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(III) Edwin Earl, son of Isaiah S. and Mary ( McDaniel) Williams, was born on his father's farm in Gallia county, Ohio, July 28, 1869. He attended the local schools ; then went to Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, where he attended the National Normal University, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1889. The following year he began the practice of law at Huntington, West Virginia. For one year he was a member of the partnership of Hecox & Williams, after which he prac- ticed alone for three years. In 1894, he went into partnership with Paul W. Scott; January 1, 1897, H. T. Lovett was added to the firm, which then took the name of Williams, Scott & Lovett. Mr. Williams is a stockholder, director and secretary of the Buffalo Land and Coal Con- pany ; a director of the Home Building and Savings Company, of Hunt- ington, and of several other companies. For two terms, eight years in 8
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all, he was prosecuting attorney of Cabell county. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; and a Republican in politics.
He married, in Covington, Kentucky, June 19, 1907. Nellie, daughter of Z. T. and Rebecca ( Smith) Wellington, born at Huntington. Her parents are living, her father being now postmaster at Guyandotte, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Williams have no children.
BRONSON This name is said to have existed in England from Norman times, but apparently is of infrequent occur- rence. Unless perhaps in Connecticut, it can hardly be called a common name in any part of the United States, so far as known to us. Yet the name Brunson, presumably a variant form of the same family name, existed in South Carolina before the revolutionary war. In the census of 1790 it was found in Clarendon, Claremont, and Edge- field counties and Cheraw district, South Carolina.
( I) John L. F. Bronson, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, was born in South Carolina, died at the age of fifty-eight years. Before the civil war he was a slaveholder. He fought in the Confederate army, and was with Lee at the surrender at Appomattox. He thereafter lived at Catlettsburg, Boyd county. Ken- tucky, and had there a good farm. He married Louisa Salyer, who was born at Thoms Creek, Johnson county, Kentucky, in 1852, and now lives at Williamson, West Virginia. Children: Charles Howe, of whom further : Carrie, married Gov. H. D. Hatfield ; William M., now owns a furniture store at Williamson : Wade Hampton, member of the firm of Stokes & Bronson, at Williamson.
( II ) Charles Howe, son of John L. F. and Louisa ( Salyer ) Bron- son, was born in Pike county, Kentucky, near Williamson, November 7. 1872. He attended the common schools. For a while he worked for the Norfolk & Western railroad. January 1, 1909, he came to Hunting- ton, Cabell county, West Virginia, and established the Greater Hunting- ton Realty Company, of which he is president. He is also a director in the Kenova and Huntington Land Company. He is a Democrat, and has twice been elected clerk of the circuit court of Mingo county, West Virginia. He was the first person elected to that position and, at the expiration of his term of six years, was re-elected for a like term, with- out opposition, thus holding the office from 1897 to 1908. He is a direc- tor in the Mount Hope Hospital at Huntington. Mr. Bronson is a mem- ber of the Masonic order and affiliates with Huntington Lodge, No. 53. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Wayne Chapter, No. 18; Hunting- ton Commandery, No. 9: Lodge of Perfection, No. 4. Scottish Rite; and Benni-Kedam Temple. Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Bronson married, at Guyandotte, West Virginia, in 1901, Lillian. daughter of John Edwin and Anna Robertson, born in Logan county, West Virginia. Her father, who died in 1901, was in the mercantile business in Logan county, a member of the firm of Nighbert & Robert- son. Her mother in now living at Maple Heights, in Huntington. Chil- dren, all living : Anna Myree, born in 1901 : Charles, 1903; Lillian, 1906; John Edwin, an infant.
Peter Heffley, the first member of this family about
HEFFLEY whom we have definite information, came from Berks county, Pennsylvania, and settled at Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Among his children was George, of whom further.
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(II) George, son of Peter Heffley, was born at Berlin, Pennsylvania, about 1804, died in 1886. He lived at Berlin, and was a blacksmith. He married Julia A., daughter of Henry Poorbaugh. Their children were: Peter born November 15, 1833, married, in 1856, Rebecca Walker ; Henry, of whom further ; and eight others.
(III) Henry, son of George and Julia A. ( Poorbaugh ) Heffley, was born at Berlin, Pennsylvania, June 25. 1841. He is now living at Somer- set, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, retired. During the civil war he was busy running a wagon train on the plains of Nebraska and westward. For over thirty years afterward he was a clothing merchant at Somerset. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Roberts, born at Somerset, No- vember 7, 1851. Her father, a Pennsylvanian by birth, lived for most of his life at Somerset ; he was a carriage maker, and also served as a collector of internal revenue. Children: 1. George Roberts, of whoni further. 2. Susan J., married A. W. Kinzer, and lives at Jenkins, Ken- tucky ; her husband is auditor for the Consolidation Coal Company. 3. Caroline Uhl, living at home. 4. Margaret, died in 1886, in infancy. 5. Grace G., living at home.
(IV) George Roberts, son of Henry and Elizabeth ( Roberts) Hef- fley, was born at Somerset, Pennsylvania, December 3. 1878. He attended the local schools, and then went to the Ohio Wesleyan University. Dela- ware, Delaware county. Ohio, graduating in the class of 1902, with the degree of Bachelor of Law. He took the course in law at the Univer- sity of West Virginia, at Morgantown, and received therefrom the de- gree of LL.B. He is a member of the college fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, and the law fraternity, Delta Chi, at Morgantown. In 1905 he came to Huntington and entered into the practice of law. His office is at the Walton Building on Ninth street. The practice of law is his main and life work : but he has stock in the West Virginia Rail Mill, and the J. M. Park Drug Company at 322 Ninth street. Huntington. At the present time, he is secretary of the Retail Business Men's Association of Hunt- ington. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce at Huntington, and of the Westmoreland Country Club of Cabell county. Fraternally he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In poli- tics he is a Progressive Republican ; in religion, a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church.
He married, June 6, 1911, Sadie, daughter of Dr. C. R. and Mary (Bloss) Enslow, of Huntington.
SIMMS Henry Simms is one of the most noted of the younger ele- ment at the bar of Huntington. He is also one of the busi- est and most prosperous; being now, at the early age of twenty-seven years, a leading man. He comes of excellent old Virginia stock. His paternal grandfather. Robert Marshall Simms, was of Eng- lish lineage, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1813, died at Scary, West Virginia, in 1891. He was an extensive farmer and planter, and in the good old days, an owner of slaves, but he gave them all their free- dom when the civil war came on.
(II) Henry Clay, son of Robert Marshall Simms, was born June 10. 1846, in Kanawha county, Virginia. He was a distinguished lawyer and public man and took a prominent part in many affairs of the civil war time, and after, until he died, December 6. 1906. He was hardly more than a boy when the civil war came on. Youth as he was however, he served in the ranks of the south. and after the fighting was over was prominent in Camp Garnett, Confederate Veterans. His activity involved him, in 1865. in an unpleasant adventure. That year, while at
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Fairmont, on his way from Charleston, this state, to Morgantown, he was arrested. The charge was most serious: that he was nothing less than an accomplice of Booth in the killing of Lincoln! Fortunately for him he was easily able to disprove it. Henry Clay Simms was a graduate of Harvard Law school and a very successful practitioner. He settled in Huntington, as long ago as 1873. He filled the office of city attorney of Huntington for one term, with credit. He was a Democrat, and high in the party councils. In 1880 he was a delegate from West Virginia to the National Nominating Convention of that party, which was held at Cincinnati.
He married Catherine Lyons, of Pittsburgh, born in 1860. Her father, William A. Lyons, was a native of New York. He was the son of William Lyons, a native of the north of Ireland, of whom, however, the family tradition is rather dim. William A. Lyons migrated from his native state to Pennsylvania, and embarked in business at Allegheny, now part of Pittsburgh, many years ago. He died there at the age of sixty-two years. Mrs. Simms lives here on the old home place of the family in Huntington. They had three children: Henry, of whom further ; Mary, now Mrs. George W. Keller, of Huntington; and Robert Marshall, who is a student at Marshall College, Huntington.
(III) Henry, son of Henry Clay Simms, was born in Huntington, May 7, 1885. His early education was obtained in private schools and by private tutors. In his later youth, he attended Marshall College, tak- ing there an academic course, and graduating in 1901, at sixteen years of age. From there he went to the University of West Virginia, at Mor- gantown ; here he remained four years, and in June, 1905, received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and the same fall was admitted to the Cabell county bar, at the early age of twenty years. He was at that time the youngest lawyer in the state. He began his professional career with his father's firm, Simms & Enslow, and the following year, 1906, upon the death of his father, formed a partnership with F. B. Enslow as Simms & Enslow. This partnership continued until 1907, when he joined in a partnership with Frank Enslow, Jr., and Lewis A. Staker. This partnership still continues and is one of the most flourishing legal firms in this part of the country.
Mr. Simms is a Democrat, and on November 15, 1912, was elected prosecuting attorney of Cabell county, West Virginia, on the Democratic ticket. His business interests embrace stock in the Huntington National Bank, and the Huntington Land Company ; also in the Guyon Oil Com- pany, of which he is a director ; in the Elizabeth Oil & Gas Company; and the Strain Lock Automatic Injector Company. He is exalted ruler of Huntington Lodge, No. 313, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and is of the Episcopalian faith.
WILSON This family came originally from Surry county, Virginia. where William Wilson, a farmer, was born. He died while yet a young man.
(II) Joseph J., son of William Wilson, was born in Surry county, died in 1903, at the age of fifty-five years. He was a cadet at the Vir- ginia Military Institute, and fought on the Confederate side in the battle which occurred at Newmarket, during the war between the states, when the Union forces marched upon the place. He was a farmer all his life as his father had been before him. He married Lucy Adams, now living at Smithfield, at the age of fifty-six years. She is descended from slave- holding ancestry on both sides of the family, being the daughter of John Adams, of Smithfield, Virginia, a boatman, peanut merchant and slave-
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holder in his native state, who died in 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had three children : 1. John A., died July 16, 1903, at the age of thirty years. 2. Blair Pegram, of whom further. 3. William Ricks, now thirty-four years old, manager of the Glenwood Inn, a hotel in Kenova, West Vir- ginia.
(III) Blair Pegram, son of Joseph J. and Lucy (Adams) Wilson, was born at Smithfield, Virginia, February 16, 1875. He was educated primarily at the local public schools, finishing at private schools in Rich- mond. He then entered the real estate business in Newport News, Vir- ginia, remaining from 1898 to 1903. He came to Huntington in the lat- ter year and established the present real estate firm of the Blair P. Wil- son Company. The firm has prospered greatly, and Mr. Wilson has be- come known as one of the most progressive young business men of this city. Among the firm's enterprises are the Dupont Place Improvement Company, Westmoreland Land Company, Suburban Land Company, Riv- erview Land Company, Kenova-Huntington Land Company, and Boule- vard Improvement Company. Mr. Wilson is a Democrat, and a member of the Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Huntington chamber of commerce. He is also a communicant of the Episcopal church.
On June 4, 1898, he married, in Richmond, Virginia, Mallory Flor- ence Shield, a native of Hampton, Virginia. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Mallory Shield, died during her infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have no children. Mr. Wilson is regarded as one of our rising citizens, and is popular and highly esteemed : he is a golf player and an enthusiastic au- tomobilist.
This family is of Virginia ancestry, James P. Tate having
TATE been born in Louisa county, that state, seventy years ago, and has been deceased for the last five years. He was by trade a tanner. During the war between the states he furnished shoes to the soldiers of the Confederate army. He became a railroad man after the war, and from 1872 to 1905 was connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. He married Lavinia S. Wash, now living in Huntington at the age of sixty-five years, daughter of William J. Wash, who was born on the old Wash homestead in Virginia, where he died during the war at the age of sixty years. Mr. and Mrs. James P. Tate had four children : I. Lee A. D., of whom further. 2. Cora P., unmarried, and residing with her mother. 3. Ernest, died at the age of twenty years. 4. Enos, twin of Ernest, died in infancy.
(II) Lee A. D., son of James P. and Lavinia S. (Wash) Tate, was born June 13. 1867, at Beaverdam Station, Hanover county, Virginia. At the age of six years he removed with his parents to Charleston, West Virginia, where his earliest education was received, and completing it at Shelton College, St. Albans, West Virginia. He came to Huntington on the 19th of February, 1884. entering the office of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad shops in a clerical capacity, and remaining for two years in that position. He then went on the railroad as fireman and engineer, running one of the company's engines for five years. Leaving the employ of the railroad company, he became a salesman with Northcott & Buffing- ton in 1890, continuing with them in this capacity until January. 1903, when he became a partner in the firm. Upon the withdrawal of Mr. Buf- fington from the partnership, the style of the firm became G. A. North- cott & Company : becoming known later, February 19, 1910, as the North- cott. Tate, Hagy Company. Under this name it is at present the leading firm in this line, having the largest store in West Virginia. Mr. Tate is well known as one of the most prominent citizens of this place. Though a
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member of the Democratic party he is independent in his views, voting always for the best man. He is a member of the Johnson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South.
On November 22, 1803, he married, at Paintsville, Kentucky, Lina V. Preston, born there on March 4. 1860. She is the daughter of John D. Preston, a soldier in the Union army during the war. He was engaged for a long while in the timber business, but is now living retired at Paintsville. He married Sarah Brown, the mother of Mrs. Tate, who is also resident in Paintsville. Mr. and Mrs. Tate have one child: Mamie Ruth, born October 16, 1895: now attending high school in this city.
NEWBERRY This is one of the oldest families in this locality, tracing its ancestry in Virginia to Henry Newberry, who lived and died in that state. There is a refer- ence in the old Rappahannock county records as to the disposition between the years 1664 and 1673, of certain "lands bought of Mr. Henry Newberry", he probably being one of the progenitors. The Henry New- berry first referred to was the father of Tivis W. Newberry, who was born in Virginia in 1824. He was a prominent politician in that state, a lawyer, and a merchant ; and was a member of the state senate, beside holding minor positions. He is now living in retirement, at the age of eighty-eight years, in Inez, Martin county, Kentucky, where he has been a member of the county school commission. During the civil war he was a southern sympathizer, having been previously a slave holder ; and supplied quantities of provisions to the soldiers of the south. His wife, who was Miss Lucy Powers, is also living at the age of eighty-three years. She is daughter of John W. Powers who lived to the age of ninety years, and died in Wise county, Virginia; he was a farmer, and was a Union sympathizer. though too old at the time of the war to take active part in hostilities or render military service. Mr. and Mrs. New- berry became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now living : I. Mary, now Mrs. Allen Copley, of Inez, Kentucky. 2. Emma, now Mrs. Philip Cassady, of Inez, Kentucky. 3. Jennie, now Mrs. H. C. Osborn, of Milton, West Virginia. 4. S. W., of Inez, Kentucky. 5. Josie, now Mrs. Thomas Staton, of Pikesville, Kentucky. 6. Jeff. of whom further. 7. J. C., of Inez, Kentucky.
( III) Jeff, son of Tivis W. and Lucy ( Powers) Newberry, was born May 2, 1861, in Wise county, Virginia, on his father's farm at the old Newberry homestead. His parents removed, when he was in his infancy, to Martin county, Kentucky, and there his early childhood and youth were passed. His education was received at the county schools, and at the conclusion of his studies he entered mercantile business on his own account at Inez, opening a general store. He continued this for about fourteen years, and in 1895, came to Huntington, West Virginia, where he established a wholesale hat business under the firm name of Jeff Newberry and Company. This lasted for two years, when he removed to Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and under the name of Newberry and Crum, opened a wholesale grocery business; which in 1901 he abandoned, returning to Huntington and establishing the Newberry Shoe Company, a wholesale manufacturing enterprise ; he was the first man to manufac- ture a welt shoe in West Virginia. In the year 1910, Mr. Newberry sold out his interest in the company ; and in the following year established the present firm. The Jeff Newberry Company, wholesale dealers in shoes, located at 1025 Third Avenue, this city. The business has prospered and Mr. Newberry has become one of the most prominent citizens of Huntington. He is a stockholder and director in the Union Savings
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Bank, and owns extensive coal lands and real estate in Kentucky, being well known as a Mason and a member of the order of Elks. He is also a member of the Southern Methodist Church, and in his political opinions is a Democrat.
Mr. Newberry has been twice married ; his first marriage was to Miss Lina Price, who died about seven years ago. By her he had four chil- dren, as follows : 1. Dixie May, now Mrs. J. D. McClintock, of Salt Lake City, Utah. 2. Myrtle, now Mrs. Carl Hess, of Huntington. 3. Horner, died at Catlettsburg, Kentucky. 4. L. Frazier, now attending school in Huntington. Mr. Newberry's second marriage occurred on November 19. 1908, to Miss Lottie Lallance, in Huntington : she is a native of this place, the daughter of J. B. and Charlotte Lallance. Mr. Lallance, who is a building contractor in Huntington, is now sixty-five years of age : his wife residing here also at the age of sixty-two. Mr. Newberry has no children by his second marriage.
MAUPIN The earliest known ancestor of this old family, which is of Huguenot descent, was Gabriel Maupin, a French officer, who incurred the king's displeasure on account of his re- ligious belief, and fled from France to England in 1699, with his wife and one son, Gabriel, taking refuge with his father-in-law, Earl Spencer, an English nobleman. He remained in England for some months, during which time a second son, Daniel, was born in 1700. The family emi- grated to Virginia in this same year, 1700, and settled in Williamsburg. There was also a daughter. Mary, but it is not known when she was born nor what became of her. It appears that Gabriel Maupin died in 1719 of 1720, in Virginia, as his will, dated September 2, 1719, with a codicil, was proven in general court at the capital, April 20, 1720. His wife, Mary, was executrix : how long she survived her husband is not known. The two sons, Gabriel and Daniel, removed to Albemarle county, some time previous to the middle of the eighteenth century. Gabriel seems to have lived in the vicinity of Free Union, dying in the year 1794. His wife's name was Marah, and his sons were Thomas, Bland, Daniel and Gabriel. Descendants of this branch of the family are now living in Virginia. Dr. Maupin, of Portsmouth, possesses a complete list of the great grandchil- dren of Gabriel Maupin, and the family tree of the elder branch of the family down to within the last generation.
(II) Daniel, younger son of Gabriel Maupin, born in 1700, remained in Albemarle county until his death in 1788. In 1748 he obtained a patent for land on Moorman's river, and entered more than fifteen hun- dred acres in the Whitehall neighborhood. His wife was Margaret Via, and they had ten children, seven sons and three daughters, as follows: I. Thomas, of whom little is known. 2. Gabriel, married Ann Ballard. Children : Daniel : Thomas: David: Matthew : Gabriel : John : Bland ; Judith : Susan : Peggy : Ann: Fanny : Joel. 3. Daniel, married Mary Elizabeth (or Betsy ) Dabney, the name being originally d'Aubigné. Chil- dren : Daniel ; Cornelius : John : Sally : Mary : Frances ; Betsy ; Peggy. 4. John, married Fanny Dabney (or d'Aubigne). Children : Peggy ; Sally ; Daniel: John: Cornelius : Thomas, married Peggy Maupin ; William ; Gabriel ; Robert : Jennings; Frances: Carr: Dabney. 5. Margaret (or Peggy), married Robert Miller and had children, one of whom, Sarah. married Jennings Maupin, son of John. 6. William, of whom further. 7. Zachariah. married Sally Jarvinan (or Jarman ?). Children : Daniel ; Thomas: Zachariah: William: Ambrose; Jesse: Frances: Catherine : Elizabeth; Alpha. 8. Jesse, married Lucy Jones. Children : Cyrus, and abont ten others. The family moved south, perhaps to Georgia, towards
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the close of the eighteenth century and were lost to sight. 9. Jane, mar- ried Samuel Rea, and had children. 10. Mary, married Matthew Mul- lin (or Mullins), and had children.
(III) William, son of Daniel and Margaret (Via) Maupin, married Mildred White. Their children were: 1. John, married (first) Mary Michie, (second) Nancy Cobbs. 2. William Chapman, married Magda- len Ford. 3. Thomas, married ( first) Catherine White, (second) Mary Clackson. 4. Amos, married Sarah Ayers. 5. Chapman White, married Mary Spencer. He was appointed a magistrate of Albemarle county in 1835, and died in 1861. Children : a. Isabella White, married Tandy Key Jones. b. Dr. Socrates, married Sally Hay Washington : was professor of chemistry, first in Hampton Sidney College, and afterwards in the Uni- versity of Virginia ; died from injuries in consequence of a runaway acci- dent in Lynchburg, in 1871. c. Lysander, no record of marriage. d. Addison, married Lucy Hart ; had his residence before the war on Carr's Hill, adjoining the University ; his son, J. Addison Maupin, of Richmond, Virginia, was author of the Maupin bill, of recent notoriety. e. William Amos, married Jane Smith. f. Mary Chapman, married Lodwick A. Moorman. g. Mildred Ann, married Thomas P. Mitchell. 6. Mildred, married Chapman White. 7. Peggy, married Thomas, son of her uncle John Maupin. 8. Lucy, married David Keblinger. 9. Lucinda. 10. Nancy. 11. Overton. There is no record of marriage for these last three.
The descendants of Gabriel and Daniel Maupin seem to have been in their generations an industrious, quiet, unambitious people, though in several instances the name has been prominently represented by various branches. The names of Daniel, William and Cornelius Maupin appear on the pension list of revolutionary war soldiers, they being in all proba- bility brothers and sons of John, the son of Daniel. In the list of fifty- six names of the Albemarle county militia, in actual service for the pro- tection and defense of the frontier against Indians, September, 1758, there appear the names of Daniel, John and William Maupin; and in the Albemarle County Declaration of Independence, in 1779, are given the names of Samuel Rea and Henry Mullins, who married daughters of Daniel Manpin, the immigrant. The members of the family have usually been attached to the Methodist church, a Daniel Maupin having been an original trustee of Austin's or Bingham's meeting-house; and another Daniel and his wife, Hannah, in 1834, giving the ground for Mount Moriah, near Whitehall, which indeed for many years, commonly went by the name of Maupin's meeting-house. This Daniel seems to have been the third son of John, as shown above : his third wife was Hannah Harris, born Jamison. The families of the old stock were generally so numerous, containing hardly ever less than ten children, and the same names were so often repeated in the different households, that it is nearly impossible at this date to trace accurately their various lines of descent ; they frequently intermarried among themselves, and with the Harrises, Jarmans (or Jarvinans) and Vias, and the descendants are widely scattered over the west, particularly in Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia.
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