West Virginia and its people, Volume II, Part 71

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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Mr. Snodgrass married. July 9. 1906, Mary E., daughter of Martin and Mary Kavanagh. No children.

Elisha Kelley Snodgrass, of Preston, Idaho, de- SNODGRASS scends from a notable Virginia family. In 1656, or thereabouts, one Phillip Snodgrass came from Lon- don to Jamestown, Virginia, and located. He was one of a number of younger sons of an old Derbyshire family, and with several companions of his own station in life adventured to the New World, hoping to build for themselves fortunes. He located, after a time, on the James river, many miles above Jamestown, took up wild land, cleared it and in the course of time was the owner of a large tobacco farm. He was among the first of the colonists to successfully cultivate small grain, and erected a primitive mill for the purpose of grinding it, which proved a boon to his neighbors as well as himself. He became known in his section as one of the most advanced agriculturists in spite of the unceasing wars with his Indian neighbors and the marauding of the visiting and northern tribes. He also proved himself an Indian fighter and frequently pitted his wits against those of the red men. He constructed a dwelling house of hewn logs and stone, with a well in the center, which was the admir-

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ation of the pioneers of that section and the despair of the savages, who stormed it time and again unsuccessfully. He was universally respected and held several colonial offices. He died in the house of logs and stone, leaving a large estate and a noble name and record to his children and descendants. As years rolled around it was found that the original estate was too small, and the younger generation began to move away from the Tide-water scction, going west and north. Thus several members of the family finally located in what is now known as West Virginia, and from them descend the families of the name in Berkeley county and other places.

Elisha Kelley Snodgrass was born December 25, 1878, in Martins- burg, Berkeley county, West Virginia, at the old homestead of the Snod- grass family. "Wheaton," and is a direct lineal descendant of Phillip Snodgrass, the Virginia immigrant. On leaving school he was educated in the public and private institutions of his native city, and later entered the office of a local civil engineer, where he took up a course of civil engineering, which he practiced for twelve years. At the expiration of that time he formed a partnership with Messrs. Herbard and Bailey under the firm name of the Albott Construction Company, which has since enjoyed a prosperous business, which they are extending each year. They have an unlimited field and their construction is known and ap- proved throughout the country.

Mr. Snodgrass married, November, 1906, Matilda Marsh, daughter of Dr. Elias Joseph and Sarah (Griswold) Marsh, of Patterson, New Jer- sey. Children : John Tabb and Robert Marsh.

JENKINS As suggested by the name, Oscar Jenkins, of Parkers- burg, is of Welsh descent. His maternal descent is Welsh also, his mother's maiden name having been Hughes. Both these surnames have become common in the United States, and at least one Hughes has a national reputation, Justice Hughes of the Supreme Court of the United States, formerly governor of New York. The names Jenkins and Hughes are found in various parts of the United States, and each is probably the possession of a number of distinct families in Wales.

(I) Ferguson Jenkins, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, came from Pennsylvania, and settled in Preston county, Virginia. He married - Jaco. Child: Frank, of whom further.

( II) Frank, son of Ferguson and ( Jaco) Jenkins, was born at Fetterman, West Virginia, in 1835, and died at Parkersburg, June 7, 1890. During the civil war, about July, 1861, he went from Preston county, Virginia, to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained about two years, then settled at Parkersburg, West Virginia. He was a merchant, and established at Parkersburg nearly the first if not actually the first wholesale grocery business in this city, which he sold to Thompson & Jackson. At a later time he went again into the wholesale grocery busi- ness, in partnership with James Monroe Jackson Jr., under the name of Jenkins, Jackson & Company. Afterward he bought the whole interest of the firm and he continued in business until his death. While he took no part in the civil war, his sympathies were with the Confederacy, but a brother was a soldier in the Union army. Frank Jenkins married Sarah Ann, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Hempstead) Hughes, who died suddenly August 5, 1911. Like the Jenkins family, the Hughes family was divided by the civil war. One brother of Mrs. Jen- kins fought in the Union army, another was a delegate to the Virginia

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secession convention and signed the ordinance of secession. This brother, though not a soldier, was accidentally killed at Rich Mountain at the beginning of the war ; he was carrying a message to a Confederate general, and by a misunderstanding was fired on by the Confederate soldiers. Children of Frank and Sarah Ann (Hughes ) Jenkins: I. Arabella, deceased; married George Bastabal; two children. 2. Oscar, of whom further. 3. John Sherman; married and has three children. 4. Ida Dell, unmarried.

(III) Oscar, son of Frank and Sarah Ann ( Hughes) Jenkins, was born in Preston county, Virginia, January 11, 1861. He was thus but a few months old when his father and mother moved to Louisville, and still in his infancy when they brought him from that place to Parkers- burg. Here his education was received in the public schools, including the high school. From the Parkersburg schools he went to the Uni- versity of West Virginia, but he left college to enter business life, be- ginning in his father's store. There he learned the business thoroughly in every department, and became bookkeeper, buyer and salesman. For several years he was in partnership with his father, under the style of Frank Jenkins & Son. Afterward he entered the employment of the Woolson Spice Company, of Toledo, Ohio, for whom Mr. Jenkins has now been traveling salesman twenty-four years. This firm is one of the most important in America, and is the largest coffee and spice con- cern in the country. Mr. Jenkins now looks after the wholesale grocery trade only, and sells in seven states: there is only one other salesman for this company doing the same kind of work. In politics also he has always been active, being a Democrat. For years he has been a mem- ber and secretary of the Wood county Democratic committee, and re- peatedly a delegate to state conventions. Once he was chairman of the senatorial executive committee. Both in conventions and on the platform he has been active in campaign speaking: he has presided in several conventions, and has often been requested to place men in nom- ination. In 1908. without seeking the office, he was urged by his friends for the nomination for state auditor, and finally received this nomina- tion by acclamation. Governor White appointed Mr. Jenkins a mem- ber of the Berkeley Springs board. The property under the control of this board is state property, having been given to Virginia by Lord Fair- fax, and having thus become the property of West Virginia at the formation of the new state. It was given to Lord Fairfax by a grant of the British government. By reappointments. Mr. Jenkins is still a mem- ber of this board, and is now its secretary.

Oscar Jenkins married, at Pomeroy, Ohio, May 31. 1887. Mamie, daughter of James William and Sophia (Mckown) Kelley, who was born at Hartford City, Mason county, West Virginia. April 3, 1864. The Kelley family is an old Virginia family, from Albermarle county, not far from White Sulphur. Reuben Mckown, Mrs. Jenkin's maternal grandfather. came down the Great Kanawha river with Daniel Boone : Boone went on to Kentucky, but Reuben Mckown stopped at Point Pleasant. Child of Oscar and Mamie (Kellv) Jenkins: Frank Kelly, born December 15. 1802: he is now finishing his education at the Moun- tain State Business College. Parkersburg. for the purpose of entering business life.

ADDIEMAN There have been no periods of retrocession in the professional career of this representative member of the har of the city of Wheeling for he has been in- defatigable and earnest in his chosen field of endeavor and has brought to bear admirable intellectual and technical powers, with the result that

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he has gained secure prestige as a versatile advocate and well fortified counselor.

Robert Milligan Addleman is another of the sterling and highly es- teemed citizens of Wheeling who can claim the fine old Keystone state as the place of his nativity, and he is a representative of families whose names have long been identified with the annals of that commonwealth. He was born at Clarksville, Greene county, Pennsylvania, July 21, 1866, and is a son of Solomon and Nancy ( Hill ) Addleman, both of whom were likewise natives of Pennsylvania. The father devoted the major portion of his active life to the vocation of farming and both he and his wife were residents of Clarksville at the time of their deaths. They were folks of sterling attributes of character and ever commanded the unequivocal confidence and esteem of those who knew them. Of their children two sons and three daughters are now living.

To the public schools of his native county Robert M. Addleman is in- debted for his early educational training, and by the same his ambition for wider scholastic discipline was defintely quickened, as shown by the fact that he thereafter prosecuted his higher academic studies in Waynes- burg College and Bethany College, excellent educational institutions of his native state and West Virginia. After leaving the above colleges Mr. Addleman devoted his attention to preparing himself for the legal profession. He accordingly entered the law department of the cele- brated University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which he was gradu- ated as a member of the class of 1895, and from which he received his well earned degree of Bachelor of Laws. With a well disciplined mind and a thorough knowledge of the science of jurisprudence, Mr. Addle- man proved admirably fortified for the practical work of his chosen vo- cation, and his success therein offers the best voucher for his ability and his strong and loyal character which has made him an observer of the highest professional ideals and enabled him to honor and dignify the ex- act calling to which he has devoted himself with all zeal and earn- estness. He was admitted to the bar of West Virginia in the autumn of 1895 and has since that time been actively engaged in general practice in the city of Wheeling, where he has retained a representative clientele and been identified with much important litigation in the various courts. He never presents a case before court or jury without careful prepara- tion and he has many distinctive forensic victories to his credit. He has always taken an active interest in politics and has been a zealous and effective advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republi- can party stands sponsor and is an influential factor in its local ranks. He served as city solicitor of Wheeling from July 1, 1909 to January I, 1913, when he resigned said office to assume the duties of prosecuting attorney for Ohio county, West Virginia, to which he was elected No- vember 5, 1912. and was chairman of the Republican congressional com- mittee of the first congressional district of West Virginia, from 1910 until 1912. In the time honored Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and of this body he is an active and appreciative member also a charter member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, No. 344. He is a member of the State Bar Association, and also of the Ohio County Bar Association. He is broad-minded, progressive and public-spirited as a citizen, and has thor- oughly identified himself with the interests of the West Virginia me- tropolis, where his circle of friends is coincident with that of his ac- quaintances.

On the Ist of October, 1896. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Addleman to Miss Margaret Jobes. daughter of Rev. Campbell Jobes, who is a clergyman of the Christian church and who now resides at Bethany, West Virginia.

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SHUGART The family of Shugart is of German descent, the name being originally spelled Schugardt. The ancestry is traced to one of two brothers who came from the province of Hesse-Cassel, one of these settling in Pennsylvania and the other in Maryland. There are records also of the brothers Zachariah, Martin and Eli. Martin Shugart was, according to the archives of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, a lieutenant in a German regiment of Pennsylvania troops, commanded by Colonel Lewis Weltner, stationed at Valley Forge in March, 1778. He was afterwards made a lieutenant of a German battalion of Maryland, May 25, 1778. His name appears in the list of the officers entitled to half pay. The other brother, Eli Shugart, was a private in Company No. 7, of Colonel William Irvine's Pennsylvania regiment at Mt. Independence, November 28, 1776.

(I) Lieutenant Zachariah Shugart, born in York county, Pennsyl- vania, is the ancestor from whom the Shugart family of West Virginia is descended. He served as sheriff of York county several years before the revolution, having been appointed to the post by King George III. There is also a record of a grant of land to him of six hundred acres by the king. On November 17, 1774. when the town of York was laid out, he applied for lot No. 92. He served on the second committee of safety of York. At the beginning of the revolution he was made first lieuten- ant of the York county battalion known in history as the "Flying Bat- talion." This was commanded by Colonel Michael Swope, and Michael Schmeisser was captain. At the battle of Fort Washington, Lieutenant Zachariah Shugart and Colonel Swope were wounded and taken pris- oners. Lieutenant Shugart being detailed to imprisonment on Long Island. The name of Zachariah Shugart appears at Amboy as one of "the prisoners of war allowed to be unexceptional." One account dated at Newburg, August 5, 1782, tells of debts incurred by American officers during their captivity to the inhabitants of Long Island, and in this ac- count mention is made of Lieutenant Zachariah Shugart giving his order on Mr. Skinner, commissary general of prisoners. The wife of Lieu- tenant Shugart was given, September 5, a pass through the British lines at New York to visit her husband. After the revolution a census was taken of York county, and in the inventory of effects the following items occur : "Zachariah Shugart, Innkeeper ; plate, I horse. 6 slaves value £272, IOS." As far back as the year 1754 the name of Zachariah Shu- gart appears as a member of the First Reformed Church of York, Penn- sylvania. He married Mary Elizabeth Mulholland and both he and his wife are buried in York. They had three sons: I. John Wilson, was assistant commissary with the rank of captain in the Mexican war : mar- ried Catherine Swartzeller. 2. Joseph B., married Mary E. Menden- hall. 3. Zachariah. of whom further.

(II) Zachariah (2), son of Lieutenant Zachariah (1) and Mary Elizabeth ( Mulholland ) Shugart, was born March 25. 1751. He mar- ried Eve Grimm. April 19, 1785. The family Bible of this Zachariah is in the possession of his great-grandson. Charles Theodore Shugart, of Charles Town. West Virginia. The Bible is in German, though the rec- ords are in English. It is profusely illustrated in the ornate and quaint German style of that day, and heavily bound in rawhide with brass clasps. It is an interesting and valuable relic and is highly prized by its owner both as an heirloom and an antiquity. It was printed at the press of John Andrea, of Nuremburg, in the year 1728. In this Bible stands the record of the children of Zachariah (2) as follows: I. Peter, born February 17. 1787. 2. John, of whom further. 3. Zachariah, born Tune 5. 1790. 4. William, born December 22, 1702. 5. Mary, born January 31, 1795 : married, March 31, 1816, Louis Coontz. 6. Sapphira.

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born July 17, 1797 ; married, April 30, 1815, Mr. Martini. 7. Jesse, born September 10, 1799. 8. Hezekiah, born December 10, 1801. 9. Eliza- beth, born June 19, 1805; married a Mr. Boyd.

(III) John, son of Zachariah (2) Shugart, was born June 15, 1788. He was a merchant of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He married Mary, born October 25, 1791, daughter of John Hoffman, who was during the revolution a member of Colonel Daniel Morgan's company in the Seventh Virginia Regiment. John Shugart and his wife were mem- bers of the Reformed church of Shepherdstown, and they are buried in the graveyard there. He died May 11, 1839, and his wife died Janu- ary 28, 1832. The children of John and Mary (Hoffman) Shugart were: 1. John Zachariah, married ( first ) Miss Kieler; ( second) Mar- garet Keeler; (third ) a Miss Cameron. 2. Catherine, married a Mr. Armstrong. 3. Mary, married a Mr. Wayne (all deceased ). 4. Reason, of whom further.

(IV) Reason, son of John and Mary ( Hoffman ) Shugart, was born . January 28, 1820. He was educated in the private schools of Shepherds- town, where he later went into business, moving thence in 1858 to Charles Town. He was a manufacturer of leather. Always keenly in- terested in educational matters he served for a number of years as com- missioner of schools, but never held any other public office. He was a director of the Building & Loan Association. A Democrat in politics, he contributed materially to the Confederate cause, although he did not take an active part in the war. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, serving it in an official capacity, and repre- senting the congregation in the church courts. He died October 2, 1883. He married ( first ) January II, 1843, Elizabeth Miller, born January 3, 1824. Their children were: 1. Mary Miller, deceased. 2. John Zacha- riah, served in the civil war in Captain Harry Gilmore's company in the Confederate army and lost a leg in the battle of Moorefield ; married a Miss Thompson, of Virginia; he and his wife lived in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, where he died August 10, 1903, aged fifty-seven years, and is buried in Chase City, Virginia ; they had two children: Harry, married a Miss Oliver, and Bessie, married a Mr. Perkinson. 3. Child, died young. 4. Elizabeth Ann, died young. 5. Eliza Jane, married S. S. Dalgarn ; they had one son, S. S. Dalgarn Jr., who married, January IO, 1912, Mary Hazard Goff, of Providence, Rhode Island. 6. Rezin Deahl. of whom further. 7. Betty Sapphira, married J. E. Burns; one child. Dr. Burns, of Wheeling, West Virginia. 8. Hester Catherine, married Nimrod Trussell, both dead and buried in Charles Town. 9. Charles Theodore, of whom further. 10. Jefferson Miller, deceased. Reason Shugart married (second) November 12, 1863. Maria Tomlin- son, born February 22, 1833. Their children are: II. George Newton, married (first ) a Miss Guthreaux, and they had one son, George New- ton Jr. : he married (second ) a Miss Coppeneaux. They are living in Louisana. 12. Edgar Thornton, married Mary Everhart; child, Maria Thornton. 13. Eugene, of whom further. 14. Dora, died young.

(V) Rezin Deahl, son of Reason and Elizabeth ( Miller) Shugart, was born in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, March 18, 1854. Several years afterwards he moved with his father to Charles Town, where his boy- hood was spent and where he received his early education at the old academy under the direction of Mr. Newton Campbell. At the early age of fifteen he engaged in the harness and saddlery business with his father, and in 1877 went to Berryville, Virginia, where he conducted the same business for eleven years, returning to Charles Town at his father's death to take up the business which had been established by the elder; Shugart in 1858. He has been a well known business man in his com-

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munity for years and has been interested in the local government, hav- ing served several terms in the town council. He has been a director in several building associations and has been engaged in several business enterprises. He married (first) Rhoda Pulliam, daughter of Matthew Pulliam, a hardware merchant of Berryville, but she lived less than a year after this marriage. He married (second) Frances Coleman Pulliam, the youngest daughter of Benjamin F. Pulliam, of Culpeper county, Virginia. Her father was very prominent in the official life of that county, having been sheriff for twenty-three years prior to his death in 1889. Mrs. Shugart, on her father's side, is a descendant of Thomas Lillard, a captain in the continental army, who was present at the sur- render at Yorktown, and through her mother is related to the Willis, Triplett and Coleman families of east Virginia. Two sons were born of this marriage: Stanley Pulliam, born in Berryville, Virginia, Decem- ber 21, 1885, and Benjamin Rezin, born in Charles Town, December 30, 1888. Stanley Pulliam Shugart, the older son, was educated in the public schools of Charles Town, and graduated from Roanoke College. Salem. Virginia, in 1905. Since then he has done graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in mathematics and astronomy and is now an instructor in mathematics at that institution. Benjamin Rezin Shugart attended the public schools of his native town and has been en- gaged in business in Charles Town.

(V) Charles Theodore, son of Reason and Elizabeth ( Miller) Shu- gart, was born February 6, 1860, in Charles Town. He was educated at the private schools of his native town and at Charles Town Academy. He entered into the mercantile business immediately upon leaving school in Charles Town. He is a member of Malta Lodge, No. 80, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons ; Potomac Commandery, No. 5, of which he was eminent commander, 1910; Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He married, January 11, 1887, Bess Frye, born at Hopewell, Frederick county, Virginia, daughter of Alfred Henry and Elizabeth Bell ( Frye) Tanquary. They were married at Summit Point, West Virginia, in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, theirs being the first wed- ding solemnized in that church. Alfred Henry Tanquary, the father of Mrs. Shugart, whose occupation was farming and who was a member in Company C, Twelfth Virginia Regiment. Colonel Rosser's brigade, is descended from the French Huguenot, Thomas Tancredé, of Normandy, who went over to England, where the name became corrupted to Tan- quary. Thomas (2), a son of the French refugee, was created a baron in 1660. He married a daughter of Bernard Paver, of Brampton, Eng- land. They came to this country and settled on the eastern shore of Maryland. Their great-great-grandson, Alfred Henry Tanquary, mar- ried Elizabeth Bell Frye, at Bear Garden, Virginia, the ancestral home of the Bells. A deed for this estate on parchment, signed by Lord Fair- fax and dated 1734, is in the possession of Mrs. Charles Theodore Shu- gart. Elizabeth Bell Frye was the daughter of the Hon. David Frye, whose mother was Lydia Bell. David Frye was descended from Colonel Joshua Frye who was born in England. He married the widow of Colonel Hill ; her maiden name was Mary Micon. In 1745 Joshua Frve was one of the commissioners of the crown. He was appointed by Governor Din- widdie to command the Virginia forces in the French and Indian war, in the campaign in which Washington was lieutenant-colonel. He died suddenly, May 31, 1754, and is buried near Fort Cumberland, near Wills creek. On a large oak tree which stood near his grave Washington cut these words: "Under this oak lies the body of the good. the just, and noble Frye."

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Charles Theodore and Bess Frye ( Tanquary) Shugart have had born to them the following children: 1. Camille Tanquary, deceased. 2. Charles Theodore Jr., educated in private and high schools, and at -

St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland; he was first lieutenant of Com- pany B, St. John's cadets ; in his business relations he is connected with an insurance brokerage company of New York City; he is a member of the Jefferson Club, the Cotillion Club of Charles Town, and of the So- ciety of the Sons of the Revolution. 3. Leland Fair, was educated in private and high schools of Charles Town; he is now living in Balti- more, being with Armstrong, Cator & Company : he is a member of the Cotillion Club and of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. They are all members of Zion Protestant Episcopal Church at Charles Town. (V) Eugene, son of Reason and Maria (Tomlinson ) Shugart, was born at Charlestown, West Virginia, August 21. 1867. He had the ad- vantage of the free schools of his native city until fifteen years of age, after which for five years hie clerked in a dry goods and grocery store at Charles Town. He then took a trip through the west, returning to Harpers Ferry, this state, where he clerked in a hotel until the environ- ments became distasteful to him, and he left the position to accept one in the pulp mills, where he remained for between six and eight months. He was elected treasurer of Harpers Ferry, serving under Mayors T. W. Beal and C. B. Mentzels. He was then elected to the office of mayor, hold- ing such office from 1902 to 1905 : again elected and served from January I, 1905, to 1908, and at the same time filling office of deputy sheriff to take effect January 1, 1905, serving at this four years, and at the end of this time he was elected justice of the peace for four more years up to 1913. He has also been on the town council and a town treasurer .. He is a director of the National Citizens' Bank of Charles Town. Mr. Shugart is a member of the Masonic fraternity at Harpers Ferry, and at one time was connected with the Eagles Lodge and Patriotic Order Sons of America. He and his family are of the Episcopal church faith. He was united in marriage July 21, 1888, in Washington, D. C., to Margaret D. Trussell, born in Kerneysville, Jefferson county, West Virginia, daughter of Thomas C. and Fanny M. Trussell, whose children were: Margaret D. ( Mrs. Shugart ), Lulu C., Jarvis G., Belle B., Fanny D. Mr. and Mrs. Shugart's children are: 1. Frank E., born February 15. 1889; a graduate of Shepherd's College, Shepherdstown, now a United States express agent at Harpers Ferry ; married, June 8, 1913. Anna B. Wise. 2. Margaret G., unmarried ; educated at Stephenson's Seminary, and a graduate of Shepherd's College, in June, 1911. and is now teaching in Berkeley county, this state. 3. Eliza P., born June 25. 1895. 4. Jarvis G., born September 16, 1900. 5. Eugenia, born September 24, 1907.

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West Virginia and its people, Volume II, Part 71

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