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On the 14th of August, 1918, Mr. Davidson entere the Officers Training Camp at Camp Taylor, Kentuck: and in the following November he received his honorab! discharge, with the rank of second lieutenant, his con mand having not been called into active service in th World war.

At Catlettsburg, Kentucky, in 1910, Mr. Davidson ma: ried Miss Corinne Kitchen, daughter of the late William B. and Elizabeth (Trago) Kitchen, the father havin been a successful farmer near Jackson, Ohio. Mr. an Mrs. Davidson have three children: Barbara Alice, bor March 18, 1912; Florence, born April 27, 1913; and Mary born January 28, 1915.

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OSEPH ARTHUR GUTHAIE, M. D., is not only recognized as ef the leading physicians and surgeens at Hunting- , but has also made a most valuable contribution the city's metropolitan prestige by establishing and 'eloping te the best modern standard the Guthrie spital, of which he is the proprietor.

Doctor Guthrie was born at Athens, judicial center of Ohie County of the same name, and the date of his ivity was May 23, 1878. He is a acion of an honored neer family of the old Buckeye State, his grandfather, eph Guthrie, having passed his entire life ia Meigs inty, Ohio, where he became a prosperous farmer I honored and influential citizen of his community, father, Joseph Guthrie, Sr., having been bern in gland, and having been a pioneer settler in Meigs aty, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life I where he developed the productive farm which later ged into the possession of his son Joseph, who there wise resided until the close of his life.

Doctor Guthrie is a son of George P. and Esther Ann artin) Guthrie, both natives of Meigs County. Ohio, Pre the former was born in 1846 and the latter in 1. The father became a prominent and successful nnent of farm industry in Athens County. Ohio, re he established his residence shortly after his mar- ve and where he continued to reside until his death June. 1912, his widow being still a resident of Athens. county seat. He was a republican of unwavering altv and was a zealous member of the Christian irch. as ig also his widow. They became the parents eight children, of whom Doctor Guthrie. of this To. w. was the fifth in order of birth. Eva is the wife William Ranking, a farmer in Meigs County, Ohio: nnie is the wife of Benjamin Acklev, a farmer near rinn, that state: Margaret is the wife of John Stont. " is engaged in the dairy business nt Eugene. Oregon: na is the wife of Everett Blackwood. a jeweler in + Oregon city; Rav. a skilled mechanic. Fraides at za. Arizona ; and Frank owns and has active man- ment of the old home farm in Athens County. Ohio. n the high school at Athens, Ohio. Doctor Guthrie graduated in 1897. and thereafter he taught school his native ennnty for a period of one vear. He next 'nded Ohio University. at Athens. until he had com- 'ed the work of his sophomore year, and there he was member of the Philomatean Society. In preparation his chosen profession he entered the College of gicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore. Mary- 1. and in this institution he was graduated aq a nher of the class of 1903 and with the degree of tor of Medicine. Each successive year since his Huation he has done effective post-graduate work in ions leading clinics, including those of Mercy and justana hospitals in the City of Chicago; those of distinguished Mavo Brothers of Rochester, Minne- i; and of the New York Post-Graduate Medical tool. In this continuous application that has kept f in close touch with advances made in his exacting ression Doctor Guthrie has specialized in surgery, and e founding his hospital at Huntington he has given or attention to the surgical phase of professional rice.

1 1903 Doctor Guthrie established himself in general .tice at Ravenswood, Jackson County. West Vir -. ia, but one year later he found a broader field by hlishing his residence at Huntington, where he has eloped a specially large and representative practice. 11910 Doeter Guthrie erected a substantial modern Dding at the corner of Sixth Avenne and Sixth Street " equipped the same as a thoroughly high-grade hos- 11. The patronage accorded to the institution so con- Bonaly increased that in 1916 it was found essential build an addition to the hospital, and in 1920 another >plete unit was added, with the result that the insti- mon now has facilities fer the accommodation ef sixty menta. Adjoining the hospital is the theronghly pped nurses' home. The institution haa the best of 'ratory facilities, including X-Ray and radium ap-

paratua; the operating room is of the best metropolitan type, and in the conjoined training school for oursca the graduates in 1920 and 1921 gained the highest aver- ages in examinations of all nurses graduated in the State of West Virginia.

Doctor Guthrie is a loval and valued member of the Cabell Company Medical Society and the West Virginia State Medical Society, besides maintaining netive mem- bership in the American Medical Association. He is n member of the local Kiwanis Club and the Guyan Country Club, is a republican in politienl allegiance, and bath he and his wife are members of the Christian Church nt Huntington, he being a member of its board of directors.

On the 19th of April, 1916, wna solemnized the mar riage of Doctor Guthrie and Mias Carrie Wilkinson. daughter of Andrew J. nnd Ollie Wilkinson, of Hunting- ton, Mr. Wilkinson being a local representative of the American Book Company. Mrs. Guthrie graduated from Marshall College at Huntington. and also from Randolph- Macon College at Lynchburg, Virginia. Doctor and Mrs. Guthrie have three children: Joseph Arthur, born No. vember 23. 1917; William Wilkinson, born February 1, 1920; and Margaret Ann, born January 15, 1922.

CARL ROUSH BIBBEE, who is serving as county noricultural agent of Cabell County, with headquarters in the City of Huntington, has made a splendid record of excellent con- structive work in the furtheranee of the agricultural and live-stock industry in his native state. He was born at Hanna, Wond Countv. West Virginin. November 9, 1897. a son of Paul H. Bihbee, who was born on a farm near Hanna, that county. January 26, 1858, and who is a son of John and Permelia Ann (Barnett) Bibber, both likewise nativeq of the Virginia County that is now Wood County. West Virginia, where the respective fami- lies were founded in the early pioneer dava. . John Ribber was one of the extensive farmera of Wond County, and there he and his wife pageed their entire lives.

Paul H. Bibbee has resided near IIanna. Wood County. from the time of his birth to the present dav, and is one of the progressive and successful ngriculturists and stock- growers of that county. He is a republienn in politics and has held various local offices of public trust, includ. ing that of road supervisor of Clay District and that of member of the school board of that district, a posi- tion which he held six years. He and his wife nro members of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Bihhee, whose maiden name was Sarah Francis Roush, was born nt Mason City, Mason County, this state. August 13, 1862. Of the children the eldest is Paul Cecil, who served as a private of the first class in Hospital Train No. 54, with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the World war. He was on the stage of conflict oversens for eighteen months, and is now a successful exponent of farm industry in his native county. Carl R .. of this sketch, is the second son. The youngest is William J., who is, in 1922, a student in the high school at Parkerq- burg.

Carl R. Bibbee gained his preliminary education in the rural schools of his native county, thereafter graduated from the eighth grade of the city schools at Parkersburg. and graduated from high school as a member of the elage of 1915. In 1921 he graduated from the College of Agriculture of the University of West Virginin, and received the degree of Bachelor of Science of Agriculture, he being affiliated with the Theta Chi fraternity at the university. While a atudent at this institution he there entered the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, received four years of military discipline, and he now holds the rank of second lieutenant in this corps. In connection with the nation's participation in the World war he was in service three montha at Camp Gordon, Georgia, where he received his discharge December 13, 1918. For six months of that year he had previously served as assistant county agricultural agent of Berkeley County, and dur- ing the first eight months of 1919 he was assistant county agricultural agent of Wood County. For three montha in the summer of 1920 he was employed by the

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Extension Division of the College of Agriculture, Uni- versity of West Virginia as state camp instructor in Boys' and Girls' Club Work. On the 22d of July, 1921, he was appointed county agricultural agent of Cabell County, the office of which he is the present efficient and popular incumbent, his executive office being at room 205 in the Federal Building at Huntington. He is a republican in politics and holds membership in the Baptist Church.

November 24, 1921, recorded the marriage of Mr. Bibbee to Miss Isabel Stoker, of Morgantown, where her parents now reside, her father, Sheridan Stoker being there in the employ of the Standard Oil Company. Mrs. Bibbee graduated from the Morgantown High School and later attended the musical department of the Uni- versity of West Virginia, she being a talented pianist. The following article from the 1921 Annual Report of the Director of Agricultural Extension is well worthy of reproduction in this connection:

"C. R. Bibbee, county agent in Cabell County, is a fine example of a club boy who has grown right into county agent work. He was one of the first club boys in the state and was one of the three boys who came to the first State Prize Winners' course at Morgantown, in 1911. He had entered the 200-hill corn club and won the prize, a trip to Morgantown, for the best ten ears of corn in Wood County. This recognition got Carl started. He began to produce seed corn, and his Reid's Yellow Dent seed corn was soon being sold by Parkers- burg seed dealers, there being reason to believe that it was the first seed corn produced in Wood County. Working closely with his father in the seed-corn busi- ness, Carl was able to save enough money to put himself through Parkersburg High School. In the meantime he had received a quart of Government sample soy beans, and began raising soy beans for seed also. By the time he was ready to graduate from high school both his farm projects were going strongly and had enabled him to save some money to enter the university. After getting into the university he kept alive his club-work activities by working with one or two other boys in organizing the All-Stars, the state club of the leading club of boys and girls. Carl was assistant county agent in Berkeley County one summer. Then he was assistant county agent in his home county, Wood, another summer, and when the county agent suddenly died he carried on the whole county agent job for a time. His junior summer vacation was spent as camp instructor. Immediately after grad- uating he went to Cabell County as county agent, and is still on the job there. Is it any wonder Carl can under- stand his club boys? He knows what club work has done for him."

HERMAN LUTHER TUTWILER, M. D., is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of McDowell County, where he is engaged in practice at Iaeger, and his influence in civic affairs is indicated by his being a representative of Mc- Dowell County in the House of Delegates of the West Virginia Legislature.

Doctor Tutwiler is a scion of a family founded in Vir- ginia in an early day. At Kezelltown, Rockingham County, in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of that historic com- monwealth, he was born on the 1st of April, 1873. His parents, Peter and Sarah A. (Sandy) Tutwiler, likewise were born in Rockingham County, the former in 1842 and the latter in 1846. At the time of his marriage Peter Tut- wiler had a small farm, but his ability and energy gained to him cumulative success in the passing years and he became one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in his native county. Soon after the inception of the Civil war he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Virginia Regiment of Infantry, which became a part of the brigade commanded by Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson, and during the last three years of the war he was a sharpshooter. He took part in many major battles, including those of Winchester, Peters. burg, Richmond, Antietam and Gettysburg, the wound which he received in the thigh at Gettysburg having incapacitated him about two weeks. He was a non-commissioned officer at

the close of the war. In later years his association 1h his old comrades in arms was perpetuated through is affiliation with the United Confederate Veterans. Tutwiler was a leader in the local councils and campais of the democratic party, was an influential member of ie United Brethren Church, as is also his widow, and waja delegate to its general conventions on various occasi.s. His death occurred in 1912, and his widow now residesht Harrisonburg, Virginia. Four children likewise survive a honored father : Eugene C. is a merchant at Harrisonbg, Virginia; Dr. Herman L., of this review, was next in 018 of birth; Homer S. is a resident of Harrisonburg, Virgin, and Luella is the wife of Rev. E. C. Spressard, pastor ('a United Brethren Church at Hagerstown, Maryland.

After completing a three years' course in Shenand h Institute, Dayton, Virginia, Dr. Herman L. Tutwiler 3 voted himself to teaching in the schools of his nare county for a period of three years. In 1897 he matriculad in the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, and fu this excellent institution he received his degree of Doctor f Medicine in 1900. For eighteen months thereafter he is engaged in practice at Singers Glen, Virginia, and he 1 established his headquarters at Roanoke, that state, but » six years his practice was mainly in railroad construc I camps. In 1907, with headquarters at Roderfield, Vit Virginia, he assumed charge of medical and surgical ser se in four mining camps-those of the Fall River Mining Cr pany, Flannagan Coal Company, Hampton Roads Coal Cy pauy and Marine Commerce Coal Company, besides deve- ing a large private practice of general order. In 1919,0 sold his practice to Dr. Glenn W. Brewster, of whom men is made on other pages, and removed to Iaeger, where.e has been established in successful practice during the i- velopment of the mines of this district and the buildingf railroads to afford the requisite transportation facilita He is now official physician and surgeon for the Garld Pocahontas Coal Company, the Ward Pocahontas ( Company, the C. R. Ritter Lumber Company and the Ca Burey Lumber Company.

The doctor is a stalwart advocate of the principles the republican party, aud as candidate on its ticket he elected representative of McDowell County in the St Legislature in November, 1920. He has proved a lol and effective representative of his constituent district, worked for wise legislation in general and has been assige to many important committees of the House of Delega including those of medicine and sanitation, insurance, s1 boundaries, mines and mining and insurance.

Doctor Tutwiler has served as vice president of the ). Dowell County Medical Society, and is a member also of e West Virginia State Medical Society, and the Any ican Medical Association. He and his wife are zeals members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, D connection with which he is secretary of the District Suny School Board, a member of the Holston Conference Chub Extension Board, a member of the Board of Stewardsf Bluefield District, and chairman of the Board of Stewas of the church in his home village. In the Masonic frater Doctor Tutwiler is past master of the Blue Lodge at Weil a member of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at No1 fork, a member of the Commandery of Knights Templars Bluefield, a member of Bluefield Lodge of Perfecin (Scottish Rite), and of the Temple of the Mystic Shrine the City of Charleston. He is a past state councilor of 'Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and is serv; in 1921-2 as deputy national councilor of this fratern He is noble grand of the Roderfield Lodge of the Indepe ent Order of Odd Fellows, and chancellor commander `the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Premier.

April 17, 1901, recorded the marriage of Doctor Tutw and Miss Lillian Byerly, daughter of Peter D. Byerly, : they have one son, Herman Luther, Jr. A daughter, Ma I., died in early childhood.

Doctor Tutwiler was active and liberal in support patriotic service in connection with the nation's partici tion in the World war, and in 1919 he was examiner of Insurance, United States Department of Public Hea, Bureau of War Risks.

H. Julwiley m.Q.

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LE ROY CRAGO is rounding out a quarter of a century continuous service with the Wheeling Works of the La elle Iron Works, one of the oldest and most noted institu- ons in the iron and steel industry of the Wheeling District, th which a number of prominent Wheeling men have been entitied and in which some of the greatest steel and iron en of the country have been trained.

Several interesting distinctions are associated with the me Crago in the Wheeling District. While Lee Roy has vea his active career to the La Belle Iron Works, one of brothers is present city manager of Wheeling, and his ther was one of the ablest educators the northern Pan- udle of West Virginia ever had.

This educator was the late Felix Hughes Crago, who was rn July 7, 1836, near Carmichaels in Greene County, Penn- Ivania, and grew up on a farm just outside that village. e graduated from Greene Academy at Carmichaels and also as a student in Waynesburg Coliege. Soon after getting s degree at Waynesburg College he entered the Uniou my, and served nearly four years. He was promoted to cond lieutenant, then to first lieutenant, and at the close of e .war had charge of his company. His command was mpany D of the Twenty-second Pennsylvania Ringold valry.

Following the war he was in business at Carmichaels for time, but soon began teaching at Beallsville, Pennsylvania. or nearly half a century his work and his enthusiasm were sorbed in educational affairs. It was Professor Crago ho opened the West Liberty Normal School at West Lib- ty, West Virginia, in the capacity of its first principal, in 71. Three years later he removed to Moundsville, West irginia, as superintendent of schools there. After eight nine years he went to Wheeling, was principal of the ebster School in that city two or three years, and for irty-one years was principal of the Eighth Ward School, id the many hundreds of successive students in that school erishes special gratitude for the influence he exerted upoa eir young lives. For one year he was superintendent of hools at Buckhannon, but with this exception his life for er thirty years was devoted to educational interests in beeling. He had perhaps the unique record of having ught institute in every county in the state during the sum- er months. Felix H. Crago died July 29, 1917, at the age eighty-one.

He married Mary Elizabeth Carman, who was bora at ast Richmond in Belmont County, Ohio, June 24, 1847, ughter of William C. and Eliza (Cooper) Carman. She is well educated in the common schools of Belmont County d in Franklin College of that state, and thea entered the est Liberty Normal School of West Virginia, where she aduated in 1873, while Mr. Crago was still principal. She terward taught in the public schools of Moundsville.

Felix H. Crago was of Scoteh-Irish descent and Mary E. irmaa was of a mingled English and Scotch ancestry. The eat-grandfather and the mother of Felix H. Crago were rn in this country; while the great-grandfather and grand- other of Mary E. Carman were native Americans, and all bsequent ancestors are of American nativity, 80 that the esent generation is quite thoroughly American, Mr. Lee y Crago has the following brothers living: Jesse H., ·nnected with the sales department of the Follansbee others Company of Pittsburg; Charles G., & printer, now reman of the Great Falls Tribune at Great Falls, Mon- na; and Homer C., who is the present city manager of heeling. The one sister living is Eva Laura Crago, a icher in the Wheeling High School.

Lee Roy Crago was born at Moundsville, West Virginia, ptember 17, 1878, but has lived nearly all his life in heeling and was educated here in the public schools, gradu- ang from high school in 1897. Soon after leaving school he came connected with the La Belle Iron Works as store- leper. He was successively advanced to timekeeper, pay- later, and for several years has been chief clerk of the beeling plant. The La Belle Iron Work are an industry "w seventy years old. The Wheeling plant for several :ars has been devoted chiefly to the making of nails and " kinds of plate, such as steel skelp, shovel plate, tack lite, automobile stock and similar products.

Mr. Crago is a member of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church of Wheeling. August 5, 1907, at Wheeling, be mur- ried Miss Birdie D. Fisher, of that city. They have uve children: Felix Hughes, Birdie Lee, Durothy E'velya, Lee Roy, Jr., and Paul Carman Crago.

WILLIAM WASHINOTON ROGERS, for fifty years a resident of Wheeling, a veteran Union soldier, has long been prom- ment in public affairs, and is especially well known to the bench and bar of Ohio County as law librarian of the county.

Squire Rogers was born in Bath County, Kentucky, June 6, 1842. He represents three old American families, the Rogers branch having come frum Seutland in Colonial tuues, while the Smiths were from England and the Carrolls from Ireland. His grandfather, Charles Rogers, was a native of Old Virginia, served as a soldier of the Revolution, and sub- sequently moved over the mountains to Bath County, Ken- tucky, where he acquired a large amount of land nud de- veloped a plantation with the nid of his slaves. lle married Susanna Smith, and both died in Bath County. George Washington Rogers, father of Squire Rogers, was born in Bath County and spent all his lite there. He owned land and was both a farmer and stock raiser. He was & whig in politics, and an active member of the Hardshell Baptist Church. He served with the rank of colonel in the Second Kentucky Dragoons in the Mexican war, and he died in 1847, soon after the close of that war. Colonel Rogers married Charlotte Carroll, who was born at Maysville, Kentucky, and died in that city in 1863. Her oldest chud, John G., who died at Maysville, Kentucky, was a lieutenant-colonel in a Kentucky regiment of infantry in the Union army, and contracted the disease during his service which caused huis death shortly after the close of the war. The second son, Charles S., was captain of Company B, Tenth Kentucky Cavalry, and subsequently died in the Soldiers Home at Danville, Illinois. William Washington Rogers was the third son and child. Eliza J., the oldest daughter, married, and both she and her husband are deceased. Charlotte Ann became the wife of Doctor Mitchell, of Sharpsburg, Ken- tucky, and they are deceased. Thomas F., the youngest child, died at Mount Sterling, Kentucky.

William Washington Rogers acquired his early education in the rural schools of Bath County, Kentucky, and lived on the farm until he was nineteen years of age. Early in the Civil war he joined the Union army, and on May I, 1862, was commissioned second lieutenant of Company L of Second Regiment, Kentucky Veteran Cavalry Volunteers. There- after he was in continuously active service until mustered out and discharged June 17, 1865. He was at Shiloh, Look- out Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Stone River, Bardstown, Kentucky, in two battles at Chickamauga, at Strawberry Plains, Kenesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, with Sherman on the march to the sea, as well as in the Atlanta campaign. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Bardstown, being captured by the rebel General Hortoa, commanding the Texas and Georgia Rangers, but soon afterward was paroled, and returned to his command February 13, 1864. After leaving the Volunteer Union army Squire Rogers enlisted in the regular army, and had six years of service, much of it at western posts.

In 1870 he came to Wheeling, and for a year was driver of one of the old horse cars of the Street Railway Company. He then took up the produce business, and continued active in business until 1883, when he was elected squire or local magistrate. He filled this office twenty-eight years. He was elected and served six years as coroner of Ohio County, re- tiring from that office in 1917, and soon afterward was chosen law librarian of the county. Ilis official duties are in the Law Library on the third floor of the courthouse.

Squire Rogers is a stanch republican. He is present com- mander of Holliday Post No. 12, G. A. R. He owns his home at 2334 Market Street. He did all he could with his means and influence to encourage sound patriotism during the World war, assisting in recruiting soldiers and aiding the various auxiliary organizations.

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