History of West Virginia old and new, Volume 2, Part 96

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Mr. Shackelford is vice president of the Huntington Asso- ation of Credit Men and a member of the Kiwanis Club, ad takes a great interest in civic affairs and the business Prosperity of the city. He also holds membership in the uyan County Club, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish lite Mason, belonging to Huntington Lodge No. 53, A. F. nd A. M., and West Virginia Consistory No. 1, A. A. S. . M., of Wheeling, and is also a Noble of Beni-Kedem emple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Charleston. He owns a odern residence at No. 630 Sixth Street, a comfortable ome, and is administrator of his father's estate, consisting cincipally of extensive real estate holdings at Huntington. May, 1918, Mr. Shackelford enlisted in the United States rmy and was sent to the Richmond Schools Training etachment, where he remained two months, being then sent Camp Taylor, Louisville, where he was commissioned a cond lieutenant. He was mustered out December 18, 1918. it still holds his commission as a second lieutenant in the ield Artillery Reserve Corps.

On May 28, 1918, Mr. Shackelford was united in marriage Lynchburg, Virginia, with Miss Ruth Daniel, daughter of ol. Louis A. and Mattie (MeCue) Daniel, residents of untington, where Colonel Daniel is proprietor of a hotel. 'rs. Shackelford is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's ollege, Lynchburg, Virginia, and a woman of numerous complishments and graces.

JOHN W. HOUGHTON. Among the business men well iown to the citizens of Huntington, one who is identified ith an important industry of the city is John W. Hough- n, superintendent of the Steel Products Company. Mr. oughton comes of an old and honored New England fam- y, and was born at Boston, Massachusetts, June 30, 1878. son of Marinus and Rose (Janse) Houghton, and a andson of Henry Houghton.

Marinus Houghton was born in 1826, in Massachusetts, d spent the greater part of his life at Boston, where he llowed the time-honored trade of rope-making. He died

Boston in 1915, in the faith of the Congregational mureh, of which he had been an active and generous sup- orter all his life. In politics he was a republican. Mr. oughton married Miss Rose Janse, who was born at nston in 1845, and who still makes that city her home. ley were the parents of seven children: Josie, who arried Pliny M. Bracket, who is engaged in the wholesale oe findings business at Boston, Massachusetts; William. to is identified with the Boston Elevated Company, of ston; Henry, who is retail manager for the G. Shirmer mpany, music publishers of Boston, Massachusetts; arles, who is store manager for the Cloverdale Creamery mpany of Malden, Massachusetts: Katie, who married ank S. Atwood, of Boston, an employe of the United

States Government at the Watertown Arsenal; John W., of this review; and Annie, who married Herman T. Rogers, an employe of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road at Quiney, Massachusetts.

John W. Houghton was educated in the public schools of Boston, where he was graduated from high school in 1595. following which he served his time as an apprenticed mn chinist at Boston for four years. When he had mastered his trado he was engaged therein at Boston until 1905, when. feeling the need of further training, he began a course of two years at the Mechanical Drawing School of Boston. Thus prepared, he began experimental work on shoe ma chinery, and continued to be thus occupied for a period of seven years, during which time he was located at different times at Boston, Quiney and Beverly, Massachusetts, as nn employe of the United Shoe Machinery Company. In 1914 Mr. Houghton accepted a position with the Victor Talking Machine Company, in the capacity of "trouble man, " and worked at Camden, New Jersey, for one year, then trans ferring his services to the Remington Arma Company of Eddystone, Pennsylvania, also as "trouble man." and con tinued this connection for two years. He then took n position with the United States Government as district gauge supervisor for the Pittsburgh District, remaining in that capacity until the close of the World war, and in January, 1919. became assistant to the secretary of the Claims Board, Pittsburgh District, a post which he retained until November of that year. Mr. Iloughton then accepted the position of superintendent of the Steel Products Com- pany of Huntington, which he holds at this time. The product of this company is a mine car coal-loading machine, used in loading the cars in the mines. The offices of Mr. Houghton are situated at Twentieth Street and Second Avenue, Huntington. He is a democrat in politics and a member of the Baptist Church. Fraternally he is a thirty- second degree Mason, belonging to Rural Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Quiney, Massachusetts; and Gourgas Consistory of Pittsburgh; and also holds membership in Syria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Pittsburgh; John Hancock Lodge No. 224, I. O. O. F., of Quiney, Massachusetts; and Cahell Encampment No. 25. I. O. O. F., of Huntington. He is likewise a member of the Guyan Country Club of Hunting- ton and the Huntington Chamber of Commerce. He owns a comfortable, modern home at 625 Thirteenth Street.

In 1906, at Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Houghton was united in marriage with Miss Jeanetta Keddy, a graduate of the Mahone Bay Academy, and a daughter of Esrom and Elenor (Zwicker) Keddy, residents of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, where Mr. Keddy is a retired lumber dealer. Mr. and Mrs. Houghton have one child, Mildred G., born June 5, 1908.

CAPT. THOMAS WEST PEYTON. Four generations of the Peyton family have been represented by a Capt. Thomas West Peyton. To the people of Huntington, Barboursville and the surrounding vicinity the name is inseparably con- neeted with military achievements, for a Peyton has borne a share of the fighting in the Revolutionary war, the War of 1812, the Civil war and the great World war. The present representative of the name is one of the leading younger attorneys of the Huntington bar, and at the present time occupies the office of mayor of Barboursville.

Captain Peyton was born August 13, 1891, at Huntington West Virginia, and is a son of Capt. Thomas West and Mary T. (Hovey) Peyton. The family originated in Eng. land, and the immigrant to America was the great-great- great-great-great-grandfather of the present Captain Pey- ton. Henry Peyton II, a direct descendant of Sir Edward Peyton of Isleham, England. Henry Peyton II was born at London, England, in 1630, and immigrated to America in young manhood, settling in the Virginia colony, in what is now Westmoreland County, where his death occurred in 1659. His grandson. Valentine Peyton, the great-great- great grandfather of Captain Peyton, served as an officer during the Revolutionary war. The great-grandfather of Captain Peyton. the first Capt. Thomas West Peyton, was born at Aqua, Virginia. He was a captain in the First Regiment, District of Columbia Militia, during the War

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of 1812, and served as brigade quartermaster of Young's Second Brigade. Later he was made United States consul to Cuba, and while on his way to the United States for instructions died on shipboard and was buried at sea.

The grandfather of Captain Peyton, the second Capt. Thomas West Peyton, was born on the Island of Cuba, May 13, 1818. As a young man he made his home at Alexandria, Virginia, but later removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was a customs house official up to the outbreak of the Civil war, when he became one of the organizers of the Washington Artillery and later was made captain of Company C, Continental Guards of Louisiana. This was mustered into the service as the Eleventh Regiment, Louis- iana Volunteer Infantry, and he was made captain of Company C. He met a soldier's death on the battlefield of Murfreesboro in January, 1863. Captain West married Miss Sarah O'Dowd, who was born in Ireland, February 22, 1834, and died at Huntington, West Virginia.

The father of Captain Peyton, Capt. Thomas West Pey- ton III, was born August 10, 1860, at Barboursville, Vir- ginia (now West Virginia), and died at Huntington, June 10, 1912. He was reared at New Orleans until he was thirteen years of age, at which time his widowed mother brought her family to Huntington, and in 1873 Captain West entered Marshall College here, from which he was graduated at the age of sixteen years. Following this he studied law in the office of Eustace Gibson, a very prominent attorney of Huntington, and after his admission to the bar made rapid strides in his calling and at his death was ac- counted one of the Icaders of his profession. A democrat in politics, he was called upon frequently to serve in offices of prominence and high responsibility, and was clerk of the Circuit Court of Cabell County for one term of six years, from 1885 to 1891. Captain Peyton was a member and active supporter of the Johnson Memorial Methodist Episco- pal Church, South. As a fraternalist he belonged to Minerva Lodge No. 13, A. F. and A. M., of Barboursville, of which he was a past master; Huntington Chapter No. 6, R. A. M., of which he was a past high priest; Huntington Command- ery No. 9, K. T., of which he was a past eminent com- mander; Beni-Kedem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Charleston; and Huntington Lodge No. 313, B. P. O. E. He was one of the organizers of the Huntington Light Infantry, which later was reorganized as a unit of the West Virginia National Guard, and rose from the ranks to be captain of Company I, Second Infantry, West Virginia National Guard. Captain Peyton married Miss Mary T. Hovey, who was born at Ravenswood, West Virginia, and died at Hunt- ington, January 3, 1902. They became the parents of the following children: Capt. Thomas West; Capt. Albert H., a captain in the Ninth Infantry, U. S. Army, a veteran of the World war, who served in France for one year as a captain in the Fifty-first Infantry, Sixth Division, was in the Vosque defensive sector and took part in the Argonne drive, and since his return has been stationed at Camp Travis, Texas; John Thornburg, a veteran of the World war, who served in France six months and became a sergeant-major with Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Fiftieth Infantry, Thirty-eighth Division, and is now employed in the plant of Kingan & Company at Tampa, Florida; and Robert Edwin, who is completing his training for the career of a physician and surgeon in the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Capt. Thomas West Peyton IV received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Huntington, following which he attended Morris-Harvey College, Barboursville, until his senior year, and then spent one year in the University

of West Virginia. For two years he studied law in the office of his father, and in October, 1912, was appointed deputy County Court clerk of Cabell County, in which capacity he acted until December 31, 1914. He was then appointed deputy Circuit Court clerk of Cabell County and deputy Criminal Court clerk of the same county, and served in these positions from January 1, 1915, until December 15th of the same year. In the meantime, April 6, 1915, he had been licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of West Virginia, and entered upon the labors and duties of his profession January 1, 1916. He has gained a prominent

place in the ranks of his calling, and on January 1, 1920, became a member of the well-known law combination of Warth, Mccullough & Peyton, which is justly considered as one of the strong and capable associations of legal talent at Huntington. The offices of this concern are situated in the Ohio Valley Bank Building.

Captain Peyton is a democrat and has shown some inter- est in public and political affairs, particularly in his home community of Barboursville, of which he was elected mayor January 5, 1922, taking office February 1, 1922. He is a dutiful member of the Barboursville Methodist Episcopal Church, South, where he is serving as chairman of the board of stewards. Fraternally he holds membership in Huntington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his professional connection is with the Cabell County Bar Association.

Captain Peyton enlisted in the First Officers' Training Camp, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, in May, 1917, and on August 15th of that year received his commission as a first lieutenant. He was then sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio, and assigned to the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot : Brigade, and while there was assistant to the camp adju- tant, instructor Fourth Officers' Training School, and judge advocate of the General Court Martial. While serving in the capacity of instructor of the Fourth Officers' Training School he was promoted captain, in July, 1918, and was assigned to command of Company A, Eight Hundred and Two Pioneer Infantry, with which he left for overseas August 30, 1918. He entered the Argonne offensive Septem- ber 30, 1918, and continued in this general movement until the armistice was signed. He received his honorable dis- charge August 1, 1919, at Camp Sherman, and immediately returned to his practice at Huntington. Captain Peyton is the owner of a modern residence on Water Street, Barbours- ville.

On July 24, 1912, Captain Peyton was united in marriage at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, with Miss Gay Vaughan, a daughter of Arthur L. and Pauline (Pippetoe) Vaughan, who reside at Kesslar's Cross Lanes, Nicholas County, West Virginia, where Mr. Vaughan is a dealer in coal and timber lands. Mrs. Peyton was graduated from normal school and taught in the Nicholas County schools prior to her marriage. She is likewise a graduate nurse of the Huntington General Hospital, and a veteran of the World war, in which she served as a Red Cross nurse. Captain and Mrs. Peyton have no children.

FRANK A. CHAPMAN, a Wellsburg lawyer whose services have a wide and important scope in the development of the industrial and commercial affairs of this section, repre- sents one of the first and most prominent families identified with pioneering enterprise in Hancock County, West Vir- ginia.

He is a descendant of Capt. George Chapman, who served as a captain under General Washington at Valley Forge. The Wellsburg lawyer still has his old sword. Another relic of this Revolutionary ancestor is a copper button, silver plated, and there is a similar button preserved at Mount Vernon. This button was part of a uniform used in the Revolution, and on the outer margin are engraved the initials of the thirteen colonies, while at the center are two letters, G. W., standing for George Washington, and in a circle around this are the words "Long live the President." Capt. George Chapman moved from Maryland, and there is official record of his purchase on October 15, 1793, of 814 acres bordering the Ohio River, including the site of the later town of New Cumberland in Hancock County. Captain Chapman died at New Cumberland in 1812, and his will, dated that year, disposed of 1,250 acres among his seven children. Three-quarters of a mile from the village of New Cumberland he built a fort. He was one of the prominent men of the time, and part of his land he developed as a deer park. His old home, however, was continued as a residence for several generations, and Frank A. Chapman of Wellsburg remembers when it was so used. Capt. George Chapman was laid to rest in the family plot on the old farm.

Of his seven children Thomas Chapman spent his life

I ČChapman,

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a.he old homestead and died in 1845. His son, Capt. 135. Chapman, was an officer in the Civil war. The oldest olof Thomas was Alfred, who succeeded to the old home- tl and spent his life there. Alfred Chapman was a Weer in developing the coal resources of that section, ping one of the first mines and construeted a tramway fwi the mine opening to the bank of the Ohio River, so th boats could be loaded direct. He shipped some of W first coal sent down the Ohio River. He was also a Meer wool grower, introducing some of the high-grade mi.no sheep to this section. His interests as a breeder ah extended to fine horses and cattle. Alfred Chapman im at the old homestead in 1889. at the age of seventy- iv having been born in 1814. lle married Sarah Mary illey, who was born in Ohio in 1822, and died in 1916, the venerable age of ninety-four and with well preserved alties to the end. Both were early members of the Arch of the Disciples, Alfred Chapman having joined h' denomination under its founder, Alexander Campbell, wl was often entertained at the Chapman home. Alfred Roman and wife reared four children: Thomas Stan- d John Benton, who owns a portion of the old home xs and is living at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, at h. age of seventy-three; Ellen Barbery, deceased; and .V.iam Jackson, who still lives at New Cumberland and owned the old homestead until 1920, it having been the family continuously for 127 years.

homas Stanton Chapman was born in 1845 and died @905. In ISTI he moved to Halliday's Cove in Hancock Xnty and there developed one of the finest fruit farms nhe state. His chief service was as a horticulturist, and evas never active in politics. He finally retired to Wells- [5, where he died. He married Christina Foreman, a ehbor girl, daughter of Robert Parkes and Rose Ann {hall) Foreman. She is living at the age of seventy- w, and takes pride in doing her own housework and in if'nding faithfully to her duties as a member of the Arch of the Disciples. Her two children were: F. A. Minnie Viola. The latter was the wife of George M. swford, and she was killed in an elevator aceident at Asburgh in October, 1920.

rank Alfred Chapman was born June 3, 1869, at the Chapman farm, and grew up on his father's fruit farm. Łattended the common sehools, graduated from Bethany xege in 1894, receiving the degrees Bachelor of Science { Master of Arts, and in 1898 received his law degree In West Virginia University. Mr. Chapman has been nopractice at Wellsburg since June, 1898, and has looked 1.r a large volume of practice alone. His work has been lost entirely in civil and corporation practice. He has €1 a railway attorney, has organized three banks, is at- Qley for the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad Com- ty, was one of the original directors of the Bethany & Vshington Traction Company, and is attorney for sev- r other large industries, having handled the land trans- eons for the Follansbee Brothers and has since acted as traey for the Follansbee Iron and Steel industries. Mr. Ipman has always had high ideals of his responsibilities sı lawyer. He has advised the courts as the last resort, 1 many times has succeeded in adjusting differences with- t resort to expensive litigation. While he has attended a liber of democratic state conventions, he has been in (tics without personal aspirations. He is one of the By good roads advocates in this section of the state. Mr. Apman is a special authority on land titles and has done reat deal of abstraet work, and this has given him a Iwledge of local history involved in the early land grants. [ investigations show that the first lands were entered treen Bethany and West Liberty about 1772. He also ells an interesting landmark, explaining the name of altimore & Ohio Station known as the Bored Tree Sta- . This is very close to the southwest corner of Pennsyl- cia, where a hole was bored in a big tree as one of the hks made by the surveyors when laying out the Mason Dixon line. Mr. Chapman has never married. He has (! chairs in the Elks, Knights of Pythias, Modern Wood- . of America and is also a member of the Ancient Order United Workmen. In 1903 he organized the Wellsburg

Bank & Trust Company, and has been its vice president ever since. Mr. Chapman and others realized the need of a banking institution adequate to the commercial needs of Wellsburg, and he won over the old private banker, the late Samuel George, to his ideas, resulting in the reorgan- ization of the old George Bank into the Wellsburg Bank & Trust Company.

WILLIAM SAYRES BUTLER, assistant to the general super- intendent of tho Western General Division of the Chesa. peake & Ohio Railroad, has been identified with this line for a period of twenty-six years, during which time he has worked his way upward steadily from the position of machinist to one of the most important and responsible posts of the road. Mr. Butler was born at Yorkshire, England, October 5, 1874, n son of Frank and Mary (Sayres) Butler.

Frank Butler, who is now a resident of Middlesboro, Kentneky, is also a native of Yorkshire, England, born in 1853. He was reared and married at his native place, where he learned the trade of furnaceman, and in 1878 came to the United States and located at Chicago, where he was employed at his vocation. In 1852 he re- moved to Lowmoor, Alleghany County, Virginia, where he became superintendent of furnaces for the Lowmoor Iron Company, and in 1895 went to Middlesboro, Ken- tucky, where he has continued to follow his trade. Ile is a republican in his political allegiance, and as a fra- ternalist is identified with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Butler married Miss Mary Sayres, who was born at London, England, in 1853, their marriage ocenrring in 1872. They became the parents of four children: William Sayres; Aliee, who married Gatewood L. Schumaker, an insurance man of Covington, Virginia; Frank R., general foreman for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at Lexing- ton, Kentucky; and Edward Walter, paymaster for a large contracting concern at Detroit, Michigan.

William S. Butler attended the public schools of Ro- anoke, Virginia, and after graduating from the high school of that city in 1890 entered the Virginia Poly- technie Institute at Blacksburg, Virginia, and completed a mechanical engineernig course in 1892, receiving the degree of Mechanical Engineer. For three years he followed the trade of machinist with the Lowmoor Iron Company at Lowmoor, Virginia, and then removed to Clifton Forge, that state, where he seenred employment with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, remain- ing two years. He severed his connection with that road to return to Roanoke, Virginia, where for 216 years he was identified with the Norfolk & Western Railroad Com- pany, following which he was variously situated at dif- ferent places in the South, with several railroad systems, until 1899. In April of that year he returned to the Chesapeake & Ohio as a machinist at Ilandley, West Virginia, and at the end of 216 years was promoted to be roundhouse foreman. A little later he gained further promotion, to the post of general foreman. In 1904 he was made assistant master mechanic at Lexing- ton, Kentucky, with the same company, and in 1905 was transferred to Hinton, West Virginia, in the same en- pacity. In 1909 he came to the Huntington shops as assistant master mechanic, having jurisdiction over all departments of the large shops at this place, and in the following year was appointed master mechanie, his juris- diction being extended to include the Huntington, Logan, Dig Sandy and Ashland divisions of the Chesapeake & Ohio system. In 1920 he was made assistant to the geu- eral superintendent, Western General Division, a post which he holds at this time. Mr. Butler's offices are situated in the passenger depot, second floor, on Seventh Avenue, between Ninth and Tenth streets. While Mr. Butler's chief interest is centered in the work of the railroad, he has other connections, and is secretary and treasurer of the Huntington Investment Company. In his political affiliation he recognizea no party lines, taking an independent stand and voting for the man rather than the organization. He is a member of Ilinton Lodge No. 62, A. F. and A. M., and a life member of Hinton

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Lodge No. 821, B. P. O. E. and belongs to the American Railway Association.

In January, 1895, at Rich Patch, Virginia, Mr. Butler married Miss Lillie W. Stull, daughter of Cornelius T. and Nannie (McCoy) Stull, the latter a resident of Rich Patch, where Mr. Stull, now deceased, was formerly a prosperous farmer. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Butler: Stanley Cornelius; Maude, the wife of Record Paul Trumbo, car inspector for the Chesa- peake & Ohio Railroad in the Huntington shops; Bessie, the wife of William Diehl, head bookkeeper for the Huntington National Bank; and William Stull, residing with his parents, a senor in the Huntington High School. The Butler home is a comfortable, modern residence, sit- uated at No. 1425 Boulevard Avenue, in addition to which Mr. Butler is the owner of other real estate at Huntington and a farm of 715 acres at Rich Patch, Virginia.

Stanley Cornelius Butler, son of William S. Butler, is a graduate of the West Virginia University, where he specialized in agriculture. During the World war he enlisted in the United States Army, and left the train- ing camp with the rank of second lieutenant, going over- seas with the Machine Gun Company of the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry, Seventy-ninth Divi- sion. He was promoted to first lieutenant while iu France, where he spent eighteen months in active service, and during this time took part in a number of battles, including the major engagement in the Argonne sector, where he was seriously wounded. Upon his return to the United States and subsequent honorable discharge from the army he accepted a position as instructor and director of agriculture and athletics at the district high school at Kingwood, West Virginia, where he now makes his home.

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