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REV. ROBERT SCOTT, son of James Scott, born 1813, died 1887, was a native of Ireland, moved first to Ohio, then to West Virginia. His mother's maiden name was Margaret Jack. In 1839 at Louisville, Ky., he married Rebecca, daughter of Edward Herndon; children, Robert, Paxton, Frank, Louise, Price, Edward, Margaret and John. He was the first Presbyterian minister in Randolph after the war, and he organized all the churches in the Valley. He left Missouri because of his Southern sympathies. One of his sons was a lieutenant in General Lee's army. Rev. Scott was a man of lib- eral education and of fine literary tastes.
PAXTON W. SCOTT, son of Rev. Robert Scott, was born in 1858 and he was married in 1885 to Lena B., daughter of William Daniels. Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Isner; children, Maggie, Marie, Maudline and Gertrude. He is a farmer, owning 560 acres near Beverly.
JEFFERSON SCOTT, born in 1844, son of John and Rachel Scott. In 1870, in Barbour County, he married Susan, daughter of Archibald and Jane (Corley) Wilson; children, Meda and L. D. Mr. Scott served in the army, was wounded and was honorably discharged. A loaded shell, eight inches long is among his keepsakes. He lives on Roaring Creek, owns 58 acres of land on which is a 14-foot vein of coal.
GEORGE B. SCOTT, born 1863, son of Isaac and Mary (O'Conner) Scott; Irish ancestry. In 1897 he married Emma, daughter of Edwin and Alice Hunt. He worked in the iron mills of Pennsylvania for awhile, then, 1892, entered the West Virginia University, graduating in the law course in 1895; he also graduated in the classical course of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and afterwards took post-graduate work in the Northwestern University at
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Evanston, Ill. He now practices law at Womelsdorff, and is mayor of the town.
HENRY LEWIS SHAFFER, born in Preston County in 1852, son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Hardesty) Shaffer, was married at Rowlesburg in 1877 to Jennie, daughter of Robert McCrum. She died four years latter and he married Columbia Ella, daughter of Jacob and Mary E. (Jeffreys) Nine at Newburg. Children, Cleora Ethel, Clements Esther, Edna Fay, Clifton Earl, Beulah Vista, Evelyn Lois. He was educated in the public schools of Preston; was postmaster at Rodmer's under President Arthur, and was different times a member of the Board of Education. He came to Elkins in 1889 and became a partner in the firm of Shaffer Brothers, general merchants; next was sole owner, and finally sold the stock to the Laboring Men's Co-operating Association, and became general manager. He was Town Recorder of Elkins in 1896.
WILLIAM F. SCRUGGS, born 1856 in Buckingham County, Va., son of F. T. and Rebecca N. (Newton) Scruggs, was married in Hampshire County in 1877 to Katie, daughter of Jeremiah and Ann (Day) Keister, of Strasburg, Va. Children, Clarence H. and Sanello R. He is a photog- rapher; travelled in Virginia and North Carolina before coming to West Virginia. He settled in Hampshire County, and in 1892 was elected Justice of the Peace there. When he came to Randolph he located at Whitmer, engaging in the mercantile business. He is a member of the M. E. Church, and also a Free Mason. His father was born in 1828, and was a Confeder- ate soldier; and his grandfather, Thomas, who was born in 1795, was in the War of 1812. John Scruggs was his great-great-grandfather, and his great-great-great-grandfather came from Europe,
JAMES A. SNELSON, born in Virginia, 1813, died in 1877, son of John and Jemima (Armstrong) Snelson. In 1834 he married Evelina T. Arm- strong, who died in 1861, and he married Catherine. Channell. Children, Louisa E., Fannie S., Henretti R., Patsy T., James G., Mary S., Thomas P., Sarah J., Elletha, Leonidas, Lois and French. He came to Randolph about 1840, and owned 634 acres, 200 improved, near Huttonsville.
LEE JESSE SANDRIDGE, born in Upshur County 1870, son of John Frederick and Elmanza (Lyman) Sandridge; was married at Beverly, 1896, to Mrs. Jessie May Houston, daughter of James D. Wilson. Mr. Sandridge graduated from Buckhannon Seminary. In 1892 he went to Kansas and prospected in the lead and zinc mines. In 1894 he returned to West Vir- . ginia and came to Randolph as a stone-cutter and mason, and in 1895 was elected sergeant of Beverly. He engaged in the building, loan and life in- surance business, His father lived in Albemarle County, Va., and his grandfather, Lindsey Sandridge, lived in the same county and was a brick- mason and molder.
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WILLIAM H. SIDWELL, born in Preston County, 1842, son of Henry and Nancy Sidwell; married Jane, daughter of William Lawrence, and after her death he married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Barbara Funk. Children, Joseph S., Clarence A., James I., William A., Walter L. and Ernest. He lives at Montrose; was in the Union army under Averell.
WILLIAM HENRY STEETH, born in Lewis County 1852, son of D. A. and Lucinda (Ratcliff) Steeth; married 1885 Malissa Frances, daughter of Hiram Lamb. He was educated in the common schools. The fort at Clarksburg sheltered his ancestors in Indian times. Beginning business for himself as a carpenter, he has accumulated property and is now a mer- chant in Elkins.
J. A. STURM, born 1854, son of P. B. and Elizabeth (Barnhouse) Sturm. In 1874, in Marion County, he married Ida, daughter of Elias and Susanna (Freeman) Ryan. Children, Benjamin T., William H., Jesse P., Eddie L., Elias O., Elizabeth M., Earl J. He has been a teamster all his life.
GILMORE F. SIMS, born in Lewis County 1829, son of Wm, and Margaret (Divers) Sims; German and English; was married in 1854 at Cumberland, Md., to Mary, daughter of Peter and Nancy (Marsh) Murray; hotel keeper at Pickens. He formerly lived at Piedmont and was sheriff of Mineral County and postmaster at Piedmont.
CONNER C. SHARPLESS, born 1871, in Mineral County, son of John F. and Mary J, (Tichnel) Sharpless; Irish ancestry; was married 1893 to Lulu B., daughter of Sylvanus T. and Sarah (Ark) Purkey. Child, Joseph Del- ton. He is a farmer.
DANIEL ADAM SITES, born 1865 in Pendleton, son of Adam and Cath- erine (Simmons) Sites. In 1886 he married Vina, daughter of Vinson and Phoebe (Flanagan) Pennington. Children, Elizabeth, Phoebe Alice, Wash- ington J., Alston and Hobert. He came to Randolph in 1872 and began as a laborer; now is a foreman on the Dry Fork Railroad.
JOHN SASSI, born 1836 in Switzerland; married 1862 in Ohio to Louise Wagner, Children, Henry, Rudolph, Mary, Evaline, John Andrew, Julius Frederick, Amelia, Ella C. He owns 100 acres.
WILLIAM HAMILTON SHOBE, born near Petersburg, 1842, died 1894, son of William and Susan (McBee) Shobe. In 1868 he married Mary Jane, daughter of Daniel and Phoebe (Graham) Judy. Children, Daniel, Charles Wilbur, Carrie Rebecca, and Phoebe Lena. By trade he was a miller until 1892; then was proprietor of Shobe House, in Harman, until his death; was postmaster at Harman under Cleveland; was in Confederate army four years.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SHRONT, born 1869 at Kingwood, W. Va .; German parentage; was married in 1894 to Rachel, daughter of Leonard
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R. Howe. Her mother was Maria Myers before marriage. Children, Minerva, Ellen, Nettie V., Lavina. He is a dairyman.
WATSON DIVEN SHARP, born 1872, son of William W., and Elizabeth (Barlow) Sharp; Scotch-Irish; married 1891 in Pocahontas County to Eliza- beth E., daughter of Ebenezer and Margaret (Swecker) Mace. Children, Ivy Cameron, Myrtle Rowena, Grace Dale. He owns 190 acres, 100 im- proved; kept the Mingo hotel a year; was licensed in 1897 by the M. E. Church South, to preach.
HENRY SPIES, born 1857 in Germany, son of John and Katherine (Klappart) Spies; married 1892 to Lina, daughter of Frederick and Henri- etta Abelman. Children, Louise, Edwin Otto, Annie Katie, Henritta, Her- mine. He is a merchant and lumberman at Pickens.
COLEMAN J. SCHOONOVER, born in 1839, son of Thomas and Bashaba Schoonover, German parentage. In 1865 in Tucker County he married Sus- an, daughter of James R. and Mahala (Mason) Parsons. After her death, 1870, he married Rachel E., daughter of Henry V. and Margaret (Wilmoth) Bowman; children, Carl W., Harriet E., James T., Lillian Adaline, A. Ward, Sansom E. and Leslie Clare. He is a farmer and owns 347 acres, 200 im- proved on Leading Creek, and a half interest in 3000 acres. When he was twenty-one years old he began business for himself as a mail carrier from Kerens to Oakland, Md., three days being required for the trip, and he con- tinued at it until the war. He then farmed in the Horse Shoe, in Tucker County, in partnership with David Bonnifield, on land belonging to William Harper. At the close of the war he began to buy real estate and to deal in live stock. He took his first drove to Harrisonburg, Va., and in the succeed- ing years drove to Richmond and other eastern points, handling large num- bers of cattle and horses; and he is still in the business and still finds profit- able markets in Virginia. He has always been very successful in all of his undertakings. His father, who was born on Leading Creek, was also a large stock dealer, and was a successful business man, leaving land at his death which is now worth $25,000. Daniel Schoonover, grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born in the Horse Shoe in 1780 and died at the age of ninety-one. He made the first improvement, in 1804, an Cherry Tree Fork, Randolph County. He was in the War of 1812, and his father's name was Benjamin, and he was born in Connecticut in 1755, and when a young man settled in what is now Tucker County, at the mouth of Horse Shoe Run and lived there several years and then moved to Shaver's Fork, in Randolph and lived to an old age. Mrs. Bashaba Schoonover was a daughter of Dr. Thomas C. Nutter of Barbour County.
LEMUEL STURM, born 1827, in Marion County; son of David S. and Rebecca (Moore) Sturm; German and Irish ancestry; married at Fairmont, 1866, to Mattie C., daughter of Armstead Martin. Children, W. T., Carrie,
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Lawrence, Minnie, Mollie, Charles R .; 2nd marriage to Ida, daughter of Washington Yokum, 1895. He served 3 years in Co. H., 107th Ill. Reg't, and saw active service in the "March to the Sea." His grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. Owns 751 acres, 150 improved.
G. J. STAUNTON, born 1860, son of John and Bridget Staunton; Irish parentage. In 1893 he married Miss H. M. Joyce, daughter of Patrick and Bridget Joyce. Children, Mary S., B. Veronica, Cyril J. He was a black. smith and wagon maker at Womelsdorff. He worked in iron and steel mills at Braddock and Pittsburg, and then at Bellaire, Ohio. Later he was in the mercantile business at Philippi. His father, who was post- master at Middle Fork 20 years, and who was born in Ireland, had thirteen children, ten being boys.
NOAH ALEXANDER SHREVE, born 1845, son of James and Emily J. (Geer) Shreve; married 1871 to Amanda, daughter of Thomas and Eliza- beth Quick. Children, Gussie M., Eugene D., Effie M., Rufus S., Berling S., Flossie A .. Claudie B., Jessie J. and Erastus B.
LORENZO DOW STRADER, son of Valentine and Mary (Jackson) Strader, Dutch and English ancestry, born in Upshur County November 13, 1839; married in 1871 to Maria S., daughter of Judson and Philadelphia B. (Rees) Blackman. Children, Judson Floyd, Mary Dow, Helen B., Wilbur J., Phil- adelphia R. Mr. Strader was admitted to the practice of law at Buckhan- non in 1868, and the next year removed to Beverly, and has practiced at that bar longer than any other lawyer of Randolph County. Before begin- ning the study of law he had seen service in the Civil War, in the Federal army. He belonged to Company E, 1st W. Va. Cavalry, and took part in the Battle of Rich Mountain in July, 1861. He was in the Kanawha cam- paign, and was at Carnifex Ferry immediately after the battle. He was in the engagements at McDowell, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, and many others. The Straders came from Holland at a very early period in American history. The line of descent cannot be traced with certainty during the first generations in America, due chiefly to different spellings of what evidently was the same name; but they settled in New Jersey, and later moved to the South Branch in what is now Hardy or Grant County. There was a considerable colony of Hollanders (Dutch) on the South Branch very early, and the Straders were among them. When George Washing- ton was surveying near Moorefield for Lord Fairfax, about 1748, he spoke in his diary of the "Dutch people" who came to his camp, and "who would not speak English." Among those Dutch people are found the ancestors of some of the best people of the State.
The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was John Strader, and he had two brothers, Christopher and Michael. At an early date, not as- certained with certainty, the three brothers left South Branch, and Michael
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and Christopher went to Ohio, while John settled in what is now Upshur County, at the mouth of Little Sand Run, one mile above Buckhannon. He was twice married, the first time to Miss Post, by whom he had ten children; and the second time to Miss Cooper, by whom he had two, one of whom, Valentine, was the father of L. D. Strader, and was born 1818. He married Miss Mary Jackson, the daughter of Edward H. Jackson, whose wife was a Love and whose mother was a Haddan. He lived two miles above Buckhannon. Edward H. Jackson's father was John Jackson, and he was twice married, first to a Miss Cozad, and then to a Haddan. This John Jackson's father was also named John, and he was an Englishman, and married a talented English woman named Cummins. Thus the Jack- son family is traced to England, and to the common ancestor John, who married Miss Cummins. From him Stonewall Jackson descended. - Hc was Stonewall's great-grandfather, in a line as follows: John Jackson's son Edward (brother to the John above mentioned) married Miss Haddan, and they had a son, Jonathan, and Jonathan's son was Stonewall Jackson. In the above sketch there are two Edward Jackson's mentioned and they should not be confused. Stonewall Jackson's grandfather was Edward, and L. D. Strader's grandfather was Edward H., and the former was an uncle of the latter. The Jackson family through its intermarriages became connected with the leading families of Central West Virginia, and the de- scendants and relatives constitute a large percentage of the population in Randolph, Upshur, Lewis and Harrison Counties. Judson Floyd, son of L. D. Strader, is a lawyer, practicing at Beverly. He is a graduate of the West Virginia University.
MICHAEL SEE, who was a German and spoke the language in his fami- ly, is believed to have been born in Pennsylvania. At any rate, he moved from that State to the South Branch about 1765. His father's name was Frederick Michael See, and but little else is known of him, except that he had a son Adam, but Adam never lived in Randolph. Michael was one of the early settlers and his children married into several of the leading fam- ilies nearly a century ago, viz: Anthony See married Julia Leonard, Adam married Margaret Warwick, Polly married George See, Barbara married William McCleary, John married Miss Stewart, and Noah married Marga- ret Long.
ADAM C. SEE, son of Michael, was a prominent man early in the history of Randolph. He was admitted to practice law at the Beverly Bar in 1793 and in 1798 he was Prosecuting Attorney. In 1800 he was a captain of the militia. He married Margaret, daughter of Jacob Warwick, and following are the names of their children: Mary, Eliza, Rachel, Christina, Margaret, Dorothy, Hannah, Charles, Jacob and George. Mary married Andrew Mathews and lived in Pulaski County, Va .; Eliza married Dr. Robert Gamble and lived near the "Old Stone Church" in Augusta County; Rachel mar-
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ried Col. Paul Mc Neill of Pocahontas Couhty; Christina married Washing- ton Ward and lived in Randolph; Margaret married Washington Long; Dor- othy married John A. Hutton; Hannah married Henry Harper and moved to Missouri; Charles married Dr. Squire Bosworth's daughter; George married Polly See; Jacob married Mary Baxter of Lexington, Va. He was Sheriff of Randolph in 1848, and subsequently moved to Tucker County where he died about the close of the war.
ALBERT LEE SEE, son of Adam, born in 1854, was married in 1880 to Minerva, daughter of John M. and Mary Jane Crouch; children, Alice, Annie May, William Cameron and Bernard Lee; owns 150 acres at Elkwater. His 1 grandfather was George See.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SALISBURY, born 1831, son of David and Eliza- beth (Conrad) Salisbury; English ancestry; married, 1872, in Webster County to Mary B., daughter of John H. and Rebecca (Crouch) Mace. Children, Flora, Perry Wade, Winfield, Hancock, Ella B., Lot and Whitney. He is a farmer, owns 150 acres, half improved; was a lieutenant in the Confederate army.
PRESLEY CALVIN SIMMONS, born 1849 in Hardy County; son of Sand- ford Y. and Susan (Bobo) Simmons; English descent. He was married in 1875 in Hardy County to Sallie, daughter of John and Rachel (Jones) Brown. Children, Ursula Williams, Clara Maude, Conner Baker, Ed., Susan Virginia, Edna Lee, Ethel May, Calvin Snyder, Kate, Gracie and Linnie. He is a farmer on Red Creek.
JACOB SIMMONS, born 1835 died 1863, son of Jonas J. and Mary (Stal- naker) Simmons; married 1855 to Sarah A., daughter of John Haines. Children, Paul, John and Nancy. He was a Federal soldier and scout, and was one of the guides acting with the Union forces at Rich Mountain, 1861. On July 3, 1863, while at his home on Middle Fork Mountain, his house was surrounded by twenty-four Confederates who demanded his surrender. He declined and fired upon them with deadly effect. They returned the fire, wounding him, and he died in a few hours.
VALENTINE SIMMONS, born 1816, in Pendleton County, son of Henry, was married in 1835 to Jemima, daughter of John and Elizabeth Grim. Children, Chesley, David, Ophelia, William, Harman, John, Phoebe J., Sophia, Jefferson and Mary.
WILLIAM E. SIMMONS, born 1847, son of Daniel W. and Mary (Hull) Simmons; German parentage. In 1868 he married Evaline, daughter of Tobias Long, and she dying, he married Ellen, daughter of Hezekiah Sim- mons of Valley Head. Children, Drusilla L., French W., S. T., Everett, Evaline and Albert.
IRA SHOCKEY, born in 1843 in Ohio, son of Jacob and Minerva (Haines) Shockey, was married in 1865 to Melisse J., daughter of B. and Sally New-
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lon; children, Jacob B., Mary B., Mattie L., Charles B., Andrew D., Manda M., James H., Blaine L., Mamie and Harrison. He is a farmer, owns 260 acres; is postmaster at Long. He belonged to the Union Home Guards, of Washington County, Ohio, and in 1865 he was mustered into the regular U. S. army.
CHRISTOPHER C. SWECKER, born 1834, son of Samuel; married 1857 to Ann Couger. Children, Barbi, Dinah, Andrew L., Jacob A. He has lived on Elk River since 1861; he had a grist mill for many years and let his neighbors grind toll-free, unless they saw fit to pay, in which case a box was provided into which they poured toll. A flood upset his mill in 1896, and his neighbors mourned the calamity. He has scores of bee-hives about the yard, and on quiet afternoons he may be seen sitting on his porch catch- ing bees in his fingers as if they were flies. He is a Dunkard, and moved to that place to escape the Civil War. Soldiers never penetrated that re- gion but once.
ANDREW J. SWECKER, son of Samuel, born 1836, married 1873 to Sa- rah Fretwell. Children, George C., Charles B., William, Anna; farmer.
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ISAAC TAYLOR, the date of whose birth is unknown, settled on Cheat River at a very early day. His children were, John, who married Susan Coberly; Washington, who married Melvina Chenoweth; Polly, who mar- ried William Wilmoth; Jemima, who married Samuel Wilmoth; Elizabeth, who married Edwin Stalnaker; Sarah who married Hamilton Skidmore; Caroline, who married Archibald Wilmoth; Susanna, who married Samuel Channel; Rebecca, unmarried; Nimrod, who married Margaret Coberly; James, who married Deborah Skidmore.
NIMROD TAYLOR, born 1815, son of Isaac; married, 1834, to Margaret, daughter of Levi Coberly. Children, Martha Ellen, Washington Kiner, Lucinida, Phoebe Melvina, Hamilton Skidmore, John Columbus, James Monroe, Columbia Jane, Isaac Louis, Margaret Elizabeth.
JOHN TAYLOR, born 1802, died 1886; son of Isaac; was married in 1826 to Susanna, daughter of Levi Coberly. Children, Alfred, Amanda, James Allen, Felix J., John Andrew, William C., Perry, Elam B., Columbia, Emma J., Almeda. He was a member of the Virginia Legislature two terms and of the West Virginia Legislature two terms.
ALLEN TAYLOR, born in 1831 on Cheat River; son of John and Susan Taylor; was married in 1852 to Jemima, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Ward. After her death he married Elethea, daughter of John K. and Sarah Chenoweth. Children, Louisa, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Florida and William C. H. He has been a merchant and farmer; owns 570 acres and lives in Elkins. His grandfather, Isaac Taylor, came from Kentucky and married Elizabeth Hayes on the South Branch.
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ANDREW TAYLOR, son of John, was born 1835 and was married in 1858 to Louisa D., daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Ward. Children, Blain W., Annie Laurie, Ida B. and Gettie V. He is a farmer near Elkins, owning 440 acres. His father was Justice of the Peace and member of the Legis- lature of Virginia; was born in 1802 and died 1887.
HAMILTON S. TAYLOR, son of Nimrod, born 1844; Scotch; married in 1866 to Elizabeth M. Vanscoy. Children, William C., Dorsey F., Lacy M., Lucy B .; farmer and merchant.
FELIX TAYLOR, son of John and Susan Coberly Taylor, was born on Shaver's Fork in 1833, and was married in 1859 to Lucinda, daughter of Nimrod Taylor. Children, Sheffey, William Haymond and Emma Harriet. He owned 375 acres on Shaver's Fork, but in 1893 he moved to Kerens, although he still works his farm.
WASHINGTON COYNER TAYLOR, born 1838, died 1896, son of Nimrod and Margaret Taylor; was married in Pendleton 1861 to Jane, daughter of Elijah Nelson. Children, Elam E., Samuel Lee, Nimrod, Lizzie, French, Alice, Delphia, Maud, Ella; farmer. Nimrod Taylor was born 1815, son of Isaac Taylor, who was born in Kentucky, 1781, and married Elizabeth Hays on the South Branch about 1803.
ELAM ELIJAH TAYLOR, born 1862, son of Washington C. Taylor; mar- ried 1885 on Shaver's Fork to Lydia Ann, daughter of Levi and Mary (Can- field) Coberly. Child, Marvin Lucius; elected Constable in Leadsville Dis- trict in 1892 and in 1896; farmer, owns 160 acres, 50 improved.
SHEFFEY TAYLOR, son of Felix and Lucinda Taylor; was born on Shaver's Fork in 1860, and when twenty-three years of age he married Nanny Ellen, daughter of Job W. and Martha Daniels. Children, Earlie O'Ferrell, Della Wesley, Odbert Haymond, May Jackson, Opal Mamie and Marian Frances. He is a merchant at Kerens, but formerly was a teacher and one of the assessors of Randolph. He has a farm of 134 acres, 80 cleared, and is a member of I. O. O. F.
BLAIN WARD TAYLOR, born near Elkins, December 15, 1859, son of Andrew and Louise Dyre Taylor; English ancestry. On February 13, 1889, at Lexington, Va., he married May, daughter of Colonel Alfred H. and Mary Blair (Paxton) Jackson, of Weston, W. Va. Children, Mary Louise, Elizabeth Jackson, Beatrice Washington May. Alfred H. Jackson was a major on Stonewall Jackson's staff, and was colonel of the Thirty-first Virginia Regiment and was killed at the battle of Slaughter Mountain. The subject of this sketch received his early education in the public and private schools of his native county, and commenced teaching in the public schools when fourteen years old. He graduated at the Fairmont State Normal School, one of the leading educational institutions of West Virginia, and he was afterwards employed as a teacher in that school. He served during
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two sessions as a committee clerk in the West Virginia Legislature; in 1882 was appointed to revalue the lands of Randolph. He was twice elected su- perintendent of the schools of Randolph; was chief clerk of the State De- partment of West Virginia during Governor Fleming's administration; spent two years in the railway mail service. In January, 1894, he was ap- pointed chief clerk of the Dead Letter Office at Washington; and in Sep- tember, 1895, was promoted to the position of Superintendent of the Divi- sion of Post Office Supplies; in January, 1897, he was promoted to the office of Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department, which position he now holds. During his residence in Washington he has taken the Degree of L. L. B. and L. L. M., at Columbia University .* He has successfully passed bar examination in the District of Columbia and has been admitted to prac- tice in all the courts of that jurisdiction, and in the circuit court of Raul- dolph County, and in the supreme court of the State.
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