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While a successful attorney without any financial interests politics, Mr. Sawyers has given much of his time to iblic duty. He has served as mayor of Hinton, was police idge nine years, president of the Board of Education ght years, and as democratic nominee for the office of torney general of the state in 1916 he came nearer to ing elected than any democratic nominee for a number : years. He has been a delegate to every state conven- on of his party since 1892, and was a member of the emocratic State Executive Committee for twenty-six years. r. Sawyers was editor of the Independent Herald of inton from 1895 to 1911, and individually owned the wspaper and plant from 1901 to 1911. His editorials, hich were widely copies, were models of a fine literary yle, and were equally accepted whether in the field of litical argument or in humorous comment on affairs.

In 1907 Mr. Sawyers married Josephine McCreery, aughter of J. T. McCreery. They have two children, rederick W. and Thomas M. Mr. Sawyers is a Presbyterian, a Lodge, Chapter and Knight Templar Mason, a member : Wheeling Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Beni-Kedem emple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston and is also filiated with the Elks and Independent Order of Odd ellows.

HIRAM H. FARLEY, M. D., is not only one of the repre- ntative physicians and surgeons of the county of Logan, here he is engaged in successful practice in the thriving ttle city of Logan, the county seat, but here also he is ssociated with Doctor Steel in the ownership and con- icting of a thoroughly modern private hospital, with accom- odations for fifty resident patients. Drs. Farley and teel purchased this hospital, known as the Logan Hospital, 1 1908, and have brought the same to a high standard of ervice. Doctor Farley specializes in the diseases of omen and children, and in addition to his general and ospital practice he is retained as official physician for le Aracoma, the Shamrock and the H. T. Wilson Coal ompanies, prominent mining corporations in this section f the state.

Doctor Farley was born on a farm near the former aral Post Office of Burch, in what is now Mingo County ut then in Logan County, and the date of his nativity was October 15, 1878. The original representative of the 'arley family settled in Virginia, and in Giles County, hat state, was born the paternal grandfather of the Doctor. He became one of the pioneer farmers in what is ow Logan County, West Virginia. Doctor Farley is a on of Thomas B. and Nancy B. (Pinson) Farley, the ormer of whom was born in what is now Logan County nd the latter of whom was born in Kentucky. Thomas B. arley served in the Civil war as a soldier in the Con- ederate forces commanded by Gen. Jubal A. Early, and fter being captured by the enemy he was held six months s a prisoner of war. He became one of the prosperous armers and representative citizens of Logan County, erved as justice of the peace and was for two terms ssessor of Logan County prior to the creation of Mingo County. He and his wife became the parents of a fine amily of fifteen children, and he was one of the venerable nd honored citizens of Logan County at the time of his leath, in May, 1920, at the age of eighty-two years.

After an academic course in Marshall College, Doctor

Farley entered the Peabody Medical School of the University of Nashville Tennessee, where he remained one year. There- after he was for three years a student in the Hospital College of Central University, Louisville, Kentucky, in which he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For the ensuing two years he was engaged in practice at Mann, Logan County, during the following two years he maintained his residence and professional headquarters at Holden, this county, and he then, in 1908, removed to Logan, the county seat, where he has since been established in practice. The Doctor is an enthusiast in his profession, with a fine sense of stewardship, and has kept in line with advances made in medical and surgical science. In 1910 he took a post-graduate course in the medical department of the University of Louisville, where his studies were in connection with the diseases of women and children, and in 1918 he completed an effective post- graduate course in the great New York Polyclinic, besides which in 1920 he similarly availed himself of the advantages of New York Post-Graduate School of Medicine. He is actively identified with the Logan County Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The Doctor is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife hold membership in the Mis- sionary Baptist Church.

The year 1902 recorded the marriage of Doctor Farley and Miss Myrtle May Prichard, who likewise was born and reared in what is now Mingo County, she being a daughter of James and Victoria Prichard, natives of West Virginia and residents of Burch, this county, where the father is a merchant. Dr. and Mrs. Farley have two children, Erman and Violet.

HUGH B. SHINN, a representative of the historic Shinn family of Harrison County, was one of the founders and has been occupied with the management for twenty years of the Valley Grocery Company of Belington. This is one of the prosperous wholesale concerns that add an imposing volume to the commercial trade centered at this little city.

The Valley Grocery Company was founded by L. P. Shinn, G. W. Shipman and Hugh B. Shinn. The company was chartered with an actual capital of $61,000, and with an authorized capital of $100,000. The first officers were G. W. Shipman, president; H. B. Shinn, secretary and treasurer, and L. P. Shinn, vice president. It was in the fall 1902 that the house opened for business, with two trav- eling salesmen representing the firm in the field. The business has grown steadily, and now serves a large and important section of West Virginia. There are three trav- eling salesmen on the staff. The company has steadily kept in touch within its original field, handling groceries and feed. Hugh B. Shinn is a member of the State Wholesale Grocers Association.

There is something said on other pages of this publica- tion concerning the historic Shinn family. The Shinns of West Virginia are descended from a remote Scotch ancestor who came to this country and settled in Pennsylvania be- fore the Revolution. The grandfather of Hugh B. Shinn was Jeremiah Shinn, a substantial farmer in the Shinnston community of Harrison County, where he spent his life and where he is buried. He married Mahala Sturms, and they had two sons and five daughters: Luther P. and Byron Shinn; Mrs. Rose Tetrick; Caroline, wife of George F. An- dall; Jane, who married Harry F. Randall; Florence, who became Mrs. Bruce W. Boggess; and Allie, who married D. L. Morrow. There were no politicians, ministers or other professional men in this old family, and hardly with au exception the men have been occupied either with farm- ing or some line of commercial endeavor.

Luther P. Shinn, father of Hugh, was born in Harrison County in 1850, acquired a country school education, and has been a business man all his active career. He took up merchandising at the age of twenty-five, and is still in business at Buckhannon. The only office he ever held was as a member of the City Council at Buckhannon. For many years he has been an official in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Luther P. Shinn married Virginia Boggess, daugh-

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ter of John W. Boggess, of Lumberport, Harrison County, an ex-soldier of the Union Army. She died in 1882, leav- ing two sons, Hugh B. and Guy. Guy was associated with the wholesale business at Belington until he died in 1906, unmarried.

Hugh B. Shinn was born in Harrison County in Decem- ber, 1874, but was reared at Buckhannon, Upshur County. He attended the public schools and had a brief course in Wesleyan College. His early life was spent in the atmos phere of his father's retail store, and at the age of eighteen he became an active helper in the business. He is still associated with his father's store at Buckhannon, although his main time and attention are given to the wholesale house at Belington. The management of this business, in which he has been a factor for twenty years, constitutes a man's job, and Mr. Shinn has permitted himself no special share in politics or other affairs. He was brought up a repub- lican, and cast his first national ballot for Mckinley in 1896. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Knights of Pythias.

In Upshur County in September, 1897, Mr. Shinn mar- ried Miss May Brown, who was born in Delaware County, Ohio, daughter of F. W. Brown, but since childhood she has lived in West Virginia and she finished her education at Wesleyan College. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Shinn are: Sherwood, a member of the class of 1923 in the elec- trical engineering course at West Virginia University; Fran- cois, of the class of 1925 in the Baltimore Dental College; Virginia, of the class of 1925 at Wesleyan College; Kenneth is a student in the Belington High School; and Frederick. in grammar school.

MAJ. RANDOLPH STALNAKER, a resident of Beverly, West Virginia, served as a youthful soldier of the Confed- eracy, and for over half a century has had an active and useful career, with many honors of a civilian nature in his home state.

The Stalnaker family is one of the oldest and most nu- merous in West Virginia. According to a recent estimate it is stated that not less than 25,000 descendants of the pio- neers in the state remain here. The name Stalnaker is of Holland Dutch origin, and the first of the family in Amer- ica settled in old Virginia. The great-grandfather of Ran- dolph Stalnaker was Adam Stalnaker, Sr., a native of Ran- dolph County. His son, Adam Stalnaker, Jr., was born in the same county and was killed by the Indians in frontier times. The father of Major Stalnaker was also named Randolph and was born in Randolph County in 1808 and died in Wirt County in 1885. He was a harness maker and saddler by trade, and much of his life was spent at Lewisburg in Greenbrier County. He was a staunch demo- crat in politics, and was a member of the Episcopal Church. He married Caroline Erskine Zoll, a member of the Pres- byterian Church. The children of Adam Stalnaker, Jr., were: Daniel H., Randolph Maria (who married Isaac Baker) and Ellen. The children of Randolph and Caroline Erskine Stalnaker were: Dr. John William Stalnaker, who served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army; Sarah J., whose first husband was Frank Baugh, and her second husband, Isaac Jolinson ; Daniel Edwin, who was a soldier in the Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate Army; Caroline Erskine, who married W. Preston Hix; Dr. Albert Gallatin Stalnaker, who was also in the Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate Army; Mamie, who married J. C. Hale; and Henry Erskine Stalnaker, who died in infancy.

Maj. Randolph Stalnaker spent his early life at Lewis- burg in Greenbrier County, acquired a common school edu- cation, and was fifteen years of age when the war broke out between the states. Ile was born in Greenbrier County, June 8, 1845. Toward the close of the war he became a Confederate soldier, and served on the staff of Gen. A. W. Reynolds. His military title of major, however, is due to the commission he received and the active service he ren- dered as a major of State Militia participating in handling the railroad strike in West Virginia during the late '70s. He was commissioned major hy Governor Mathews.

After the war he returned home poor in purse, did farm work and had a struggle for several years to make a living.

From 1868 until 1876 he was a merchant at Lewisburg. Ir 1877 he became private secretary to Governor H. M Mathews, and served in that capacity four years. From 1881 to 1885 he held the more responsible office at Wheel. ing, West Virginia, of secretary of state. Since 1885 Major Stalnaker has been a special agent in the law department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. From life's opportuni. ties he has achieved success in a financial and business way, has enjoyed many exceptional political honors, and has gained a wide circle of friends throughout the state. He was formerly active in politics as a democrat, but in recent years has been an independent. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, is a Master Mason and Elk, and a Rotarian. Major Stalnaker in 1918 married Mrs. Mabel Burns (Baker), of Fairmont. Since his marriage his home has been at Beverly in Randolph County, West Virginia.

CARTER SLOCUM FLEMING, M. D., is engaged in the suc, cessful practice of his profession in his native city of Fair. mont, Marion County, as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. He was born at Fairmont on the 1st of April, 1891, and is a son of Joseph Perry Fleming and Cora D. (Fisher) Fleming, the Fleming family having long been one of prominenec and influence in Marion County. The doctor is a descendant of John Fleming, who, in company with his three brothers, came from the North of Ireland and settled on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania in 1741. He took up a large tract of land in what is now known as Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, and in 1789, with three of his nephews, he came to what is now West Virginia and settled on the Monongahela River. The line of descent to Doctor Fleming is as follows: John, Matthew, Alex- ander, William B., Francis M. and Joseph Perry. Francis M. Fleming, grandfather of the doctor, was born at Fair- mont, in 1821. He learned the shoemaker's trade under the direction of his father, and eventually engaged in the retail boot and shoe business at Fairmont, where he con- tinued a representative citizen and business man until his death, October 28, 1892. His wife, Sarah A., a daughter of Henry and Mary Pugh, of Cumberland, Maryland, sur- vived him by about eight years and passed away in July, 1900. Francis M. Fleming served as a musician in the Sixth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry (Union) in the Civil war, and in later years maintained affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a republican, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant Church.

Joseph Perry Fleming was born at Fairmont in the year 1845, and his death occurred November 11, 1911. As a youth he assisted in his father's shoe store and later he was for ten years independently engaged in the same line of business enterprise at Fairmont. In 1898 he was elected city clerk, his service continuing two years. He then be- came associated with Charles E. Reed, the firm being for nine years West Virginia state agents for J. M. Guffey of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1910 Mr. Fleming became secretary of the Monongahela Industrial Company, and of this office he continued the incumbent until his death, in the following year. He was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. On October 23, 1889, he married Cora D. Fisher, who was born at Fairmont. a daughter of Capt. John Fisher, and she still resides in her native city. Doctor Fleming is the only child of this union.

In 1909 Doctor Fleming graduated from the Fairmont Iligh School, and thereafter he was for one year a student in the State Normal School in this city. He then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, in which institution he was gradu- ated in 1914. Since receiving his degree of Doctor of Medieine he has taken post-graduate work each successive year. He has been established in practice at Fairmont since 1914, and has been specially successful in his service as a gynecologist and obstetrician. He is a member of the Marion County and West Virginia State Medical Societies, . Southern Medical Association, American Medical Associa- tion, and the American Child Hygiene Association. He holds membership in the Kiwanis and Country clubs of

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irmont, and is affiliated with the Elks, Knights of thias, Ancient Order of United Workmen and Knights the Maccabees. He and bis wife hold membership in Methodist Protestant Church in their home city.

Doctor Fleming married Mary Rolena, daughter of the e James Nuzum, of Fairmont. Mrs. Fleming is a gradu- of the Fairmont High School and West Virginia State ormal School at Fairmont. Doctor and Mrs. Fleming have ine little son, Joseph Smith Fleming, born June 17, 1920.

HERBERT EDWIN FIELD, one of the prominent men in the lustrial affairs of the Wheeling District, has been a suc- ssful executive, but his early training and experience for most part were on the technical side of the iron and el industry. He is probably one of the highest qualified tallurgical engineers in the state.

He was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, November 4, 72, son of Edwin H. and Emma (Smith) Field. He was ared and educated in his native city, famous for its great hool of technology. He graduated from high school there, d in 1895 received the Bachelor of Science degree from e Polytechnic Institute. He specialized in metallurgy, d his first employment was as metallurgist and assistant the foundry manager of the Builders Iron Foundry at 'ovidence, Rhode Island. Following this he was metal- rgist and assistant to the foundry manager of the Farrel undry and Machinery Company of Ansonia, Connecticut, d then went to Pittsburgh, where he was foundry manager the Mackintosh-Hemphill Company and later of the Sea- in-Sleath Company. Since coming to Wheeling Mr. Field s been president and general manager of the Wheeling old & Foundry Company, one of the large and important dustries of the Wheeling District. He is also a director the Dollar Savings & Trust Company of Wheeling.

During the World war Mr. Field served as a member of e War Industries Board. He is a republican in politics, member of the Congregational Church, and has many nnections with social, civic and technical organizations, cluding the Engineers Club of New York, Duquesne Club, ttsburgh Athletic Association and Fellows Club of Pitts- rgh, the Edgeworth Club of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, the rt Henry Club and Wheeling Country Club of Wheeling, d the Nemacolin Country Club of Beallsville, Pennsyl- nia.

In 1900, at Hartford, Connecticut, Mr. Field married Miss ra Chaney, daughter of Albert M. and Etta Field Chaney. r. Field is a member of the American Iron & Steel In- itute, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical igineers, American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, merican Chemical Society, American Society for Testing aterials and American Academy of Political and Social ience.

RALPH G. CUTRIGHT, M. D., has been busily engaged in s work as a physician and surgeon at Rock Cave in Upshur unty for the past twenty years. He is member of one of e oldest and most prominent families of Upshur County, e that has furnished good citizens at all times since most the beginning of history here.

He was born at Sago in Upshur County, October 2, 1870, n of Granville H. and Elizabeth J. (Beer) Cutright. :anville Cutright, who was born in Upshur County in 1841, as one of four or five brothers who served as Union sol- ers. He enlisted in 1861 in a West Virginia regiment, d was in service until after the close of the war. The giment was on duty in the West, and he was not mustered it until 1866. He then returned to Upshur County, and September 29, 1866, married Elizabeth J. Beer, who was rn in Pennsylvania in 1844. They then settled on a farm Sago, and lived out their lives there. The father was an tive republican. There were five children: Lyman, de- ased, who was graduated at the West Virginia University w School and was a member of the bar; Ralph G .; Frank, ho graduated A. B. from West Virginia University and ceived bis Master of Arts degree from Columbia College New York and is now superintendent of the public schools Gassaway; Delos M., a graduate of the Mountain State

Business College at Parkersburg and is a dairyman at Berlin, Maryland; and Ward S., who died in infancy.

Dr. Ralph G. Cutright grew up on the bome farm, ac- quired his early advantages in the public schools, attended a select high school, and finished his medical education at Lebanon, Ohio. He also took special courses at Louisville, Kentucky, and since 1899 has been a hard working country practitioner at Rock Cave. He is a member in good stand- ing of the various medical societies and has prospered in a business way, having bis home and office at Rock Cave and considerable real estate. He is an independent voter and is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church in his home town.

Doctor Cutright married Ella Rohrbough, who died in June, 1909, leaving one child, Ella K., born in September, 1906. Doctor Cutright later married a sister of his first wife, Byrd R. Rohrbough.

W. B. HAUGHT is cashier of the Dunkard Valley Bank at Blacksville, West Virginia. This is one of the prosperous financial institutions of Monongalia County, serving par- ticularly the community of Dunkard Creek and its tribu- taries, about twenty-two miles west of Morgantown. The bank was organized in 1902, and still retains its capitaliza- tion of $25,000. It now has a surplus of $12,500 and has paid regular six per cent dividends. The deposits on June 30, 1921, aggregated approximately $250,000. Jobn W. Scott is president, W. I. Booth, of Clarksburg, vice presi- dent, W. B. Haught, cashier. The first cashier of the bank was T. J. Collins, who served four or five years.

Mr. Haught was born in Battelle District of Monongalia County, a few miles west of Blacksville, November 14, 1885, son of J. N. and Nancy C. (Barr) Haught. His parents were also born in this community, and are still living at their old home. The grandfather, Henry Haught, was a native of Germany and was a lad when he came with his parents to America and settled in Battelle District.

W. B. Haught is well educated, attending college at Bridgewater, Virginia, and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He studied law with James A. Meredith at Fairmont, but soon gave up his professional preparation and entered the Peoples Bank at Fairmont. He was promoted to assistant cashier, and remained there until May, 1914, when he was chosen cashier of the Dunkard Valley Bank, and is also one of its directors. Mr. Haught is a republican, and is serving his fourth term as town recorder of Blacks- ville. He has filled the chairs of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias and is the present keeper of records and seal. Mr. Haught takes an intelligent and active interest in all matters connected with the welfare of the community, and is particularly interested in education. He was a member of the Christian Church of Fairmont, and now works with the local Baptist and Methodist churches.

At Fairmont he married Miss Beryl Crim, of that city. Mrs. Haught assists Mr. Haught in his duties at the bank.

THE BANK OF WADESTOWN is one of the substantial smaller banks of West Virginia, located in an exclusively rural section and performing its service for a local patron- age and being a reliable index of the district's prosperity. Wadestown is an inland village six miles from a raidroad and thirty miles west of Morgantown. It is situated near the center of Battelle District, Monongalia County, at a point where several runs converge, the Dunkard Creek Valley extending for miles to the northeast. It is a grazing and general agricultural community, and a number of sub- stantial families have been established in that region since pioneer times.

The bank was organized in 1905, being open for business on the 7th of October, with a capital of $25,000. The pro- moters of the bank were Professor Russell Morris, of the State University, and Mr. Tumlin, of the Federal Trust Company of Morgantown. Nearly all the stock, however, is held locally. The first president was Urias Shriver, who in April, 1918, was succeeded by R. S. Colvis, who is the only one of the original directors and had been vice presi- dent from the beginning. The present vice president is

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Charles V. Garrison and the first cashier was H. L. Plumb, who was succeeded on February 15, 1908, by Alexander White, now cashier. The board of directors consists of R. S. Clovis, Urias Shriver, J. L. Hennen, Henry Shriver, Jeff Shriver, Charles V. Garrison and William G. Kent, all resi- dents of the Battelle District except Mr. Garrison, who lives in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The deposits average $200,000, and the surplus and undivided profits are $34,000, exceeding the capital. The book value of the stock is now over $200. The bank erected and is housed in its own building. This bank did a commendable part in helping the Government finance the war, handling $37,750 of the Third Liberty Loan, $49,900 of the Fourth Loan, $32,000 of the Victory Loan, and $42.500 of War Savings securities.

Alexander White, cashier of the Bank of Wadestown, was born in Battelle District February 15, 1880, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Hennen) White, both now deceased. His mother died in 1897 and his father in 1905. Thomas White was one of the farmers of this section, inheriting most of the old homestead from his father, William White, who was a son of Grafton White, the pioneer.

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