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Mr. Logue was born in MeKean County, Pennsylvania July 26, 1880, son of James and Sarah ( McQuillan) Logue and a grandson of Michael Logue, who came from Ireland James and Sarah Logue were born and reared in New York State, and the former early took up the oil and gas business as a driller and producer. They were devout Catholics and he was a democrat. Of their six children four are living Anna, wife of E. C. Byers of Texas; James J .; Joseph M., superintendent of the Magnolia Oil Company in Kan sas; and Catherine, wife of W. J. Matych, of Tulsa Oklahoma.

James J. Logue spent his boyhood in MeKean County Pennsylvania. He had a public school education, including two years in high school, and when he went to work it wa in the oil fields in the capacity of a roustabout. He know every phase of oil and gas production from the standpoin of personal experience, and this experience and his abilitie have earned him his well deserved promotion. His first con nection with the Reserve Gas Company was as a field fore man, and subsequently he was appointed superintendent o the company 's business at Weston.

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Mr. Logue is one of the popular citizens of Weston, is a lemocrat, and is affiliated with Clarksburg Lodge of Elks. September 11, 1907, he married Miss Edith Beall, of Gil- her County, West Virginia. They have two children: James ., Jr., born August 30, 1908, and Edward Thorne, born anuary 11, 1922.

LEONIDAS H, BARNETT, one of West Virginia's well known ttorneys, laid the foundation of his professional success t Glenville, where he practiced for a quarter of a century. Ie now lives at Weston, and still does a large business in he courts of the county and state.

Mr. Barnett was born in Doddridge County, May 5, 1868, on of Rev. Allison and Mary C. (Hickman) Barnett. His ather was born in Taylor County and was an ordained minister of the Baptist Church. After his marriage he ettled on a farm in Doddridge County, and his regular ocation was agriculture, though he had other interests out- ide of farm and church. He held the office of justice of le peace in Doddridge County, and at one time was presi- ent of the County Court. His wife was born at Warm prings, Bath County, Virginia, in 1834, and was four years f age when her parents moved to Doddridge County, West irginia, where she was reared and educated. She is still ving at the old homestead. Allison and Mary C. Barnett ad a family of fourteen children, and seven sons and four aughters are still living.

Leonidas H. Barnett spent his early life on the farm nd had a common school education, but after that he arned to rely on himself for his advancement in school, rofession and business. He owes much to the influence of is noble Christian parents, and the lessons he learned as boy he has practiced steadily in all his years. Mr. Bar- ett graduated in law from West Virginia University in [organtown in June, 1895, was admitted to the bar in the me year and located at Glenville in Gilmer County, where maintained his law offices until May, 1920, at which date removed to Weston. He served twelve years as prosecut- ig attorney for Gilmer County, and for two terms was ayor of Glenville. His reputation as a lawyer followed im to Weston, and he still represents a large and im- ortant clientage. Mr. Barnett has also accumulated con- derable property, chiefly in the form of real estate in- estments.

He married Maud Coplin. His only child is Muriel M., orn September 21, 1898. She is a graduate of the State ormal School at Glenville and is an accomplishod musician, oth vocal and instrumental. She received a thorough usical education, and is popular and in great demand at usicals and concerts, ranking with the best and celebrated 'tists in this section. On August 3, 1920, she became the ife of Lynn L. Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Allen live in Clarks- arg, where he is a civil and mining engineer. Mr. Barnett a past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd ellows, has sat in the Grand Lodge, and in politics is a mocrat.

ALEXANDER EWING MCCUSKEY, M. D. While his time id talents have been completely exercised in his busy ractice as a physician and surgeon for a quarter of a ntury, Doctor McCuskey, whose home for over twenty ears has been at Pine Grove in Wetzel County, has also een a leader in politics and public affairs, is a former ate senator, and is deeply interested in the educational Avancement of his community.

Doctor McCuskey represents an old family of Marshall ounty, West Virginia, and was born on a farm there urteen miles southeast of Wheeling, November 17, 1870. e is of Scotch stock, though a number of generations ago e McCuskeys left Scotland and settled in Northern Ire- nd and from there came to the United States. Grand- ther George McCuskey was a life-long resident of Mar- all County, a farmer, and married Miss Lindsay, who as also born and died in Marshall County. Alfred Mc- uskey, father of Doctor McCuskey, was born at Oak Hill . Marshall County in February, 1831, and devoted his tive life to his farming interests. He was reared and arried in Marshall County, and lived there until 1914,

when he retired and spent his last years in the home of his son at Pine Grove, where he died in December, 1916. He was a democrat, and all the years of his life was a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was also af- filiated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Alfred McCuskey married Mary Williamson Ewing, who was born at Sand Hill in Marshall County in 1834, and died in that county in 1913. The names of their children were as fol- lows: Elizabeth, who died in infancy; George, who died as a child; Joseph, who died at the age of fourteen; Carl William, a steel mill worker living at McMechen in Mar- shall County; Alfred Franklin, who died of diphtheria at the age of eleven; Alexander Ewing; Virginia, wife of Isaac A. Wise, a farmer and a guard in the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville; James, who died in infancy ; and Jesse Allen, who died when eleven years of age of diabetes.

Dr. Alexander Ewing McCuskey grew up on his father's farm and attended the rural schools, a select school at Moundsville, and from the age of eighteen to twenty-two taught in his home county. In the fall of 1893 he en- tered the Ohio Medical University of Columbus, where he graduated M. D., March 17, 1896. Doctor McCuskey has always been a student of his profession, and during 1913 he did post-graduate work in the New York Post Graduate School. After his graduation he practiced a year at Logans- port in Marion County, and then located at Smithfield in Wetzel County until the spring of 1899, when he removed to Pine Grove, where he has been in practice for over twenty-two years. He owns a modern home and offices on Main Street, and other financial investments include a ranch of 320 acres in Grant County, Arkansas, and a third interest in the home farm in Marshall County.

Doctor McCuskey has been a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee since 1916. He was elected to the State Senate in November, 1912, serving in the regular sessions of 1913-15 and in several special sessions. In the Senate he was chairman of the committee on medi- cine and sanitation and a member of the committees on education, fish and game, railroads and corporations and others. Doctor McCuskey is a member of the Grant Dis- trict Board of Education of Wetzel County. Fraternally he is affiliated with Cameron Lodge No, 17, A. F. and A. M., in Marshall County; Sistersville Chapter No. 27, R. A. M .; Mountain State Commandery No. 14, K. T .; and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. He is a past chancellor of Sylvan Lodge No. 130, Knights of Pythias, at Pine Grove and is a member of the Marshall County, State and American Medical associations. Dur- ing the war Doctor McCuskey was commissioned a cap- tain in the Medical Reserve Corps and was scheduled for active duty on December 1, 1918, but the signing of the armistice caused the order to be annulled.

July 9, 1901, at Moundsville, he married Miss Harriet Amanda Johnson, daughter of Anthony M. and Lucretia (Hammond) Johnson, now deceased. Her father was a Union soldier in the Civil war. Mrs. McCuskey is a grad- uate of the Moundsville High School. Their two children are Mary Lucretia, born January 14, 1905, now a senior in the Pine Grove High School, and Virginia Isabelle, who was born September 1, 1908.

E. T. W. HALL, M. D. A physician and surgeon with a long and honorable record of service, Doctor Hall has prac- ticed many years in Lewis County, and is now located at Weston. He is one of the proprietors of Hall & Green Hospital on North Main Street.

Doctor Hall was born near Janelew, West Virginia, August 24, 1864, son of William D. and Nancy S. (Law) Hall. His father was born in Lewis County in 1836, and died in 1888. The mother was born at Janelew in 1844 and died in 1919. William Hall raised a company for the Union Army during the Civil war, and served three years as cap- tain of Company C of the Tenth Volunteer Infantry. He was finally mustered out on account of disability. It was during the war, in May, 1863, that he married Nancy S. Law. When he was released from army service he settled on a farm on McCan's Run, and in 1870 bought another

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farm and was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. lle owned 507 acres of land. He is a stanch republican in politics, and was a member and local minister of the United Brethren Church. His family con- sisted of nine children, seven of whom are still living.

Dr. E. T. W. Hall grew up on his father's farm, and after the public school entered Otterbein College in Ohio, where he pursued the classical course for three years. He studied medicine at the University of Maryland at Balti- more, graduating M. D. in 1885. For the first eighteen months after leaving college Doctor Hall practiced at Buck- hannon, and then moved to Freemansburg in Lewis County, where for thirty three years he gave his time and talents to an extensive country practice, and for fifteen years of that time conducted a well appointed hospital at Freemans- burg. In November, 1919, Doctor Hall moved his home and offices to Weston, where to a large extent his professional service is performed in the Hall & Green Hospital.

Doctor Hall owns considerable land in Lewis County and is a stockholder in the Weston Independent, the official re- publican paper of Lewis County. He is a republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his family are members of the United Brethren Church. In 1885 Doctor Hall married Fannie S. Bewazley, of Middlesex County. Virginia. She became the mother of fiye children: John W. P., who grad- uated from the Glenville Normal School, spent two years as a Government teacher in the Philippines, and is now an engineer; Alma, wife of Earl Butcher, of Weston; Hlen- rietta, wife of Addison Weeks, of Cleveland, Ohio; Barnes E., a graduate of the Glenville State Normal, is principal of the high school at Oceana, West Virginia; and Frank E. is a farmer in Lewis County. The mother of these chil- dren died in 1892. The second wife of Doctor Hall was Edna J. Steinbeck, who is survived by one son, Herbert W. Hall. Herbert W. Hall was a student in Otterbein College when he enlisted and joined the One Hundred Forty -sixth Hospital Corps in the Thirty-seventh Division, and saw service along the front lines in France. The pres- ent wife of Doctor Hall was Martha S. Minich. They have two children: Irene, a student in Otterbein University in Ohio; and Richard M., attending high school. Doctor Hall served in the World war as captain in the Medical Corps, Surgical Section.

JAMES A. COPLIN, of the Flemington community in Tay- lor County, has continued the worthy work of his ancestors in this state. He is a successful grazer and stockman, his ranch being the old Brohard farm in Barry's Run, two and a half miles from Flemington.

He was born January 7, 1852, in Harrison County, near the old "Uncle Joseph" Morris place on Brushy Fork and close to the scenes where his ancestors performed their labors as pioneer developers of this region. It was the home of his grandfather, and his own father, Amazia Cop- lin, was born just below Gasilla in that neighborhood.

Jacob Coplin, his grandfather, settled near Clarksburg in Harrison County about 1819. He and his brother Benja- min lost their property as sureties for borrowed money, and it is said that when these brothers left Clarksburg they had not even a bed and for a time slept on their overcoats. After locating on the Brushy Fork they recuperated their fortunes, taking up large tracts of land and building up a prosperous business as farmers and grazers. Jacob Coplin is buried at Bridgeport, where the family donated the land for the cemetery. He married a member of the Davidson family, and of their seven sons and five daughters the fol- lowing are recalled: David, Andrew, Jacob and Amazia; Matilda, who married John Dix, a Revolutionary soldier ; Sarah, who married Andrew Ratliff and went to Ohio; while another daughter married and went to Texas.

Amazia Coplin, one of the youngest sons, demonstrated his ability as a farmer on Brushy Fork, near Bridgeport, accumulated a fine body of land, and lived there until his death, March 13, 1865, being buried in the local cemetery. He married Emeline Mays, of Virginia, daughter of James Mays, whose home was on Cowpasture River, near the Bath

Alum Springs. She survived her husband many years, pass ing away in February, 1902. Of her children only two grew up, Nancy Ellen, who married J. B. Sandusky, of Bridgeport, where she died, and James Andrew.

Brushy Fork community was a somewhat primitive dis triet during the youth and boyhood of James Andrew Cop lin. He never had the opportunity to attend school three consecutive months. He and the other boys and girls sa on a slab bench, and among the teachers he recalls the names of Jolin MeKinney, Billie Morris and James Samples and of these only Samples was a competent teacher. Out side of school he grew up in the "clearing, " and the handling of ax and saw was almost a part of his daily activities. The family raised provisions for home use and grazed cattle, horses and sheep on the newly made pasture After his marriage he continued working the old home place and he still owns the land and the home where he learned to work and laid the foundation of his success. When he finally abandoned that district he came to his present place in Taylor County.

He early established a reputation for honesty and effi ciency, and his neighbors learned to confide in him and he was given places of trust and responsibility. He was & member of the Board of Education and was also overseer of highways. His father was opposed to slavery, was : Union man, and republican, while his mother was the daugh ter of a slaveholder and of distinct southern sympathies When it came time for him to vote his first hallot wen to General Grant, and in later years he came to share the doubt of many thinking men as to the sincerity of party creeds and platforms, and has paid more attention to the man than the party. In 1920 neither he nor his wife voted for president. Mrs. Coplin is a member of the Methodis Church.

July 8, 1876, in the "centennial year" Mr. Coplin mar ried Miss Jane Pell, daughter of Kelso and Zeppie A (Ross) Pell. Her mother was the sister of Cyrus Ross a wealthy farmer and slaveholder. Kelso Pell grew up or Cheat River, near Albright, in Preston County, and died on his farm at Bridgeport, where he and his wife are buried Their children were: Benjamin; Rebecca, wife of Morgan Lodge; Mrs. Coplin; Charles; Lillian, Mrs. Floyd Taylor Mrs. Lot Swagger; and Mrs. Nannie Gawthrop. Mrs. Cop lin was educated at Bridgeport, and had experience a: teacher of a subscription school before her marriage.

The brief record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Coplin is as follows: Emma, wife of Edward Thompson, of Clarks burg; Rosa, who married Bert Bond; Maggie, who is Mrs John Parks; Ross, who married Ralph Pepper; Zeppie, who married Dorsy Brown; Olive, Mrs. Noah Parks; Pearl, wifi of Ester Stout; Martha, wife of Albert Corder; Miss Edna the only one at home; and Pauline, who married Brent Bailey, a World war soldier, and is the mother of on daughter. The other grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Cop lin are nineteen in all: Mrs. Thompson has five; Mrs. Rosa Bond, two; Mrs. Maggie Parks; two; Mrs. Pepper, two: Mrs. Olive Parks, a son; Mrs. Brown, two; Mrs. Stout two; and Mrs. Corder, three.

GEORGE D. HARDIN. Still active in his work as a farme: and stockman at Flemington in Booth Creek District o Taylor County, George D. Hardin spent the greater par of his career in Barbour County, where he was born and where the Hardins have been people of usefulness and in fluence for several generations.

Both his father and grandfather were named Nesto Hardin. Nestor Hardin, Sr., was a native of Pennsylvania and came from Fayette County, that state, to Barbou County, West Virginia. He was a farmer and for som years worked his plantation with slaves. In 1913, whe he was well advanced in years, he took his darkies to Penr sylvania and liberated them. He was never affiliated wit any church. His death occurred at the age of eighty-one and he was buried in the Martin graveyard in Cove Distric of Barbour County. He married Katie Hardin, a siste of the noted Ben Hardin of Kentucky. She was burie at the side of her husband. Of their children Absolom wa a farmer in Barbour County, where many of his descendan

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nained; Hannah married Lunford Jones and lived in ylor County; Isabel was the wife of Jacob Coffman, and th are buried at the old Fairview Church in Barbour unty; Ailey married a brother of Jaeob Coffman, moved Ohio and died in Noble County of that state; Lydia came the wife of George Hardin, and they lived out their es in Pennsylvania; the youngest ehild was Nestor, Jr. Nestor Hardin, Jr., was born in Barbour County, Feb- try 22, 1806. His edueation was limited, but sufficient the transaction of business affairs as a farmer, and on old homestead he continued stockraising and grain-grow- until advaneed years overtook him. While not a sol- r, he was a Union man to the core, and was a spectator the Wheeling convention which deeided the attitude of western counties of Virginia toward secession. During portion of the war he was a wagon boss for the Govern- nt. His adherence to the Union was unalloyed. When le Confederate troops passed through his home town and ed as to his allegianee, lie replied : "I am a Union man, 1, body and breeches," a sentiment which even the rebels nired, and they assured him that his property would lain untouched.

Nestor Hardin, Jr., who died October 12, 1886, married rgaret Stonaker, who survived him until October 6, 1911. : was a daughter of Andrew and Rachel (Holsberry) naker, her father a native of old Virginia and for many rs a farmer in Glade District of Barbour County, where died. The children of Nestor Hardin, Jr., were: Katie, married Thomas B. Mason, of Preston County; Rachel who married George W. Deahl, removed to Childress inty, Texas, but returned to West Virginia before her th; Andrew S., a farmer of Cove District of Barbour nty; George D .; and Pollie, who died at the age of en years.

eorge Dow Hardin was born in Barbour County, March 854, and lived through boyhood and manhood in Cove trict of that county, getting his education in the eom- sehools. After his marriage he went to a liome of his , but later succeeded to the old homestead, and was lecessful stoekgrower there until he was sixty-six years age, when he sold out and moved to his present home Taylor County. In addition to farming he bought some ensive coal lands, but sold them before developing the urees. He has also been a stoekholder and director in First National Bank of Grafton. While in Barbour nty he was president of the Board of Education in Cove rict. He is a member of Mystie Lodge No. 15 of the ionic Order at Grafton and while not a church mem- he feels an obligation to support such institutions just le pays taxes to the Government. He is a republican, his father.

1 Preston County, January 19, 1888, Mr. Hardin mar- Miss Clara Rush. She was born in Somerset County, nsylvania, March 4, 1867, but was reared and educated Preston County, West Virginia. Her father, Evans Rush, tive of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, served two enlist- ts a total of almost five years, in the Union Army ng the Civil war. was a merchant in Pennsylvania, and moving to Evansville, West Virginia, operated a woolen , but finally returned to Pennsylvania, and died there uary 24, 1919, and is buried at the Jersey Chureh in erset County. Mrs. Hardin's mother bore the maiden e of Martha Bowman, and she now makes her home the Hardins. Her sister Catherine died as Mrs. John hilton at Evansville, West Virginia; and her brother, 1 Bowman, died at Morgantown. Martha Bowman was ughter of Jonathan and Mary (Knight) Bowman. Her er a native of Maryland, devoted his active life to the en-mill industry, and died at Evansville at the age eventy-three. Mrs. Hardin has two brothers: Elmer, Winchester, Virginia, and John, of Tarnon Springs, ida, and another brother, George Rush, died unmarried Evansville.

r. and Mrs. Hardin have a family of three daughters one son, and some half dozen grandchildren. Nora, the st child, is the wife of W. C. Shroyer, who operates the Hardin farm in Barbour County. Their children are , Hester and Robert. Miss Kate C., who finished her

education in Broaddus College at Philippi, is at home with her parents. Hazel R., the youngest daughter, married George Campbell, a farmer in Cove Distriet of Barbour County, and their three children are George Robert, Fred Hardin and Harold Kenneth.

William Edmund Hardin, the only son, had a fighting record as a soldier of the Great war. He was born at the Hardin homestead in Barbour County, August 18, 1893. He completed his junior year in the State Normal at Shepherds- town, and assisted his father on the farm until America joined in the war. He was ealled to the colors in 1917, joining Company F of the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Field Artillery in the Eightieth Division known as the Blue Ridge Division. He was trained at Camp Lee, went over- seas from Newport News on the U. S. S. Siboney to Brest, had further training at Vanes, and went into action on the Meuse-Argonne front. The regiment began its fighting at Dead Man's Hill and then followed a period of fifty-one days of practically continuous and strenuous service nntil the signing of the armistice. He was sergeant of his com- jany, his squad comprising sixteen men, all of whom went through the ordeal without loss, but all the fourteen horses comprising the original outfit were killed. W. E. Hardin was on the banks of the River Meuse the day of the armis- tice, remained at that point ten days longer, was then ordered baek to Anee la Franc, where for four months his command was kept in training, and was then ordered to Brest and came bome on the Zeppelin, landing at Nor- folk and sent to Camp Lee for demobilization. He was dis- charged June 6, 1919.

During the following year and a half his efforts as a civilian were given to the farm, and he then engaged in business at Grafton, where he conduets the Hardin Garage. William E. Hardin married Juanita Shingleton, and they have a son, Edmund Barton.

SEPTIMIUS HALL, of New Martinsville, is the oldest dele- gate in point of continuous service in the West Virginia Legislature. He is one of the two or three surviving mem- bers of the Constitutional Convention of 1872, and upon all questions regarding the original conception of the or- ganic law members of the Legislature have made a prae- tice of referring to Mr. Hall as the chief authority.

For over seventy years members of the Hall family have been prominent at the bar of Wetzel County. Septimius Hall was born in Ritchie County, February 14, 1847. His grandfather, Samuel Gregg Hall, was born in 1803, in what is now Barbour County, West Virginia, where he was reared and married. He was a farmer by oceupation. About 1840 he removed to Middle Island Creek in Tyler County, from there to Bond's Creek in Ritchie County, and in 1844 started for the Far West, floating his goods on a flatboat down the Ohio River to the mouth of the Wabash, and then up that stream to Lafayette, Indiana, whence he proceeded by canal from Lafayette to Logansport, and from there overland to New Buffalo, Michigan by wagon. He and a half brother and some cousins jointly owned a lumber mill at New Buffalo. At that time New Buffalo, Michigan, was the promising rival of Chicago on the other side of the lake. The great trunk lines of railroads then building from the East were being influenced to establish their terminals at New Buffalo, but when they were constructed two or three years later they went around the southern end of the lake, and from that time New Buffalo steadily declined in im- portanee. Samuel G. Hall died at New Buffalo in 1846, while the town was still one of great promise. He married Rachel Hudkins, who was born in Barbour County, January 9, 1805, and died at St. Marys, West Virginia, January 24, 1883.

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