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Representative Pierson married Miss Jessie McComb, of Pocahontas County. They have no children.

CARY C. HINES. A leading member of the legal fraternity of Braxton County, who has also been identified prominently with civic and political affairs, is Cary C. Hines, engaged in the successful practice of his calling at Sutton for a period of a quarter of a century. Mr. Hines was born at the mouth of Wolf Creek, near Alderson, Monroe County, West Virginia, March 10, 1874, the ninth son of Joseph Powell and Lucy (Alderson) Hines.

Joseph Powell Hines was also born near the mouth of Wolf Creek, in 1831, and died at Rock Camp, Monroe County, in 1904. His father, William Hines, was a son of Charles and Margaret Hines, who settled on Wolf Creek,

now in Monroe County, in which locality Charles Hines died in 1804 and his widow, some years afterward. Joseph Powell Hines married Lucy Alderson, who was born at Alderson, West Virginia, in 1831, and died at Rock Camp, Mouroe County, in 1898. She was a daughter of John Alderson and a granddaughter of Rev. John Alderson, who preached for the Baptist congregation at Linnville Creek, Virginia, in 1775. After two missionary trips to Green- brier Valley in the year 1777 Rev. John Alderson came here permanently and built his house in the Town of Alderson, on the present site of the Alderson Hotel. He was the founder of the Greenbrier Valley Baptist Church at Alder- son and of the Baptist Church in the Greenbrier Valley, and was a man widely known for his good deeds and earnest work as a spiritual guide and advisor. He died at Alderson, which town takes its name from his grandson, George Alder- son, now living there in the eighty-eighth year of his age, who in his younger days was a member of the State Legis- lature when the capital was located at Wheeling. "To Joseph Powell and Lucy (Alderson) Hines there were born ten sons, as follows: Jesse E., engaged in farming at Willow Bend, this state; Charles A., a farmer of Cashmere, West Virginia; Robert L., of Linside, Monroe County, en- gaged in farming; George R., carrying on agricultural operations at Gower, near St. Joseph, Missouri; Thomas H., who is farming at Mound City, Missouri; James Elmer, of Jackson, Ohio; John Powell, who followed farming at Mound City, Missouri, until his death, December 16, 1921; Samuel Oscar, formerly a traveling salesman for the Sutton Grocery Company, who died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, December 7, 1901; Cary C., of this review; and William E., a graduate of the law school of the West Virginia University, class of 1891, and a senior mem- ber of the law firm of Hines & Kelly at Sutton.

Cary C. Hines received his early education in the public schools of Monroe County, following which he took a course at the Concord Normal School, Athens, West Virginia. Next he taught three terms of public school at Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, and then entered the law school of the West Virginia University, from which he was duly graduated with his degree as a member of the class of 1897. In that year he formed a partnership for the practice of his profession at Sutton with R. G. Linn and W. E. R. Byrne,. of Charleston, West Virginia, under the firm style of Linn, Byrne & Hines, which connection continued until the year 1908, when Mr. Byrne withdrew from the firm and W. F. Morrison, Jr., was admitted, the style then becoming Linn, Hines & Morrison. This partnership was terminated in 1919, when Mr. Linn died, but the firm of Hines & Mor- rison continued until June 1, 1921, when Mr. Morrison severed his connection therewith, and since that time Mr. Hines has ben practicing alone at Sutton, Mr. Morrison having removed to Charleston.

Mr. Hines has a large and representative practice and is accounted one of the leaders of the Braxton County bar, where he has been connected with numerous important cases. He has also been identified with public affairs as a prom- inent figure in the ranks of the democratic party. In the democratic primary of 1904 he was a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney, but was defeated for the nomination. In 1908 he was again a candidate for the same office and received the nomination in the democratic con- vention without opposition. Elected to the office in the following fall, he served capably as prosecuting attorney of Braxton County from January 1, 1909, to January 1, 1913. Mr. Hines has a number of business interests, being president of the Central Utilities Company, which furnishes light, power and water to Sutton besides operating the ice plant, is a stockbolder and director of the Sutton Grocery and Milling Company, a wholesale grocery concern doing business at Sutton, and is attorney for the Bank of Sutton, all of which enterprises he assisted in organizing. He be- longs to the Knights of Pythias and is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston.

On January 16, 1900, Mr. Hines was united in marriage in Braxton County with Miss Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of Wellington F. and Sarah E. (Berry) Morrison, Mr. and

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Mrs. Hines have one daughter, Virginia Ruth, born De- cember 5, 1901, who graduated from the Sutton High School in 1918, at the age of seventeen years, attended one term at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and spent two years at the Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, Tennes- see, from which she was graduated as a member of the class of 1922.

GEORGE G. DAVIS. Nowhere is the value of thorough preparation in professional life more evident than in the domain of the law. In the legal field the university is a vital necessity, if the young man reasonably hopes to reach the plane of a broad practice, to get beyond the small courts and the region of pettifogging. "Be sure you're right; then go ahead,"' is a maxim which need not alone be posted in business houses. Hurry, feverish haste without fore- thought, is fatal to the lawyer as well as to the merchant. Still a young mau, George G. Davis prepared himself with patience and thoroughness before he entered into the activi- ties of his profession, with the result that in the few years of his actual practice le has made noticcable strides toward success.

Mr. Davis, who is junior member of the law firm of Dulin & Davis, a strong combination at Sutton, and a veteran of the World war, was born at Wheeling, West Virginia, January 4, 1890, a son of W. F. and Alice (Shaffer) Davis. His father was born at Janelew, Har- rison County, West Virginia, and passed his boyhood on a farm, acquiring his educational training in the country schools. After his marriage to Alice Shaffer, who was horn in Marion County, this state, and was also a product of the farm and the country school, he went to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he was employed by the firm of W. A. Wilson & Son. Later Mr. Davis embarked in business as a contractor, builder and architect, and in these capacities first came to Braxton County about 1892. He has continued to be engaged in the same lines here ever since and has been very successful. He has risen to a high place in his calling, and many of the largest and most imposing structures in this locality stand as monuments to his skill and good work- manship. He is a democrat in his political leanings, but has not sought public office. In his religious faith he is a Presbyterian, while Mrs. Davis is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They have but one child, George G.

George G. Davis was only two years of age when brought by his parents to Sutton, and here his early education was obtained in the public schools. After due preparation he entered the law department of the University of West Vir- ginia, and on completing a full course was graduated as a member of the class of 1913, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Upon his return to Sutton he further prepared himself for the practice of his profession by work- ing in an attorney's office, and also worked for two years in the county clerk's office, where he gained much valuable experience. Next, Mr. Davis went to Logan, West Vir- ginia, where he became one of the partners of E. T. Eng- land, who has since become attorney general of West Vir- ginia, and was engaged in practice there when the United States entered the World war. Giving up his professional and private interests, Mr. Davis entered the Officers' Train- ing Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where he received his commission as a second lieutenant, being later promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. In August, 1918, he was sent overseas to France, and saw active service until March 19, 1919, when he returned to this country, and in the same year was mustered out of the service at Camp Dix, New Jersey. He then returned to Sutton, where he soon took up the practice of his calling, and is now a member of the firm of Dulin & Davis, with a large, representative and lucrative practice in the State and Federal courts.

He was nominated by the republican party in 1920 for prosecuting attorney of his county, but was defeated at the general election by his democratic opponent, a gentleman twenty years his senior, by twenty votes.

In August, 1917, Mr. Davis was united in marriage with Miss Helene Juergens, a graduate of the Sutton High School, and they have one son, Wililam E., born January

4, 1921. Mr. Davis is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mrs. Davis is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity at West Virginia University, is a thirty-second degree Mason of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and a member of Sutton Lodge No. 21, A. F. and A. M., in which he has numerous friends.

HON. FRED L. Fox. For many years Hon. Fred L. Fox has been one of the foremost citizens of Sutton, foremost in legal circles, in financial affairs, in politics, in public enterprises, in beneficences, and in the place he has won in the confidence of his fellow-citizens. Such varied achieve- ment is a proud distinction, the fruition of a symmetrical manhood. It is possible only to the favored few upon whom have been bestowed the fundamental elements of energy, constructive ability and business intuition. All these essen- tial qualities Mr. Fox possesses, united with an unbending integrity of character that commands the trust and con- fidence of the public and have made him a power in the development of the community.

Mr. Fox was born on a farm near the mouth of the Big Birch River, October 24, 1876, a son of Camden and Caro- line (McMorrow) Fox, and a grandson of Samuel Fox. Samuel Fox was born in Nelson County, Virginia, and be- came one of the leading citizens of Braxton County. At various times in his active and successful career he followed the vocations of agriculture, milling, lumbering and mer- chandising, and at the time of his death was a member of the County Court. He was a leading member of the demo- cratic party. Samuel Fox married a Miss Boggs, who was born in Braxton County.

Camden Fox was born in Braxton County, December 14, 1854, and was reared to agricultural pursuits while gaining his educational training in the public schools. On attaining manhood be adopted farming as his life work, and continued to be engaged therein until his retirement in 1919, at which time he moved to his present home at Sutton, where he and his worthy wife are held in the highest esteem. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and his political affilia- tion is with the democratic party. He and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seven children have been born to them: Fred L., of this review; Jennie, the wife of O. W. Hall; Augusta H., the wife of Daniel Curry, of Bridgeport, Harrison County, this state; Earl F., an attorney temporarily of Shreveport, Louisiana; Anna, the wife of H. O. Fast, of Charleston, West Virginia; John B., deputy county clerk of Braxton County; and Herman V., a medical student at the University of West Virginia.

Fred L. Fox was reared on the home farm and acquired his early education in the common schools. Later he pur- sued a course in the University of West Virginia, from which he was graduated with the class of 1899, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and, being admitted to the bar during the same year, came at once to Sutton, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his pro- fession with constantly increasing success. He is now a member of the law firm of Haymond & Fox, in existence since 1904, conceded to be one of the strongest combina- tions in Central West Virginia, practicing in the State and Federal Courts.

Mr. Fox has long been prominent and active in local and state politics, and has been chairman of the County Execu- tive Committee of the democratic party for the past ten years. In 1912 he was elected a member of the State Sen- ate and was retained therein by re-election in 1916, hav- ing served in all eight years as a member of that body. During six years of this time he was democratic leader of the Senate. Senator Fox was one of the organizers of the Bank of Sutton, of which he has been president since its organization in 1918. His fellow officials in the bank are: W. C. Marple, vice president; Hugh Swisher, cash- ier; and Benton B. Boggs, S. H. Cutlip, A. W. Engel, J. H. Hutchinson, I. Lawrence Freeman, C. W. Marble, H. A. Long and W. A. Tucker, directors. Mr. Fox is also a director of the institution, a strong and solid banking house capitalized at $35,000. He has large real estate

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interests, embracing oil and coal lands, as well as much city property, including one of the finest residences in the county and the large block in which his business offices are situated. As a fraternalist he belongs to the local Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic Order, and is a past high priest and past eminent commander. With his family he belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

On June 22, 1900, Mr. Fox was united in marriage with Miss Anna Lee Frume, a graduate of the public school of Sutton, and to this union there have been born six children: Gordon B., John H., George M., Agnes, Re- becca and Anna Jean.

HARVEY HANSFORD MORRIS, who maintains his residence ind business headquarters in the City of Huntington and who is prominently concerned with coal-mining operations in his native state, is of distinguished American ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides. His paternal grand- father, Fenton Mercer Morris, was born at Crown Hill, Kanawha County, Virginia (now West Virginia), in the year 1815, and his death occurred at Boomer, Fayette County, in June, 1892. He was extensively engaged in farm enterprise and also was a leading figure in the timber ndustry, he having resided for varying intervals in Kanawha, Nicholas and Fayette counties. His wife, whose maiden name was Rebecca Lloyd, died in Nicholas County. William Morris, father of Fenton M., was born in one of the astern counties of Virginia and was a resident of Kanawha Falls, Fayette County, at the time of his death. He served is sheriff of Kanawha County, was a farmer and timber operator and was for a time a resident of Peters Creek, Nicholas County. He first married Sarah Hansford, and after her death contracted a second marriage, the family lame of his second wife having been Chapman. His father, Joshua Morris, a native of Virginia, was one of the pioneer settlers in what is now Cabell County, West Virginia, and he developed a large landed estate, and was one of the progressive pioneer exponents of farm industry in Cabell und Kanawha counties. He had served in the early Indian wars and was also a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. In Orange County, Virginia, was solemnized his marriage to Frances Simms. He was a son of William Morris, who was born in England, in 1722, and who first ocated at Philadelphia after coming to America. In 1744 le initiated operations as a farmer or planter in Culpeper County, Virginia, and there occurred his marriage to Eliza- beth Stepp. In 1773 he came with his family to what is low Kanawha County, West Virginia, and located at the nouth of Kelly's Creek, near the present Village of Cedar Grove. He was the first permanent white settler in that county, and his was the first will probated in Kanawha County. He had the spirit of a hardy adventurer and true pioneer, and as a farmer and hunter he was a prominent igure in the early development of what is now West Vir- rinia. He had given gallant service as a soldier in the Revolution, became guardian of Kelly's Post in Kanawha County, and at that point he died and was laid to rest. He eared a family of eight sons and two daughters. His son William gained fame as "Major Billy" Morris, gallant commander of patriot forces in the War of the Revolution. Major Morris married Catherine Carroll, a descendant of Lord Carroll, the Maryland colonist.

Albert Gallatin Hansford, maternal grandfather of Har- zey H. Morris, of Huntington, was born at Crown Hill, Kanawha County, and there his death occurred shortly before the inception of the Civil war, he having been a nerchant, having conducted a cooper shop and having been i shipper of coal and salt. His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Harriman, was born in the present Cabell County, West Virginia, in - 1818, and died at East Bank, Kanawha County, in 1904. Albert G. Hansford was a son of Maj. John Hansford, who was born in Eastern Virginia, and who was a pioneer in Kanawha County, where he be- ame a farmer and was the first to ship produce from the Kanawha Valley, he having served as a major in the War of the Revolution and his remains being interred in a pioneer cemetery at Crown Hill, Kanawha County. He mar- :ied Jane Morris, a daughter of Maj. "Billy"' Morris, men-

tioned above. Mrs. Fenton (Morris) Brown, sister of him whose name initiates this review, is, in 1922, organizing at Pratt, on the Kanawha River, a chapter of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the same will be chartered as William Morris Chapter.

Harvey Hansford Morris was born at Coalburg, Kanawha County, West Virginia, April 11, 1873, and is a son of Chapman and Sallie Summerfield (Hansford) Morris, the former of whom was born in Nicholas County, in 1847, and the latter at what is now East Bank, Kanawha County, in the same year. Chapman Morris died at Coalburg in October, 1873, and his widow survived him by forty years, she having been a resident of Richmond, Virginia, at the time of her death, June 15, 1913. Chapman Morris was reared in Nicholas County and was a young man at the time of his removal to Kanawha County, where his mar- riage occurred and where he passed the remainder of his life, he having been associated with coal mining in that section and also with the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad through that county. He was a democrat, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Baptist Church. Of the children, the elder is Fenton, who in 1892 became the wife of William S. Brown, he having been a leading lawyer and prominent politician and having died at Tornado, Lincoln County, in June, 1912. Mrs. Brown now resides at Atlanta, Georgia, an enthusiastic member of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. The younger of the two surviving children is he whose name introduces this article.

Harvey H. Morris attended the public schools in Kanawha and Fayette counties, and at the age of sixteen years he began an apprenticeship to the trade of telegraphy. As a skilled operator he was long employed by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, in the service of which he con- tinued twenty-six years. He advanced through the various grades of promotion, train dispatcher, train master, assist- ant superintendent, and, finally, a superintendent of division, in which office he succeeded C. P. Snow at Huntington, January 1, 1911. He continued his service at Huntington until November 15th of the following year, when he was transferred to Richmond, Virginia, where he served in the same capacity until September 1, 1913, when he became superintendent at Aslıland, Kentucky. In February of the following year he was transferred to Clifton Forge, Vir- ginia, where he remained until the 1st of the following October, when he returned to Huntington. Here he con- tinued his effective service as superintendent until December 1, 1915, when he resigned, after a record of long and greatly appreciated service of most effective order.

In December, 1915, Mr. Morris engaged actively in the coal business as an operator, and he is president of the West Virginia Standard Coal Company of Huntington; the Kentucky Elkhorn By-Products Coal Company of Dorton, Kentucky; the Mary Elizabeth Coal Company of MeGraws, West Virginia; and is a stockholder in the Southern States Coal Company and the Huntington By-Products Coal Com- pany. His office headquarters are in suite 518-20-22 Lewis Arcade Building at Huntington.

Mr. Morris retains the ancestral political faith and is a stalwart democrat. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Huntington, he is an active member of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, and holds membership in the Guyandotte Club, the Guyan Country Club and the Kiwanis Club, all of Huntington. His Ma- sonic affiliations are here briefly noted: Huntington Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M .; Huntington Chapter No. 6, R. A. M .; Huntington Commandery No. 9, Knights Templars; Beni-Kedem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Charleston ; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, at Wheeling, in which he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.

September 7, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Morris and Miss Anna Bell Davis, of Kanawha County, and her death occurred January 25, 1920. Mrs. Morris is survived by one child, Julia Summerfield, who is now the wife of Lieut. Robert Francis Carter, an officer in the United States Army, a graduate of West Point, and now stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Lieutenant Carter has charge

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of the training of students for entrance into the United States Military Academy at West Point, and in the World war period he was in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.

On the 16th of March, 1920, in New York City, Mr. Morris wedded Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Van Weinkin) Snyder, daughter of John Van Weinkin, who is engaged in the real estate business in St. Louis, Missouri.

K. C. MOORE started the practice of law in Tyler County twenty years ago, and his sound abilities have brought him a large practice and growing influence in the affairs of his native county. He is a resident of Middlebourne, and is a member of a family that for four or five generations has been identified with West Virginia, chiefly as farmers, and always as good substantial citizens of their respective localities.

For several generations the Moores lived in Monongalia County, where the family was established by the pioneer, Alonzo Moore, who came from Maryland and was a farmer. Alonzo was the great-great-grandfather of the Middle- bourne attorney. His son, Phillip Moore, was also a native of Maryland, but spent his active life as a farmer in Monongalia County. The grandfather was William Moore, who was born in Monongalia County in 1807, was reared and married there, became a farmer, and in 1840 moved his family to Tyler County. He became the pioneer fruit grower of this county, and his orchards of cherries, apples, peaches and plums were developed to commercial propor- tions and did much to stimulate fruit growing in the county. William Moore died at Joseph's Mills in Tyler County in 1884. He was a whig and later a democrat in politics. ITis first wife, grandmother of the Middlebourne lawyer, was Rebecca Sine, a native of Monongalia County, who died at Joseph's Mills. By this marriage six sons and two daugh- ters grew to mature years, all now deceased. By the second marriage of William Moore there were nine children. The third wife was Mrs. Ann (Johnson) Ellinger.

William Nelson Moore, a son of William and Rebecca (Sine) Moore, was born in Monongalia County August 1, 1829 and was between teu and eleven years of age when the family moved to Monongalia County and settled at Joseph's Mills. In that community he lived out his lite and was a highly successful farmer. In younger years he filled the office of justice of the peace and was also a mem- her of the County Court. In politics he was a stanch republican. He died at Joseph's Mills December 6, 1919. William N. Moore married Lucinda Sweeney, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1832 and died at Joseph's Mills in September, 1907. She was the mother of six children: Virginia, whe died at the age of fifty- . nine at Shiloh in Tyler County, where her husband, Dr. David C. Smith, is a well known physician; Sarah. a resident of Pennsbore, West Virginia, widow of A. Nicholas For- dyce, who was a school teacher and later a farmer; Mar- garet A., living at the old homestead at Joseph's Mills; Mary E., who died aged fifty-six at Wilbur in Tyler County, wife of J. Wesley Stewart, now a retired farmer at Akron, Ohio; Charles, who owns and operates the old homestead farm; and K. C. Moore, who is the youngest.

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