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BERRY William Berry, the first member of this family of whom we have any definite information, was born in 1768, died November 21, 1848. He was a farmer in old Virginia, and lived at one time in Loudoun county. He married ( first ) June 18, 1790, Agnes Kitchen, died November 20, 1809. He married ( second ) August 12, 1810, Cynthia Triplet. Children, ten by first marriage: James, born
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January 26, 1791 ; Polly, March 10, 1792; Louis, December 12, 1794; Fielding, November 12, 1796; Benjamin, October 29, 1798; Emsey, December 26, 1800; William, December 1, 1802; Absalom, August 31, 1805. killed by a falling tree, November 9, 1830; twin daughters, Octo- ber 1, 1809; Thornton, May 9, 1811: Joel, referred to below; Craven, November 3, 1814: Agnes, January 11, 1817; Elizabeth Ann, July 19, 1810: Allen S .. August 28, 1821 ; Washington H., June 17, 1824; Lucin- da, December 1. 1826: a child, still-born, March 7, 1820.
(II) Joel, son of William and Cynthia (Triplet) Berry, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia. November 9, 1812, died in West Virginia. He removed to West Virginia when a young man and settled on a farm on Oil Creek in Braxton county. In 1850 he removed to O'Brien's Fork, Salt Lick, near Heaters, where he died August 1, 1896. He married Elizabeth Cummings. Children : William H., Ephraim H., Thornton J., Minerva A., Franklin, James W., Maria A., Sarah E., Granville M., Payton, Joe Thaddeus.
(III) Thornton J., son of Joel and Elizabeth (Cummings) Berry, was born on his father's farm on Oil Creek in Braxton county, West Virginia, died in Sutton, West Virginia, in October, 1899. He received his early education in the public schools, later entered the grocery busi- ness, and on the outbreak of the civil war enlisted in the Confederate army and served throughout the war, taking part in the battle of Gettys- burg and many other engagements, and being wounded near Augusta, Georgia. He was captured at the battle of the Wilderness and confined in Fort Delaware, and was later taken south and placed under the fire of the Southern gun boats for six weeks, and later taken back to Fort Delaware where he remained a prisoner to the end of the war. After the war he returned to Sutton, and was at one time postmaster of Sutton and later county superintendent of schools for Braxton county. He mar- ried Katherine Miller, born in Pennsylvania, September 18, 1825, died in Sutton, January 4. 1910. She was a woman of great education and many accomplishments, and settled in West Virginia in 1866, and with her husband was one of the pioneer school teachers of Braxton county, and later assisted Professor Kenna in conducting the first Teachers In- stitute held in Sutton. Among the children of Thornton J. and Kather- ine (Miller) Berry is Patrick Joel, referred to below.
(IV) Patrick Joel, son of Thornton J. and Katherine (Miller) . Berry, was born in Sutton, Braxton county, West Virginia, August 16, 1867, and is now living there. He received his early education in the public schools, and then began his business career as a clerk in a general merchandise store, remaining for a short time. and then entered the office of the Mountaincer as a "printer's devil" and continued in that occupation for four years, during which he set up the first stick of type for the initial issue of the Braxton Central. He then became associated with his father in a general store in Sutton, and after the death of his father in 1899 continued the business under the firm name of P. J. Berry, and still conducts the establishment, which is now the largest general store in Braxton county. He is a stockholder in and one of the directors of the Home National Bank in Sutton. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Republican in politics, and a Methodist in religion.
He married ( first) January, 1887, Harriet Cunningham, born in Sut- ton, 1863, died 1890. He married (second) in Buckhannon, West Vir- ginia, September 27, 1893, Lee, daughter of Arthur G. and Elizabeth (Leonard) Kiddy, born in Buckhannon, now living in Sutton. Her father was for many years in the furniture business in Buckhannon where he died in 1906, and her mother was born in 1845 and is now liv-
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ing in Buckhannon. Children of Patrick Joel Berry, three by first mar- riage : 1. Irene, died in infancy. 2. Isabel, twin with Irene, died in infancy. 3. Gertrude, born May 24, 1890; graduated from the Normal Department of Wesleyan College at Buckhannon and now teaching in the public school in Sutton. 4. Pearl, born June 5, 1894; now a student at Wes- leyan College in Buckhannon. 5. Thornton Archibald, born October 4, 1895 ; now a student at Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. 6. Katherine Elizabeth, born March 4, 1899. 7. Arthur, born, January 19, 1908.
The Chancellor family has been settled in several
CHANCELLOR countries. By origin it is French. Then England became the family home, with William the Con- queror, and from England the family removed to Scotland in the four- teenth century.
(I) Richard Chancellor, the first member of this family in America, came from England in 1682, and settled in Westmoreland county, Vir- ginia. It is said that the first authentic map of Muscovy or Russia was made by him, under commission from the English Crown. Children : William Cooper, of whom further; Richard.
(II) William Cooper, son of Richard Chancellor, removed to Cul- peper county, Virginia. He married - - Thomas. Child, Thomas, of whom further.
(III) Thomas, son of William Cooper Chancellor, came in 1809 from Culpeper county to Ritchie county, Virginia. In the revolutionary war he served in the Virginia Infantry. He was married three times, his third wife having been Judith, daughter of Richard and Isabella (Pen- dleton) Gaines, of Pendleton county, Virginia. She was a niece of Ed- mund Pendleton, the patriot and jurist, and a cousin of General Edmund Pendleton Gaines. Children : James and Richard, who died during the war of 1812, in an epidemic of measles at Norfolk, Virginia; Cooper, William, Benjamin, John Cooper, Rebecca, Thomas, of whom further.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) and Judith (Gaines) Chan- cellor, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in September, 1805, died July 4, 1872. He was a tanner. In politics he was a Democrat, and he held the office of justice of the peace. His religion was the Methodist. He married Prudence, daughter of Jesse and Mary Rector, of Prunty- town, Harrison county, Virginia. Children: William Nelson, Eliza J., Edmund Pendleton, of whom further; Mary Rebecca, Alfred Brun- son, Emily E., Harriet Ellen, Thomas Rector.
(V) Edmund Pendleton, son of Thomas (2) and Prudence (Rector) Chancellor, was born at Harrisville, Ritchie county, Virginia, March 24, 1832. In 1837 he came to Parkersburg, where he is now living retired. Between 1891 and 1894 he was president of the county court of Wood county. During President Cleveland's second term he was appointed supervising inspector of steam vessels of the seventh district; this was a presidential appointment. He is a Democrat, and a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
He married, July 25, 1855, Rhoda J., born in Mason county, Virginia, October 13, 1836, daughter of John and Sarah Miller. Her father was a farmer. Children: 1. Edmund Pendleton, born at Parkersburg, April 10, 1860; he is engaged in insurance and real estate brokerage at Parkersburg, is vice-president of the Parkersburg Young Men's Chris- tian Association, and is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 2. Eugenia, born in Mason county, August 9, 1861. 3. Rose Carroll, born at Parkersburg, June 26, 1870. 4. Nannie Preston, born at Parkersburg, September 27, 1873.
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Walter is a personal name of Teutonic origin, used in WATSON England since the Norman conquest; it is said to mean lord of the wood. Various surnames, of patronymic character, come from this personal name ; among these is the name of the present family, in which the name Walter appears in abbreviated form ; others are Walters, Fitzwalter, Watts, Watkins. The present family is said to be of Scotch origin, but to have come to America from England.
(I) Joseph Watson, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1760. He married twice. Among his thirteen children was Jehu, of whom further.
(II) Jehu, son of Joseph Watson, was born in Adams county, Penn- sylvania, November 17, 1804, died in Cumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, November 10, 1876. His life was passed at Plainfield, Cumber- land county, Pennsylvania, where he was a shoemaker. He was a Re- publican. He married Mary Anna Myers, born in Berks county, Penn- sylvania, January 9, 1809. died at Plainfield, February 2, 1908. Chil- dren: I. Elizabeth, born February 7, 1831, died May 7, 1833. 2. Jo- seph, of whom further. 3. Willaim, born July 18, 1835, died August 17, 1862. He was a school teacher before the civil war; enlisted in Company H, First Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, was wounded in bat- tle before Richmond, June 30, 1862, and fell into the hands of the Confederates ; after nineteen days he was paroled and sent to the hos- pital at Davy's Island; Cypress Hill, Long Island, was his place of in- terment. 4. Rebecca, born February 22, 1837, died November 28, 1904; married Henry Eichilberger. 5. Sarah Ann, born May 13, 1841, died March 7, 1907; married Henry Carl. 6. Christopher, died August 2, 1897. 7. James, deceased. 8. Samuel, born October 2, 1849; married Sarah Binkley; he lives in Atchison county, Kansas. 9. Anna Martha, born November 14, 1857, died November 18. 1858.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Jehu and Mary Anna (Myers) Watson, was born near Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1833, died October 27, 1862. He was brought up near Plainfield, and attended public school. He was a school teacher in Cumberland county ; his cer- tificate, from August 16, 1854, to August 13, 1858, bears the signature of Daniel Shelly, superintendent of public schools, the great-grandfather of the present principal of the preparatory branch, at Keyser, of the University of West Virginia. Afterward he was extra freight conduc- tor on the Pennsylvania railroad, running out of Pittsburgh; near Horseshoe Bend, in the Allegheny mountains, a large ledge of rock, fall- ing on his train, killed him, at the early age of twenty-nine. He was buried near Plainfield. He was a Republican. He married Susan, born in Franklin county, Ohio, June 2, 1832, died at Plainfield, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1886, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Welch) Kerns. Her father was a blacksmith in Perry county, Pennsylvania, and died in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, at the age of about ninety. Children : I. James Calvin, of whom further. 2. Ellen Rebecca, married Michael Masteller ; they live at Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania county, Virginia, and he is superintendent of the Potomac Fredericksburg & Piedmont railroad. 3. Martha Zeigler, single ; living at Maplewood farm, Mineral county West Virginia, which is owned by her brother, James Calvin. 4. Alta Josephine, born May 20, 1862, died November 20, 1862, buried in Heike's graveyard, West Hill, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.
(IV) James Calvin. son of Joseph (2) and Susan (Kerns) Wat- son, was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1856. His early days were spent in the counties of Cumberland and Perry, Pennsyl- vania. He attended the public schools, but at the age of eleven years
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hired out on a farm for board and clothes. Here he remained on these terms for two years, and he continued in farm work until he was twenty. In the meantime, however, he had acquired a fair school education. After serving an apprenticeship at the wagonmaker's trade, and work- ing at this trade for a few years, he entered into business, on a small scale, leasing a saw mill at his home town, Plainfield. A few months later he bought an interest in a larger mill in Perry county, having as an associate a former schoolmate, David Strohn. They operated this mill together until October 15, 1884, when Mr. Strohn sold his in- terest to William H. Loy, of Cisna Run, Perry county, Pennsylvania. Early in 1884 the firm name, Watson & Company, had been adopted. May II, 1886, they moved their saw mill to Mineral county, West Vir- ginia, to a site eight miles southwest of Piedmont, where they pur- chased two thousand acres of timber land, in Mineral county, West Virginia, and Garret county, Maryland. The Potomac river divided the two tracts, and their land was penetrated by the West Virginia Cen- tral and Pittsburgh railroad, now the Western Maryland railroad. Here this firm built the town of Barnum, Mineral county, West Virginia, and bridged the Potomac river. In 1896 they ceased operations in lum- ber. They then opened coal then underlaying the lands their timber was cut from, which they operated under the firm name of the Watson Loy Coal Company. This continued until June, 1902, when this plant was sold and the firm was dissolved. Mr. Watson then settled at Key- ser, Mineral county, West Virginia, where he built a very comfortable home. He is still actively engaged in the coal business, being vice- president, general manager and treasurer of the Mastiller Coal Com- pany, with mines located at Hampshire. Mineral county, West Virginia. He is also president of the Richardson Furniture Company, and president of the West Virginia Forest Association. He and his family belong to the Mennonite church.
Mr. Watson married, April 9, 1893, Naomi K., born at Chestnut Hill, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1860, daughter of Abram and Elizabeth (Mancha) Tront. Her father was born at Mt. Pleasant, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, died in that county, at the age of seventy-five, June 1, 1898; he was a farmer. His wife was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, died June 2, 1900, at the age of sixty-seven. Children of Abram and Elizabeth (Mancha ) Trout : I. Christopher H., married Dora Wiler; two children living in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 2. Edwin J., married Sadie Kemmer; they live at Christiana, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; three children. 3. Na- omi K., married James Calvin Watson, of whom herein. 4. Alice, mar- ried ( first ) D. K. Landis, (second) John W. Lytle: they live at Stras- burg, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 5. Emma, died unmarried at the age of twenty-six. 6. Abram F., married Kate Gerhardt; they live at Mt. Pleasant; six children, of whom three only are living. 7. Susan, died unmarried at the age of twenty-seven. 8. Frank G., married Ella Leach ; they live at Blaine, West Virginia ; two children. 9. Sallie, mar- ried Clyde Campbell ; the husband and their three children live in Har- risburg, Pennsylvania. Child of James Calvin and Naomi K. (Trout) Watson: Martin Loy, born at Barnum, West Virginia, July 21, 1894.
John Yeakley, the founder of this family, came as early YEAKLEY as 1770 from Scotland and settled in York county, Penn- sylvania ; he afterward removed to Virginia. He mar- ried. about 1785. Mary, daughter of Michael Fries. Children : Betsy, Anna, Kate, Susan, Mary, George A., of whom further: Margaret, Henry, John.
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(II) George A., son of John and Mary (Fries) Yeakley, was born near Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia, in 1798, died near Win- chester, in 1859. Here he spent his life, and was a farmer. At first he was a Whig, but afterward a Democrat. He and his wife were Luth- erans, and he built, near Winchester, one of the earliest churches in the valley. For many years he was steward. He married Mary, born about 1799, and died in 1857, daughter of Abner Babb. Children : 1. John A., deceased; married Mary Koontz. 2. James H., deceased ; married Alice Bogeant. 3. William R., born in 1831, deceased ; married, in 1855, Rachel Fries. 4. Reese B., deceased. 5. Martin F., of whom further. 6. Eliza- beth A., married Robert Lewis; lives near Winchester. 7. Susan H., de- ceased. 8. George A., deceased ; married Olive Fries. 9. Mary, deceased ; married Jesse Fries. 10. Charles F., deceased.
(III) Martin F., son of George A. and Mary (Babb) Yeakley, was born near Bethel Church, Frederick county, Virginia, November 6, 1835, died near Bethel Church, July 6, 1909. He was reared on the pa- ternal farm and attended public schools. In 1862 he enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Virginia Cavalry Confederate army, and was engaged in the battles of Cedar Creek and Winchester and most of those fought in the Shenandoah Valley. He was taken prisoner, and was for seven months, in 1863 and 1864, confined at Camp Chase, Ohio, then he was exchanged. Returning home after the war, he lived on the old family farm. For many years he was a steward of the old Bethel Church, built by his father. He married, in 1872, Martha Ann, daughter of Rev. William and Elizabeth ( Millhon) Hodgson. Her father, born in 1815, was a farmer, and for thirty years a minister of the Methodist church (South). He was a native of Frederick county, but his grandfather had been born on the Hudson river, and was one of the first white settlers in this part of Virginia. Children of Rev. William and Elizabeth (Mill- hon) Hodgson: 1. James Harrison, died young. 2. Martha Ann, mar- ried Martin F. Yeakley, of whom herein. 3. Dr. Henry Watson, mar- ried Roberta Parker ; lives at Cumberland, Maryland. 4. William Powell, born about 1847, died in 1865. 5. Sophie, married James Fling. Children of Martin F. and Martha Ann ( Hodgson ) Yeakley : 1. William Holmes, of whom further. 2. George Frederick, lives on the old home place, and is a farmer and fruit grower. 3. Catharine Elizabeth, married Dr. J. A. Richards, a dentist; they live at Winchester.
(IV) Dr. William Holmes Yeakley, son of Martin F. and Martha Ann ( Hodgson) Yeakley, was born near Winchester, Virginia, May 14, 1874. His early years were spent on the old place. He attended the public schools, and in 1889 graduated from the Winchester high school. From 1891 to 1893 he was a student at Shenandoah Academy, and from 1894 to 1896 at National University, Lebanon, Ohio. In 1896 he entered the University College of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, from which he graduated in medicine and surgery in 1899. He was in the same year appointed assistant physician at the Western State Hospital for the In- sane, Staunton, Virginia, where he remained until June 1, 1902. He re- signed for the purpose of settling at Davis, West Virginia, and follow- ing general practice. In the meantime he was elected by the board of directors of the United College of Medicine as assistant instructor of anatomy, but he resigned this position also to engage in general prac- tice. At Davis he was surgeon for the Beacon Coal and Coke Company, the Beaver Creek Lumber Company, and the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, and local surgeon for the Western Maryland Railroad Company. Selling all this practice in 1906, and having spent some months in graduate work in surgery in Philadelphia, he came in 1910 to Keyser, West Virginia, which is still his home. He is a member of the
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County Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, and is counselor for the Second District of West Virginia, for the Potomac Valley Medical Bulletin. Dr. Yeakley is a stockholder in the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, Keyser, and in the Hampton Magazine Company, New York City. He is a Dem- ocrat, a member of the town council of Keyser, and president of the city board of health. He is a Mason, and a member of the Beverly Club, of Staunton, Virginia. He and his family are Episcopalians. He mar- ried, June 17, 1903, Eleanor Straith, born at Staunton, Virginia, June 29, 1880, daughter of Thomas Davis and Mary Fontaine (Alexander ) Ran- Children of Thomas Davis and Mary Fontaine (Alexander ) Ran- son.
son : I. Charlotte Alexander, married Herbert Taylor; they lived at Staunton. 2. John Baldwin, deceased ; married Jane Brown ; she now lives in Boston. 3. Maria Washington, married Joseph A. Glasgow ; they live at Staunton. 4. Mary Fontaine, married Alfred Jaffe; they live at Staunton. 5. Eleanor Straith, married William Holmes Yeakley, of whom herein. 6. Mary Eleanor, married H. L. Opie; they live at Staun- ton. Child of Dr. William Holmes and Eleanor Straith ( Ranson) Yeakley : William Holmes, born April 2, 1907.
Mrs. Yeakley is a descendant of several of the most notable Virginia families and of some famous men. Her father born near Charles Town, Jefferson county, Virginia, now living at Staunton, a lawyer, was a cap- tain in the Confederate army, and his brother, Briscoe Baldwin Ranson, was a Confederate army surgeon. The Ranson line is as follows: (1) James, married Letitia -; (II) Richard, married Ann Whiting; (III) Matthew, married Elizabeth Morgan; (IV) James Matthew, mar- ried Eleanor Baldwin; (V) Thomas Davis. Mary Eleanor (Baldwin) Ranson was a descendant of John Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut, in 1648. Dr. Cornelius Baldwin, the fifth in this line, was born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1751, and served in the revolution ; he became afterward a popular and distinguished physician in Virginia, and was a member of the Cincinnati. Briscoe Gerard Baldwin, his son, who lived from 1789 to 1852, served in the war of 1812; was a major-general in the Virginia militia ; was a member of the Virginia assembly, and in 1829-30 of the constitutional convention : from 1841 until his death he was a judge of the state supreme court of appeals. He married Martha Steele, daughter of Chancellor John Brown. Chancellor Brown lived from 1762 to 1826. He was a native of Pennsylvania, but settled in Virginia. Here he was an eminent lawyer, and chancellor of the Staunton district court of chan- cery ; he was also a general of the Virginia militia, and a trustee of Wash- ington College. He married Frances Peyton, of the well-known Peyton family of Virginia. Matthew Ranson also had Peyton descent, through his mother.
On her mother's side, Mrs. Yeakley is descended from the Wash- ington, Lee and Alexander families. Corbin Washington, who married Hannah Lee, was her great-great-grandfather; John Augustine Wash- ington her great-grandfather; Anna Maria Thomasina ( Blackburn) Washington her maternal grandmother. Thus the greatest names in Virginia are among her relatives ; in fact, Patrick Henry and Dolly Madi- son were more remote relatives also. Mrs. Yeakley's mother was born near Charles Town and died at the age of thirty-three.
Among the younger members of the bar of this state who
McKEE are deserving of recognition we find David A. McKee, of the Ohio county bar who has been engaged in the practice of law in the city of Wheeling since 1906, and whose character and abil- 26
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ity as a lawyer have given him prestige and popularity in his community. His practice has had a steady, healthy growth, and he now has a very representative clientage.
Mr. McKee was born in Belleville, St. Clair county, Illinois, Novem- ber 2, 1879, son of David A. and Jennie McKee, who were born and reared in the city of Wheeling, and are now both deceased. At the age of eleven, his father moved to a farm in Missouri, and he there lived until he moved to this city in 1903. One thing of which Mr. McKee is very boastful is that he reached his majority and cast his first vote in Champ Clark's district, in the state of Missouri, surrounded by the strongest influence of Democracy, and that that vote was cast for the Republican party and he has since that time been a most loyal supporter and worker for the Republican cause.
Mr. McKee's professional education was gained through his own efforts. His father was unable to educate him in the science of his profession, and his success is attributed to his ambition, tireless and un- ceasing efforts. In the year 1910 Mr. McKee was nominated by the Republican county convention of Ohio county as the legal representa- tive of that county in the house of delegates, but was defeated with the rest of the legislative ticket at the election. His ambition, how- ever, was undaunted by this defeat, and he has since been honored by his party by the appointment of assistant prosecuting attorney in Ohio county, which office he is now filling with credit. In fraternalism he is well known, being a very active and appreciative member of Wheeling Lodge, No. 28, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, a member of the Second United Pres- byterian Church of the city of Wheeling, and a member of the Ohio County Bar Association.
On February 8, 1910, he was married to Katherine Poffenbarger, who was born and reared in Mason county, West Virginia, daughter of Henry Poffenbarger, a citizen of Wheeling, and a niece of Judge George Poffenbarger of the supreme court of West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. McKee have no children.
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