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JOHNSTON The progenitor of this West Virginia family was James Johnston, born in Scotland, died in this country at the age of ninety years, having been a farmer all his life. He established himself about the beginning of the last century on a farm, about a mile and a half distant from the present city of Hunting- ton. Here he prospered, owing to his industry, application and sturdy Scottish spirit ; so that the old homestead has been handed down to his descendants who for generations have been born there.
(II) William L., son of James Johnston, was born on the old place, about 1806, died in the winter of 1871. He followed in his father's foot- steps and became a farmer also, being in addition a millwright. During the civil war he was a southern sympathizer, but does not appear to have taken any very active part in hostilities. His wife was Mary McGinnis, a native of Cabell county, daughter of Edmund McGinnis, a minister of the southern Methodist church, who lived for the greater part of his life in West Virginia, but died in Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston had chil- dren : 1. Frederick William, of Amarillo, Texas. 2. Marcellus Logan, died in Texas ten years ago. 3. James Edmund, of whom further. 4. Mary, wife of Robert L. Day, an architect in Huntington.
(III) James Edmund, son of William Logan and Mary (McGinnis) Johnston, was born August 21, 1852, at the old family homestead. His mother died when he was very young; and when twelve years of age his grandfather, then an old man of ninety years, also died at the old home which he had established for the family. During the harassing times of the civil war the boy was able to obtain little or no education. When about nineteen years of age, however, he entered Marshall College ; but his father dying, he was obliged to leave and take upon his shoulders the burden of life. He began work in the store of Laidley & Johnston, of which his father had been one of the partners, and clerked in the estab- lishment for ten years. In the fall of 1881 he began business on his own
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account as a furniture dealer and undertaker, under the firm name of Hagen & Johnston. He continued thus for some time, finally associating with himself J. Alden Emmons, and giving the business the new name of Johnston & Emmons. This lasted for ten years. On May 1, 1897, the Johnston Undertaking Company was established, Mr. Johnston being the sole proprietor and doing the largest and best business of this kind in Huntington. He is a man well known in commercial and industrial cir- cles and has become one of the leading citizens of this place. He is pop- ular and influential among fraternal organizations, being a member of the Masons, and also of the following orders: Odd Fellows, Elks, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Improved Order of Red Men, Knights of Pythias and Junior Order of American Mechanics. As a politician Mr. Johnston is independent in his views, voting as he pleases, regardless of party. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, as befits his Scottish ancestry.
Mr. Johnston married (first) thirty-five years ago, Anna Laidley, of Charleston, West Virginia, by whom he had three children: I. Archie Lynn, thirty-two years of age, living in Cincinnati: a sales-manager for the Electric Railway Equipment Company. 2. Frederick William, thirty years of age ; a teller in the Kanawha National Bank, of Charleston, West Virginia. 3. Mildred Virginia, living at home. Mr. Johnston's (second) wife was Lida Valentine, daughter of the Rev. Richard and Sallie (Smith) Valentine, both deceased : the marriage occurred twenty years ago at Georgetown, Ohio, Mrs. Johnston having been born in Lexington, Kentucky. There is but one child by this last marriage : 4. Edmund Val- entine, born December 29, 1895; received his primary education in the local schools; now attending Marshall College, being in the sophomore class ; his afternoons are devoted to the assistance of his father in busi- ness.
TIPPETT George Tippett, the founder of this family in this coun-
try, was born April 17, 1806, in Manchester, England, and died May 2, 1852, in Cumberland, Maryland. Among the records of the early English Tippetts extant, are John Tippett, who married Florence Kellowe at St. Wren's Cathedral, London, June 22, 1609; and Tippett, nephew of Sir John Tippett, surgeon in the navy, married Elizabeth Evelyn at Deptford, England, in 1685.
(I) George Tippett was a stone mason, sculptor and plasterer by trade and for a number of years was engaged in the railroad business, and as a contractor and constructor of roads. He married (first), April 12. 1826, Grace Deeble Zelland, who died in England, March 20, 1830. He married (second), March 21, 1833, at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, Sarah Elizabeth Ways, daughter of James and Sarah Elizabeth (Ways) McNair, who died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 18, 1862. The grandfather of Sarah Elizabeth (Ways) McNair, Basil Ways, married Cecilia, daugh- ter of Daniel Driscoll, whose wife was a descendant of the distinguished Carroll and Marshall families, of the "Old Dominion." Her father was Samuel Driscoll Ways, and her mother Susan Walling, a descendant of distinguished Holland-Dutch ancestry. Children of George Tippet, three by first marriage: I. Elizabeth, born October 22, 1827. 2. James, born October 13. 1829. 3. Charles. 4. Susan Catharine, born Febru- ary 21, 1834; died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1880, unmarried. 5. George Ways, referred to below. 6. William Sylvester, born at Berkeley, Virginia, November 14, 1837. died at Wheeling. West Virginia, in 1881, married Margaret Pershing: children: Katherine, married Charles Beckerline : Annie, married William Graham Jr. : Henry, died at Wheeling, West Virginia. 7. Samuel Driscoll, born at Han-
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cock, Maryland, December 11, 1843 ; married in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5, 1866, Elizabeth Atwell; children: Flora Atwell, married at Oakland, California, George W. Kenneth, no children; Margaret, died October 3, 1902, married at Lockland, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sherman T. Cooper, children, Helen and Sherman O .; Martha, married Robert W. Spang- ler, children, Ralph and Lois, died young: William Morrison, married at La Grange, Chicago, Illinois, Elaine Kearney, no children.
( II) George Ways, son of George and Sarah Elizabeth Ways (Mc- Nair ) Tippett, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 30, 1836, and died in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, May 19, 1902. He received his early education in the pay schools and St. Patrick's Catholic school, of Cumberland, Maryland, and in January, 1847, at the age of eleven years entered the printing office of The Alleghanian and served a four years' ap- prenticeship at the printer's trade. May 2, 1855, he removed to Point Pleasant. West Virginia, where he resided up to the time of his death. On coming to Point Pleasant, he entered the office of the Independent Republican and served as a compositor. February 22, 1862, he began the publication of the Weekly Register and continued its owner, manager and editor, up to the time of his death, accomplishing in the newspaper field, more than an ordinary success. In 1880, he was elected to the West Virginia house of delegates from Mason county, serving during the sessions of 1881-1882, and was appointed a member of the committee on elections and privileges, chairman of the committee on printing and contingent expenses, was on the committee on executive offices and li- brary, and was also a member of the Congressional apportionative com- mittee. In politics he was an earnest and zealous Democrat and with his wide experience and unquestionable ability, wielded a large influ- ence in the councils of his party. He was a progressive and representa- tive citizen, held several minor offices of honor and trust, and manifested much interest in education, being a member of the board that built the high school building in Point Pleasant, an edifice for which he fought for years through the columns of his paper, and no doubt gaining for the town that much needed and excellent institution. He was a member of the Episcopal church and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, September II, 1856, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- liam and Ann Risk of Rockbridge county, Virginia. Children: James Bell, referred to below : William Ruffner, born January 30, 1859: Charles Augustus, born December 9. 1861 : Henry Emerson, born January 9, 1863; Georgiana, born May II, 1866; Kate Lisetta, born March 5, 1868; Frank Burner, born March 1, 1870: Edith Blair, born May 16, 1872; Clifford Carlisle, born September 21, 1874.
(III) James Bell, son of George Ways and Sarah Elizabeth (Risk) Tippett, was born in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, March 25. 1858. He received his early education in public and normal schools, and then, un- til he was eighteen years of age, was employed in his father's office where he learned the printer's trade. He then became a salesman for the dry goods firm of Harmison & Company, remaining with them for three years, from which time he was engaged in the retail business, in general store keeping, and for the last twenty years of his life in the furniture and undertaking business. He was a graduate of the foremost colleges of embalming and sanitation in the United States, holding his diploma since 1801, and was the first licensed embalmer in the state holding a certificate. He was appointed a member of the West Virginia State Board of Embalmers by Governor G. W. Atkinson, and was president of the board, serving a four years term of his appointment. In 1888 he established the general fire and life insurance agency known as the Tip- pett & Hutchinson Agency, which was sold in January, 1910, to the
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Point Pleasant Trust Company. Mr. Tippett was vice-president of the Point Pleasant Council of Boy Scouts; a stockholder in the Merchants National Bank of Point Pleasant ; secretary of the Board of Trade; and also president of the Point Pleasant Building and Loan Association. He was a Democrat in politics and in 1890, was a candidate for circuit clerk, against R. C. Mitchell, the Republican candidate for re-election, but was defeated by thirteen votes. He was again the Democratic candidate for sheriff of Mason county in 1904. and was defeated by James McDermit by thirty-eight votes, the county being strongly Republican and in that year giving a majority of over eight hundred. For over thirty-five years he had been active as an organizer in his party, rarely missing attendance at both state and district conventions, generally as a delegate, and was commissioned as assistant Sergeant-at-arms of the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1912, through the courtesy of Hon. John T. McGraw, the national committeeman from Grafton, West Virginia. Mr. Tippett was a Mason, being a member of Minturn Lodge No. 19, of Point Pleasant. He was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 33, and past grand member of Fidelity Encampment No. 57: Knights of Pythias No. 49, and a Knight of Khorassan. He was a Southern Presbyterian in religion, and a deacon in the church at Point Pleasant. He died January 16, 1913.
Mr. Tippett married (first ), in October, 1879, Lida J., daughter of Benjamin and Martha Day, of Five Mile Post Office, in the Arbuckle district. She died in November, 1898. He married (second) Cornelia Denver, daughter of Dr. Laban Franklin Campbell and Ida Lewis (Men- ager) Campbell, of Point Pleasant. (See Campbell and Menager Lines). Child, James Campbell, born April 17, 1906.
(The Campbell Line ).
Dr. Laban Franklin Campbell, son of William Reed and Eliza Ball (Cartmell) Campbell, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, May 20, 1840, and died in Norfolk. Virginia, April 18, 1910, and is buried in the family burying ground in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He received his early education in the academies of Winchester, Leesburg, and Romney, Virginia, and attended his first course of medical lectures in Winchester until the outbreak of the war between the states, when he entered the Confederate army : enlisting in Company C, Thirteenth Virginia Infantry, and served throughout the war. In the summer of 1864, he was taken prisoner and sent to Camp Chase in Ohio, where he was held until April 1865. At the close of the war he entered the school of medicine of the University of Maryland, finishing his course and graduating in 1867. Immediately afterward he located in Point Pleasant where he attained a position of prominence and influence in professional and social circles. Under President Cleveland's administration he was medical examiner for pensions, and was a member of the West Virginia Medical Associa- tion and an elder in the Presbyterian church. He married, in 1871. Ida Lewis, daughter of Lewis Bobin and Cornelia ( Steenbergen) Menager, born May 6, 1848. Children : Cornelia Denver, referred to above, mar- ried. December 3. 1902, James Bell Tippett: Louis Reed; Archibald Menager ; Laban Franklin Jr.
(The Menager Line) .*
Claudius Roman Menager, the founder of this family in this coun- try, was born in Normandy, and died in Gallipolis, Ohio, January 17. 1835. He and Mary Bobin, whom he subsequently married, were both
*This Sketch was prepared by the late Ella S. Neale.
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among the five or six hundred well educated emigrants of good families, skilled in various fine crafts and little fitted for pioneer life, who left France in 1789 to settle in America on land purchased through agents of the Scioto Society. It is a matter of history how they disembarked from five ships at Alexandria to find themselves defrauded of their money, and their titles to land not legal. After much delay the agents agreed to furnish them means for transportation to Ohio, and they trav- eled by wagons through the valley of Virginia, thence to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and on to the Ohio river, landing in Gallipolis, October 10, 1790. Mr. Menager became a merchant and with his wife, who, brave hearted and true, aided him in every way, accumulated what was re- garded in those times as a considerable fortune. After St. Clair's defeat the Indians made a raid upon the settlers, running off all the stock, de- stroying what they could not carry away, and killing all who were out- side of the garrison; but nothing daunted, these pioneers began anew, cooking food for the troops who were sent to disperse the Indians and protect the people, until they finally became independent in fortune and lived to a ripe old age. Mr. Menager married at Gallipolis, Ohio (his marriage said to be the first in the town) March 16, 1790, Mary Bobin, and among his children was, Lewis Bobin, referred to below.
(II) Lewis Bobin, son of Claudius Roman and Mary ( Bobin) Men- ager, was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, April 9, 1803, and died in Point Pleas- ant, West Virginia, June 6, 1870. He was educated at Athens, Ohio, and was for many years a merchant in his native town, but after his second marriage he decided to try rural life, and purchasing a farm in Mercer's Bottom, resided there until his children required educational advantages, when he moved to Point Pleasant, where he lived up to the time of his death. He was a man of the highest type of honor and in- tegrity, and a versatile, brilliant conversationalist. He married, July II, 1847. Cornelia, daughter of Peter Higgins and Maria B. ( Jordan ) Steen- bergen, born January 23, 1818, died January 17, 1897. Children: Ida Lewis, born May 6. 1848, married Dr. Laban Franklin Campbell, re- ferred to above: James Bobin, born 1850; Julius Lynn, born in 1853.
AcELFRESH Benjamin Franklin McElfresh, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was of Scotch-Irish origin. He was born in 1829. in Wheeling, West Virginia, and died in 1905. He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and married about 1855. Amanda, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Dolly Ann (Newel) Knight, who was born in 1830, and died in 1892. Her father was a son of John Knight of New Hampshire, and was a captain in the Federal army in the civil war; her mother came from Maine: their children were: Amanda, referred to above, Daniel. Benjamin Franklin Jr., who fought in the Federal army during the civil war, was sheriff of Meigs county, Ohio, for two terms and commissioner for two terms: Sarah, now deceased. Children of Benja- inin Franklin and Amanda ( Knight ) McElfresh : Franklin, born in 1857; Ida, now deceased : Zenas, born in 1867; Edward, referred to below.
Dr. Edward McElfresh, son of Benjamin Franklin and Amanda ( Knight ) McElfresh, was born December 7, 1869, in Hanover, Licking county, Ohio. He received his early education in the public schools at Chester, Ohio, and then took up the study of medicine, graduating from the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, in 1893. He continued his studies for six months after graduating under Dr. Rine at Longbot- tom, Ohio, and then took a post-graduate course at the New York Post Graduate College. He practiced his profession for three years in Hen-
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derson, and in June, 1897, opened an office in Point Pleasant, where he is still located. He is a Republican in politics and has been a member of the United States Pension Examining Board since 1897; he is also a stockholder in the Merchants' National Bank. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the West Virginia State Medical Asso- ciation and of the Cabell county, West Virginia, Medical Association. He is also a member of Minturn Lodge No. 19, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, being past master of Blue Lodge of Point Pleasant ; Point Pleas- ant Chapter No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest ; of Franklin Commandery No. 17, Knights Templar, and is a member of Oriental Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Point Pleasant; also of the Modern Woodmen of America.
He married, March 24, 1898, at Longbottom, Ohio, Carrie Eunice, daughter of Marvin A., and Irene (Shumway) Stewart, who was born March 23, 1870, in Jackson county, West Virginia. Her father came to New York with his parents when quite young. He was a merchant at Longbottom, and served during the civil war as captain in the Sixty- third Ohio Infantry. His children were: Emma, Josephine, Bertha May, Carrie Eunice, referred to above, Winona. Belle. Child of Dr. Edward and Carrie Eunice (Stewart) McElfresh, Marvin Stewart, born Au- gust 7, 1900.
BROWN The progenitor of the Brown family here under consid- eration was Rev. Lee C. Brown, a Presbyterian minister, who lived for many years in Wythe county, Virginia, his native state, and whose ministry there extended over a period of fifty years. He married Pauline Hoge, also a native of Virginia, and they had four children : Robert, a Confederate soldier, killed at the hattle of Get- tysburg ; Douglas B., of whom further : James ; and Randall.
(II) Lieutenant Douglas B. Brown, son of Rev. Lee C. and Pauline (Hoge) Brown, was born in Wythe county, Virginia. He followed the vocation of a teacher. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-fourth Virginia Infantry, and became quartermas- ter, with the rank of lieutenant, serving with the Confederate troops throughout the entire war. He is a staunch Democrat in his political convictions, and in his younger days was a member of the state legisla- ture. He married Mary A. Lindsey, born in Carroll county, Virginia, daughter of Henry Lindsey. They had five children: Robert Lee; Charles Huntington : Elizabeth Gertrude ; William Henry ; and Douglas Walter, of whom further.
(III) Douglas Walter Brown, son of Lieutenant Douglas B. and Mary A. (Lindsey) Brown, was born at Hillsville, Virginia, August II, 1876. He was educated in the city schools of Washington, D. C .. after which he studied law with Captain Frank S. Blair, in Wytheville, Vir- ginia, and with his uncle, Judge Randall Brown. He was admitted to the bar in 1897, coming to West Virginia in 1898, and settling in Mingo county. Here he practiced his profession for over ten years, becoming in 1909 a member of the firm of Campbell, Brown & Davis, at Hunting- ton. A sketch of Mr. Campbell, one of the members of this firm, appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. Brown is a member of the Hunting- ton chamber of commerce, and is a stockholder in various concerns. Mr. Brown is a Democrat in his political opinions : and he and his family are all attendants of the Presbyterian church.
His wife, who was Mary G. Williams, born in Pomeroy. Ohio, is a daughter of John E. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have four chil-
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dren: Walter Lindsey, born in Williamson; John E. W., born in Wil- liamson : Flora G., born in Huntington; and Charlotte, born also in Huntington.
John Barbee, the first member of this family of whom we
BARBEE have definite information, settled in Virginia. He was of French-Huguenot ancestry. His wife's name is unknown. Among his children was Russel, referred to below.
(II) Russel, son of Jolin Barbee, was a farmer, and a manufacturer and tanner of leather. He married Nancy Britton. Children : Gabriel ; Britton . Connor : William; Andrew Russel, referred to below ; Samuel ; a daughter, married ( first ) - - Settle, and ( second ) - Hardy ; a daughter. married - Bryan ; a daughter, married - Humphreys, M. D .: a daughter, married Douglas ; a daughter, married John Bean.
(III) Dr. Andrew Russel Barbee, son of Russel and Nancy ( Brit- ton) Barbee, graduated in 1851 from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1859, during the excitement of the John Brown raid, he organized a volunteer company of militia under the laws of the state of Virginia, and when the state seceded in 1861. the company enlisted in the Confederate service as Company A of the Twenty-second Virginia Regiment, and he commanded it as captain. On May 2, 1862, he was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel of the same regi- ment and served in that capacity until retired for disability, he having been wounded in the battle of Dry Creek, August 26, 1863. When recov- ered of his wounds, he was assigned to duty in the medical department of the Confederate army and served until the close of the war. He mar- ried. in 1852, Margaret Ann Gillespie, daughter of Dr. John J. and Ann (Arthur ) Thompson. Her father was born at Woodstock, Virginia, Oc- tober 27, 1808, and died May 16, 1881 ; he graduated in 1832 from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a men- ber of the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in 1871-1872, and of the legislature of West Virginia in 1872-1873, and was the son of John and Ann ( Gillespie) Thompson, and the grandson of William Thompson, born in 1724, and died in 1815, who married Elizabeth Hues- ton. Children of Andrew Russel and Margaret Ann Gillespie (Thomp- son ) Barbee : John : Mary Blanche, married C. W. Harper : Kate Louise. married (first ) John Andrew McCulloch, and ( second ) John Samuel Spencer : William : Ann Rebecca, married O. E. Darnell ; Hugh Arthur, referred to below.
(IV) Dr. Hugh Arthur Barbee, son of Dr. Andrew Russel and Margaret Ann Gillespie (Thompson ) Barbee, was born in Point Pleas- ant, West Virginia, January 31, 1874. He received his early education in the public schools and the high school at Point Pleasant, and the college preparatory school at Greenwood, Virginia. He then entered Princeton University at Princeton, New Jersey, and later took up the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the same school in which his maternal grandfather. Dr. John J. Thompson, and his father also took their degrees. He graduated in 1895 with the degree of Doc- tor of Medicine, since which time he has been in active practice of his profession at Point Pleasant. West Virginia. He is a Republican in politics and has been a first lieutenant of the West Virginia National Guard for one year, and since 1903 has been secretary of the West Vir- ginia state board of health. He is a member of Minturn Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a member of the Royal Arch Masons, and of Franklin Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of
S.P. @mich
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Beni Kedam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Charleston, and of the Modern Woodmen of America, as well as a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1901, Mary Esther, daughter of John and Caroline Mann ( Lewis ) Byers, born in Pittsburgh, December 2, 1875. Her father was a civil engineer, and his children were: Morton Lewis, born March 22, 1867 : Mary Esther, referred to ahove, and Maxwell Cunningham, born Febru- ary 2, 1877. Dr. and Mrs. Barbee have no children.
The family of which Samuel Preston Smith, a representa-
SMITH tive citizen of Charleston, and sheriff of Kanawha county. West Virginia, is a member, ranks among the old and highly honored families of the south, where they have resided for many years. (I) Thomas Preston Smith, the earliest known ancestor of the fam- ily, was a native of Virginia, in which state he lived a useful life, his death occurring when he was well advanced in years. He was a prosper- ous farmer at Louisa Court House, Louisa county, Virginia. Prior to the war between the states he was a man of large estate, but the freeing of the slaves and the depreciation in the value of land in that section sud- denly deprived him of his resources. He married Lucy Barrett, a native of Greenbrier county, Virginia, died in Louisa county, same state. Chil- dren : Charles Ballard, of whom further : Frank P., a farmer of Louisa county, Virginia ; Frederick, deceased; Sallie ( Mrs. Marshall), who re- sides in Virginia : Mel Virginia, deceased, was wife of Frederick Roddy, also deceased.
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