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Dr. Stuck, as he is always known, was born at Palatine now part of the City of Fairmont, Marion County, March 30 1860. His grandfather, Stephen Stuck, who married a Miss Hall, was a brother of Matthias Stuck, of Terra Alta, and a record of that branch of the family and its earlier generation! is given elsewhere in this publication.

Squire H. Stuck, father of Dr. Stuck, was a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and settled in Marion County West Virginia, a few years prior to the Civil war. He was a miner by early training and experience, and at Fairmont he became boss or foreman of the old Rainey and Ore coal mine there. Although he had a family of eight children, he was one of the first to enlist in the Union Army when the Civil war came on, serving in Company G of the Fifteenth West Vir ginia Cavalry. He was in the war until the end, with the Army of the Potomac, and among other battles was at Gettys. burg, Cedar Creek and Winchester. He was never wounded or captured. After the war he resumed coal mining, but about 1875 moved to Taylor County and spent the rest of his life on a farm near Grafton, where he died in 1905, at the age of eighty-six. He was a republican voter, and was a devout Methodist, helping build the first church of that denomination at Palatine, and for many years waa superintendent of the Sunday School. He married Mary Jane Green, a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, who died in 1896. A brief record of their children is: Elizabeth, of Fairmont, widow of William Wallace; Lottie, widow of Nathan Hall, lives with a daughter in Ohio; Miss Laura, deceased; Nancy, who married Harry Butler and died at Fairmont; James W., who is identified with gold and silver mining in Sierra County, New Mexico; Eli L., a resident of Fairmont; William B., and Lawrence A., who died at Fairmont, leaving a wife and two children.

During the first fifteen years of his life William B. Stuck lived with his parents at the toll gate on the pike at Fairmont. and some of his first recollections were connected with the passing of soldiers back and forth over that road. He came tc manhood on the farm in the suburbs of Grafton. He posaeased a country school education, and when he left home he went to Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, and entered the aheet mill of W. D. Woods & Company, who had the reputation of making the best aheet-iron in the country. He learned the trade and worked there four years, until illness compelled him to return home. After recovering, instead of resuming his trade, he became one of the promoters of and partner in the Graftor

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Drug and Chemical Company. While his first partner left he business and it has changed management four times, Dr. Stuck has been with it practically without interruption. This ompany is one of the large stockholders in the United Drug Company of Boston. Mr. Stack is a member of the Druggists' Association of West Virginia and the United Druggists Asso- iation.

In Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, in 1889, Dr. Stuck mar- ied Miss Katie B. MeClurg, daughter of John McClurg, who with his wife was a native of Scotland and on coming to the United States settled around Pittsburgh and Mckeesport. Irs. Stuck was born at Mckeesport, one of a family of six aughters and one son, the others still living being the wife of )r. Cope, John McClurg of California, and a sister who ecently died was the wife of I. N. Scott, a prominent stair uilder of Pittsburgh. Dr. and Mrs. Stuck have three chil- ren. Mary Agnes is the wife of C. O. Brown, of Blueville, Taylor County, and has a son, Donald. The two younger hildren are Mary Elizabeth and William B., Jr. The latter raduated from high school in 1922. The daughters also graduated from the Grafton High. Mary Agnes graduated rith high honors from Sadler's Business College, Baltimore, while Mary E. graduated from Clarksburg Business College.

FRANK L. MATSON, M. D. As a youth and young man Doctor Matson was in the railroad service, but finally be- an preparation for a professional career, and for the jast fifteen years has carried on a busy practice as a physician and surgeon at Hundred in Wetzel County.

Doctor Matson was born at Watts Flats in Chautauqua County, New York, December 12, 1878. In the paternal ine he is of Scotch ancestry. His grandfather was a ative of New York State and an early farmer at Watts Flats, where he lived out his life. His wife was of Irish ancestry. James R. Matson, father of Doctor Matson, pent all his life at Watts Flats, where he was born in .840 and died in 1895. He was a merchant, for twenty cars was postmaster, was a republican in politics and vas affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church and he Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was three imes married. By his second wife he had a daughter, Pearl, now deceased. His third marriage was with Miss Elvira E. Hayes, who was born at Wattsburg, Pennsyl- ania, in 1860, and is now living at Canton, Ohio. Her wo sons are Frank L. and James R., the latter an agent for the East Ohio Gas Company at Uhrichsville, Ohio.

Frank L. Matson acquired his grade school education n Watts Flats. About the time he completed school he earned telegraphy, and for five years was an operator with he Erie Railroad, the first two years acting as relief perator on different stations on the First Division. The ast three years his service was chiefly at Saegerstown, Pennsylvania, as operator, though much of the time he pent in the train dispatcher's office at Meadville.

Doctor Matson first came to West Virginia in 1900 as elegraph operator at Pine Grove in Wetzel County for he Hope Natural Gas Company. He was there two years ind filled a similar position one year at Uniontown in Wetzel County. In 1903 he entered the University of Louisville, and diligently pursued his medical studies until he graduated M. D. in 1906. After graduating he prac- iced a year at Littleton in Wetzel County, and since then las had his home and offices at Hundred. For the past eight years he had been local surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company, for five years has served as city health officer, and has a large private clientage both as a physician and surgeon. His offices are on Railroad Street, opposite the depot.

Doctor Matson is a republican, has served one year on the City Council of Hundred, is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church and is affiliated with Littleton Lodge No. 131, A. F. and A. M., West Virginia Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling, Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling, Hundred Lodge No. 200, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Hundred Lodge No. 84, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Marshall County Med- ical Society and the State and American Medical associa- tions. During the war he was a worker in all the local drives for the sale of bonds and other patriotic causes.

In June, 1910, at Wellsburg, West Virginia, Doctor Matson married Miss Emma Jane Kelley, daughter of James A. and Annie (Thompson) Kelley. Her mother died in 1921, at Wellsburg, where her father resides. Mrs. Matson, who is a graduate of the Wellsburg High School, is the mother of one son, Frank Lloyd, Jr., born June 28. 1912.

WILLIAM PAYTON BEANE, M. D. The leading physician and surgeon of Keystone, McDowell County, is Dr. William Payton Beane, whose work here for ten years has earned him all the honors that can possibly be accorded the skill- ful, conscientious and thorough practitioner.

Doctor Beane was born December 5, 1878, at Red Boil- ing Springs, Tennessee, son of John and Martha E. (Leon- ard) Beane, natives of the same state. His ancestors were largely Irish, and the families have been represented in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. John Beane was a farmer, later a merchant, for eighteen years held the of- fice of justice of the peace, and was a member of the Ma- sonic Order and the Christian Church.

William Payton Beane acquired a public school education in his native county, and as he could not look to his par- ents for further help in the matter of education he de- pended upon himself and his labors. For thirteen years he alternately taught and studied, attended a normal school at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and by the exercise of great thrift and saving and by helping another he helped him- self so that he was able to take three years in the University of Tennessee Medical School at Nashville. He finished his course at Memphis, graduating M. D. in 1912. During his junior and senior years he spent much time in clinics and hospital work at Nashville and Memphis.

After graduating Doctor Beane removed to MeDowell County in 1912 and for three months did relief work in the Welch District. He then located at Keystone and be- gan general practice. While he is not a specialist, his skill in handling children's diseases is especially acknowledged. He does a great deal of work in the Bluefield Sanitarium, St. Luke's Hospital at Bluefield, and in the Miners Hospi- tal No. I at Welch. He has admirable personal qualifica- tions for his profession, and the determined struggle he made in his early years has given him a quality that does not recognize defeat and his resourcefulness in handling the problems of disease is well known.

Doctor Beane in 1913, at Keystone, married Mrs. Alice Mae (Peery) Winston. Mrs. Winston by her former mar- riage has two sons, Charles and Roy, Charles being a truck driver for the Tazewell Lumber Company. Doctor and Mrs. Beane are members of the Christian Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge. He is a member of the McDowell County, West Virginia State and American Medi- cal Associations.

JOHN M. HEROLD, JR., cashier of the First National Bank of Webster Springs, the judicial center of Webster County, was born in Nicholas County, West Virginia, April 20, 1885, and is a son of Charles F. and Laural L. (Hutchin- son) Herold, both likewise natives of Nicholas County, where the former was born in 1861 and the latter in 1863, both having been reared under the influences of farm life and both having received the advantages of the common schools of their native county, where they still maintain their home, the father being not only a successful farmer of Nicholas County but also owuing and conducting a gen- eral store. Charles F. Herold is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Masonic Blue Lodge at Summersville, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Of the nine children seven are living: Howard, a graduate of the Massey Business Col- lege at Louisville, Kentucky, is a resident of Clarksburg, West Virginia; John M., of this review, is the next younger ; Elmer, who is at the parental home, was a member of the Seventy-ninth United States Infantry in the World war and served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, where he was at the front on the Argonne sector and also took part in other conflicts; Bascom L., who likewise is now at the parental home, served in the World war as a

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member of the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Machine Gun Battalion, which was at the front and took part in a num- ber of important battles in France, as a part of the Eighti- eth Division; Misses Lulu and Bernice and also the young- est son, Delmas, are members of the parental home circle.

The influences and vitalizing activities of the home farm compassed the childhood and early youth of John M. Herold, Jr., and his preliminary education was acquired in the local schools. Thereafter he was graduated in the commercial or business department of Morris Harvey College, and be then continued his active association with the work and management of the old home farm for a period of ten years. In December, 1907, he became bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Webster Springs, and one year later he was advanced to the position of assistant cashier, of which he continued the incumbent seven years. He has since been the cashier of the institution and has been a re- sourceful executive in the upbuilding of its substantial business and making it an effective conservator of the in- terests of the community. The personnel of the official corps of the bank is as here noted: E. H. Morton, presi- dent ; Dr. S. P. Allen, vice president; John M. Herold, Jr., cashier; and W. H. Mccutcheon, assistant cashier. In ad- dition to the president and vice president the directorate of the institution includes also T. M. Hicks, H. B. Nichols and O. C. Ferrell.

Mr. Herold has had no desire for special political activity but is a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He is affiliated with Addison Lodge No. 116, A. F. and A. M., and his wife is an active member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South.

September 15, 1909, recorded the marriage of Mr. Her- old and Miss Ida Miller, who was born at Webster Springs and who received the advantages not only of the public schools of this village but also those of the Mountain State Business College at Parkersburg. Mr. and Mrs. Herold have four children: Charles (a student in the Junior High School), Ruth, Marjorie and John M., II.

WILL L. WOODDELL has so applied his professional ability and constructive energies as to gain secure vantage-ground as one of the prominent and successful members of the bar of Webster County, where he is established in practice at Webster Springs, the county seat.

Mr. Wooddell is a scion of sterling old Virginia ancestry and was born at Greenbank, Pocahontas County, West Vir- ginia, on the 14th of March, 1876, a son of William J. and Martha J. (Gum) Wooddell, both natives of Virginia, where the father was born in Rockingham County. William J. Wooddell was long numbered among the honored and influ- ential citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where he became a successful merchant and farmer, where he served two terms as county sheriff and where he was twice elected representative of the county in the House of Dele- gates of the State Legislature, his political allegiance hav- ing been given to the democratic party. Both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Of their children the eldest is Margaret, who is the wife of Dr. M. H. Dyer, a representative physi- cian in the City of Charleston; Anna is the wife of Arthur Sheets, of Harrison County; Virgie is the wife of J. N. Craddock, a former mayor of Clarksburg, this state, she having formerly served as police matron in that city; Clara, who is the widow of J. Lee Conrad, attended the University of West Virginia and is now a popular teacher in the pub- lic echools at Clarksburg; Nettie is the wife of H. C. Thur- mond, a retired lawyer and the present (1922) mayor of Webster Springs; Mattie is the wife of W. S. Wysong, of whom specific mention is made on other pages, she being a graduate of the West Virginia State Normal School at Glenville and having been a successful teacher prior to her marriage; Bantz S. is clerk of the County Court of Webster County; James W. is manager of the Waldo Hotel at Clarksburg; and Will L., of this review, is youngest of the number.

After having profited by the advantages of the public schools of Webster Springs, where the family home was es- tablished when he was a boy, Will L. Wooddell pursued

higher academic studies by attending the State Normal School at Glenville. In 1900 he graduated in the law de- partment of the University of West Virginia, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been virtually coincident with his admission to the bar of his native state. He forthwith engaged in active general practice at Webster Springs and he has been an outstanding figure in his pro- fession in this county, owing to his exceptional ability as a trial lawyer and his mature judgment as a counsellor. Since 1906 he has maintained a professional partnership with Senator Morton. He served two terms as prosecut- ing attorney of Webster County, and has been active and influential in the local councils of the democratic party. Mr. Wooddell is affiliated with Elk Fork Lodge No. 116, A. F. and A. M .; Sutton Chapter No. 129, R. A. M .; and Sutton Commandery No. 16, Knights Templars. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Mr. Wooddell wedded Miss Marguerite Miller, who was born and reared in Webster County and whose youthful education included a course in the State Normal School at Fairmont. Mr. and Mrs. Wooddell have four children : Holt is a successful teacher in the public schools of Web- ster Springs at the time of this writing, in 1922; Gordon is a student in the University of West Virginia; Marguerite is a graduate of the normal department of the Webster Springs High School; and Maurice is a student in the local high school.

BANTZ S. WOODDELL has shown naught of apathy or des- ultory interest in his prolonged service as a public execu- tive in Webster County, and is giving a most circumspect and effective administration as county clerk, to which office he was elected in November, 1920, and the duties of which he assumed January 1, 1921. In 1908 he was appointed dep- uty sheriff of the county, and after serving four years in this position he was for six years the incumbent of the position of deputy county clerk, in which connection he made a record that marked him as a most eligible candi- date for the office of county clerk, to which be was elected on the democratic ticket.

Mr. Wooddell was born at Greenbank, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, on the 8th of February, 1871, and is a son of William J. and Mattie J. (Gum) Wooddell, who removed to Webster Springs, judicial center of Webster County, when he was a lad of nine years. In the attractive village that is now his home Mr. Wooddell was thus reared to adult age, his educational work having in the meanwhile been carried forward in the public schools. Here also he served a practical apprenticeship to the printer's trade, the intricacies and mysteries of which be compassed in due course. After working for some time in the offices of the Webster Springs newspaper which had afforded him his training in the "art preservative of all arts," be was em- ployed at his trade in the City of Charleston. Later he returned to Webster Springs, where he acquired a financial interest in the Webster Echo, with the publication of which he continued his active association until 1908, when he was appointed deputy sheriff, as previously noted in this context. He has been continuously in public service in the county since that year, and this fact in itself bears signifi- cant evidence of his executive efficiency and his personal popularity. As may be inferred from a previous statement, Mr. Wooddell is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and in the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with Addison Lodge No. 116, A. F. and A. M .; Sutton Chapter No. 29. R. A. M .; and Sutton Commandery No. 16, Knights Templars.

April 18, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wooddell and Miss Gertrude Curry, and she passed to the life eter- nal in 1912, four children surviving her: Craddock C., who was born in April. 1900, and who is now in the avia- tion service of the United States Government at Manila, Philippine Islands: William B. is, in 1922, attending the Webster Springs High School; and the younger children are Ruth and June. For his second wife Mr. Wooddell wedded Miss Sallie M. Killow, of Oakland. Maryland, and they have three children: Mary Helen, Kathryn and Jo-

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ph Hopwood. Mrs. Wooddell is a popular figure in the ocial life of her home community, and is an active mem- er of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

DAVID WALTER NULL is a member of the firm Funk & ull, contractors in the drilling of oil and gas wells. heir headquarters are at Hundred in Wetzel County. uring the eleven years this firm has been operating in Vest Virginia it is claimed for them that they never lugged a hole and never moved a rig until the well was rilled. Mr. Null. of this firm, has had a wide experi- nce in the oil fields of the East and West, covering all le years since early youth.

He was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1882. His father, David Null, still living at his home ear Deep Valley in Greene County, was born in West- moreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and as a young an went to Greene County, where he married and where uring his active life he conducted an extensive farm and id much business as a carpenter. He is now retired and a democrat in politics. David Null married Lizzie Vright, a native of Deep Valley, and she died at the old ome there. She was the mother of the following children: fary, wife of Lloyd Strope, president of the First Na- ional Bank of Cameron, West Virginia; James H., an oil nd gas well contractor living at Garrison, Pennsylvania; Quey, wife of Burns Lemley, a native of Ned, Pennsyl- ania; Rachel, wife of Joe Sellers, a farmer near Deep alley; Eva, wife of James Murphy, a merchant, stock ealer and prominent business man at Littleton, West Vir- inia; David Walter, the subject of this article; Miss otta and Miss Ada, still at home with their father.

David Walter Null attended the rural schools of his ative county in Pennsylvania, and his activities were dentified with his father's farm until he was eighteen. Since then he has been in some phase of the oil industry. The first three years he was a tool dresser in the Deep Valley field. During 1905 he began drilling in the Bartles- ille field of Oklahoma, but in 1906 became identified with he drilling operations in the Wetzel County field near Iundred. In 1910 he formed his present association with Mr. Funk, and they have conducted an extensive business s reliable contractors for the drilling of oil and gas vells, and have a large capital employed in their tools and utfits and the operating expenses. His partner is Thomas I. Funk, and they own their office building on Wetzel Road.

Mr. Null is also president of the Wetzel Natural Gas Company. He owns one of the best homes in this vicinity, ocated three-quarters of a mile west of Hundred, and has wo other dwellings nearby. Mr. Null is a democrat, and luring the World war responded with his means and in- luence in behalf of every patriotic drive.

January 17, 1906, at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, he mar- ·ied Cecile Virginia Riggs. Mrs. Null was born at Lewis- ;ou, Idaho, but represents an old West Virginia family and she graduated from the high school at St. Marys, this state, in 1905. Her father, Arthur Perry Riggs, was born hear St. Marys in Pleasants County in 1841, was reared and married there, conducted a farm, and was a leading man in the democratic party of the county. He served as county commissioner and road supervisor. Twice he removed to the Far West, and he homesteaded a claim near Lewiston, Idaho, proving it up before he sold it. His daughter, Mrs. Null, was the first white child born in Nez Perce County, Idaho. Mr. Riggs is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During the Civil war he was a Southern man in sympathies, was a member of the Home Militia, and he received a silver cup for pro- tecting Judge Jackson of Parkersburg from an attack by Northern men. Mr. Riggs married India Barker, who was born at Sylvan Mills in Pleasants County, December 9, 1851, and is now living at Holiday, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Null are the parents of six children: David Arthur, born November 8, 1906; Eugene Jennings, born March 2, 1908; Vaughn Aubrey, born May 12, 1911; Neill Nathan, born August 9, 1912; Orville Milton, born June 13, 1918; and Armond Walter, born June 4, 1920.

JOHN NEWTON CASEY. The entire industrial career of John Newton Casey has been passed in the employ of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, with which sys- tem he has advanced steadily to a position of importance. Starting in a minor capacity about eighteen years ago, his fidelity, industry and general ability have combined to gain him consecutive promotions and he is now chief car distributor at Huntington.

Mr. Casey was born at Ironton, Ohio, April 4, 1887, and is a son of John Newton and Minerva (Wright) Casey. His grandfather, John Casey, spent the greater part of his life in Lawrence County, Kentucky, where he was engaged in extensive agricultural operations and where his death occurred prior to the birth of his grandson. He married Mary Justice, who also died in Lawrence County. John Newton Casey, the elder, was born at Fallsburg, Lawrence County, Kentucky, July 13, 1843, and was reared in the vicinity of Ironton, Ohio. When the war between the states came on he enlisted in the Union Army, in a West Vir- ginia volunteer infantry regiment, with which he served throughout the period of the struggle, and participated in numerous engagements, being with General Sherman's troops on their famous "march to the sea." He was within ten feet of General Sherman when he gave that his- torie command: "Turn, boys! Turn, we are going back. We will gain the ground we slept on last night, or there will be blood shed." Mr. Casey had an excellent military record, and after receiving his honorable discharge returned to the community of Ironton, Ohio, where he became a pioneer blacksmith. He spent the remainder of his life there, engaged in following his trade, and died at Lawrence Furnace, Ohio, a suburb of Ironton, February 12, 1887. He was a republican in his political views, and as a church- man acknowledged the Christian faith. At Louisa, Ken- tucky, he married Miss Minerva Wright, who was born at Grayson, Kentucky, July 12, 1860, now a resident of Iron- ton. They became the parents of four children: Harry, an apprenticed machinist at Ironton, Ohio; Mary, who re- sides with her mother; John Newton; and Dr. Chester A. Casey, who is now a prominent physician and surgeon at Boston, Massachusetts.

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