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ald Eugene, born August 23, 1894; Ida Kathleen, born September 28, 1896; and Marion Clermont, born November 22, 1899.
LUTZ As president of the Trimble & Lutz Supply Company, engaged in the wholesale dealing of plumber's supplies, gas fixtures and supplies, steamfitting goods, etc., in Wheeling, George W. Lutz is contributing his quota to the industrial prestige of his native city, and is known as one of its progressive, reliable and representative busi- ness men. The name which he bears has been identified with business and civic activities in Wheeling for nearly fifty years, and has ever stood exponent of staunch and worthy citizenship.
George W. Lutz was born in the old Home Hotel on Market street. in the city of Wheeling, on the 17th of July, 1855, and is a son of Sebas- tian and Anna (Truschler ) Lutz, the former of whom was born in Alsace Lorraine, of staunch German lineage, and the latter of whom was horn in Swartzwald, Germany. Sebastian Lutz came to Wheeling in 1833 and here established the old Home Hotel, which under his regime became one of the most popular hostelries of this section of the state, and which he successfully conducted until his death in 1865, at the age of fifty-one years. The older inhabitants of Wheeling well remember this sterling citizen, whose integrity and honesty gained for him the respect and co11 - fidence of the community in which he maintained his home for more than a score of years. His wife survived him by a number of years, and was forty-one years of age when she was summoned to the life eternal, both having been consistent members of the Catholic church. Of their children, three sons and one daughter are living, and all still reside in Wheeeling, George W., of this review, is the first of the three sons; he has two brothers, William J. and John J. Lutz. The only sister, Sophia, is the wife of George Hook, president and treasurer of the Germania Half Dol- lar Savings Bank of this city, and also secretary of the West Virginia Exposition and State Fair Association, which has done much to exploit the fine resources and manifold attractions of the state.
George W. Lutz is indebted to the private and night schools of Wheel- ing for his early educational discipline, and this city has been his home and the scene of his business activities during the entire course of his inde- pendent career. In 1871 he was employed by the firm of Trimble & Hornbrook, which built up a prosperous business in the handling of plumbing, gas and steamfitting supplies: later the enterprise was con- ducted under the firm name of Trimble & Lutz until 1893. when the death of Mr. Trimble severed the long continued and pleasing relations. The full management of the business devolved upon Mr. Lutz, and as a mat- ter of commercial expediency and for the purpose of expanding the scope of the enterprise he effected the incorporation of the Trimble & Lutz Supply Company, of which he has been president and of which H. H. Hornbrook is vice-president and Harry A. Ebbert is secretary and treasurer. The company has large and well equipped quarters at 112-122 Nineteenth street, and the business is now one of wide and substantial ramifications, with a reputation that figures as its best commercial asset.
Mr. Lutz takes a vital interest in all that tends to foster the material and social advancement and precedence of his native city, and is essentially liberal and progressive both as a citizen and as a business man. Though never a seeker of political preferment. he gives a staunch allegiance to the Democratic party, and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the St. Joseph Cathedral Catholic Church. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Arion Society, and also of the Ft. Henry, the Carroll and the Country
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clubs. In the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks he served as exalted ruler in 1902. He is a director of the Security Trust Company, the Gee Electric Company, and the Wheeling Tile Company, and has also served as president of the Board of Trade for three terms.
Mr. Lutz was the father and promoter of the New Market Audi- torium, to which he gave of his time and money, and has carried the same to a successful issue. He was chosen president of the organization, and his motto all through has been, "built for the people by the people," which motto is chiseled in the cornerstone. The Associated Charities and Play- ground Association were both fathered by him and brought to a success- ful issue by the Board of Trade.
Mr. Lutz was married, July 25, 1878, to Miss Lugene E. Hornbrook, daughter of Thomas and Triphena Hornbrook. Mrs. Lutz is a consistent member of St. Luke's Church.
McGREGOR The Bond's Creek region in Ritchie county, West Vir- ginia, one of the most fertile regions in this county, is practically contemporaneous in its white settlement wit 1 the beginning of the nineteenth century. The settlement was at first slowly made, and the settlers who came from time to time during the first half of the century were from various parts of the world, without former acquaintance, and with no previous bond of sympathy.
(I) John McGregor, the founder of this family, was born near Edin- burgh, Scotland, January 24, 1777, and died at Uniontown, Fayette county. Pennsylvania. January 3, 1832. He was brought up near Edinburgh, and there learned the blacksmith's trade. In 1812, with his wife and little son, he came to America, and they landed in Philadelphia after a voyage of six months. They lived in Philadelphia until April, 1819, when they went to Pittsburgh in an emigrant wagon. Floating down the Ohio river, and using the old road, they came to Bond's Creek, where they established their permanent home and reared one of the most prominent families of Ritchie county, West Virginia. Here Mr. McGregor followed his trade. On account of bad health he went in 1830 to Uniontown to consult a physician, who, however, was unable to cure him. He was buried at Uniontown, in the old Presbyterian churchyard. He married, in 1809. Susanna Blakeley, of Glasgow, Scotland. Children : I. James, born
August 16. 1810, died in 1874; married Jane Morrison. 2. John, born May 14, 1813, died in 1886; married, September 11, 1834, Delilah Mar- tin. 3. David, of whom further. 4. Susan, born March 5. 1817, died in 1876; unmarried. 5. William, ( q. v.). 6. Jeanette, born in 1821, died in 1904 : married Leonard S. Hall. 7. Thomas, born September 19, 1823, died in 1903 : married twice. 8. Joseph, born May II, 1825, died in 1898 ; married Eliza Jane Martin. 9. Alexander, born March 7, 1827, died in young manhood. Two other children, Thomas and Elizabeth, died in infancy.
(II) David, son of John and Susanna ( Blakeley ) McGregor, was born in Philadelphia, June 4, 1815, and died December 7, 1891. In his early childhood he came to Bond Creek with his parents. At the age of twenty- two he moved to Cairo, Ritchie county, West Virginia, where he formed a mill partnership with William Lowther. In 1838 he became the sole owner of the mill property, and in connection with it he had a store. The postoffice was also kept at the mill. In 1850 he erected another mill at Cairo, and a store in the same building. For several years he operated both mills and both stores. He afterward sold one of these properties, but he continued in mercantile business at Cairo till his old age. At the time of the outbreak of civil war he had a colonel's commission in the-
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Virginia militia, and he was offered a colonelcy in each of the contending armies, but declined. From 1878 to 1882 he represented his senatorial district in the West Virginia legislature, being thrice elected. He was a charter member of the Kate Barclay Lodge, Independent Order of ( )dd Fellows, which was organized in November, 1848, and a charter member of the Good Templars lodge instituted at Cairo in 1870. He was grand worthy chief of the latter order, and organized many lodges through the state. During the greater part of his life he followed the Democratic party, but in 1884 he was the Prohibitionist nominee for governor. In church circles also he was prominent, being a member of the Hughes River Presbyterian Church, and he was one of the earliest presidents of the Sunday school organization of his county. He married ( first ) March 17, 1842, Katharine, daughter of William and Frances ( Piatt) McKin- ney, who died at Cairo, September 11, 1863; ( second) November 1, 1864, Matilda, died February 27, 1913, daughter of Jesse and Feba Lowther ; she married ( first ) Maxwell Lowther. Children, first-named three by first, others by second wife: Frances S., married I. S. Hallam ; William A., died in infancy ; John P., died in infancy ; Lillian B., married Robert Wilson ; David G., of whom further ; Rob Roy, Nettie Pauline, F. Her- bert, Leila Bertha.
(III) David G., son of David and Matilda (Lowther-Lowther ) McGregor, was born at Cairo, February 19. 1869. His education was received in the public schools. For a while he was engaged in farming. In the winter of 1891 and in 1892 he was in Iowa, and there he worked as a carpenter. Returning to Cairo, he became interested in oil, and pumped the first wells in the Cairo oil fields. In 1896 he was manager for Major A. C. Hawkins in the oil fields. He has, however, returned to his earlier industrial interest, agriculture, and in the soundest way, being both a practical and a theoretical farmer, interested in the scientific study of agriculture and the improvement of farming. In 1903 he took charge of his father's estate, and after its settlement he engaged himself in farming and dairying. breeding full blooded Guernsey cattle. At the present time he is conducting a large dairy on scientific principles, and he was the first man to ship milk out of Ritchie county. Being interested in the dissemination of sound principles of farming, he organized, on Feb- ruary 19. 1911, the Agricultural School at Cairo, under the jurisdiction of the State College. Afterward he organized the Grant District Farming Club, and of this organization Mr. McGregor is president. The ultimate future of West Virginia is presumably to be agricultural, and in agricul- ture, even more than in its wonderful mineral wealth, is to be found the industrial backbone of the state. While agriculture has so keenly interested Mr. McGregor, he has other commercial and financial interests. He is a director and vice-president of the Cairo Mercantile Business, and presi- dent of the Greer Supply Company. In 1908 he was superintendent of the Kanawha Valley Railroad Company. Since 1902 he has been one of the directors of the Bank of Cairo, and in 1911 was chosen its president. For one term he was mayor of Cairo. Since he was twenty-one years old he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Cairo Lodge, No. 114; Royal Arch Masons, Odell S. Long Chapter, No. 25, at Penns- boro; Knights Templar, Calvary Commandery, No. 3: and is a thirty- second degree Mason.
David G. McGregor married, in 1895. Emma, daughter of John and Elizabeth Douglass. Children : Jean, born September 10, 1898; Jeanette, April 19, 1907.
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(II) William McGregor, son of John McGregor (q. v.)
McGREGOR and Susanna ( Blakeley ) McGregor, was born in Phila- delphia, October 25, 1818, and died at Salem, Har- rison county, West Virginia, December, 1903. In his infancy he was brought by his parents from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, and thence to Bond's Creek. In 1838 he purchased 4,000 acres of land on this creek at a tax sale for seven cents an acre; at that time the whole county and state tax on the entire tract was but forty cents. A substantial part of this large tract is still in the possession of the family. He married, April 24, 1844, Elizabeth Gregg, daughter of Samuel G. and Rachel (Hudkins ) Hall, who was born in Barbour county, Virginia, Sep- tember 25, 1825, and died at Cairo, Ritchie county, West Virginia, at the home of her son, Winfield Scott McGregor, May 3, 1910. Her family had a notable record in the civil war, five of her brothers enlisting in the conflict, three for the Union, two as Confederates. Children: I. Harlan P. 2. Virginia, died 1895; married John L. Cottrell. 3. Anna, married G. F. Carroll. 4. J. B. 5. Homer, deceased; graduate of Marietta Col- lege and Union Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Presbyterian minister. 6. W. Burns. 7. I. Clyde. 8. Rose, married Theodore Furbee. 9. Win- field Scott, of whom further. 10. Mary, married James Chestnut. II. Indiana, died in infancy.
(III) Winfield Scott, son of William and Elizabeth Gregg (Hall ) McGregor, was born in Ritchie county, Virginia, March 13, 1861. He received a public school education in his native county. His business career began with a position as clerk in a store. From this beginning he has gradually and steadily progressed until he has reached a place of prominence in the business affairs of his county. For twelve years after leaving his clerkship he was a traveling salesman. He is now a director and vice-president of the Citizens' National Bank at Pennsboro, Ritchie county. April 1, 1911, he was made vice-president and general manager of the Greer Supply Company, at Cairo, and these offices he still holds. Mr. McGregor is also largely interested in farming. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of F. M. and Isabella (Amett) Trip- lett. Children : Donald, Rose M., Elizabeth G., William F., Isabel, Ralph.
This is one of the older Irish families of West Virginia. FERRELL The name Ferrell. in other parts of the country, has be- come one of great prominence in manufacturing circles. (I) Thomas Ferrell, the founder of this family, was born in Ireland, near Gillgall. Coming to the United States of America, he made settle- ment at Morgantown, Virginia. The name of his wife is not known, but he had a son, Thomas G., of whom further.
(II) Thomas G., son of Thomas Ferrell, was born near Morgantown ; he died in the civil war. He was a prosperous farmer. Moving to Cal- houn county, Virginia, he was the first man to raise wheat in that county ; it was threshed by horses walking on it, and fanned with a sheet. In the war he enlisted as a Union soldier, and died in the struggle. He married - Bunner. Children: Franklin, of whom further: Robert: James ; Eliza ; Ann, married J. S. Wolverton ; Amanda, married Lindey Stevens ; Sarah, married Sturgeon Price.
(III) Franklin, son of Thomas G. and ( Bunner ) Ferrell, was born near Morgantown, in 1833, and died in 1896. He also was a farmer, and a soldier for the defense of the Union, enlisting in the 11th Virginia Regiment. After three years' service he was honorably dis- charged. He married Susan, daughter of William Webb, who died in
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1899. Children: Ulysses Simpson Grant, of whom further; Thomas, William, James, George, Randolph, Emery, Ella, Dorcas, Helen.
(IV) Dr. Ulysses Simpson Grant Ferrell, son of Franklin and Susan (Webb) Ferrell, was born in Calhoun county, West Virginia, August 28, 1865. He attended the public schools, and took the course of the Balti- more University School of Medicine, from which he was graduated and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1893. The same year he began practicing at Burning Springs, Wirt county, West Virginia, and in 1898 came to Cairo, Ritchie county, West Virginia, where he has remained, and acquired a large and successful practice. Dr. Ferrell is a member of the Ohio Valley Medical Association and of the West Virginia Medical Association. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
He married, in 1896, Elizabeth, daughter of D. A. Roberts. Children : Gloria, born October 16, 1900, died in 1905: Margaret, born September 26, 1904.
John McCue, the first member of this family about whom
McCUE we have definite information, was born at or near Staunton, Virginia, and died in Nicholas county, Virginia, September 22, 1862. Early in his life he came into what is now the state of West Virginia, and liere he was engaged in farming. He was the only man in Nicholas county who voted for Abraham Lincoln for president of the United States. Not being allowed to vote after he reached the polls, he went home and fetched his gun and compelled the acceptance of his vote. But this vote cost him his life, for it was on account of it that his home was surrounded by bushwhackers, and he was called to his door and shot down in cold blood September 2, 1862; after killing him, they robbed his house. He married Melinda McClung. Children, thirteen, including Fielding of whom further.
(II) Fielding, son of John and Melinda ( McClung ) McCue, was born in Nicholas county. Virginia, April 22, 1852. He has always been a farmer and stock raiser. He married Lydia, daughter of John H. and Letitia ( Groves) Rader. Children : Anthony Fielding, of whom further ; Wallace Arnold, born October 30, 1887, now engaged in the raising of blooded horses and cattle.
. (III) Anthony Fielding, son of Fielding and Lydia ( Rader) McCue, was born in Nicholas county, West Virginia, June 9, 1884. He was edu- cated in the public schools and at Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, West Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1904; two years later he was graduated also from the University of West Virginia, in the law depart- ment. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of law at West Union, Doddridge county, West Virginia. November 5, 1912, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Doddridge county for a term of four years. He is a member of the Delta Taw Delta fraternity; of Gamma Delta Chapter, Morgantown, West Virginia ; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of America.
He married, October 20, 1909, Alice, daughter of William L. and Elizabeth McLane, of West Union, West Virginia. Child: Alan McLane McCue, born September 13, 19II.
VICKERS Among the leaders of the medical profession in West Virginia must be numbered Dr. Robert Evan Vickers, of Huntington. Dr. Vickers comes of old Virginia stock and has been for thirty-one years prominently identified with the advancement of the medical profession in his native state and his home city.
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Griffin Evan Vickers, grandfather of Robert Evan Vickers, was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, and removed to Kanawha county, where he engaged in farming and was also interested in the manufacture of salt. He married Virginia Allen, of Charlottesville, Virginia ; their son Leon- ard, is mentioned below. Mrs. Vickers was but fifty years old at the time of her death, and her husband passed away in 1905, at the venerable age of ninety-three.
Leonard, son of Griffin Evan and Virginia (Allen) Vickers, was born in 1835, in Kanawha county, and was a manufacturer of salt. He married Mary M., a native of Kanawha county, daughter of James Eras- mus. and Emily (Moles) Tucker. Mr. Tucker was born near Richmond, Virginia, and removed to Missouri, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was engaged in the manufacture of salt, and died imme- diately after the close of the war, being then eighty-six years old. Mrs. Tucker passed away at the age of eighty-nine. Mr. and Mrs. Vickers were the parents of a son : Robert Evan, mentioned below. Mr. Vickers died in early manhood, passing away March 9, 1858, when only twenty- three years of age. His widow, who became the wife of F. N. Roberts, is now living at Hamlin, at the age of seventy-eight years.
Dr. Robert Evan Vickers, only child of Leonard and Mary M. (Tucker) Vickers, was born December 3, 1857, at Malden, Kanawha county, Virginia, now West Virginia, and was but three months old when death deprived him of his father. The boy received his preparatory edu- cation in the public schools of Malden and Charleston, afterward taking a normal course at Hamlin. During the next four years he was engaged in teaching in the schools of his native county, and at the end of that time entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. In 1884 he graduated from the Medical School of the University of Maryland, sub- sequently taking a post-graduate course at Bellevue Medical School, New York, and in 1888 receiving from that institution the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. Vickers first began practice in 1882, at Griffithsville, West Vir- ginia, under the authorization of a state certificate, and after graduating came to Huntington, where, on the last day of the year 1888, he entered upon the active practice of his profession, in which he has since been con- tinuously engaged. He now devotes the greater part of his attention to surgery, and for the last eighteen years has annually given a portion of his time to post-graduate work in New York and Baltimore. He has long been in possession of an extremely extensive and profitable practice. To Dr. Vickers belongs the distinction of having opened the first hospi- tal in Huntington ; this he did in 1892, the institution being known as the R. E. Vickers Private Hospital, and in 1910 he opened the Mount Hope Hospital. He is president of the state board of health. In politics Dr. Vickers is a Republican. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. His religious affilia- tions are with the Protestant Episcopal church. He has always taken an interest in the welfare and improvement of his home city and has been connected with many important public and business enterprises. As a med- ical practitioner Dr. Vickers enjoys the confidence and affection of a large number of his fellow citizens, and as the founder of two hospitals his name and work will long be held in grateful remembrance.
Dr. Vickers married. February 18, 1889, in Huntington, Victoria, a native of that place, daughter of J. L. and Virginia ( Hanley ) Thornburg. Mr. Thornburg was born in 1835. in Cabell county, and was for many years a prominent civil engineer, having laid out the city of Huntington. He died in 1883 and his widow is now living in Huntington. Dr. and Mrs. Vickers are the parents of four children: One who died in in-
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fancy : Ruth Lois, died at the age of two years; James Leonard, now fourteen years old ; and Lola Virginia, now eleven years old. Dr. Vick- ers' residence, which he built in 1890, is on Fifth avenue, and is one of the finest in the city.
This name which, in both its forms, Stuart and Stewart, is
STUART of very frequent occurrence and is found in various parts of the United States of America, and which is especially notable in history as the name of a great family in England, the family of several reigning kings and of unsuccessful claimants of the throne, has long been found in Harrison county, Virginia, of which county Walter Stuart, of West Union, Doddridge county, West Virginia, is a native.
Walter Stuart, son of Charles and Letitia ( Radcliff ) Stuart, was born in Elk district, Harrison county, West Virginia, January 25, 1879, about two miles from the village of Romines Mills, in that county. His educa- tion was begun in the common schools of Harrison county, but he has attended also the University of West Virginia, the University of Virginia, and Lebanon University, Lebanon, Ohio, receiving a classical education. From Lebanon University he was graduated in the class of 1906, and then received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For three years he was a teacher in West Virginia, in his native county, and in Lewis county, in the common schools. After his college graduation, from 1906 to 1908 Mr. Stuart was principal of the Brooksville (Kentucky) high school; and from 1909 to 1911 he was teacher of Latin and mathematics in Meridian College, Meridian, Texas. On July 1, 1911, Mr. Stuart became editor and business manager of the West Union Record, of West Union, Dod- dridge county, West Virginia, and here he has lived since that time, engaged in newspaper work and job printing.
COX This family is of New Jersey descent, and is said to have as an English ancestor Dr. Daniel Cox, of London, a relative of Queen Anne, and, in her reign, physician to the royal family. In regard to the early history of this family there is evidently some confu- sion. The following account gives only such statements as may reasonably be judged probably correct, except in regard to the dates and ages of the earliest generations ; in these, error is to be suspected.
(I) Philip Cox, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, was born about 1685, and died in New Jersey, in 1797. He married Hannah Trembly. Of their children, the youngest son, and the only son who had a family, was Isaac, of whom further.
(II) Isaac, son of Philip and Hannah (Trembly) Cox, was born in New Jersey, in 1731, and died in 1838. He came to Harrison county, Vir- ginia, and settled at the mouth of Kincheloe's creek. He married Sarah Sutton, of New Jersey. Children: Philip, of whom further; John ; Sarah, married John Tingley; Hannah, married Joseph Smith: Isaac.
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