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Today's Topics:
  #1 BIO: J. Albert TOLER, Wyoming Coun   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #2 BIO: Obed BABB, Grant County, WV     [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #3 BIO: Robert Lester EARLY, Wyoming    [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #4 BIO: William L. HUNTER, Monroe Cou   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]
  #5 BIO: Harry Hairston DARNALL, Cabel   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@tre]



______________________________X-Message: #1
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:34:19 -0400
From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
Subject: BIO: J. Albert TOLER, Wyoming County, WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 239
Wyoming County

J. ALBERT TOLER. From the elevated plane of public
service down through the fields of its usefulness to the com-
munity and its honorable connection with a leading profes-
sion and into the privacy of his family circle the career of
J. Albert Toler has been characterized by a constant and
consistent integrity born of high principles. His profes-
sional life has been marked by constant action, and as an
official and citizen he has displayed public spirit exemplified
in a willingness to stand by his convictions and support
worthy movements.

Mr. Toler was born in a little log cabin near Oceana,
on Big Huff Creek, Wyoming County, West Virginia, No-
vember 28, 1883, and is a son of Henry Paris and Darthula
(Brown) Toler. Henry Paris Toler was born at Sun Hill,
Wyoming County, in 1857, and died November 18, 1918.
He was a son of John and Elizabeth "Polly" (Cline)
Toler, and a grandson of Zachariah Toler, who was born in
Ireland and as a young man immigrated to America, settling
in what is now West Virginia, where his son John was born.
When John was still a child the family returned to Ireland,
but again came to America when he was nineteen or twenty
years of age and located below the mouth of Big Cub Creek,
where Zachariah Toler died at the remarkable age of 102
years, after a career spent in farming.  A number of
interesting anecdotes are related of the prowess, strength
and endurance of this sturdy old immigrant, as well as of
his son John, also a farmer, who lived to be ninety-four
years of age, and of the latter's wife, Elizabeth, or
"Polly," who was nearly 100 years of age at the time of
her demise. Henry Paris Toler passed his life in farming,
in addition to which he dealt in the timber which he cut
from his land and which he contracted to deliver at the river
bank. He was a leader in the Missionary Baptist Church,
and, like the other members of the Toler family, as well as
the Browns (who lived on Big Huff) was a stanch adherent
of the democratic party until 1892, when all became re-
publicans. Aside from Henry P. the members of the family
belonged to the Primitive Baptist faith. At Oceana, West
Virginia, Henry P. Toler was united in marriage with Miss
Darthula Brown, who was born on Big Huff Creek, Wyom-
ing County, a daughter of Jack Brown. She survives her
husband and for the most part makes her home with her
son, J. Albert. Of the eleven children of Henry P. and
Darthula Toler nine are living, four of these being sons, all
self-educated: W. R., who is a justice of the peace at
Mullens; J. Albert, of this notice; John H., a graduate of
Concord Normal School and West Virginia University, who
is now principal of the Mullens District High School; and
Buren H., a graduate of Concord Normal School, who also
attended the State University, served in the World war,
and is now superintendent of schools of the Slab Fork
District.

In his youth J. Albert Toler attended the schools of the
community in which he lived, including the Laurel Branch
school house, a log structure of one room, and when still
little more than a lad entered upon his career as an edu-
cator, a vocation to which he devoted, in all, four years.
His first trip outside of the county occurred when he was
twenty years of age, when he went to the Concord Normal
School at Athens, attending that institution for a part of
two years. He then resumed his teaching activities, and
while thus engaged borrowed law books and began to pre-
pare himself for his chosen profession. Eventually he at-
tended Kentucky University, now Transylvania, and in June,
1907, was admitted to the bar and located at Pineville, the
county seat. There he was in partnership with R. D. Bailey,
now occupying the bench as circuit judge, until 1912, when
he was elected prosecuting attorney and served in that posi-
tion until December 31, 1916. In July, 1917, he was ap-
pointed a member of the County Court of Wyoming County
to fill out the unexpired term of H. M. Cline, resigned.
Later Mr. Toler was in partnership with D. D. Moran, of
Mullens, for two years, but is now engaged in practice alone.
He stands among the leaders of his calling in Wyoming
County, and in his profession is known as a man of sound
ability, a valuable associate and a dangerous competitor.
Mr. Toler has always proven himself a good citizen, sup-
porting worthy movements and contributing to worthy
causes. During the World war he volunteered his services
as a "Four-Minute Man," and made numerous speeches in
this connection, as he did also in behalf of the Red Cross
and in the loan and other drives, at the same time con-
tributing generously of his private means. He is a stanch
republican in his political allegiance, but has never allowed
party loyalty to blind him to justice. Fraternally he holds
membership in the local lodges of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, in both of which
he has numerous friends.

On October 28, 1907, Mr. Toler was united in marriage
with Miss Victoria Trent, a daughter of Humphrey and
Arminda Trent, formerly of Rhoderfield, McDowell County,
West Virginia, where Mrs. Toler was born. Five children
have come to this union: Lyman, Raymond, Beatrice, Ruth
and Kate, of whom the last-named died at the age of five
years, October 28, 1930.

______________________________X-Message: #2
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:20:19 -0400
From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
Subject: BIO: Obed BABB, Grant County, WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 241-242
Grant County

OBED BABB. It was perhaps the grandfather of Obed
Babb who came from Germany and established this well
known family in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Some of
the land owned by him there had been traded for land in
what was then Virginia, now Grant County, West Virginia.
Peter Babb, the father of Obed, was the founder of the
family in this section, coming from Pennsylvania in 1818.

The old homestead, known far and wide as Cherry Lane
Stock Farm, thus acquired and developed during succeeding
years, was maintained by the Babbs until 1919, when Obed
Babb, the owner since his fathers death in 1870, sold it and
moved to Keyser, Mineral County, where he now resides,
retired, at the age of eighty-eight years. He was born at
what is now Martin, Grant County, December 21, 1833. His
mother was Phoebe Scott, a native of that section.

The children of Peter and Phoebe Babb were: James,
who during the Civil war, while attempting to recover
some sheep stolen from him, was shot and killed by the
thief; Milton, who spent his early life in West Virginia,
migrated to Illinois and acquired a large farm in Cham-
paign County, is survived by three sons, one a prominent
lawyer in Idaho, one a retired farmer of Champaign and
the other a banker of Homer, Illinois; Catherine, who
married Okey Johnson, a farmer and stockman of Mineral
County, where they spent their lives; Jane, the widow of
Henry Suit, a Grant County cattleman, died at Keyser
when past ninety years of age; Daniel William, who for
many years was associated with his brother Obed in farm-
ing and stock raising and who died in Grant County, where
his widow still resides; Obed; and Sallie B., who married
Thomas B. Karskadon, of Mineral County, a great prohi-
bition leader and once candidate for vice president on the
prohibition ticket. Both he and his wife are now deceased.

Obed Babb spent eighty-five years of his life on the
farm where he was born. He was a youth when subscrip-
tion schools were the only provision made for the educa-
tion of children, and he attended a private school near
Moorefleld. He and his brother Daniel were stock drovers
to the Baltimore market in the old days. They handled
live stock on a large scale, cattle, horses and mules. Obed
Babb continued to keep in close touch with this business
during all of his active career, and is today perhaps one
of the best judges of live stock in this section of the state.
He proved his title to a leading citizen of his locality,
where he was active in community affairs. He was promi-
nent in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was an original
republican, and voted for John C. Fremont in 1856, but
has never responded to any of the invitations to become
a candidate for office. In 1869 he married Mary Louise
Hennen, daughter of George Washington and Justina
(Shay) Hennen, of Morgantown. She was born in Monon-
galia County in 1847. All her life has been devoted to her
home and children and the moral and the church inter-
ests of her community.

Their children are: Dr. Walter Milton; Ernest Peter
and Frank Hennen, all of Keyser, and two daughters:
Justina, who married J. Walter Scherr, president of the
Inter-Ocean Casualty Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, they hav-
ing one son, Joseph Walter, Jr., a student in the Cincin-
nati schools. The youngest of the family, Mabel, married
Clarence E. Vossler, a prominent merchant and stock raiser
of Grant County. She died in October, 1918, leaving one
son, Charles Henry Vossler.

Dr. Walter Milton Babb was born August 2, 1870. He
received his education in the public schools and at Ohio
Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and graduated in
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania with the class
of 1893. After practicing in Mineral County for about
one year he entered the Allegheny General Hospital at
Pittsburgh as resident physician, and at the expiration of
his service there located in Pittsburgh, where he practiced
his profession until 1908, when he moved to Keyser, where
he has since resided.

Doctor Babb is a member of the State Health Council,
was medical examiner of the Draft Board during the war
and especially active in all war work. In 1901 he married
Marguerite Mignot, of Alderney, Channel Islands, Eng-
land. They have one son, Walter Milton, Jr.

Ernest Peter Babb was born February 18, 1874. He at-
tended the public schools, also Shepherd College at Shep-
herdstown, and graduated from Eastman College at Pough-
keepsie, New York. After some time spent in the old Key-
ser Bank, now the First National Bank of Keyser, he was
assistant clerk of the West Virginia Senate during the ses-
sion of 1897. From there he went to Washington, where
he held a position in the War Department during the
Spanish-American war, serving under Secretary Alger and
Secretary Root. Resigning that position in 1903, he re-
turned to Grant County and was until 1919 associated with
his father in farming and in the live stock business. When
the farm was sold he moved to Keyser and is now a special
agent of the State Department of Agriculture, engaged in
the administration of the live stock sanitation, commercial
feed and fertilizer laws.

In 1899 Mr. Babb married Katherine Bell, daughter of
Joseph V. Bell, of Keyser, whose interesting career is the
subject of another sketch.  They have one son, Joseph
Vanee, born in 1903, who graduated from the preparatory
department of the Potomac State School at Keyser, and is
now in his second collegiate year at that institution.

Frank Hennen Babb was born June 24, 1875, and after
finishing the course provided in the public schools spent
two years at the State University at Morgantown. He re-
turned to Cherry Lane Stock Farm, where he was engaged
in business with his father until he was twenty-six years
of age, when he moved to Keyser to engage in the real es-
tate and insurance business. He has one of the standard
insurance agencies of the state, and conducts a general
bonding and surety business. He promoted Liller's Addi-
tion to Keyser, laid off and sold the Reynolds Addition and
also the F. H. Babb Fort Hill Addition. He served two
terms as mayor of Keyser. He took the lead in getting the
Legislature to give Keyser a new charter providing for a
commission form of government and as mayor of the old
regime he installed this new government and was re-elected
as the first commission mayor.

Mr. Babb married Gertrude Scherr in Charleston in 1902.
Mrs. Babb is the daughter of Arnold C. Scherr, who at the
time of her marriage was serving his first term as auditor
of West Virginia. They have two children, Mary Cather-
ine, a student of Potomac State School, and Arnold, at-
tending the Keyser High School.

______________________________X-Message: #3
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:21:02 -0400
From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
Subject: BIO: Robert Lester EARLY, Wyoming County, WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 242
Wyoming County

ROBERT LESTER EARLY. Although still included among
the younger generation, the large and varied interests which
have engrossed the time and attention of Robert Lester
Early have brought him to the very forefront among the
progressive business men of Mullens, where he is a member
of the well-known contracting firm of Early Brothers. Es-
sentially a business man, he has not been content to play
only a passive part in municipal affairs, but has brought
his keen abilities to bear in the position of mayor, an office
which he now occupies, thus contributing in no small de-
gree to the general welfare.

Mr. Early was born at Rocky Mount, Virginia, Septem-
ber 2, 1890, and is a son of Jubal A. and Minnie Lee
(Lynch) Early, natives of Franklin County, Virginia. Ju-
bal A. Early was born in 1866, and as a young man learned
the trade of carpenter, which he followed for some years
before developing into a contractor. For some years he
lived at Rocky Mount, and moved from there to Elkhorn,
McDowell County, West Virginia, where, after a short stay,
he moved to Beckley, Raleigh County, and in 1914 came to
Mullens, where he now resides as a member of the firm of
Early Brothers. From the outset of his career Mr. Early
displayed his thorough mastery of every detail of his trade,
and when he became a contractor it was found that he was
never at a loss to know at once the thing to be done, no
matter what the problem or difficulty. Probably no man
in the coal regions of this section did more or better work
in the erection of tipples, miners' houses, etc., and his con-
tracts were not only extensive, but his work would always
stand the severest tests. Mr. Early is a man who is liberal
in his views, and who has the friendship and esteem of
many. A republican in politics, he has always been active
in committee and convention work and wields not a little
influence in the ranks of his party. He is a Mason, and
while not a professed church member supports the move-
ments of the Baptist Church, to which Mrs. Early, who is
one year his junior, belongs. They have three children:
Anderson Cabell, a member of the firm of Early Brothers;
Robert Lester, of this record; and Lotta B., who resides
with her parents.

Robert Lester Early received his primary education in
the public schools and supplemented this by attendance at
Beckley Institute. When he was still a lad, with his brother
he assisted their father in his various contracts, and thus
received an early introduction to the business, although his
first regular position was with the Link Belt Construc-
tion Company of Philadelphia. From that city he went to
Pittsburgh, where during 1913 and 1914 he was with the
Nacola Construction Company, in the latter year returning
to Mullens, where he joined his brother in the formation of
the firm of Early Brothers. Later their father was admit-
ted as the third member of the concern. The firm of Early
Brothers has practically built Mullens. It has not only
erected many of the business blocks and residences at this
place, but its contracts have extended to various other
communities of Southern West Virginia. Among their con-
tracts at Mullens may be mentioned the Wallingford Hos-
pital, the J. C. Sullivan office building, the Wyoming Ice
and Bottling Company's plant, the Emmons-Hawkins Whole-
sale Hardware Company Building and the Santon Building.
The firm and its members enjoy the best of reputation in
business circles. A republican in politics, Robert L. Early
was elected mayor of Mullens in 1921 and re-elected to that
office in 1922. He has given the city an admirable admin-
istration, displaying much executive ability and bringing
to bear his abilities as a business man. As a fraternalist
he is a past master of Mullens Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and
a member of Princeton Chapter, R. A. M., in addition to
which he holds membership in the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. With his fam-
ily he belongs to the First Baptist Church, in which he is
serving as a member of the board of trustees.

In 1914 Mr. Early was united in marriage with Miss
Lillian E. Moseley, daughter of J. P. Moseley, of Rich-
mond, Virginia, and they are the parents of three children:
Pauline, Marguerite and Jo Edith.

______________________________X-Message: #4
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:18:53 -0400
From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
Subject: BIO: William L. HUNTER, Monroe County, WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 239-240
Monroe County

WILLIAM L. HUNTER, M. D. It is a well-known fact that
a forceful personality speaks for itself and that the indi-
vidual who can govern himself successfully is frequently
called upon to govern the affairs of others. Men of broad
ideas and firm grasp on civic matters develop into respon-
sible citizens, and because of their resourcefulness and
ripened judgment their communities benefit not only in a
material sense but also with reference to those things which
make for a general uplift. One of the men who for years
has exerted an influence for good in professional life and
in civic affairs throughout a large territory contiguous to
Tralee is Dr. William L. Hunter, a member of the Wyoming
County Court and physician in charge of practice at the
Harty Coal Company, Barker's Creek Coal Company, Mead
Pocahontas Coal Company and Virginian Railroad Company,
at Tralee, West Virginia.

Doctor Hunter was born on his father's farm at Green-
ville, Monroe County, West Virginia, November 4, 1872, and
is a son of J. Allen and Laura A. (Smith) Hunter, and a
grandson of Joseph Hunter, also a native of Monroe County.
J. Allen Hunter was a native of the agricultural community
of Monroe County, and was only twelve years of age when
the war between the states came on, so that he did not see
service, although his older brothers all fought in the Con-
federate army. When he attained manhood he adopted
farming for his life work, and has been engaged therein
throughout his career, being still a resident of Monroe
County and in moderate circumstances. He was formerly a
democrat, but for some years past has voted with the re-
publican party. He is now seventy-three years old, and his
wife, also a native of Monroe County, is sixty-eight, and
both are faithful members of the Methodist Church and
active in church and Sunday school work. She is a daughter
of William Smith, who was a pioneer of Monroe County.
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hunter: William
L., of this review; Clayton, who is engaged in agricultural
pursuits in Monroe County; J. O., a graduate of the Mary-
land Medical College, and now a practitioner of medicine
and surgery at Peterstown, Monroe County; Prank, who is
in the mercantile business at Princeton, Mercer County, this
state; Mary, who is the wife of Doctor Harber, a physician
and surgeon of Seminole, Oklahoma; Marguerite, who is
now Mrs. Bennett, of Ada, Oklahoma; and Ruby, who is
the wife of Albert McCurry, residing also in Oklahoma.

The early education of William L. Hunter was acquired
in the country schools of Monroe County, following which
he began his career as a school teacher, a course followed
by many professional men whose financial circumstances
were such that they must earn their own way through the
higher institutions of learning. For ten years he was en-
gaged in instructing the young, and then, in 1897, entered
the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, from which
he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
1900. He at once entered practice at Red Sulphur Springs,
Monroe County, where he remained nearly fifteen years,
then coming to Tralee to take over the practice of the
companies mentioned above. He has won for himself a
position high in the confidence of the people and the esteem
of his fellow-practitioners in the county, and has shown
himself thoroughly capable and learned and possessed of a
kindly and sympathetic nature that makes friends out of
patients. In 1918 Doctor Hunter became a member of the
Wyoming County Court, and has remained thereon to. the
present time, and 1920 served as president. During his term
of office many improvements have been accomplished, one of
the chief of which has been the extensive building of modern
highways throughout the county.

In 1894 Doctor Hunter was united in marriage with Miss
Josephine Weikle, daughter of Tippet Weikle, of Monroe
County, and to this union there have been born three daugh-
ters: Ida, Pauline and Zelma. The family belongs to the
Methodist Church, in the work of which they have been
active. Doctor Hunter is a Master Mason, holding his
membership at Blue Indian Creek, Monroe County, and his
Scottish Rite degree at Wheeling. He is a republican in
politics and progressive in his ideas and actions.

______________________________X-Message: #5
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:19:41 -0400
From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
Subject: BIO: Harry Hairston DARNALL, Cabell County, WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 240-241
Cabell County

HARRY HAIRSTON DARNALL. While he has been a mem-
ber of the West Virginia bar only fifteen years, nothing
less than a state-wide reputation attaches to the name of
Harry Hairston Darnall of Huntington. His forte has been
the criminal law. Numerous causes celebre have tested
his resourcefulness in this branch of the law. In the prep-
aration of his cases, and in the presence of court and jury,
he rises to some of the highest standards that have been
used to measure the attainments of eminent lawyers of
either the present or past generations.

Mr. Darnall comes of a distinguished old Virginian fam-
ily. His great-grandfather was Henry Darnall, a native of
Virginia. His grandfather, Richard Darnall, was born in
Giles County, that state, in 1810, and was a planter and
slave owner before the Civil war and spent his active life
in Franklin and Giles counties. He died in Floyd County,
Virginia, in 1896. His wife was Sarah Hardaman, who
was born in Franklin County in 1810, and died in Floyd
County in 1898.

The father of the Huntington attorney was a well-known
Virginia banker and business man, Henry Mauze Darnall.
He was born in Giles County, September 13, 1859, spent his
early life in Giles and Franklin counties, and in 1881 mar-
ried at Martinsville in Henry County. He remained in
Henry County until 1882, operating a tobacco plantation.
Then, in 1882, he became assistant cashier of the old
Roanoke Trust, Loan and Safe Deposit Company at Roanoke.
He was with that institution a number of years, was for a
time general manager of the Gas and Water Company of
Roanoke, was president and manager of several land com-
panies, and for several years before his death was commis-
sioner of revenue of the City of Roanoke. He retired from
business in 1915, and died at Roanoke July 16, 1916. He
founded and incorporated the First State Bankers Asso-
ciation of Virginia. Outside of business his influence was
steadily exerted in behalf of better schools, and he was one
of the citizens of Roanoke who did most to establish per-
manent and a high class school system. For a number of
years he was president of the city school board. He was
also president of the city council a number of years. In
politics he was a democrat, and was a devout member of
the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he enjoyed the im-
portant honor of grand keeper of records and seals in the
Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of Virginia, and was
a member of four other fraternal organizations.

Henry M. Darnall married Mary Louise Hairston, who
while retaining a summer home in Eoanoke resides at Brad-
entown, Florida.

Through his mother Harry H. Darnall is related to one
of the oldest and most substantial of Virginia families. His
mother's grandfather, George Hairston, was born in Henry
County, and died at Hordesville in that county. He was
owner of about 90,000 acres comprised in plantations in
Henry, Patrick, Floyd and Franklin counties. A man of
wealth, he was prominent in public affairs, and for thirty
years was a member of the Senate or House of Delegates of
Virginia. He was elected to office even after he was eighty
years of age. Robert Hairston, maternal grandfather of
Harry H. Darnall, was born in Henry County in 1824, and
for many years he owned and operated and lived upon the
Roundabout Plantation in Henry County. Prior to the Civil
war he was considered one of the largest slave holders in
the state. He and his brother George owned 7,000 acres in
Henry County. In his time and even now there is no su-
perior tobacco land in the country to that comprised in the
Roundabout Plantation. On this plantation he lived out
his life and died there in 1903. Robert Hairston married
Miss Elizabeth Saunders, who was born at the pretentious
country home of the Saunders family known as Bleak Hill
in Franklin County, Virginia. She was born in 1825 and
died in Henry County in 1890.

Henry M. Darnall and wife had a family of four children,
the oldest being Mary, wife of Mercer Hartman, an attor-
ney at Norfolk, Virginia. Harry Hairston is the second in
age. Thomas Mauze is an attorney, member of the law firm
of Hoge and Darnall at Roanoke. Elizabeth is the wife of
Edward J. Snyder, who owns and operates a large orchard
near Roanoke.

Harry Hairston Darnall was born at the old family plan-
tation in Henry County May 13, 1884. He acquired a pub-
lic school education in Roanoke, graduating from high school
in 1902, spent three years in the Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute at Blacksburg, and in 1905 entered Washington and
Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, to pursue his law
course. He remained there two years, and in June, 1907,
was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
In July following his admission to the Virginia bar he
came to West Virginia and for three years practiced at
Beckley. For two years of that time he was town recorder,
and he also acted as mayor part of one term. In 1910 he
removed to Huntington, and since then has been one of the
busiest members of the local bar of that city. Probably 80
per cent of his law practice is in the criminal branch of the
law. There has hardly been an important criminal case
tried in Cabell County since 1910 with which he has not
been identified. His practice as a criminal lawyer is by no
means confined to this one county. His law offices are at
803 Fifth Avenue.

Mr. Darnall is a democrat, a Presbyterian, has twice been
exalted ruler of Huntington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, has served as district deputy grand
exalted ruler of the West Virginia Elks, is a member of
the Guyan Country Club and belongs to several social or-
ganizations. Mr. Darnall owns a fine suburban home, a
brick residence situated on twenty-seven acres of land
along the Barboursville Road. He has acquired other real
estate in Cabell County. During the World war he em-
ployed his profession and all his personal influence to aid
the Government in the successful prosecution of the war.
He was a member of all the committees for raising funds,
was on the legal advisory board of the county, and spent
much time helping recruits fill out questionnaires.

In Huntington, June 4, 1908, he married Miss Em
Holderby, daughter of Edward and Columbia A. (Stewart)
Holderby, the latter still living in Huntington. Her father,
who died at Huntington in 1890, was a prosperous farmer
of Cabell County, and he owned the old Holderby homestead
on the Sixteenth Street Road. One-half of the modern City
of Huntington is built on the old Holderby farm, which
was patented in 1790. Mrs. Darnall was liberally educated
in Marshall College of Huntington and the Virginia College
at Roanoke. Two children have come into the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Darnall, Harry Holderby, born April 30, 1910,
and Lucy Holderby, born March 15, 1919.

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