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In 1910, at Wheeling, Doctor Bippus married Miss Mar- garet Beckett, daughter of John and Margaret ( Young) Beekett, the latter still living at Wheeling, where the father died. He was a wagon maker by trade. Mrs. Bippus fin- ished her education in the Sweetbriar College of Virginia. Four children have been born to Doetor and Mrs. Bippus; William, born in 1911; Margaret Jane, born in 1914; Helen Catherine, born in 1917; and Edward S., born in November, 1920.

HARRY SHAW, a prominent and successful member of the bar of Marion County, is established in the practice of his profession at Fairmont, the county seat, and is one of the liberal and progressive citizens of this eity. He was born on a farm in Union Distriet, this county, on the 15th of February, 1872, and is a son of Joshua and Emily (West) Shaw, the former of whom was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and the latter in what is now Marion County, West Virginia, in 1834, her parents, Zaecheus M. and Sarah (Layman) West, having been early settlers in this county. Joshua Shaw, whose death occurred at Fair- mont in 1910, was a son of Samuel Shaw, who was of Seoteh and English lineage and who was a pioneer settler in West- ern Pennsylvania, whence he came with his family to Marion County, West Virginia (then Virginia), when his son Joshua was a boy. Joshua Shaw was a carpenter by trade, and was also actively identified with farm industry in Ma- rion County for many years. Tle served three years as a loyal soldier of the Union in the Civil war as a member of Company F, Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded while participating in the battle of Win- chester, Virginia, was captured by the enemy and was held a eaptive in historie old Libby Prison about four months. He was a stalwart republican, served as a member of the County Court of Marion County, and for forty years he held the office of justice of the peace. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the old home farm which was the place of his birth Harry Shaw was reared to the age of fourteen years, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those of the rural schools. At the age noted he became a clerk in the general store conducted by his older brother .at Homestead, Pennsylvania, and there he continued his studies in the public schools. Later he was a student in Duquesne College at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after which he attended the West Virginia State Normal School at Fairmont, for two years. Thereafter he made a record of successful work as a teacher in the rural schools of his native county and in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. In 1893 Mr. Shaw entered the University of West Virginia, from the law department of which he received the degree

of Bachelor of Laws in the year 1895, also receiving il 1898 the degreo of Bachelor of Arts. He was admitted t the bar in 1895, and he served his professional novitiate b: obtaining desk room in the offices of Judgo William S Haymond, of Fairmont, against whom, it is interesting t record, he appeared as the unsuccessful candidate for judg of the Circuit Court in the election of 1912. He gradualk and surely extended the scope and importance of his lav practice, and from 1901 to 1905 he was elief elerk of th Lower House of the West Virginia Legislature. In 1896 and again in 1904, he was the republican nominee for th office of prosecuting attorney of Marion County, and i 1912, as previously noted, he was a candidate for judge o the Cirenit Court. In that year he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chieago, and a membe of the Committee on Credentials which had to consider the Roosevelt-Taft eontests. During the administration of Gov ernor Dawson he served as a member of the State Prison Board of West Virginia. In the World war period Mi Shaw was most zealons in patriotic service, and he wa one of the vigorous "Four-Minute Men" in delivering speeches in furtherance of the Government war loans. Ii the campaign for the first Liberty Loan he stood in fron of the Marion County Court House on a Sunday morning in a downfall of rain and sold bonds to the amount of $36,000, and in the final bond campaign, from the vantage place of the proverbial soap-box, in front of the courthouse he sold bonds to the amount of $100,000 in twenty-five minutes, making a virtually unequaled record in both in stances. He also helped to put them "over the top" il every seetion of the county. Mr. Shaw is a member of the American Bar Association, the West Virginia Bar Asso eiation and the Marion County Bar Association. His law business has long been one of substantial and representa tive order. He is a member of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Protestant Church at Fairmont, and has been several times a delegate to the annual conference of his ehureh in West Virginia, as well as to two of its general conferences. He had the distinction also of being a delegate to the fifth Methodist Eenmenical Conference held in London, England, September 6-16, 1921.

October 10, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Shaw and Miss Willa M. Berry, who was born and reared il Marion County, a daughter of Thomas L. and Nancy L (Ross) Berry. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw is a son, Vietor Harry, who was born in 1897, and who was graduated from the University of West Virginia as a mem- ber of the class of 1922.

EDWARD A. ARKLE. Beginning when he was about eigh- teen years of age and soon after leaving school, the almost continuous experience and service of Edward A. Arkle has been represented by work in the newspaper and publicity profession. Mr. Arkle is proprietor of the Wheeling News and Advertising Burean, and has earned for himself a place of exceptional esteem in his native city.

He was born at Wheeling June 10, 1876. His grand- father, Robert Vineent Arkle was born in England in 1818, and was an early settler in the country around Wheel- ing and also lived at Wheeling for many years, being a merchant there. He died in 1888. Robert V. Arkle, father, of Edward A., was born in Ohio County and died at Wheel- ing at the age of forty-seven. He lived at Wheeling prac- tically all his life, and for many years was a merchant. lle also served a number of years as assistant chief of the fire department under the late Chief James Dunning. He was a member of the Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion, and was noted as a tenor soloist and was director of the church choir. He was a demoerat in politics and was affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Robert V. Arkle married Miss Barbara Anne Habig, a native and life-long resident of Wheeling. Their children were: Joseph M., who succeeded to his father's hardware busi- ness and died at Wheeling aged forty-seven; Harry V., who for many years was editor of the Wheeling Register, died at Wheeling also aged forty-seven; Miss Ella, who dled at the age of twenty-two; Robert A., a jeweler with John

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Becker & Company and a resident of Warwood; Edward A .; and Vincent J., who was a jeweler and died at Wheeling at the age of thirty-seven.

Edward A. Arkle attended the parochial and public schools, graduating from the public schools in 1894. His first journalistic experience was acquired with the Wheeling Intelligencer, where he served what might be termed his apprenticeship for three years. Later he was one of the organizers of the Wheeling Telegraph, and was city editor three years. He was a member of the staff of the Wheeling News three years, and then went back to the Telegraph as editor until 19IS. For about a year Mr. Arkle was news editor for the Wheeling Majority. Then, in 1919, lie estab- lished the Whecling News and Advertising Bureau, of which he is sole proprietor. He has facilities for every class of publicity work and advertising, one feature being a news- paper clipping bureau. His offices aro in the Mutual Bank Building. Mr. Arkle is also secretary of the Terminal Storage Company of Wheeling. He is a democrat, a Cath- olic, and is affiliated with Reliance Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Lions Club. His home is on Avenue A, Edgdale, Wheeling. During the war he responded to all the demands and performed some useful service as a member of the several publicity committees.

In 1908, at Wheeling, Mr. Arkle married Miss Helen H. Perkins, daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah Elizabeth (Eglinton) Perkins, residents of Wheeling. Her father is a general contractor and is president of the Terminal Storage Company. Mr. and Mrs. Arkle have one son, Benja- min F., bora in July, 1909.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF ELM GROVE is a financial institution that has grown steadily and rapidly in power and resources since it was established some fourteen years ago, and is one of the largest banks in the outlying Wheeling District.

It was established in 1908 by J. B. Chambers and Samuel Chambers. It has always operated under a national charter, and was known as the First National Bank of Elm Grove until 1920, when the trust department was added. This bank has a capital stock of $100,000, surplus and profits of $40,000, while the deposits now aggregate about $800,000. The bank has a thoroughly modern home, erected in 1910 at 400 National Road, and contains all the facilities and safeguards found in most city banks, including safety de- posit boxes.

The executive officers of the bank are: J. B. Chambers, of West Alexander, president; C. C. Woods, of Wheeling, vice president; and George H. Grodhaus, of Elm Grove, cashier. The other directors besides these three officers are: W. E. Echard, W. R. Chambers, George P. Folmar, Leopold Miller, G. W. Maxwell, S. R. Davis, William Buchanan, Thomas Skillcora, H. W. Thornburg, A. E. Crider, all of Elm Grove; R. E. Carroll, of West Finley, Pennsylvania; R. H. Bowman, of Valley Grove; R. H. Orr, of Roney's Point; J. L. Schenk, of West Alexander; Joseph Handlan, of Wheeling, and E. L. Kimmons, W. W. Campbell and W. H. Trussell, of Dallas, West Virginia.

FRANK C. KIRKPATRICK, of Wheeling, is one of the vigorous and successful exponents of the oil-producing in- dustry in this state. He was born at Parkersburg, West Virginia, August 14, 1873, and is a son of Columbus B. and Lucy B. (Oakes) Kirkpatrick, both natives of Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio, where the former was born in 1838 and the latter in 1839. The father of Columbus B. Kirkpatrick was born in one of the New England states, in 1805, became a cabinetmaker by trade and was one of the pioneer settlers of Belpre Township, Washington County, Ohio, where he remained until his death in 1885. His wife, whose family name was Cole, was born and reared in that township, and there she died at a venerable age. She was the author of a very popular book of poems pertaining to the Civil war, in which struggle ahe lost three of her sons, including Mortimer and Henry. The original American progenitors of the Kirkpatrick family came from the north of Ireland and settled in New England in the Colonial period of our national history.

Columbus B. Kirkpatrick was reared and educated in his native township, where his marriage was solemnized, and shortly after the close of the Civil war he established his home at Parkersburg, West Virginia, where for several years he gave his attention to contracting and building. His ambition led him to devote much of his leisure hours to the study of architecture, and he became a successful architect at Parkersburg. In the '70s he drew plans for an addition to the first West Virginia State Hospital for the Insane at Weston, these plans being accepted. Ia 1879, while supervising construction on this addition to the hos- pital, he fell from one of the higher points of the building, and so injured his spino and brain that he was con- fined from that year until 1881 in a private institution at Dixmont, Pennsylvania. He was then returned to the in- stitution he had designed, and there he remained until his death, at the Weston Hospital for the Insane, February 27, 1917. Mr. Kirkpatrick was a man of fine mind and moral fiber, and gained high place in the confidence and estecni of his fellow men, so that the tragedy of his life brought sorrow to a host of loyal friends as well as to his imme- diate family. He was a democrat, served many consecutive terms as a member of the city council of Parkersburg, was a Knight Templar Mason and was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Kirkpatrick was a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war as a member of an Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry. His wife continued to reside at Parkersburg until her death, February 18, 1916. Charles R., eldest of their children, became a skilled machinist and molder, and died at Parkers- burg in 1912; Estella is the wife of Dennis Flint, a busi- ness man at Parkersburg; George has active charge of the Baptist Banner, a newspaper published at Parkersburg; Frank C., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Belle is the wife of Bernard Cannon, foreman in extensive glass works in the City of Cleveland, Ohio; and Josephine is the wife of James Whittaker, superintendent of a foundry at Orville, that state.

Frank C. Kirkpatrick attended the public schools of Parkersburg until he was fifteen years old, when he entered the employ of a merchant tailor in that city. Three years later he entered the Mountain State Business College at Parkersburg, where he completed a thorough course of study. In 1892 he took a position in the office of the Adams Express Company at Parkersburg, and in October of the year 1894 he entered the employ of the Ohio River Railroad Company, the line of which is now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio system. He continued in the train service of the railroad until 1916, with headquarters at Parkers- burg, and then was granted a furlough of indefinite length, owing to his seriously impaired health. In the same year he became an oil producer in Pleasants County, this state, where he still retains his interests in this line. Mr. Kirk- patrick has visited virtually all important oil fields in the United States, and he is now vice president and general manager of the Southland Oil Company of West Virginia. He also holds under lease 1,000 acres of very valuable oil land in Simpson County, Kentucky. He maintains his office headquarters in the Wheeling Bank & Trust Company Building.

Mr. Kirkpatrick is independent in politics, he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in the Masonic fraternity his basic affiliation is with Kenova Lodge No. 110, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Kenova, this state. At Wheeling he is a member of Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite of Masonry in West Virginia Sovereign Consistory No. I. He is affiliated also with the Lodge of Elks in the City of Huntington and with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen.

June 12, 1912, at Wheeling, recorded the marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick and Miss Ione M. Cassidy, daughter of Isaac and Clara (Lawrence) Cassidy, the former of whom died at Wheeling in 1913, and the latter now resides in Washington, District of Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk- patrick have no children of their own, but in their home have reared from the age of six years Grace, a sister of

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Mrs. Kirkpatrick, she being now a member of the class of 1923 in the Wheeling High School.

JOHN A. MOORE is a native son of the City of Wheeling and has become an influential figure in the industrial and commercial life of this metropolitan District of West Vir- ginia, where he is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Warwood Tool Company. The modern manufactur- ing plant is established in the suburb of Warwood.

Mr. Moore is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer fami- lies of Wheeling, in which city his father, James B. Moore, was born in the year 1838 and died in 1907. William Moore, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in the north of Ireland, eame to the United States in the early part of the nineteenth century, resided for a time in Western Pennsylvania, and thereafter became a pioneer settler in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. His wife, whose maiden name was Martha Purviance, likewise was born in the north of Ire- land, and she was a resident of Wheeling. West Virginia, at the time her death, her remains being interred in a come- tery here.

John Moore, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in ISIO, and died at Wheeling, West Virginia (then Virginia), in 1860. He came to Wheeling about the year 1827, learned the plumbing trade, and owned the leading plumbing shop of the town in the early days. He established the first water- works of Wheeling, and continued as superintendent of the same a mimber of years. In the '30s and '40s he served as steamboat inspector, and later he became the owner of a machine shop, to the eondneting of which he gave his attention until his death. He married Sarah Irwin, who was born at Wheeling, and they reared a family of two sons and three daughters, of whom only one is living in 1921-Elizabeth Irwin, who is the widow of Rev. J. R. Moore and who resides at Morgantown, Monongalia County. Rev. J. R. Moore a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, attained distinction in educational work in West Virginia. As a young man he was a member of the faculty of Linsly Institute at Wheeling, and later conducted the Monongalia Academy at Morgantown, from which was eventually de- veloped the University of West Virginia.

Mrs. Sarah (Irwin) Moore, paternal grandmother of the subjeet of this sketeh, was a daughter of William Irwin, who settled at Wheeling when the future metropolis and capital of West Virginia had only thirty houses. He was born in what is now Harrison County, this state, and was one of the incorporators of the village of Wheeling. besides which he served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, as representative of Ohio County, in what is now West Virginia. He was prominent and influential in con- nection with business, civic and political affairs in this section of Virginia in the pioneer days. He reared a large family of children, and many of his descendants still reside in Wheeling and vicinity. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Snodgrass, was a daughter of John Snod- grass, who came to Ohio County in the pioneer days and settled in the Short Creek District where he reclaimed and developed a farm. He came to this county from the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His daughter Elizabeth was born on this old homestead on Short Creek, and both she and her husband were residents of Wheeling at the time of their deaths.

James B. Moore, who passed his entire life in Wheeling, was a skilled mechanical draftsman and was actively asso- ciated with business activities in his native eity for many years. He was a republican, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. He served as a member of the State Militia in the period of the Civil war, but was not called to the front. He married Louisa S. Craig, who was born in Westmoreland County, Penn- sylvania, in 1840, and whose death occurred at Wheeling in 1910. Of the children John A., of this review, is the elder, and the younger son, J. Craig Moore, is in the employ of the Warwood Tool Company, of which his brother is general manager.

In the public schools of Wheeling John A. Moore con-

tinued his studies until he was seventeen years old, anche then entered the employ of J. A. Holliday & Son, lun er dealers, with whom he remained until 1893. He then bec ne associated with the Warwood Tool Company in the posion of hookkeeper, and he has continued his connection 1th this concern to the present time, in the meanwhile haug become its secretary, treasurer and general manager. hc plant and officers of the company are situated at the :ot of Nineteenth Street in Warwood, and here are manu c. tured pieks, mattocks, hoes, wedges sledges, erowbars, dis and other tools used in coal mines. The concern is ac largest of its kind in the state, its products are sold inthì seetions of the Union, and for fully a quarter of a cent.y its foreign trade has been of appreciable volume. The f ficers of the company are as here designated: B. W. Per- son, president ; and John A. Moore, secretary, treasurer general manager.

Mr. Moore is staunehly aligned in the ranks of the e- publican party, and he is a communicant of the Protestat Episcopal Church. He is a past master of Wheeling Lote No. 5, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is affilia d also with Wheeling Chapter No. 1, Royal Arch Maso ; Cyrene Commandery No. 7, Knights Templars, of which te is a past commander; West Virginia Consistory No. [, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he has recei d the thirty-second degree; and Osiris Temple of the Mysle Shrine. He also holds membership in Welcome Lode Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Fort Henry Cb and the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce. He is treasua and general manager of the Warwood Water & Light Cd- pany. In the World war period he was a loyal and vigores supporter of patriotic agencies, was chairman of the til industry committee for war production and devoted mtb of his time and energy to the perfecting of this importat part of war service. Mr. Moore's name remains on 1e roster of eligible bachelors in his native city.

JOHN MARSHALL JACOBS has shown much initiative al administrative ability in connection with business ent} prises of important order, and is one of the most lo' and progressive citizens of Fairmont, judicial center f Marion County. He was born near Pleasant Valley 1 Clinton District, Monongalia County, West Virginia, Ji? 16, 1860, and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Steele) Jaco, the former of whom was born near the Summers Church 1 Clinton Distriet, Monongalia County, January 18, 189 and the latter of whom was born in the same distri Angust 2, 1834, a daughter of John and Nancy (Mille Steele. Mrs. Jacobs still survives her honored husband al resides in the home of her son Charles, a few miles dista from the place of her birth, her entire life having be passed in Clinton Distriet and she being now one of most venerahle native citizens, at the age of eighty-eig years.

Jacob Jacobs, a son of Elijah and Mary Jacobs, wl reared under the conditions marking the pioneer period the history of Monongalia County, and he was a rep sentative of farm enterprise in that county at the outhre: of the Civil war. He served as a soldier of the Unid from Angust, 1862 until the close of the war, his honoral. discharge having been received at Wheeling, West Virgini July 3, 1865. He took part in many engagements, inclu ing the battles of Cloyd Mountain, Lynchburg, Carter Farm, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, and all of the battl of General Sheridan's army in the historic Shenando: Valley campaign. He was well advanced in years at tl time of his death.

John M. Jacobs gained his early education in the publ schools of his native county, and among his instructo: were E. Trickett and M. H. Steele, who were among th first graduates of the State Normal School at Fairmon and also Dr. Fleming Howell, A. L. Purinton and W. ] Joliffe, of the University of West Virginia. Mr. Jacol has often maintained that through the effective teachin of these able instructors and splendid men he may we elaim to be a graduate, by their proxy, of both of th institutions mentioned. From 1879 to 1884 Mr. Jacot was a successful teacher in the public schools of Monor

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alia County. In the latter year he engaged in the mer- antile business at Little Falla, that county, as junior bember of the firm of Hutchinson & Jacobs. He there ontinued as a prosperous merchant, besides being post- haster and railroad station agent, until 1895, in which fear he removed with his family to Fairmont, where le became manager of the Fairmont Planing Mill Com- any. He is now president of the Fairmont Mold & oundry Company, of which his son Melville is treasurer. la is also manager of the Jacobs-Hutchinson Hardware Company, of which his son Melville is assistant manager nd his daughter Jessie is bookkeeper; he is treasurer f the Stevenson Company; and is a director of the Na- ional Bank of Fairmont. He is an active and valued hember of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce, of which e has served as president, and was director of each the "airmont Hotel Company, the Fairmont Business Men's Association and the local Young Men's Christian Associa- ion, besides which he was vice president of the Cook lospital and of the Greater Fairmont Investment Com- any. He was a member of the building committee of he Young Men's Christian Association and also of the irst Methodist Episcopal Church, in connection with the rection of two of the finest buildings of their respective :inds in this section of the state, while few cities of the ize in the entire state can claim better buildings than his church edifice and the Young Men's Christian Asso- iation Building in Fairmont. Mr. Jacobs and his family vere the largest single contributors to the building fund of this church, of which all are active members. Mr. Jacobs was active in the recent Billy Sunday religious campaign in Fairmont, and is a member of the Billy Sun- day Business Men's Club, which is doing good work in his part of West Virginia. In the World war period Mr. Jacobs served on the Draft Board of the City of Fair- mont, and he received in this connection a selective service medal, of which he is very proud. He places high esti- mate also on a letter written to the Local Draft Board by President Wilson and General Crowder, in which the members of the board were specially commended for the splendid work which they did, and that without financial compensation, in behalf of the National Army which acquitted itself so admirably in the greatest of all wars. Mr. Jacobs was liberal and active also in supporting other patriotic activities and service during the war period. He is a staunch republican, and in recent campaigns has made many speeches in behalf of the party cause, prin- cipally in Marion County. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On the 14th of April, 1888, was solemnized the mar- riaga of Mr. Jacobs and Miss Mary Alice Selby, daughter of Thomas P. and Salina E. Selby. Mr. and Mra. Jacobs have three children, all of whom were born at Little Falls, Monongalia County. A. Melville was born January 17, 1889; Edna May was born May 21, 1891; and Jessie O. was born February 14, 1893. All three were graduated from the Fairmont High School and the State Normal School at Fairmont, and the only son graduated from the University of West Virginia as a member of the class of 1910, he having there given special study to history under the preceptorship of Professor Callahan.

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