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public affairs he is ever on the alert to do all in his power to advance progress and prosperity and he is known as one of the most enterprising citizens in Williamson, where he is honored and esteemed by all with whom he has come in contact.
On February 8, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Williams to Flora Alice Glidden, born in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1851, daughter of Joseph Mills and Eliza (Young ) Glidden. Children : Elzie Young, now Mrs. Harry E. Wolf, of New Albany, Indiana .; Mary Glidden, now Mrs. D. W. Brown, of Huntington, West Virginia ; and John E. Jr., who is connected with his father in the grocery business at Williamson.
MARSHALL The present family has been settled in what is now the state of West Virginia from a time anterior to the close of the revolutionary war. Aaron Marshall, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, is thought to have been a soldier under General Washington at Fort Brad- dock, and to have settled, in 1760, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. In 1780 he settled in Hancock county, Virginia, on what was known as Johnson's survey. On this tract of eight thousand one hundred acres his was the fourth house. The deed was made by John Gibson, who held power of attorney from Johnson Gibson: and Johnson Gibson was the man to whom Logan, the Indian chief, is said to have made his famous speech. Whom Aaron Marshall married is not known, but he had a son, John, of whom further.
(II) John, son of Aaron Marshall, was born in 1782, died in 1859. He lived in Hancock county, Virginia. The name of his wife is not known, but he had a son, James G., of whom further.
(III) James G., son of John Marshall, was born at Fairview, Hancock county, Virginia, November 21. 1826, died October 6, 1902. He was an attorney, and for twenty-four years was prosecuting attorney of Han- cock county. He was a Republican. He married Lavina Miller. Chil- dren : Erastus Dryden, an attorney at Chester, West Virginia; Oliver Sheriden, of whom further; Ila May.
(IV) Oliver Sheriden, son of James G. and Lavina (Miller) Mar- shall, was born at Fairview, Virginia. September 24. 1850. He is a grad- uate of Bethany College, class of 1878, and has been a trustee of this col- lege since 1881. He has served three terms in the state senate, and in 1899 was president of the senate. In 1892 he was delegate to the national convention of his political party, the Republican. His church is the Chris- tian. He married. September 8. 1880, Elizabeth, born at Wellsburg, West Virginia, daughter of Campbell and Nancy (Hammond) Tarr. At the time of the outbreak of attempted secession. her father was a delegate to the Richmond convention, from Brooke county, but he withdrew when Vir- ginia desired to secede, and he was prominent in the conventions which resulted in the formation of the new state, and was the first treasurer of West Virginia, and was treasurer of the provisional government. Chil- dren : John, of whom further ; Olive, deceased.
(V) John (2), son of Oliver Sheriden and Elizabeth (Tarr) Marshall, was born at New Cumberland, West Virginia, July 28, 1881. He has received an excellent college education. Bethany College has conferred upon him both the baccalaureate and the master's degrees, in arts, and in 1903 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. His legal studies were made at the University of West Virginia, from which he has the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. Marshall is one of the prominent and rising young men of Parkersburg, active in many of its diverse business enterprises and already holding an important place
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in public life. He is a member of the law firm of Moss, Marshall & Forrer, formed January 1, 1913. He is a director in the Smoot Adver- tising Company, Parkersburg Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Valley Pub- lishing Company, Parkersburg Publishing Company, Electric Supply Com- pany, of Parkersburg, United States Roofing & Tile Company, and other business concerns of Parkersburg. In January, 1910, he was appointed assistant United States attorney. He is a member of two Greek letter college fraternities, Beta Theta Pi, and the law fraternity, Delta Chi. He is a member also of the Union Society of the Civil War and of the Country Club of Parkersburg. His political party is the Republican. He and his wife are members of the Christian church.
He married, at Wheeling. West Virginia, January 25, 1906, Rebecca Cooper, born at Wheeling, daughter of Joseph Fry and Emma (Senseney ) Paull. She is a descendant of Colonel Fry, of revolutionary fame ; her grandfather, James Paull, was a judge of the supreme court of West Virginia, and Judge Fry was her great-grandfather. Joseph Fry Paull, her father, is president of the Wheeling Stamping Works and of the Fidelity Investment & Loan Association, of Wheeling. Children of John and Rebecca Cooper (Paull) Marshall: John Jr., born February 22, 1908; Joseph Paull, May 20, 1912.
HALL This common name is borne by many families in the United State and even in the state of West Virginia. Many persons of eminence have borne this surname, including a notable list of distinguished ministers. The present family had a remarkable record of activity in the civil war, and affords an excellent illustration of the way in which families were conscientiously divided on its issues. Special note should also be made, in any account of this family, of John S. Hall, who lost his sight as a result of sickness incurred on the "March to the Sea" with Sherman, and in spite of this handicap was a teacher in the public schools, a poet, and was admitted to the bar.
(I) - Hall, the founder of this family, died at an advanced age at Duck Creek Bridge, not far from Baltimore, Maryland. He was a farmer in the northern part of England. His wife, whose name is not known, and whom he married before coming to America, was of Scotch birth or descent : she also lived to an advanced age, and died at Duck Creek Bridge. Among their several children was Samuel, of whom further.
(II) Samuel Hall, son of - - Hall, was a soldier in the American revolution. He and his wife died at old age, only two days apart, and were buried in the same grave. Their sons crossed the Alleghany moun- tains, and settled in Pendleton county, Virginia, on the south branch of the river Potomac, and in their new home they were engaged in farming. Children : Thomas, a soldier of the revolution ; Joseph, of whom further. (III) Joseph, son of Samuel Hall, was born about 1741, died in 1821. After the death of his first wife he moved to Harrison county, Virginia. He married (first) Barbara Dickenson, (second) Elizabeth (Riger) Talbot, who survived him, and lived to the age of eighty-seven. Children, first-named five by first, others by second, marriage: David, John, of whom further; Samuel, Thomas, Nancy, Catharine, Jacob R., Enoch, Philip, Phoebe.
(IV) John, son of Joseph and Barbara (Dickenson) Hall, married Elizabeth Gregg. Children: Louis Chestine, Samuel G., of whom fur- ther ; Thomas, Nancy, Elizabeth.
(V) Samuel G., son of John and Elizabeth (Gregg) Hall, was born in Harrison county, Virginia, in 1803, died in Indiana, in 1846. The 24
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days of his youth and young manhood were spent in Harrison county ; the first nineteen years of his married life were spent in Barbour and Ty- ler counties, Virginia, and in 1842 they moved to what was the next year formed into Ritchie county. Virginia, taking up their residence on a farm at the mouth of Dog Comfort, on Bond's creek, but two years later they moved to Indiana. Mr. Hall is buried at New Buffalo, Michi; gan. Mrs. Hall, with her three youngest children, returned in 1849 to Bond's creek, where she lived until 1874; from that year the remainder of her life was passed at St. Mary's, Pleasants county. West Virginia. Samuel G. Hall married, in 1823. Rachel, daughter of Barton and Naomi (Ingraham) Hudkins. Her father, the son of an immigrant from Eng- land, himself born in Randolph county, Virginia, moved to Harrison county, Virginia, now Barbour county, West Virginia, and thence to what is now Ritchie county, where he was the first settler on White Oak, but soon moved to the Bond's creek side. Barton Hudkins was a soldier in the war of 1812. Children of Samuel G. and Rachel ( Hudkins) Hall : I. Leonard Stout, of whom further. 2. Elizabeth Gregg, born Septem- ber 25, 1825, died May 3, 1910: married, April 24, 1844, William Mc- Gregor. 3. Simon, living in Indiana ; a Union soldier. 4. Naomi, de- ceased : married Jacob Bosler. 5. Sarah A., married S. P. Howell ; they live in Indiana. 6. Mary J., lives at St. Marys ; unmarried. 7. Nannie P., lives at St. Marys, for forty-four years she was a school teacher in West Virginia and in Indiana : in 1883-84 she was principal of the school at St. Marys, the only woman who has ever held this office ; for more than fifty years she has been a Sunday school teacher; for seventeen years she was president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, at St. Marys ; unmarried. 8. Sacharissa, deceased ; married Amos Gorrell. 9. Rebecca, deceased ; married Wilbert Rider. 10. William W., died Sep- tember 28, 1884; a Union soldier, serving in Company F, Fourteenth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry ; after the civil war he set- tled in Wetzel county, West Virginia, where he read law and was admitted to the bar : in 1870 he moved to St. Marys, and there he was prosecuting attorney fourteen years. 11. Allen S., died at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, in 1880; he was a Confederate soldier, and he and his brother William W. were engaged on opposite sides in seven battles, as they found in comparing notes after the war. 12. John S., born Septem- ber 15, 1845; he was anxious to fight for the defense of the Union in the civil war, but his mother strongly objected ; however, in 1863. he slipped away from home, and enlisted as a teamster in the Fourth Bri- gade of Tennessee : he started from Murfreesboro with Sherman, on his great march, but was taken with sickness at the beginning of the journey; for over six months he was in a hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, and although he recovered, his sight was destroyed by his sickness: from; 1861 to 1868 he attended the Institution for the Blind, at Columbus, Ohio, being a classmate of Chaplain Cowden, of the United States house of representatives : returning from Columbus to West Virginia, he passed the examination, and received a certificate for life to teach school, which he did for seven years at Highland and Cairo in Ritchie county ; in 1877 he wrote a novel, which was published in serial form in the Wetsel Messenger : for some years he was active in the newspaper. field. as editor and owner of a paper, first called the Observer, afterward the Oracle, at St. Marys, but he sold the paper early in 1885: while he was teaching school he studied law and was admitted to practice, but has never appeared before the courts: Mr. Hall is also a poet: he is a Presbyterian, elder of the congregation at St. Marys: Democrat, and an active political worker, having been chairman of the county committee and served in conventions.
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(VI) Leonard Stout, son of Samuel G. and Rachel ( Hudkins ) Hall, was born in Harrison county, Virginia, August 29, 1824, died at New Martinsville, Wetzel county, West Virginia, November 18, 1875. Before the civil war he was a member of the Virginia legislature, and he was a delegate to the Richmond convention, in which he voted for the passage of the ordinance of secession. During the conflict he took an active part in the affairs of the Confederacy, at Richmond, although he was not a soldier. After the surrender of General Lee, he moved back to West Virginia and resumed his profession, the law. He practiced at various times in his life in Wetzel, Tyler, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wood, Marshall, and other counties of the present state of West Virginia. He was a Dem- ocrat, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, April 13, 1846, Jeanette, born in 1821, died at Wheeling, West Virginia, April 21, 1904, daughter of John and Susanna ( Blakeley) McGregor. Her father and mother were natives of Scotland; for fuller account see sketch of David G. McGregor in this work. Children of Leonard Stout and Jeanette ( McGregor ) Hall: 1. Septimius, born February 14, 1847; member of the constitutional convention of West Virginia in 1872, after- ward served in each branch of the state legislature; married Fanny Anshutz. 2. William McGregor, born January 6, 1851, died June 6, 1906; lawyer at New Martinsville ; married Sarah Pemberton. 3. Susan B., born January 21, 1855; married James W. Newman. 4. Samuel Bruce, of whom further. 5. Ada B., born September 26, 1859; married Wilbur P. Baggs.
(VII) Samuel Bruce, son of Leonard Stout and Jeanette ( McGregor ) Hall, was born at New Martinsville, October 28, 1856. His early years were spent at New Martinsville, where he attended the common schools ; for further studies he attended college at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and afterward the University of Virginia, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and has practiced law continuously from that time at New Martinsville. Mr. Hall also has important business and banking interests at New Martinsville and elsewhere. He is a director in the New Martinsville Grocery Company and in the Crescent Mill Com- pany, also of New Martinsville. Among his banking interests are those in the First National Bank, of New Martinsville, and the First National Bank, of Sardis, Ohio. The bank at New Martinsville he was instru- mental in organizing, and he was its first president ; he is still a member of the board of directors, and is a director of the First National of Sardis also. He is a stockholder in several other banks. He is a Mason, and has held a large number of offices in this order. In politics Mr. Hall is a Democrat, and he has been a member of the New Martinsville board of education and held other local offices. Both he and his wife are commu- nicants of the Episcopal church. Mr. Hall married, May 11, 1887, Kate Eveline, born at Powhatan Point, Belmont county, Ohio, daughter of Theodore and Lucy (Davis) Hornbrook. Her father, formerly a mer- chant, is now living at New Martinsville ; her mother is a native of Mon- roe county, Ohio. Children: Kent Bruce, born June 14, 1888; Lucy, February 4, 1890, died December 9. 1894: William McGregor, July 12, 1895.
While this family is of Connecticut colonial origin, its south- JACOBS ern movement began with the American founder; it was in New Jersey in the time of the revolution, and in Mary- land very shortly thereafter, and the present state of West Virginia has been its home for about sixty years. The family is of Welsh descent, as might be supposed from the name, for this name is one of the class of
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patronymics, which formerly, according to the usage of ancient Greece, often found also among the Dutch immigrants to America, and preserved to modern times in Greece and Russia, designated merely the immediate parentage of the bearers. As might be expected, this mode of designation was found to be insufficient, and surnames came into use. While true surnames were used among the ancient Romans, their introduction into England dates only from the middle ages, the exact time being uncer- tain; and in Wales they were of much later, almost modern, introduction.
(I) Zachariah Jacobs, the founder of this family, was of Welsh descent. About 1740 he came to the American colonies, and settled in Connecticut. Twenty years later he moved into New Jersey. It is not known whom he married, but he had a son, Jacob, of whom further.
(II) Jacob, son of Zachariah Jacobs, came with his father to New Jersey in 1760. He was a captain in the New Jersey line, in the revolu- tion, and was with General Washington at Valley Forge. The name of his wife is not known, but he had a son, Gabriel, of whom further.
(III) Gabriel, son of Jacob Jacobs, was born in New Jersey, July 7, 1781, died in Allegany county, Maryland, October 11, 1848. He married Margaret Jackson, born May 27, 1783, died October 20, 1855. Children, twelve, of whom one died in infancy. To all these children Biblical names were given, and the youngest son was Cephas, of whom further.
(IV) Cephas, son of Gabriel and Margaret (Jackson) Jacobs, was born in Allegany county, Maryland, January 8, 1826, died at Morgtantown, West Virginia, February 2, 1902. He was brought up on a farm, and received the education possible in his circumstances. Until 1853 he was a farmer in the county of his birth, and then he came into Preston county, Virginia. There he continued farming for sixteen years. In 1869 he moved into Monongalia county, West Virginia, where he bought a farm, on the west side of the Monongahela river, opposite Morgantown; here he was, until 1891, actively and successfully engaged in agriculture. In July, 1892, he moved into Morgantown. He was one of the organizers and was president of the First National Building & Loan Association, of Charleston, West Virginia, and a director in the Second National Bank of Morgantown. He was a member of Morgan Lodge, No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons, at Morgantown. Mr. Jacobs was a Republican, and he served for two terms as a justice of the peace in Grant district, Monongalia county, West Virginia. He was a Methodist, and a member of the official board of the congregation at Morgantown. Cephas Jacobs married, April 10, 1851, Ann, daughter of Abner and Nancy (Cor- bus) Ravenscraft. Children: 1. Thomas Perry, of whom further. 2. William L., born December 16, 1854: married, September 13, 1877, Nora Belle Koontz. 3. James G., born July 21, 1858, died November 21, 1858. 4. Margaret Virginia, born September 20, 1860; married, December 25, 1883, Rev. George M. Kelly. 5. Elmer F., born June II, 1866; married, March 7, 1895, Ella Wood.
(V) Thomas Perry, son of Cephas and Ann (Ravenscraft) Jacobs, was born in Allegany county, Maryland, January 27, 1852. When he was only about a year old his father moved into Preston county, Vir- ginia, and there he attended the old Preston Academy. At the Univer- sity of West Virginia he took a full collegiate course, being graduated June 18, 1874, as the first honor man and valedictorian of his class, re- ceiving also what at the English universities is called a "double first." He studied law at the University and with Berkshire & Sturgiss, of Mor- gantown, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. In the same year he es- tablished himself in Wetzel county, West Virginia, and herein, at New Martinsville, he has lived since that time. His practice has been very successful and distinguished. Five terms he has served as mayor of
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New Martinsville, and in 1888 he was elected judge of the circuit court of the old fourth judicial district. Since the expiration of his term in that of- fice he has been engaged in the practice of law, and at the present time (1913) he is referee in bankruptcy. In 1900 he conducted the summer law school at the University of West Virginia, and he was chosen for the same position in the following summer, but was compelled to decline on account of professional engagements. In 1903 Mr. Jacobs was elected dean of the University Law School, but declined the honor on account of his professional engagements and the inadequacy of the salary. He was appointed regent of the University by Governor White, and appointed for a second term by Governor Dawson. Mr. Jacobs is a Re- publican, and represented the first congressional district of West Vir- ginia in the Republican national convention in which James G. Blaine was nominated in 1884, for president of the United States.
He married, November 27, 1877, Eugenia Alice, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Baush, of Piedmont, West Virginia. They are the par- ents of two daughters.
LEE Charles C. Lee was born in Franklin county, Virginia, in 1817, and was engaged in diversified agriculture in his native place during the major portion of his active career. He died in 1880 at the age of sixty-three years.
(II) Captain William P. F. Lee, son of Charles C. Lee, was born in Franklin county, Virginia, in 1839, and he passed away February 25, IgII, at the age of seventy-two years. He was reared under the sturdy discipline of the home farm, and was educated at Trinity College, North Carolina, where he was a student at the time of the outbreak of the civil war. He volunteered for service in the Confederate ranks and became captain of a company under General Jackson, serving under that famous soldier in most of the important battles fought in the Virginia valley. He participated in the sanguinary battle of Gettysburg, and there was wounded and eventually captured by the Union forces and imprisoned on Johnson's Island, Ohio, where he was held until the close of the war. After the close of hostilities he engaged in farming enterprises in Frank- lin county, Virginia, and in 1906 retired to the town of Martinsville, where his demise occurred. His noble wife, whose maiden name was Nannie S. Barrow, survived him for a little more than two years, hav- ing died March 14, 1913, at the age of seventy-one years. She was a daughter of Benjamin F. Barrow, a native of Henry county, Virginia, and a most estimable Christian woman. Concerning the seven children born to Captain and Mrs. Lee, the following brief data is here incor- porated : Annie Page, died in infancy ; Charles B., a physician and sur- geon of note at Glen Jean, West Virginia; Robert R., likewise a physi- cian by profession and is located at Martinsville, Virginia : Lula, wife of R. W. Younger, of Lynchburg. Virginia : Annie, wife of W. C. Turner, of Roanoke, Virginia ; William L., mentioned below : Susie, living with her sister, Mrs. Turner.
(III) William L., son of Captain William P. F. and Nannie S. ( Bar- row) Lee, was born in Franklin county, Virginia, May 10. 1879. He grew up on his father's farm, his early educational training having been obtained in the district schools of the time and locality. As a youth he attended Hampden-Sidney College, and completed his academic educa- tion at Emory and Henry College, Virginia. In June, 1902. he was grad- uated from the law department of the University of Virginia with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He entered upon the active practice of his profession at Rocky Mount. Virginia, where for two years he was asso-
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ciated in his work with L. W. Anderson, Esq., and in October, 1904, he came to Fayetteville, where for the ensuing two years he was engaged in practice independently. In the year 1906 he entered into a partnership with R. T. Hubard Jr., the firm name being Hubard & Lee, and their practice was a decidedly successful one, representing a number of the large interests of that section of the country. Mr. Lee continued a mem- ber of this firm until his elevation to the bench of the circuit court in January, 1913. In November, 1912, he was elected judge of the elev- enth judicial circuit, and notwithstanding the fact that he was a Demo- crat and that the circuit was a Republican one, he received one of the largest majorities any judge has ever received in the state, and has the distinction of being the youngest circuit judge in it. As a lawyer he is of pronounced ability and he is making a splendid record on the bench. Judge Lee is unmarried. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, and is a man of mark in all the relations of life.
SUGDEN This family is of English ancestry, James Taylor Sugden having been born in Yorkshire, England, October 5, 1837. He came to America when about twenty years of age and settled in New York City, becoming the foreman in the worsted depart- ment of the carpet mills of an old established firm. He continued with them for a few years, after which he removed to Thompsonville, Con- necticut, and subsequently to Amsterdam, New York. In the year 1870 he entered into partnership with a Mr. Maxwell, manufacturing knit goods, but about 1900 he sold out and retired from business. Politically he is a Republican, having held several offices in local politics. He is a member of the Episcopal church. Mr. Sugden married Elizabeth L. Smith, born in Thompsonville, Connecticut, December 19, 1849. They had three children : 1. Walter Smith, of whom further. 2. May, born August 7. 1882, at Amsterdam, New York, deceased. 3. Gilbert Taylor, born September 24, 1884, at Amsterdam, New York; he resides in Buffalo, New York, and is assistant superintendent in the malleable iron depart- ment of the firm of Pratt & Letchworth.
(II) Walter Smith, son of James Taylor and Elizabeth L. (Smith) Sugden, was born April 9, 1880, at Amsterdam, New York. He attended the schools of his native city, and in 1898 was graduated with his class at the high school. He then went to Phillips Academy at Andover, Mas- sachusetts, and was graduated in the class of 1899. After this he entered Harvard University, matriculating in 1903. He took a subsequent course at Harvard Law School, receiving his degree in the year 1906. He came to Sistersville in the year of his graduation, 1906, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1907. With Charles N. Kimball, a former classmate at Andover Academy, he formed a partnership in 1910, making a specialty of corporation law, this being a branch for which Mr. Sugden finds him- self particularly well adapted. The firm are now attorneys for the Carter Oil Company, the Southern Oil Company, and the American Oil and Development Company, and have a constantly increasing clientele.
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