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(II) Charles Ballard, son of Thomas Preston and Lucy (Barrett) Smith, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, in 1847, died in 1892. In early life he came to Charleston. West Virginia, and was employed as a contractor with the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad for a number of years. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and attained an excellent reputation among his professional brethren. From 1884 to 1890 he served as circuit clerk, and later was elected prosecuting attorney of Kanawha county on the Republican ticket, serving in that capacity at the time of his death. He served throughout the entire period of the war between the states, in the Confederate army, attaining the rank of lieutenant, which fact demonstrates his. bravery and excellent qualifications as a sol- dier. He married Mary S. McConihay, a native of Virginia, of Scotch- Irish ancestry, daughter of Samuel McConihay, whose death was the re- sult of an accident. Mrs. Smith is living at the present time ( 1912) in Morgantown, West Virginia. She is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, to which her husband also belonged. Children : Mel Vir- ginia, deceased : Samuel Preston, of whom further : Walter F., of Charles- ton, connected with the Newbury Shoe Company: Linda S., wife of John William Field, of West Hamlin, West Virginia : Helen Barrett. wife of Charles H. Smith, of Morgantown. West Virginia : Lillian, wife of George W. Starcher, of Blacksburg, Virginia : Frederick M., now at- tending the University at Morgantown.
(III) Samuel Preston, son of Charles Ballard and Mary S. ( McConi- hay) Smith, was born in Kanawha county, West Virginia, at what is now East Bank. March 21, 1875. He attended the public schools of Charleston and thus acquired a practical education. His first employment was as clerk in a country store at Peerless, Kanawha county, in which capacity he served for three years. He then accepted a clerkship in the office of the circuit clerk, Mr. Black, where he remained for two years. after which he filled a similar position in the office of the prosecuting at-
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torney, and later became chief clerk under E. W. Staunton, then county clerk, remaining for six years. From 1906 to 1909, inclusive, he was as- sistant bank commissioner, and in January, 1909, was elected sheriff, on the Republican ticket, his term to expire January 1, 1913. This election made him also county treasurer. He is discharging the duties of this im- portant office in a manner which shows him to possess all the attributes of a successful office holder, his administration being noted for efficiency in every detail. In addition to his public duties, he is extensively interested in oil and real estate in various counties as well as locally. This brief resumé of Sheriff Smith's many spheres of activity proves that he is a man of ability and enterprise, a leading factor in all that pertains to the growth and development of his section of the state.
Mr. Smith married, in Jefferson county, West Virginia, June 19, 1902, Amelia Deavenport Manning, a native of Jefferson county, West Vir- ginia, daughter of Captain Frank Jack and Laura A. Manning, the form- er of whom, now deceased, was a captain in the Confederate army, and the latter is now living at Charleston, West Virginia. She is also a granddaughter of Captain Manning, of the United States navy, who was commander of the vessel that carried the first United States minister to Russia. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one child, Samuel Preston Jr., born April 19, 1912. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Episcopal church.
FADELEY Michael Fadeley, the founder of this family came from Germany and landed in Virginia. His wife's name is unknown. Among his children was John, referred to
below.
(II) John, son of Michael Fadeley, was a farmer, a Republican in politics and a Methodist in religious faith. He married Rebecca Fultz, who lived in the Shenandoah Valley near Newmarket, Virginia, until 1845, when they moved to Mason county. Children: Joshua, deceased ; Moses, deceased; George, deceased ; Mary; Isaac; Lydia; John, served in the Federal army, Company I, Thirteenth Virginia Infantry, in the civil war, and died from fever in a Federal army hospital in Claraville, Maryland; Eli, referred to below.
(III) Eli, son of John and Rebecca (Fultz) Fadeley, married Delana Jane, daughter of Marshall Baker and - (Milligan) Tucker. Child : John Melvin, referred to below.
(IV) Dr. John Melvin Fadeley, son of Eli and Delana Jane (Tucker) Fadeley, was born December 28, 1877 in Wyoma, West Virginia. He received his early education in the public schools of Mason county and the Point Pleasant High School, and in May, 1905, graduated from the Maryland Medical College at Baltimore, Maryland, and since that time has been associated with Dr. E. J. Mossman in the practice of medicine in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He was city health officer 1910-1911, and has been coroner of Mason county since 1909. He is a member of the Point Pleasant Band, the Junior Order United American Mechanics ; the Knights of the Maccabees, and the Mason County Medical Society.
He married, August 2, 1902, at Columbus, Ohio, Tillie J., daughter of Elias and Martha (Cunningham) Hoffman.
The founders of this family in America were Michael
DOWER and Patrick Francis Dower, who emigrated from Ireland. Michael settled in Brooklyn, New York. Patrick Francis Dower was born in Ireland in 1840. He settled in Mason county, West Virginia, and was a farmer; he was a Roman Catholic in religion and a
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Democrat in politics. He married, March 5, 1867. Maria Theresa, daughter of John J. and Annie M. (McNanee) Weaver, who was born in 1850, in Mason county, West Virginia. Children: John James, referred to below; George W .; Margaret A .; Mary E .; Patrick \ .: Stanton M .; Susan T., now deceased; Albert A .; Jerome A .; Agnes T .; Francis M .: Josephine E .; Michael, now deceased.
(II) John James, son of Patrick Francis and Maria Theresa (Weav- er) Dower, was born February 8, 1868, in Hartford, Mason county, West Virginia. He received his early education in the public schools and has had a merchandise store at Graham, West Virginia, since he was twenty years of age. He was railroad agent at Graham from 1890 to 1905, and at the same time agent for the Adams Express Company. He left Graham, January 1, 1905, and went to Parkersburg, West Virginia, as salesman for the Starr Grocery Company, resigning to go to Letart to assist in managing the store of W. E. Hayman & Company, Mr. Hay- man being engaged in a large lumber deal. He remained for one year and then entered the wholesale grocery business in Point Pleasant, be- coming stockholder and a member of the firm. He was appointed trav- elling salesman, and in 1912 was promoted to vice-president and general manager, which position he now holds. He was postmaster at Graham for four years during Cleveland's second administration, and was assist- ant postmaster for sixteen years. He was raised a Mason in Clifton Lodge, No. 23, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Mason city, and Point Pleasant Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, also Franklin Com- mandery, No. 17, Knights Templar, of Point Pleasant, and is a member of Evergreen Lodge, No. 137, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Let- art, West Virginia.
He married, June 7, 1899, at Letart, West Virginia, Carrie Belva, daughter of Algernon and Ellen (Harte) Luce, who was born Decem- ber 10, 1880. Her father was a farmer and served with the Pennsyl- vania troops for four years during the civil war. Children of John James and Carrie Belva (Luce) Dower : Theresa Averil, born May 21, 1900; Ellen M., March 23, 1902; Mary Florence, November 11, 1906; John James, Jr., May 15, 1908, and Opal Louise, born September 14. 1912.
McCULLOCH John M. McCulloch, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information was a farmer on the Kanawha river section about five miles above Point Pleasant. He married Mary Bryan. Children : Maggie; Mary ; Sarah: John Andrew, referred to below : Charles E.
(II) John Andrew, son of John M. and Mary ( Bryan) McCulloch, was a farmer, and died in July, 1882. He married Kate Louise, daughter of Dr. Andrew Russel and Margaret Ann Gillespie (Thompson) Barbee. Children : John Frederick, born November 8, 1878: Charles Russel, re- ferred to below.
(III) Charles Russel, son of John Andrew and Kate Louise ( Bar- bee) McCulloch, was born in Southside, Mercer county, West Virginia, January 25, 1880. He received his early education in the public schools at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and attended the Episcopal high school at Alexandria, Virginia, from 1893 to 1897, later attending the West Virginia University. Upon leaving this institution he took a course at the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, graduating from this institution about 1899. He then entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company at Charleston, West Virginia, remaining with them for several years, when he removed to Point Pleasant and entered
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the West Virginia Malleable Iron Company, continuing with them up to the present time, being now secretary and treasurer of the company. He is an Episcopalian in religion, and is a member of the Greek letter fra- ternity, Chi Sigma Chi, of the Episcopal high school of Alexandria, and he is also a member of Huntington Lodge, No. 313, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
He married, in Point Pleasant, September 26, 1906, Neida Chancellor, daughter of Charles Clendenin and Catherine ( Parsons) Bowyer, born at Point Pleasant, September 24. 1884. Her father is cashier of the Merchants National Bank, and had two children, Irene K., born in 1881. and Neida Chancellor, referred to above. Child of Charles Russel and Neida Chancellor ( Bowyer ) McCulloch: Samuel Bowyer, born May 14, 1909.
HUTCHINSON John Hutchinson, first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born in 1755. His ancestor emigrated from Scotland be- tween 1725 and 1740, and settled first in Pennsylvania, later removing to Augusta county, Virginia. He served in the revolutionary war and was with General Washington at Valley Forge. He was a Presbyterian in religion and a Whig in politics, and served in the Virginia legislature from Greenbrier county, during his term being instrumental in having Monroe county set off from Greenbrier county. After the formation of Monroe county, Mr. Hutchinson was appointed clerk of the courts, which position remained in his family for three generations until after the civil war. At his death, his son John was thus appointed, serving many years, and his grandson George W. Hutchinson held the office un- til 1865. The name of his wife is unknown. Among his children was Isaac, referred to below.
(II) Isaac, son of John Hutchinson, was born in Augusta county. Virginia, September 13, 1781. He was a farmer, and lived near the town of Union, Virginia, now West Virginia. He was a Whig in politics and a Presbyterian in religion. He married, November 10, 1807. Margaret Hutchinson, his cousin. of Augusta county, Virginia. Children : George W., born May 23. 1816: John Lewis, of whom further.
(III) John Lewis, son of Isaac and Margaret (Hutchinson) Hut- chinson, was born in Union, Monroe county, Virginia, December 26, 1821. He was a merchant and at the outbreak of the civil war, enlisted as a member of the Monroe Artillery, but on account of injury to his eyes was transferred to the quartermaster's department, in which he served until the close of the war. He then took charge of the Red River Tobacco Warehouse at Clarksville, Tennessee, and was later in the tobac- co business in Kentucky and in Indiana, spending the last fifteen years of his life at Henderson, West Virginia. He married, May 29, 1855, Mary Ella, daughter of John Givens Henderson, of Henderson, Mason county, West Virginia, born May, 1832. Her father's ancestors emi- grated from Scotland in the early part of the eighteenth century, and fin- ally settled at the mouth of the Kanawha river upon land granted in 1785 to her great-grandfather. Colonel John Henderson, of Greenbrier county for services in the Indian wars, which land still remains in the possession of the family. John Givens Henderson was a farmer. He was deputy sheriff under his uncle John Henderson, and enlisted under General Steenbergen to serve in the war of 1812. Children of John Lewis and Mary Ella (Henderson) Hutchinson : Charles Andrew, born March 23, 1856, now living in Pullman, Michigan: Robert Bruce Lee, of whom further ; Margaret. January 15, 1862, died in infancy ; Mary Eliza, Sep-
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tember 19, 1865, died in infancy ; Isaac Sterling, April 25, 1868, died aged twenty years; John Henderson, of whom further.
(IV) Robert Bruce Lee, son of John Lewis and Mary Ella ( Henderson ) Hutchinson, was born in Union, Monroe county, West Virginia, Septem- ber 28, 1858. He was educated in the common schools and attended the West Virginia State University; then engaged in farming, and devoted a considerable time to the culture of fruit. For the past twenty years he has been engaged in real estate and insurance business. He is assistant secretary and treasurer of the Point Pleasant Trust Company, and han- dles the two latter lines for this county. He is a Democrat in politics, and was appointed by Governor Glasscock, a member of Mason County Board of Review . and Equalization; is a member of Point Pleasant Lodge, No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows : is also a member of the Presbyterian church.
(IV) John Henderson, son of John Lewis and Mary Ella ( Hender- son) Hutchinson, was born at Henderson, Mason county, West Virginia, July 26, 1871. He received his early education in the Point Pleasant, West Virginia, schools and Dinwiddie school at Greenwood, Virginia, and later graduated from Dunsmore Business College at Staunton, Virginia. He entered the brokerage and insurance business in Chicago, Illinois, and later removed to Point Pleasant, where he is now bookkeeper and assist- ant manager of the Point Pleasant Water and Light Company. He is a Presbyterian in religion and a Democrat in politics, and is a member of Minturn Lodge, No. 19, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; secretary of Point Pleasant Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons; and recorder of Franklin Commandery, No. 17, Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Point Pleasant Golf Club.
BEALE The ancestors of this family emigrated to Virginia from England in 1617. One of the progenitors of the family in West Virginia was William Beale, a farmer, who was born in Charleston, Kanawha county, in the year 1820. He was a well to do merchant and justice of the peace, beside being a slaveholder: at the outbreak of the civil war, however, he remained neutral. Dr. A. J. Beale. a half-uncle, enlisted in the Confederate cause, and fought throughout the entire war. An uncle of William Beale's mother, John Wilson, was another gallant soldier of earlier days, having been an officer in the revo- lutionary war and present at the battle of Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered ; this fact stands recorded on the tombstone above his grave at the old homestead of the Beale family at Mercer's Bottom, now Apple Grove, in Mason county, West Virginia. William Beale died in 1872. He married Lavina Ann Moore, born in Mercer's Bottom, and by her had seven children of whom four are now living. Children: 1. Margaret, now Mrs. Charles Franklin, of New Orleans, Louisiana. 2. Charles Moore, of Muskogee, Oklahoma. 3. Fannie, now Mrs. Reynolds, of New Orleans. 4. John Morgan, of whom further. The children who died were: 5. Robert Wilson. 6. Ella Augusta. 7. William Clinton. Mrs. William Beale survived her husband and married again, becoming the wife of Captain A. T. Suiter ; she is now living at Guyandotte, at the age of seventy-eight years.
(II) John Morgan, son of William and Lavina Ann ( Moore) Beale, was born June 28, 1865, at the old homestead at Mercer's Bottom, Mason county, West Virginia. He was only seven years of age when his father died, and accompanied his mother when she left the old farm and went to Proctorville, Ohio. Here he received his early education ; and at the conclusion of his studies in 1880, became a clerk in a general store in
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Proctorville. He continued thus for nearly three years, when he changed his occupation and for the following year taught school. In 1884 he came to Guyandotte, now Huntington, and for two more years managed a store ; he then, in 1886, established his present general store on his own account and under his own name, located on Main and Bridge streets. He proved very successful in this business, and in 1891, assisted in the organ- ization of the wholesale grocery firm of Sehon, Blake and Company, pur- chasing all of their goods but never relaxing in his attention to his own store. Mr. Beale is considerably interested in Huntington real estate, owning various properties thereabouts; and for a brief period was en- gaged in the manufacture of cigars. Mr. Beale was instrumental in the organization of the "Guyandotte Centennial and Cabell County Home Coming Association," the object of which was defined as being the cele- bration of the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the town of Guyandotte; and Mr. Beale was elected president of the association. He is a prominent member of the Democratic party and twice received the nomination to the house of delegates of West Virginia; twice also has he been a member of the council of Guyandotte. Mr. Beale is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and is also well known in Masonic circles.
In the year 1890 Mr. Beale married, in Guyandotte, Miss Maggie E. McGinnis, the accomplished daughter of Dr. Allen B. McGinnis, who died in 1898. Her mother was Miss Elizabeth Thornburg, who died in 19II at the age of seventy years. Mrs. Beale was born in Bland county, Virginia, and is descended from two of the most prominent and esteemed families of Cabell county, West Virginia : her grandfathers, on both sides, served in the legislature and occupied other positions of trust and honor. Mrs. Beale, who is naturally endowed with a literary mind and possesses culture and refinement to a rare degree, is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, being entitled to this distinction by her an- cestry on both sides.
BAUER Edward C. Bauer, the first of this name to make his home in this country, was a native of Heilbroun, Germany, and came to this country about 1847 with his wife, Margaret Kattenbaum, who was also born in Heilbronn. By trade he was a shoe- maker, and both he and his wife were devoted adherents of the Reformed Church. They were the parents of seven sons, of whom but the eldest and youngest are now living: Robert, the owner of a stationery store in Cincinnati, and Edward Christian, of whom below.
(II) Edward Christian, youngest son of Edward C. and Margaret (Kattenbaum) Bauer, was born Angust 10, 1865, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and has supple- mented this early training by carefully selected reading in later life and by close observation. After leaving school he was engaged in various capacities in his native city in the meat and fish business, and obtained a thorough and practical knowledge of all its details. This thorough bus- iness equipment was about his only capital when he came to Charleston, West Virginia, in 1888, and it was with a borrowed capital of one hun- dred and fifty dollars that he laid the foundation of the magnificent or- ganization, known as the Bauer Meat and Fish Company, Nos. 28-30 Capitol street. Charleston, of which he is the president and treasurer. The annual business done by this corporation is $125,000, and its scope is constantly increasing. The business was incorporated in the summer of 1907, with William J. Buck as vice-president and one of the directors, and G. R. Edgar as secretary, both considered among the most practical
J.M. Deale,
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business men of the city. Only the finest stock of every kind is handled and they cater to the highest class of trade. It is mainly owing to the personal energy, and initiative of Mr. Bauer that the business has made the progress it has, as he is always ready to adopt new methods and ideas, if their practicability can be proven. He takes an active part in the public affairs of the city, giving his political support to the Republi- can party, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. His fraternal affiliations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he is a charter member and treasurer of the local lodge. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church.
Mr. Bauer married Clara Bentz, who was born and educated in Charleston, West Virginia. Her father, Henry Bentz, was born in Ger- many, and upon coming to America, made his home in Charleston. He married a German lady of that city, and they have spent their lives there, where they are members of the Lutheran church.
Oratio L. Davis was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania,
DAVIS August 28, 1861. He was educated in his native county and. up to the age of thirty-one years, resided there. He then removed to the state of Indiana, where he learned the art of making car- bon black. Until 1903 he was closely indentified with this manufacture in Indiana, then removed to West Virginia, where he continued in the same field of industry. Mr. Davis established himself in business in Kanawha county, West Virginia, in 1907, being one of the organizers of the Eastern Carbon Black Company, which is located in Big Sandy Dis- trict, at Barren Creek, on Elk river. This company was incorporated with George H. Morrill, Jr., of Norwood, Massachusetts, as president : Frederick P. Bagley, secretary and treasurer ; Oratio L. Davis, vice-pres- ident and general manager; and Alton N. Davis, of Charleston, West Virginia, as assistant manager. Mr. Davis is one of the very few men who have brought the art of manufacturing carbon black to a high state of perfection, and the corporation of which he is the manager supplies some of the most important concerns. In politics he is a staunch sup- porter of Democratic principles, and he and his wife are attendants at the Christian church. His fraternal affiliations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Masonic Or- der, in which he has taken high rank, being a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Davis married in Warren county, Pennsylvania, Louetta Reigh- ner, born in Clarion county in the same state. Children : Williemay, Carl A., Ralph F., and Jim T.
COLCORD The ancestry of Hon. Edward C. Colcord bears the usual New England stamp of bravery in revolutionary times, the first of the Colcords coming from England to the colonies before the beginning of the war for independence.
(I) John C. Colcord lived to a good old age in mountainous Vermont.
( II) John, son of John C. Colcord, was also a native Vermonter, was a farmer all his life, and died aged nearly eighty years. He was inter- ested in politics both in his immediate vicinity and throughout the coun- try during the turbulent period preceding the civil war. At that time he was elected from Franklin county to the state legislature of Vermont. and served one term. His wife was Sylvia Prudentia, born near Bing- hampton, New York, daughter of Eben E. Bowman. Her father was a prominent contractor, connected with the Erie railroad construction work. I4
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Mrs. Colcord is, like her husband of long-lived stock, and still lives at the age of ninety years, enjoying the companionship of the family of one of her sons, with whom she resides. John Colcord and his wife had children : Edward Clark, of whom further: F. C., died when a young man ; Herbert B., a farmer, still living on the old farm in Vermont ; John C., living in Newburg, Oregon, where he is cashier of a bank ; and Hannah, married Edward Libby, living at Enosburg Falls, Vermont.
(III) Hon. Edward Clark Colcord, son of John and Sylvia P. (Bow- man) Colcord, was born September 4. 1851, in Franklin county, Ver- mont. The public schools of his neighborhood in Vermont provided his early education ; but at the age of seventeen years he left home, and joined an engineering corps then going on an expedition into the north- west, which in 1868 was still an untracked wilderness so far as white men were concerned. The large forests clothing the mountains so thick- ly in the far west attracted his attention and he became actively interested in lumbering about 1872, and at the end of forty years is still connected with this line of trade. He temporarily resided at Eau Claire, Wiscon- sin, and later in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1889 he came to St. Albans, West Virginia, where he erected and still operates several mills. His operations on some of his timber property in Raleigh county, are also important. Politically he has always expressed his belief in the platforms of the Republican party. His activity in political matters since coming to St. Albans has justified the body of voters in selecting him for one of their standard-bearers. Several municipal offices were filled by him to the very great satisfaction of public and officials before his election to the legislature. But by 1900 he had become a figure of state importance, and in that year he received his first term of member- ship in the West Virginia house of delegates. This was followed in 1902 by a four-year term in the senate of the state. In 1908 he was not permitted to drop out of politics, but was returned for another term to the house of delegates. A man of strong and magnetic character, who has made a deep and permanent mark to the benefit of state government, Mr. Colcord impresses every one who meets him and wins their approba- tion and respect. Besides serving as delegate to the state legislature, he is at present also an energetic worker on the county board of equaliza- tion. Through his many business interests, Senator Colcord has become connected with various associations which belong to the social side of life. He is a member of the Lumbermen's Association. In Masonry he is connected with Washington Lodge, No. 58, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, at St. Albans: Tyrian Chapter, No. 14, Royal Arch Masons, at Charleston : Kanawha Commandery. Knights Templar, and St. Albans Lodge. No. 119. Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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