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This family is thought to be of German origin, by some BLESSING this is asserted as a fact, although the American found- er came to this country from Ireland. As nearly as can be ascertained the line of descent is as follows :
(I) Charles Blessing, the founder of this family, came from Ireland
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to America about 1761, and landed in Virginia, but subsequently settled in Maryland. Child : Michael, of whom further.
(II) Michael, son of Charles Blessing, was born in Maryland. He married Christena ( Mary ) Long : she was called Christena, but may have been Mary also. Children : George Lazarus, see forward; Eliza, mar- ried Jacob Hart ; Julia Ann, married Mason Jones: Sarepta Ann, mar- red John Roush: John Anderson, married Emma Eliza Cibbs; Mary Ann, married Thomas Ball.
(III) George Lazarus, son of Michael and Christena ( Long) Bless- ing, was born April 15, 1820, died November 1, 1864. He married, June 28, 1841, Susanna, born June 8, 1820, died January 5, 1907, daughter of Michael and Mary ( Roush) Rickard, and sister of Deby Malinda, Manda, Kate, George, Samuel, John, Michael, Jonas, Joseph, Barbara, Polly, Margaret. George Lazarus and Susanna (Rickard) Blessing had children: John Michael, born October 8, 1842, died October 18, 1843; Calvin Thomas, see forward: Mary Penelope, March 28, 1845; James Madison, April 29, 1847 : Sarepta Janette, March 17, 1849: William Bur- den. April 6, 1851 : Samuel Joseph, December 29, 1852; Lewis Andrew, June 25. 1854: Martin Green, September 27, 1856, died in infancy ; Ben- jamin Franklin, January 25, 1858: Sarah Catherine, August 7, 1860; George Lathan, December 17, 1862; Fannie Louise, February 2, 1865.
(IV) Calvin Thomas, son of George Lazarus and Susanna (Rickard ) Blessing, was born in Mason county, Virginia, now West Virginia, Janu- ary 30, 1844. He is a farmer by occupation. He enlisted in the Union army in August, 1862, in Company B. Thirteenth West Virginia Infan- try, and was honorably discharged June 22, 1865. He was wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, being shot through the in- step, just before General Philip H. Sheridan arrived on his famous ride. He served as sergeant under Captain William C. Greenlee and Colonel William R. Brown. He is a member of the Baptist church, and a Re- publican in politics. He married, January 19, 1868, Sarah Josephine Board who was born October 30, 1848, in Wirt county, Virginia, now West Virginia. Children: 1-2. Ida M. and Addie May, born November 4, 1869 ; the latter died in infancy : Ida M. married, July 12, 1893, Charles S. Marr, and has had children : Rhoda Ethel, born June 2, 1894: William Rhoderic, August 27, 1895. died September 9, 1895 ; infant, born March 16, died July 8, 1898. 3. Iva Viella, born August 5, 1871. 4. William Alonzo, born July 25. 1873 : married, July 2, 1899, Hannah F. Fry, and has had children: William Lester, born March 24. 1900; Garnet Olga, born September 14, 1901 ; Howard Ernest, July 16, 1908. 5. Riley An- drew, see forward. 6. Myrtle Elvira, born March 15, 1878. 7. Thomas Edward, born December 10, 1880; married, October 28, 1903, Allie M. Fry : children : Fay Debel, born October 3. 1905 : Beatrice Audrey, Au- gust 26, 1908. 8. Oran Guy, born October 26, 1882; married, May 28, 1905, Etha J. Rollins ; children : Manford Alvaro, born May 10, 1906; Benjamin Franklin, January 26, 1908; Calvin Thomas, June 25, 1913. 9. Fannie Ethel, born November 5. 1884, died April 20, 1892. 10. Rosa Maude, born March 30, 1888.
(V) Riley Andrew, son of Calvin Thomas and Sarah Josephine (Board) Blessing, was born near Letart, Mason county, West Virginia. December II, 1875. He attended public school in Mason county, and took a course of training at the Spencer Normal School, Spencer. Roane county, West Virginia. He matriculated in the law department of the George Washington University, District of Columbia, 1903, and grad- uated from this institution in 1906. At the same institution he took a course in oratory, and supplemented these studies by a course at Stray- er's Business College, Washington, District of Columbia. He taught 36
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school from 1894 to 1901, on a first grade certificate. He knew what it was to burn the midnight oil. He prepared in part for his first teacher's examination by taking his books to the field with him, and snatching every spare moment to inform himself. In 1901 he was selected by R. L. Barnett, sheriff of Mason county, as his office clerk. From 1903 to 1911 he was in the employment of the United States Senate, and lived with his family in Washington, District of Columbia, during this time. In 1906 Mr. Blessing was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and in the same year, to practice in the circuit courts of West Virginia. He was admitted in the following year to practice before the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and in April, 1911, to practice in the supreme court of the United States. He practiced law in the District of Columbia from 1906 to 1911, being in partnership with David H. Butz, the firm name being Butz & Blessing. In I911 he opened a law office at Point Pleasant, Mason county, West Virginia. In January, 1913, he formed a partnership with F. G. Mus- grave, prosecuting attorney of said county, the firm being known as the law firm of Musgrave & Blessing. He still resides and practices law in said town. He has been an enthusiastic Republican all his life, and has campaigned for his party since 1896. He has been a member of the Re- publican executive committee of Mason county, and is now serving his party in the state senate, having been elected in November, 1912, by a large majority, for a term of four years, over Hon. Geo. Grow, of Jack- son county, the Democratic candidate. Mr. Blessing is a Baptist, as is also his wife.
Mr. Blessing married, April 21, 1897, Delitha May, daughter of George Washington and Charlotte Ellen (Snyder) Van Matre, who was born October 27, 1881 ( see Van Matre sketch). Children : I. Leolia Gene- vieve, born May 17, 1898; was graduated from grammar school at Point Pleasant, June, 1912, and is now in the high school. At President Roose- velt's New Year reception in 1908, when in the act of shaking hands with the president, she looked up into his face and said : "I wish you a happy New Year, Mr. President." President Roosevelt, laughing, and showing his white teeth, replied : "I wish you a happy New Year, my little lady, as all in the receiving line gave a hearty laugh. 2. Beulah Gay, born June 1, 1900 : is now in the Point Pleasant high school. 3. Robert Leslie, born January 25. 1902 ; he served as a page in the state senate during the ses- sion of 1913, where he became quite popular and gained some newspaper notoriety. The following incident was printed in all the newspapers of importance in the state:
"Senator R. A. Blessing, of Point Pleasant, is not only a good Republican, but he has a bright little son who is as good a Republican as his father, and he intends to see that his parent does not stray off the safe party path. The youngster, who is just nine, was with his father in the exciting scenes in the senate last Wednesday, when the Republicans chased Senator French from pillar to post, forcing him to vote for himself as president, to their great satisfaction. They also voted for several Democrats, excepting French. The Democrats didn't quite enjoy the situation. Senator Blessing had just voted for Bland in a sten- torian voice, when his nine-year-old hopeful, who was keeping tab from his position 'way back in the rear, rushed up the aisle to his father and yelled at the top of his voice : 'Say, pop, you just made a mistake and voted for a Democrat! You change your vote quick and vote for a Republican. Go on, Pop, and change it!' The senate didn't recover its gravity for some time while young Blessing tried to convert his father back to Republicanism. The laughter over the incident broke up the tensity of the party fight and brought good humor back to the senate. Even Senator French laughed."
Andrew Board, father of Sarah Josephine (Board) Blessing ( see Blessing IV), was the son of Patrick Board, and was born March 19.
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1799, died March 10, 1885. He was a member of and a liberal contribu- tor to the support of the Baptist church. In 1865 he founded the Board Baptist Church, now the Oldtown Baptist Church near Letart. West Virginia, the name being changed at his request. He was a Whig and a Republican in politics. For many years preceding his death he was a cripple, and was unable to walk without the use of a crutch. He mar- ried (first) Margaret Ott, April 21, 1829; (second) July 15, 1845, Mary, daughter of Dusosaway Dye; (third) 1861, Mary Jane Veverlin. Chil- dren of first marriage : James L., born February 7, 1830, died February 9, 1908; Susan Jane, born February 10, 1832; Mary Elizabeth, Septem- ber 4, 1833 ; Margaret Matilda, August 14, 1835 ; Nancy Katharine, Octo- ber 6, 1837 ; George W., January 16, 1840: Andrew Jackson, January 13, 1842. Children of second marriage: Drusannah Minerva, born March 16, 1847; Sarah Josephine, October 30, 1848; Lucinda Isabelle, May 18, 1852; Thomas Wesley, June 1, 1854: William Whorton, June 16, 1856, died June 21, 1903. Child of third marriage: Martha Ellen, born Octo- ber 13, 1864, deceased.
(The Van Matre Line).
This name has been spelled in a large number of ways, as Van Met- eren. Van Metre, Van Meter, Van Mater, and others ; among some of the descendants it has taken a French form, if they really are of the same family.
Emanuel Van Meteren was the Dutch consul in London, England, in the early seventeenth century ; he was a historian, and a friend of Henry Hudson. The surname already existed in his family. The arms of the Dutch Van Meteren family are: quartered: first and fourth of silver, with a fleur-de-lis, gules ; with second and third of gold, with two fesses, gules ; accomplished with eight martlets of the same color arranged in orle. Crest : a fleur-de-lis. It is said, however, that the Van Meterens who came to America derive their name from Meteren, a town in Gueld- erland, Holland. There are two early American settlers from whom the Virginian pioneer family has been supposed to have come, but the fol- lowing account is supposed to be correct, so far as it goes, by those who have studied the question.
(I) Jan Joosten, the founder of this family, arrived at New Amster- dam (now New York City), September 12, 1662, coming from Tieder- welt, with his wife, and five children ranging in age from two to fifteen years. In the same year he removed to Wyltwick (Kingston, New York). On June 7th, in the next year, the Minnisink Indians, raiding and burning Wyltwick, carried away as captives his wife and two chil- dren, but the prisoners were rescued. At Wyltwick he was a schepen, and in 1667 he was elected a deacon in the Dutch Reformed church. In 1673 he was one of the four magistrates of Hurley and Marbletown, New York. He appears to have had property at Marbletown two years before this. He swore allegiance to the English, in Ulster county, New York, in 1689. In 1695 he with other adventurers, is found in the province of East Jersey, and on October 18th of this year he and another, probably his son-in-law, purchased five hundred acres in Burlington county, New Jersey, on the Delaware river, on the present site of Burlington. He seems the next year to have returned to Ulster county, New York, but to have retained his interest in the New Jersey property till 1699. In 1700 he made a large individual purchase of land in Somerset county, New Jersey, and he probably settled and died near Raritan, New Jersey. He married Macyken Hendrickson, of Meppelen, province of Drenthe, Holland. Children : Lysbeth ; Catharine; Geertje, married Crom ; Joost Janse, of whom further ; Gysbert Janse.
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(Il) Joost Janse, son of Jan Joosten and Macyken Hendricksen, was born probably in Europe, about 1656. He married, at New Pfaltz, New York. December 12. 1682, Sarah, daughter of Louis DuBois, who was , baptized September 14. 1664. Children: 1. Jan, baptized October 14, ! 1683: he settled somewhere on the Raritan river, in Somerset county, ; New Jersey, thence removed to Maryland, settling near the Monocacy : river : November 8, 1726, he received a grant of land in Frederick county, at the mouth of Metre's run, which empties into the Monocacy, and here, it is said. the battle of Monocacy Junction was fought, in the civil war. ! The settlement of the valley of Virginia may be said to have begun with the granting of an immense area in what was then Spottsylvania county, by Governor Gooch and his council, at Williamsburg, Virginia, June 17, 1730, to John ( Jan) and Isaac Van Metre. From these brothers (per- haps also from Hendrix), the Virginia Van Meters (Van Matres, etc.), are probably descended. He is supposed to have married (first) Sarah Bo- dine or Berdine : (second) Margaret -. 2. Rebekka, baptized April 26, 1686; married, September. 1704. Cornelis Elting: their daughter Sarah married John, son of Jost Hite. 3. Lysbeth, baptized March 3, 1689. 4. Isaac, born about 1692: he removed to New Jersey; (see further what has already been said about him under his brother Jan). He married (first ) it is supposed, Catalina, widow of Molenaer Hendrickse, (second) about 1725. Annetje Wyncoop. 5. Hendrix, baptized September 1, 1695; he also removed to New Jersey.
(I) John Van Matre, probably a descendant of one of the Van Metre brothers, of whom above, was born about 1790. He married Delitha Peck, who was born in 1808, and died in 1894. Children : Emiline; Nancy : Jacob; David: Mary : George Washington, of whom further ; Andrew, Agnes, Henry, John.
(II ) George Washington, son of John and Delitha ( Peck) Van Ma- tre. was born December 14, 1836. He was a farmer and a Republican. He married Charlotte Ellen, daughter of John Wesley and Mary (Thompson ) Snyder, who was born in Indiana, April 11, 1862. Chil- dren : I. Delitha May, born October 27, 1881 ; married, April 21, 1897, Riley Andrew Blessing, of whom above. 2. George Washington, born February 10, 1884: married (first) Myrtle Mckinney, October, 1904; child : Ralph Marvin, born February II, 1907; (second) Verda Rock, married November. 1910. 3. Ida Lucinda, born April 10, 1889; married Fred M. Roush, June 30, 1907. 4. Fred Emerson, born June 10, 1892. 5. Carrie Cloe, born January 12, 1897 : married M. E. Greer, May 21, 1913, and they took up their residence at Huntington, West Virginia. 6. Twila Udell, born July 7, 1899.
This name, of Welsh origin, originally meant son of John, JONES being precisely equivalent to the name, also of very frequent occurrence. Johnson. The common use of John as a Chris- tian name explains the great frequency with which its derivative, Jones, is found as a surname. The present family has long been settled in what is now West Virginia. It will be noted that Lyle Laughlin Jones, of Parkersburg, is descended also from the Pierpont family, which has borne so great a part in the making of the history of West Virginia. It is un- fortunate that the exact connection of the West Virginia Pierponts with the great English and New England family is not known : this family is remarkable for the number of persons of great distinction in many fields,' religious, diplomatic, financial, political, and others, descended from it, and the West Virginia Pierponts have been true to the character of the family. Records pertaining to the history of the West Virginian Pier-
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ponts are said to have been lost in the civil war, so it is to be feared that the full ancestral connection with the New England and Norman stock will never be elucidated.
(I) William Jones, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, lived in Monongalia county, Virginia. He married Jennie McMullen. Child, William McMullen, of whom further.
(II) William McMullen, son of William and Jennie ( McMullen) Jones, was born in Monongalia county, Virginia. There he was a farm- er. In politics he was a Whig, in religion a Methodist. He married (first) Edith, daughter of John and Sally (Bike) Fetty ; ( second) Sebra, daughter of Hadley and Rachel ( Ramsey) Johnson ; (third) Jane Vande- vort. Children : Sarah, George, Sarilda, Oliver Shirtliff, of whom further; Virgil Lewis, William Henry, Daniel Webster, Josephus, Vir- ginia, Benjamin.
(III) Oliver Shirtliff, son of William McMullen Jones, was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, April 3, 1836, died at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 30, 1910. In the civil was he served as a sergeant in the Third Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, afterward as a member of the Sixth West Virginia Cavalry. He was a merchant, a Republican and a Methodist. He married, April 27, 1865, Lucy, born August 9, 1844, daughter of John Jay and Sarah ( Snell) Pierpont. She is now living at Parkersburg. West Virginia. Her grandfather's name was Francis Pierpont. Children: Charles Clarence, born February 2, 1866; Fanny Florence, October 14, 1867; Paul Pierpont, October 3, 1869, died in in- fancy ; William Wilber, December 1I, 1870, died June 16, 1911; Grace Pierpont, August II, 1873: George Glen, born August 6, 1875, died in infancy ; Edith Pierpont, September 20, 1876; Lyle Laughlin, of whom further ; Ray R., February 18. 1882: Mildred and Kenneth, July 13, 1886, both died in infancy.
(IV) Lyle Laughlin, son of Oliver Shirtliff and Lucy (Pierpont) Jones, was born at Parkersburg, West Virginia, August 29, 1879. In the public schools of this city his education was received. His business life has been in connection with the Wood County Bank. of Parkersburg, in which he started as messenger ; by successive promotions to bookkeeper, receiving teller, and paying teller, then to his present position, he has held all offices in this bank to assistant cashier, the position which he has now reached. He is a member of all branches of the Masonic fraternity which are found at Parkersburg, also of Nemesis Shrine, in which he is a charter member ; and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he was elected, in April, 1912. exalted ruler of Parkersburg Lodge. Mr. Jones is a Republican, and has served one term, from 1904 to 1906, as a member of the city council of Parkersburg.
He married, at Parkersburg, February 10, 1904, Ida Albrecht, born at Parkersburg, April 2, 1880, daughter of Edward Christian and Amelia Catharine (Albrecht) Gerwig. Her father is a manufacturer of furni- ture, and was a commissioner for West Virginia to the World's Fair held in St. Louis in 1904. Children of Edward Christian and Amelia Cath- arine (Albrecht) Gerwig: Edward Charles ; Ida Albrecht, married Lyle Laughlin Jones : Walter H .; Flora E. Mrs. Jones is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Parkersburg. Children of Lyle Laughlin and Ida Albrecht (Gerwig) Jones: Catharine Gerwig, born October 10, 1906; Lyle Laughlin, November 8, 1909.
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IRVINE As vice-president of the National Bank of West Virginia, William Burriss Irvine is the active head of the oldest bank in Wheeling, an institution which is now approach- ing its centenary. Mr. Irvine has been identified with banking in Wheel- ing for about a quarter of a century and is one of the busy, forceful, trusted men of the Wheeling financial district. He takes a keen interest in all enterprises promoting the progress and welfare of this city, and after serving several years as a director of the Wheeling board of trade. the leading commercial organization of the state, he was in January, 1913, unanimously elected its president. He is a recognized leader in the banking circles of the state and has served with high credit as sec- retary and president of the West Virginia Bankers' Association.
A resident of Wheeling for forty years, Mr. Irvine was born in Smith- field, Jefferson county, Ohio, June 7, 1866. His father, George F. Ir- vine, is now a resident of Pittsburgh; his mother, now deceased, was Rachel (Burriss) Irvine. William was the youngest in a family of three children and came to Wheeling with his parents in 1871. All his education was obtained in this city. From the public schools he entered Linsly Institute, the school which produced many prominent characters in the affairs of Wheeling during the past century.
Mr. Irvine began his banking experience with the Bank of the Ohio Valley, where he was a messenger boy at the age of fifteen. He was then with the National Exchange Bank for some years and rose to the rank of assistant cashier. In June, 1901, he succeeded J. A. Jefferson as cashier of the Bank of Wheeling, and in 1907 became vice-president of the National Bank of West Virginia. Mr. Irvine is also one of the trustees of the Mutual Savings Bank. In politics he has always been a staunch Republican, though his busy career has not allowed active participation in practical politics. He is one of the leading Masons of the state, a member of the Fort Henry Club and connected with various local organizations of social and civic nature. In the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church he has served as steward for the past fif- teen years.
In February, 1887, Mr. Irvine married Eva A., daughter of the late David M. and Virginia (Lindsey) Drake. Her father was also con- nected with the banking affairs of Wheeling during the last century. Russell Drake Irvine, the one son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvine, after a course in the Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, Academy, is now connected with the bank. The beautiful Irvine home is at Elmwood in the suburbs of Wheeling.
This name is and probably long has been the most common of SMITH all surnames in the United States of America, being of fre- quent occurrence in all parts of the country, and it is also a common name in Great Britain. Like many other English names, it has the aspect of being derived from a trade, and this is the most natural explanation of its derivation and first meaning. This also explains the number of individuals and distinct families possessing in common this one name, for there must everywhere have been smiths, and many would exercise this occupation, in proportion to the total population of any country. Not all the Smiths, however, in the United States are of Brit- ish origin : in addition to the multitude of British immigrants constantly coming to the ports of this country and bringing with them this surname, immigrants from Holland and Germany have founded families of the same name. The present family was early settled in New Jersey, and has migrated southward. Judging from the known facts of a later time,
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the early Smiths in this line were Quakers, which indicates the proba- bility of English origin.
(1) Timothy Smith is the first member of this family of whom we have definite information. He had a son, Micajah, of whom further.
(II) Micajah, son of Timothy Smith, resided in New Jersey, but moved to Pennsylvania, and thence again came into MIonongalia county, Virginia, settling at Smithtown, probably near the end of the eighteenth century. He married Esther -. Child : William, of whom further. (III) William, son of Micajah and Esther Smith, was born at Smith- town, May 28, 1799, and died in Preston county, Virginia, March 15, 1859. He was a farmer, and an adherent of the Democratic party. In early life both he and his wife were Quakers, but they later joined the Baptist church. His life was largely passed in Western Pennsylvania, in the neighborhood of Brownsville, but he came in 1833 to Gladesville, Preston county, Virginia. William Smith married Margaret Binns, who was born July 27, 1800, and died at Kerns, Randolph county, West Vir- ginia, June 11, 1885. Children : I. Alice; married Joseph Halderman ; lives at Gladesville. 2. Hester, deceased : married Bennett Weaver. 3. James Wilson ; living at Independence, West Virginia : married Margaret Binns. 4. Joseph B., living at Gladesville ; married Adelaide Ford. 5. Sarah, died at the age of twenty-nine ; unmarried. 6. Elizabeth, deceased ; married Lemuel Menear. 7. Lewis Gibson ; living in Oklahoma ; married Mary Moore. 8. Susanna, deceased ; married John Austin. 9. Elezan ; married Peter Wamsley : lives at Buckhannon, West Virginia. IO. Wil- liam H., of whom further. 11. George H., living at Charlottesville, Vir- ginia : married (first) Levera Lyon, (second) Ellen Powell. Two other children, Micajah W. and Melinda, died young.
(IV) William H., son of William and Margaret (Binns) Smith, was born at Gladesville, April 28, 1844. Here he was brought up, and here he has always lived. He is a farmer. In the civil war he enlisted for the defense of his country in Company B, Fourth West Virginia Cavalry, serving from 1863 to 1864, and was discharged on the expiration of the term of his enlistment. He is a Republican, and a member of the Bap- tist church, in which he holds the office of trustee. He married ( first ) Sarah E., daughter of Jacob and Martha (Watkin) Frederick, who was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, and died at Gladesville, at the age of fifty-three. Her father was a farmer in Monongalia county, where he died in March, 1897, aged about seventy-seven. She became in her later years a member of the Methodist Protestant church. Mr. Smith married (second) Caroline Streets, ( third) Anna Teits. Children, all by first mar- riage : I. Idora Josephine, born February 17, 1867: married Charles S. Fuller : he is a farmer, and they live in Preston county, West Virginia. 2. Rufus Arlington, of whom further. 3. Artemas Clyde, born June I, 1870: farmer, living in Garrett county, Maryland: married Elizabeth Herring. 4. Harvey Blaine, horn February 19, 1876: farmer, lives at Keyser. Mineral county. West Virginia : married Elizabeth Craver.
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