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orporation ha gained a thorough and fundamental training . industrial accounting, and was chief of the cest depart- ent when he resigned in 1910. During the following year i was employed on cost work with the Wheeling Can Com- iny, now a subsidiary of the Wheeling Steel Corperation. ince 1920 Mr. Bycett has been a member of the Official oard of the Whitaker-Glessner Company. Ile went with le cempany as cest clerk nud since August, 1920, has been ditor, his offices being on the eleventh floor of the Wheel- g Steel Corporation Building.

Mr. Byeott is also vice president of the Ackermann Man. facturing Company, with plant at Warweed, West Vir- nia, this being a subsidiary of the Wheeling Steel Cor- ration. From 1917 to 1920 Mr. Bycott was president of ". H. Chapman Sons Company, painters and builders sup- ies, at Wheeling. Mr. Bycott is a republican, a member ' the Thompson Methodist Episcopal Church and is af- iated with Wheeling Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and Pro- ctive Order of Elks. He and his family ewn a fine home Lennex.

He married Misa Estella May Chapman, daughter of illiam HI. and Virginia E. (Phillips) Chapman, now de- ased. Her father was a well-known Wheeling business an, and for thirty-five years was head of the W. H. Chap- an Sons Company, dealers in paints and builders supplies. rs. Byeett is well known socially, being a charter member : the Ladies Musical Club of Wheeling, a member of the 'oman'a Club, and for several years she employed talents a vocalist with the choir of the Fourth Street Methodist piscopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Byeott have three chil- 'en: Harold Hamilton, born August 14, 1905, now a stu- ent in the Tridelphia High School; William H. Chapman yeott, born in November, 1914; and Andrew Glass, born pril 7, 1918.

TOM B. FOULK, Wheeling attorney, has been a very active articipant in the professional and civic life of the city or the past seven years. He comes ef a family noted for s scholarship and werk as educators, and he himself was or several years after his graduation a teacher and structor at the West Virginia University.

Mr. Foulk was born at Elkton, Maryland, September 20, 386. His grandfather was Rev. John S. Foulk, who died . Oakland, Maryland, in 1890. The father, Wilson Matthews oulk, was bern in Pennsylvania in 1855, was married at ort Deposit, Maryland, and was a man of rugged intelleet, oad scholarship, and gave the greater part of his life to e cause of education. For four years he had charge of e Rugby Academy at Wilmington, Delaware, and from 191 to 1904 was superintendent of schools at Piedmont, 'eat Virginia. From 1906 to 1916 he was superintendent 'schools at Huntington, West Virginia, and then, after a ort rest, was appointed State Historian and Archivist by overnor Cornwell, an office he filled until his death, which curred in Charlesten, January 25, 1919. He had cem- eted his education in Dickinson College at Carlisle, Penn- Ivania, and was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. hile at Piedmont he served three consecutive terms as ayor. He was a democrat and a member of the Episcopal durch. Wilson M. Foulk married Kate Anderson Bond, he was born at Pert Deposit, Maryland, in 1861, and is w living in Huntington, West Virginia. Of her three ildren the oldest is Miss Virginia, a graduate of West irginia University and now head of the Department of athematies in the Huntington High School. The two sons e Tom B. and Eric. The latter is a graduate of Purdue niversity in Indiana and is a mechanical engineer by pro- ssion, living at Huntington with his mother.

Tem B. Foulk received his early education in the public boels ef Piedmont, graduating from high school in 1903. ter he entered the West Virginia University and re- ived his degree in civil engineering in 1908. He remained Morgantown three years as an instructor in mathematics d graduate manager of university athletics. He is a ember of the Phi Kappa Sigma Greek letter fraternity. r. Feulk studied law at Columbia University, in New ork, for three yeara, receiving bis degree of LL. B. 1914, and on the 14th of November of that year began

his practice at Wheeling. He has a substantial clientele In both law and chancery matters, and his offices are located in the Wheeling Steel Corporation Building. He is a mem. ber ef the Ohio County, West Virginia and American Bar associations.

On May 13, 1917, Mr. Foulk enlisted in the First Officers Training Camp and was sent for training to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, but on account of physical disability in weight wns honorably discharged July 3, 1917. Debarred from active participation in field duty, be nevertheless ex- pressed his patriotism in various phases of local war work He became secretary of the Wheeling Chapter of the Amer- ican Red Cross, and still holds that office. This is the larg- est Red Cross chapter in the state, and during each year of the war it expended over $100,000 in various channels. Mr. Foulk was also a "Four Minute" speaker for the Liberty Loan, Thrift Stamps and other drives.

Ile is a director of the Ohio Valley General Hospital and Associated Charities. In politics he is a democrat, is a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and Sunday school superintendent, is affiliated with Bates Lodge No. 33, A. F. and A. M., Wheeling Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and in Wheeling Lodge No. 28, B. P. O. E. has filled all the chairs except exalted ruler. Ile is a member and director of the Kiwania Club and served as vice president during its first year.

Mr. Foulk resides at 39 Zane Avenue on Wheeling Island. He married at Wheeling, May 12, 1917, Miss Alice Belle MeClure, daughter of James M. and Belle (Chambers) Me- Clure, who reside on South Broadway on Wheeling Island. Mr. MeClure is a retired merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Foulk have four children: Kitty Belle, born May 25, 1918; Mary Louise, born June 17, 1919; Bess Bond, born Septem- ber 24, 1920; and Tom B., Jr., bern January 23, 1922.

AUDRY I. MARPLE, D. D. S. Included among the leaders of the Cabell County dental fraternity is Dr. Audry I. Marple, who has been engaged in a successful and con- stantly-growing practice at Huntington since 1914. Doctor Marple's equipment for his prefession includes a thorough training, devotien to his calling, technical akill and practical knowledge, and a sympathetic nature that has gained him confidence, friendships and added patronage. He is a native of Upshur County, West Virginia, and was born September 9, 1886, his parents being Rev. Omar U. and Mary E. (MeDermott) Marple.

Rev. Omar U. Marple was born January 17, 1864, in Upshur County, where his carly educational training in the publie schools was supplemented by a course at Buckhannon Wesleyan College, following his graduation from which he entered the ministry of the Methedist Episcopal Church. During his long, industrious and useful career as a minist r Reverend Marple has filled many pulpits in West Virginia, including those at Wheeling, Salem, Benwood, South Charleston and Belington, and at the present time is pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dunbar. His ministerial work has been prolific of good results, and wherever he has been assigned be has won the affection and esteem of his people. In politics he is a republican. Rev- erend Marple married Miss Mary E. MeDermott, who was born in Upshur County, West Virginia, November 17, 1562, and they became the parents of four children: Stella, re- siding with her parents, the widow of the late L. B. Pugh, who was a mechanical engineer; Festus O., M. D., of Huntington, an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, who served daring the World war in the United States Army Medical Corpa, with the rank of first lieutenant; Dr. Au lry I., of thia record; and O. Upton, who is engaged in agricul- tural pursuits in Upshur County.

Reared in Upsbur County, Dr. Audry I. Marple attended the public schools there, following which he pursued a course in the preparatory school of the West Virginia University at Morgantewn, and then entered the University of Cincinnati (Ohio) College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1914, receiv- ing the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. While at college he was admitted to membership in the Psl Omega Greek letter college fraternity, and he served two years

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as president of his class. Almost immediately after his graduation Doctor Marple commenced the practice of his profession at Huntington, where he has built up a large and representative practice among the best families in the city, his offices being located at No. 211 First National Bank Building. He is highly regarded in his calling and belongs to the various leading dental bodies. He served as secretary of Huntington Dental Society for three years, served for one term as secretary of the State Dental Society and was chairman of the organization committee for two years in the state society. in politics he is a republican, and his religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is serving as a member of the board of stewards. He belongs to the Guyan Country Club, is a member of the board of directors of the Kiwanis Club and acts as manager of the Kiwanis Male Chorus. Doctor Marple is the owner of a modern home at No. 302 Twelfth Avenue, located in one of Huntington's exclusive residential districts. In April, 1917, Doctor Marple enlisted in the United States Army Dental Corps, received his commission as first lieuten- ant and was assigned to service at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia, where he remained until receiving his honorable discharge December 16, 1918.

In 1916, at Huntington, Doctor Marple was united in marriage with Miss Bess Lowry, who was educated at Marshall College, Huntington, a daughter of John M. and Bess (Mann) Lowry, residents of this city, where Mr. Lowry is engaged in the drug business. Doctor and Mrs. Marple are the parents of two children: John Lowry, born February 4, 1917; and Sarah Lee, born August 17, 1920.

CHARLES EDGAR CHAPMAN has devoted the greater part of his active years to the furniture and undertaking business in Huntington, and is senior member of the firm Chapman & Klingel, funeral directors. Huntington has been his home city nearly all his life, and he is one of the popular and successful younger citizens of that community.

He was born in Cabell County, February 4, 1883. His father, Charles E. Chapman, Sr., was a native of Kentucky, but was married in Cabell County, West Virginia, going there as a young man. He was born November 2, 1848, and for over half a century has been in the service of one trade, that of a stationary engineer. Since 1887 his home has been in Huntington, where he has served successively the Con- sumers Ice Company, the J. M. McCoach and Company and the Gwinn Milling Company, and is still on duty as a sta- tionary engineer with a large glass manufacturing company. He is a democrat and an active member of the Christian Church. Charles E. Chapman married Miss Almedia Ash, a native of West Virginia, who died in Cabell County in 1887. Of their three children Charles E. is the youngest. Irvin, the oldest, died at the age of twenty-two while em- ployed in a newspaper office at Huntington. The only daughter, Maggie, is the wife of Noah Ferrell, a coal miner at Montgomery, West Virginia.

Charles Edgar Chapman acquired a public school educa- tion at Huntington, and left high school at the age of eight- een to enter the offices of the Huntington Advertiser, be- ginning as printer 's devil, and remained there five years, being advanced to the post of circulation manager. Mr. Chapman in 1906 became an employe of J. C. Carter and Company, furniture dealers and undertakers, and spent ten years with that firm, learning every detail of the business and the profession of undertaker. In February, 1916, he established the Chapman Undertaking Company, and changed this on March 3, 1917, to the Chapman Furniture and Undertaking Company. On June 17, 1919, he sold his interest in this business, and then formed his present part- nership with D. B. Klingel. Chapman & Klingel are funeral directors, making that service the sole object of their best endeavors. They have well equipped funeral parlors, with every facility for complete and adequate service in this line, at 920-22 Sixth Avenue.

Mr. Chapman is president of the Mount Pleasant Land Company of Huntington, and is owner of considerable real estate, including a dwelling at 3135 Fifth Avenue, while his own home is in the building occupied by the funeral parlors.

He has two farms, totaling about 156 acres, in Wayı County, West Virginia.

Mr. Chapman is a democrat, a member of the First Met. odist Episcopal Church, is a past master of Western St: Lodge No. 11, A. F. and A. M., past king of Guyandot Chapter No. 10, R. A. M., is junior warden of Huntingtc Commandery No. 9, K. P., is a member of Huntingtc Lodge of Perfection No. 4, Rose Croix Chapter No. 4 of th Scottish Rite at Huntington, West Virginia Consistory N 1 of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling, and Beni-Kedem Temp. of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. He is also active i other fraternal orders, including Marshall Lodge No. 12. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Banner Camp No. 5' Modern Woodmen of America, Ancient Order of Unite Workmen, Huntington Council No. 53, United Commerci- Travelers, and is a member of the West Side Countr Club and the Huntington Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Chapman has to his credit a long and interestin service in the National Guard of West Virginia. He er listed in 1901 and served sixteen consecutive years, risin to the commission of first lieutenant. He was first lieuter ant of his company in the Second West Virginia Infantr when he went to the Mexican border in October, 1916, an. was on duty there until January 21, 1917.

June 24, 1906, at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, Mr. Chapma married Miss Lucile Rolph, daughter of Lewis K. an Margaret (Wiley) Rolph, the latter living with her daug ter in Huntington. The father, who died in Huntington i 1918, was for many years a steamboat clerk on the Ohi River. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have one daughter, Alic Margaret, born October 30, 1912.

BALLARD E. BOSWELL is a native of old Virginia, wit. prominent family connections there since Colonial times He has had a veteran and successful experience in the in surance field, beginning in his native state, but for som years past has been established at Huntington.

Mr. Boswell was born in Charlotte County, Virginia October 12, 1858. The Boswells came to Virginia fron England. His grandfather, John Iverson Boswell, spent al his life in Lunenburg County, Virginia, owned a farn and plantation and was also a local merchant. His firs wife and the grandmother of the Huntington business mai was a Miss Coleman, a native and life-long resident o: Lunenburg County. She was the mother of six sons and one daughter, all now deceased. The second wife of Johi I. Boswell was a Miss Summerville, who also was born in Lunenburg County. She became the mother of three son: and one daughter, and two of the sons were Confederate soldiers and gave up their lives fighting for that cause.

Dr. John Iverson Boswell, father of Ballard E., was born in Lunenburg County, September 18, 1829, was reared there was properly educated, graduating A. B. from the Univer. sity of Virginia, and later receiving his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He began practice in Charlotte County, moved to Mecklenburg County in 1859, and finally retired from his country home to Chase City in the same county in 1890, and died there in 1895. His life was filled with the good offices and kindly deeds of a successful physician and surgeon, whose practice was largely in country communities. Throughout the period of the Civil war he was a surgeon in the Confederate Army. He always voted as a democrat, and was very diligent in the performance of his duties as a member of the Baptist Church.

In Charlotte County Doctor Boswell married Miss Mary L. Robertson, who was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. She was born in Charlotte County, March 13, 1832, daughter of Charles Henry Robertson, who was born in the same county in 1800 and died there in 1880, having devoted his life to his plantation interests. He served as a captain of the local militia. The first wife of Charles H. Robertson and the mother of Mary L. was a Miss Osborne, a life-long resident of Charlotte County. She reared a family of two daughters and five sons, all deceased. The second wife of Charles H. Robertson was Miss Dora Judd, a native of Massachusetts, who died in Mecklenburg County. Of his six children four

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ached mature years and two are still living: Judd A. ›bertson, a merchant ef Chase City; and Clarence B., a ceessful farmer in Charlette County. The wife of Doetor swell survived him a number of years and passed away Chase City in June, 1921. She was the mother of seven ildren: Charles M., a banker of Chase City; Ballard E .; iss Margaret, who died in 1914; John Iverson, Jr., a real 'ate operator in New York City; Henry Lee, who was a iveling salesman, lost his life in a hotel fire in Chicago 1901; Thomas G., who is in the life insurance business Richmond, Virginia; llenson Robertson, a banker of arlottesville.

Ballard E. Boswell spent his early life on his father's intation in Mecklenburg County. He attended the rural hools there until he was nineteen, and for two or three ars longer remained on the farm. In 1880 he removed to ichita Falls, Texas, then a new city and a frontier of 'rthern Texas. After this extended sojourn in the South- st he returned to the home farm, but soon located at chmond, and was actively engaged in the insurance busi- ss in that eity from 1885 to 1906.

Mr. Boswell eame to West Virginia in 1906 to aet as neral agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Com- ny of Cincinnati at Wheeling, but in 1907 transferred to intington. Since 1908 he has also been in the real estate fire insurance business.

Mr. Boswell is a democrat, is a member of the First esbyterian Church of Huntington, and was, like most surance men, one of the active leaders in loeal war work, eresting himself particularly in the sale of the Liberty nds.

On December 14, 1905, at Williamsburg, Virginia, he mar- d Miss Anne W. C. Stubbs, daughter of Dr. Thomas fferson and Mary (Cosneham) Stubbs, now deceased. 'r father was a distinguished educator io the old college vn of Williamsburg, and for twenty-seven years held the air of mathematies in William and Mary College there.

WILLIAM B. GREER graduated frem a technical school and mediately returned to his native eity of Wheeling and ered the service of the Whitaker-Glessner Company, and 3 devoted his talents and energies to that corporation :h uninterrupted fidelity to the present time. He is the npany's purchasing agent.

Mr. Greer was born in Wheeling, December 10, 1873. On paternal side his ancestry is connected with the old tterson family of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and is of teh descent. IIis father, David Greer, was born in ubenville, Ohio, in 1845, in 1860 went to Wheeling and the following year, though only sixteen years of age, joined the First West Virginia Regiment of Infantry a Union soldier and fought for the flag of the Union til the end of hostilities. After the war he returned to eeling and soon beenme identified with the eity gas rks, and was in the service of that publie utility nearly f a century. He died at Wheeling in 1913. He was a ubliean, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, I was a Lutheran and Odd Fellow. David Greer mar- 1 Barbara Baker, who was born in Wheeling in 1852, 1 is still living in that eity. Her three sons are William John and James, all residents of Wheeling.

William B. Greer attended publie scheels at Wheeling I finished his education in the Mechanics Art School of ringfield, Massachusetts, where he received the degree of ehanieal Engineer in 1892. It was in 1893 that he en- ed the service of the Whitaker-Glessner Company, start- in the mechanical drafting room, and has had an in- asing range of responsibilities with the corporation. As chasing agent his offices are on the ninth fleer of the eeling Steel Corporation Building.

dr. Greer owns a modern home at Edgewood, Wheeling, I was one of the original incorporators of the village, ving as village recorder two years and as a member of couneil three years. He is a republican, and is af- ated with Wheeling Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and Pro- tive Order of Elks. In 1893, at Wheeling, Mr. Greer rried Miss Theressa Speaker, a native of the city. They

have one daughter, Madeline C., wife of L. R. Tuttle, of Cleveland, Ohio.

EMIL C. RAUSCHENBERG, superintendent of the Wheeling Mold & Foundry Company, learned pattern innking when he was boy, and as a journeyman, foreman and superin- tendent has been elosely identitied with the foundry business forty years or more.

Mr. Rauschenberg, who is a recognized leader in the in. dustrial affairs of Wheeling, was born at Dawson in Terrell County, Georgia, December 24, 1567. Ilis father, August Rauschenberg, was born in Germany in 1932, and learned the trade of pattern maker before he came to the United States in 1847. Hle followed the trade of pattern making all his life and died at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1911. lle first lived at Dalton, Georgia, then removed to Dawson in 1566, and in 1871 located at Atlanta. During the Civil war he was a musician in the Confederate Army four years. He voted as a democrat, and was a member of the German Lutheran Church and the Masonic fraternity. llis wife, Annie, was born nt Bremen, Germany, in 15-t1, and died at Atlanta in 1591. Of their nine children the oldest is Emil C .; Owen was master mechanie of the Birmingham Rolling Mill at Atlanta when he died at the age of thirty eight : Miss Rosie is seeretary and treasurer of the Austell Ayera Company at Atlanta; Franz A. is a mechanic in the employ of the Wheeling Mold & Foundry Company; Lena is the wife of a rancher living at Tucson, Arizona; Fritz is a min- ister of the Presbyterian Church near Atlanta; Annie is the wife of Doctor Cousins, a physician and surgeon nt Atlanta; William, the eighth ehild, died at the nge of six. teen; and Mary, the youngest, died aged eleven.

Emil C. Rauschenberg received all his formal school edu- cation in the public schools of Atlanta. He afterward took a technical course with the International Correspond- enee School of Scranton, and by private study and experi- ence has gained the equivalent of a good general education and become a master of his technical profession. Between the ages of nine and ten he went to work in an Atlanta foundry, serving an apprenticeship as a pattern maker. From Atlanta he removed to Shelby, Alabama, in 1983, fol lowing his trade, spent six months in Birmingham in 1985, two years at Anniston, Alabama, four months at Dallas, Texas, then returned for a short time to Shelby and to Atlanta, and for seven years was connected with the Chat tanooga Foundry & Pipe Company, now ealled the U. S. Pipe Company. After two years at his trade in Cincinnati Mr. Rauschenberg eame to Wheeling in 1900. For over twenty years he has been with the Wheeling Mold & Foundry Company, beginning as pattern maker, at the end of six months was promoted to foreman of the pattern shop, and in 1902 to superintendent of the foundry, and sinee 1911 has been superintendent of the entire plant, with 1 200 employes under his supervision. This is one of the prominent industries of Wheeling, and the plant and offices are located on what is known as the l'eninsula.

Mr. Rauschenberg is a republican, a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wheeling, Wheeling Lodge No. 28 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce. lle is a director in the Fulton Bank & Trust Company, and owns a farm 714 miles north of Wheeling. During the war Mr. Rauschenberg had spe- cial responsibilities, keeping up the morale of his own plant and encouraging the support of the Government among the employes.

At Shelby, Alabama, in 1588 he married Miss Sarah E. Horton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Horton, farming people who lived at Rome, Georgia, where her father died. Mrs. Rauschenberg died September 13, 1916, leaving three children: Annie, wife of George P. Hoge, a farmer nt Charlottesville, Virginia; Lena, wife of Don R. Crawford, connected with the Anto Sales Company of Wheeling; Mildred, wife of James F. Connera, an attorney at Inw at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Rauschenberg contracted a second marriage on October 13, 1917.

ERASMUS S. EVANS. It would not do proper credit to the strenuous career of E. S. Evans of Terra Alta to class him

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merely as a successful and very active business man. Such record of his career as it has been possible to compile from his own modest confessions and the words of others must be allowed to present a story that is one of the most interesting in connection with the life of any West Virginia citizen.

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