West Virginia and its people, Volume II, Part 50

Author: Miller, Thomas Condit, 1848-; Maxwell, Hu, joint author
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 866

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(II) William, son of Jonathan and Rachel (Scott) Arnold, was brought up, and had his own residence, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. There he was a farmer. He married Hulda Knotts. Their eldest son was Jonathan, of whom further.

( III ) Jonathan (2), son of William and Hulda ( Knotts) Arnold, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1802, died July 20, 1883. About 1822 he settled at Beverly, Randolph county, Virginia, and there he lived the remainder of his days. At his new home he established a tannery, but after a few years he changed his business, entering into cattle grazing and speculating. In his ventures he was usually successful : he was a man of conservative disposition, sound in judgment, and of undisputed integrity, kindhearted, sympathetic, and considerate, yet uncompromisingly stern against dishonesty. As a friend, he was trustworthy and dependable. He was an ardent Whig, and for years one of the leaders of the party in Randolph county. He neither sought nor would accept office, but he was a a leader in many political battles, and with great success. At first he was strongly opposed to the attempt to secede, and he voted, in 1861, against the rati- fication of the ordinance. But he was in opposition to the subsequent course of the national government, and believed the attitude of the South- ern States to be more nearly in accord with the constitution. Therefore, while he took no active part, his later attitude was more in sympathy with the Confederate States. The formation of the new state met his strong opposition and he voted against it. In the autumn of 1863 he was arrested by the United States authorities, on a general charge of disloyalty, and was held prisoner until near the close of the war. Though he was soon paroled within narrow limits, he was not allowed to return to his home until a short time before his release. In his later days he was a Conservative Democrat. Mr. Arnold was the possessor of one of the largest and most carefully selected libraries in this part of the country. Being endowed by nature with an unusually retentive memory, he became a man of excep- tional information.

He married ( first ) in 1827, Thursa, daughter of Ely Butcher, who died a few years later ; (second ) in 1841, Phoebe Ann, daughter of Solomon Collett, who died in a few months; (third) in September, 1844, Laura Ann, daughter of Jonathan and Julia Beckwith (Neale) Jackson, of Clarksburg, Harrison county, Virginia. She was the only sister of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, known to fame and history as Stonewall Jackson, the redoubtable Confederate leader. Children, one by first marriage, died in infancy, others by third marriage: Thomas Jackson, of whom further : Anna Grace, died in 1878, married C. H. Evans in 1866; Stark W.

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Arnold, born December 20, 1851, died October, 1898, married, in Decem- ber, 1880, Elizabeth Gohen; one other, the youngest, died in infancy. Stark W. Arnold was active in public affairs in West Virginia, was prose- cuting attorney of Upshur county, a member of the state senate and after- ward became a minister, officiating in New York.

(IV) Thomas Jackson, son of Jonathan (2) and Laura Ann ( Jack- son ) Arnold, was born at Beverly, Virginia, November 3, 1845. At the age of thirteen he was sent to school at Lexington, Virginia, making his home with his uncle, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. In 1863- 64 he attended school at Parkersburg, West Virginia, under Rev. William L. Hyland. He began the study of law at Beverly in 1865, and afterward took a course in law and equity at Washington and Lee University, from which he graduated in 1867, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The next year he entered on the practice of law at Beverly, and in the fall of the year he was elected prosecuting attorney. He was re-electd in 1870 and 1872, his majority at each re-election being increased from that received in the previous contest. The last of these elections was for a term of four years, under the new state constitution and his services thus extended to the year 1876. In 1880 Mr. Arnold moved to San Diego, Cal- ifornia, where he practised law until 1886. He was then appointed Col- lector of the Port by President Cleveland and was allowed to remain in this office more than a year under President Harrison. According to his Republican successor, he filled the office with integrity and fidelity. His decisions on close questions were usually sustained by the department, and several suggestions made by him were adopted as department rules of administration. Mr. Arnold did not lose his interest in West Virginia despite his removal to a distant part of the country ; he made frequent visits home, and was interested in an effort to establish a Confederate home in Tygart's Valley. In religion he is of the Presbyterian church.

He married. June 1, 1876, Eugenia, born at Lexington, Virginia, April 30th, 1852, daughter of Daniel Harvey and Isabel ( Morrison) Hill. Her father was one of two distinguished Confederate officers of the name Hill, each of whom attained the rank of lieutenant-general in the Confederate service. Daniel Harvey Hill was born in York district, South Carolina, July 12, 1821, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1842. He distinguished himself in the war with Mexico, and was breveted captain and major therein. Resigning his commission in February, 1849, he was made professor of mathematics in Washington College, Lexington, Virginia; but afterward, from 1854, he was engaged in educational work in North Carolina. At the beginning of the civil war he was made colonel of a Confederate infantry regiment, and by success- sive promotions he was made brigadier-general, major-general and lieuten- ant-general. He was prominent in the battles of Big Bethel, Fair Oaks, the Seven Days battle, the second Bull Run campaign, South Mountains, and the battle of Antietam. In 1863 he was sent to the west as lieuten- ant-general, and he commanded a corps in Bragg's army at Chicamauga. On April 26, 1865, he surrendered with Johnston. For about three years he conducted at Charlotte, North Carolina, a magazine, The Land W'e Love. He then returned to educational work in Arkansas and Georgia. His death occurred at Charlotte, North Carolina. September 21, 1889. His wife was Isabel Morrison, of North Carolina. Children of Thomas Jackson and Eugenia ( Hill) Arnold: Isabel, Daniel Harvey Hill, of whom further; Thomas Jackson, Eugene H.

(V) Daniel Harvey Hill, son of Thomas Jackson and Eugenia ( Hill) Arnold, was born at Beverly, West Virginia, January 18, 1879. His edu- cation has been received at Davidson College, in North Carolina; Wash- ington and Lee University ; and in the University of Michigan, at Ann

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Arbor, Michigan. From the Washington and Lee University he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1900. He has been engaged since 1902 in the practice of his profession at the city of Elkins. Here he is a suc- cessful lawyer and an energetic and leading citizen, interested in public affairs and civil welfare. In business circles also Mr. Arnold is a man of standing, and he is a director of the People's National Bank, of Elkins. As the grandson of one eminent Confederate soldier and the grandnephew of another, Mr. Arnold is much interested in the history of the Southland and its heroic records, but not as one belonging to the past and unmindful of the duties and affairs of present American life. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. In political affairs he is active, and is an upholder of the principles of the Democratic party. His church membership is in the Presbyterian body. Mr. Arnold married, at Monticello, Florida, October 24, 1906, Mary Ann, born at Monticello, November 29, 1884, died at Elkins, September 1, 1909, daughter of James and Mary (Hansell) Denham. Her father served in the Confederate army in the civil war, and was afterward a merchant and planter, living at Monticello. Mr. Arnold has no children.

ROBERTSON The story of honorable and well directed enterprise crowned with merited success is one which the world is never tired of hearing, and therefore the record of the life of the late John Edwin Robertson, for many years a prominent business man and honored citizen of Logan, Logan county, West Virginia, is replete with interest and inspiration for the readers of this volume.

John Edwin (1) Robertson, father of John Edwin (2) Robertson, of Logan, came from Amelia county, Virginia, and settled in Logan county when the latter was in its infancy. He was a lawyer and was the first clerk of Logan county. He married Chloe Ann Stone, and by her had six children, including John Edwin, mentioned below. Only one child, Sidney, of Arkansas, now living.

John Edwin (2), son of John Edwin (1) and Chloe Ann (Stone) Rob- ertson, was born February 9, 1830, in Logan county, and was but nine years old when death deprived him of his mother. He was then received into the family of one of his sisters who lived at Barboursville, Cabell county, and in his new home attended school for one year. His father then placed him in Marshall College, and on leaving that institution he went to Alexandria, Louisiana, where for three years he was employed in the store of his brother Henry. In 1849, being then nineteen years old, he sought the gold fields of California, making one of the great host who have passed into history as "Forty-niners." Mr. Robertson remained in the land of his quest until 1861, when the outbreak of the civil war called him back to West Virginia. He enlisted in the Border Rangers, of Jen- kins' Brigade, and fought for the Confederacy throughout the four years' conflict, taking part in many important engagements. At the end of the war he returned to Logan county and settled in the town of Logan, open- ing a general store which he conducted until a few years previous to his death. Prosperity attended his enterprise, bringing large financial returns, while his honorable methods and fair dealing secured for him an enviable reputation for integrity. He was also extensively interested in timbering. Mr. Robertson closed his useful and eventful career in the sixty-ninth year of his age, passing away September 24, 1898. His death deprived the community of an honorable business man and an upright citizen, a kind neighbor, a steadfast friend and an affectionate husband and father, a man admirable in all the relations of life.

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Mr. Robertson married, September 16, 1863, in Logan, Ann Avis, ( see Avis line). They had eight children of whom the following are living : Sidney B., born August 3, 1864, now conducting a wholesale grocery store in Logan, West Virginia ; May Augusta, wife of Okay Hayship, of Hunt- ington; Ettie, wife of W. B. Miles, of Clifton Forge, Virginia; and Lillian, wife of Charles H. Bronson. The deceased were: Chloe Ann, born July 25, 1866, died February 9, 1882; John Edwin, born April 17, 1868, died February 21, 1886; Anna, born December 8, 1877, married, June 6, 1900, B. O. Howland, and died in 1903; and George L., born November 30, 1879, died June 26, 1906.

(The Avis Line).

George Avis, father of Mrs. Ann (Avis) Robertson, was born in England, April 22, 1818, and on June 6, 1835, embarked for the United States. He settled in Logan, where he engaged in business as a carpenter and mason. George Avis married, January 4, 1838, Elizabeth, born June 15, 1819, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Ellis. Mr. Ellis was born November 5, 1785, and his wife on December 9, of the same year. Mrs. Ellis died in March, 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Avis were the parents of the following children : Harriet, born August 22, 1839; Hugh C., born June 6, 1842; Byrl, born August 7, 1844; Ann, mentioned below; Thomas, born January 17, 1849; Elizabeth, born July 21, 1851; Minerva, born January 14, 1854; and George, born May 12, 1861, died August 8, 1861. The mother of these children died May 16, 1861, and the father passed away April 7, 1862.

Ann, daughter of George and Elizabeth ( Ellis) Avis, was born January 17, 1847, and married John Edwin Robertson, as mentioned above. Since her widowhood Mrs. Robertson has lived alone in her beautiful home on Third avenue, which is one of the finest residences in Huntington.

Dr. Alfred J. Fox, the first member of this family of whom we FOX have definite information, was a son of David Fox, who was born in this country and whose ancestors came from Germany. Alfred J. Fox was a physician and practised his profession in Lincoln county, North Carolina, and also for many years filled the pulpit of the Lutheran church at his home, where he died in June, 1884. He married Lydia Bost. Children: 1. Junius B., a Lutheran clergyman, died in Staunton, Virginia. 2. L. A., professor at Roanoke College, Virginia. 3. John Francke, referred to below.

(III) Dr. John Francke Fox, son of Dr. Alfred J. and Lydia ( Bost ) Fox, was born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, April 7, 1863. He received his early education in the public schools, and in 1882 entered the University of Virginia. He graduated from the University of New York City, 1886, and entered upon the practice of his profession in Lin- coln county, North Carolina, remaining there for three years, when he removed to Basic City, Virginia. In 1892 he settled in Bluefield, West Virginia, and was appointed surgeon to the Norfolk & Western railroad, which position he still occupies. In 1902 he formed a partnership with Dr. St. Clair and established the Bluefield Sanatorium which will accom- modate twenty patients. He is a member of the Virginia Medical Asso- ciation, of the West Virginia Medical Association, and also is a member of the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, a Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religion. He married, in 1893, in Augusta county. Virginia, Anna F., daughter of Captain E. A. Fulcher, born December 16, 1866. Children: 1. Frank Fulcher, born September 15, 1894. 2. Edwin Alfred, born May 4. 1897.

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SANDERS John A. (2) Sanders, son of Colonel John A. ( 1) Sand- ers, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born in Wythe county, Virginia, in 1822, died there in 1871. He was a farmer, a Democrat in politics, and a Methodist in religion. He married Sallie, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Clapman) McDonald, born in 1832 in Oceana, Wyoming county, West Virginia. Children: I. Joseph M., referred to below. 2. Lettie Vir- ginia, married M. F. Matheny. 3. Walter, married Vicie Greever. 4. John Otway, died in 1895; married Ida Cook. 5. Bettie Foster, married James Hamaker. 6. Clement Augustus, died in 1889.

(III) Judge Joseph M. Sanders, son of John A. (2) and Sallie ( Mc- Donald) Sanders, was born in Wytheville, Wythe county, Virginia, August 26, 1866. He received his early education in the public schools, and in 1886 began the study of law under the Hon. S. F. Watts and later entered the office of Henry C. Alderson at Tazewell, Virginia, where he remained until he obtained his license and was admitted to the bar in Tazewell, in 1887. He practised for a short time in Graham, Virginia, removing September 26, 1888, to Bluefield, West Virginia, where he con- tinued in active practice of his profession until 1896, when he was elected judge of the circuit court of the ninth judicial circuit of West Virginia. This office he held for eight years when he was renominated by acclama- tion to succeed himself, but before the election occurred he was nom- inated for judge of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia, and was elected to the office in 1904. He continued in this office until October, I, 1907, when he resigned and forming a partnership with his two brothers- in-law, Z. W. and George P. Crockett, under the firm name of Sanders & Crockett, resumed and still continues the practice of his profession at Bluefield, West Virginia. He is a Methodist in religion, and a Republi- can in politics.

He married, at Graham, Tazewell county, Virginia, December 19, 1888, Mamie M., born at Graham, February 2, 1868, daughter of Robert G. and Margaret Eliza ( Witten) Crockett. Children: I. Maggie McDon- ald, born October 29, 1889, died September 3, 1892. 2. Raymond, born July 1, 1891. 3. Sarah McDonald, born June 7, 1893. 4. Mamie Crockett, born June 24, 1895. 5. Joseph M. Jr., born July 5, 1898. 6. Annie Vir- ginia, born September 27, 1900. 7. Kathleen, born October 22, 1902. 8. Esther, born May 16, 1904. 9. Robert Crockett, born July 16, 1907. 10. Zachariah W., born October 31, 19II.

McCULLOCH George M. McCulloch was born in Montgomery county, Virginia, March 7, 1853, son of Benjamin McCulloch, and grandson of Redman and Nancy (McDonald) Eakin. He received his early education in the public schools and later graduated from the Montgomery county high school. At twenty- one years of age he entered mercantile life as a clerk, remaining so occu- pied for eight years, and then opened a general store of his own in which he continued for eight years more, until 1897, when he became president of the Flat Top Insurance Company of Bluefield. West Virginia, which . position he still holds. He has also been secretary and treasurer of the Bluefield Building and Loan Association since 1885. and has also been a stockholder and one of the directors of the First National Bank of Blue- field since 1884. He is interested in various other Mercer county enter- prises. He is director of the Georgia Lumber Company, the Bluefield Hardware Company and holds stock in many other important companies in the state. He is a Methodist in religion, and a member of the Masons, the Mystic Shrine, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He

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married Cretia H., daughter of Madison McCulloch. Children : I. Edward M., born in Hinton, West Virginia, who was educated at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Virginia, and is now in the clothing business in Bluefield, West Virginia. 2. George W., born in Bluefield, West Virginia; now a student at Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana.

The Hare family is of Huguenot origin, and emigrated from HAARE France to the Barbados. About the year 1710 they removed to South Carolina, where they remained for a number of years, and then travelled northward until they reached the southern border of North Carolina, where they settled near the present city of Fayette- ville. At the outbreak of the revolutionary war there were in this family eight sons and three daughters, all born in South Carolina, and among them Joseph Hare, referred to below.

(I) Joseph Hare was born in 1749. The great Tory or Loyalist upris- ing in the spring of 1776 in the neighborhood of Fayetteville, under the leadership of General McDonald, united the patriot forces of the section under Colonel Richard Caswell, and Joseph Hare was attached to this command. Colonel Caswell, learning that a body of Loyalists numbering fifteen hundred was preparing to march to Wilmington, entrenched his troops at Moore's Creek Bridge, and in a battle which was fought Febru- ary 27, 1776, completely routed the Loyalists, killing and capturing a large number of them, including their commander. At the expiration of his term of service in 1779. Joseph Hare removed to the New River valley, and finally settled on Wolf creek in what is now Giles county, Virginia. He became a distinguished Indian fighter and scout and took part in nearly all the skirmishes along the border between 1779 and 1794, among them that on Pond fork of Little Coal river in the early autumn of 1783 with the band of Indians which a few days previously had attacked the family of Mitchell Clay, killing his son and daughter, and carrying his youngest son Ezekiel into captivity. Joseph Hare was also a member of Captain Thomas Shannon's company, with which in February, 1781, he marched to North Carolina and took part in the engagement at Wetzell Mills, March 6, 1781, and in the battle on March 15, 1781, at Guilford Court House. Joseph Hare died in 1855, aged one hundred and five years. He married ( first) in April, 1789, Nannie, daughter of Mitchell and Phoebe ( Belcher ) Clay. He married ( second) Phoebe, daughter of Uriah Purdue. The Purdues were of French origin. Child of Joseph and Phoebe (Purdue ) Hare: William H., referred to below.

(II) William H., son of Joseph and Phoebe ( Purdue ) Hare, was a native of West Virginia. He married Sallie, daughter of James and Susan (Hughes ) French. Among his children was Joseph, referred to below.

(111) Joseph (2), son of William H. and Sallie (French) Hare, was born in West Virginia, and died there. He married Julia Duncan. Chil- dren : Hamilton, killed in the battle of Piedmont, Virginia, June 5. 1864; Joseph H., referred to below : James H., Lieura, Julia, Alice, Mollie, Sue. (IV) Dr. Joseph H. Hare, son of Joseph (2) and Julia (Duncan ) Hare, was born in Giles county, Virginia, died in Bluefield, in 1907. He was an eminent physician and a prominent citizen of Bluefield for many years. He married Mary J. Barnett. Children: Oaka S., referred to below; Julia Alice; John Hampton, M. D .: Cordie Belle, married E. D. Stafford; Nannie Kate, married Richard Wainwright; Mabel Lee ; Theresa ; Hobart A.

(V) Dr. Oaka S. Hare, son of Dr. Joseph H. and Mary J. ( Barnett )

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Hare, was born in Jackson county, West Virginia, November 22, 1880. He received his early education in the public schools of his native county, and in the high school at Bluefield, West Virginia. In 1900 he entered the Maryland Medical College at Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated in 1904. He then commenced the active practice of his profession in Bluefield, West Virginia, where he is now living. He is pres- ident of the board of health of Bluefield, and is a member of the Mercer County Medical Society. He is also a member of the West Virginia State Medical Society, and a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association. He is a member of the chamber of commerce of Bluefield. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is Republican in politics, and is a member of the Christian church. He is unmarried.

LE SAGE Dr. Isaac Richard Le Sage, of Huntington, who has been,

for a number of years, recognized as one of the leading physicians of West Virginia, is descended, as his name denotes, from ancestors whose nationality was that of one whose heroic life record is closely interwoven with the most momentous period of our history, General de Lafayette. Michael Le Sage, great-grandfather of Dr. Isaac Richard Le Sage, was born in Paris, France, and married Sophia Duval, a native of the same city, where both passed their entire lives.

( II) Jules F. M., son of Michael and Sophia (Duval) Le Sage, was born in 1811, in Paris, France, and in his early manhood served in the French campaign in Algiers. Soon after he emigrated to the United States, and lived for a time in Philadelphia, later removing to New York, where he engaged in business as a hat and bandbox manufacturer. In 1851 he came to Cabell county, West Virginia, and there passed the remainder of his life. In politics he was a Whig and during the civil war served in the Union army, afterward identifying himself with the Republican party. He was one of the promoters of the Icarian Society that settled at Nauvoo, Illinois, in the early forties. In religion he was a Roman Catholic. He married, in 1834, in Philadelphia, Mary M. Belle- mere, and they became the parents of two sons: Francis J .; and Joseph A., mentioned below. The town of Le Sage is understood to have been named in honor of Jules F. M. Le Sage.

(III ) Joseph A., son of Jules F. M. and Mary M. (Bellemere) Le Sage, was born in August, 1838, in Philadelphia, and spent his early man- hood on a farm at Le Sage, West Virginia. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the Union army, and after the expiration of his term of service moved to Ironton, Ohio, where he engaged in business as a contrac- tor and builder. He married Mary C. E., born October, 1839. in Page county, Virginia, daughter of Isaac C. and Esther (Keyser ) Dovel, both natives of that county. Mrs. Dovel was a daughter of Andrew Keyser who accompanied General Braddock on his ill-fated expedition to Fort Duquesne. Mr. and Mrs. Le Sage have two sons: Isaac Richard, mentioned below; and Joseph C., born February 2, 1871, at Ironton, Ohio.

(IV) Dr. Isaac Richard Le Sage, elder son of Joseph A. and Mary C. E. ( Dovel) Le Sage, was born April 12, 1866, at Le Sage, Cabell county, West Virginia, and received his earlier education in the public schools of Ironton, Ohio, later becoming a student at Marshall College, Huntington, from which he graduated in 1884. His professional training was obtained at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, that institution conferring upon him, in 1888, the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After graduating Dr. Le Sage spent six months in Illinois, and in the autumn of 1889 returned

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West Virginia and its people, Volume II, Part 50

Author: Miller, Thomas Condit, 1848-; Maxwell, Hu, joint author Publication date: 1913 Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 866

Author: Miller, Thomas Condit, 1848-; Maxwell, Hu, joint author
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 866