In addition to the general objections urged against the measure the inhabitants of Western Pennsyl- vania considered the tax an unfair discrimination against their region and raised an insurrection, causing President Washington to call out an army of 15,000 militia. This show of an unsuspected vigor and resource on the part of the Government forced the insurgents to disperse without bloodshed. At the close of this fiasco William Hardy settled at Dunbar, where he spent the remainder of a long, useful and honorable life, and reached the remarkable age of 103 or 104 years.

Isaac Hardy, son of William Hardy, was born, reared and always lived at Dunbar, Pennsylvania, and also attained advanced age, although not reaching that of his father. His son, James Hardy, father of the doctor, was born in 1842, at Dunbar, where was born also his wife, who was a daughter of Adam Keffer, another life-long resident of Dunbar. She died in 1917.

After attending the public schools of Dunbar Irvin Hardy entered Milton Academy at Baltimore, Maryland, and when he had completed his course in that institution enrolled as a student in the Maryland Medical College in the three-year course, graduating with the class of 1899 as a Doctor of Medicine, following which he entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in the same city under the four-year plan. He also spent one year in the study of general medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Even after he had commenced practice, Doctor Hardy continued his studies, and in 1909 was graduated with the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 1905 he estab- lished the Allegheny Heights Hospital at Davis, West Vir- ginia, and had charge thereof until 1911, in which year he disposed of that institution and located at Morgantown, where he established what is now the City Hospital and Training School for Nurses, of which he is the owner and surgeon in charge, and to which he gives the main part of his professional attention, although he also occupies the chair of surgery at the University of West Virginia.

Doctor Hardy is a member of the Monongalia County Medical Society, of which he was elected president Decem- ber 6, 1921, of the West Virginia Medical Society and the American Medical Association and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of Morgan- town Union Lodge No. 4, F. and A. M .; Morgantown Chapter No. 30, R. A. M .; Morgantown Commandery No. 18, K. T .; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, R. and S. M., at Wheeling, West Virginia; and a life member of Osiris Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., also at Wheeling. He likewise belongs to the Morgantown Masonic Club and is an active member of the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce.

On September 18, 1895, Doctor Hardy was united in mar- riage with Miss Nina M. Twyford, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Twyford, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and to this union there has been born one daughter, Edith L., who resides with her parents at Morgantown.

ENOCH M. EVERLY. There has always been a strong con- tention among intelligent men that an individual can have no better training for success in life than that which comes from work as an educator. Certain it is that many of the leading professional men of the country began their careers as teachers, and this applies to Enoch M. Everly, now one of the leaders of the Morgantown bar and senior member of the law firm of Everly & Bowman. Prior to his entrance into his present profession, he had attained stand- ing and reputation as an educator.

Mr. Everly was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1864, a son of Allen and Mariah (Brewer)

Everly. His grandfather, Nicholas Everly, was a pione of Greene County, where he settled soon after the close ( the War of the Revolution on land secured by grant fro the United States Government. He was a son of Ada Everly, a soldier of the War of the Revolution, who serve under Capt. George Strickler with the Maryland troop The maternal grandparents of Mr. Everly were Daniel ar Mary Brewer. The father died when Enoch M. was only few months old, while his mother passed away in 1915.

After completing the common school course in Green County, Enoch M. Everly found it necessary to assist in h own support, and accordingly adopted the vocation of ed cator and taught in the same school which he had attende as well as in other schools in his home locality. He w: graduated in the classical course at Waynesburg Colleg Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, in 1892, having in the meantiu spent several years in study, teaching and farm work duri the vacation periods. Leaving college, Mr. Everly continue to teach. He was principal of the Mount Morris (Pennsy vania) High School in 1895, organized and conducted se eral large and successful private normal schools for ti training of teachers, and during parts of the years 190 1904, 1905 and 1906 attended Waynesburg College, whe he completed the higher courses, and in 1896 received b degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In the fall of 1896 ] accepted the chair of mathematics in the McKeespo (Pennsylvania) High School, in 1897 was appointed prin pal of one of the ward schools of that city, and subs quently was made principal of Mckeesport's largest al most centrally located public school.

In the fall of 1899 Mr. Everly began reading law wi the Pittsburgh Law School class, and in 1902 resigned } position as teacher at Mckeesport and entered the la department of the University of West Virginia, where : was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws as member of the class of 1903. Admitted to the bar of th state in the same year, he at once began practice at Morga town, where he has continued to the present. His practi is limited to general law, specializing in corporation wor a field in which he has met with great success. Mr. Ever is a director in and counsel for several large corporation He is a member of the Monongalia County Bar Associatic and his religious connection is with the Baptist Church, which he is a member of the Board of Trustees. A democr in his political views, he has long been one of the stron and influential members of his party in this section, a: in 1912 was its candidate for circuit judge, but met defe although running ahead of his ticket. In 1916 he was t candidate for state senator, and although running in i district strongly republican, was defeated by only thir votes.

In 1898 Mr. Everly married Eva M. Keener, the daug ter of James and Mary (Shroyer) Keener. Mrs. Ever is an alumnus of the California (Pennsylvania) State N mal School and of Waynesbrug (Pennsylvania) College, a at the time of her marriage was a teacher in the McKe port (Pennsylvania) public schools. To Mr. and M Everly there has been born a daughter, Mary, a memb of the class of 1921 at Morgantown High School.

EDWARD GREGG DONLEY. The law is known as a ste mistress, demanding of her devotees constant and un: mitting attention and leading her followers through ma mazes and intricacies before they reach the goal of the desires. This incessant devotion frequently precludes t possibility of the successful lawyer indulging in activit outside of the straight path of his profession, especia if his vocational duties are of an extensive and importa character. Yet there are men who find the opportuni and inclination to devote to outside interests, and w by the very reason of their legal talents are peculiarly a. particularly equipped to perform capable and useful serv. therein. Edward Gregg Donley has been known for twen two years as a close devotee of the law. A master of perplexities and complexities, his activities have been rected incessantly to the demands of his calling. Yet has found the leisure to discharge in a highly efficient mt ner the duties dictated by a high ideal of citizenship, a.

Christian Stimmety.

177

HISTORY OF WEST VIRGINIA

> is, therefore, probably as well known at Morgantown ¿ a public-spirited factor in civic affairs as he is as a iorough, profound and learned legist.

Mr. Donley was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, arch 23, 1878, a son of the late David L. and Louisa Evans) Donley. This branch of the Donley family was unded in America by James Donley, who came over om Ireland in about the year 1785. While he was not a ldier of the American Revolution, he was with Washing- on's Army and was with the troops sent to quell the Whiskey Insurrection" in Western Pennsylvania. Like amerous othera of these soldiers, after receiving his honor- ole discharge from the service at Pittsburgh he went to recne County, Pennsylvania, where he established a per- anent home. His son, Joseph R. Donley, was a store- eper at Jimtown, Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1830, as own by the carly records of that county.

David L. Donley, the son of Joseph R. Donley, and fa- ter of Edward Gregg Donley, was born in Greene County, ennsylvania, in 1836, and died at Morgantown, West Vir- inia, in 1908. He was for many years a successful agri- ilturist, stock grower and banker in Greene County, and as very active in oil, bis farm having been situated in the 1 district in Pennsylvania which was the scene of the first ig oil strike in 1887. The mother of Edward G. Donley as born in Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1845, and ied in Oklahoma in 1911. She was a daughter of Alex- ader Evans, who owned a farm in Cass District, Mononga- a County, as early as 1845. His mother was a daughter E Capt. James Vance of the Continental Army in the evolutionary war, and fifty years after the close of that ruggle was granted a pension for his service as a com- issioned officer.

Edward Gregg Donley received his early education in the ublic schools of Pennsylvania and Kansas, following which e entered the University of West Virginia, from which was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in e class of 1899. In that year he was admitted to the Test Virginia bar and entered practice at Morgantown as nior member of the firm of Donley & Hatfield, which as- ciation continues. His advancement in his calling has een consistent, serving to place him among the leading embera of the Monongalia County bar. He has a large, munerative and representative professional business, and ell merits the high esteem in which he is held by his ientele and by his fellow-members at the bar.

In 1907 Mr. Donley was elected a member of the Morgan- wn City Council, serving in that capacity for three years, ad in 1910 was elected mayor, an office to which he was -elected in 1911. His public service was characterized by high conception of duty and a capable and conscientious ctivity in the discharge of his duties. He is a charter ember, president and attorney of the Athens Building ad Loan Association, one of the largest institutions of its ind in the city; president of the Blue Flame Fuel Com- any, a wholesale coal company, was formerly a director the Federal Savings & Trust Company, is a director the Rosedale Company, and the Commercial Bank of organtown, and is financially interested in other cor- orations at home and abroad. He belongs to the Phi appa Sigma college fraternity, of the Monongalia County ar Association and of the Morgantown Chamber of Com- erce, in all of which he has numerous friends. He is member of the Official Board of the Methodist Episcopal hurch.

Mr. Donley married Miss Eleanor Tucker, daughter of ulius Tucker, formerly of Greene County, Pennsylvania, d to this union there has been born one son, Robert ucker, who graduated from Morgantown High School, ass of 1920, and in 1921 is a sophomore at the University West Virginia. Mrs. Donley's grandmother. Eleanor ose, was a cousin to President William Mckinley, whose other was a member of the Rose family.

CHRISTIAN STEINMETZ, proprietor of the Steinmetz paper- ox manufactory in the City of Wheeling. was born in the wn of Oestrich, on the Rhine, Germany, December 27, 843, and is to-day one of the veteran business men and

honored and influential citizens of Wheeling, in which city hr established his home in 1568. Ile is n ann of Christian and Sophia (Steinmetz) Steinmetz, both of whom passed their entire lives in Germany, the father having died when the subject of this sketch was a child and the mother having passed the closing years of her life at Frankfort.on Main.

le whose name introduces this sketch was the only child of his parents and gained his early education in the pro chial schools of hia native town. At Frankfort.on-Main he learned the trades of book-binding and paper-box mak ing, to which he continued to devote his attention in his native land until 1866, when he came to the United States and settled at Indiana, Pennsylvania. Later he entered the employ of English & Osgood, book-binders ia the City of Pittsburgh, that state, where he remained until 1868, when he came to Wheeling and here engaged in the manufacturing of paper boxes for the Wheeling linge Company. From this modest inception he has labored earnestly and effectively in the developing and building of the substantial manufacturing enterprise of which he is now the owner. His former factory was at 1221 Main Street, and November 19, 1919, he removed to the modern factory plant which he erected and equipped for the pur- pose at the corner of Twenty-fifth and Woods streets, the building being four stories in height and 66 by 87 feet in dimensions. The mechanical facilities and all accessorica of the plant are of the most approved modern type, and the output includes not only paper boxes in endless va- rieties but also various types of wooden boxes, including cigar boxes. The products are sold throughout the trade territory normally tributary to Wheeling for a radius of 100 miles, and in the factory is retained a force on an average of from 75 to 100 employes, many of whom are skilled mechanics. Mr. Steinmetz continued as the active executive head of this prosperous industrial enterprise until January, 1920, when he turned the business over to the control of his three sons and one daughter. He is & di- rector of the Citizens-Peoples Trust Company, is a stork holder in the Wheeling Steel Corporation and various local enterprisea, and is one of the capitalists of the city that haa long represented his home and had the stage of his constructive activities here. His residence is at 2134 Chap- line Street. He is affiliated with the Knights of St. George of America, in which he is a director, and is an carnest communicant of St. Alphonsua Catholic Church.

In 1870 Mr. Steinmetz wedded Miss Amelia Walter, and she died at Wheeling at the age of twenty-eight years. Agnes, younger of the two children of this union, died at the age of one year; George F., the elder, is ane of the owners of the business founded and developed by his fa ther.

In 1877 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Steinmetz to Miss Bernadine Schafer, who was born in Germany, in 1855, and whose death occurred in 1914, she having been A young woman when she came from her native land to the United States and became a resident of Wheeling. Of the children of this second marriage the oldest is Sophia, who i- the wife of George P. Erb, of Wheeling. Clement A. and Lawrence C. are associated with their elder brother in the Steinmetz box-manufacturing business, which is a clourd company, all stock being owned by members of the family only.

Mr. Steinmetz was far advanced in his foresight of the possibilities that the Wheeling District held, and from time to time invested in many industries that have helped make Wheeling one of the prominent manufacturing cities of this county.

FRANKLIN MARION BRAND. Member of one of Mononga- lia's oldest and most honored families, Franklin Marion Brand has on the score of his individunl initiative and abilities gained a high place at the Morgantown bar and as a man of affairs in that community.

Brand is one of the older family names in Virginia. The first ancestor of whom there is definite information was John Brand, who married Jane MeCray. Their son, James Brand, was born October 5, 1768, and married Elizabeth Wade. One of their older song was Hosea Moore Brand,

178

HISTORY OF WEST VIRGINIA

who was born April 3, 1828, near Laurel Point in Mononga- lia County. He died June 27, 1904. On October 14, 1852, he married Emaretta Weaver, daughter of Jacob Weaver. One of their children was James Clark Brand, who was born in Cass District of Monongalia County, September 16, 1853. Like most of his family he followed farming and as a stock raiser was one of the first to introduce Hereford cattle into this section of the state. In 1877 he married Mary Alice Fleming. Her father, John T. Fleming, was sheriff of Monongalia County prior to the Civil war.

Franklin Marion Brand was the second in a family of eight children and was born on his father's farm in Cass District, March 13, 1880. When he was a boy his father moved to Grant District in 1885, and he grew up on the farm there. He made excellent use of his advantages in the Sugar Grove School, and in the fall of 1899, at the age of nineteen, he took the examination and was granted a No. 1 certificate, though he had had no experience as a teacher. He then taught in his home district, and in the spring of 1900 entered West Virginia University, where he was a student in the classical and law schools for seven years. He earned a large share of his expenses while in university, partly by canvassing during summer vacations and also teaching. He graduated A. B. with the class of 1906 and LL. B. in 1907. He won five different prizes in scholarship while in university, had the highest average in Greek and mathematics in 1902, and in 1906 represented the Parthenon Literary Society in joint debate with the Columbian Society. After graduating in law he accepted the position of principal of the Smithfield School in Pennsylvania, and on November 2, 1907, was admitted to the bar at Morgantown. He began practice April 1, 1908, and shortly afterward was chosen assistant prosecut- ing attorney, serving four years. During the fall of 1912 he taught criminal law in the West Virginia University. In 1913-14 he was employed in the legal department of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company in their New York City office. At this writing (1922) he is divorce commissioner of Monongalia County. With his increasing responsibilities as a lawyer he has responded to other calls upon his time and ability in the public welfare. In 1918 he was elected to the West Virginia Legislature, and dur- ing the regular session of 1919 was ranking member and acting chairman of the committee on public buildings and humane institutions, and was a member of the commit- tee on Virginia debt, counties, districts and municipal cor- porations, insurance and forfeited and unappropriated lands. Mr. Brand was chosen in 1920 as mayor of West- over, the west side of Morgantown, and filled that office until February 1, 1921.

He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M., Monongahela Lodge No. 10, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, also with the Encampment, and the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is a prominent member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, was commander of the local Chapter, and is now secretary of the association organized for the purpose of purchasing a Chapter House for the fraternity at the university.

November 12, 1910, Mr. Brand married Myrtle Otella Core, member of one of the prominent old families of Mo- nongalia County and daughter of Benjamin and Catherine Core. They have three children: James Core, born May 3, 1913; Mary Kathryn, born July 12, 1915; and Freda Louise, born July 4, 1919.

CYRUS HAYMOND MAXWELL, M. D. Distinguished as a physician, Dr. Cyrus Haymond Maxwell occupies a prom- inent place among the medical men of Morgantown, where for twenty years he has devoted his high attainments to the accomplishment of work that has brought him widespread recognition and numerous honors. His professional achieve- ments are based upon an intimate knowledge of the intri- cate subjects of human anatomy and scientific therapeutics.

Doctor Maxwell was born March 22, 1863, at St. George, Tucker County, Virginia, his birth occurring only a short time before what is now West Virginia, including Tucker

County, withdrew from the mother state of Virginia. I is the son of Rufus and Sarah Jane (Bonnifield) Maxwel and is in the direct descent from Thomas Maxwell, wl married Jane Lewis, of near Germantown, Pennsylvani After the death of her husband Jane Maxwell and her s children, accompanied hy her parents, came to Harris County, West Virginia, then Virginia. Levi Maxwell, sı of Thomas and Jane Maxwell, was born in Pennsylvan in 1788, and died in West Virginia in 1884. He marri Sarah Haymond. Their son, Rufus Maxwell, was born Weston, West Virginia, October 19, 1828, and died Tucker County in 1908. Educated for the law, he practice his profession until the breaking out of the war betwe the states, but after the close of that conflict devoted hiv. self to the pursuits of agriculture. He married Sarah Ja: Bonnifield, who was horn at St. George, West Virginia, t daughter of Dr. Arnold Bonnifield, one of the earliest ph sicians west of the Alleghany Mountains in West Virgini

Dr. Cyrus Haymond Maxwell attended school at Westo West Virginia, Valparaiso, Indiana, and Fayettevil Arkansas. He also attended the University of Colora: at Boulder, and was graduated with the degree of Doct of Medicine, class of 1898 from Gross Medical School, t medical department of Rocky Mountain University.

Prior to taking his medical degree he taught school West Virginia, Oregon, California and Arkansas. He pra ticed medicine for four years at Aurora, West Virgini prior to locating at Morgantown in 1902. From that ye until 1920 he served as chief of the medical departme of the Morgantown and Kingwood Railway, and since th road was taken over by the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, 1920, Doctor Maxwell has served as surgeon of the B. & system. He is physician on the staff of the Morgantov City Hospital, is an ex-president of the Monongalia Me ical Society, of which he has been for a number of yea secretary, a post which he occupies at this time, and b longs also to the West Virginia Medical Society, of whi he is one of the councilors. He keeps thoroughly informe concerning all that modern research, experiment and i vestigation are bringing to light bearing upon the practi of medicine and surgery. A well-trained and discernir mind enables him to grasp readily the vital and salie points presented, not only in medical literature but iu t discussion of the broad questions which involve the we' fare and progress of the individual and country at large.

In 1887 Doctor Maxwell married Miss Melvina Jal Adams, who was born at Limestone, Tucker County, We Virginia, the daughter of George W. Adams. Doctor ai Mrs. Maxwell have had the following children: Huy Thurman, born in 1889, who died aged 11/2 years; Rut born in 1891; Paul, born in 1894; Ralph, born in 189: Cyrus, Jr., born in 1899; and a child born in 1900, w died in infancy.

I. M. AUSTIN, D. O. A school of medical science th has gained many enthusiastic adherents in West Virgin in the last decade is osteopathy, a scientific system of het ing that has proved marvelously successful in the han of skillful practitioners. One of these is found in Dr. I. ] Austin, who enjoys a large and lucrative practice at Mc gantown, where he is respected and esteemed both profe sionally and personally.

Doctor Austin is a descendant of solid old families Monongalia County, and was born on his father's far in Clinton District, March 26, 1882. His parents we I. N. and Samantha A. (Chipps) Austin, both now d ceased. The Austin family was established in Monongal County by the great-grandfather of Doctor Austin in pi neer days. His son, Hugh Austin, was one of the repi sentative men of the county. He manufactured the fir brick in this county, and operated a brick yard on t present site of the West Virginia University. With $6 earned in the brick business, he purchased 600 acres land in Clinton District, Monongalia County, cleared it a) put it under cultivation and spent the rest of his life thel He was a fine, up-standing citizen in all that the ter implies. In his religious views he was a Methodist ar liberally supported the local Methodist Episcopal Chure

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 59

Author: Publication date: Publisher: Number of Pages:

Author:
Publication date:
Publisher:
Number of Pages: