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CLARK CUTRIGHT, son of Jacob Cutright, son of John Cutright, Sr., born March 17. 1827. his mother was Elizabeth Westfall, daughter of Zachariah Westfall and Hannah Wolf. He was raised on a farm and farmed until the Civil War broke out, when he enlisted in Company I., 3d West Virginia Cavalry, under Captain G. A. Sexton. His disabilities now entitle him to a pension of twelve dollars a month. His wife's maiden name was Susan Norvell, daughter of Seneca Norvall of Albermarle County, Va., and their children were: Mary, Agnes, Charles V., Benj. T., S. N., William and J. B. He now owns a farm near Overhill where he lives, is a Baptist in religion and a Republican in politics.
CORNELIUS CUTRIGHT, born October 4, 1823, on the waters of Stone Coal, Lewis County. Raised on a farm and is a farmer. In 1858 he moved to Ten Mile, Upshur County, where he has since resided.
Married Jemima Cutright, daughter of John Cutright, Jr., and granddaughter of John Cutright, Sr., in 1843. His mother's name was Johanna Cutright.
Children : Martha Ellen, wife of Hiram Dean; Clarissa, wife of William Nichols ; Malinda, wife of Henry Zickefoose; Anna, wife of Henry Nichols ; Peter, married Malinda Bean ; Ervin G., married Mosella Phillips; Frederick, married Mary E. Van Camp.
CLAUDE B. CUTRIGHT, born August 4, 1872, son of Granville S. Cut- right and Elizabeth Hinkle, the daughter of Abram Hinkle, who was the son of Jonas Hinkle, of Randolph County.
Was educated in the common schools and the Buckhannon High School. In 1896, he married Mary E. Lewis, daughter of H. H. Lewis of Randolph County and they have two children, Ruth, born June 24. 1897; Claude B., Jr., born September 1I, 1900.
The subject of this sketch, at the age of nineteen, after his graduation from the high school entered the mercantile business at Newlon, as clerk for C. I. Farnsworth. He was a merchant at Pickens for several years and at West Union,
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Doddridge County, for one year. He quit the store business and opened a fire insurance office in Clarksburg, which business he followed until 1905, when he sold out his agencies and went into the lumber business. He lives at Clarksburg,
DAYTON CUTRIGHT, son of Amos Cutright, grandson of George Cut- right, great grandson of Jacob and the great, great grandson of John, is a native of Upshur County, was raised on the waters of Glady Fork of Stone Coal. Educated in the common schools. Is a farmer and stone mason; follows the former business almost exclusively now. Owns a farm of 60 acres.
He married Mollie Hinkle, a daughter of Andrew Hinkle and Clarissa Cutright.
A Republican in politics.
DANIEL CUTRIGHT, of Hinkleville, son of George and Susanna (Pringle) Cutright and grandson of Jacob and Elizabeth (Westfall) Cutright and great grandson of John Cutright. His mother was the daughter of William Pringle, the son of Samuel Pringle. His grandmother was the daughter of Zachariah Westfall.
The date of his birth is fixed as February 26, 1844, from birth until 1862, he lived with his parents, at that time enlisted in the Upshur Battery, was wounded in the battle at Buckhannon, but not so seriously that he was disabled from retreat. His course of retreat was across the valley near where the Academy now stands to the bend of the riven, where W. F. Viehmier's planing mill now stands, where he threw down his gun and other arms, swam the river and made his escape.
Before his wounds thoroughly healed he went with his company to Clarks- burg, thence to Wheeling, where he was made gunner of the 5th piece of artillery and served as such during most of the war. His company was under General Kelley most of the time in the Valley of Virginia. He was mustered out June 28, 1865.
On December 21, 1865, he married Delila J. Boyles, daughter of Michael Boyles of Johnstown, Harrison County, and to them were born seven children : Idella, Annie B., Opha D., Hester E., Dorothy D., Gertrude and John M.
October 1, 1881, his wife died and on the 13th day of March, 1884, he mar- ried Mariah E. Neeley, a daughter of David Neeley and their children were eight : Isaac D., Laura L., Wesley A., Edna, Daniel N., Ireta P., Verta M., and Mary M.
The subject of this sketch has been a farmer all his life, has held several offices of trust, was Justice of the Peace eighteen years, a member of the County Court and Notary Public. Member of the U. B. Church for forty years, and is a Republican in politics.
DARIUS H. CUTRIGHT, a farmer and coal broker, was born in the village of Hinkleville, September 14, 1870, the son of Granville S. Cutright and Elizabeth H. Hinkle, the daughter of Abraham Hinkle, the son of Jonas, the son of Hans Lenert Hinkle, one of three brothers who emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1749. Was raised on a farm, is a lover of good horses and always keeps them. He married Lucy P. Reger, the daughter of N. B. Reger and Bettie Cockerill. His wife's grandparents were Riley Reger, who married a Miss Jackson and John T. Cockerill, who married a
The subject of this sketch lives one mile north of Buckhannon, and operates a coal bank in connection with his farm.
Children : Beatrice, Paul, Helen and Granville, Jr.
DR. D. M. CUTRIGHT of Hinkleville, was born October 14, 1866, son of Asby P. Cutright and Minerva Cutright, the daughter of Abraham Cutright, the
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son of John Cutright. His father was the son of Enoch, who was the son of Abram Cutright and Susan Bush. He was educated in the Public School near < his home, took normal courses at the French Creek Academy and the Normal and Classical Academy of Upshur County, followed teaching for several years and resigned that profession to prepare himself for the practice of medicine, he took his medical course in the Cincinnati Electric Institute and passed the State ex- amination triumphantly.
For six months he practiced at Romines Mills, for several years at Lorentz, five years in Doddridge County and then returned to the scenes of his childhood to continue his profession.
He was married to Hattie E. Broooks, daughter of Adolphus and Josephine Brooks on September 20, 1892, and their children are: Reginald Clifford, born June 20, 1893, Paul Russell, born April 18, 1897, and Marjorie Minerva, born March 13, 1900.
GEORGE M. CUTRIGHT, son of William Cutright and the grandson of John Cutright, Jr. Born in 1870. Married Prudy Smith, daughter of Charles E. Smith, the son of Marshall and Virginia (Cutright) Smith. Children : French, Iva, and Clarence.
He is a farmer by occupation and a Republican in politics.
GIDEON M. CUTRIGHT, son of George and Susanna Pringle Cutright, the grandson of Jacob Cutright and the great grandson of John Cutright, a recruit- ing and scouting officer during the Revolutionary War. Was born July 25, 1845. Was raised on a farm, educated in the public schools, enlisted August 15, 1862, in Battery E, Ist West Virginia Light Artillery and served during the war, with his company and regiment was discharged June 28, 1865 at Wheeling.
December 9, 1869, he married Rebecca J. Loudin, the daughter of David C. Loudin and Mary Green and the granddaughter of Thomas Loudin of Harrison County. After his marriage he settled down on a farm in Upshur County, where he remained for several years before moving to near Helvetia in Randolph County, where he has since been engaged in the occupation of farming.
His children are: Emma E., Simon R., Norman, Osman B., Harmon N., Clarence W., David L., Leslie and Hulda M.
GOLDEN CUTRIGHT, a teacher. Born October 3. 1889, in Meade District on the waters of Grand Camp. The son of Leonard Lorenzo Dow Cutright and Nancy Cutright, the daughter of Salathiel Cutright and Bridget Wolfe.
He is the grandson of Asel Cutright and Mahala Cutright. Asel Cutright was a son of Abraham and Susan (Bush) Cutright, and Abraham was a son of John Cutright and Deborah Osborne.
Salathiel Cutright was a son of Isaac and Cassie Ann Cutright and Isaac was a son of John Cutright and Rebecca Truby.
The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, educated in the public schools and is now teaching in Randolph County.
HENRY B. CUTRIGHT, born July 27, 1865, the son of Christopher O. Cut- right and Barbara Ann Crites, the grandson of Christopher Cutright and Sinai Pringle, who was the son of John Cutright. The subject of this sketch spent six years in Dakota and Washington Territories in the lumber business and returned in 1892, to enter the barber business in the town of Buckhannon. In 1904, on account of bad health he moved on a farm in Maryland and lived there till the fall of 1906, when he returned to Buckhannon and became the proprietor of the Palace Barber Shop.
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He married Rosa Miles, the daughter of Benjamin F. Miles, who married a Miss Hall.
HUGH ALVIS CUTRIGHT, born December 20, 1870, near Gould, parents Clayton P. Cutright and Francis L. Alvis. His mothers people came from Alber- marle County Virginia, in the fifties. H. A. Cutright is a teacher, having been educated in the common school and the Normal and Classical Academy at Buck- hannon. On August 17, 1890, he married Cora Perry, daughter of John and Lucebia Perry.
Children : Fannie Lucebia, born August 12, 1891 ; Lola Zonia, born January 21, 1893 ; John B., born July 4, 1899; Preston Virgil, born October 8, 1903.
ISHMAEL CUTRIGHT, farmer, Yukon, Okla. Was born October 30, 1847 on Cutright's. Run, son of Nathan Cutright and Susan Hinkle, was raised on a farm, educated in the schools near his home and at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the Northern army, where he 'served for three years. Upon returning home, he entered upon a business life and married for his first wife, Mary Hinkle, the daughter of Abraham Hinkle and Mary Ann Anderson, and their living children are Ida B., born 1869, now the wife of John H. Allen; Ord G. Cutright, born June, 1872, who married Mattie E. Johnson of Texas, and Mollie Cutright, born in 1879, the wife of R. E. Race. These three children and their families live in Oklahoma and Texas.
Ishmael Cutright was a farmer and merchant at Hinklesville for many years before his removal to Kansas in 1882, he left Kansas in 1889 and went to Okla- homa Territory, settling near where he now lives. His second wife was Eliza F. Phillips, the daughter of John P. Phillips, and their marriage occurred February 5, 1880. Living child, Nellie, born 1882, the wife of John T. Clayton. Mr. Cutright is engaged in farming and live stock on the North Fork of the Canadian River.
ISHMAEL GUY CUTRIGHT, born January 17, 1871 at Hinklesville. The son of G. S. Cutright and Elizabeth Hinkle. He was raised on a farm, educated in the public schools of the County and the Buckhannon High School, from whence he went into the mercantile business at Newlon as clerk for C. I. Farns- worth; at Pickens and Cairo for himself. He was one of the original promoters of the reorganization of the West Virginia Western Telephone Company, whose principal office is at Parkersburg. He has been in the lumber business and the in- strance business for the past ten years.
He married Mary Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Edward Brown and Sara Godfrey of Lancaster Coun'y, England. Mr. Brown emigrated from England in 1871, locating at Titusville, Pa., and became a producer of petroleum. He is a petroleum producer at Cairo, West Virginia.
JEMIMA CUTRIGHT, daughter of Nathaniel and Naoma Cutright, born June 15. 1851. On her father's side she was the granddaughter of Isaac Cutright and Catherine Stump. She married Jasper N. Cutright in the year 1870. And to them were born three children, two daughters and one son: Luceba, first wife of Grant Pritt, Lillie May, wife of Jefferson Teets and Malon, who married Nola A. Smith.
JESSE CARL CUTRIGHT, born June 13, 1883, son of Lemuel R. Cut- right and Salina Brady, the daughter of William Brady; the grandson of Elmore Cutright, who is a son of Jacob Cutright, who is a son of John Cutright of Sycamore tree notority. He was raised on a farm and has completed a course of study prescribed for the public school. Since his graduation from the public school, he has farmed some, he has railroaded some and has worked in coal mines.
JACOB W. CUTRIGHT, son of George and Susanna ( Pringle) Cutright.
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grandson of Jacob and the great grandson of John, was born March 15, 1841 His first wife was Mary Simons, daughter of Christopher Simons. By this mar- riage there were eight children and in due time after the death of his first wife he married Louisa Crites, and their children number five: Charles M., Bertha, Flor- ence, Essie Frances, Hattie.
The subject of this sketch was a soldier in the Upshur Battery. During his service in the war he contracted diseases, which found permanent lodgment in his eyes, causing him in time to become almost, if not quite blind, and for this disability he is now drawing a pension. He is now a farmer of Buckhannon District, owning a tract of land on Cutright's Run. Is a Republican in politics.
KENNETH E. CUTRIGHT, born February II, 1861, son of Calvin L. and Amanda Cutright, the daughter of Nathaniel, son of Isaac, son of John and Deborah Osborne. His father was a son of Abram, whose wife's maiden name was Wetherholt.
He was raised a farmer and shoemaker and has followed these trades most of his life.
He married Helen Morgan, the daughter of Charles W. Morgan and Nellie Norman and the granddaughter of Captain David Morgan, and their children were Forrest, Harry and Vera.
Mrs. Cutright died October 12, 1898. The subject of this sketch married for his second wife, Addie Bryan, the daughter of William Bryan, and their children are Roy, Coy, Ruth and Ruhl.
Mr. Cutright is now engaged in the lumber business.
LYMAN CUTRIGHT, farmer, lawyer and politician. He is the eldest son of Granville H. Cutright and Elizabeth Jane (Beer) Cutright. He was born July 16, 1867. His father was the son of Abraham Cutright and Mary Ann ( Weather- holt) Cutright, and Abraham Cutright was the son of Isaac, who was the son of John and Deborah (Osborne) Cutright.
His mother was the daughter of John Beer and Mary ( Hetrick) Beer, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Upshur county in 1860.
His brothers are: Ralph E. Curtight, who is a successful physician of Rock Cave, this county; Frank, who is at present a teacher in the Clarksburg High School, and a graduate of both the Academy and Seminary in this county, and also the University of Nashville and the West Virginia University; Delos M., the youngest brother, resides near Clarksburg, and is a graduate book-keeper and accountant from the Mountain State Business College, and has for several years been superintendent of the coal company's office at Wilsonburg, W. Va.
The subject of this sketch taught several terms of school in Upshur and Randolph counties. Was merchant and postmaster at Helvetia, WV. Va., for a period of four years. Later he entered the law school of the West Virginia University, from which he graduated in 1901. Owing to the ill health of his father he spends most of his time on the home farm at Sago. He has always been an ardent Republican. and at present Chairman of the Upshur County Republican Executive Committee.
LINDSAY WAITMAN CUTRIGHT, born September 18, 1869, son of Jacob Ervin Cutright and Mary Ellen Cutright, married Alley Blanche Lane, oldest daughter of T. B. and Mary E. Lane, September 25. 1893. Two children, Page Dameron Cutright, born May 29, 1896; Oscar Brashear Cutright, born November 5, 1898.
MANLEY MCCLELLAN CUTRIGHT was born January 26, 1861, near Hinklesville, the son of Christopher Columbus Cutright and Rebecca A. (Crites)
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Cutright. His grandfather was Christopher T. Cutright; grandmother, Sinai (Pringle) Cutright.
McClellan Cutright left home at the early age of ten years, immediately after the death of his father. For the first four or five years he made his home with Perry Simpson Lorentz. When sixteen years of age, he secured a position with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and he worked for that company fifteen years at Lorentz, six years at Gaston and then at Buckhannon where he served the com- pany as chief clerk, assistant agent and agent, to which last position he was promoted in 1897 as successor of W. P. Fowkes. He resigned January 1, 1904, and at once, was made chief clerk in the West Virginia Central Gas Company, which position he still holds.
M. M. Cutright married Sarah Margaret Martin, second daughter of George W. and Rebecca M. Martin, January 25, 1899.
Mabel Rebecca Cutright, their only child was born December 2, 1899.
MAJOR A. CUTRIGHT is the youngest son of Dexter W. and Julia Ann( Kiddy) Cutright, owns a farm of fifty acres near Hampton on the Buck- hannon River, but is a carpenter by trade and practice. He is a natural machinist.
He married Minnie Rohrbough, daughter of Simon Rohrbough of Hinkles- ville and their children are several.
He is a Democrat in politics and a Methodist in religion.
PERRY C. CUTRIGHT, son of Clayton Cutright, grandson of Christopher Cutright, Jr., the great grandson of Christopher. Sr., who was the son of John Cutright. His mother was Parthena Smith and the date of his birth was February II, 1877. He is a lumberman and married Minnie Gillespie, child, Lucile.
PARLEY E. CUTRIGHT, agent of the Coal & Coke R. R. at Frenchton, Upshur county, W. Va., and the Adams Express Company. He is also ex-teacher and educator. Is the son of Alonzo and Catherine (Strader) Cutright, the grandson of Elmore Cutright, the great grandson of Jacob Cutright, who was the son of John Cutright. His mother was the daughter of John Strader. He was educated in the public schools of Roane and Upshur Counties and the Hinkles- ville Normal. Taught several years and went to Cincinnati to take a course in telegraphy. After completing his course he was employed for a time by the B. & O. R. R. After several months employment with this company, he concluded to go with the C. & C. and was assigned to Frenchton.
His wife was Maud, the daughter of Alva Neeley and the granddaughter of David Neeley. They have one daughter living and one dead.
ROSCOE C. CUTRIGHT of Czar, Randolph County, was born September 3, 1876, the son of Watson W. Cutright and Louvernia, his wife, and the grandson of George Cutright and Susanna Pringle.
He married Mary Catherine Loudin, December 4. 1898. She was born January 31, 1872, the daughter of John L. Loudin and Mary Depoy and the granddaughter of David C. Loudin and Mary Green. The subject of this sketch was raised to till the soil, which pursuit he still follows, being the owner of 49 acres, in Randolph County.
Children : Hezza, Cecil, Bulah, Cordelia, and Eva Cecilia. Three of these children died when quite young.
Mr. Cutright has worked many years in the lumber business, in and around his home.
DR. RALPH GREELEY CUTRIGHT, born 1870, October 2, near Sago, son of Granville H. Cutright and Elizabeth Jane Beer, the daughter of John Beer and a Miss Hetrick. His father was a soldier in the Civil War, belonged to
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Company E, West Virginia Infantry, under Captain P. J. Potts, and was later re-enlisted in the 10th Virginia Cavalry and went west to protect the border settle- ments from Indian invasion. The subject of this sketch got his elementary edu- cation in the schools and his special education for the practice of medicine was received at Lebanon Normal in Ohio and at the Kentucky University. In August, 1899, he located at Rock Cave for the practice of his profession and still lives there. Married Ella Rohrbough, daughter of Simon Rohrbough and Julia Ann Cutright and the granddaughter of Jacob Rohrbough and great grand- daughter of Anthony Rohrbough. To this union has been given one child, Ella Catherine, born September 21, 1906. His father was a son of Abraham Cutright and Mary Ann Pringle. The Doctor is a Republican in politics and a Methodist Protestant in religion.
SENECA NORVELL CUTRIGHT, a farmer of Union District, born July 13, 1869, near Tallmansville. His great grandfather was John Cutright, who settled here in 1770, and his grandfather was Jacob Cutright, who married Eliza- beth Westfall. He was raised on a farm, took some interest in education, such as could be acquired in the public schools and at the age of twenty began work for himself. He now lives near Overhill and owns fifty-four acres of land, has served as president of the board of education of Union District for twelve years, and will, on next July, start on another four years term. He has lumbered some, is a Baptist and a Republican. On Xmas day, 1891, he married Miss Ida Cloonan of Pocahontas County, and to this union have been born five children whose names are : Donas Pearl, born April 6, 1893 ; Leona Dove, born June 22. 1894 : Lela Dale born May 17, 1896: Otis Norvell, born January, 1901 ; Clyde, born August, 1903.
VERNON T. CUTRIGHT, a farmer of Meade District. His parents were John Cutright, Jr., and Christina Abbott, a daughter of John Abbott and Ruth Brady. His grandparents were Christopher T. Cutright, whose wife was Sinai Pringle. His father's first wife was Louisa Cutright, a daughter of Enoch Cutright.
He is one of four children. His other brothers being Lloyd, married Annie Johnson ; Lee and Bryson, both single.
Mr. Cutright has been married twice, the first wife being Letha Phillips, a daughter of Osborn Phillips, the son of David Phillips, and the second being Ethel Gay, daughter of John J. and Sarah Ann ( Aldrich) Gay of Pocahontas.
He is a Republican.
JOHN R. DAVIS, born February 12. 1857, and married Mary Dawson May 1872, and their children are Hester Bell, Floyd D., Daisy Lucretia and Ida May, now dead. Mr. Davis' second wife was Jemima S. Golden, whose former hus- band was George Beverage, and their child is George William Beverage.
The subject of this sketch is a son of Zebulon and Sara (Ronina) Davis and the grandson of Joshua and Hester (Randolph) Davis, who were natives of Har- rison County.
Zebulon Davis was a soldier in the Union army and was killed after the war in a railroad tunnel.
Mr. Davis' children by his second wife, who was the daughter of Moses Golden and Rebecca B. Rittenhouse, and the granddaughter of William and Mary E. (Nallie) Golden of Albermarle County, Va., are: Columbia Ray and Virgil Roy.
Mr. Davis owns a farm of 150 acres of land, of which one hundred acres are improved, and on which there are three fine orchards, good dwelling house and
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outbuildings. He belongs to the Cow Run U. B. Church, and is a Republican Prohibitionist in politics.
MATTHIAS FILLMORE DAVIS, policeman of Buckhannon, 1907-1908. Son of Lewis Davis and Harriet Dean, of Old Town, Md., grandson of Samuel Davis, a soldier of the war of 1812, who lived at Cherry Camp, W. Va. M. F. was born August 24, 1854. His father was wagon-master during the Civil War and frequently had to make his own repairs, so the son became a mechanic and has been a locomotive engineer for seventeen years, prior to his acceptance of his present position. Nine years of the seventeen years were spent on the Alexander and Rich Mountain R. R., five years on the Stockert and Painter Fork R. R., and two years running a log engine for various lumber companies.
He is of English descent, is a Republican, member of I. O. O. F. of No. 126, Mineral Lodge, Flintstone, Md., for the past thirty years.
He married Reta Smith, daughter of Walker Smith and Vina Haddox, daughter of Elza Haddox, soldier in Company M, 3d West Virginia Cavalry, and Sophronia Perry, the daughter of Elias Perry, who immigrated to Upshur county, early in the last century.
Their children are Annie B., Hazel L., and Leslie Ross.
THEODORE DARIUS DAVIS, farmer and lumberman, born in Ritchie County, near Berea, June 12, 1873, son of Theodore Freeland Hyson Davis and Mary E. Goodwin. Mr. Davis came to this county with his father, in 1882, and has been in business for himself for ten years. He married Lucy Jane Miller, daughter of David J. Miller, March 7, 1895, and to them were born Delphie Eliza- beth, February 19, 1896; Willie, Albert Jackson, Lloyd.
GEORGE W. DAWSON, native of Nelson County, Virginia, born March 29, 1844, son of Stephen Dawson and Dicie Wade, grandson of Hiram Dawson and Elizabeth Dobbs of Scotland and the great grandson of Josiah Dawson, who once owned the land on which the city of Glasgow now stands. Hiram first landed at Jamestown, Va., in 1814, after a sea voyage of six months and died in 1816, after which his wife and her son Stephen moved to Stafford County, Va., thence to Nelson County, thence to Albermarle County, where the mother died at one hundred and two years of age. Stephen was married at Mt. Ebb Baptist Church near Batesville, in 1856, when he brought his family to Upshur county. In 1861, when the war broke out between the states, George W., at the age of 16, volun- teered in the Upshur Grays, and served with this company till the close of the war. He was wounded at the Battle of Rich Mountain and McDowell and Antietam and again at the battle of Fredericksburg. When he recovered from the last wound, he took up arms again and was in the battle of the Wilderness and around Rich- mond until October 26, 1864, when he was retired from the regular army for six months on pay and detailed as provost guard near Danville, Va., and served as such until Lee's surrender.
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