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Mr. Smith married Katharine Bowne, daughter of Samuel W. Bowne, of New York. Their family consists of thrco children.

EDWARD MAYS is now in his second term as county super- intendent of schools of Cabell County. He has given wisdom and discretion to the important dutics of his office, and his qualifications rest upon his long and active experi- ence in school work, including both rural and graded schools and close touch in his personal studies with some of the best higher institutions of education.

Mr. Mays was born in Cabell County, in Grant District, November 25, 1834. His grandfather, Charles H. Mays, was born in old Virginia in 1825 and was one of the early farmers in Cahell County, where he lived until his death in 1900. Charles H. Mays, father of the county superintendent, was born in Cabell County in 1854, and for many years was a successful farmer there. Since 1918 his home has been in Huntington, where he is connected with a tobacco ware- house. He is a democrat and a leading member of the Bap- tist Church. Charles H. Mays first married Susan Braley, who was born in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1855, and died in Cabell County in 1886. Her only child is Edward Mays. The second wife of Charles H. Mays was Fannie F. Flynn, a native of Cabell County. She is the mother of four chil- dren. Alva J., the oldest, now an employe of the Union Transfer Company at Huntington, was a corporal in the heavy artillery during the World war, spent a year over- seas in France, and was on duty at the front. The second son, Everett, is also an employe of the Union Transfer Com- pany. The third child is Mrs. Lillie Stewart, whose husband is a painter and decorator at Huntington. The fourth and youngest is Raymond, an employe of the Western Union Telegraph Company and, like his brothers, living with his parents.

Edward Mays attended the rural schools of Cabell County, finished a high school course at Milton, and in 1907 entered Marshall College at Huntington, where he has continued his advanced studies at intervals, is now a member of the junior class in the regular college course and has also taken several extension courses. Mr. Mays did his first teaching in rural schools of Putnam County for two years, and for eight years was a rural school teacher in his native county. For two years he was principal of the graded school at Ona, and in November, 1914, was called to his important task as county superintendent of schools. He began his eleetivo term of four years on July 1, 1915. His second election occurred in November, 1918. His official headquarters are in the courthouse at Huntington, and his supervision extends over ninety-five schools, 132 teachers and a scholarship en- rollment of 4,100.

Mr. Mays served a time on the State Grading Board for Teachers, and is a member of the Cabell County Teachers Association and West Virginia Educational Association, and in 1921 was chairman of the County Superintendents Sec- tion of the State Association. He was deputy assessor of Cabell County from 1910 to 1914. Mr. Mays is a member of the Baptist Church, is a past chancellor of Milton Lodge No. 106, Knights of Pythias, and was representative to the

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Grand Lodge of the state in 1914, is a past councillor of Milton Council No. 188, Junior Order United American Meehanies, and representative to the Grand Lodge of the state in 1919-20. He is affiliated with Lewis Temple No. 22, Pythian Sisters; Rainbow Council No. 30, Daughters of America at Milton. During the war he was a "Four- Minute" Man, assisting in all the drives, and was chairman of the Rural Schools Organization of Cabell County Chapter of the Red Cross. Mr. Mays owns his home on Smith Street in Milton. He married Angust 24, 1909, in Cabell County, Miss Ella Havens, daughter of John W. and Mary ( Young) Havens, who still live on their farm near Milton. Mr. and Mrs. Mays have two children: Blaine C., born November 3, 1910; and Bernard H., born Jannary 12, 1913.

GEORGE ROBERTS HEFFLEY. The first Conrt of Domestic Relations, formally created by legislative enactment and organized in West Virginia, was established in the City of Huntington, and the judge, appointed by the governor, who was delegated to open the business of this novel branch of the jndieiary is George Roberts Heffley, who was called from a busy and successful private law practice to these duties. Judge Heffley is a member of an old family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. His ancestors settled in that sec- tion of Pennsylvania in Colonial times, when they eame ont of Germany. His grandfather, George Heffley, spent his life in Somerset Connty, where he was born in 1807 and died at Berlin in 1888. He was a blacksmith by trade. His wife, Julia Poorbaugh, was born in 1810 and died in 1900, likewise a life-long resident of Somerset County. IIenry Heffley, father of Judge Heffley, is still living at Somerset, and was born at Berlin in the same connty, June 25, 1842. He has been a resident of Somerset since the '70s, and all his life except for abont five years has been spent in that county. This period he was in the West, when the Indians dominated the life of the plains, and was a teamster from Omaha to Salt Lake City. He retired from a successful career as a merchant at Somerset in 1903. By appointment of Governor Robert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania he served as associate judge of Somerset County, is a democrat and one of the very prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in his community, heing a trustee of the church. IIenry Heffley married Eliza Roberts, who was born at Stoyestown, Somerset County, November 7, 1851. George Roberts Heffley is their oldest ehild. Snsan is the wife of Andrew W. Kinzer, auditor for the Consolidation Coal Company and a resident of Somerset. Carrie is the wife of Robert E. Sullivan, an asphalt paving contractor at Somerset. Miss Grace lives with her parents.

George Roberts Heffley was born at Somerset, December 3, 1878, graduated from the high school of his native eity in 1895, and subsequently entered Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity at Delaware, where he took the regular four-year course and graduated Bachelor of Literature in 1902. He was a member of the Theta Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi frater- nity in university. In the spring of 1903 he began his law studies in West Virginia University and graduated LL. B. in 1904. Jndge Heffley is a member of the Delta Chi law fraternity. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 at Morgan- town, West Virginia, and has been a resident of Hunting- ton sinee January, 1905.

He has been a member of the Huntington bar sinee January, 1905, and early in his career he proved himself the possessor of sound abilities as a lawyer, and the knowl- edge and character requisite for success in the profession.

The Domestic Relations Court of Cabell County was estab- lished by act of the Legislature, April 19, 1921, and the court was formally organized and began its work on the 11th of May of the same year. The appointment of Judge Heffley was made May 9th by Governor E. F. Morgan. Judge Heffley is a republican, a trustee of the First Meth- odist Episcopal Church of Huntington, a member of Hunt- ington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Guyan Country Club, Huntington Chamber of Com- merce, the County and State Bar associations. During the World war he performed much gratuitous service, assisting recruited men of the county in filling out questionaires.

June 6, 1911, at Huntington, he married Miss Sadle

Enslow, daughter of Dr. Corydon R. and Mary (Blo). Enslow, residents of Huntington, where her father i!a physician and surgeon. Mrs. Heffley is a graduate of M - shall College.

GEORGE W. LUTZ. Some of the biggest things that he been done in Wheeling, whether commercial nndertaki's or enterprises of a strietly public nature, acknowledge 8 one of their chief actuating sources and inspiration Geox W. Lutz. Mr. Lutz was born in Wheeling, beeame a wct- ing factor in the city's industrial affairs when a boy, ad in his mature years his interests have been distribud among a large number of Wheeling's best known industri, financial and public undertakings.

Mr. Lutz was born July 17, 1855. His father, Sebasta Lutz, was born in Alsace, Germany, in 1813, was reareda the Sehwartzwald of Alsace, and in 1837 came to the Unil States and located at Wheeling. He was a butcher trade, and for many years condneted the Old Home Hot on Market Street, opposite the site of the present at - torium. He made that one of the popular hostelries f the day. Sebastian Lutz died at Wheeling in 1865. was a demoerat and a Catholic in religion. His w), Anna Treusehler, was born in Alsace in 1829, and di at Wheeling in 1871. The oldest of their for child: is Sophia A., living at Wheeling, widow of the late Geo; Hook, who was elerk of the Ohio County Court sixte years and cashier of the Germania Half Dollar Saving Bank, now the Half Dollar Savings Bank of Wheeli. The second child is George W. Lutz. William Lutz ist resident of Wheeling, interested in the Home Pearl Laund Company. John J. Lntz, now a retired resident of Clairsville, Ohio, was one of the founders of the Ho Pearl Laundry Company. By a previons marriage ; bastian Lutz had two children: Charles P., a railrc employe living at Chicago; and Louisa, of Wheeling, wid of Fred Swartz.

George W. Lntz attended parochial schools in Wheelil also attended night conrse in the Frazier Business C lege, where he was graduated in 1868, at the age of th teen. He then went to work as an employe of the ( Wheeling Tack Factory. He remained there about a ye until injured, nearly losing his left arm. Two years f lowing he was in the Coen, Armstrong & Coen Planing M and then took up the business which has been his cent activity through all his active years, plumbing and g and steam fitting. For one year he worked with Jac Hughes and then with Trimble & Hornbrook, plumbers a gas fitters. After four years he bonght the interest Mr. Hornbrook in the establishment, and was an acti partner with Mr. Trimble for eighteen years. On the dea of Mr. Trimble he continued the firm name of Trimble Lutz, and in 1907 the Trimble & Lutz Supply Compa was incorporated. This is now the largest honse in t state doing a wholesale and jobbing business in plnmbil steam fitting and gas supplies. The corporation owns large brick structure at 112-122 Nineteenth Street. T present executive officers of the corporation are: H. Ebbert, president; P. H. Hornbrook, vice president; Har J. Lutz, a nephew of George W. Lutz, secretary and trez urer; while George W. Lutz was president of the corpor tion nntil 1919, and has since been chairman of the Boa of Directors. This business was in early years merely firm for contracting in plumbing and gasfitting, bnt und Mr. Lutz's able supervision expanded its facilities until i business is in the front rank of its line.

Ten years ago the most discussed project in Wheeli was the building of a great anditorinm, to occupy t. historic site of the old Market House and Town Hall, building that would furnish facilities for a city mark place and also a convention hall capable of entertainit large assemblages. The business man who was most pe sistent in keeping this project before the people and wl has been justly called the father of the auditorium is Georg W. Lutz, who for a number of years has been and still president and director of the Market Auditorium Compan The auditorium is one of Wheeling's most important publ buildings. It is 506 feet long by 50 feet wide, was bui

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a coat of $160,000 and houses the public market, and rnishes quarters for the Chamber of Commerce on the cond floor in addition to the great auditorium or conven- a hall.

During the past thirty or forty years Mr. Lutz has been entified with a large number of commercial enterprises. e is still president and director of the Loveland Improve. eat Company of Wheeling, president and director of the tility Salt Company; a director of the Security Trust mpany, the Half Dollar Savings Bank, the Wheeling ile Company, the Gee Electric Company and the Ameri- n Spar Company. He is president of the West Virginia ate Fair Association, was for three years president of e Wheeling Board of Trade, and is a member of the ountry Club, the Fort Henry Club, the Carroll Club, the ack Bass Fishing Club, the Isaac Walton Club, is a fourth gree Knight of Columbus and a member of Carroll Coun- 1 No. 504 of that order, and is a past exalted ruler of heeling Lodge No. 28, B. P. O. E. Many definite acts ' public spirit are credited to Mr. Lutz. It is recalled at at his own expense he installed twenty-three flower ds on Virginia Avenue on Wheeling Faland as a means ' adorning that section of the city. With other citizens · was instrumental in placing flower beds on the National ighway at Fulton and in building a beautiful entrance the city limits that has been greatly admired by the otorists who pass through Wheeling over the National ighway. Mr. Lutz was a member of the various com- ittees for selling the Liberty Loan quetas and other "ives in the city. He is now engaged with the Civic Com- ittee, acting as chairman and as a member of the Wheel- g Improvement Association, and is greatly interested in curing for Wheeling its new filtration plant and atreet zhting of Wheeling's principal streets.

In 1887, at Wheeling, he married Miss Lugene E. Hern- ook, daughter of Thomas and Triphenia Hornbrook. now ceased. Her father was owner of the noted Hornbrook ark, now known as Wheeling Park. Mrs. Lutz died Sep- mber 7, 1917. Mr. Lutz has one of the finest homes in e city, at 308 South Front Street and purchased a forty- re acre wooded farm for a summer home.

HENRY CLAY WARTH. In the law, business and public fairs Henry Clay Warth has been steadily accumulating mors and success since he engaged in practice at Hunting- n fifteen years ago.

He is descended from a great frontiersman and Indian ghter, George Warth, a native of old Virginia and one " the first settlers in Jackson County, West Virginia. He id his brother, John A., had a contract for carrying the ail over the trails from Jackson County into Meigs County. hio. As a mark of the service he rendered in these frontier lys the Government erected a monument to the memory ' George Warth at Great Bend. Meigs County. He lived that county the latter part of his life, owning a farm ere. His wife was Ruth Fleahart, a native of Newton, irginia, who died in Meigs County. His name is also com. emorated in a locality in Jackson County known as 'arth's Bottom.

A son of this pioneer, Robert A. Warth, was born in d Virginia in 1800, and was a small boy when the family oved to Jackson County, where he spent his active life as cooper and farmer. He died in Jackson County in 1992. e married there Mary Johnson, a native of old Virginia, ho died in Jackson County. John A. Warth, their son, id father of the Huntington lawyer, was born at Warth's ottom in Jackson County, August 6, 1847. and is now ing at Gallipolis Ferry in Mason County, West Virginia. is active career has been that of a successful farmer, and 1903 he removed to Mason County, where he still owns id operates a farm. He is a democrat in polities. John A. 'arth married Ann Stareher, who was born on Big indy in Jackson County in October, 1856. Their children e: Myrtle, wife of William Hall, a building contractor ing at Ocean View. Virginia: Henry Clay; Arthur L., who veg on the home farm in Mason County, grows blooded restock and practices his profession as a veterinary; and iss Mary Belle, who for a number of years waa a teacher id is now a Government employe at Washington.

Henry Clay Warth was horn at Willow Grove in Jackson County, February 11, 1878. He started with a rural school education, but in 1900 graduated from Marshall College at Huntington and in 1905 received the A. B. degree from Oberlin College of Ohio. He took his law course in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. from which he re- eeived his LL. B. degree in 1907. Mr. Warth is n member of the Delta Chi college fraternity. Since his graduntion in 1907 he has been steadily practicing law nt Huntington, and has handled a large volume of business in both the civil and criminal branches. He was a member of the firm Warth, MeCullough & Peyton. Their offices are in the Ohio Valley Bank Building on Third Avenue, and Mr. Warth is vice president of the Ohio Valley Bank.

lle has been a leader in the democratic party in his sec- tion of the state. In 1912 he was elected to represent Cabell County in the House of Delegates, and served in the sessions of 1913 and 1915. He ia prominent in the First Congrega- tional Church, being director of the choir. Fraternally he is affiliated with Huntington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Kiwanis Club and Huntington Chamber of Com- merce, and is a director in the Community Service Organ- ization of Huntington nad a member of the Cabell County and State Bar associations. His home at 207 Water Street occupies a beautiful location on the banks of the Ohio River. He owns considerable other improved real estate, including a business corner at Ninth Street and Third Avenue. Dur- ing the war Mr. Warth sought active duty in the Y. M. C. A., was appointed a transport aceretary, and performed the service of that organization for soldiers and sailors while heing transported overseas. His regular station was the U. S. Huron, and he crossed the ocean six times.

In 1899, at Huntington, Mr. Warth married Miss Ruth A. Parsons, a daughter of Chester F. and Mandana (Shaw) Parsons, now deceased. Her father wng for many years a hardware merchant at Huntington. Mra. Warth is also n graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio, receiving her A. B. degree in 1905. They have one son, Henry, born August 30, 1906, now a atudent in the Huntington High School.

JOHN EDWIN THOMAS. Beginning when a boy, John Edwin Thomas was in the railroad service until he located at Huntington about twenty years ago. Here he became identified with the sale of mining machinery and equip- ment over West Virginia coal fields, and for some years past has been the manager and one of the executives in an important aales organization in this field, known as the Ifuntington Supply & Equipment Company.

Mr. Thomas was born at Syracuse, Meigs County, Ohio, September 6. 1871. His father, Joseph Thomas, was born at Lantrisant, South Wales, in 1824, and devoted practically his entire life to the coal mining industry. He was raised in his native town in Wales, and as a young man came to America, was married at Pittsburgh, followed coal mining at Syracuse, Ohio, and in 1874 located at Cannelton, Kana- wha County, West Virginia. In 1881 he moved to Conl Valley, now called Montgomery. Fayette County, West Virginia, and was mine superintendent of the W. R. John- son Coal Mining Company's mines situated at Crescent. He continued his duties for this company the remainder of his active career, and died at Montgomery in 1992. After becoming an American citizen Joseph Thomas voted as a republican, was an active member of the Baptist Church and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lowa. He married Catherine Griffith, also a native of Lantrisant, South Wales, where she was born and received training. She died in Montgomery, West Virginia, in 1897. Of the four children of these parents John Edwin was the youngest. The oldest. Lydia, died at Montgomery in 1907, wife of John W. Carson, a passenger conductor on the Cavon Creek branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Miss Kate, the second child, died unmarried at the age of twenty- one. Elizabeth is the wife of Dr. Thomas H. Elliott, a physician and surgeon at St. Elmo, Tennessee.

John Edwin Thomas was three years of age when his parents came to West Virginia, was reared in and educated in the public schools of Cannelton and Montgomery, but left school when only fourteen and since then has been mak-

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ing his own way in the world. His first employment, lasting two years, was that of delivery boy for a grocery store at Montgomery. He then entered the service of the Chesa- peake & Ohio Railroad Company at Cannelton, was station call boy, a year later was promoted to yard clerk at Cov- ington, Kentucky, and was then transferred to Ashland, Kentucky, where until 1897 he was yard master's chief clerk. Leaving there, he became night yardmaster for the Norfolk & Western Railroad at Kenova, Wayne County, West Virginia. He was stationed at Kenova until 1899, and then at Buffalo, New York, one year.

Mr. Thomas became a resident of Huntington in 1901, and for three and one-half years he traveled over the coal fields along the Norfolk & Western Railroad as salesman for the Miller Supply Company, and at the end of that time he was taken off the road and put in charge of the ma- chinery department of this company at Huntington, remain- ing with the firm a year and a half longer. The Huntington Supply and Equipment Company he organized in 1906. This company acts as manufacturers' agents for machinery and supplies, with Mr. Thomas as active manager. The com- pany's offices are in the Robson-Pritchard Building at Huntington.

Among other business interests Mr. Thomas is a director in the Huntington National Bank and the Atlas Rubber & Belting Company of Cincinnati.

He has found a number of interesting duties and diver- sions in his life at Huntington. He is a deacon and chair- man of the finance committee of the Presbyterian Church, votes as a democrat, is affiliated with Huntington Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., Huntington Chapter No. 6, R. A. M., Huntington Commandery No. 9, K. T., Beni-Kedem Tem- ple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, is a member of Huntington Council No. 53, of the United Commercial Travelers, the Huntington Rotary Club, and in the Cham- ber of Commerce he served two years as vice president and six years as a member of the Board of Directors. During the great war he was a member of committees and other- wise active in promoting the success of the various drives for the Liberty Loan and other causes. He was a "Four- Minute" speaker with the local war organization.

At Ashland, Kentucky, in June, 1904, Mr. Thomas mar- ried Miss Adelaide Fisher, daughter of Nathan E. and Sarah (Smith) Fisher, her mother a resident of Ashland, where her father died in 1912: Her father was an under- taker at Ashland.

REV. WILLIAM M. LISTER. The ordinary individual whose years are prolonged beyond middle age sees a future ahead wherein ease and a competency may await him and pa- tiently or otherwise performs his duties until the appointed time, when he sinks more or less into oblivion. There are extraordinary men, however, who have already achieved distinction and won merited rewards before this middle age is reached, and when retirement comes in one direc- tion just as efficiently prove their vitality in other fields, and, in fact, never find lack of interest to inspire or duties to gladly perform to family, church or country. With a splendid record to his credit as a clergyman of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, Rev. William M. Lister, one of Huntington's most valued citizens, has been equally suc- cessful in the real estate business, and for the past five years has devoted his interests to the development of an expanding enterprise. Reverend Lister, realtor, has suc- ceeded Reverend Lister, minister of the Gospel, whose long carcer in the latter capacity had not only been fruitful of results, but had brought him the affection and esteem of people over a wide territory.

Reverend Lister was born July 21, 1866, in Caroline County, Maryland, a son of James Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Caiu) Lister. His grandfather, Joshua Lister, was of English-Irish descent and belonged to a family which had immigrated to America in Colonial days and settled in Delaware, in which state he was born in 1776. He spent his entire life in his native state, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and died in 1846, aged seventy years, while his wife, Anna, also a native of Delaware, died when eighty-three years of age.

James Edward Lister, who now resides in Caroli County, Maryland, was born June 13, 1837, and 1 resided in his present community all his life. As a you man he learned the trade of carpentry, which he followi for about thirty years, and then turned his attention ) agriculture, becoming a practical farmer, a field of lal . in which he gained a wide and well-deserved reputation 1 general ability, industry and progressive ideas. He now retired from active pursuits. Mr. Lister is a den crat in politics, and his religious faith is that of t Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has always be a willing worker and generous contributor. He marri Miss Mary Elizabeth Cain, who was born December : : 1840, in Sussex County, Delaware, and died August 1919, in Caroline County, Maryland. They became parents of the following children: Martha Jane, w married John L. Reed, of Camden, New Jersey, a static ary engineer; Hester Ann, who died in Caroline Count aged twenty-six years, as the wife of George L. Harr who is still engaged in farming in Caroline County; Ma. Etta, who also died in that county at the same age, as t wife of John O. Pippin, a farmer, who is likewise ( ceased; Joshua L., a practical farmer and accounted o of the best in Caroline County, where he died at the a of forty-three years; William M., of this record; Lau Elizabeth, who died in Queen Anne County, Marylar aged twenty-five years, as the wife of the late Arno Butler, who was an extensive farmer; Ida May, who di aged eighteen years; Maggie Lacey, who died when nin teen years of age; Emma, who died aged seventeen year Georgia Luvinia, the wife of Louis Butler, one of t progressive and practical agriculturists of Caroline Count Maryland; and Blanche, who died at the age of s months.

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