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Ou December 25, 1888, in Washington, D. C., Mr. Cut- right wedded Miss Carrie C. Carper, no children being borr of this union. On the 27th of July, 1919, was solemnized his marriage with Miss Mary L. Wilson, daughter of Gideon H. and Lydia (Curry) Wilson. Mrs. Cutright was a suc- cessful and popular teacher in the public schools for twenty- three years prior to her marriage, and was graduated in what is now the West Virginia Wesleyan College.

C. FLOYD CALE, a business man and progressive citizen of Bruceton Mills, represents one of the very oldest families established in this section of West Virginia.

The tradition is that Christopher Kahl was one of the Hessian soldiers employed by the British Government to suppress the Colonists' struggle for independence. He deserted from the British army, a fact creditable to his Americanism, and about 1777, while the War of the Revolu- tion was still in progress, he came over the mountains into Western Virginia and settled in Pleasant District, then in Monongalia County of old Virginia. He lived out his life there as a farmer, and his old home is now the property of Orval Walls. His grave is on the old farm near Hudson. Among his sons and daughters John and Jacob Cale, as the family soon learned to spell the name, were soldiers in the War of 1812. These soldiers were uncles of Jacob Cale. the grandfather of Floyd Cale. Jacob Cale was born in Pleas- ant District, spent his life as a farmer there and died about the beginning of the Civil war and is buried in the Cun- ningham Cemetery. He married Sarah Everly. Their chil- dren were: Henry E., who followed in the footsteps of his father as a farmer, once served as deputy sheriff, was a member of the militia during the Civil war and is buried at Sugar Valley; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Ebon Graham, of near Hudson in Preston County; Jesse, who was a teamster in the Civil war, was a farmer in civil life, and is buried at Pisgah in Preston County; William A., wbo became a youthful soldier of the Union and after the war became an operator in the oil fields of West Virginia, Penn- sylvania and Ohio and is buried at Parkersburg; John G., still a farmer in Pleasant District; Lewis Freeland, men- tioned below; Mollie, who is the wife of William Cunning- ham, a minister of the United Brethren Church now at Clarksburg; Bina, who was married to Frederick Copeman and died near Bruceton; and Miles Thompson, of Terra" Alta.

Lewis Freeland Cale was born in Pleasant District of

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ston County, December 2, 1849, was reared on a farm, uired a distriet school edneation, and after reaching hood he took up the profession of photographer, and one of the itinerant members of that profession, doing work over West Virginia and portions of Pennsylvania Maryland. He died October 22, 1899. Lewis F. Cale ried in Preston County, August 13, 1874, Sabina Ellen son, who was born in this eounty April 16, 1858, and I June 22, 1886. Her children were: Henry Semans died at the age of six; Charles Floyd; Mary Milicent, lives with her brother Floyd. Lewis F. Cale's second was Amanda Lenhart, a sister of James Lenhart of gwood. The two children of that marriage are Norman ood, of Pittsburgh, and Alma, wife of Howard Kuhns Pittsburgh.

. Floyd Cale was born March 10, 1877, in Pleasant Dis- ,, and spent much of his early life with his father travel- about the country. He attended various schools in nsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland, and not in- uently he was in three or four different schools during same winter. He gives mueh credit in his educational ning to two of his old teachers for special academic x, D. T. Scott (deceased), and the late S. T. Wiley, d historian and edneator, who was Mr. Cale's personal nd. As a boy he learned the house painting trade, and wed that for seven years in the Uniontown and Morgan- District. He left there and went to Pittsburgh, and a year was with the Harbison-Walker Fire Briek Com- w, in the position of timekeeper and paymaster. He sought the mountain region for the benefit of his th, and about that time he taught two terms of school Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After leaving school Mr. Cale returned to Pleasant and Grant District, and five years was field agent for the Hydro-Eleetrie Com- 7. Since then he has followed other business lines, and insiderable portion of each year he is a salesman for ical instruments. He is also a director of the Bruceton k. Mr. Cale has never married, and he and his sister ; been together for a dozen years and enjoy the com- s of a good home standing on the heights above Bruce- commanding a broad view of the surrounding country. r. Cale is a republican in polities, first voting for Major inley. In 1912 he joined the Roosevelt element in the ressive movement, and when that party was dissolved he rned to his old political moorings. He was a elerk in the e Senate under President MeDermott of that body, but as never campaigned for an office. However, he is now ident of the School Board at Bruceton, but his presence lat office is aceounted for by the fact that some of his ids wrote in his name on the ballot. He is interested ancational matters, and was a stanch supporter of the ement for the location of the high school at Brueeton, h is now in the third year of its existence. Mr. Cale full harmony with the essentials of christianity and gh he is not a church member his sister is a member of Methodist Church. Mr. Cale is a past chancellor of eton Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and represented the e in two sessions of the Grand Lodge, one at Parkers- and one at Bluefield. He was one of the charter mem- of Brneeton Lodge.

OSES K. COLERIDER. While the greater part of his busi- activity has been eentered on his farm near French k, Moses K. Colerider is one of Upshur County's well en citizens, due to his public service in the county and to his profession as a veterinary surgeon.

was born in Upshur County, April 25, 1866, son of iam L. and Sebra (Kinkade) Colerider. William L. rider was a native of Upshur County, and his first wife Cassie A. MeWhorter. By this union there were four ren : Elnora, widow of Stewart Hyre; Amy, widow of . Hossaflook; John M., of California ; and Henry, de- ed. William L. Colerider was a Union soldier in the war, and was wounded in battle and subsequently drew nsion from the Government. He was a republican in ies. His second wife, Sebra Kinkade, was born in ongalia County, West Virginia, where she was reared educated. She was the mother of eight children:

Rebecca, widow of R. K. Waldow; W. A., of French Creek; Moses K .; Clark, of Buckhannon; Guy, deceased; Mollie, wife of William Kiddy, of Sago, Upshur County; Belle, wife of James Smallridge, of Adrian; and Frank L., of Adrian.

Moses K. Colerider had the farm as his early environment, attended the common schools, and when he left home at the age of twenty he found employment for about a year in the National Tube Works. Then for another year he and his brother W. A. were partners in a teaming business at French Creek. After that Mr. Colerider returned to the occupation he had learned as a youth, and bought some of the land included in his present farm of 125 aeres. Ile has followed sound and intelligent methods of agricultme, and is one of the prosperous men in his community. He early took up the study of veterinary surgery, and by correspondence courses owns two diplomas and has a large practice all over the countryside. Mr. Colerider is also a stockholder in the Citizens National Bank of Belington in Barbour County.

On April 10, 1890, he married Lillie 1. Hamner, who was born in Old Virginia, July 31, 1866, and was a child when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brnce Hammer, came to West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Colerider have two children : Myrna, born January 31, 1891, wife of Dana Hileman, of Rock Cave; and Camella, born September 16, 1894, wife of O. G. MeCue, of Abbott, West Virginia. Mr. Colerider is a Methodist, while Mrs. Colerider is a Presbyterian. lle is a member of Lodge No. 375, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and the Encampment, and Mrs. Colerider is a member of Rebekah Lodge No. 216 and Aletha Chapter No. 7 of the Eastern Star. Mr. Colerider has served as deputy assessor of Upshur County, is now a member of the Board of Equal- ization, and is one of the staneh republicans of this section of the state.

ALBERT GALLETIN JENKINS. Of the men called to the service of the state government at Charleston by Governor Morgan in the spring of 1921, one is A. G. Jenkins, state pardon attorney. Prior to that time he had made a success- ful record as a lawyer in his home county of Barbour.

He was born at Philippi in Barbour County, November 27, 1874, son of Henry Middleton Jenkins, of the same county, and grandson of Jonathan Lewis and Manda Jen- kins, who came from Loudoun County, Virginia. Henry M. Jenkins, who died in 1916, was for many years a member of his local school board in Barbour County and also justice of the peace.

A. G. Jenkins finished his normal school education at Fairmont, and for nine years gave his time to teaching school in Barbour County. He was eleeted and served four years as county superintendent of schools. Among other educational advantages he pursued a business course at Parkersburg in 1890. In 1907 he graduated from the law school of West Virginia University, and has been a member of the Barbonr County bar for fifteen years. He was elected on the republican ticket, and served four years as prose- cuting attorney. Governor Morgan made him pardon at- torney in March, 1921.

Mr. Jenkins has been active in republican campaigns in his home county. He is an out-door man, and spends his vacations usually along streams and in the forests and mountain seetions of the state. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Junior Order United American Me- chanies and Woodmen of the World.

Mr. Jenkins married Miss Hazel Elizabeth Miller, of Barbour County. They have a daughter, Pauline, now in high school at Charleston.

J. RALPH JONES, president of the Bridgeport Bank and one of the principals in the Bridgeport Lamp Chimney Com- pany, has exemplified in his business career the initiative ability and vital progressiveness that make for definite success, and he is one of the leading business men of the fine little City of Bridgeport, Harrison County.

Mr. Jones was born in Lewis County, West Virginia, on the 20th of November, 1876, and is a son of Samuel C. and Catherine (Peterson) Jones, both of whom likewise were born in this state, where the respective families were

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founded prior to the creation of the new commonwealth of West Virginia from the mother state of Virginia. The father gave his entire active career to productive farm industry, and he and his wife now reside near Weston, judicial center of Lewis County, where he is living virtually retired. Their children are eight in number, three sons and five daughters.

That J. Ralph Jones profited well from the early educa. tional advantages that were his is evidenced by the success which attended his efforts when he initiated his independent career hy becoming a teacher in a rural school in his native county, his service in the pedagogie profession having con- tinued four years. For fifteen years thereafter he was a successful traveling salesman for a leading wholesale sad- dlery and harness house in in the City of Louisville, Ken- tucky, and in 1908 he established his residence at Bridge- port, where he became one of the organizers of the Bridge- port Lamp Chimney Company, a partnership concern in which his associates are John and William F. Duncan. This company now represents one of the important industrial enterprises of this section of West Virginia, and when the plant is running at full capacity a corps of 175 employes is demanded. The company manufactures virtually all types of lamp chimneys of the best grade, and the trade has been extended not only into all parts of the United States but also into South America and Cuba. Mr. Jones has im- portant interests also in farm enterprise and natural-gas production, besides which he is president of the Bridge- port Bank, which was organized in 1904 and which bases its operations on a capital stock of $25,000, its surplus fund being now $50,000. This is one of the solid and well ordered financial institutions of Harrison County. Mr. Jones is affiliated with both the York and Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, as is he also of the adjunct organization, the Mystic Shrine, and he holds membership also in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the United Commercial Travelers. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sonth.

October 19, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Jones and Miss Mintie C. Horner, of Lewis County, her parents, John and Lucy (Hammer) Horner, being deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have five children: J. Horner, Samuel C., W. Lyle, J. Ralph, Jr., and Pauline.

MORRIS JEFFERSON GARRISON. Without disparaging man whom destiny makes prominent in state and national af- fairs, the highest credit belongs to those who help mold · and improve the standards of living and the welfare of their home community. Such men do the duties that lie nearest them, and are satisfied with the achievement of that most difficult thing, winning the esteem of people who have known them intimately all the days of their lives.

Such an enviable character was the late Morris Jefferson Garrison of Wadestown, Monongalia County. He was a merchant, a high minded citizen who worked steadily in behalf of things that only remotely concerned his own prosperity, and he enjoyed the love and fellowship of both his family and a wide circle of friends and admirers.

He was born near Jolleytown in Greene County, Penn- sylvania, August 24, 1843, and died at Wadestown, February 18, 1916, after completing a life of nearly seventy-three years. He was a son of Abner and Hannah (Morris) Garrison and a grandson of George Garrison, and represented an old American ancestry. Abner Garrison was a successful farmer in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where he died April 29, 1859, at the age of fifty-five. He was an ardent Methodist, and built up an estate comprising thirteen hundred acres of land. His wife, Hannah Morris, was a daughter of Levi Morris.

Morris J. Garrison was reared on his father's farm in Pennsylvania, and in 1868 he opened a general store at Wadestown, thirty miles west of Morgantown. During the many successive years he was in business there he ac- cumulated a handsome property, including some seven hundred acres of valuable land. This is farming and graz- ing land, and is also underlaid with coal, all of which is still retained by his family. Mr. Garrison was a thorough

business man, as a merchant kept the stock needed by patrons, studied their wants, and had the genial nat which made dealing at his store a pleasure. His busin was continued three years after his death by his daught and after the stock was sold they continued to own building. Mr. Garrison also did a large business as stock dealer, kept many sheep, and was a leader in ev movement for the advancement of the prosperity and v fare of the district in general. He was one of the n who brought the good roads movement to a practical ba and secured the construction of one of the first impro pieces of highway in this section of Monongalia Conr He was an enthusiastic Methodist, and for fifty years home was an open house for the ministers of that chur

In 1868, the year he began merchandising at Wac town, Mr. Garrison married Adelaide Virginia Jolley, dau ter of William Jolley, of Jolleytown, Pennsylvania. £ died February 11, 1891. They were the parents of six c. dren. The son Frank died in childhood. Harry, v operates the home farm, married Blake Maples and : two children, Robert and Adelaide. The daughter Mau now living at the old home, is the widow of Dr. W. Cole, who was a successful medical practitioner and d when in the prime of his powers, in 1904. Mrs. Cole ] a daughter, Virginia Garrison Cole, now in the first y. of her studies at West Virginia University. Blanche the wife of W. E. Campbell, a merchant at Oglesby, Ok homa. Nellie is the wife of R. E. Boggess, a farmer Ochelata, Oklahoma.

The eldest daughter, Miss Kate Garrison, was elos associated with her father in the store and possesses the personal qualities that made her father such a co panionable citizen. She was formerly a teacher. Hav had special elocutionary training, she is now a pul entertainer, being a reader of no little fame. Miss Gay son is a worker in church and Sunday school, and ] done much to advance the social and intellectual standa of her community, which, despite its isolation, is regard far and wide as a most desirable place of residence.

ALFRED L. SETTLE is the freight agent with general sup vision over all the complex system entailed in the handl of freight traffic for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in Charleston city and industrial district. He has been in service of this railroad corporation for thirty years, and the past six has had the responsibilities of the freight partment at Charleston. In volume of freight traffic Char] ton ranks as one of the capital centers along the Chesapea & Ohio system, in the same class with Newport News, Ri mond, Huntington, Cincinnati and Chicago.

On October 23, 1894, Mr. Settle entered the service the Chesapeake & Ohio as assistant agent at Sewell, W Virginia. He was there two years, and following that v agent and operator at various stations, including four ye: at Deepwater, West Virginia, six years at Springhill, a six years as agent at Cattlettsburg, Kentucky. Then, 1916, he came to Charleston as freight agent. The gre development of Charleston as an industrial city has tak place since then, and the business of the freight departme of the Chesapeake & Ohio has correspondingly expanded a increased. In 1918 the new outbound warehouse, 20 672 feet, was built. All the team tracks and the stre leading to this warehouse are paved. The interchangi traffic facilities were also greatly increased in 1918, the being five interchange tracks at Bridge Junetion, with capacity of sixty cars. In 1917 there was created a st station in Kanawha City, also under the supervision of M Settle as freight agent at Charleston, this sub-station bei primarily for the convenience of the Libby-Owens Gla Company and the Owen Bottle Company, which industr have ten sidings, with a capacity of from twenty-five thirty cars, and in an emergency seventy-five cars can handled in a day. The general freight office at Charlest was erected in 1907, and by additions made in 1912 is no 48 by 548 feet. The tracks at the main station can acco modate ninety-five cars, and there is also room for sevent five cars on the inbound and outbound landings. Few cit have equal facilities for handling freight. The gross volu

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of business done by the Chesapeake & Ohio in the Charles- con district has increased from $1,500,000 in 1916 to $3,- 500,000 in 1921. In 1916 there were thirty-five office and hirty-five warehouse employes, and in 1922 there were fifty- ne office and forty-eight warehouse workers. There is a rard office at Elk, where freight is collected and distributed wer the several industrial cities surrounding Charleston. For that work thirty-five men are employed, twenty-five of hem being yard men and trainmen.

Mr. Settle is a native of Fayette County, West Virginia, und has been in railroad work since he was fourteen years of age. He married Lucy Matthews, of Springhill, where hey reside. Their five children are: Hallie May, wife of E. J. Will; A. L., Jr., an employe of the Chesapeake & Ohio freight office; E. M., now in Arkansas; T. M., in school; and W. A. Settle, the baby of the family. Mr. Settle is a member of the Knights of Pythias and D. O. K. K. fraternities.

T. J. SAYRE has been a member of the Jackson County ar twenty years, practicing at Ripley, and is largely a business lawyer and business man, though he has given dne share of his attention to public affairs and civie movements n his community.

Theodore Joseph Sayre was born near Angerona in Jack- on County, February 14, 1875. Practically all the Sayre 'amilies in the United States are descended from one of four brothers who came from England in the army commanded y General Braddock at the beginning of the French and Indian wars about 1754. The grandfather of the Ripley awyer was Elijah Sayre, who was born in that portion of Mason County that is now Jackson County in 1817, and pent all his life in that locality, a farmer by occupation. Te died at the advanced age of eighty-two. His wife, Mary Jane Hunt, was born in what is now Jackson County n 1824, and is still living at Ripley, well in the shadow of er hundredth year. Her children were seven in number: Wesley; Sarah Ann, wife of Allen Shinn, a farmer at Angerona ; John O., a farmer at Evans in Jackson County; Jasper, a farmer at Cow Run, Jackson County; Daniel, a armer at Danstown, Jackson County; Elijah, a farmer at Evans; and Belle, who died in Jackson County, wife of Tames Barnett, a farmer now living in Putnam County.

Wesley Sayre was born at Angerona in 1844, and spent all his life in that one community, where he died in 1907. Besides owning and operating a farm he was postmaster of Angerona during Cleveland's two terms. Wesley Sayre narried Annie Wink, who was born at Pomeroy, Mason County, in 1853, and is living at Ripley. The children of heir marriage were: Adam W., a farmer at Angerona; C. J .; Miss Marie, a teacher in the Ripley High School; Marguerite, wife of Charles C. Cunningham, a farmer at Evans in Jackson County; Belle, wife of Raymond Vied- orfer, agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Girard, Ohio; David, a traveling salesman living at Angerona; Clara, wife of Russell Baker, a farmer at Angerona; Freda, wife of Gay Casto, a dentist at Beckley in Raleigh County, West Virginia; and Leo, who died at the age of five years. T. J. Sayre acquired a public school education in Jackson County, graduated in 1899 from Marshall College at Hunt- ngton, where he was a member of the Erosophian Literary Society, and from there entered the Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson, Tennessee, where he took his law legree in 1901. Mr. Sayre at once returned to Ripley and vegan the practice of law, and has had a generous share of he work in both the civil and criminal branches of his pro- ession. His offices are on Court Street, and he also has his ome on the same street. He is a director of the Citizens State Bank of Ripley, is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Ripley, and owns considerable real estate in town nd a large body of farming land in Jackson County.

Mr. Sayre served one term as mayor of Ripley. He is , democrat and a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. During the war he was food administrator or Jackson County, made speeches in behalf of the various ampaigns, and put the demands of the Government ahead f all bis professional engagements.

In 1904, at Ripley, he married Miss Lida E. Hyre, daugh-

ter of John A. and Dora (Board) Hyre, residents of Ripley, where her father is a retired farmer. Mr. Sayre lost his wife by death March 7, 1920.

EVERETT MCDOWELL HARMAN was born September 22, 1880, at Ennis, West Virginia, and is a son of Frank P. and Engenia A. (Edwards) Harman, natives of Floyd County, Virginia, and a member of an old and honored family of the Old Dominion. His father, one of the pioneer West Virginia coal operators, still possesses large and valuable coal interests, and among other interests is presi- dent of the Lynn Coal and Coke Company of Matewan, West Virginia, the Turkey Gap Coal Company of Dott, this state, and the Premier Pocahontas Colliery Company. During the greater part of the time he makes his home at Washington, D. C., and was at one time president of the Commercial National Bank of the national capital, but resigned several years ago. He came into the Pocahontas District at the time of its discovery, in 1886, and, in fact with Bowen and Cooper shares the credit for having discovered this field. He himself opened up all the properties of which he is presi- dent, and turned over to his son for opening the holdings in the Pigeon Creek District.

The education of Everett MeDowell Harman was acquired in the public school at Salem, Virginia, the high school at Lynchburg, that state, and the Virginia Polytechnic, a semi-military institution, where he pursued a two-year course in civil engineering, but did not graduate. On leav- ing school he went to New Mexico, where he spent about one year on a ranch owned by his father, and then returned and went to work for the Freeburn Coal and Coke Company in Pike County, Kentucky, where he remained about a year. His father then selling that property, Mr. Harman came to West Virginia with the Premier Pocahontas Colliery Company, in the capacity of assistant superintendent, a position which he retained for two years, bis next location being at Matewan, where he took charge of the Lynn and Allburn Coal and Coke Company as superintendent. In May, 1921, Mr. Harman located at Burch Post Office and opened the Puritan Mine, thus securing the credit for open- ing the first mine in the Pigeon Creek District.

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