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id was equally consistent in political life, his convictions ading him into the republican party on its organization. Then the war between the atates came on he saw four of s stalwart sons leave home to serve as soldiers in the Union rmy, and did not restrain them because he believed in e perpetuation of the Union. Two of these brave sons ver returned alive, but their saered ashes rest in the d cemetery at Halleek, brought there by their sorrowing ther from the trenehes at Gettysburg and the river at 'heeling. The eldest of the four, Harrison Austin, was seriously wounded during the first day of battle at ttysburg that he died on the day following. David ustin did not fall in battle, but was accidentally drowned hile bathing with his soldier comrades near Wheeling. enry Austin, the third son, was wounded at Gettysburg id afterward suffered capture and ineareeration in the ison pen at Andersonville, Georgia. When finally ex- anged he weighed less than ninety pounds, caused by al-nutrition. After the elose of the war he moved to bats, Pratt County, Kansas, where he still resides, a sub- antial farmer and at present assessor of Pratt County. he fourth son, John Austin, served all through the war, caping both wounds and capture. He then removed to idianola, Iowa, where his death oceurred in 1912.

I. N. Austin, son of Hugh and father of Doctor Austin, as born on the old Austin homestead April 11, 1849, and ent his entire life there as a farmer, dying February , 1921. Like his father he was a man of fine parts, ospitable and generous, substantial and reliable in every tuation in life, a faithful member of the Methodist Episeo- il Church, and a conscientious republican in politics. He arried Miss Samantha A. Chipps, who was born on the old hippa farm in Clinton Distriet, Monongalia County, No- ember 29, 1849, and survived her husband but a few enths, passing away April 23, 1921. She was a daughter : Frank and Elizabeth (Frum) Chippa, both of pioneer milies of the county. Five children were born to Mr. id Mrs. Austin : Gertrude Gwynn, who is deeeased; Hugh ., whe is a merebant at Morgantown; Harry N., who is farmer near Little Falls, West Virginia; I. M .; and lake, who tenderly cared for her parents in their deelining ars and still resides on the homestead.

Doetor Austin remained on the home farm until twenty ars old, in the meanwhile completing the publie-school urse, and then accepted a clerical position in the store : G. W. John & Company at Morgantown, where he con- nued for nine years following, retiring from the same in 100 in order to enter the American School of Osteopathy ; Kirksville, Missouri, for which he had done preparatory udying, for it is necessary for physicians of this school be well grounded in all the various fundamental sciences hieh go to make up a medical education. Doctor Austin mpleted the course at Kirksville and in June, 1913, re- ived his degree of Doctor of Osteopathy, and in the same ar entered into practice at Morgantown, where his pro- ssional ability has received generous recognition and where feels particularly at home, for his fellow citizens have own him almost all his life.

On October 13, 1910, Doetor Austin married Miss Gussie . Powell, who is a daughter of Dr. M. T. Powell, a prae- ing physician at Newburg, West Virginia, and surgeon r the Baltimore & Ohie Railway Company. Doetor and rs. Austin have two sons: George M., born August 26, 12; and Riebard W., born November 25, 1920. At the me time as Doetor Austin, Mrs. Austin entered the Amer- an School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, and continued a udent there for two years. They are members of the ethedist Episcopal Church.

In his political viewa Doctor Austin is a republican and telligently concerned in public affairs. He ia a member the Chamber of Commerce, and aside from his profes- on has business interesta in this city, being president of e Morgantown Laundry Company, of which he was one the organizers, and owns considerable city realty. He a member of the American Osteopathic Association and · Weat Virginia State Osteopathic Association, and fra- rnally is identified with the Odd Fellowa and the Knights Pythias.

WASHINGTON WATERS STONESTREET, M. D. If there in one thing more than another that native Americans admire in each other it is courage, both physical and moral, and this element stands out in considering the interesting career of one of Morgantown's most valued citizens, Dr. Wash- ington Waters Stonestreet, who has been established in medical practice in this city for thirteen years. Starting out alone and unaided in boyhood to make his own wny in unfamiliar surroundings, for years subordinating his natural inclinations to the call of necessity, but finnlly seizing opportunity, pressing onward and succeeding in his life's ambition, Doctor Stonestreet's career offers an example of perseverance, courage and determination that entries with it a message that surely should hearten and encourage many another.

Doctor Stonestreet is of pronounced American ancestry He was born at Roekville, the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, October 19, 1576, a son of the Inte Thomas Wilson and Anna Helena Dorothea (Treadwell) Stonestreet. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Thonin, Stonestreet, was clerk of the Montgomery County Courts for over fifty years. His father was a graduate of the University of Virginia and of West Point Military Acad emy, served in the war between the states with the rank of captain, and afterward engaged in the practice of law at Roekville. The mother of Doctor Stonestreet was born in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, and was a daughter of Oliver Wetmore and Helena ( Krama) Treadwell, both of whom were born at New Haven, Connecticut. The ma. teraal ancestors came to America from Holland.

During early boyhood Doetor Stonestreet attended school at Roekville, where his people were prominent socially. The aims and ambitions of fourteen-year-old boys are not al waya recognized by their parents, and this was the case when Washington W. Stonestreet quietly slipped away from home and shortly afterward found himself in the grent City of New York and entirely dependent upon his own efforts. Perhaps reality may have somewhat dampened bis ardor for independence right at first, but he lost no time in seeuring employment, areepting a position as clerk in a store, with a wage of $3 a week and board. That he proved efficient and reliable is evidenced by the fact that before he was seventeen years old he had become manager of the store.

In 1893 the youth returned home for a short visit, and then established himself as a merchant at Middlebrook. Maryland, where he continued until 1902. From early boy- bood he had cherished the ambition to become a physicinn and surgeon, and during his merchandising years had never relinquished it, diligently furthering his education by priv- ate study and managing to secure a course in Rockville Academy, receiving the degree of A. B. By the time he was able to enter medical college he had a capital of $2 000, representing his own earnings. He then entered the L'ai- versity of Maryland at Baltimore, from which he was grad uated with his degree of M. D. in the class of 1906, the end for which he had worked so hard for sixteen years.

Doctor Stonestreet immediately entered into medical practice, locating at first in the village of Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, removing in 1909 to Morgantown, West Virginia, where he has built up a large and luera tive practice and enjoys both professional and personal confidence and esteem.

On August 14, 1907, Doctor Stonestreet married Miss OIn Summit Trauty, who was born in the City of Baltimore and is a daughter of Henry G. and Emma ( Underwood Trauty, and a niece of Hon. Oscar Underwood, United States aenator from Alabama. Doctor and Mrs. Stone- street have one daughter, Ouida Emma, who was born May 18, 1910.

On April 18, 1918, Doctor Stonestreet was commissioned first lieutenant in the medical section, Officers Reserve Corpa, United States Army, and on May 3, 1918, entered upon his duties at Fort Oglethorpe, Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, taking special courses in sanitary work in prepara- tion for the same. Later he was appointed sanitary in- apector at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, where he had 1,000,000 prospective soldiers for the World war under

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supervision, and continued his work there until December 4, 1918, when, with thirty-eight other medical officers of that camp, he was honorably discharged and mustered out of the service. During the whole period of the World war he was active in patriotic endeavor and assisted in many other ways than professional. He is identified with local medical bodies and is a member of the American Medical Association, and on many questions relating to civic health his decisions have been invaluable. He is president of the National Modern Woodmen of America Progressive League, and of the Auxiliary Order of Royal Neighbors, and is examining physician for both, is foreman of the local lodge of the American Brotherhood of Yeomen and its examining physician, and also is president and examining physician of the order of Fraternal Aid Union. In the every-day life of a busy city physician there is comparatively little leisure for many of the lighter occupations and sports seemingly so necessary to bring contentment into the lives of many individuals, but Doctor Stonestreet believes in moderate social relaxation and has a wide circle of warm and appreciative friends.

HARRY S. SANDS. One of the best filled professions to- day is electrical engineering, due to the enormous develop- ment of applied electricity to nearly every phase of life and industry. Thirty years ago, however, the ranks of electrical engineers hardly sufficed to be considered a dis- tinct profession. Harry S. Sands, of Wheeling, proprietor of the Sands Electrical and Manufacturing Company, is one of the veterans of the profession and has been an elec- trical contractor and engineer at Wheeling nearly thirty years.

He was born at Fairmont, West Virginia, August 3, 1867, and his family has long been prominent in banking and the professional life of the state. His grandfather, Dr. William Sands, was a noted physician of his time, who spent his life at Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. He was born at Annapolis in 1804 and died at Baltimore in 1879. His son, Joseph E. Sands, was born on a farm near Annapolis in 1838, epent his early life there and in Balti- more, and as a young man moved to Fairmont, West Vir- ginia. He had extensive farming interests in that locality, and was also a banker, president for many years of the First National Bank of Fairmont. He died in Fairmont in 1913. He was independent in politics, and one of the foremost laymen of the Episcopal Church at Fairmont, serving as vestryman throughout the period of his residence there. He was also a member of the Masonic Order. Jos- eph E. Sands married Virginia Eyster at Fairmont, where she was born in 1838. She still lives on the old home- stead farm near Fairmont. Her father, Dr. George Eyster, devoted the greater part of his life to the practice of med- icine at Fairmont. The children of Joseph E. Sands and wife were: Lawrence E., who is president of the First National Bank of Pittsburgh; Sprigg, who was president of the Traders National Bank of Clarksburg, where he died at the age of forty years; Mrs. Lula Vandervort, who died in 1901, at Fairmont, where her husband, also de- ceased, was assistant cashier of the First National Bank; Harry S .; Oliver J., president of the American National Bank of Richmond, Virginia; Dr. William H., who under the strain of his excessive professional duties during the influenza epidemic lost control of his automobile and in the resulting accident was killed at Fairmont; Emily, wife of W. T. Hartman, a retired wholesale grocer at Fairmont; Anna, wife of H. W. Showalter, a prominent coal operator in the Morgantown District and a resident of Fairmont.

Harry S. Sands attended the public schools of Fairmont, also the State Normal School there, and received his pro- fessional and technical training in Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. He was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa Greek letter fraternity. After his university career he returned to Fairmont and for several years was en- gaged in installing mining machinery throughout that sec- tion. In 1894 he removed to Wheeling, where he established himself in business as an electrical contracting engineer under the name Sands Electrical & Manufacturing Com- pany. This is not only one of the oldest but one of the

most extensive firms of its kind in the state, and do a business throughout the Upper Ohio Valley.

Mr. Sands is also president of the Carle Electrical Co. struction Company of Akron, Ohio, is vice president the Engineering & Equipment Company of Wheeling, ar is vice president and treasurer of the Penn Mold & Man facturing Company, a company manufacturing ingot mold in their factory at Dover, Ohio. He is a member of tl executive committee of the Security Trust Company ( Wheeling. Mr. Sands owns a town home at 209 Soul Front Street and a suburban residence in Brooke Count West Virginia. Another property, constituting somethir of a diversion from his profession, is a large stock far. in Ohio County, the specialty of which is the breedir of Holstein cattle. Mr. Sands is an independent in politi and has served as a member of the Wheeling City Coune. He is a vestryman of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, is member of the Masonic fraternity, the Country Club ar the University Club of Wheeling. In 1892, at Baltimor he married Miss Helen Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mr Richard Turner.

HARRY FENTON SMITH, who came to Martinsburg & manager of the Western Union telegraph office and ha remained in the city and become extensively interested i horticulture and other business affairs, is a member of very old American family and has an interesting lineag

He was born in Frederick County, Maryland. His fathe David Miller Smith, was born near Sharpsburg, Washing ton County, Maryland, August 26, 1833. The grandfathe was Capt. David Smith, who was born near Sharpsburg January 5, 1796. The great-grandfather was George Smith born December 21, 1767, near Sharpsburg, and his fathe was George Smith, Sr., born in the same neighborhood abor 1744. The father of George Smith, Sr., was founder o this branch of the family in America and was named Josep Smith. He was a native of England, and came to Americ with his brother James. They settled in Washingto County, Maryland. In 1749 Joseph Smith patented tract of land known as Elwicks dwellings and Smith's purchas the two embracing 325 acres. His son George Smith bough property in Sharpsburg in 1765, lived there, and his wi was probated at Hagerstown in 1792. George Smith, Jr inherited part of his father's estate. On September 4, 178" he married Julia Ann von Miller, the name being originall spelled Muller. She was born near Sharpsburg March 1: 1771, daughter of David and Catherine (Fleck) von Mille and sister of Col. John Miller, an officer in the Unite States Army in the War of 1812, and also in the Marylan State Militia. George Smith, Jr., died March 3, 1834, an his wife, on June 3, 1852. Their six children were Josep] Catherine, Rebecca, David, Sarah, Elizabeth.

Capt. David Smith, grandfather of Harry Fenton, owne and operated a farm close to Antietam Station, near th famous battle field of Antietam. He entered the Stal Militia in his youth, was in the War of 1812 and was con missioned a captain. Late in life he removed to Sharp! burg, and died there August 7, 1869. On September : 1820, he married Ann Maria Rohr, who was born in Frec erick County, Maryland, August 3, 1797, daughter of Jaco Rohr, Jr., and granddaughter of Jacob Rohr, Sr., who cam to America in 1731 and settled in Frederick County, Mary land.

Jacob Rohr, Jr., was postmaster of Fredericksburg fc several years, and lived there until his death. Capt. Davi Smith and wife reared four children, named Frisby R born November 26, 1824, and who became a physician Joseph Chester, born June 8, 1828; David Miller, hor August 26, 1833; and Grafton Finley, who became druggist.

David Miller Smith was educated at Sharpsburg and th academy at Frederick, was admitted to the bar when young man and practiced law, and also became one of th owners and editors of the Frederick Examiner and late established the Frederick Times. He was a stanch Unio man and republican, and tried to enlist at the first call fo troops to cut down the rebellion, but on account of a dit abled arm was not accepted. He died July 1, 1895, and wa

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ried in Mountain View Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Maryland. October 25, 1865, he married Mary Ellen Piper. She g born at Piper's farm, upon which the battle of Antie. n was fought, on November 7, 1842, daughter of llenry I Elizabeth (Keedy) Piper, both of whom were born near arpsburg. Ileury Piper was a son of Daniel and Martha rown) Piper, and Daniel was born in Washington County, ryland, son of Johann Pfeiffer, a native of Holland, v came to America with his brother Jacob in 1763. bann Pfeiffer was a private during the Revolutionary r in Capt. William Heyser's company of a German bat- ion commanded by Col. N. Houssegger, with which he ered the service December 6, 1776. Mrs. David Miller ith is still living, at the old home at Sharpsburg. She red three sons: Malcolm Vietor, Harry Fenton and uis Roman.

Harry Fenton Smith attended public school in Sharps g. and at the age of fourteen became a messenger with Western Union Telegraph Company. Ile soon learned graphy, was an operator at Hagerstown and in ]>90 ne to Martinsburg as manager of the local office of that npany. He remained in this service for over twenty irs, resigning in 1912, and since then has given his time farming and horticulture. Hle has two farms in ledges- e District and one in Fallen Waters District, and on one m he has seventeen acres of orehard and fourteen arres another.

a 1899 he married Hannah Orriek Wever, who was born Martinsburg. Her father, Charles J. Wever, was born a farm nearby in 1937. Her grandfather, Casper Wever, s born in Berkeley County, December 14, 1791. Her at-grandfather, Jacob Wever, was born in Lancaster inty, Pennsylvania, son of Sergeant Casper Wever, who ne from the vicinity of Hamburg, Germany, to America Colonial times and married Catherine LeFevre, a French guenot. Jacob Wever was a pioneer settler in Berkeley inty, purchasing a large amount of land, which he later rated with slaves. His residence was known as Maple me and was located on Warm Springs Road.

lacob Wever married Hannah Cromwell Orrick, daughter Charles and Catherine (Davenport ) Orriek and grand ighter of Capt. Nicholas and llannab ( Cromwell) Orrick. holas Orrick was a son of John and Susannah (Ham- nd) Orrick and a grandson of James and Mary Our- ch, who came to America in 1665 and patented land in n Arundel County, Maryland. Susannah Hammond was daughter of Col. Thomas and Rebecca (Larkin) Ham- nd and granddaughter of Maj .- Gen. John and Mary oward) Hammond. Charles JJ. Wever, father of Mrs. ith, entered the Confederate army at the beginning of war in Company B, of the First Virginia Cavalry, and 3 in service until captured by the enemy and spent the : months of the war in a prison in New Jersey. While the service he was accidently wounded. After the war farmed the old homestead in Berkeley County until his th on March 14, 1878. He married Frances Arabella idgrass, who was born in Berkeley County, daughter of . Robert Verdin and Sarah Ann Snodgrass, a grand- ghter of Robert aud Susannah (Rawlings) Snodgrass a lineal descendant of William and Catherine ( Patter- ) Snodgrass, natives of Scotland and founders of the dgrass family in America. Susannah Rawlings was a ghter of Stephen and Elizabeth ( Tyler) Rawlings. zabeth Tyler being of the same family as President a Tyler.

'wo children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the first hg Ellen Orrick, who died in infaney. Their daughter jonah Cromwell is now a student in high school. Mr. and 3. Smith are members of the Trinity Episcopal Church. is affiliated with Eureka Lodge No. 105, A. F. and M., Martinsburg Lodge of Perfection No. 7, of the Seot- . Rite, and Mrs. Smith is a member of the Shenandoah ley Chapter of the Daughters of the American olution.

VILLIAM MACDONALD. One of the distinguished members the legal profession praetieing at the bar of Mineral nty is William MaeDonald, of Keyser, who fully lives up

to the highest ideals of his calling in both professional and private life. He is ono of those who early found the work for which he was best fitted, and his practice before the state and federal courts of West Virginia and her neighbor ing sister commonwealths has been effective in establishing his ability to litigate in all cases with marked success.

William MarDonald was not born in the United States, but under a flag representing freedom and democracy, as he came into the world at Stellarten, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 19, 1×65. His father had emigrated to Nova Scotia at the commencement of his career from Dumbartonshire, Scotland, and there was actively engaged as an official m extensive coal mining operations. He was Norman Mie- Donald, and was born at Netherton, Scotland, June 15, J'36. He was reared amid the environment of farm life, and was but sparingly educated yet sufficiently for his needs through life. When fint a youth he entered the mines located near his birthplace, and in them acquired the ex perienee which made him an expert miner and equipped hun for superintending mines in which work he was engaged in both Canada and the United States.

It was after locating at Stellarton that Norman Mar- Donald made the acquaintance of Elizabeth Wilson, who became his wife. She was also of Scotch birth, and died at Harrisburg, Illinois, when their son Willam MacDonald was nine years old, in 1-74. Mr. MacDonald took an im portant part in the operations in the Illinois coal field until Derember, 1$74, moving then to Maryland and estat lishing his home at Lonaconing, where he continued his connection with mining until 1542, when he crossed the Potomae River into West Virginia and settling permanently in Mineral County. There he was engaged in superintend ing mining operations until his retirement. His death or- eurred at Keyser, May 19, 1908. Four children were born to him and his wife, namely: William, whose name heads this review: Mrs. Isabella Grimes, who reside in Mineral County; James Wilson, who died a few years ago; and one who died young.

William MacDonald has lived in West Virginia since August, 1$$2. He did not profit much from his attendance at the public schools, because he went with his father into the mines before he reached his eleventh year, and workel in and about enal diggings until in September, 1-93, when he began to carry out a long-cherished ambition to prepare himself for the profession of the law, and during that month entered the University of West Virginia. lle had read borrowed text books on law for a year and a half before he entered the university, and had accomplished consider. alle without a coach or guide to aid him in mastering any of the many intricacies of the science. However, such was his perseverance and natural ability, and as he was well- read and grounded in the rudiments of the law when he rommeneed his course, he was able to carry on h's work creditably in the classroom, finishing the prescribed course of two years in one year and graduating in June, 1994, tenth in a class of twenty three, among whom were Clark W. May, later attorney general of West Virginia, JJudge J. C. Me Whorter, Judge Warren B. Kittle, of Philippi, West Virginia, and others who have since become attorneys of note in the several communities in which they located.

Mr. MaeDonald was admitted to practice at Keyser. September 4, 1$94, and on October sth, following, he estab lished himself in this eity and hegan the practice of a pro fession which has brought him conspicuously before the publie in several states as an able advocate at the bar. Il 4 first law suit was tried on the present site of his law office. in a justice court, and he began his practice in the office of the late William C. Clayton, one of the most distinguished lawyers of West Virginia. He has always practiced alone, and for a score of years has taken part as counsel on one side or the other of the more important, first class litigation in Mineral County. In addition to a large locnl practice Mr. MaeDonald has had cases in the state courts of Mary- land and Virginia, the Federal Court at Baltimore, Mary land, and the State and Federal courts of West Virginia.

In polities Mr. MaeDonald is well known as a democrat and commeneed his record as a vofer in 1883, when he supported Grover Cleveland for the presidency of the Unite 1

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