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pany. This building, begun October 28, 1909, and completed by March, IgII, cost about three hundred thousand dollars. It was built of rein- forced concrete, every carload of which was specially tested, and the building is open on all four sides to daylight.
The Huntington Banking & Trust Company was incorporated Decem- ber 6, 1910, and after its stock had been put on sale, February 1, 1911, without solicitation, there was in two months an over-subscription of fifty thousand dollars. Its prosperity is shown by capital stock and aver- age deposits, each figuring at three hundred thousand. On May 22, 1911, its opening day, forty-five thousand dollars was deposited, and two weeks later a total of one hundred and fifty-one thousand was shown in the statement called for on June 7, 1911. Its officers are: B. W. Foster, president ; R. Switzer and F. C. Prichard, vice-presidents; and C. P. Snow, cashier ; and Mr. Prichard's father, Dr. Lewis Prichard, is asso- ciated with his son among the directors of the concern.
Mr. Prichard is a member of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, treasurer of the Foster-Mead Hardware Company, secretary and treas- urer of Loar-Berry & Company, wholesale grocers, and treasurer of the Hughes Ellis-Boyd Tobacco Warehouse Company of Huntington, West Virginia ; also secretary of the Deardorff-Sister Company, of Hunting- ton; secretary and treasurer of the Mercantile Land Company, which has valuable improved property on 9th street and 6th avenue, Huntington.
Frederick Charles Prichard is decidedly in favor of casting his ballot for the political candidate whose character is best suited to the office in question. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and the United Commercial Travellers. He attends the First Presbyterian Church. On October 24, 1894, he married, at La Porte, Indiana, Alice Clare Wilson, a native of that town, whose father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Wilson, now live in Michigan City, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Prichard have no children.
STEENBERGEN Dr. John Harness Steenbergen, is of pioneer an- cestry. His paternal grandfather, General Peter H. Steenbergen, was one of the early settlers of Mason county, and was a veteran of the second war with Great Britain. He came to Mason county, Virginia, as early as 1804, and finally settled there in 1808. He was a farmer and stock breeder there, and acquired his title of colonel first. and of general in the war of 1812. He sur- vived to a good old age, dying there about 1865, at the age of seventy- two years.
(II) John William Steenbergen, son of General Peter H. Steenber- gen, is still living at the age of eighty-one years. He resides on the old family estate, "Poplar Grove Farm," on the Baltimore and Ohio railway, Mason county, West Virginia, which road has a station, known as Galli- polis Ferry and trains stop there regularly, under an agreement made many years ago. He has been a farmer there during the greater part of his career, and is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexing- ton, class of 1849. He married a daughter of Isaac Van Meter ; he was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on the old family place. He was a farmer of the "Blue Grass State," and had sons who fought under the Confeder- ate "Stars and Bars." She died in 1898, at the age of fifty-four years. There were six children, all of whom are living and all are married. Children : William, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia : and Peter H., of the same place: Isaac V., of Columbia, Missouri : Frances, now Mrs. Clyde Johnson, of Louisville, Kentucky : Charles L., of Paris, Kentucky, and John Harness, of whom further.
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(III) Dr. John Harness Steenbergen was born in Mason county, West Virginia, November 4, 1883, on his father's farm, at Gallipolis Fer- ry, known as "Poplar Grove Farm." He received his rudimentary edu- cation in private schools until he was thirteen years of age. He was then sent to the Gallia Academy, Gallipolis, Ohio, and there remained until he graduated in 1900. The following year he went to Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, and there took a special course in chemistry. In 1904 he entered the state university of West Virginia, at Morgantown, and remained there as a student of medicine, for two years. Thence he proceeded to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Baltimore, Maryland, from which he graduated, with the medical de- gree, of Doctor of Medicine, in 1908. He had been an interne of the Mercy Hospital that city, while still a student and after his graduation was appointed to a place in that institution as resident physician. Here he served a year and then, in 1909, established himself in Huntington.
In the fall of 1910, he formed a partnership here with Dr. J. A. Guthrie. The following spring they opened their hospital at Sixth avenue and Sixth street, one of the best equipped, most modern and up-to-date in the land. It is especially prepared for surgical operations and has a most expert scientific staff. This continued until June, 1912, when Dr. Steenbergen sold his interest and has since practiced alone.
Dr. Steenbergen takes a lively interest in politics, but endeavors to preserve, as to its issues, an open mind. He is an Elk, and a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge and Ben Hur, a member of several Greek let- ter college fraternities, and in religious faith a Presbyterian. He mar- ried, September 20, 1911, Jessie J. Fitch, who was born in Morgantown. Her father, Dr. James P. Fitch, and her mother also are natives of Mor- gantown.
Jean Frederick Smith, of Huntington, ex-prosecuting attor-
SMITH ney for Cabell county, in addition to being a leader in his profession is prominently identified with a number of the principal financial institutions and business interests of the city of which he has long been one of the foremost residents.
(I) Henry Smith (the German form of the name being Schmidt), grandfather of Jean Frederick Smith, was born in Berlin, Prussia, emi- grated to the United States, settling on Long Island, New York, and died shortly after arriving in his adopted country.
(II) Adolphus H., son of Henry Smith, was born in Berlin, and at the age of fourteen years accompanied his mother to the United States whither his father had preceded them. His youth and early manhood were passed on Long Island, and he is now a farmer at Pedro, Ohio. During the civil war he served fifteen months in the Union army. Adolphus H. Smith married Nellie Ellen, daughter of John O. Moore, who came from Scotland and settled at Ohio Furnace, and three chil- dren were born to them: Myrtie M. ; Ada O .: Jean Frederick, mentioned below. Mrs. Smith died five years ago, and Mr. Smith is now sixty-five years old.
(III) Jean Frederick, son of Adolphus H. and Nellie Ellen ( Moore) Smith, was born May 4, 1874, at Powellsville, Ohio. He received his education in the local schools, and after leaving school found employ- ment in the Furnace store, twenty miles from Ironton, remaining seven years. At the end of that time he entered the Law School of the West Virginia State University, at Morgantown. West Virginia, graduating in June, 1900. He at once opened an office in Huntington, where he has since continuously practised, acquiring a large clientele and building up 9
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a reputation founded on close application, extensive and profound knowl- edge of the law and a high degree of ability as a practitioner. In July, 19II, he was elected vice-president of the State Bar Association of West Virginia.
Mr. Smith is a director in the Suburban Land Company and the Swan Printing and Publishing Company, and a stockholder in the Hunt- ington Kenova Land Company, the Wiley China Company, the Union Savings Bank and Trust Company, and in various oil companies. In politics he is a Republican, and was elected by his party to the office of prosecuting attorney for Cabell county, entering upon the discharge of his duties January 1, 1909. In his administration of the office he proved himself at once an able lawyer and a public-spirited citizen, his term expired January 1, 1913. His fraternal affiliations are with Masonry in all its branches, the Mystic Shrine, the Knights Templar, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Smith has already won laurels at the bar, but a man who has not yet completed his fourth decade has still before him the larger portion of his career, and when the past is filled with accomplishment it is reason- able to predict even greater results for the future.
One of the most progressive and clear-headed business men BELL of Huntington is Homer Bell, treasurer of the well known firm of Sehon, Stevenson & Company. Mr. Bell is a descend- ant of ancestors who have been for generations resident in Virginia and West Virginia, giving to both states useful and public-spirited citizens.
(I) William Bell, grandfather of Homer Bell, was born on the home- stead in Nicholas county, now West Virginia, where he passed his life as a farmer. He died about 1896, aged eighty-one years.
(II) Samuel, son of William Bell, was born on the ancestral farm, and like his father devoted himself to its cultivation. During the war between the states his sympathies were with the south. He married Maria, a native of Nicholas county, daughter of Winston Shelton, who was also born in that part of the state which is now West Virginia : he was a farmer and merchant at Winston, the town having been named in his honor: throughout the war he served as captain of infantry in the Confederate army, three of his sons also bearing arms in the southern cause. Samuel Bell and his wife were the parents of the following chil- dren: I. Homer, mentioned below. 2. John A., of Nashville, Tennessee. 3. Vina MI., wife of Dr. S. F. Roberts, of Wheeling, West Virginia. 4. Robert C., of New Orleans, Louisiana. 5. Annie, lives with her mother. in Huntington. 6. Katie B., wife of Frank Frame, of Sutton, West Vir- ginia. 7. Richard W., of El Reno, Oklahoma. 8. Nora, wife of Harry H. Huff, of Gassaway, West Virginia. Samuel Bell died on his farm, March 6, 1901, aged sixty-one years.
(III) Homer, eldest child of Samuel and Maria (Shelton) Bell, was born January 15. 1868, on the old homestead in Nicholas county. He re- ceived his education in the local schools, in which he afterward taught for three years. At the end of that time, feeling desirous of larger oppor- tunities for mental culture than he had hitherto enjoyed, he came in 1888 to Huntington, and entered Marshall College, remaining one year, and afterward teaching for two years in Fayette and Kanawha counties. In 1891 Mr. Bell returned to Huntington and obtained a position in the Huntington National Bank which he retained five years. He then be- came bookkeeper for the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Company, remain- ing with them about two years. In 1897 he entered the service of the
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firm with which he is now associated, the style being then Sehon, Blake & Stevenson, wholesale grocers. At the time of the fire in March, 1901, he resigned his position in order to open a wholesale grocery store under the firm name of Blake, Bell & Company. At the end of fifteen months he disposed of his interest in the business, and returned in October, 1902. to his former employers, then Sehon, Stevenson & Company. In April, 1908, when the company was incorporated, Mr. Bell was advanced to the position of treasurer. Generously interested in everything pertaining to the welfare and advancement of his home city, all projects having that end in view are sure of his hearty co-operation. He is a stockholder in the Huntington National Bank, and his sound judgment in regard to financial affairs causes him to be frequently consulted on the subject by his friends and neighbors. He is a Democrat in politics and affiliates with the Masonic fraternity. He is a member of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church.
Mr. Bell married, December 29, 1897, at Rushville, Indiana, Lotta, born at that place, October 6, 1872, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Charlotte Morris, the former a farmer and a pioneer of Rushville: he survived his wife, and died in March, 1901, his funeral, by a singular coincidence, occurring on the day which witnessed the death of Mr. Bell's father. Mr. and Mrs. Bell are the parents of one daughter: Lil- lian Alice, born December 19, 1898, and now attending school in Hunting- ton. Mr. Bell's assured position as a business man and financier is due to innate ability enforced by untiring industry, indomitable energy and undeviating adherence to the strictest principles of integrity.
There are numerous families of this name in the United WOOD States, and the immigrant ancestors came from several parts of England. It is highly probable that there is no one ancestor for all of this name, as it is one that may easily have been applied to many persons and many families.
(I) Rev. Charles Washington Wood, a descendant of one of the early pioneer families of the Old Dominion Virginia, was born in Bed- ford county, and lived to the age of eighty-two years. His father dying while he was an infant, Charles W. Wood was brought up by his step- father, and knew little about his father. At the age of eighteen years he was overseer of slaves on a farm. Later in life he became a preacher. He married Mary Ann Ore, born in Bedford county, who lived to be eighty-two years of age. Her father was a native of England. Chil- dren : I. Sarah Katherine, married L. C. Reynolds, of Danville, Pittsyl- vania county, Virginia. 2. John, died in 1906, married Sallie Gardner. 3. Laura Elizabeth, married J. H. Fuller, of Callands, Pittsylvania coun- ty, Virginia. 4. Melissa E., died about 1895, married J. R. Bailey. 5. Matthew Lawrence, of whom further. 6. Missouri Alice, married D. Edmunds, of Yanceyville, Caswell county, North Carolina. 7-8. Two others, deceased.
(III) Rev. Matthew Lawrence Wood, son of Rev. Charles Washing- ton and Mary Ann (Ore) Wood, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, October 23, 1858. The family moved to Pittsylvania county when he was eleven years old. Here he had his first education. Afterward he attended Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia, from which he gradu- ated in 1884, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louis- ville, Kentucky. His first pastorates were two churches in Charles City county, Virginia, beginning in June, 1885. After one year he assumed charge of the West End Baptist Church, Petersburg, Dinwiddie county, Virginia, where he remained two years. From this place he removed to
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Newport News ,and there he remained eight years. For the next ten years he was at Staunton, Augusta county, Virginia. In October, 1905, he came to Huntington, and has had charge of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church since that time. There were then five hundred and eighty-eight members ; the membership is now nearly one thousand, composed of the leading business and social element of Huntington. The congregation is a wealthy one, and they have a fine building. Mr. Wood is a Mason, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a Democrat.
He married (first) December 22, 1886, at Richmond, Virginia, Bessie Hoge, a native of Richmond, who died at Staunton, December 22, 1896; (second) December 20, 1902, at Washington, D. C., Mary Emma, daughter of John W. and Martha (Gregory) Fitzgerald, who was born in Pittsylvania county, November 19, 1868. Her parents now live in Pittsylvania county, where her father is a farmer. Children, three by first, two by second marriage: I. Lawrence Curry, born December 17, 1889; now with the Atlas Portland Cement Company, at Chicago, Illi- nois. 2. Charles Rowland, born September 13, 1890; educated at Deni- son University, Granville, Licking county, Ohio; now with the William- son Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia. 3. Miriam, born March 23, 1895; graduate of Huntington high school, in the class of 1912. 4. John Edmund Fitzgerald, born October 19, 1903. 5. Matthew Leland, born April 8, 1907.
SEAMAN This is a Teutonic name, denoting occupation or locality. There are Seamans in Norfolk county, England, entitled to arms. Captain John Seaman, the founder of this family, came from England about 1645. Two years after this date, he was one of the proprietors of Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He was a magistrate of Hempstead under the Dutch government, and held office also under the short restoration of Dutch rule. He was a land- holder under the first English patent of Hempstead. Apparently he was a Quaker in religion. His will was proved March 25, 1695. He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of John Strickland, (second) Martha, daugh- ter of Thomas and Martha ( Youngs) Moore. Children, five first-named by first, others by second wife; John, married Hannah Williams; Jona- than, of whom further : Benjamin, married Martha Titus; Solomon, died 1733, married Elizabeth Linnington; Elizabeth, married John Jack- son : Thomas ; Samuel, married Phebe Hicks; Nathaniel, married, in 1695, Rachel Willis; Richard, born in 1673, died in 1749, married, in 1693, Jane Mott : Sarah, married John Mott ; Martha, married Nathaniel Pearsall ; Hannah, married - Carman ; Deborah, married - Kirk; --- , married - - Carman ; Mary, married Thomas Pearsall ; one other. (II) Jonathan, son of Captain John and Elizabeth (Strickland) Sea- man, married Jane -. Children : David, married Temperance Wil- liams; Jonathan (2), of whom further; John, married Hannah Wil- liams ; Joseph ; Caleb.
(III) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1) and Jane Seaman, removed, as also did his brother Joseph, to Kakiat, Rockland county, New York, in or soon after 1711. His will was proved in 1755. He married Elisabeth Denton. Children: Jonathan (3), who went to Vir- ginia, and left one son and one daughter ; Jonas, married Jane D. Moss, went to Virginia, had seven sons and seven daughters; Jecaniah, married Rachel Secor; John : Elisabeth, married John Palmer ; Martha, married Michael Vandervort; Phebe, married Samuel Coe; Hannah, married William Coe. From this Jonathan (2), by his son Jonathan or by his.
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son Jonas, we suppose John Seaman, of whom further, to have been descended.
(V) John Seaman was born at Wheeling, Virginia, in 1786, and died in 1873. His father had served in the revolution and the wars against the Indians. He married Elizabeth Harrison, who was born in Harrison county, Kentucky. Child: Harrison, of whom further.
(VI) Harrison, son of John and Elizabeth (Harrison) Seaman, was born at Marietta, Ohio, December 23, 1812, died January 6, 1896. He was a farmer in Missouri, in which state most of his life was passed. He married Louisa, born in Goochland county, Virginia, in 1815, died in 1905, daughter of William Bates. Her father lived to the age of sev- enty-eight ; his father, also named William, was with Lewis in the signifi- cant battle of Point Pleasant ; in this great struggle, the Indians were led by the brave, skillful, humane and admirable chief, Cornstalk ; they were utterly defeated after a hard fight, October 10, 1774. Children of Harri- son and Louisa ( Bates) Seaman : Elizabeth, married W. L. C. Ruther- ford; Hulda, married J. M. S. Rouse; Cynthia, married John Lipes; William Jackson, of whom further; John; Anna, married H. B. Beck- ner ; Robert H., born in 1856, married, January 3, 1883, Anna L. Brook- ing ; Lucy, married Julius C. McReynolds.
(VII) William Jackson, son of Harrison and Louisa (Bates) Sea- man, was born on his father's farm, near Labelle, Lewis county, Mis- souri, March 16, 1848. He attended country schools, and afterward LaGrange College, LaGrange, Lewis county, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1875. In 1899 he graduated from the American School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville, Adair county, Missouri. He had taught school for fifteen years, and been a civil engineer, in Missouri, for nine years. He now has a large practice at Huntington, Cabell county, West Vir- ginia, having offices in the Vinson-Thompson Building, Nos. 401 and 402. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons and of the Owls. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Fifth Avenue Bap- tist Church. He married, at Elsberry, Lincoln county, Missouri, May 24, 1882, Annie, born at Elsberry, daughter of Benjamin M. and Vir- ginia (Harvey) Vance. Her father, a farmer, was born in 1823, and died in 1891 ; her mother died in 1900. Mrs. Seaman is also a graduate of LaGrange College, in the class of 1878, and of the American School of Osteopathy, in the class of 1900. Child : Milton Vance, born July 10, 1884; he is solicitor for the Bell Telephone Company, at Huntington.
WILSON This is one of the numerous names which originally marked a man as the son of his father; in this case, the name of the father from whom the surname started would be William ; the name is therefore equivalent to Williamson or Williams. For the Scotch Wilsons descent is claimed from a Danish prince, and it is said that the family has been established from a remote period in the Orkney Islands. There are probably hundreds of families of Wilsons in America, having no common ancestor, or at least no common American ancestor. The Wilsons in America before 1700 would make a long list, extending from Maine southward. The name is very common in Penn- sylvania, from which the present family came into West Virginia, and elsewhere ; and Pennsylvania has received immigrants of this name from Scotland and Ireland.
(I) Samuel, the first member of the present family about whom we have definite information, was born in Pennsylvania, and died in Cabell county, West Virginia, about 1855, where the greater part of his life had been passed. He was a carpenter and boat builder, and had his
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homestead and farm near Blue Sulphur Springs and Barboursville. He married Hester Lee, of Virginia, who is said to have been of the family from which General Robert E. Lee sprung. Child : Asa Lee, of whoni further.
(II) Asa Lee, son of Samuel and Hester (Lee) Wilson, was born in Ohio in 1817, and died in Huntington, Cabell county, West Virginia, in June, 1896. Here he had lived the major part of his life, and was a con- tractor for building houses and bridges. His sympathies in the civil war were with the south. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Reuben and Jestine (Keeton) Sandridge, who was born in Virginia ; she died in 1852. Her father was a Virginian, and lived and died at Huntington ; her moth- er died about 1870, being nearly one hundred years old, and was a pen- sioner. Children of Asa Lee and Mary (Sandridge) Wilson : Elizabeth, married Dr. Satterfield, lives in Oklahoma; Lemuel, a farmer of Fudge Creek, Cabell county, was a Confederate soldier, one of the rangers at- tached to the Eighth Virginia cavalry, served throughout the war, and was wounded in two battles ; Fannie, married Newton Keenan (deceased). of Huntington ; John Thomas, of whom further; Emily, married T. W. Flowers, of Huntington ; Martha Ellen, living at Huntington ; Eliza, de- ceased. Mr. Wilson married (second) Mary Ann (Doolittle) Harsh- barger. Children by second marriage : Lillian, married T. F. Gentry, of Huntington ; Margaret, married Harry Ball, of Carrollton, Missouri ; Georgia, died by drowning; Hester deceased, married Joseph Blanchard.
(III) John Thomas, son of Asa Lee and Mary (Sandridge) Wilson, was born in Cabell county, West Virginia, November 30, 1845. He was brought up on the old homestead farm, and educated in the subscription schools of the neighborhood, and until he was twenty-three years old, helped his father on the farm; he then entered into contracting. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad was being built at that time through this district, and for three years he was engaged in general teaming work in connection with this railroad building : then in 1873 he moved to Hunting- ton, and farmed ; the land on which he farmed then is now residential property. At this he continued only one year, when he entered the em- ployment of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and for twelve years he was inspector of cars. While he was thus employed, he served four terms of one year each in the city council of Huntington ; being later elected constable for the Guyandotte district, for a four-year term, he left the railroad service, and in 1893 he was elected first deputy sheriff, and served four years in this capacity. In 1897 he entered into partnership with F. D. Boyer, under the name of Wilson & Boyer, and dealt in real estate, and three years later when this firm was dissolved, Mr. Wilson con- tinued in the same business under his own name only, and he has since been engaged in the real estate business, buying and selling. He is inter- ested in the Wilson Sand and Supply Company, which business is man- aged by his son, C. R. Wilson. He has stock in the First National Bank, the Huntington Banking & Trust Company, and the Huntington Land Company. In the building occupied by Sehon and Stevenson, wholesale grocers, he has a one-third interest, and the Kreider building, on Third avenue, is owned by him. Mr. Wilson is a Democrat in politics, and he is a member of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. He married, near Ona Station, Cabell county, January 28, 1869, Mary Amizetta, daughter of General McMahon, who was born in Cabell county. Her father died about eighteen years ago, and her mother, whose name was also Mary, died earlier. Children: Mamie Saline, married G. A. Northcott, of Huntington : Charles R., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work : Garnet B., married Dr. J. N. Mincey, of Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto coun- ty, Texas.
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