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sion, then stationed at Camp Lee, Virginia. When this division was ordered oversens the Doctor was transferred to the One Ilundred and Third Field Artillery, with whleh he was in active service in France one year, within whleh he was promoted to the rank of captain. Soon after the signing of the armistice further distinction came to him In his promotion to the office of major in the Deatal Corps. Upon his return to the United States he was ordered to Fort Sheridan, whenee he was transferred to the Maxsillo Facial Department at Jefferson Barracks, where he re- mained until he received his honorable discharge, he having been mustered out July 1, 1920. Ile returned to Elkins, West Virginia, hut shortly afterward removed to Morgan- town, where he has a well equipped office and is engaged actively in the work of hia profession. The Doctor is a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Kiwanis Club of Morgantown.

Doctor Barnard married Miss Winnifred Martha Gross, daughter of Cecil Gross, a representative lumberman at Elkins, this state, and they have a winsome little daughter, Naney Gray.

AUGUST JOSEPH SCHMIDIGER, D. D. S. An accomplished and skillful young dental surgeon nt Morgantown, Doctor Schmidiger grew up in this city, was liberally educated, and after completing his preparation for his profession in the East returned here to practice.

He was born at Fostoria, Ohio, August 7, 1893, son of Frank and Alice (Schorno) Schmidiger. llis parents were natives of Switzerland, but were married in this country. The mother was born in 1873 and died in 1915. Frank Schmidiger was born in 1862, learned the trade of glass maker in Switzerland, and on coming to the United States in 1888 was employed for a time in a glass plant at Cum- berland, Maryland, and Inter went to Ohio. He was one of the organizers of the Seneca Glaas Company at Fostoria. Due to the exhaustion of the natural gas supply the com- pany in 1900 moved its plant to Morgantown, West Vir- ginia, where the Seneca Glass Company is one of the large and conspicuous industries at this time. Frank Schmidiger has been in the business continually, and now has charge of the company 's plant at Starr City, a suburb of Morgan- town.

August Joseph Schmidiger was seven years of age when the family came to Morgantown. He attended the city schools and in 1907 entered Rock Hill College at Ellicott City, Maryland, where he took the academic and regular college work, graduating A. B. in 1914. The following year he entered Baltimore Dentnl College at Baltimore, and received his degree in 1918. About the time he finished his college course Doctor Schmidiger volunteered for service in the Dental Corps, but he was not called to the colors prior to the signing of the armistice. In 1919, having returned to Morgantown, he opened an office for practice, and ranks as one of the most skillful men in his profession. He is a member of Morgantown Chamber of Commerce, of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church and the Pai Omegn dental fraternity.

JAMES HUSTEAD BROWNFIELD, M. D., was a man whose professional and civic stewardship was of the finest type, and at the time of his death he was the dean of his profes- sion in the City of Fairmont, Marion County, where his name and memory are held in lasting honor. He was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1836, and his death occurred January 19, 1921.

Thomas Brownfield, a representative of one of the pio- neer families of Western Pennsylvania, crossed the Alle- ghany Mountains and settled in Fayette County. One of his song, Rev. William Brownfield, became a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman and was a contemporary of Rev. Alexander Campbell in effective Christian service in the State of Pennsylvania, Mr. Campbell having been founder of the Disciples or Christian Church. Another son, James, married Hannah Bowell, and among the children of this union was Judge John Brownfield, who was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and who there became a successful merchant, besides which he served ten years, 1851-61, as

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associate judge of that county. Judge Brownfield married Belinda, daughter of John Hustead, and she died July 2, 1882, at the age of seventy-two years. They were the par- ents of the subject of this memoir, Dr. James H. Brown- field. In his native state the Doctor received the advantages of old Lewisburg College, now Bucknell University, and thereafter be read medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. H. B. Mathiot at Smithfield, Fayette County. Thereafter he took one course of lectures in historie old Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 1860 he established his residence at Fairmont, West Virginia. Here he was retained as a contract physician for a time, and when the Civil war began he tendered his services to the Union. He became assistant surgeon of the Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and served in this capacity until the close of the war. He then returned to Fairmont, and for many years thereafter he held inviolable place as the leading physician and surgeon in Marion County. The Doctor was one of the organizers of the West Virginia State Medical Society in 1867, and was a member also of the American and the International Medical associations, the National Association of Railroad Surgeons and the American Public Health Association. He received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, was a mem- ber of the Mystic Shrine, and was a republican in politics. From 1867 to 1884 he served as pension examiner of his district, and in 1894 he was elected a representative in the State Legislature. In all the relations of life he was loyal, earnest and helpful, and he was held in affectionate esteem in the community which was long the stage of his labors.

October 18, 1866, recorded the marriage of Doctor Brown- field and Miss Ann Elizabeth Fleming, daughter of Matthew Fleming, and her death occurred in 1903. Of the chil- dren the eldest is John M., a banker at Fairmont; Clark B. died in January, 1909, leaving one son, James H. (II) ; Dr. George H. is the subject of a personal sketch following; and Arch F. is engaged in the jewelry business at Fairmont.

GEORGE HUSTEAD BROWNFIELD, M. D., a representative physician and citizen of Fairmont, Marion County, main- tains his residence and office at the old homestead where he was born, on Main Street, his birth having occurred March 31, 1871. His father, the late Dr. James Hustead Brownfield, was long one of the leading physicians and sur- geons at Fairmont.

Doctor Brownfield gained his early education in the public schools of his native city, and thereafter was for four years a student in the University of West Virginia, where he passed two years in the literary department and two in the medical department. In 1898 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, and in the same year became surgeon for the Murray Mines, three in number, in Marion County. He continued his professional service in this connection nine years, and in the meanwhile, in 1903, again became a resident of Fairmont, where he was associated in practice with his father until the latter's death and where he has since continued his substantial and repre- sentative general practice, his service as surgeon with the mining company having continued until 1907. He is now retained as physician and surgeon to two of the largest mines of the Consolidated Coal Company. He is a member of the Marion County and State Medical societies, the Southern Medical Association and the American Medical Association. His Masonic affiliations are with the Fair- mont Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of the York Rite, and he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. He holds membership in the Fairmont Lodge of Elks and the Fairmont Country Club. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. The Doctor married Ida L., a daughter of Allison Bartlett, of Harrison County. They have no children.

DONALD KIRK MARCHAND, vice president of the Morgan- town Real Estate Board, took up railroad work after he completed his education, but a few years later resigned and

entered real estate and insurance, a field in which bi abilities have brought him pronounced success.

Mr. Marchand, who is one of the most progressive citizen of Morgantown, was born at Manor in Westmorelal County, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1885, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Branthoover) Marchand. His father was French and his mother of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestr Samuel R. Marchand moved with his family to Connellsvill Pennsylvania, in 1891. His active career was spent in tlf drug business, and he was a druggist at Connellsville unt his death in 1899. His wife was born in 1867 and died 1919. They had two children, both now living at Morga town, Miss Garnett and Donald K.

Donald K. Marchand grew up at Connellsville, Pennsy vania, and after graduating from the high school there 1903 entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railro Company as an assistant ticket agent. In 1906 he was pr moted to ticket agent for that line at Morgantown, and co tinued his duties until 1909, when he entered the insuran and real estate business. He built up a large volume business in both lines and continued alone until February 1920, when he was joined by Alva L. Hartley, making t firm Marchand & Hartley. This firm writes fire, life al every other class of insurance, handles city and suburb: real estate and coal lands, and they have excellent faciliti for thorough service in all these departments.

Mr. Marchand takes a deep interest in all the civic affai of his community. He is a member of the Chamber Commerce and the Kiwanis Club in addition to his offici relation with the Real Estate Board. Fraternally he affiliated with Athens Lodge No. 36, Knights of Pythia and Morgantown Lodge No. 411, Benevolent and Protecti Order of Elks. He is a member of the Presbyterian Churet Mr. Marchand married Edna Wall, daughter of J. L. Wa of Morgantown. At her death she was survived hy t daughters, Rosalee and Dorothy.

EVERETT RAY TAYLOR, M. D., made a definite choice of medical career as a young man, and pursned his studi preparatory to that great profession with practically interruption until he was qualified by graduation and expe ence for his duties as a physician and surgeon. Since 19 he has been engaged in a successful practice at Morga town.

He was born at Dunkard in Greene County, Pennsylvan April 17, 1883, son of William R. and Mary Elizabe (Shelby) Taylor. The first of this branch of the Tay !! family when they came over from England settled in Per sylvania, later went to Virginia, and the grandfather Doctor Taylor, John Evans Taylor, was born in Old Vi ginia and founded the family home in Greene County, Per sylvania, at the place known as Dunkard, but common called Taylortown in his honor. In Greene County he mi ried Sarah Stoker. Doctor Taylor's father is William Taylor, who was born in Greene County and whose active terests in that county were as a farmer. In 1898 he remov to Morgantown, and since then has been in the groce business.

His wife, Mary Elizabeth Shelby, was born in Gree County, daughter of Aaron Shelby. This family was esta lished in Greene County by Aaron Shelby, who moved thi from Kentucky. He married Harriet Smith, a native Greene County. The parents of Doctor Taylor are act members of the First Baptist Church of Morgantown.

Everett Ray Taylor graduated from the public schools Greene County in 1897, and after the family moved to M gantown spent a year in the City High School and one ye in the preparatory department of West Virginia Universi He did two years of his medical work in West Virgi University, and then entered the College of Physicians a Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was graduated M. D. 1907. Doctor Taylor practiced for about a year at Ben Randolph County, West Virginia, but since September 1908, has had a busy professional career at Morgantov He is a member of the Monongalia County and the Am ican Medical associations. Fraternally he is a member the Knights of Pythias, Elks and the Phi Chi college frat nity and the Kiwanis Club. He married Miss He

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Bowie, of Murgantown, daughter of Walter and Mary Elizabeth (Hunt) Bowie, who were natives uf Fayette 'ounty, Pennsylvania, and are now living at Morgantown. Doctor and Mrs. Taylor have two daughters: Mary Eliza- eth, bora January 4, 1906; and Dorothea, born Miny 17, ,908.

DAVID EDWARD ADAMS is an expert sanitary engineer, out in recent years a broad range of business responsibili- ies have engaged his service as an able executive. lle is general manager of B. M. Chaplin & Company, general eon- raetors, and is connected with several other corporations.

Mr. Adams, whose home has been at Morgantown and she grew up at Parkersburg, was born at Newark, Ohio, December 9, 1591, son of Charles E. and Josephine W. Allen) Adams, llis grandfather, John Adams, was of a Quaker family. Charles E. Adams was born at Barnesville, ›hie, and has been connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway for over forty years. Since 1903 he has been rain dispateher at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Josephine .V. Allen was born at Newark, Ohio, daughter of Judge David Allen of the Federal Court.

David E. Adams was reared in Newark until he was bout nine years of age, then lived for two years with a amily at Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1903 accompanied hem to Parkersburg. He had a publie school education, pending three years in the Parkersburg High School, and a 1909 graduated from the Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineering degrees from Ohio State University with the lass of 1915. Mr. Adams paid his own way through uni- ersity, and while at the Ohio State did research work in ewerage and sewage disposal for two years in the employ of the City of Columbus. He continued that work for one ear after graduating. For two years he was sanitary ugineer for the Ohio State Board of Health.

Mr. Adams located at Morgantown in 1917. He entered he service of B. M. Chaplin & Company as secretary and hief engineer, but since then has taken the larger respon- ibilities of general manager and secretary. lle has been ince its organization a stockholder in the Chaplin Colliers Company, was also its purchasing agent ene year and since hen a director. He was one of the organizers and has inee been president and treasurer of the Riverside Lumber Company and is general manager of the Maxwell Coal Com- any, an operating corporation. His financial interests xtend to several other enterprises.

Mr. Adams is a popular member of Morgantown Lodge Vo. 411, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belongs o the Sigma Psi, honorary college fraternity. the Kiwanis 'Inb and the First Presbyterian Church. On August 3, 915, he married Miss Flora Tueker, who was born at Glen- ille, West Virginia, daughter of Robert C. and Frances Smith) Tucker. Her father was a Confederate soldier in he Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have a daughter, Ruth Lee, born February 7, 1918.

MORRIS J. HALLER. A graduate of West Virginia Uni- ersity and formerly a successful teacher, Morris J. Haller is prosperous young business man of Morgantown, a member of the real estate firm of Haller & Wilson.

He was born in Taylor County, this state, on a farm, November 8, 1892, son of Flavius Baxter and Amanda 'Bailey) Haller. His grandfather, Capt. M. D. Haller, was illed in action while serving as a commissioned officer in he Union Army during the Civil war. Flavius B. Haller was only a boy at the time, having been born in Barbour County, West Virginia, February 2, 1854. He was reared n Barbour County, but as a young man removed to Taylor County, where be married and where for some years his nergies were devoted to farming. Later he was a mer- hant and for twenty-five years was a traveling salesman hrough West Virginia. He now lives surrounded with com- ort and plenty on a fine farm in Taylor County. He is a member of the Masonic Order and a republican in politica Flavius B. Haller married Amanda Bailey, who was born in Taylor County February 2, 1863, daughter of Silas P. and Almyra (Kelley) Bailey. Silas Bailey was born in 1816,

and was a very early settler in Taylor County. Finvius B. Haller is sixty seven years of age nud his wife, fifty-eight, and as yet death has not broken their family circle. All their five children are living, and they have sixteen grund children. The oldest of their five children is Earl Stanky, why was born May 13, 1555, a graduate of the West Vir ginia Wesleyan Academy, und is now in the creamery bust nesa at Stauntun, Virginia. Hle married Catherine Blur, of Westun, West Virginia, and their children nre Annabelle, Harriet, Earl Stanley, Jr., Catherine und Thomas Baxter. Enid Almyra, the second of the children, was born December 12, 1956, is the wife of 11. Rulph Harper, of Clarksburg. West Virginia, and their children ure Mildred Virgini and Ilaller Thomas. Murton Quay, born August 30, }>>>, 15 assistant general manager of the Hutchinson Coal Company at Erie in Harrison County, West Virginia. By his mar- ringe to Georgia Adaline Bartlett, of Tuylor County, be hns four children, Robert, Alma, Margaret and Mary Frances. Sally Mabel Haller, born August 30, 1590, was married to C. H. Huffman, of Miami, Ohio and they now live at Ziering in Harrison County, West Virginia. Their children are Arline and Paul Bailey.

The youngest of the family is Morris J. Haller and his carly life was spent on a farm. Ile attended the common schools, graduating from the Flemington High School in 1911, from the Fairmont State Normal in 1913, and for a year was principal of the Grant Town school. In 1914 he entered West Virginia University, and received his A. B. degree in 1917. After leaving university Mr. Haller re- sumed teaching, and fur three years was principal of the Rivesville High School in Marion County. Seeking a busi- less field that would give better rewards for his efforts, in the spring of 1920 he took up real estate and fire insurance at Morgantown, and in January, 1921, organized the suc- cessful firm of Haller & Wilson.

Mr. Haller is a member of Rivesville Lodge No. 99, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. July 26, 1915, he married Veronn C. Clayton, who was born in Gilmer County, West Virginia, daughter of Dr. Joseph E. and Dora M. (Arnett) Clayton. Her father was born in Marion County and her mother in Monongalia County. Her maternal grandfather, Davis M. Arnett, of the prominent Arnett family of West Virginia, died in 1920 at the age of ninety-four. Mr. and Mrs. Haller have three children: Eleanor Jean, born April 20, 1916; JJoseph Baxter, børn December 28, 1917; and Morris Elbarn, born January 28, 1919.

DAVID C. KURNER during his youth at Wheeling learned the painting and decorating trades, and for many years has been netive head of a successful business and organ ization handling painting contraets and is also proprietor of a large and well stocked store handling wall paper. paints, oil and glass.

Mr. Kurner was born in Wheeling, July 10, 1859. III- father, John David Kurner, was born in Wurttemberg. Germany, in 1×32. came to the United States when n young man and settled at Wheeling, was a merchant, nnd in the course of years achieved an influential place in local business circles. He was a member of the State Militia during the Civil war. He was nthi iated with the democratic party and a member of the Lutheran Church. Ilis death occurred at Wheeling in 1-91. His wife was Susanna E. Strobel, still living in Wheeling, where who was born in 1838. The children of John David Kurner

and wife were: Veronica, now living at Akron, Ohio, widow of Philip Knabe, who was a nail manufacturer nt Wheeling; David C .; William, a painter and decorater who died st Wheeling at the age of fifty-five; Charles, a painter and decorator at Wheeling; John David, a resi- dent of Cleveland, Ohio; Harry J., an advertiser at Wheel- ing; Archibald, who has never contracted the habit of settled residence; Nellie, whose husband, F. Slagle, is an in- vestment broker in Texas; and Joseph, a painter and musician who died at Wheeling at the age of forty-eight.

David C. Kurner attended school st Wheeling only to the age of thirteen, and then worked in various lines but served the apprenticeship that gave him an expert

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knowledge of painting, sign work and graining. He has used this useful mechanical trade as the basis of a per- manent business career. In 1886 he established himself in business as a contractor and dealer in decorative mate- rials, starting with a very small capital, and with his own labor, supplemented by a few employes, and during the past thirty-five years has made his business one of the leading organizations of its kind in the state, with offices and store at 1518 Market Street, and he does both a wholesale and retail business in decorative materials as well as contracting for painting and decorating. He is sole proprietor of his business.

Mr. Kurner had three sons in the World war, and was busy throughout that period in local war activities, being captain of teams in drives for the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other causes. A number of years ago he was a member of the Wheeling City Council, is a democrat, a member of the Catholic Church and the Wheeling Cham- ber of Commerce.

In 1886, at Wheeling, Mr. Kurner married Miss Barbara Ebbert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ebbert, now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Of the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kurner two died in infancy. The oldest of those living is John Raymond, who for fifteen years has been in the Regular Army service, is a member of the Marine Corps, and was with that famous organ- ization in the war. David C., Jr., whose home is at Logans- port, Indiana, was commissioned a captain in the war, was sent overseas to France and was in service there over a year. Robert J., the third son, is foreman for his father's business at Wheeling, and is married to Jaenetta Yeager. Clement O. was in the navy and was one of the 300 Americans who lost their lives when the U. S. S. Cyclops disappeared. Caritas is the wife of Wilbur L. Heinlein, a clerk with the Whitaker-Glessner Company at Wheeling. Miss Martha lives at home. Stella is the wife of Wm. A. Roth, a plumber. Paul J. is an automobile salesman at Wheeling and Ebbert is a student in the Ca- thedral High School.

Mr. Kurner owns a modern residence at 77 Eighteenth Street, and in the course of his business career has ac- quired much other local real estate, including a house at 73 Eighteenth Street and one at 213 South York Street.

ROBERT RAYMOND MCFALL, general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel Company of Morgantown, has had an interesting diversity of experience in business and in educa- tional circles, and since locating at Morgantown has found ample satisfaction not only for his business energies but for the desires for social and civic service.

A native of Northern New York, he was born in the Village of Naumburg, Lewis County, January 29, 1884, son of John and Lillian A. (Eldred) McFall, the former a native of St. Lawrence County and the latter of Jefferson County, New York. His grandparents, William and Mary McFall, were born in Glasgow, Scotland, and were pioneers in St. Law- rence County, New York. John McFall was a carriage maker by trade, an occupation and business he followed for many years at Naumburg, where he died in 1918, at the age of sixty-four. His widow is now sixty-two years of age and lives at Castorland, New York.

Robert R. McFall was educated in the Lowville, New York, Academy, and completed his literary education in Adrian College of Michigan. His first regular business ex- perience was as shipping clerk for the Beaver River Lumber Company at Castorland, New York, in 1902. Following that he was paymaster for the Carthage Tissue Paper Mills at Carthage, New York. During his student career at Adrian, Michigan, he was secretary to the president of the college. On leaving college he spent one year at Valley City, North Dakota, as registrar of the State School of North Dakota. He then returned to Adrian, and for four years was registrar of Adrian College and secretary to the Board of Trustees.

Mr. McFall came to Morgantown in 1914. Here be built and managed the plant of the Barley Foods Company, con- ducting that business five years. Since 1919 he has been general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel Com- pany. He is also secretary of the Morgantown Wholesale Coal Association and a director of the Union Bank and

Trust Company. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity, belongs to the First Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with the Rotary, Masonic and Old Colony clubs, the Morgantown and Pittsburgh Chambers of Com merce. February 14, 1914, Mr. McFall married Miss Lucile Goucher. She was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio daughter of Samuel Boone and Anna (McConnell) Goucher Her father was descended from the Daniel Boone family Mr. and Mrs. McFall have two children: Anna Gene, borr August 8, 1915; and J. S. Robert, born November 5, 1916

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