WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 158
Today's Topics:
#1 BIO: BROWNFIELD, James Hustead, M. [PJSTON@aol.com]
#2 BIO: BROWNFIELD, George Hustead, M [PJSTON@aol.com]
#3 BIO: KURNER, David C.-Wheeling, WV [PJSTON@aol.com]
#4 BIO: McFALL, Robert Raymond-Monong [PJSTON@aol.com]
#5 Bio-Cephas Jacobs Morgantown, WV [Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>]
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Subject: BIO: BROWNFIELD, James Hustead, M.D.-Marion Co., WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg 197 + 198
James Hustead Brownfield, M. D., was a man whose professional and civic
stewardship was of the finest type, and at the time of his death he was the
dean of his profession in the City of Fairmont, Marion County, where his name
and memory are held in lasting honor. He was born in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, July 5, 1836, and his death occurred January 19, 1921.
Thomas Brownfield, a representative of one of the pioneer families of Western
Pennsylvania, crossed the Alleghany Mountains and settled in Fayette County.
One of his sons, Rev. William Brownfield, became a distinguished Presbyterian
clergyman and was a contemporary of Rev. Alexander Campbell in effective
Christian service in the State of Pennsylvania, Mr. Campbell having been
founder of the Disciples or Christian Church. Another son, James, married
Hannah Bowell, and among the children of this union was Judge John Brownfield
who was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and who there became a
successful merchant, besides which he served ten years, 1851-61, as associate
judge of that county. Judge Brownfield married Belinda, daughter of John
Hustead, and she died July 2, 1882, at the age of seventy-two years. They
were the parents of the subject of this memoir, Dr. James H. Brownfield. In
his native state the Doctor received the advantages of old Lewisburg College,
now Bucknell University, and thereafter he read medicine under the
preceptorship of Dr. H. B. Mathiot at Smithfield, Fayette County. Thereafter
he took one course of lectures in historic old Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, and in 1860 he established his residence at Fairmont, West
Virginia. Here he was retained as a contract physician for a time, and when
the Civil war began he tendered his services to the Union. He became
assistant surgeon of the Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and
served in this capacity until the close of the war. He then returned to
Fairmont, and for many years thereafter he held inviolable place as the
leading physician and surgeon in Marion County. The Doctor was one of the
organizers of the West Virginia State Medical Society in 1867, and was a
member also of the American Association of Railroad Surgeons and the American
Public Health Association. He received the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, was a member of the Mystic Shrine,
and was a republican in politics. From 1867 to 1884 he was elected a
representative in the State Legislature. In all the relations of life he was
loyal, earnest and helpful, and he was held in affectionate esteem in the
community which was long the stage of his labors.
October 18, 1866, recorded the marriage of Doctor Brownfield and Miss Ann
Elizabeth Fleming, daughter of Matthew Fleming, and her death occurred in
1903. Of the children the eldest is John M., a banker at Fairmont; Clark B.
died in January 1909, leaving one son, James H. (II); Dr. George H. is the
subject of a personal sketch following; and Arch F. is engaged in the jewelry
business at Fairmont.
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg 198
George Hustead Brownfield, M. D., a representative physician and citizen of
Fairmont, Marion County maintains his residence and office at the old
homestead where he was born, on Main Street, his birth having occurred March
31, 1871. His father, the late Dr. James Hustead Brownfield, was long one
of the leading physicians and surgeons at Fairmont.
Doctor Brownfield gained his early education in the public schools of his
native city, and thereafter was for four years a student in the University of
West Virginia, where he passed two years in the literary department and two
in the medical department. In 1898 he was graduated from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, and in the same
year became surgeon for the Murray Mines, three in number in Marion County.
He continued his professional service in this connection nine years, and in
the meanwhile, in 1903, again became a resident of Fairmont, where he was
associated in practice with his father until the latter's death and where he
has since continued his substantial and representative general practice, his
service as surgeon with the mining company having continued until 1907. He
is now retained as physician and surgeon to two of the largest mines of the
Consolidated Coal Company. He is a member of the Marion County and State
Medical societies, the Southern Medical Association and the American Medical
Association. His Masonic affiliations are with the Fairmont Blue Lodge,
Chapter and Commandery of the York Rite, and he has received the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with
Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. He holds membership in the
Fairmont Lodge of Elks and the Fairmont Country Club. He and his wife are
members of the Baptist Church. The Doctor married Ida L., a daughter of
Allison Bartlett, of Harrison County. They have no children.
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Subject: BIO: KURNER, David C.-Wheeling, WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg 199 + 200
David C. Kurner during his youth at Wheeling learned the painting and
decorating trades, and for many years has been active head of a successful
business and organization handling painting contracts and is also proprietor
of a large and well stocked store handling wall paper, paints, oil and glass.
Mr. Kurner was born in Wheeling, July 10, 1859. His father, John David
Kurner, was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1832, came to the United States
when a young man and settled at Wheeling, was a merchant, and in the course
of years achieved an influential place in local business circles. He was a
member of the State Militia during the Civil war. He was affiliated with the
democratic party and a member of the Lutheran Church. His death occurred at
Wheeling in 1891. His wife was Susanna E. Strobel, still living in Wheeling,
where she was born in 1838. The children of John David Kurner and wife were:
Veronica, now living at Akron, Ohio, widow of Philip Knabe, who was a nail
manufacturer at Wheeling; David C., William, a painter and decorator who died
at Wheeling at the age of fifty-five; Charles, a painter and decorator at
Wheeling; John David, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Harry J., an advertiser
at Wheeling; Archibald, who has never contracted the habit of settled
residence; Nellie, whose husband, F. Slagle, is an investment broker in
Texas; and Joseph, a painter and musician who died at Wheeling at the age of
forty-eight.
David C. Kurner attended school at Wheeling only to the age of thirteen, and
then worked in various lines but served the apprenticeship that gave him an
expert knowledge of painting, sign work and graining. He has used this
useful mechanical trade as the basis of a permanent business career. In 1886
he established himself in business as a contractor and dealer in decorative
materials, starting with a very small capital, and with his own labor, supplem
ented by a few employees, and during the past thirty-five years has made his
business one of the leading organizations of its kind in the state, with
offices and store at 1518 Market Street, and he does both a wholesale and
retail business in decorative materials as well as contracting for painting
and decorating. He is sole proprietor of his business.
Mr. Kurner had three sons in the World war, and was busy throughout that
period in local war activities, being captain of teams in drives for the
Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other causes. A number of years ago he was a
member of the Wheeling City Council, is a democrat, a member of the Catholic
Church and the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce.
In 1886, at Wheeling, Mr. Kurner married Miss Barbara Ebbert, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Ebbert, now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Of the ten
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kurner two died in infancy. The oldest of
those living is John Raymond, who for fifteen years has been in the Regular
Army service, is a member of the Marine Corps, and was with that famous
organization in the war. David C., Jr., whose home is at Logansport,
Indiana, was commissioned a captain in the war, was sent overseas to France
and was in service there over a year. Robert J., the third son, is foreman
for his father's business at Wheeling, and is married to Jaenetta Yeager.
Clement O. was in the navy and was one of the 300 Americans who lost their
lives when the U. S. S. Cyclops disappeared. Caritas is the wife of Wilbur
L. Heinlein, a clerk with the Whitaker-Glessner Company at Wheeling. Miss
Martha lives at home. Stella is the wife of Wm. A. Roth, a plumber. Paul J.
is an automobile salesman at Wheeling and Ebbert is a student in the
Cathedral High School.
Mr. Kurner owns a modern residence at 77 Eighteenth Street, and in the course
of his business career has acquired much other local real estate, including a
house at 73 Eighteenth Street and one at 213 South York Street.
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Subject: BIO: McFALL, Robert Raymond-Monongalia Co., WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg 200
Robert Raymond McFall, general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel
Company of Mortgantown, has had an interesting diversity of experience in
business and in educational circles, and since locating at Morgantown has
found ample satisfaction not only for his business energies but for the
desires for social and civic service.
A native of Northern New York, he was born in the Village of Naumburg, Lewis
County, January 29, 1884, son of John and Lillian A. (Eldred) McFall, the
former a native of St. Lawrence County and the latter of Jefferson County,
New York. His grandparents, William and Mary McFall, were born in Glasgow,
Scotland, and were pioneers in St. Lawrence County, New York. John McFall
was a carriage maker by trade, and occupation and business he followed for
many years at Naumburg, where he died in 1918, at the age of sixty-four. His
widow is now sixty-two years of age and lives at Castorland, New York.
Robert R. McFall was educated in the Lowville, New York, Academy, and
completed his literary education in Adrian College of Michigan. His first
regular business experience was as shipping clerk for the Beaver River Lumber
Company at Castorland, New York, in 1902. Following that he was paymaster
for the Carthage Tissue Paper Mills at Carthage, New York. During his
student career at Adrian, Michigan, he was secretary to the president of the
college. On leaving college he spent one year at Valley City, North Dakota,
as registrar of the State School of North Dakota. He then returned to
Adrian, and for four years was registrar of Adrian College and secretary to
the board of Trustees.
Mr. McFall came to Morgantown in 1914. Here he built and managed the plant
of the Barley Foods Company, conducting that business five years. Since 1919
he has been general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel Company. He
is also secretary of the Morgantown Wholesale Coal Association and a director
of the Union Bank and Trust Company. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega
college fraternity, belongs to the First Presbyterian Church, and is
affiliated with the Rotary, Masonic and Old Colony clubs, the Morgantown and
Pittsburgh Chambers of Commerce. February 14, 1914, Mr. McFall married Miss
Lucile Goucher. She was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of
Samuel Boone and Anna (McConnell) Goucher. Her father was descended from the
Daniel Boone family. Mr. and Mrs. McFall have two children: Anna Gene, born
August 8, 1915; and J. S. Robert, born November 5, 1916.
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Subject: Bio-Cephas Jacobs Morgantown, WV
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 11
Cephas Jacobs- Morgantown, WV
Cephas Jacobs became a resident of West Virginia as now constited, in
the year 1853, and was one of the venerable and honored citizens of
Morgantown, Monongalia County, at the time of his death, on the 2d of
February, 1903. He was born in Allegany County, Maryland, January 8,
1826, and was a descendant of Zachariah Jacobs, who immigrated from
Wales to America in 1740, and who first made settlement in Connecticut.
In 1760 he removed to New Jersey, and Colonial records show that his son
Jacob Jacobs served as captain in the Patriotic Army in the War of the
Revolution, in which he was with General Washington at Valley Forge.
Gabriel, son of Capt. Jacob Jacobs, was born in New Jersey, July 7,
1781, and was a young man when he settled in Allegany County, Maryland,
where he remained until his death, October 11, 1848. He married Margaret
Jackson, who was born May 27, 1783, and died October 20, 1855. Cephas
Jacobs, son of Gabriel and Margaret Jacobs, was reared on his fathers
farm in Allegany County, Maryland, and from that state he came to West
Virginia, then a part of Virginia, in 1853, and settled in Preston
County, where he engaged in farming and where he built and operated
grist and saw mills and a tannery. There he continued his residence
until 1869, when he moved to a farm on the west side of Monongahela
River in Grant District, Monongalia County, opposite the City of
Morgantown. He there continued as one of the substantial exponents of
farm indusrrrrrrrtry in the country until 1892, when he moved to
Morgantown, in which city he passed the remainder of his life. He was
one of the organizers and became president of the First National
Building & Loan Association at Charlestown, this state, and was a
director of the Second National Bank of Morgantown. He was a stanch
republican, and he served two terms as justice of the peace in Grant
District and one term as a member of the city council of Morgantown. He
was affiliated with Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, Free and Accepted
Masons, and he and his wife were zealous members of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church at Morgantown.
April 10, 1851, recorded the marriage of Cephas Jacobs with Margaret
Ann Ravenscraft, daughter of Abner and Nancy (Corbus) Ravenscraft, of
Maryland, and she survived him by nearly twelve years, her death having
occured September 13 1914.
Elmer Forrest Jacobs, son of Cephas and Margaret Ann Jacobs, was born
on the home farm of his father on Bird's Creek, Preston County, this
state, June 11,1866, and was three years old at the time of the family
removal to Monongalia County, where he was reared to manhood, recieved
the discipline of the public schools and finally entered the University
of West Virginia, with the intention of preparing himself for the
profession of civic engineering. But upon the advice of Col. T. Moore
Jackson, then at the head of the School of Engineering, West Virginia
University, Mr. Jacobs decided to take up architecture, Colonel Jackson
having given him special insructions along this line. He was impatient
at the delay in placing himself in a position to earn a salary, and on
this account left the university and entered the office of J.L. Beatty,
an architect in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He remained five
years with Mr. Beatty and gained a thorough technical and practical
training in the architectural art and science. In 1893 he assumed charge
of designing and construction with the Pittsburgh firm of W.A. Hoeveller
& Company, and later he became superintendant of construction for the
Standard Sanitary Manufactoring Company of Pittsburgh.
In the fall of 1894 Mr. Jacobs opened an office in Morgantown, where
he now stands virtually at the head of his profession in this part of
West Virginia, as well as being the oldest architect in point of
experience and continous practice at Morgantown. Among many important
buildings designed by and erected under the supervision of Mr. Jacobs
are the Madeira (formely the Franklin) Hotel; Woodburn Hall and an
addition to Science Hall, of the University of West Virginia; chapter
houses of the Sigma Chi, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Alpha, Phi Sigma Kappa,
Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternities at the State University;
Farmers and Merchants Bank; the old post office at Morgantown, which was
the first fire-proof building in this section of the state and is now
occupied by the Union Savings and Trust Company; the plant of the Seneca
Glass Company; plant of the Union Stopper Company; Fourth Ward School
building; First Methodist Protestant Church, Morgantown; First Methodist
Episcopal Church, Mount Morris, Pennsylvania; and residences of George
C. Baker, William Moorhead, J. H. Mc Dermott, J.C. McVicker, Francis
Heermans, J.C. Frazier, and many others of the most modern type in
Morgantown and vicinity. Mr. Jacobs is a member of the American
Institute of Architects, his affiliation with that organization dating
from May 24, 1902.
He married Miss M. Ella Wood daughter of the late A.C. Wood, of
Morgantown, and they have two children. Virginia is the wife of Allen
Bowie, of Wheeling, this state, and they have one child, Mary Eleanor.
David Wood Jacobs is at the time of this writing, in 1921, a student in
the Morgantown High School.