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John B. Grove laid the foundation for his education i the public schools of Petersburg, taking the course as pri scribed, and then went to the academy at Romney, when he had the advantage of two years of work. This wa followed by a year of college instruction at the Davis an Elkins College at Elkins, his medical studies beginning in mediately thereafter in the College of Physicians and Su geons, Baltimore, Maryland, from which institution he wa graduated in 1909. Later he took special work in disease of the chest in the same institution, and during his senio year was employed as an interne in Mercy Hospital o Baltimore. In July, 1909, Doctor Grove took his Stat Board examination, and in September following opened hi office at Petersburg, where his twenty-two years of lif had been spent. The general practice of his calling is hi field of effort, and he has his office in the same room i which had practiced his father and grandfather for so man DERE years. The name of Grove is indeed indelibly written o the medical history of Petersburg, where those bearing th name have always typified the highest to be found in pro fessional ethics and ability. Doctor Grove has identifie

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imself with medical society work as a member of the so- cty representing Grant, Hardy, Hampshire and Mineral bounties, of which he was formerly vice president, and he Iso holds membership in the West Virginia State Medical ociety and the American Medical Association. llis skill 1 diagnosis and his successful treatment of a number of omplicated eases have created a gratifying demand for his ervices and laid the foundation of what has already proved enreer of exceptional breadth and usefulness. To a thor- ugh professional equipment he adds a kindly and sympa- letie manner, a genuine liking for his calling and a ready laptation to its multitudinous and exacting demands.

As a citizen Doetor Grove has been a factor in the affairs f the local government, having been a member of the Town ouneil. He also assisted in the promotion of the Potomac alley Bank of Petersburg, and is also one of the men now ehind the big projeet which is building the plant of the ommunity Power Company of this place. While a demo- at in political matters, he has had little hand in practi- al polities. Ile east his maiden vote for William Jennings ryan for the presidency, and was an original Wilson man or president, sitting in the Baltimore convention when Mr. Vilson secured his first nomination, As a fraternatist he a past Master Mason and attended the Grand Lodge of ne order at Parkersburg. Until he entered the World ar as a soldier Doctor Grove was actively identified with he various drives held for the sale of bonds and for other ar work. He went over the country arousing the people's pirit and sentiment, as did Mrs. Grove, and in July, 1919, nlisted in the army and was commissioned a first lieutenant. eing assigned to Camp Dix, New Jersey, Base Hospital. Ie was transferred to the Camp Examining Board March 1, 1919, and was honorably discharged from the service uly 1, 1919.

Doctor Grove married at Staunton, Virginia, October 11, 916, Miss Rosalie Sillings, a daughter of Lewis and Caro- ne V. (Shutterly) Sillings. She was educated in the pub- c schools, being a graduate of the Staunton High School, iter completing the course at the Valley Ilome Seminary. 'or several years prior to her marriage she was a teacher a the public schools and taught three terms at Petersburg. Doctor and Mrs. Grove are members of the Presbyterian hurch. Their home is of their own planning and construc- ion, and is one of the conspicuous and attractive brick esidences of Petersburg.

II. EUGENE SHADLE. The Morgan Lumber & Manufac- uring Company, of which Mr. Shadle is president, is one of he largest individual enterprises located at Charleston, nd the business in its entirety, including the outlying mills, is the dircet result of the great energy and extensive bility of Mr. Shadle, who acquired the original plant at 'harleston fourteen years ago.

Mr. Shadle came into West Virginia in 1900, and first ngaged in lumber milling in Tucker County, with head- quarters at Parsons. From there his enterprise branched ato Randolph County, and his operations took on an ex- ended scale, not only lumber manufacturing but as an wner and dealer in timber and timber lands. In the ourse of a few years he bought and sold over 50,000 acres f timber lands in Tucker, Randolph. Clay and Nicholas ounties.

Mr. Shadle, who was born at Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1866, located perma- ently at Charleston in 1908. Here he hought the plant of he Morgan Lumber Company, then located on the east bank f the Elk River, directly opposite the present plant. With his nucleus be extended the scope of the business, chang- ng the corporate name to the Morgan Lumber & Manufac- uring Company, and under his management there has been leveloped one of the larger lumber industries of the state, with a business output valned at millions of dollars aunu- illy and a trade that covers all the Eastern states from Ohio. The primary operations of the industry are several umber mills in the forests, where the timber is worked up lirect from the stump. The output is West Virginia hard- rood, of which there is none better in the world. The ough lumber from these outlying mills is shipped to the

woodworking plant in Charleston, where it is unloaded direct from the cars into the dry kilns, which have a capacity of half a million feet of lumber. After thorough sensoning the contents of the kilns are discharged from the other ent into the mills, undergoing at the same time a thorough and experienced inspection os to quality and grades. The lum- ber from the kilns is workel up necord ng to the orders on hand, and, passing through the complicated machinery, con sisting of saws, planers and rippers, is manufactured into the different grades of hardwood flooring, trim, meldings base, doors, sash, store fixtures, bank fixtures, shelving and rases suitable for department stores. The trim and flooring is sold both locally and shipped in carlend lots to many different states.

Besides the manufacturing department the company car ries on an extensive lumber yard business, carrying all sizes and dimensions of common lumber, such as framing. sheathing, subflooring, siding, and a varied line of building supplies. The company generates its own electric power, all machines being electrically driven, ench equipped with its individual motor. There are fifty-nine machines, capable of operating as a unit or individually. The plant with its modern buildings constitutes a prominent ood impressive feature of the industrial section, and both buildings and yards cover a little over six acres, situated in the heart of the city, on the west bank of the Elk River, bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, Columbia Avenue and Birch Street.

This business naturally is one demanding proct cally all of Mr. Shadle's time and energy, but he has none the less identified himself with all worthy movements in the city and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and was one of the organizers and is an enthusiastic member of the new Kanawha Country Club, organized in 1921.

JIe married Miss Sarah C. Bitner, who was born nt Con- ter Ilall, Pennsylvania. llis only son, Harold B. Shadle, who was educated in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, is the netive assistant to his father in the man. agement of the lumber industry and vice president of the corporation.

Mr. Shadle is a Mason and an Elk, a member of the Bap- tist Church, and is chairman of the building committee in charge of the construction of the new Baptist Temple. Hle is actively identified with a number of business enterprises in addition to the particular organization heretofore men- tioned. Hle is vice president of the Glade ('reek C'oal and Lumber Company; vice president of the Ohio West Vir- ginia Company, manufacturers of petroleum products; and is a director of the West Virginia Manufacturers Associa- tion and also of the West Virginia Lumber & Rollers Supply Dealers Association.

JAMES MASON TETER, M. D. During more than n quarter of a century Dr. James Mason Teter has been ilentitud with the medical profession of West Virginia, and through the faithfulness of his labors and the high quality of b services has entrenched himself strongly in the confidence and esteem of those qualified to judge os to alulity nud fi delity. On more than one occasion he has worked self .aer firingly and successfully in combating serious epilemri 4. and throughout his professional career has maintainel a high standard of ethics and professional conduct. Fer four years his field of active usefulness has been the "'ty of Petersburg and the surrounding community, wh r l . widely known and greatly respected.

Doctor Teter was born in Union District, Penliet n County, West Virginia, May I1, 1573, and is n son of George and Mary (Harman) Teter. Reoben Teter, tl grandfather of Doctor Teter, was born in Union Distr't. Pendleton County, where he became a large lanh wner and a man of influence, and died at about the opening of the war between the stateq. ITo was n devont chur hn n . Mr. Teter married Miss Margar t M Loughlin, and they became the parents of the following ch'llren. Jehu, wh, spent his life as a farmer in Penl ton County, where lila death occurred; Labon, who livel the l'fe of nn ngric turist in the same county and is buried there; Ruth, who married David Harman and passed her life in Grant County ; John, who was a millor for n time at Harman, Rand Ich

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County, but died in Tucker County, this state; David K., who was a plain countryman and farmer and died in Pen- dleton County, a veteran of the Union Army during the war between the states, as was his elder brother, John; Jennie, who married Job Davis and passed away in Tucker County; Rebecca, who became Mrs. B. F. Bennett, of Tucker County; George, the father of Doctor Teter; Jacob, who is a farmer at Oldtown, Maryland; Bettie, who married Amos W. Bennett, of Harman, West Virginia; and Reu- ben, a farmer of Tucker County, West Virginia.

George Teter was born in Union District, Pendleton County, January 3, 1846, and secured a fairly good educa- tion for his day and locality, being a teacher in young manhood for several years. During the war between the states he served as a member of the Home Guards and was a strong Union sympathizer. He is a republican in poli- tics and was for a number of years one of the county com- missioners of Pendleton County, where he now resides, and where he has been engaged successfully in agricultural pursuits during his career. In 1866 he married Mary Har- man, who was born in 1848, a daughter of John A. and Hannah (Miller) Harman. The Harmans, like the Teters, were among the first to settle in Pendleton County, and all were rural people and identified with the farm. They were all Union sympathizers on the issues of the Civil war and none of them owned slaves. Mrs. Teter died in 1902, hav- ing been the mother of the following children: Alice, who is the wife of Isaac Robinson, of Pendleton County; Charles G., of Riverton, that county; Oliver Cromwell, a farmer of the Mill Run District; Dr. James M., of this notice; and Ida, the wife of Joseph H. Smith, of Petersburg.

James Mason Teter grew to early manhood in the Mill Run District of Pendleton County, where he secured the advantages and opportunities of the farm and district school. When nineteen years of age he secured further ex- perience, as a teacher of the German School in his home district, following which he took up the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. M. Sites, of Upper Tract, with whom he studied for about a year. Being thus pre- pared for a college course, he entered the Lebanon Normal University for instruction in his chosen calling, and spent a year in that famous Holbrook school. He then returned to his home community and shortly thereafter went to Bal- timore, where he completed his medical course in the Balti- more Medical College, graduating April 22, 1896, with his cherished degree. On leaving that institution he sought about for a suitable location for practice and finally de- cided upon Macksville, Pendleton County, where he spent two years. Subsequently he moved to Riverton, in the same county, where he was identified with the practice of his calling for a period covering twenty years. In the fall of 1918 he came to Grant County, where he has since been busily engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery and where he has not only built up a large profes- sional business, but has gained the confidence of the people and the good will and esteem of his fellow-practitioners. While practicing at Riverton, Doctor Teter was called upon to combat a source of typhoid fever which inoculated that territory with germs carried from the river, and made a winning fight, carrying the community through with but small loss of life. He reached Petersburg in time to assist in fighting the epidemic of Spanish influenza which scourged the country so greatly in 1919, and fought it off with other doctors in 1919. Again, in 1921, he was called upon to act in the same capacity, and in this year the loss of life was small.

Doctor Teter was one of the promoters of the Potomac Valley Bank of Petersburg, and a director thereof for some time. He is still a stockholder therein. With politics he has had little concern. He comes of a family of republicans, and his first presidential ballot was cast in favor of the presidential candidacy of Major Mckinley, although two years before he had cast his first vote of importance when he supported Judge Dayton for a seat in Congress. He holds membership in the various organizations of his pro- fession, and as a fraternalist is a member of the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. His religious faith, like that of his parents, is

that of the United Brethren Church. The work of winning the World war had a warm place in the hearts of both Doctor Teter and his wife, and both labored indefatigably and effectively, the former in a professional way and the latter as a member of the Red Cross Society.

At Riverton, Pendleton County, August 1, 1898, Doctor Teter was united in marriage with Miss Zadie Mauzy, who was born in Union District, Pendleton County, September 7, 1879, and educated in the public schools, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah E. (Teter) Mauzy, farming people of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Mauzy were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Texie, who died as Mrs. George Harper; Zadie, who is Mrs. Teter; Hattie, who is unmarried and re- sides in Pendleton County; Wilbur, who died as a youth of sixteen years; Bessie, the wife of Wilbur Harper; Margie, who married Oscar Harper, of Pasadena, California; and Caddie, the wife of Billie Hines, of Pendleton County. Three children have been born to Doctor and Mrs. Teter: Eva Lena, of Huntington, West Virginia, who is a teacher of music; Elsie, who was a victim of the influenza epidemic of 1918, dying at the age of seventeen years; and Macie, who is a student at the Lutheran Academy, Petersburg.

VERNON LOUGH DYER, M. D. Included among the younger members of the medical profession who are making rapid strides in their chosen calling in Grant County is Dr. Ver- non Lough Dyer, of Petersburg. To a natural equipment for his calling, which includes inherent ability, a genuine love of his profession and a sympathetic nature, Doctor Dyer has superimposed a long and careful training, and as a close observer and keen student of his profession is still further improving himself for the work to which he has dedicated his life and talents.

Doctor Dyer comes of an old and honored family of West Virginia, and was born April 17, 1892, at Fort Seybert, Pendleton County, this state, a son of William M. Dyer. His grandfather, Allen Dyer, was born in Pendleton County, where he followed the pursuits of farming and raising stock, and was one of the well-to-do and highly es- teemed citizens of his community. He passed his entire life within the borders of Pendleton County, and attained the ripe old age of ninety-one years, passing away in the year 1910. He married Miss Martha Miller, and they be- came the parents of eight children who grew to maturity, as follows: Pendleton; Minnie, who married Charles Switzer, of Philippi, West Virginia; Annie, who married William Judy; Sue, who became the wife of Elias Mcwhorter, of Jane Lew, West Virginia; Edward, who resides near Phil- ippi and is engaged in agricultural operations; William M., the father of Doctor Dyer; Charles, who died in Pendleton County; and Florence, the wife of I. E. Bolton, of Mor- gantown, West Virginia.

William M. Dyer was born in Pendleton County, where he received ordinary educational advantages in the public schools and as a young man adopted the vocation of farm- ing. This he has followed with success in the same county ever since, and is now the owner of a good property, with all modern improvements. He is a modern agriculturist, owns a large herd of livestock, and keeps abreast of the ad- vancements being constantly made in the business of agri- culture. He has always demonstrated his public-spirited citizenship in his support of worthy civic movements, and educational and religious enterprises, as well as those of a charitable nature, have found him a friend. Politically he is a republican, and his religious connection is with the Methodist Church. Mr. Dyer was united in marriage with Miss Susan Lough, and they became the parents of eleven children, of whom ten survive: Nora, who is the wife of J. P. Cowger, of Fort Seybert, West Virginia; Fred, a resident of Eckman, this state; Dr. Vernon Lough, of this review; and Mary and Willie, twins, Fannie, George, Jas- per, James and Anna, who reside at the home of their parents. During the World war Fred and Willie Dyer en- listed in the United States Army, and the latter saw over- seas service, while the former was a member of the Officers Training Camp at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia. All of the members of his family have been given the advantage of a good educational training.

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e childhood, youth and early years of his manhood passed by Vernon Lough Dyer at Fort Seybert, in h community he attended the public school. As a youth pent his time much after the fashion of other farmers' working on the home place during the summer months. he winters he taught in the country schools of Bethel rict, and this continued to occupy his time until he ed his majority, at which time he enrolled as a stu- at the State Normal School at Shepherdstown, West inia. He was graduated from that institution as a ber of the class of 1914, and having thus equipped elf from a literary viewpoint he began the study of cine. The first two years of his medical course were cuted at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, · which he entered the medical department of Loyola ersity, Chicago, Illinois. He was graduated June 1, , and after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medieine to Welch Hospital, Welch, West Virginia, where he t a year in hospital work, being for a time interne of institution. With this work finished he took up the tice of his profession at Petersburg, where he has since astrated his akill and thorough learning in a manner has attracted to him a large practice of the most de- le kind that can fall to the lot of a young physician. ng the period of the World war Doctor Dyer was a ent at Loyola University, and his name was placed in enlisted Medical Reserve Corps, but was not called for 'e duty and his medical studies were uninterrupted.

ctor Dyer is a close and careful student of his calling, holds membership in several medical organizations, in- ing the Grant County Medical Society and the West inia State Medical Society. He is at present serving e capacity of health officer of Petersburg, an office in h he is rendering capable service. Fraternally he is af- ed with Petersburg Lodge of the Masonic Order. In ical matters he is a republican, although he has not active in political affairs, his entire attention being ted to his profession. However, as a citizen he has 1 his support to worthy movements and has expressed Approval of advanced educational standards and worthy itable and religious enterprises. With Mrs. Dyer be membership in the Presbyterian Church.

June 18, 1919, at Jane Lew, Lewis County, West inia, Doctor Dyer was united in marriage with Miss . Hickel, who was born in Wirt County, West Virginia, of the four children of Rev. Thomas J. and Arnette ) Hickel, Rev. T. J. Hickel being a well-known divine ue Methodist Protestant Church who has held numerous its in West Virginia. Mrs. Dyer, who is the second of barents' children, was born March 18, 1895. Her sister [rs. Catherine Peterson, who lives at Weston, West inia, and her brothers are Fred, of Grantsville, this ; and John. Doctor and Mrs. Dyer have one daughter, n Arnette, born October 10, 1921.

AARY H. MCNEMAR. In naming the representative less citizens of Grant County more than passing men- is due the career and accomplishments of Harry H. emar, of Petersburg, who, although atill a young man, developed one of the leading industries of his com- ty, a produce business, the trade of which approximates th of a million dollars annually. This enterprise has built up within a few years, during which time Mr. temar has also found the opportunity to interest himself :her business affairs, as well as in matters affecting public welfare of his community.

2. MeNemar was born July 26, 1884, in Grant District, it County, and is a son of Samuel B. and Elizabeth [ris) McNemar. He belongs to one of the most an- of the early-settled families of West Virginia, which introduced into old Hardy County four generations E of Harry H. McNemar, by his great-grandfather, in McNemar. Martin McNemar settled in Grant Dia- Grant County, as it is now constituted, ten miles from present town of Petersburg, and there continued to be @ged in agricultural pursuits throughoat a long, active ciseful life, being buried on his farm. Among his chil- was Joseph McNemar, the grandfather of Harry H., Vol. II-25

of Petersburg. He spent his life en the estate of his father, agriculture being his chief vocation. Ile was one of the prominent and influential men of his day, and for forty years acrved in the office of sheriff of Hardy County, as it was then. His official record was an excellent one, NS WAS that also of his business and private life, and he was held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens. Mr. MeNemar was buried at Lahmansville Cemetery, about one mile below Petersburg. In the family of Joseph MeNemar there were two seta of children, he having been twice married, and Samuel B. MeNemar, the father of llarry II., belonged to the second wife'a family.

Samuel B. MeNemar was born in 1842, at the old family home in Grant Distriet, Grant County, and was liberally educated. He carly demonstrated intellectual attainments that directed his career along the line of the eduentor's profession, and throughout his life he was a teacher in various parts of the state, and never ceased to be a student. He was one of the best-known educators in his part of West Virginia, and was popular as well as efficient, hnving the happy faculty of being able to impart his own knowledge to others. At the outbreak of the war between the states, while a strong supporter of and sympathizer with the Con- federacy, Mr. MeNemar was found physically unfit to with- stand the rigors of participation in the hard and strenuous life of the soldier, and his connection with the war netivi- ties therefore was limited to his moral and financial support of the Southern cause. Ile was a well-known democrat of Grant County, and was frequently seated in conventions of his party. Mr. MeNemar was a devout member of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the church of that denomination at Williamspert.

Samuel B. MeNemar married Miss Elizabeth Harris, of Goodhope, Illinois, where she was born, although her par- ents were formerly West Virginia people and agriculturists here. She is now a resident of Petersburg, aged seventy. seven years and highly esteemed. Mr. MeNemar, after one year of retirement from the schoolroom, died in September, 1912, when his community lost a reliable and worthy eiti- zen. He and his wife were the parents of the following children: Miss Daisy D., who belda a life certificate to teach and was engaged in school work for some years, hut who for the past four years has occupied the position of postmistress of Petersburg; Edward S., who is engaged in agricultural pursuits near Williamsfield, Illinois; Harry Hennen, of this review; W. V. and J. V., twins, the former an attorney at law of Logan, West Virginia, and the latter a resident of Akron, Ohio.

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