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The family are members of the Baptist Church. W. R. Jewell is affiliated with Weston Lodge No. 10, A. F. and A. M., the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Vandalia, and is a republican. For four years he held the office of sheriff of Lewis County, and was elected in 1904 to one term in the Legislature.

The Jewell Stock Farm comprises a thousand acres. The Jewells have spent a number of years and much money in carefully laying the foundation of their herd of Here- fords. This herd comprises sixty females, and the herd bull is Mapleton Lad 18th.

QUINCE JONES. Starting without a cent of his own or of borrowed capital at the age of twenty-one, Quince Jones in twenty years has earned the right to be classed among West Virginia's bankers, capitalists and men of affairs. His home for a number of years has been at South Charleston, and he has been one of the actuating principals in the development of that prosperous young city.

Mr. Jones was born in 1881 in Raleigh County, where he was reared in the home and on the farm of his parents, Dan and Fannie (Mankin) Jones, residents of Raleigh County. He attended the free public schools, worked on the farm, and

in 1901 left home and connected himself with the lumber business in the Mankin Lumber Company at Oak Hill ir Fayette County. There he learned the fundamentals of the business which has been the basis of his solid prosperity He was with the Mankin Company until 1908. In that year he entered the mercantile business at Colcord in Raleigh County. He furnishes contracts for logs to the Bowman Lumber Company of St. Albans. The headquarters of his timber business are at Coal River, and in conjunction he conducts a large general store.

In 1915 Mr. Jones removed to South Charleston. He is president of the First National Bank of South Charleston, a financial institution which gained additional resources and capital by absorbing the Bank of South Charleston in Sep. tember, 1921. This bank handles the financial affairs of the City of South Charleston. Besides his banking interests Mr. Jones owns business and residence property, and in the fall of 1921 built and owns a modern picture show house. His own home is a spacious brick residence on the hill at Montrose.

Mr. Jones is president of the Loudon District School Board and is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. He married Miss Ella Milem, of Raleigh County, and their three children are Daryl, Basil and Quince, Jr.

FREDERICK LUTWYCHE ROUND, M. D. Reared in several of the great industrial communities of Pennsylvania, Doctor Round learned the machinist's trade, but left that to train himself for the profession of medicine and surgery, and for the past twenty years has been one of the busy men in his profession in Southern West Virginia. Most of his work has been in the mining district and as a mine physician, and his present location is at Monaville in Logan County, on the Omar branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio.

Doctor Round was born in the City of Birmingham, Eng land, May 31, 1872, son of Frederick and Arabella (Lut- wyche) Round, both natives of England and of English ancestry. In 1873, when Doctor Round was about a year old, the family came to the United States and settled at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1880 they removed to North Umberland, Pennsylvania, in 1883 to Sunbury and in 1889 to Danville. Later they again lived at Sunbury. Frederick Round became a prominent man in the iron and steel indus- try of Pennsylvania. For a time he was general bookkeeper of the Pottsville Iron and Steel Company, was connected with the Van Allen Nail Works at North Umberland, the Montour Iron and Steel Company, was manager of the Danville Nail Works. and subsequently was general manager of the Sunbury Nail Works. He was a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, and at the time of his death was registrar of his diocese. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Frederick Lutwyche Round was reared and attended schools in the several Pennsylvania cities above named. He was in high school at Sunbury, and on leaving high school began an apprenticeship in a machine shop at Danville owned by the Montour Iron and Steel Company. He served the apprenticeship for four years, but followed the trade eight years. In 1897 he took up the study of medicine under Doctor Paules of Danville, and later entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he gradu- ated M. D. in May, 1902. In search of a field for his pro- fessional work he came to Big Sandy, West Virginia, in November, 1902, was located there about a year, and for ten years was in practice at Davy. For two years his home and professional work were in Huntington, West Virginia, and then after a year at Wilcoe be located at Monaville, and for the past five years has been mine physician for the Island Creek Coal Company. He is a member of the various medical societies, and one of the leaders in his profession.

In 1908, at Bluefield, West Virginia, Doctor Round mar- ried Miss Minnie E. Fortner, of Davy, daughter of William and Octava (Darr) Fortner, both natives of Virginia. Her father was a Confederate soldier in the Civil war, and aside from his military experience his life was spent as a farmer. Doctor and Mrs. Round have two children, Virginia Arabella and Frederick William. Mrs. Round is a member of the

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ethodist Episcopal Church, South, while he returns the ith in which he was reared in the Episcopal Church. octor Round is a Royal Arch and Scottish Rite Mason.

DANIEL PENDLETON is a prominent lawyer of Spencer, so publisher and proprietor of the Roane County Reporter, id bears a name that has had honorable associations in the ir of Roane County forty years.

His father was the late Hon. Walter Pendleton, who irned distinction in law and politics and worthily upheld e traditions of one of the oldest and most prominent milies in the South. Walter Pendleton was a descendant : the English family of that name, the line of which is aced back into the Plantagenet era of early English his- ry. The Pendletons were established in Virginia about $74, and since then the family has produced many leaders public affairs, and in every war of the nation there as been a Pendleton of high official rank engaged, includ- g even the World war.

Walter Pendleton was born at Buchanan, in Botetourt ounty, Virginia, March 7, 1856, a son of Dr, Micajah endleton, a prominent physician of that state and a de- endant of Edmund Pendleton, president of the Continental ongress that framed the Declaration of Independence and e first president of the Supreme Court of Appeals of irginia. Walter Pendleton was reared and educated in d Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in that state in 376, and practiced his profession at Hillsville in Carroll ounty until his removal to Spencer in 1882. He was a rominent leader in the democratic party in West Virginia ad was democratic nominee for Congress in 1896, partici- ating in a campaign in a republican district and when the rength of the republican party was at its high tide. He as defeated by only a small majority. In 1908 he was minated by his party for judge of the Supreme Court of ppeals of West Virginia, and again was defeated, though inning thousands of votes ahead of his ticket. He was a ember of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was filiated with Moriah Lodge No. 38, F. and A. M., Spencer hapter No. 42, Royal Arch Masons, and Parkersburg odge No. 198, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Walter Pendleton died at Havana, Cuba, March 16, 1921. is death brought profound sorrow to his many old friends nd associates in Roane County, where he had practiced w almost forty years. He began his professional career 1 West Virginia practically among strangers, went through period of considerable hardship while struggling for cognition, but for a number of years before his death was garded as the foremost representative of the local bar. . professional friend characterized his career as follows: Walter Pendleton was a lawyer of the old school. The trongest advocate found in him a worthy opponent and ne who always played the game fairly. His manner was ourteous, his logie convincing, his sincerity was apparent. [e believed that his client was entitled to the best that as in him and he rendered it without stint or measure, ut he did not seek undue advantage or stoop to the plane £ a shyster at any time. Coming as he did from the old tate of Virginia and with a family whose name adorns he pages of her history, a fact of which he was always roud, he ever exhibited the traits of the 'Virginia gentle- an' but not with haughtiness or seclusion. He understood he struggle of the young and inexperienced practitioner at he bar because he himself had passed through the same, nd he deemed it a pleasure to extend to such a one the lad hand of assistance. He reached a ripe age, yet he ever permitted his spirit to grow old. He was happiest when he was surrounded with his younger companions, which re believe was the secret of his heart staying young."

The first wife of Walter Pendleton was Nellie MeMath, a ative of Foster, Kentucky, who died at Spencer in 1892, urvived by two sons, Daniel and Dudley. Walter Pendle- ot afterward married Miss Pearl Monroe, a native of Parkersburg, who died at Spencer in 1911. Her father was he late Dr. W. W. Monroe, one of the prominent dentists f Parkersburg.

Daniel Pendleton was born at Spencer, April 6, 1887, and zas liberally educated, beginning in the public schools of

Spencer, later graduating from the Parkersburg High School and receiving his law degree from the University of West Virginia at Morgantown. le practiced law at Spencer until 1910, and for the following five years was an active member of the Oklahoma bar at Ada. In 1915 he re- turned to Spencer, and was associated with his father until the latter's death. Among other interests represented by him he is attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company.

Mr. Pendleton in 1918 acquired the ownership of the Roane County Reporter, the official democratic paper of this section of West Virginia, and a journal of great in- fluence and prestige. This paper was established in 1878 as The Bulletin, was later sold to a stock company and finally became the Roane County Reporter in 1911.

Mr. Pendleton is chairman of the Democratic County Committee of Roane County. He is president of the Spencer Independent District Board of Education. He is a Rotarian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Moriah Lodge No. 38, A. F. and A. M., Spencer Chapter No. 42, R. A. M., West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling, Nemesis Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Parkersburg, Spencer Lodge No. 55, Knights of Pythias, and Parkersburg Lodge No. 198, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Pendleton is a stockholder in the Roane County Bank and in the Spencer Water & Ice Company, and has a considerable amount of property, in- eluding his home, one of the best residences in the city, his office building on Church Street, the Telephone Exchange Building, and he owns a farm near Ada, Oklahoma, and coal lands in Illinois. During. the war Mr. Pendleton was active in all war work in Roane County, and especially exerted himself in publicity work during the various Liberty Loan campaigns.

In 1915, at Parkersburg, Mr. Pendleton married Miss Edna Morford, who was horn at Morford in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and finished her education in the Wheeling High School. Her father, George L. Morford, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1863, was a teacher there during his early life, and in 1895 established a home and business at Spencer. In 1897 he removed to Parkers- burg, and since 1908 has been active in business at Wheel- ing. He is a democrat and a Baptist. The mother of Mrs. Pendleton was Minnie Miller, a native of Greene County, Pennsylvania.

CHARLES W. WATSON owns one of the good farms and is one of the progressive farmers of Lewis County in the Roanoke community, where he has 160 acres of land.

Mr. Watson was born on Hackers Creek, West Virginia, November 9, 1846, son of William A. and Margaret A. (Wallace) Watson. His parents were both born in old Virginia, and the family has a notable record in connec- tion with Colonial and early national affairs. His great- grandfather, Zachariah Watson, was a soldier in the Revolu- tion. The grandfather, John F. Watson, was born April 10, 1789, and served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He died June 20, 1859. Willian A. Watson was born in Vir- ginia, April 30, 1818, and his wife was born June 2, 1819. After their marriage they moved to Lewis County, West Virginia, and settled on a farmi on Hackers Creek, later moved to the vicinity of Roanoke, at the mouth of Sand Fork, and were quiet and industrious citizens in that com- munity the rest of their lives. The mother was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. William A. Watson took an active interest in the affairs of the democratic party, and for a number of years served as a member of the County Court and as justice of the peace. The record of the names and dates of birth of the children of William A. and Margaret Watson is as follows: Mary E., August 19, 1843; John B., February 16, 1845; Charles W., November 9, 1846; Margaret S., April 12, 1848; Sarah A., July 30, 1849; Lucinda C., May 21, 1851; Harriett M., December 31, 1852; Permelia, April 24, 1854; T. A., April 17, 1856; Jacob J., December 26, 1859; and Joseph W., May 11, 1860.

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the place owned by his father. There were few schools in the locality during his youth, and his education largely came from private instruction. His father died March 13, 1883, and after that he remained at home with his step- mother.

On March I, 1893, he married Emma Wilson, who died with her only child. October 2, 1907, he married Martha Kelley, a native of Barbour County, West Virginia. They have a son, Wallace, born August 8, 1909. Mrs. Watson is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. He is affiliated with W. G. Bennett Lodge, A. F. and A. M., at Walkersville, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Roanoke, of which he is a past noble grand, and he and his wife are Rebekahs. He has been an active worker in the democratic party, and has served as a member of the Board of Education.

SAMUEL C. JONES. The home and farm of Samuel C. Jones is ten miles southeast of Weston, in the vicinity of Vandalia, Lewis County. Mr. Jones is now eighty-one years of age, was a soldier in the Civil war, has spent most of his life in West Virginia, and the success he has made at farming and the performance of his duties as a citizen has commended him to the respect and esteem of all who know him.

Mr. Jones was born in Highland County, Virginia, April 3, 1841, son of Henry and Sallie C. (Eagle) Jones. His father was born in Highland County, May 18, 1812, son of Joseph Jones, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812. His wife was a daughter of James Trimble, a native of Ireland, who was conscripted by tre English to fight the Colonists in America, and after the war never returned, but hecame a citizen of the United States. Henry Jones and wife were married in Highland County, Virginia, lived on a farm there for some years, and subsequently moved to West Virginia and settled in Upshur County, where he remained until after the Civil war, when he sold out and moved to Lewis County, where they spent the rest of their lives. They owned a farm of 250 acres in Lewis County, and were accounted successful. Henry Jones was a lite- long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for many years a class leader. He voted as a democrat until after the Civil war, when he became a republican. He was the father of five children: John, deceased; Mary E., wife of William Reger; Lydia, wife of Charles W. Tolbert; Margaret Ann, widow of William E. Tolbert; and Sam- uel C.

Samuel C. Jones grew up on a farm, had a public school education, and in September, 1862, enlisted in Company E, of the First West Virginia Light Artillery. He was with that command until the close of the war, and par- ticipated in several historic battles. When the war was over he returned to Upshur County, but soon afterward moved to Vandalia, where he became interested in mer- chandising and also served as postmaster. Selling his interests there, he went back to a farm in Upshur County. While a merchant at Vandalia he married Catherine E. Peterson on December 26, 1866. She was reared in Lewis County. Mr. and Mrs. Jones returned to Lewis County in 1869, and for half a century they have made their home on their farm of seventy-five acres near Vandalia.

They are the parents of eight children: W. T. Jones, a farmer on Skin Creek and married Kate Roach; Ida L. is the wife of John C. Chidester; Cora is the wife of B. E. Wells; Retta May is the wife of A. O. Harper; J. Ralph is a glass manufacturer at Bridgeport, West Vir- ginia, and married Mintie Horner; Mary is the wife of J. S. Ocheltree; and H. G. and Sallie Gay, twins, the former married Mamie West and the latter is the wife of Fred A. Linger.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church through a long period of years. He is a republican, though he has never sought any office.

Mrs. Jones, whose maiden name was Catherine E. Peter- son, is a daughter of E. D. Peterson, one of the prominent farmers and citizens of the Skin Creek community of Lewis County. As a republican he represented his home district one term in the West Virginia Legislature, and

helped write the constitution of the state. He was prominent leader in the Methodist Church. He was th father of eleven children, five of whom are still living Sarah J., widow of Acil Casto, who was a Confederat soldier; Catherine E., Mrs. Samuel C. Jones; Mary, widow of Thomas Eckes; Job B. lives in Missouri; N. E. Peter son is a farmer; David T. was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil war; Samuel T. fought on th Confederate side; the other deceased children were: Johi D .; Charles Peterson; Matilda, who was the wife 0 Leroy Horner; Christina, who was the wife of James W Duncan.

JAMES B. MADISON is secretary-treasurer of the Vir ginian Joint Stock Land Bank, at Charleston, Mr. Madi son is a young business man and banker, whose experienc gives him exceptional qualifications for the management o. a bank organized under the Federal Farm Loan Act.

He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 28, 1885 His education was acquired in the public schools of hi native city, and following that he took up the life insurance business. From a solicitor in the field he was promoted through various branches until he became superintenden: of agents at the home office. Leaving the insurance busi ness in 1910 Mr. Madison became an apprentice appraiser for a farm mortgage concern, and has engaged in all the departments of that business. He has the distinction and experience of having made appraisements and loans upor farm lands in every state in the United States and a large portion of Canada.

The Virginian Joint Stock Land Bank of Charleston was organized by Mr. Madison and his associates in 1917 Its service covers the states of West Virginia and Ohio and the Bank now has aggregate assets of about $5,500,000 This bank has the distinction of having made the first loai completed under the provisions of the Federal Farm Loal Act.

Mr. Madison married, in 1905, Miss Lillian Evelyn Ashe of Houston, Texas. They have one son, James B. Madi. son, Jr.

REV. GEORGE W. ANNON for nearly half a century ha: carried some of the active burdens or the ministry of the Church of the Brethren in 'Taylor and surrounding coun ties. His gaintul occupation for an even longer period has been farming, and ue is still living at his old home stead near the Village of thornton.

His family has been in west Virginia more than a cen tury. His grandfather, John Annon, was a Protestant Irishman, and as a young man came from Londonderry Irelaud, being sixteen weeks on the voyage across whit Atlantic. He was a weaver by trade and set up his 1000 in the Village of Braudonville, Preston County, but spent his last years in Barbour County, where he owned a farm though he did not till it. He died there in 1861, at the opening of the Civil war, at the venerable age of 104. inis patriarch married atter coming to this country Isaver Gibson, who died in Barbour County when avout eighty. nve years old. Her children were: Luzabeth, who married Benjamin Myers and died in Tucker County ; John J. wuose record follows; Lleauor, who married isaac Horu- beck and died in Wood County; Jane, wuo died in MIS- souri, the wire of Meshack Casteel; and Zachariah, Way spent his uite as a farmer m Barpour County.

John J. Anuon, representing the second generation, was boru at Brandonville, Preston County, May 2, 1814, Was reared there, getting such advantages as the schools 0. the day amorded, became a teacher woth before and after mus marriage, and suortly after that event ne settled w Barbour County. For a number of years he lived in the vicinity of Moatsville, where he owned a farm, and m 1864 moved with his family to Taylor County, and spent his last years on the farm where his son George now re- sides. He died in 1875. He was active in the Church of the Brethren and was a democrat by preference. His wife was Isabel Hileman, who died in Barbour County in her eighty-sixth year. Her father, George Hileman, of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, came from Pennsylvania to

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est Virginia and was a skilled house carpenter. It was id of him that he could go into the woods, cut the mber, frame a building, haul the finished material to e place of construction, and in the erection have every ece fit to the notch. He died in the Brandonville locality. is wife was a Cutshort, and they had a numerous family. brief record of the children of John J. Annon and wife as follows: Benjamin, who died in Darke County, Ohio, as a minister in the Church of the Brethren and also an ler; Levi died in infancy; Sophia, who died in Barbour unty, her first husband being Eugenius Stalnaker and r second Isaac Ball; Rev. George W. was a minister in e Church of the Brethren, and was very active in the inistry, having traveled thousands of miles on horseback, d was an elder; Zachariah, of Thornton, Taylor County; manda, who spent her life near Thornton, the wife of W. Arble; Elizabeth, who married John W. DeMoss d lives at Grafton; Sylvanus M., a merchant of Blaser, w of Ohio County, also a minister of the Church of the 'ethren and also an elder; Dema, who died at Inde- ndence, West Virginia, wife of Gilbert F. Montgomery; d Clara B., who died at Grafton, wife of Eugenius C. Moss.

George Washington Annon was born near Moatsville, rbour County, February 17, 1844, and was abont twenty ars old when he accompanied his parents to Taylor unty. He brought with him the educational training quired in the popular schools of his native county and e vigor of industry which has never deserted him. He Iped clear up and start the farm on Horse Run in Taylor unty, and when he married, at the age of twenty-two, settled down near his father and has been one of the osperous and hard-working men of that community ever ice. Grain and livestock have been the main depart- ents of his farm enterprise, and he has a large part of 3 118 acres under cultivation.

At different times Mr. Annon has been one of the trus- es of Westerman School District No. 8. His voting ord in politics indicates a degree of independence in pressing his convictions. His first presidential vote went Horatio Seymour in 1868. Four years later he supported prace Greeley, in 1876 Samuel J. Tilden, in 1880 Gen- al Hancock, but in 1884 he again picked a loser by ting for James G. Blaine. Beginning about that time, vigorously supported the prohibition ticket, but eventu- y resumed his place in democratic ranks, voting for Mr. ilson in 1916 and for Cox in 1920.

In 1873 Mr. Annon became an active member of the urch of the Brethren, sometimes called Dunkard, and following year he was elected a deacon. In 1875 he s elected to the ministry, and preached his first sermon the Westerman Schoolhouse on the text "I knew a man Christ." He was ordained to the eldership of the church 1895, and is still active in carrying the Gospel to the ople.

In Wood County Mr. Annon made the acquaintance of ss Martha H. Hornbeck, and they were married at Inde- ndence, Preston County, April 19, 1866. She was born tober 21, 1845, daughter of Isaac and Eleanor (Annon) ornbeck. Her father was a native of Barbour County, is a Union soldier in the Civil war, and spent his active e as a farmer. Mrs. Annon was the oldest child, the lers being: Lydia, who married James Harvey and died Jackson County; Isabel, who died unmarried; Sidney, to became the wife of John Reed and died near Sandy- le in Jackson County; John, a farmer of Jackson County; cob, who died in that county; Virginia, who never mar- d; and Ella, who died young.

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