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Scanlon and a few other white men assumed control and financed it until they could persuade the state to take it over.

WILLIAM ELLSWORTH LONG. As farmer, business man, banker and county official William Ellsworth Long has made splendid use of the special opportunities that have come to him in his active career. He represents an old and prominent land holding family of Tyler County, but apart from the credit due to the achievements of others of his name his own career has been of sufficient impor- tance to stand alone among the very influential citizens of the county.

Mr. Long was born at Wick in Tyler County, April 25, 1870. His grandfather, George Long, was a native of Greene County, Pennsylvania, and was among the pioneer settlers of Tyler County, Virginia, now West Virginia. He married a native daughter of Greene County, Lydia Johnson. Soon after his marriage he came on horseback from Greene County to Tyler County, West Virginia. He was a man of great industry, possessed sound business ability, and at one time owned more good farming land in Tyler County than any other individual. During the Civil war he was a drum major in the recruiting service for the Union armies. Both he and his wife died at their old homestead at Wick, and of their eight children three are still living: Johnson G .; Ruth, wife of Benjamin F. Clovis, a farmer at Glenville in Gilmer County; and George W., a retired farmer at Middlebourne.

Johnson G. Long was born at Wick, March 12, 1845, and has spent practically his entire life on one farm in that vicinity. Farming has been with him a real business, and he has conducted his operations on an extensive scale and though retired is still living at his country home. He is an honored veteran of the Union Army, having enlisted and served the last two years of the war in Company E of the Fourteenth West Virginia Infantry, participated in the battle of Gettysburg and was with Sherman on the March to the Sea. As a republican he has been elected to and has filled a number of local offices, and for a num- ber of years was a member of the Board of Education for the Meade district. Johnson G. Long married Angeline Smith, who was born at Sancho in Tyler County in 1846 and died at Wick, December 25, 1909. Of their nine children William E. is the oldest. Martha F. is the wife of Emer- son Hill, a veterinary surgeon at McKim, Tyler County ; Mary A. is the wife of James H. Robinson, a painter and farmer at Wick; Okey W. is a farmer and raiser of thoroughbred sheep at Wick; Minnie G., who died at Mc- Kim, October 10, 1905, was the wife of Rymer Mead, now living in Harrison County; Myrtle is the wife of Samp- son C. Gorrell, a farmer on Sancho Creek, who has made more than a local reputation through his pure blooded cat- tle and sheep; Maude, single and a trained nurse; Lydia A., the eighth child, died in infancy; and Golden R., op- erating the home farm at Wick, married Bessie Hadley, of Sancho.

William Ellsworth Long attended the rural schools of Tyler County and finished with a business course in Moun- tain State Business College at Parkersburg. Up to the age of twenty-three he found his work and interests on the old homestead. Then for nine years he was in the employ of the Eureka Pipe Line Company, the last five years as construction foreman. In 1900 he was elected county assessor of Tyler County, serving a four-year term, and up to 1902 continued his duties with the Pipe Line Company. In 1904 he was re-elected assessor for a sec- ond term of four years. From this county office he was promoted by election in November, 1908, to sheriff, and served the constitutional limit of four years, from 1909 to 1913. On retiring from the office of sheriff Mr. Long bought a farm half a mile west of Middlebourne, and owned and conducted this property until he sold in Jan- uary, 1921. In the meantime, in 1916, after an interval of four years, he was recalled to the office of sheriff, and served a second term, beginning in 1917 and ending in 1921. Since retiring from the office of sheriff Mr. Long has been a concrete contractor, handling a large volume of work in Middlebourne and over Tyler County.

In the banking affairs of the county he has been a director of the Bank of Middlebourne since 1909. This bank was organized in 1898 and is the second oldest bank in the county. Mr. Long has been president of the bank since January, 1914. He is owner of much real estate in Middlebourne, including a modern home on Main Street.

Mr. Long has always been interested in the success of the republican party. He was for two terms sergeant-at- arms of the State Senate, from January, 1907, to January, 1909, and again from January, 1915, to January, 1917. He is a member of the Christian Church, Sistersville Lodge No. 333, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Middlebourne Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias.

April 25, 1899, Mr. Long married Miss Lucy M. Seck- man at Alma in Tyler County, where her parents, John and Adaline (Crane) Seckman still live on their farm. Mr. and Mrs. Long have one daughter, Mabel, born June 27, 1900, a graduate of the Mountain State Business Col- lege at Parkersburg.

DANIEL L. WOTRING, in charge of the credit depart- ment of the Whittaker Wholesale Grocery Company at Terra Alta, has had a progressive career in commercial affairs since young manhood, and represents one of the very old and honored families of West Virginia.

He is a descendant of Abraham Wotring, who left the German Palatinate in 1732 and joined a colony in Penn- sylvania. His descendants have since become widely scat- tered over Pennsylvania and West Virginia and other western states. One of them was Daniel Wotring, who spent all or nearly all his life in Union District of Pres- ton County. He was a tanner and also a manufacturer of harness and horse collars. In a day of limited indus- try he conducted a thriving business, chiefly for supply of local needs. He was a good business man and also an influential citizen in Union District. He married a member of another prominent family of Preston County, the Cores, and his wife became widely known as a minis- tering angel in the succor of the helpless and sick of her locality. She had a considerable knowledge of medicine as well as being a thorough practical nurse, and she spent much of her time responding to calls for aid. Her children were: John W .; Mary, who became the wife of John Fint; Jacob, whose home was in Preston County ; Rebecca, still living in Preston County; Laura, who died in Preston County, wife of Andrew Pifer; and Luther, a resident of Los Angeles, California.

John W. Wotring was born August 23, 1844, attended the old fashioned schools, and toward the close of the Civil war entered the Union army and was assigned chiefly to guard duty until the close of hostilities. After the war he busied himself with his farming interests in Union District, was a stanch Methodist, a republican, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and enjoyed a reputation for wisdom in his community that made him sought out by many of his neighbors for advice and counsel. He married Jemimah Catherine Adams, daughter of Daniel Adams, a farmer of Tucker County, who also had a record as a Union soldier. Mrs. John W. Wotring, who died in October, 1916, at the age of sixty-four, was the mother of the following children: Mary Ann, born November 16, 1870, died in Preston County, leaving three children by her marriage with Joshua Stemple; Sarah Priscilla, born April 15, 1872, died as the wife of Andrew Miller, leav- ing three children; Carrie, born February 3, 1874, lives at Elkins and has five children by her first husband, M. A. Mason; Columbia, born May 6, 1874, is the wife of Oliver England, of Beverly, and has a son: Summers Hayes, born April 19, 1877, a lumberman and business man at Elkins; Bertha Susan, twin sister of Summers, is the wife of William Kismer, of Los Angeles, California, and the mother of five children; Rose Grace, born August 25, 1878, is the wife of Delbert Greynolds, of Clarksburg, and has one son; Daniel Luther is the next in age; Sa- villa Agnes, born January 26, 1881, has five children by her marriage to O. B. Miller, of Tucker County; Cyrus Tasker, born March 25, 1882, is an employe of the Whit-

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taker Grocery Company of Terra Alta; Dora Ruth, born September 13, 1883, was first married to William Dumire and is now the wife of Harry Grimes, of Elkins, and is the mother of two children; Melvina Lutitia, born February 8, 1885, left three children by her marriage to Harry Grimes; Effie Belle, born June 27, 1886, is the wife of Delbert Moore, of Oklahoma, and they have three chil- dren; Pearl Maud, born September 10, 1887, is the mother of four children by her marriage to T. C. Morrison, of Canton, Ohio; Margaret, born June 1, 1890, died at the age of eighteen; and Della Myrtle, born January 18, 1892, is the wife of Cecil Hill, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Daniel Luther Wotring was born October 27, 1879, in Union District and on the same farm as his father. He lived there until past his majority, and in the meantime made the best possible use of the country schools. On leaving home he was employed as a saw mill hand by R. Chaffee at William, West Virginia, was with him three years and then became sawyer for the Keystone Manu- facturing Company at Carmel, West Virginia. After about a year he gave up that line of business on account of an explosion in the mill, and then entered the Moun- tain State Business College at Parkersburg to fit him- self for a commercial career. He graduated in book- keeping in 1904, and soon afterward became a bookkeeper with the Pugh & Beavers Grocery Company at Terra Alta. When J. W. Whittaker bought the Pugh & Beavers Com- pany he remained as credit man and in charge of the office and detail work of the Whittaker Grocery Company.

Mr. Wotring has been one of Terra Alta's busy and pub- lic-spirited men. He has served on the town council and also as town recorder, and during his official connection the town voted bonds for paving and other improvement. He has used his influence and efforts in behalf of good government and efficient men in public life. In national politics he is a republican, having cast his first vote for William McKinley in 1900. Mr. Wotring is a steward in the Methodist Church, is an Odd Fellow, and has been especially active in the Knights of Pythias and the D. O. K. K.

At Terra Alta, June 11, 1907, Mr. Wotring married Miss Daisy Matheny. They have one son, Joseph Wil- liam, born July 21, 1911. Mrs. Wotring is a member of one of Preston County's oldest and most widely known families.

Joseph M. Matheny, her father, now living retired at Terra Alta, was born near Valley Point, December 3, 1843. His grandfather, Elijah Matheny, represented either the first or second generation of the Matheny family in Preston County. He married Susan Crist, and one of their children was Elijah Matheny, father of Joseph M. Elijah Matheny was born in Preston County July 16, 1818, was a hard-working and quiet farmer and good citizen, an active member of the Methodist Church, and in politics was first a know nothing and later a republican, and one of the stanchest Union men in the county, three of his sons being Union soldiers. He married Christina DeWitt, a daughter of John DeWitt, and their children were: John, who was a Union soldier and three times wounded while a member of the Third West Virginia Cavalry and afterward followed farming in Doddridge County; George, who was for eight months in the Fourth West Virginia Cavalry and afterward a minister of the Methodist Church; Joseph Marcellus; Harmon Brooks, who was a farmer and was accidentally killed; Rebecca, living near Valley Point, widow of Elijah Bishop; Joanna K., who married Ezra Hartsell and both died in Monon- galia County; Rachel, living at Cowan, widow of Thomas Howard; Mary A., wife of Thomas Martin, of Union- town, Pennsylvania; and Susan, Mrs. John Feather, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Joseph M. Matheny had a few short terms of subscrip- tion school taught in an old log cabin schoolhouse, where he studied the text-books consisting chiefly of United States speller, McGuffey reader and an arithmetic. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B of the Fourth West Vir- ginia Cavalry, under Capt. Jeremiah Simpson and Col. Sam Snider. From Wheeling the regiment went to Parkers-

burg, then to New Creek or Keyser, and for the greater part of the war the regiment was broken up into squads for guard duty. Mr. Matheny was with his comrades at Moorefield when the surrender at Appomattox occurred, and he was then sent back to Wheeling and honorably discharged in July, 1865. He was once wounded while in the army, a bullet striking his left shin. Mr. Matheny has for many years been identified with his old comrades in the Grand Army Post.

After the war he resumed farming at Valley Point, and after his marriage lived at the place now occupied by David Bishop and for a year conducted a grist and saw mill near Kingwood. For a dozen years after that he was a farmer and stock raiser in the Sugar Valley community and then moved to a farm near Terra Alta where after thirteen years of labor and activity he turned over the farm and all hard work to a younger generation and retired to enjoy his well-deserved leisure in Terra Alta. Joseph M. Matheny has always voted as a republi- can and cast his first vote while in the army for Abra- ham Lincoln. He has done a great deal of jury service in the county. He and his wife have long been active in the Methodist Church, and he has been a trustee and one of the builders of the Sugar Valley Church.

March 26, 1870, in Preston County, Joseph M. Matheny married Clementina Parsons, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Joseph B. Feather. She was born in Randolph County, June 30, 1846, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Neville) Parsons, of Hardy County, but who reared their family on a farm near St. George in Randolph County. Mrs. Matheny was one of ten children and had a country school education. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Matheny's chil- dren were: Clarence M., who died while in the jewelry business at Thomas, West Virginia, and ' was survived by his wife, Catherine Skunk; Troy M., a carpenter at Terra Alta, who married Susan Trickett, and their children are Herbert, Regenia and Evelyn; Clyde, who married Mar- garet Miller and has two sons, Lloyd and George; Rus- sell, who married Jessie Taylor and has three children, Willis, Ruth and Elsworth; and Mrs. Daniel L. Wotring.

ANDREW FLETCHER HAYNES, M. D. In the thirty years that have elapsed since he graduated in medicine Doctor Haynes employed the first twenty years as a physician and surgeon to coal companies, and since then has been estab- lished in the enjoyment of a large private practice at Hunt- ington.

An interesting story is told of the American origin of this branch of the Haynes family. While the American Rev- olution was in progress five brothers from the Province of Hesse, Germany, were enlisted as mercenaries by the Brit- ish Government and sent across the water to fight the American Colonists. These Hessians had no particular in- terest in the cause for which they were fighting, and soon, being attracted to the opposite side, they all deserted, be- came loyal Americans, founded homes and families, and probably a majority of the Haynes families in this coun- try today are descended from that group of brothers. The brother who was the direct ancestor of Doctor Haynes on deserting hid himself in a stack of corn stalks in a field. The British instituted a search and looked into every shock except the one under which he was hidden.

Members of the Haynes family came early into what is now West Virginia. Doctor Haynes' grandfather, Joseph Haynes, was born in Monroe County, and in 1835 moved to Meadow River, Fayette County, where he lived until his death, at the age of eighty-eight. In Fayette County he owned and operated a grist and saw mill and carding ma- chines. He married Miss Nellie Stewart, a native of Monroe County, who died in Fayette County. Andrew J. Haynes, father of Doctor Haynes, was born in Monroe County in December, 1829, was reared from childhood at Meadow River and became a very extensive farmer in that section. He was a confederate soldier for eighteen months, always voted as a democrat, and was a local minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South. He died in Nicholas County, West Virginia, December 14, 1917, at the age of eighty- eight. His first wife was Martha Campbell, who was born

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and died in Fayette County. Their children were: Becky N., of Fayette County, widow of Jacob Props, a farmer; Sarah France, of Sioux City, Iowa, where her husband, Jacob Amick, a farmer, died; Mary Ellen, living on her farm in Greenbrier County, widow of Caperton Haynes; Eliza, who died in Northwestern Iowa, wife of John Syden- stricker; Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Dorsey, a farmer in Nicholas County; and Matilda, who died in infancy. The second wife of Andrew J. Haynes was Tabitha Suddarth, who was born near Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1832, and died in Nicholas County, West Virginia, in 1915. Of her children Andrew Fletcher is the oldest. Ledona, who died in Fayette County at the age of twenty-nine, was the wife of Charles Otis Haynes, an oil well driller now living in Monroe County; Eva, who died in Nicholas County aged thirty, was the wife of John Odell, a farmer in that county; Willie is the wife of Will Lemon, a farmer now living at Charleston; Laura is the wife of Grant Odell, a farmer and merchant in Nicholas County; Alice's first husband was Herbert Odell, a farmer and merchant in Nicholas County, and she is now the wife of Robert Lanham, an insurance agent at Charleston; Robert is a blacksmith at Fayette- ille, West Virginia; Thomas Jackson was a minister of he Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and died at An- stead, Fayette County, aged twenty-six; and Effie, the youngest, died when eight years old.

Andrew Fletcher Haynes was born in Fayette County, September 6, 1860, attended the rural schools there, and is tasks and responsibilities were associated with his fa- her's farm until he was twenty, going then to Northwest- rn Iowa. For two years he also worked around coal mines n West Virginia. Realizing the need of a better education, le attended a select school one year, and in 1888 entered he University of Louisville, where he graduated M. D. in 891. While in active practice he has returned three times o his alma mater for post-graduate work, specializing in liagnosis, children's diseases and obstetrics. Oa beginning practice he became surgeon to the Royal Coal & Coke Com- any at Prince in Fayette County, remaining at this post of tuty nine years and ten and a half months. Following hat for eight years and eleven months he was surgeon to he Sun Coal & Coke Company in Fayette County. Doctor Haynes in 1911 removed to Huntington, and has since ;ained a fine reputation in this city for his work as a gen- ral physician and surgeon. For two years, however, 1913- 5, he was located at San Antonio, Texas. He is a mem- er of the Cabell County and State Medical Associations. Doctor Haynes is vice president and a director of the Cureka Coal Company of Prestonsburg, Kentucky. He is a emocrat, member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, nd is affiliated with Huntington Lodge No. 53, A. F. and 1. M., Huntington Chapter No. 6, R. A. M., Huntington Commandery No. 9, K. T., and Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston.

In 1883, in Caroline County, Virginia, he married Miss Iollie Beasley, who was born in that county in 1860, and ied there in 1887. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Beasley, were farmers in Caroline County. In September, 891, at Louisville, Kentucky, Doctor Haynes married Miss Illa Clark, a native of Kentucky and a graduate of the louisville High School. Doctor and Mrs. Haynes have two aughters. Louise, a graduate of the art course from Marshall College in Huntington and the Huntington Busi- ess College, is bookkeeper for the Glass Tumbler Company f Huntington. The younger daughter, Ella, is a student t Marshall College.

JOHN H. CAMPBELL. While one of the younger business ien in Charleston, John H. Campbell has had an unusually road and successful experience in commercial and indus- rial affairs in the state, and in public life as well.

Mr. Campbell, who is manager of the Consolidated In- france Agency, was born in Boone County, West Virginia, 1 1880, son of S. H. and Nancy Jane (Meadows) Campbell, lso natives of West Virginia. When John H. Campbell as two years of age his parents moved to Kanawha County, nd here he was reared and educated, though he finished his ollege course in Marshall College at Huntington. On

leaving school he engaged in the coal mining industry, and to that he devoted several years in the Kanawha Valley and also in Eastern Ohio. For seven years he was con- nected with the Jeffery Manufacturing Company of Co- lumbus, Ohio, manufacturers of coal mining machinery, representing that corporation with headquarters at Hunting- ton in West Virginia and Eastern Ohio.

For four years, 1914 to 1918, Mr. Campbell was chief office deputy in the office of William Osborne, United States marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia at Charleston.

The Consolidated Insurance Agency was established in January, 1921, with Mr. Campbell as manager. He has become one of the prominent insurance men of the city and state. The president of the agency is Mr. J. G. Bradley, of Dundon, one of the state's most prominent coal operators and president of the National Coal Operators' Association. The Consolidated Agency also maintains branch offices at Huntington and Logan. Under Mr. Campbell's vigorous management the agency has built up a large and important clientele, and looks after the fire protection for many of the leading commercial and industrial concerns of the state.

Mr. Campbell is a member of the Insurance Division of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Credit Men's Association, and fraternally is worshipful master of Chelyan Lodge No. 158, A. F. and A. M., and is also a Knight Templar and a Shriner. His home is at Chelyan in Kanawha County, where he has had some in- vestments and other interests for a number of years. He married Miss Blanche Calvert, daughter of James T. Cal- vert, of Kanawha County. They have a son, named John H., Jr.

WILLIAM JONES as a young man accepted employment in the coal industry, and through the routine of experience he studied and fitted himself as a practical mining engineer. Mr. Jones has been more or less interested in the coal business ever since, though his long association with busi- ness at Charleston has made him best known as an insurance man. He is president of the Meridian Insurance Company of Charleston, with offices in the Charleston National Bank Building.

He was born near Huntsville, Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1863, son of Thomas and Lucy (Williams) Jones, his father being of Welsh ancestry. William Jones was left an orphan when a young boy, and had to work his way through school, and after qualifying in a measure as a mining en- gineer he removed to Kentucky and for sixteen years was a mining engineer for mine operators in the coal sections of that state. Leaving Kentucky, lie came to West Virginia in 1894, and since then has been a resident of the capital city. For several years coal mining continued to occupy his time and energies, and his connection with that industry is represented by financial interests in a number of coal mining companies and he is secretary and treasurer of the Middle Creek Coal Company.

Since 1900 Mr. Jones has been district agent in West Virginia for the great Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, and records of the company give him a high standing among its district agents. Mr. Jones was also the principal organizer and for several years was vice president and general manager of the Provident Life & Casualty Com- pany of Charleston, a West Virginia enterprise. Selling his interest in this in May, 1920, he soon afterward organized the Meridian Insurance Company, of which he is president. This company issues accident, casualty and health insurance policies, has an authorized capital of $125,000, and asso- ciated with Mr. Jones as directors and stockholders in the company are some of Charleston's most substantial citizens.

Mr. Jones is a member of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, is a thirty-second degree Scot- tish Rite Mason and Shriner and an Elk. He married Miss Gertrude M. Myers, of Myersdale, Pennsylvania, a town that was named for her grandfather.

FRANK D. FORTNEY, M. D. A capable teacher for sev- eral years, finishing his literary education meanwhile, then pursuing the full medical course at Baltimore, Doctor

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