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Colleges.
1. College of Arts and Sciences, Frank B. Trotter, Dean.
2. College of Engineering. C. R. Jones, Dean.
3. College of Agriculture, E. Dwight Sanderson, Dean.
4. College of Law, Chas. E. Hogg, Dean.
Schools and Departments.
5. School of Medicine, John Nathan Simpson, Dean.
6. The Summer School, Waitman Barbee, Director.
7. School of Music and Fine Arts.
8. School of Agriculture and Ilome Economics.
9. Division of Military Science and Military Tactics.
10. The Library.
The Preparatory Department in the University has been dispensed with, this work now being accomplished in the High Schools.
Morgantown High and Graded Schools, 1913-14.
R. C. Smith, acting superintendent ; Virginia Mulvey, L. MI. Holton and Anna Boydston, supervisors.
HIGH SCHOOL-A. T. West, acting principal: II. S. Pierce, Mae Sullivan, Jany Ilogue, Flora AAtherton, Cilda Smith, Mary E. Lockwood. Marjorie Patterson. Jessie Trotter, Marion Tapp, Ella Simpson, and Pearl Taylor, teachers.
CENTRAL BUILDING-E. J. Pyles, principal ; Belle L. Spahr, Mrs. Bernie Barnes, Mrs. Mary F. Moore, Margaret Black, Adah L. Trippett, Laura Dale Johnson, Isabel Stemple, and Sara Chew, teachers.
SECOND WARD SCHOOL-J. H. Patterson, principal : Lucy A. Beltzhoover, Mrs. Minnie Sapp, Anna May Marshall, Dee Ross, Bess Liter, Mrs. Estella Smith. Virginia Schley, Nell Steele, Bertha Jones. and Anna Boydston, teachers.
SENECA SCHOOL-H. B. Bosley, principal ; Elizabeth Hogue, Sallie F. Loudin, Elizabeth Cady, Della Ferguson, and Mary P. Steele, teachers.
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WILES HILL SCHOOL-Brison E. Kimble, principa'. Leona Martin, Ilelen Russell, and Belle Darling, teachers WOODBURN SCHOOL-L. F. Morrison, principal; Sara Shelby, Edith Scott Smith, and Ethel A. Green, teachers. FIRST WARD SCHOOL-Anna B. Shank, princi; al . Hattie Simmons, Winfred Cox, and Ada Crumpton, teachers WESTOVER SCHOOL-L. T. Laurence, principa1; Lulu Fetty, Margaretta Gapen, and Ada Cobun, teachers.
MARILLA SCHOOL-Nina Church, teacher.
COLORED SCHOOL-Mattie Pronty and Roy John- ston, teachers.
Morgantown is the county seat of Monongalia Courty. It is located on the Monongahela River, 103 miles from Pitts- burgh and twenty-five miles from Fairmont. The city is well provided with churches, nearly all of the leading denomina- tions being located here. There are few towns in the State that excel Morgantown in stately public buildings and beau- tiful residences.
NEW MARTINSVILLE.
The land on which New Martinsville stands was origi- nally owned by Edward Doolin, who, in the spring of 1785, was killed by the Indians at his log cabin home, which stood about where the residence of Mrs. Aggie Witten is now lo- cated, about one mile north of the court house. In 1810. Doolin's widow conveyed the land to Presley Martin, who, in 1813, erected a house on the present site of the old Point House, at the mouth of Big Fishing Creek, at the extreme southwestern corner of the present town of New Martinsville. The nails used in the house were made by a blacksmith at Morgantown, and carried in saddle pockets, on horseback, to New Martinsville. a distance of 125 miles.
The first settler following Edward Doolin was, perhaps, Jeremiah Williams, who came to New Martinsville about the year 1800. and settled on the land now owned by his heirs, just north of town. Remains of the chimney still mark the site of his first residence, on the bank of the Ohio River, oppo-
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site the present home of E. A. Williams, on Alamo Heights Then came Abraham Hanes, who, in 1807, erected a house on the South Side, at the mouth of the creek, on the land now owned by Walter M. Myers, a son of the writer. Here Mlr. Hanes kept a hotel during the war of 1812.
Friend Cox. the father of David Hickman Cox, who re- sides on Main street, came to New Martinsville about 1820, where he purchased a farm and erected a house below the creek, opposite the Point House.
Sampson Thistle settled on Gravel Bottom, between New Martinsville and Steelton, in 1805.
A part of what is now the Point House, which is still in a fair state of preservation, was erected by Presley .. who came here in 1813. About the same time Mr. Martin planted an orchard of five acres between Washington street and the creek : a few of the trees are still standing.
In the year 1838. Presley Martin laid out a part of what is now New Martinsville, the boundaries of which were as follows: North street on the north ; Union street on the east ; Washington street on the south, and the Ohio River on the west. "On March 28th of that year," says McEldowney. "an act establishing the town of 'Martinsville.' in the county of Tyler, was passed by the Assembly of Virginia, and in the same act Henry MeCabe, Samuel McEkdowney, Lewis Wil- liams. John Buckhannon and . Benjamin F. Martin were ap- pointed trustees to administer the affairs of the town. The surveying and platting were done by Lewis Williams and three others. It extended from one lot below Washington street to North street, and from Union street to the river. The streets included in these boundaries remain the same now as then, except Water street. This latter street was located on the river bank and was the widest and principal street in town. being 80 feet wide. It is evident that it was the purpose of the founders of this town to have a broad street on the river front, where they could have the benefit of the cool breezes from the west. and an open view of the river."
In 1842 there were twelve houses in town.
McEklowney relates an interesting incident that occurred in 1845, which we give here:
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"A man presented himself to the community and re- mained a while without any apparent means of support. Hav- ing no occupation, he was arrested under the vagrancy act, and to obtain his liberty was compelled to state his business to the town officers. Thereupon he showed papers from the French Government. By these it was ascertained that he was an accredited agent of that government, sent to this commu- nity to search for $87,000 supposed to have been buried below the creek during the French and Indian war. It is thought that he did not find the money. Shortly after this incident." continues McEldowney, "another incident occurred in the same line. A Mr. Watkins of Monongalia County sold his farm there for 1,000 silver dollars, and came to this settle- ment ; the silver was too heavy to carry about his person, so he set aside $40 for his immediate use, and buried the re- mainder at the foot of a pawpaw bush, sixty steps from the river bank, midway between the mouth of the creek and a point opposite Texas run ; when he returned for his money it could not be found."
On March 13, 1848, the Assembly of Virginia passed an act prescribing the mode of electing trustees of New Martins- ville and investing them with certain corporate powers. Among other things, the trustees were to be elected annually by a vote of the people, one of the trustees to be chosen from that body to preside at their meetings ; the subordinate officers being a Commissioner of Revenue, a Sergeant or Town Col- lector, and Police. About this time the corporate limits were extended so as to include the McClure Addition on High street, and that part lying between Washington street and the creek, the ground being surveyed and marked out by Thomas Tucker, a noted surveyor of the county, long since dead.
Wetzel County was formed out of Tyler County, in 1846, and on the 6th of April of that year the first county court was held in the house then owned by Sampson Thistle, on the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, where Shiben Brothers' department store now stands ; the old building which had been used as a court house until 1852 was torn down the early part of March, 1912, and the lumber moved to Paden City.
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Friend Cox, clerk of the circuit court : Presley Martin, clerk of the county court ; Edward Moore, crier of the court ; James Snodgrass, attorney for the commonwealth; Lewis Williams, surveyor. The justices were P. M. Martin, Presley Martin, B. F. Martin, William Anderson, P. Witten, F. E. Williams, Owen Witten, Andrew MeEldowney, Samuel Me Eklowney. Hezekiah Alley, R. W. Cox, James Paden, Daniel Anderson, James Morgan, Henry Garner, J. V. Camp, William Sharp- neck and Stephen Carney. William Sharpneck, being the old- est justice, was made sheriff. At each term of the county court three justices acted as commissioners of the county court. The first to act were B. F. Martin, P. M. Martin, Pres- ley Martin, with the last as president. The deputy sheriffs were Charles MeCoy and Archibald Thistle. The commis- sioners of revenue were Thomas Snodgrass, Sampson Thistle. William Little, Ebenezer Payne, James G. West, Ebenezer Clark, Hezekiah Jolliffe. James Ruckman, Isaac E. Hoskin- son, William Anderson, John Alley, John Klipstein and Jacob Talkington.
On April 7th, 1846, J. W. Stephens, C. W. Clark, W. J. Boreman, R. W. Lauck, J. R. Morris, F. W. McConaughy, 1. W. Horner, James Snodgrass. G. W. Thompson and Thomas Jones were permitted to practice law in the courts. On May 4th of the same year Isaac Hoge, J. Morris and Abraham Samuels were also given permits to practice law before the courts.
In 1848 the ground now occupied by the court house was donated to the county by Sampson Thistle and Presley Martin, on which to build a new court house. The building was com- pleted in 1852 and was used as a court house for forty-eight years, when, in 1900. it was torn down, and in 1902 the present splendid structure was completed and the county officials gathered up the records of their respective offices at various places over town and moved them to their new official homes. There is probably not a more handsome court house in West Virginia than the one which graces the town of New Martins- ville. although the structure, when completed and furnished, cost less than $175,000.
The first grand jury appointed by Sheriff Sharpneck was
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composed of John MI. Lacy, foreman; Absalom Postlethwait. Francis Hindman, Achilles Morgan, Hiram J. Morgan, James Cochran, Caleb Headlec, J. M. Van Camp, Jeremiah Williams, Thomas Steel, Richard Postlethwait, Joseph Wood, Robert Leap, Zadoc 1 .. Springer, Andrew Workman, John Roberts, Jacob Rice, Jacob McCloud and William Little.
Officers of Wetzel County from its formation to the pres- ent time :
Sheriffs-William Sharpneck, James G. West, Edwin Moore, William Anderson, Josephus Clark, Levi Shuman, A. P. Brookover, William Brookover, John Stender (two terms), B. B. Postlethwait, J. N. Wyatt, James A. Pyles, Alex. Hart, Ingram Myers, Justus Eakin (died before term expired and was succeeded by his son, J. O. Eakin) and Clarence M. Stone.
Clerks of the County Court-Presley Martin, J. W. New- man, Friend Cox, Z. S. Springer ( two terms), H. E. Robinson, John C. McEldowney (26 years), Henry R. Thompson (two terms), Isaiah D. Morgan and Sylvester Myers.
Clerks of the Circuit Court-Friend Cox. John C. McEl- downey, James W. Newman, John W. Kaufman and William J. Postlethwait, Mr. Newman having served eighteen years, and Mr. Postlethwait now serving the last year of his second term.
Prosecuting Attorneys-James Snodgrass, Leonard S. llall, R. W. Lauck, William Guthrie, George Boyd, Leonard S. Hall (second term), M. R. Crouse, W. S. Wiley, Moses R. Morris. E. L. Robinson (two terms), G. W. Coffield and Glen Snodgrass,
The present County Court is composed of A. T. Morris, president, and William A. Morgan and J. Milt Berdine, com- missioners ; Sylvester Myers, clerk, and Walter Michael My- ers, deputy.
Commissioners of Accounts are Edwin O. Keifer, S. Bruce Hall, John C. McEldowney and F. M. Kellar.
Circuit Court-Presley D. Morris, judge : Glen Snodgrass, prosecuting attorney : William J. Postlethwait, clerk, and Spencer E. Postlethwait, deputy clerk; Alva B. Moore, court stenographer ; C. M. Stone, sheriff ; . A. T. Butler, J. William Stone and Burl F. Stone, deputies ; James MI. Cochran, county
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surveyor : William Ankrom, general receiver : Thomas H. Cor- nett, commissioner of school lands: Levi Oblinger, janitor court house.
Petit Jury Commissioners-J. E. Morris and M. W. Bur- gess.
Commissioners in Chancery-F. Victor lams, M. H. Wil- lis, E. II. Yost and Moses R. Morris.
Resident Attorneys-J. B. Allison, Charles W. Barrick. G. W. Coffield, Thomas. II. Cornett, Alexander Campbell Chapman. Frank Wells Clark, Leo Carlin, S. Bruce Hall. Leonard S. Hall, Frank Victor lams, Thomas Perry Jacobs, Charles L. Johnston, Edwin O. Keifer, A. E. Larrick, D. V. Lemon, Harry E. Lentz. Moses R. Morris, James W. Mel- tire, Lloyd V. Melntire. Thayer M. McIntire, Earl E. MeIn- tire, Mont Mclntire, James W. Newman, Mart V. Ober, Eliel 1 .. Robinson, John H. Robinson, Jr., H. H. Rose, Glen Snod- grass, prosecuting attorney : J. F. Throckmorton, Theo. Van Camp. M. H. Willis, James E. Young and Ervin Il. Yost.
Charles Kisleg, county superintendent schools.
Friend W. Parsons, county road engineer.
Assessor-David H. McMillen.
Town Officials.
Mayor-Rev. J. H. Jackson.
Chief of Police-C. W. Travis.
Tax Collector-George W. Stansberry.
Street Commissioner-Isaac Goddard.
Assessor -- W. R. Dayton.
City Council -- David H. Cox, Alva B. Moore, Charles T. Gorby, C. M. Founds and John F. Lochr.
The first public road in Wetzel County was constructed by David Prunty from Middlebourne, Tyler County, to Reader. Wetzel County, in 1815, and is now known as the Eight Mile Ridge road.
The first grist mill in Wetzel County was erected on Lit- tle Creek, near the old county poor farm. in Green District, in 1790.
The first automobile was "discovered" by Jake Koont"
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1907- - at least the one he introduced in New Martinsville that year looked as though it might have been the first one ever made.
The first mail route established in Wetzel County was from Fairmont to New Martinsville, in 1800.
The brick church that once stood on Main street was built by the Methodists in 1854.
A Presbyterian church was erected about the same time on the grounds now occupied by the Widow Standiford's fur- niture store, and was sold and used for a school house under the name of the New Martinsville Academy. When the free school system was adopted by the State, the building was used for a public school.
After the amendment of the town charter by the Legisla- ture on February 13, 1871, the town seems to have awakened to a spirit of progressiveness ; the population soon began to increase more rapidly and consequently the demand for houses increased. The Pittsburgh Stave Company erected a plant at the mouth of the creek in 1873, and gave employment to a large number of men. A new school house was erected in 1882, and two years later the M. E. Church South, Protestant Episcopal, Baptist and Catholic churches were built. Then came the Ohio River Railroad in 1884, the West Virginia Short Line Railroad in 1900, and the Wetzel and Tyler Street Railway-now the Union Traction Company-from Sisters- ville to the South Side in 1904, which was extended through New Martinsville to its present terminal, near the glass fac- tory, in 190 ---
tory, in 1905. Clarksburg-Northern-New Martinsville to Middlebourne-completed in 1913.
Today, New Martinsville, including the South Side, has a population of over 3,000. While not the largest town along the Ohio River, it is undoubtedly the prettiest. It has, per- haps, fewer "shacks" and more handsome buildings, more street pavement, more shade trees and better sidewalks than any other town of like size between Pittsburgh and Hunting- ton, and that is covering some territory.
However, New Martinsville is not what she should be in the way of industrial enterprises. There is perhaps no town
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-- nor city, for that matter-on God's green earth better suited, or that can offer greater inducements in the way of factory sites, than New Martinsville. Practically every acre of Wet- zel County is underlaid with two veins of merchantable coal, ranging from five to twelve feet in thickness, namely, the fa- mous Pittsburgh or River vein, and the Mapletown seam. The county also produces more gas than any other county in the State, and probably more than is produced within the same boundary in any other State. . A pipe line connecting New Martinsville with this almost inexhaustible supply of gas was laid many years ago, and during all that time has been availa- ble for a hundred factories. Yet. with all these natural re- sources and extraordinary transportation facilities by both rail and water, our coal has not been touched with the miner's pick ; our gas is being transported to other states by the bil- lions of cubic feet annually, while hundreds of acres of wide river bottom land about us, affording ideal locations for fac- tories, remain unsought and apparently ignored. Why is this so?
Banks.
Wetzel County Bank opened for business January 1, 1890. President and Cashier, J. E. Bartlett ; Ervin Ober, vice-presi- dent ; G. M. Wood, assistant cashier ; Robert Rist, bookkeeper, and C. E. McEldowney, teller. Capital, $25,000.
New Martinsville Bank opened for business June 1. 1897. S. R. Martin, president : J. B. Clark, cashier : J. W. Schmied. assistant cashier; Nelson Oblinger, bookkeeper; F. E. Head- lee, teller, and Miss Emma Beck, stenographer. Capital. $60,000 ; surplus. $60,000 ; undivided profits, $50.000.
First National Bank began business March 21, 1900. E. L. Robinson, president ; I. D. Morgan, vice-president : Henry Koontz, cashier; W. G. Founds, assistant cashier : A. E. Mc- Caskey, bookkeeper. Capital and surplus, $75.000.
Manufacturing Establishments.
New Martinsville Glass Manufacturing Company, Lentz's tannery. Koontz and Sons' Planing Mills, Crescent Flouring
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Mills, three cigar factories, Brooklyn Foundry, Brooklyn Brick Works, New Martinsville Marble & Granite Works and the Brooklyn Ice Plant.
The New Martinsville Wholesale Grocery Company, the New Martinsville Oil Well Supply Company, the Burlingham Building Supply Company are cach doing a prosperous busi- ness in their particular lines.
B. B. Muhleman and W. E. Whorton are competing with each other in the furniture and undertaking business.
Herrick Brothers and Frank Shuman, on the South Side ; Williams and Ankrom, Josephus Clark estate, Mont Burrows and S. D. Huffman run up-to-date general stores.
John F. Lochr, Francis & Harman and William Schafer make a specialty of gents' furnishing goods.
Sheiben Brothers, Harry Winer and Ellis department stores carry large assortments of dry goods and cater to the ladies' trade.
Duerr Brothers' jewelry department, in the magnificent Masonic Temple building, will compare favorably with the stock carried in some of the larger cities, and their clothing. dry goods and notions departments are above the average in quality' and quantity.
II. C. McClintock, Gorby Brothers, Workman's Grocery, Widmer & Son, F. G. Stewart, A. G. Paugh, M. U. Murray and A. Hoyt carry all lines of fancy and staple groceries.
The People's Hardware Company, F. C. Wells & Son and Powell & Garner are headquarters for anything in the hard- ware line.
Mr. Azar, Mr. Kammins, Mrs. Harry and the Thomas Brothers have a fine display of fruits, candies and notions.
Mrs. S. M. Snodgrass and Mrs. L. Pemberton attend to the wants of the ladies in the millinery line.
The four up-to-date drug stores in town are owned by L. W. Oneacre, Percy D. Leap, Homer Richardson and Horn- brook Drug Co., respectively.
George Grall, the tailor, needs no introduction in Wetzel and adjoining counties.
The City Bakery and the Sweet Home Bakery are kept busy supplying their heavy trade with bread, pies and cakes.
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Leap's livery and Probst and Bowen's livery are well equipped for the heavy demands upon them for teams and rigs.
J. G. MeCrorey's 5 and 10-cent store, Steel Brothers" news stand, Chapman's book store, C. J. Beck and Ferrill & Twy- man meat markets, M. B. Potts and Son's tin shop, C. M. Powers' and M. D. Pots and Co. plumbing shops are all doing a thriving business in their various lines.
The Pastime and Princess theatres afford the principal places of amusement.
Patrons of the tonsorial artists are carefully looked after by A. N. Swisher, Jake Koontz and Adolph Soland, Sidney Dunn, Curtis Priest, Matt Ober and John Gehring in New Martinsville and Mr. Froelich on the South Side, there being seven shops in all.
The Federal Realty Company and M. L. Kendall are looking after the real estate business.
W. R. Dayton, R. C. Leap and C. H. Wright represent standard lines of life insurance.
Drs. Bridgemen, Koontz and Adams are old established dentists of the town.
Kerr's Studio is up-to-date in every particular, Mr. Kerr being one of the best photographers in the State.
Drs. J. D. Schmied. E. L. Boone, H. G. Morgan, A. F. Fankhouser and Martin are well up in their profession, and are not members of the Undertakers' Association. Schmied is manager of the New Martinsville Hospital.
D. N. Mangold, on Main street, and J. C. McMunn, on South Side, run first-class harness and saddle making estab- lishments.
Hotels.
The Brast-Eakin Annex Hotel, on river front, and the Elk Hotel, on Maple avenue, are the principal hotels of the town. The Court Square and The Henthorn restaurants are popular eating houses. There are also several boarding houses.
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Churches.
The citizens of New Martinsville are church-going peo- ple, the church membership being divided between the Disci- ples or Christians, the Methodist Episcopal, the M. E. South, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist and Roman Catholic churches, each denomination owning its own church home and each having a resident minister. sustained by its own mem- bership.
Fraternal Orders.
Of the fraternal organizations, the Odd Fellows, Masons. Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen are thriving orders.
Schools.
The Magnolia Iligh School building is one among the finest in the State. It has twenty-three teachers, including the superintendent and principal, all of whom are able and dili- gent workers in their profession. There were over 700 stu- dents enrolled for the term 1913-14.
High School Faculty-John H. Gorby, superintendent (history) ; Anna N. Elliott, principal (mathematics) ; Etta F. Mowery (music and art), Vaughn McCaskey (penmanship). H. H. Shively (English), Arthur Morrow (science and his- tory), Edith Z. Mercer ( Latin and German), Lulu Blair (com- mercial department ).
GRADES-Teresa Gibbons, eighth; Elizabeth Heinz- man, seventh ; Charles Young, sixth and seventh ; Lulu Sykes, sixth ; Christa Yontz, fifth and sixth; Margaret Miskimins, fifth; Hazel Kirke Dunlap, fourth; Jessie Atkinson, fourth ; Dosie McIntire, third ; Lucile Williams, third ; Mae Ruth, sec- ond and third; Leta Mason, second; Susie Ankrom, first and second ; Roma Kline, first and second; Lottie Bruce, first.
School term, 9 months.
Following old timers still reside in New Martinsville:
John C. McEldowney, formerly county clerk for twenty- six years : S. R. Martin, aged 83 years, president New Marti:1,- ville Bank, whose father, B. F. Martin, came to New Martins-
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ville in 1813; George Grall, tailor and recent city recorder ; James Amos, shoemaker ; John S. Robinson, an old Federal soldier and retired merchant and resident of the county 65 years : Presley Martin, retired farmer, 75 years old; Samuel I. Robinson, retired lumber manufacturer and ex-justice of the peace, 88 years old: Hon. Septimius Ilall, who repre- sented Wetzel county at the Constitutional Convention at Wheeling, and who has since served a number of terms in the State Legislature : S. Bruce Hall, member of the Wetzel county bar and one of the leading attorneys: Thomas Perry Jacobs, ex-judge of the circuit court, and who was recently tendered the deanship of the law school at Morgantown Uni- versity : M. R. Morris, member of Wetzel county bar and ox- prosecuting attorney, and who fought for the Union in the Civil War: S. J. Elliott, retired business man and ex-cashier Wetzel County Bank : David Hickman Cox, oil operator and one of the principal stockholders in New Martinsville Bank, and recently elected councilman for First ward : I. D. Morgan, oil operator and ex-county clerk: H. R. Thompson, retired business man and ex-county clerk : James W. Newman, mem- ber of Wetzel county bar and ex-clerk of the circuit court ; Charles W. Barrick, attorney-at-law and abstractor of land titles : R. II. Sayre, ex-commissioner of school lands and was a delegate to the first Wheeling Convention, May 13, 1801 : Levi Tucker, a retired business man : James A. Pyles, ex- sheriff. president Board of Education and member of Federal Realty Company; Dr. J. W. Yeater, retired physician and member of Federal Realty Company : Jacob Koontz, senior member of Koontz Lumber Company : Henry Koontz. cashier of First National Bank and former station agent for the Ohio River Railroad Company at New Martinsville : J. F. Bartlett. president and cashier Wetzel County Bank; Frank Wells Clark, lawyer and manager of Josephus Clark estate: M. V. Ober, tonsorial artist. apothecary, auctioneer, clocutionist and member Wetzel county bar. Some people have been accused of being "jacks of all trades and masters of none;" not so with Mart. He is "right there with the goods." Adolph Soland. barber and ex-member of town council: Rev. J. II. Jackson, pastor Presbyterian Church and mayor of New Martinsville :
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