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GOSHORN George Theodore Goshorn was born in Pennsylvania, about 1853, and was a very young child when his par- ents removed to Piedmont, Mineral county, West Vir- ginia. There he obtained an excellent education in the public schools, and at a suitable age entered upon his business career. He was ap- prenticed to learn the printer's trade, and for a number of years was
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occupied in this calling in West Virginia and Maryland. During the ad- ministration of President Arthur, he served a part of a term as post- master of Piedmont, and is now serving his second consecutive full term in the same office. He has been associated with newspaper work in various directions for a number of years, and is now engaged in writ- ing for the local papers.
Mr. Goshorn married a Miss Combs, of Romney, West Virginia, and has children: Hattie M., married O. A. Hood; Lillian, married H. B. Dawson; Maud, married A. R. Fisher; George Theodore Jr., married Edna Diehl; Joseph E., married Ella -; Paul H., unmarried.
DILS Hugh P. Dils, late of Parkersburg, was born in Pennsyl- vania, and removed to Virginia. With his son he started in the dry goods business at Vaucluse, Frederick county, Vir- ginia, in 1846, the firm name being H. P. Dils & Son. In 1856 they re- moved to Parkersburg, Wood county, and there Hugh P. Dils remained in the business until his death. Child, James W., of whom further.
(II) James W., son of Hugh P. Dils, was born at Parkersburg, Vir- ginia, in 1826, died in that city, in August, 1896. When a young man he entered the dry goods business as a member of the firm of J. W. Dils & Hopkins. After this firm had dissolved, he was in partnership with his father up to the latter's death, and then carried on the business alone until 1871, when the firm became J. W. Dils & Sons. In the commercial affairs of the city he took a prominent part and was for several years president of the Second National Bank of Parkersburg. He also served as mayor of the city. In the Methodist church he was a prominent mem- ber. He married Welthea, daughter of Charles Little, who died in 1904. Children : Hugh P., of whom further; Alice M., married F. R. Rose ; George, connected with the Citizens' Bank at Parkersburg, but after- ward removed to Denver, Colorado; Joseph H., also removed to Color- ado; James W., engaged in manufacturing in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania.
(III) Hugh P. (2), son of James W. and Welthea (Little ) Dils, was born at Parkersburg. Virginia. July 10, 1856. Here he attended the public schools. At the age of fifteen he entered his grandfather's former dry goods store, then conducted by his father. At first he was a clerk ; he afterward became one of the partners; in 1908 the firm was incor- porated under the name of the H. P. Dils & Son Company. Mr. Dils was a director and vice-president of the Second National Bank. He married, in 1878, Eleanor Mary, daughter of Joseph T. Hannan, of Proctorville, Ohio. Children: Anna, married D. C. Beard; Sherman, in business with his father, married Gaynell Davis.
DANIEL The progenitor of this branch of the Daniel family was born in Ireland and emigrated to America, settling in Virginia.
(II) William M. Daniel, son of the emigrant, was an extensive farmer in Tazewell county, Virginia, where he died December 25, 1903. He married Eliza Jane Phipps, a native of Virginia. She died April 19, 1889. Two of their sons served in the Confederate army during the civil war, one being killed at Lynchburg.
(III) Dr. S. A. Daniel, son of William M. and Eliza Jane ( Phipps) Daniel, was born in Tazewell county. Virginia, January 20, 1869. He attended the public schools of his native town and of Athens, West Virginia. In 1887 he entered Tazewell College, Virginia, gradu-
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ating in 1891. In the fall of the same year he entered the University of Kentucky, Medical College, and graduated June 20, 1894. He com- menced the practice of his profession in Welch, West Virginia, in 1893, and while he is the youngest physician in the town he is the oldest in practice there. In 1893 he was appointed physician and surgeon for the Norfolk & Western railroad, retaining the position to date. He has met with marked success in his professional labor and enjoys an extensive acquaintance. He is a member of the Baptist church, Knights of Py- thias, and the Elks. In politics he is a Progressive Republican.
He was married in 1900 to Laura B., born in Martin county, Ken- tucky, in 1874, daughter of T. J. Munson. Three children have been born to them: Ada Synthia, born October 9, 1901 ; Hazel, October 27, 1907 ; Ruth. April 26. 1910.
This is a Pennsylvania family, which has a pioneer history
WARNE of interest in the western part of that state, and has been represented in what is now West Virginia since the mid- dle of the last century.
(I) Joseph Warne, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, was a farmer near Sunny Side, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Whom he married is not known, but he had a son. James, of whom further.
( II) James, son of Joseph Warne, was born on his father's farm, December 6, 1779. died October 28, 1855. In his youth, at his home near. Sunny Side, he received the education afforded by the schools of the time and place, and afterward attended the academy at Uniontown, or the Forks. At the age of eighteen he entered mercantile life. Going into Washington county, Pennsylvania, he conducted a store for a man named Mckinley, at a place not far from what is now called Scenery Hill, on ; the waters of Pigeon creek. Then he was engaged in river traffic, and he moved to Parkison's ferry, taking part in various enterprises there ; first he was employed as a clerk, then he entered into boat building and boat- ing and trading on the rivers, as far as New Orleans. Following the custom of the day, after disposing of his cargo and boat he would return overland on horseback, having taken a horse with him for the purpose on his voyage. Williamsport, now Monongahela City, in Washington coun- ty, Pennsylvania, contained in 1806 not more than fifteen dwelling houses, and Mr. Warne was one of the residents and a merchant. Jo- seph Parkison, his father-in-law, was inn-keeper and ferry master, and William Parkison also was a merchant. In 1811, having been duly elected ; and commissioned by Governor Simon Snyder, Mr. Warne was captain of a light infantry company attached to the second battalion of the Fifty- third Regiment Pennsylvania State Militia, his term to be four years from August 3, 1811. In 1812 this company offered its services to the United States government in the war declared against England. On June II. the company was ordered to parade for inspection. It was ac -! cepted, and on September 5th it took up its march for headquarters on the Canadian frontier. Mr. Warne served as captain until September 25, 1812, when he was elected major of the first battalion in the Third Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Snyder; he was commis- sioned at Meadville, Pennsylvania, September 27, and he served as major until December 31, 1812, on which date he was discharged. Thereafter he was commonly known as Major Warne. During his service the bat- talion had marched to the Niagara river, in the vicinity of Black Hawk, below Buffalo, New York, and there it formed a part of the command
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of Brigadier General Adanson Tannehill until it was mustered out of service.
Returning to his home, from the headquarters on the Canadian bord- er, Major Warne re-entered business life, and about 1815 in connection with his brother-in-law, William Parkison, and later with the Butler brothers, he built and operated the first window glass factory at Wil- liamsport (Monongahela City), on the west side of the present Chess street ; this was one of the first factories for this manufacture to be built west of the Alleghany mountains. Beside this factory he carried on a general mercantile business, buying all kinds of stock and selling it in castern markets. He bought and drove over the mountains to Baltimore many droves of hogs, bringing back salt and provisions by pack horses, after the manner of those days. This business was carried on until about 1825, when the partners sold out. Major Warne then bought a farmi called "Eden," now part of Monongahela City, and there he lived as a farmer the remainder of his life. He was a scrivener of some ability, and many legal papers containing his handwriting are extant. In the set- tlement of estates he would perform the duties of a legal adviser, and he was frequently consulted by his neighbors in the arrangement of their business concerns. The only living representatives of the founder of Williamsport resident in 1904 within Washington county. Pennsylvania, were descended from Major Warne. He was a good and patriotic citi- zen, an honorable and upright man, a member of the Methodist church. Major Warne married, in 1805, Mary, daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Weaver) Parkison, who died in 1856; she married (first) William Lowring. Children : Almuzett Ives, of whom further ; Margaret, Joseph P., James, Hiram, Eliza Jane, and four others who died young.
(III) Almuzett Ives, son of James and Mary ( Parkison-Lowring) Warne, was born at Williamsport, in 1809, died in Wood county, West Virginia, January 17, 1878. For four years he was engaged in boating on the Monongahela river : then he came into Wood county, Virginia, bought a farm near Parkersburg, in 1852, and there passed the remainder of his life. He married Mary Jacobs, of Washington county, Pennsyl- vania. Children: James, born January 31, 1832; Frances A., June 30. 1834; Mary, September 21, 1836: William Herron, of whom further ; six others, deceased.
(IV) William Herron, son of Almuzett Ives and Mary ( Jacobs) Warne, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1839. He received the full educational advantages of the schools of his native county. For some years he followed agriculture in Wood county, Virginia. Later he came to Parkersburg and served an apprenticeship to the joiner's trade under Samuel Stewart, and until 1871 he worked at his trade as a journeyman. Then, in company with R. A. Little, he went into the undertaking business. He soon purchased Mr. Little's interest, and afterward he associated himself with G. K. Leonard, en- gaging in the furniture business. Mr. C. C. Martin afterward became a member of the firm, but in March, 1882, he sold his share to Mr. Warne, who conducted the business alone up to the time of his retiring in 1898. Mr. Warne was the pioneer undertaker and furniture dealer of Parkers- burg, and was recognized as being one of the able and enterprising busi- ness men of the city. Above all he is a man of the strictest integrity, and this, with sagacity and industry, formed the foundation of his success. Mr. Warne was one of the originators of the Homestead Building Asso- ciation, and he is a large stockholder in the Electric Light Company of this city, and in the Citizens' National Bank, also of Parkersburg. He is a Republican, and a member of the Methodist church.
He married. 1866. Rosa Lee, daughter of Samuel and Charlotte 34
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Warren, of Parkersburg. Children: I. Charles Sandford, born May 7, 1867; an undertaker at Clarksburg. 2. Owen Ives, born August 4, 1868. 3. William M., born September 16, 1870. 4. Henry R., born Oc- tober 10, 1872; architect at Charleston, West Virginia. 5. Frank J., born March 16, 1874; was graduated from the high school of Parkers- burg in 1891, and three years later entered the school of journalism of the University of Pennsylvania; he received in 1896 a certificate of proficiency in finance and economy; in 1899 the degree of Master of Arts; the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1902; from 1892 to 1894 he was a reporter for the Parkersburg Daily Sentinel, and from 1896 to 1902 he held a reporter's position on the Philadelphia Public Ledger; from 1903 to 1906 he was editor of the Railway world; since 1906 he has been secretary of the emigration department of the National Civic Federation ; he is a member of Beta Theta Pi, a college fraternity, and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; he is the author of several works: "The Slav Immigration and the Mine Work- ers ;" "A Study in Immigration;" "Immigration and the Southern States ;" he was editor of "Facts on Immigration," in 1907, and a con- tributor thereto; he has been a contributor to "Commons," writing on trade unionism and labor problems ; numerous pamphlets also have been written by him, and magazine articles on economic, social, political and industrial topics ; his writings have appeared in several of the magazines : in 1909 he was made director of the department of journalism in New York University. 6. Blanche Little, born March 18, 1880; she attended for some years the Broad Street Conservatory of Music, in Philadel- phia, and has received three diplomas, respectively in organ music, piano music and the normal course : she married Professor F. W. Cram and they are the parents of four children.
NEALE The name Neale or Neal has existed in this country from very early colonial times, and was found in our ancient days both in New England and in Virginia. While the immigrants may have been from a single British family, there has certainly been no single American ancestor of all the Neales or Neals. At Parkersburg, West Virginia, there are two prominent families distinguished by the spelling of the surname, but the Neal family of this city is certainly of a different stock, its founder in Wood county having been a revolutionary ! soldier, formerly called O'Neal. Returning to the general account of the Neale of Neal families, the first Virginia record of this name is of John Neale, of Accomac county, and the date of the record is January 14, 1630. This John Neale was born about 1596. Hotten, in his lists of im- migrants, gives a John Neale as arriving in 1635 and a Captain James Neale came to Maryland in 1638. It is said, however, that the first Amer- ican residence of the present family was in Pennsylvania. Of the Neales in Great Britain and Ireland, special note may be made of Rev. Dr. John Mason Neale, an Episcopalian minister in England, of great piety and zeal, a High Church leader, and a writer, also a translator of liturgical and other hymns.
(I) Thomas Neale, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, died near Parkersburg, Virginia, about 1835. He came in 1802 from the valley of Virginia to Wood county, Virginia. and thus was among the pioneers of this county. It is stated that he brought with him one hundred slaves, with whom he worked a large plantation. At Parkersburg he opened a retail store, and he also con- ducted a banking business. The ill-fated Blennerhassett was associated with him in business partnership. At some time before the war of 1812
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he went into flour speculation ; he went south with flour and wheat, float- ing it in keel boats; from New Orleans it was to be shipped to New York, by vessel. The vessel grounded and the cargo was lost, Mr. Neale thereby suffering a heavy financial loss. For three years he was impris- oned for debt at Marietta, and his death was caused by consumption con- tracted during his imprisonment. He moved to a farm about three miles from the city of Parkersburg, and there he died. He married - Winn. Child, William Henry, of whom further.
(II) William Henry, son of Thomas and - - (Winn) Neale, was born at Parkersburg, May 13, 1813, died in September, 1889. His name was bestowed in honor of William Henry Harrison, who was recruiting at Parkersburg about the time of his birth. He was a farmer, and pur- chased in 1833 an island not far from Parkersburg, called Neale's Island, on which he lived until 1855. At various times he was a steamboat man, and interested in cattle and in dairying. Before the building of the rail- road he often drove stock over the mountains to Baltimore. He was one of the stockholders of the road from Grafton to Parkersburg. He married Catharine Dils. Among their twelve children were: Joseph Luther, of whom further; Henry Clay, married L. C. Davis; Harriet, married Captain Levi Hopkins.
(III) Joseph Luther, son of William Henry and Catharine (Dils) Neale, was born on Neale's Island, June 1, 1844. In his early life he was a steamboat man; afterward and until his retirement he was a farmer. He has also been associated in the produce business with his son, William Henry. Now he resides part of the time at Parkersburg and part at Houston, Texas. He is a Republican and a Methodist. Joseph Luther Neale married, July 26, 1865, Lulu Jane Miles, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May II, 1843, died July 27, 1898. Among their six children are: Wil- liam Henry, of whom further ; Lulu E., married Edward Drake; Joseph K., deceased.
(IV) William Henry (2), son of Joseph Luther and Lulu Jane (Miles) Neales, was born in Wood county, West Virginia, July 7, 1867. He attended the common schools of Wood county, West Virginia, and of Cincinnati, Ohio. The produce business was learned by him from his grandfather. He began his own business career at Parkersburg in 1887, as a retail grocer, dealing also in feed, but he is now a dealer in produce and fruit exclusively and only at wholesale. Produce is secured by him from almost every state in the Union, and Parkersburg is made its dis- tributing point. The brick building on the lower part of Ann street pur- chased by him in June, 1902, for the wholesale business, was near the site where stood the old log building serving as the first court house of Wood county. This he sold in 1904 and purchased his present building at 210 Market street. He is a member of the United Commercial Trav- elers. Mr. Neale upholds the policies of the Republican party, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, October 7, 1888, Irene Tennessee, born in Wirt county, West Virginia, September 1, 1870, daughter of John A. and Jane (Beatty ) Fairfax. Her father was a merchant at Belleville, Wood county, West Virginia, where he died in 1888, sixty years old; he was a direct descendant of William Fairfax, cousin of Lord Fairfax, who mar- ried Washington's oldest sister. Mrs. Neale's maternal grandfather was a pioneer Methodist minister, and was killed by bushwackers during the civil war. Children of William Henry and Irene Tennessee (Fairfax) Neale: I. Howard Fairfax, born August 10, 1889; lives in St. Louis, Missouri. 2. Alfred Earl, born November 5, 1891 ; now a student at West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, West Virginia. 3. Ray- mond Miles, born December 31, 1893. 4. Adelaide Fisher, born March
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3, 1895. 5. Catharine Culpeper, born August 9, 1898. 6. William Henry, born September 9, 1901.
Lloyd Whaley was born in Ritchie county, Virginia,
WHALEY April 12, 1854. He is one of the representative men of Finch, in that county. He has devoted considerable at- tention to farming and cattle raising. Formerly he was engaged in mer- cantile business at Finch, but this he has not resumed since he was burned ont in February, 1910. He is now postmaster at Finch. In the People's Bank, of Harrisville, Ritchie county, and the Citizens' Na- tional Bank of Pennsboro, Ritchie county, he is a stockholder. In po- litical life he is a prominent Prohibitionist. Of his church, the Metho- dist Episcopal, he has for years been president of the board of trustees. He married America, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Hamrick Bum- garner. Children: Alice, married O. J. Riggs; Ira, married Margaret Lamp; Ethel, married Willis Lamp; Ellis; Claude; Fay; Katherine; Howard; Hazel; Baxter Munroe, of whom further; Chauncey.
(II) Baxter Munroe, son of Lloyd and America ( Bumgarner) Whaley, was born in Ritchie county, West Virginia, September 23, 1881. He was educated in the public schools and in the University of West Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1907, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the following January he came to Parkersburg, West Virginia, and here he is now among the promising young lawyers of the city. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No. 50, of Ellenboro; and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Park- ersburg Lodge, No. 7, Parkersburg. Mr. Whaley has not married.
HEARNE Application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country" cannot be made in connection with the standing of Senator Julian Green Hearne in his home community and native state. He is not only one of the influential factors in connection with important industrial and financial enterprises in his native city of Wheeling but is also representa- tive of this, the most important and first senatorial district of West Vir- ginia in the state legislature, in whose house of delegates he has previously been a valued member for two terms. He is one of the influential fig- ures in the ranks of the Republican party in this state and the official preferments accorded him well indicate his status in popular confidence and esteem.
Julian Green Hearne was born in Wheeling, August 6, 1868, son of William L. and Laura ( Ford) Hearne, the former of whom was born at Laurel, Delaware, and the latter at Washington, D. C. William L. Hearne was an iron manufacturer, founder of the Riverside Iron Works, now a part of the United States Steel Corporation. He was a member of West Virginia state legislature in 1877, was an active Democrat and later became a Republican on account of tariff issue. He died in 1895, aged seventy-seven years. The family worshipped at the Presbyterian church. Three sons and three daughters of the family are now living, one son and three daughters being by his first marriage and two sons by the last mar- riage.
Senator Hearne gained his rudimentary education in the schools of his native city and supplemented this by a course of study in Peekskill Military Academy at Peekskill, New York, and Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and was a member of the class of 1892. In his active busi- ness career he has been identified in various capacities with the Carnegie
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Steel Company, the Riverside Iron Works of Wheeling, and the National Tube Company. He is a stockholder in various industrial corporations as well as in leading financial institutions, and president of J. B. Baum Jewelry Company and West Virginia American Mausoleum Company.
Senator Hearne has stood at all times exemplar of distinctive civic loyalty and public spirit, and this has been shown in divers ways, in his service in public office, in his promotion of enterprises that have tended to augment the general welfare of his home city, in his earnest support of benevolent and moral organizations, and in his sterling integrity of purpose in all the relations of life. In politics he accords unswerving allegiance to the Republican party and he has given effective service in be- half of its cause. In 1906 he was elected to represent Ohio county in the house of delegates of the state legislature, and he was chosen his own suc- cessor upon the expiration of his first term. His broad-minded and busi- ness-like work as a member of the lower house of the legislative body marked him for higher official preferment, and in 1910, after a spirited canvass, he was elected representative of the first senatorial district in the state senate, of which he is now an active and valued member. He has been zealous in the work on the floor of the senate and also in the delib- erations of the committee room. He has found assignment to various important committees, especially those on taxation and finance, in which his work has been notably valuable. He was also chairman of commit- tees on humane institutions and public buildings and penitentiary.
In the upbuilding and maintenance of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation in Wheeling, Senator Hearne has contributed liberally of time and funds, and he has also been an earnest supporter of the local Anti- Tuberculosis League and other charitable and benevolent enterprises and institutions. He is affiliated with both the York and Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, as well as the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is identified with the Fort Henry Club, one of the leading organizations of his native city. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, which his wife also at- tends, and is active and influential in the affairs of the parish of St. Mat- thew's Church, of whose vestry he is a member.
On June 6, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Senator Hearne to Dr. Lydia Cromwell, daughter of William F. Cromwell, a representative citizen of Bedford. Pennsylvania, where he is engaged in the foundry business. Senator and Mrs. Hearne have one son, Julian Green Jr., born September 20, 1904.
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