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In 1904 Mr. Bowers married Rissa D. Heatherly, of Philippi, West Virginia, and they have three children, namely : James Hubert, Jo-Ellen and Jean Williamson. Mr. Bowers is acknowledged to be one of the efficient cor- poration lawyers in the state. Care and precision mark the preparation of all of his cases of whatever nature, thus insuring a convincing and clear presentation of whatever subject comes before him for adjustment.

DANIEL HARVEY HILL ARNOLD. The law is known as a stern mistress, demanding of her devotees constant and un- remitting attention, and leading her followers through many

mazes and intricacies before she grants them success at he hands. This incessant devotion frequently precludes th idea of the successful lawyer indulging in activities outsid of the straight path of his profession, especially if hi straight vocational duties are of a large and importan nature. Such has been and is the case with Daniel Harve Hill Arnold, lawyer and member of the bar at Elkins, master of the perplexities and complexities of the law, whos activities are directed incessantly to the demands of hi calling. He was born at Beverly, West Virginia, Januar; 18, 1879, a son of Thomas Jackson Arnold, and a membe of one of the old and honored families of the South.

The Arnold family records show that in 1765 thre brothers, Jonathan, Andrew and Jesse Arnold, remover from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to what became Green County, Pennsylvania. Prior to 1765 but one family of th name of Arnold lived in Chester County, where in 1720 Richard Arnold died. He is believed to have been the grandfather of the above-named brothers, of whom Jonathan Arnold married Rachel Scott. According to the reliabl authority of a genealogical chart of the Arnold family 01 file in the Congressional Library at Washington the Arnold are of English lineage, dating back to the eleventh century

It was Jonathan Arnold, the grandfather of Daniel Har vey Hill Arnold, who founded the Arnold family in what is now Randolph County, West Virginia, when he settled at Beverly in 1822. There he continued to reside the remainder of his life, dying July 20, 1883. Upon locating at Beverly, Jonathan Arnold established a tannery, which he operated for a few years, and then engaged in raising and handling cattle, in which he met with a very gratifying success. He was conservative and of sound judgment and of unquestioned integrity, kind-hearted, sympathetic, con siderate of those in distress, and faithful in his friendships He was an ardent whig in the days of that party, wan strongly opposed to the secession of Virginia, and in 186] voted, with the minority of the country, against the ratifica tion of the ordinance of secession. Early, however, during the war, when he felt that the Federal administration, in his opinion, was going beyond the limits of the constitution he experienced a change in his opinions, and his sympathies were more in accord with the seceding states, which to him then were more in accord with the underlying principles of the forefathers. Hence he opposed and voted against the formation of the State of West Virginia, and because of this was regarded by the Federal authorities as disloyal. In the autumn of 1863 he was arrested and was virtually held as a prisoner until the close of the war, notwithstand- ing that through the intercession of influential friends he was paroled within narrow limits not long after his arrest, but he was not allowed to return to the vicinity of his home until a short time before he was released immediately before the war terminated. He was the eldest son of William and Hulda (Knotts) Arnold, and was born on his father's farm near West Brownsville, Greene County, Peunsylvania, March 27, 1802. William Arnold was born and reared in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and there became a well-to-do farmer, and there he spent his life and died. William Arnold and his wife had the following children: Jonathan, William, Rachel, Sarah, Charles, Pinkney and Caroline. William Arnold was a son of Jonathan and Rachel (Scott) Arnold, whose children were as follows: Samuel, Benjamin, Levi, Jonathan, William and James, twins, Rachel, Hannah and Sarah. It was Jonathan Arnold, father of the above family, who was one of the three Arnold brothers who in 1765 migrated to Greene County, Pennsylvania, as related above.

Jonathan Arnold, grandfather of Daniel Harvey Hill Arnold, and grandson of Jonathan Arnold, the founder of the Arnold family in Greene County, was three times mar- ried. His first wife was Thursa Butcher, who died about a year after their marriage. No descendants survive from this marriage. In 1841 he married Phoebe Ann Collett, and was again unfortunate, his wife dying within a few months. In 1844 Jonathan Arnold married Laura Ann Jackson, of Clarksburg, West Virginia. She was a daughter of Jonathan and Julia (Neale) Jackson. By this marriage there were three children who grew to maturity, namely:

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Thomas Jackson Arnold when thirteen years old was ced in a school at Lexington, Virginia, and made his ne with his uncle, then Major Jackson, but afterward aining to undying fame as General "Stonewall" Jack- . In 1863-4 he attended school at Parkersburg. West ginia, under Rev. William L. Hyland, rector of Christ urch. In 1866 he began the study of law at Beverly der Col. David Goff, and afterward took the course in and equity at Washington and Lee University, Vir- ia, graduating therefrom in 1867, with the degree of chelor of Laws. The following year he entered upon the ictice of his profession at Beverly, and in the fall of that ir was elected prosecuting attorney for Randolph County, I was three times elected to this office. In 1880 he went San Diego. California, where he continued to practice , and in 1886 he was appointed by President Cleveland lector of the port of San Diego, which office he held for out two years in that period making a splendid record. 1896 Mr. Arnold with his family, returned to West Vir- ia to look after his estate in Randolph County. He ated at Arnold Hill Station, and here he continues to ide. Since his return from California Mr. Arnold has : practiced law. He is the author of "Early Life and tters of 'Stonewall' Jackson," published in 1916 by ming H. Revell Company, New York.

On June 1, 1876. Thomas Jackson Arnold married Miss genia Hill a daughter of Lieut .- Gen. D. H. Hill, a dis- quished Confederate soldier and officer, who, following close of the war was prominent in literary and educa- nal work until his death, which occurred September 24, 39. Mrs. Arnold was born at Lexington, Virginia, but was reared at Charlotte. North Carolina. The following Idren were born to Thomas Jackson and Eugenia (Hill) nold: Isabel. D. H. Hill, Thomas Jackson, Jr., and gene H. Their son Thomas Jackson Arnold, Jr., was for en years a Presbyterian missionary in Africa. The other is became lawyers.

Daniel Harvey Hill Arnold the person whose name heads s review. is a worthy representative of both the Arnold d Hill families: He was reared at San Diego, California, ere his preliminary education was obtained. In 1900 he eived his Master of Arts degree from Washington and e University, and afterward, in 1902, completed his law dies at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mich- In. and that same year was admitted to the har of West rginia, and has since then been engaged in the practice of profession at Elkins. He is a democrat in politics, t has never sought or accented political honors, preferriug devote his entire time to the practice of the law. He is a acon in the Presbyterian Church, and sincere in the per- mance of his religious duties. Fraternally he maintains mbership with the Benevolent and Protective Order of ks and is a Royal Arch Mason. Through the Rotary ib he keeps in close touch with the progress of Elkins d its vicinity, and is helpful in the carrying out of the jects of this organization.

In 1906 Mr. Arnold married Miss Mary Ann Denham, of orida, who died September 1. 1909. leaving no children.

1914 Mr. Arnold married Miss Rebecca Andrews, of aunton. Virginia, and they have two children, namely : genia Elizabeth and Rebecca Arnold.

Mr. Arnold is a commanding figure in his profession, Id, independent, fearless, scorning petty tricks, fighting t in the open for what he believes to be right, a man of ind judgment who weighs carefully both sides of a ques- n so as to be just to each. Few men have a family his- ry so replete with interest, and Mr. Arnold is proud of connection with some of the historic characters of his intry.

CHARLES F. MAHOOD, M. D. In the midst of these och-making times recognition of the work of the medical ofession has come to a fresh and even thrilling distinc- n. Through its skill and knowledge that wonderful ma-

chine, the human body, is not only rehabilitated, but sometimes reconstructed. Medical science is elastic, its boundaries are limitless, but it is at all times held firmly in the grasp of intelligent men who uncover its mys- teries. Some of the most important discoveries in recent years have come in the treatment and cure of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, a department of the profession in which many physicians specialize. In this branch of his honored and humane calling Dr. Charles F. Mahood, of Alderson, has made rapid strides, and is now accounted one of the leaders in his specialty in this section.

Doctor Mahood was born at the village of Oak Hill, Fayette County, West Virginia, January 19, 1878. His father, Chester B. Mahood, was a native of Giles County, Virginia, and was a contractor and builder by vocation. When he was little more than a boy he enlisted in the Confederate Army for service during the war between the states, belonging to Colonel French's company of Stark's battery. He developed into a man of the finest character and of unusual mental stability, whose life was an inspira- tion, whose ideals were of the highest and whose probity and integrity were unquestioned. During the early '70s he went to Fayette County, West Virginia, to assist in the construction of the court house, and thereafter made his home at Oak Hill, where his death occurred February 27, 1922. He had reached the age of seventy-three years, having been born November 9, 1848. Mr. Mahood was a democrat in politics, and served very capably for three terms as mayor of Oak Hill, winning and holding the confidence of the people. Fraternally he was a Mason. His religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was one of the founders of the church of that faith at Oak Hill, of which he was for years an official member. He married Lucy Margaret Huddleston, a member of a pioneer family of Kanawha County, this state, who died March 29, 1920, leaving eight children, of whom all but one are living.

Chester B. Mahood was a son of Capt. Francis Preston Mahood, a Virginian by birth, who attained his rank in the Confederate army during the war between the states. His father was a native of the North of Ireland, whence he moved to Scotland and then immigrated to the United States, founding the family in Virginia.

The third child in order of birth, and the eldest son, Charles F. Mahood was primarily educated in the public schools of Oak Hill, supplemented by private tuition, and then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore in 1898. Later he enrolled as a student at the University College of Medicine (now the Medical College of Virginia), and was graduated therefrom in 1901, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine, follow- ing which he entered upon the practice of his profession at Oak Hill, where he followed his calling until coming to Alderson in 1907. Here he has built up a splendid practice of the most desirable kind, and at the same time has risen to a high place in the confidence of his patients and in the esteem of his fellow-practitioners. In 1906 and 1907 he took special work in the New York Poly- clinic of New York City in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. At the time that the United States entered the World war Doctor Mahood entered the Medical Officers' Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he received his commission as a first licutenant and served as surgeon in the eye departments of the camps at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, and Camp Green, North Caro- lina. He was promoted to the rank of captain and honor- ably discharged as such at the close of the war. Since coming to Alderson he has specialized in the same depart- ment of work, in which he has met with great success. He is a member of the Greenbrier Valley Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. While a democrat in politics, he is not active in public matters, although taking a good citi- zen's interest in civic affairs. He is a Presbyterian in his religious faith, and as a fraternalist is a Knight Templar and York Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.

On November 11, 1903, Doctor Mahood married Mary

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Marguerite Connor, daughter of Morgan and Virginia (Bright) Connor, of Greenbrier County. They have one daughter, Kathleen.

WILLIAM T. GREEN on leaving college was identified active- ly for a number of years with the coal industry of West Virginia. His real profession, however, was that of certi- fied public accountant, and he organized and was honored with election as the first president of the Association of Certified Public Accountants of West Virginia.

Mr. Green, who was owner of the National Audit Com- pany of Charleston, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1880, son of M. C. and Eliza (Thorne) Green. He spent bis early life in Culpeper County, though most of his edu- cation was acquired in West Virginia. He attended Mar- shall College at Huntington, and in 1900 graduated with the degree Bachelor of Science from the University of West Virginia at Morgantown. Following that for sixteen or seventeen years he had a broadening range of responsi- bilities in the coal business, most of the time serving as secretary and treasurer of the New River Smokeless Coal Company. For the greater part of the time this company maintained its headquarters at Thurmond, and Mr. Green removed to Charleston when the general offices were removed to that city.

In 1916 he resigned from the coal company to devote his entire attention to the growing business of the National Audit Company, which he founded. This is an organization perfected with a view to skillful service in interpreting the Federal and other laws requiring special reports from cor- porations, and Mr. Green gave his company a very high standing and a select clientage throughout West Virginia and the adjoining states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.

To promote higher standards in public accounting and the welfare of certified public accountants in general, Mr. Green took the lead in. organizing the Association of Certified Public Accountants of West Virginia, and was elected its first president in 1919. After serving as president one year he served as secretary. He was a member of the Kanawha Country Club and was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. Mr. Green married Annie Laing, and to this union were born three children: William, Elizabeth and Marcellus. For his second wife Mr. Green married Miss Geraldine Robinson, and to them was born a daughter, Nell.

SEBASTIAN M. MILLER is a mining engineer, with a wide and varied experience in the mining district of West Vir- ginia and other states. He has been the engineer and operating official in the development of the most important coal districts in the southern part of the state. His home for the past ten years has been at Beckley in Raleigh County, and be has been manager of the sale of land for a large group of mining properties in the interest of the Interstate Coal and Dock Company of Huntington. This company is incorporated under the laws of Maine, and its officers and directors comprise one of the most powerful groups of coal operators in the Middle West. The general manager and secretary-treasurer of the-company is C. H. Mead of Berkeley, and Mr. Miller for a number of years has been associated with the Mead coal interests in this state.

Mr. Miller was born February 18, 1868, at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. His ancestors have been in Pennsylvania since Colonial times, and comprise an ad- mixture of English, German and Scotch. About 1750 the German branch of the family acquired an interest in lands in Pennsylvania, and subsequently brought a colony of Germans who settled on the land. The parents of Mr. Miller were George and Katherine (Mull) Miller, natives of Pennsyl- vania. Mr. Miller's grandfather on his mother's side was an Abraham Lincoln elector for Pennsylvania. The Millers were pioneers in the development of the anthracite coal fields of Schuylkill County. Sebastian Miller's grandfather began mining coal in that county in 1827, and subsequently associated with him his sons David, George and another son, and they continued these operations until 1890. George Miller was a Union soldier who joined the army in the

closing months of the Civil war. He was a thirty-secol degree Mason and belonged to the Methodist Episcop Church. He died in 1881.

Sebastian M. Miller attended the common schools Schuylkill County, also Mercersburg Academy, and from there entered Franklin and Marshall College of Lancaster Pennsylvania, where he graduated A. B. in 1888. Subs quently he pursued special courses in mine engineering, ale also as a matter of general business education rather than with a view to fitting himself for the profession he rea law for about a year. On leaving Pennsylvania Mr. Mill spent about a year and a half as a practical geologist aj engineer in the gold, silver and lead fields of Colorado in h own interest. He was also in the coal mining district Utah and acquired some interest in a considerable acrea; of coal land. For about a year he was in the coal minir section around Fort Scott, Kansas. While in the West ] became interested in a proposition to build what was to 1 known as the Utah & California Nevada Railway, and 11 connected with the construction company as treasur and director in charge of the survey, and secured the rig of way for this line. He returned to New York in tl interest of the railroad in 1896. Not long afterward he b came associated with his uncle in coal mining operations Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. His uncle died in 190 and the mine properties were sold to New York parties, M Miller remaining in charge for the new owners. The operators subsequently became interested in West Virgini and Mr. Miller came to the state to represent them in 190 and he handled many of the matters connected with t] purchase of the properties of the New River Smokele Coal Company, Cunard Coal Company, Brooklyn Coal Cor pany, Red Aslı Coal Company, Rush Run Coal Compan the Sun Mines Nos. 1-2-3, the Lanark Coal Company and tl Royal Coal Company. These purchases included nine min in all, and the properties were organized as the New Rivf Collieries Company. Mr. Miller became general manager this corporation, and be negotiated the lease of 8000 acr from the Crab Orchard Land Company. He was the practic man in charge of the development of this property, ar supervised the installation of two sets of shafts and th building of railroads, power plants, store. buildings, office tipples, dwellings and club house. The first coal was shippe from this property in 1907. Mr. Miller remained with tl organization for two and one half years, and the established himself as a consulting engineer at Beckley In 1912 he became associated with P. M. Snyder, S. A Scott, J. L. Bumgardner and others in securing leases 1 fifteen hundred acres of coal lands in the Winding Gu District. The development of this property was under h personal supervision, and the corporation handling it wa known as the East Gulf Coal Company.

Mr. Miller sold his interests in this corporation in 191 and then became interested in the Interstate Coal an Dock Company a Coal Sales Company, becoming i manager in order to round out his experience in the coa business in this district. He is also interested in the Lo Volatile Consolidated Coal Company, of which C. H. Meat is president. Mr. Miller is now general sales manager fo all the coal produced in the properties of C. H. Mead Cos Company, Bailey-Wood Coal Company, Ragland Coal Con pany, Ingram Branch Coal Company, and the Low Volatil Consolidated Company, there being six mines producin about a million tons annually.

In November, 1907, at Washington, D. C., Mr. Mille married Miss Anna B. Scott, daughter of Samuel Scot a native of Maryland. Mr. Miller is affiliated with tl Elks Lodge and the Kiwanis Club, and is a member of th Episcopal Church. He is also a member of the Raleig County Country Club, the White Oak Country Club, an the Old Colony Club.

ROBERT EMMETT O'CONNOR. Bringing to his practic of the law a carefully trained intellect and natural inclina tion, broadened by his experience as an officer during th World war, Capt. Robert Emmett O'Connor, of Elkins, i one of the ablest practitioners of the Randolph County ba

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od a man widely known and universally respected. e is enthusiastic with reference to his profession and his ommunity, and is rapidly becoming one of the forceful actors in the affairs of this part of West Virginia. Still the very prime of vigorous manhood, he has a keen sense : civic responsibility and local pride, and is determined to e that every advantage is given the people of this region or further development.

Captain O'Connor was born on his father's farm near orton, Randolph County, March 22, 1888, and is of pure ish lineage both paternally and maternally. His father, ichael O'Connor, was born in Randolph County, West irginia, August 25, 1843, a son of Patrick and Bridget McGuire) O'Connor. Patrick O'Connor was born near illarney, County Kerry, Ireland, from whence he immi- rated to America about 1839, landing at Halifax, Nova cotia, Canada. From that port he came to New York City, ad thence to the South to work on the construction of the d Chesapeake and Potomac Canal. Subsequently he was milarly employed on the construction of the Staunton and arkersburg Turnpike, and was so employed when he came Randolph County, West Virginia, then a part of Virginia. ere he acquired land in Roaring Creek District, settled on , and here he spent the remainder of his life. His death curred October 22, 1900, at the remarkably old age of 104 ars.

Patrick O'Connor was the direct descendant of the old 'Connor elan of Ireland, of which King Roderick O'Connor as a member. King Roderick exercised supreme sover- gnty in Ireland until 1172, when he surrendered his scepter King Henry II of England.

Michael O'Connor, father of Captain O'Connor, was twice arried. His first wife, whose maiden name was Martha allett, bore him the following children: Mary, John, arney and Charles. For his second wife Michael O'Connor arried Mary Elizabeth Corley, and both of them survive id are living on a farm in Randolph County. They had the allowing children: Robert Emmett, William and James. rs. O'Connor was born in Randolph County, October 18, 352, a daughter of William Fogg and Sarah Ann (Skid- ore) Corley. William F. Corley was born in Randolph ounty about 1817. The progenitor of the Corley family in merica was Minoah Corley, who came from County Cork, 'eland, to the United States and landed at Norfolk, irginia.

Growing to manhood amid the healthful rural surround- gs of farm life, Robert Emmett O'Connor first attended e local schools and later the Fairmont State Normal chool. During this time he taught two terms of school aring the vacation months. Matriculating in the Davis id Elkins College, he was graduated therefrom in 1914, ith the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While still a youth he ad decided upon a professional career, and his course ereafter was shaped with this end in view, and he con- quently took his legal training after completing his assical course, entering the West Virginia University, 'om which he was graduated in 1917, with the degree of achelor of Laws.

Under ordinary conditions he would, of course, have en- red at once upon the practice of his profession, but 1917 as not a year of normalcy, and he, like millions of others this country, became a soldier for service in the war in hich his country had become a participant. Captain 'Connor was a volunteer, and upon his acceptance was sent Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, where attended the Officers' Training School. Subsequently he as sent to the Officers' Training School at Fortress Mon- e, Virginia, and while there received his commission as rst lieutenant, November 27, 1917, Coast Artillery Corps, ad was placed on duty at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. e was assigned to Battery A, Sixty-first Coast Artillery orps, with which he was ordered overseas in July, 1918. fter his arrival in France he was assigned to the Thirty- ird Brigade, First Army Corps, artillery, and in October, 918, he was commissioned captain and was assigned to the mmand of Battery D, Sixty-first Artillery, in which he w service in the Meuse-Argonne sectors. In February, 19, his battery was ordered back to the United States,

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