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CHARLES EDWARD HODGES, only son of the eminent West Virginia educator and banker, the late Thomas Edward Hodges, has in a brief but intensely active career proved the possession of many of the admirable qualities which distinguished his father. The son made a fine record as a soldier and officer with the Expeditionary Forces in France, was abroad nearly two years, and not long after his return to Morgantown he bonght and is editor and publisher of The New Dominion, the leading morning newspaper.

Charles Edward Hodges was born in Huntington, West Virginia, September 27, 1892. He graduated from Mor- gantown High School in 1909, from West Virginia Uni- versity with the A. B. degree in 1913, and also did post-graduate work in international law and diplomacy.

From 1913 until May, 1917, his duties were those of a reporter and editor for local Morgantown newspapers. He was one of the early volunteers for service when America entered the war with Germany. He enlisted as a private in Company A of the Fifth Reserve Engineers at Pittsburgh, July 1, 1917, with this command he went overseas, and was on duty in France for twenty-two and a half months. In October, 1917, he was promoted to sergeant and in March, 1918, was sent to the Army Candidates School at Langres in Haute Marne District, where he graduated with the rank of second lieutenant of infantry in July, 1918. He was assigned to the 359th Infantry, 90th Division, but later transferred to the 143rd Infantry of the 36th Divi- sion. With this command he participated in the Meuse- Argonne campaign, in the offensive action along the Cham- paign front, and before the armistice was promoted from first lieutenant to captain. After the armistice he re- mained with the 36th Division until that command re- turned home on June 1, 1919. During the Meuse-Argonne fighting he was cited in orders of the French Army Corps, with which his division was operating, and was recom- mended for the Croix de Guerre. Before returning home Captain Hodges was offered a place on the United States Food Commission at Berlin, but declined that opportunity for service in order to return home, the health of his father

being then very critical. For about a year he looked afte his father's interests and in November, 1919, with R. B. Jarvis, bought The News Dominion, one of the newspaper with which he had been employed in former years. He i now president of The Dominion News Company, a put lishing company, and has active charge of the editoria and general business management of this influential news paper.

Captain Hodges attended the National Democratic Cor vention in San Francisco in 1920, and was a member o the headquarters staff of John W. Davis, candidate for th nomination for president. He is a member of the variou Masonic bodies at Morgantown, including Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, Morgantown Commandery No. 18 Knights Templar, Morgantown Lodge of Perfection No. € of which he was secretary, and is also a member of Wes Virginia Consistory and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrin, at Wheeling. He is a member of the West Virginia Alph: Chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity. Cap tain Hodges was representative of the 36th Division il the meeting at Paris, France, where the American Legion was formally organized, and since his return home he ha. been an executive official of Morgantown Post No. 2. H. served as president of the Morgantown Rotary Club fo :. 1921-22.

HENRY FAIRBANKS WARDEN is a young man who ha. shown fine executive and administrative ability in connection with the coal-mining industry in West Virginia, where he is general manager of the Williams Pocahontas Coa Company at War, McDowell County, besides being gen eral manager also for the Orinoco Mining Company Orinoco, on Pond Creek, Pike County, Kentucky. His residence and official headquarters are maintained at Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia.

A scion of staunch Colonial ancestry in New England Mr. Warden was born in the town of Monroe, Graftor County, New Hampshire, on the 29th of May, 1893, and he is a son of Alexander and Susie (Fairbanks) Warden both likewise natives of Monroe, Grafton County, New Hampshire, where the father was a representative mer- chant and farmer and influential in political circles and public affairs of a local order. He died in 1908, at the age of seventy-four years. The first wife of Alexander Warden bore the maiden name of Lucy Flint, and his second wife, mother of the subject of this review, died in 1907, at the age of forty-four years. Mr. Warden served as draft officer in his native county in the period of the Civil war, and he represented his county in the State Legislature, served as its sheriff, was city clerk and postmaster at Monroe, and held other positions of trust. A man of inviolable integrity and mature judg- ment, he was a guide and counsellor in his community and commanded unqualified popular confidence. He was one of the builders of the Methodist Episcopal Church edifice at Monroe, and was one of the most zealous and liberal members of this church. IIis political allegiance was given to the republican party and he was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He passed the last seven years of his life in supervising his farms and other prop -. erty interests. Alexander Warden was a member of a family of eleven sons and two daughters, and his father, Andrew Warden, was one of the substantial citizens of Monroe, Grafton County, New Hampshire, at the time of his death. Alexander and Lucy (Flint) Warden had one son, Oliver S., who is now owner and manager of the Great Falls Daily Tribune at Great Falls, Montana. Of the three children of the second marriage Henry F. of this sketch is the eldest. David R. is chief inspector and chemist in the employ of W. C. Atwater &, Com- pany at Bluefield, West Virginia. He was a student at Norwich University at Northfield, Vermont. In the World war period he was with the Near East Relief Commission in Turkey and Armenia, a service with which he was connected eighteen months before his re- turn to the United States. Ralph B., a youth of seven- teen years (1922), resides with his brother, Henry F., at Bluefield.

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The early education of llenry F. Warden was acquired n the public schools of his native county and was sup- lemented by a four years' course at St. Johnsbury Acad- my, a leading preparatory school at St. Johnsbury, 'ermont. Thereafter he held a clerical position with Boston & Montann Smelting Company at Great Falls, Iontana, now a subsidiary of the famous Anaconda melting Company, and upon his return to the East he ook a course in technical and industrial chemistry at 'ratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, in which institu- ion he was graduated in 1913. Soon afterward he came o Bluefield, West Virginia, and took the position of hemist in the office of the Pocahontas Coke Company. Eighteen months later he became chief inspector and hemist for William C. Atwater & Company, his duties avolving inspection of coal mines and their products nd the preparation of coal for market. lIe retained his position until he was made manager of the Wil- ams Pocahontas Coal Company and the Orinoco Min- ng Company's properties, owned by the Oriental Navi- ration Company, New York City, who are in a position o ship their coal from the West Virginia and Kentucky oal fields to all parts of the world. The Oracle, official publication of the Oriental Navigation Company, in ene f its recent issues published a full-page portrait of fr. Warden, who is probably the youngest general man- ger of coal-mining corporations to be found in West Virginia.

In 1915 Mr. Warden married Miss Ethel Witt, daugh- er of J. F. Witt, of Bluefield, and the two children of his union are Henry Fairbanks, Jr., and James Alex- .nder. Mr. and Mrs. Warden are members of the Bland Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and are popu- ar in the representative social circles of their home ity.

WALTER ALLEN CARR, M. D. In the practice of his pro- essien Doctor Carr is associated with Dr. David D. Hatfield, the former maintaining his headquarters at Var and the latter at Yukon, both in MeDowell County. As partners the doctors have charge of the medical And surgical work at the mines of the following named corporations on Dry Fork and on the line of the Norfolk Western Railroad: Warrior Coal Company, Williama Pocahontas Ceal Company, War Creek Coal Company, Domestic Pocahontas Coal Company, Yukon Pocahontas Ceal Company, Buckhannon Coal Company, Dry Fork Coal Company, Sawyer Pocahontas Coal Company, Dry Fork Colliery Company, and Flat Top Coal Company. Each of these physicians also has a comprehensive and mportant private practice of general order. Doetor Carr was born at New Hope, Mercer County, Vest Virginia, December 9, 1882, and is a aon of Ed- ward B. and Mary (Ellison) Carr, the former of whom ikewise was born at New Hope, in 1855, and the lat- er of whom was born in Grayson County, Virginia, in .862, a granddaughter of Rev. Matthew Ellison, a dis- inguished and revered pioneer clergyman of the Baptist Church in what is now West Virginia. Edward B. Carr was the third atudent to enroll his name at the Concerd Normal School at Athens, and he has long maintained ligh prestige as a successful and popular teacher in the schools of this state, the while he has taken special atisfaction in inducing many of his pupils to attend is alma mater, the State Normal School at Athens. He has wielded large and benignant influence as an natruetor and counselor of young men and women, his biding sympathy and tolerance have been ahown in human helpfulness, and he has ever been instant in the iding of those in suffering and distress. It is pleasing o note that his son, Doeter Carr of this sketch, has shown the same gracious attitude and gives his profes- sional service as well aa other aid to those in need, just as willingly and earnestly to those who have no means of paying him as to those in affluent circum- tances. Further than this, the Dector attributes much if his professional auceess and advancement to the aid and goodly counsel of his honored father. Edward B.

Carr taught in numerous rural schools in Mercer County and also at the normal school at Athens, where he and his wife now maintain their home. They are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he has been a teacher in the Sunday School for many years. He is independent in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. His father, Col. Shannon C'arr, who was born in Wythe County, Virginia, repre. sented the Old Dominion State as a gallant soldier and officer of the Confederacy in the Civil war, in which he was colenel of a regiment of Virginia infantry. He was a resident of Mercer County, West Virginia, at the time of his death, and had served many years as sheriff of that county. Edward B. and Mary (Ellison) Carr be- came the parents of five children: Dr. Edward S., a graduate of the University College of Medicine of Vir- ginia, is a representative physician and surgeon at Nar- rows, that state; Mabel M. is the wife of S. C. Thorn- ton, of Princeton, West Virginia; Alice is (1922) a popu- lar teacher in the public schools at War, MeDowell County; Dr. Arthur B. graduated in the Medical Col- lege of Virginia, at Richmond, and is now a professional assistant of his brother, Dr. Walter A., who is the eldest of the children. Dr. Arthur B. Carr was a member of the Students Army Training Corps during the period of America's participation in the World war.

Dr. Walter A. Carr reverts with satisfaction that the major part of his preliminary education was acquired in schools taught by his father. Thereafter he continued his studies in the Concord State Normal School at Athens until 1902, after which he taught school ene term in Mercer County. In 1907 he graduated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Mary- land, and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine hie engaged in practice at l'almer, Braxton County. Three months later he joined his brother Edward S. in practice at Narrows, Virginia, where he remained eighteen months. Since that time he has been doing admirable professional service in the coal fields of MeDowell County, West Virginia, where he now main- tains his residence and office in the village of War, The doctor holds membership in the McDowell County Medical Society, West Virginia State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. Ile is independ- ent in politics, and in the Masonic fraternity he is affili- ated with the Blue Lodge at Narrows, Virginia, and with the Chapter of Royal Arch Masens at Northfork, MeDowell County.

In 1909 Doctor Carr wedded Miss Ilettio Altizer, daughter of William Altizer, of Ilarman, Virginia, aod her death occurred in January, 1913, one son, Walter Hatfield Carr, surviving her. In 1917 was recorded the marriage of Doctor Carr and Miss Elva M. Ward, daugh- ter of George W. Ward, of Inez, Kentucky, and the two children of this union are a winsome little daughter, Betty May, and a baby boy, James Arthur.

JAMES D. MCLAUGHLIN. At Kermit, Mingo County, Mr. Mclaughlin is the efficient and popular general manager of the Earlston Coal Company, one of the important producing companies of this district.

Mr. MeLaughlin was born at Perrysville, Ohio, September 11, 1885, and is a son of Rev. Harvey MeLaughlin and Maria (Glasgow) MeLaughlin, both of sterling Seetch lineage. Rev. Harvey MeLaughlin was born in what is now Braxton County, West Virginia, where he was reared on the farm of his father, and after attending Dennison University, in the State of Ohio, he completed a divinity course in the theological seminary in the City of Louisville, Kentucky, hia ordination te the ministry of the Mis, onary Baptist Church having occurred when he was twenty-five years of age. While pastor of a church at Perrysville, Ohio, his marriage to Miss Maria Glasgow was solemnized, she being a representative of an old and well-known Ohio family After his marriage Mr. MeLaughlin held other pastoral charges in Ohio, and in 1893 he returned to West Virginia and became pastor of the church at Alderson, Greenbrier County, where he remained four years. Thereafter he held

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various pastoral charges in the coal districts of the state. He was sixty-six years of age at the time of his death, in October, 1917, his wife having died when their son James D., of this review, was a child.

After the death of his mother James D. MeLaughlin was taken into the home of his maternal grandfather at Per- rysville, Ohio, where he continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation from the high school in 1903. Thereafter he attended a preparatory school at Wooster, Ohio, and after leaving this institution he was for two years a student in Dennison University, his father's alma mater. In 1910 he was graduated as a Civil Engineer from Ohio State University, and for two years thereafter he was pro- fessionally associated with the firm of Clark & Krebs at Charleston, West Virginia. He passed the next year in the service of the Milburn Coal & Coke Company on Paint Creek, and from 1913 to 1919 he was with the New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company, in the engineer- ing department, at Berwind, McDowell County. He then took charge of the Earlston Coal Company, of which Henry E. Harman is president, and as general manager he has developed the Earlston plant from a wagon mine into one of the best equipped in this field. Ile is a republican in poli- ties and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.

In 1919 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. MeLaughlin and Miss Louise Stealey, daughter of John E. Stealey, of Clarksburg, she being a graduate of the University of West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. MeLaughlin have one child, Miriam Louise.

WILLIAM H. PRICE, M. D. With headquarters in the vital industrial village of Chattaroy, Mingo County, Doctor Price finds ample demand upon his time and attention in connec- tion with his official professional service as mine physician and surgeon for the Buffalo Thacker Coal Company, Fall Branch Coal Company and Wygart Coal Company, all of which are operating in this immediate vicinity.

Doctor Price was born at Montvale, Bedford County, Vir- ginia, October 7, 1879, and is a son of Dr. Samuel H. and Frances (Harris) Price, the latter of whom died in the year 1898. Dr. Samuel H. Price was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, is now (1922) sixty-nine years of age, and has long been a representative physician and surgeon in Bedford County, that state, where he still maintains his home at Montvale. He was graduated in the medical de- partment of the University of Virginia in 1875, and he is one of the honored and influential citizens of Bedford County, of which he has served twenty-one years as treas- urer, and prior to his election to that office he had been for five years a member of the County Board of Supervisors. He is a staunch democrat, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, has been for forty years an elder in the Pres- byterian Church and is interested in many business enter- prises. Of the children two sons and one daughter are living. Dr. Samuel O. was engaged in the practice of his profession at Maybeury, McDowell County, West Virginia, at the time of his death, when twenty-six years of age, he previously having been connected with hospitals at New- port News, Virginia, and Huntington and Welch, West Vir- ginia. Dr. Howard E., another of the sons, is a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, and is now engaged in the practice of dentistry at Altavista, Virginia. Mary Ross Price, the one surviving daughter, is the widow of Dr. Wal- ter S. Slicer, who received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University College of Medicine and who was en- gaged in the practice of his profession at Cripple Creek, Virginia, when he entered the medical corps of the United States Army for service in the World war, he having held the rank of captain and having died while in service, His widow is now a resident of Roanoke, Virginia.

Dr. William H. Price graduated from a college academic course when he was seventeen years of age, and for the en- suing year he was employed in the store conducted by his father at Montvale, Virginia. In 1898 he entered the medi- cal department of the University of Virginia, and in the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1901. Since thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he has taken effective post-graduate courses in the celebrated

New York Polyclinic. The doctor initiated practice b establishing his residence at Caperton, Fayette County West Virginia, where he became physician and surgeon i connection with the mines of George L. Wise & Company He next removed to Eckman, McDowell County, one yea later he engaged in practice at Big Creek, Logan County and since June, 1909, he has maintained his residence an professional headquarters at Chattaroy. Doctor Price is member of the Mingo County Medical Society, the Wes Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medica Association. Though he was reared in the faith of th democratic party, he is aligned in the ranks of the repub lican party, as is also his wife, and both are members o the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with the Blu Lodge, Chapter and Commandery organizations of the Me sonic fraternity, as well as the Mystic Shrine at Charleston and he is a member also of the Benevolent and Protectiv Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America.

November 29, 1916, recorded the marriage of Docto Price and Miss Luey Fowble Millendor, daughter of Corne lius F. Millendor, of Huntington. The two children of thi union are Frances and Margaret.

PHILIP A. HOLMAN is well known in Charleston busines circles, and has recently helped organize and become a) executive official in one of the city's prosperous wholesale enterprises.

He was born, reared and educated at St. Agnes', Corn wall, England, and came to America about the time hi reached his majority, in. 1908. He first located in Michi gan, and for several years was assistant to receivers o. national banks under the U. S. comptroller of the currency His home has been in Charleston since 1915. As an Ameri can citizen he answered the call to service at the time 01 the war with Germany, was trained in Camp Sherman, and was on duty in Charleston as an aide to the disbursing of ficer in this city.

Mr. Holman was the active organizer and is now treas urer of the Superior Drug Company, wholesale, incorporated for $225,000, and which opened for business in Charlestor in the latter part of March, 1922. The other officers of the corporation are Dr. H. H. Kessel, president, Dr. Sylvair Goffaux, vice president, and C. H. Casto, secretary.

This company has its headquarters at 905 Virginia Street in the heart of the wholesale district, and its building, a four-story and basement modern brick structure, is ideally fitted for the purposes. The company started out under most favorable auspices and with a volume of business that assures its growing contact and trade with the great terri- tory surrounding Charleston. Mr. Holman is a thirty-sec- ond degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He also holds membership in the Kiwanis Club. He married Miss Jennie Lind Hodges of Louisville, Kentucky.

WILLARD ALEXANDER WILSON, with residence and business headquarters in the City of Williamson, is superintendent of the Pond Creek By-products Colliery Company and the Vulcan Colliery Company, the former corporation having its base of operations at the mouth of Pond Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, and the Vulcan Colliery Company, with office in Mingo County and mines in Pike County, Ken- tucky, on the line of the Norfolk & Western Railroad. Mr. Wilson has been actively identified with operations in the coal fields of this district, including the adjoining Ken- tucky county of Pike, since 1903, when he engaged in en- gineering work for the United States Coal Company at Gary, McDowell County. He remained at Gary during the period of mine opening and construction work, and in 1912 went to the Pond Creek District, where likewise he took part in development work. In 1914 he came to Red Jacket, Mingo County, and in 1918 became associated with opera- tions at the Vulcan mines. In 1920 he became associated also with the Pond Creek By-products Colliery Company, and he is now superintendent of both corporations, as noted earlier in this paragraph.

Mr. Wilson was born at Cynthiana, Ohio, February 22 1880, a son of Lewis C. and Emma A. (Steele) Wilson, the

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ormer of whom was beru in 1848 and the latter in 1850. ewis C. Wilsen bocame a member of the historic rifle rigade known as the "Squirrel Hunters, " which was or- anized in Ohio to repel the forces of the celebrated Con- ederate raider Gen. John Morgan at tho time of the Civil ar. In his earlier life Lewis C. Wilson was a farmer, and iter he was identified with various lines of business, in- luding the insurance business. He is a stalwart repub- can and at one time served as county commissioner in Pike County, Ohio, he and his wife being now residents of 'olumbus, that state, and both being members of the Pres- yterian Church. They became the parents of six song and wo daughters.

Willard A. Wilson, who is more familiarly known to his ost of friends as "Tug" Wilson, continued his studies in be public schools of his native town until he had con- Icted a course in the high school, and in 1899-1900 he was student in the Ohio State University at Columbus. A outh of fine athletic powers, he was a leading and popular member of the football team of the university, and it was n this connection that he gained his nickname of "Tug." He played also on the baseball team of the university, and ater he became infielder with the Utica team of the New York State League. It was as a ball player that Mr. Wil- on came to West Virginia and became a member of the eam at Gary, where also he was given employment with n engineeering corps in the coal fields. He "made good" a both connections, and though he had previously had no engineering experience, he so proved his value that when he United States Coal Company reduced the membership of its engineering corps from hundred and forty te twenty e was one of the twenty retained in service. He has served continuously as mine superintendent since 1906, and has nade a most excellent record as an executive. Mr. Wilsou s a republican, ha and his wife are members of the Pres- yterian Church at Williamson, in which he is an elder, and while a resident ef Vulcan he served as a member of the Board of Education.

In 1906 Mr. Wilson wedded Miss Grace Myers, daughter f Mrs. Malissa P. Myers, of Columbus, Ohio, and the three children of this unien are: Elizabeth, Frances Ann and Mary Lou.

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