WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 160
Today's Topics:
#1 Irvin Hardy, M.D.,F.A.C.S.- Morgan [Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>]
#2 Bio: ELBERT F. PETERS, M. D. of Du ["Chris & Kerry" <cmac4330@chesapea]
#3 Bio: HOMER WISEMAN of Elliott in F ["Chris & Kerry" <cmac4330@chesapea]
#4 Bio: DAVID H. THORNTON, M. D. of M ["Chris & Kerry" <cmac4330@chesapea]
#5 Bio: Frank Roache Scroggins of Whe ["Chris & Kerry" <cmac4330@chesapea]
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 23:06:45 -0500
From: Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>
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Subject: Irvin Hardy, M.D.,F.A.C.S.- Morgantown, West Virginia
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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
Page 175
Irvin Hardy, M.D.,F. A. C. S.
Among the prominent men of Morgantown, using the term in its broadest
sense to indicate high professional skill, sterling character, public
beneficence and upright citizenship, is Dr. Irvin Hardy, owner and
surgeon in charge of the City Hospital and Training School for Nurses.
Doctor Hardy is a native of Dunbar, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and
was born July 4, 1873, a son of James and Elizabeth (Keffer) Hardy.
The branch of the Hardy family to which the Doctor belongs traces its
genealogy to William Hardy, the great grandfather of Doctor Hardy, who
came with troops, either from Virginia or Mayland, into Pennsylvania to
supress the historic "Whiskey Rebellion," a local insurrection occurring
in opposition to the excise law passed by Congress March 3, 1791. In
addition to the general objections urged against the measure the
inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania considered the tax unfair
discrimination against their region and raised an insurrection, causing
President Washington to call out an army of 15,000 militia. This show of
an unsuspected vigor and resource on the part of the Government forced
the insurgents to disperse without bloodshed. At the close of this
fiasco William Hardy settled at Dunbar, where he spent the remainder of
a long, useful and honorable life, and reached the remarkable age of 103
or 104 years.
Isaac Hardy, son of William Hardy, was born, reared and always lived
at Dunbar, Pennsylvania, and also attained advanced age, although not
reaching that of his father. His son, James Hardy, father of the doctor,
was born in 1842, at Dunbar, where was born also his wife, who was a
daughter of Adam Keffer, another life-long resident of Dunbar. She died
in 1917.
After attending the public schools of Dunbar Irvin Hardy entered
Milton Academy at Baltimore, Maryland, and when he had completed his
course in that institution enrolled as a student in the Maryland Medical
College in the three-year course, graduating with the class of 1899 as a
Doctor of Medicine, following which he entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in the same city under the four-year plan. He also spent
one year in the study of general medicine at John Hopkins University,
Baltimore. Even after he commenced practice, Doctor Hardy continued his
studies, and in 1909 was graduated with the degrees of Doctor of
Medicine and Master of Surgery from Queens University, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada. In 1905 he established the Allegheny Heights Hospital
at Davies, West Virginia, and had charge thereof until 1911, in which
year he disposed of that institution and located at Morgantown, where he
established what is now the City Hospital and Training School for
Nurses, of which he is the owner and surgeon in charge, and to which he
gives the main part of his professional attention, although he also
occupies the chair of surgery at the University of West Virginia.
Doctor Hardy is a member of the Monongalia County Medical Society, of
which he was elected president December 6, 1921, of the West Virginia
Medical Society and the American Medical Association and is a Fellow of
the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of Morgantown Union
Lodge No. 4, F. and A. M.; Morgantown Chapter No. 30, R. A. M.;
Morgantown Commandery No.18, K. T.; West Virginia Consistory No. 1, R.
and S. M., at Wheeling, West Virginia; and a life member of Osiris
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., also at Wheeling. He likewise belongs to the
Morgantown Masonic Club and is an active member of the Morgantown
Chamber of Commerce.
On September 18, 1895, Doctor Hardy was united in marriage with Miss
Nina M. Twyford, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Twyford, of Allegheny
City, Pennsylvania, and to this union there has been born one daughter,
Edith L., who resides with her parents in Morgantow
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Subject: Bio: ELBERT F. PETERS, M. D. of Dunns Post Office in Summers County, West Virginia
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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. 157
ELBERT F. PETERS, M. D. Considering the energy and initiative displayed
by Doctor Peters it is probable he would have made a success of any
vocation, yet his gifts led him naturally into medicine and surgery,
and in this line his service has had a growing scope of benefit and
usefulness throughout the southern section of the state.
Doctor Peters, whose home is at Princeton, Mercer County, was born at
Dunns Post Office in Summers County, West Virginia, January 10, 1878,
son of Joseph and Mary Alice (Ellison) Peters. He is of Scotch-Irish
ancestry, his father born in Virginia and his mother in West Virginia.
Joseph Peters was a farmer, a teacher in his early life, and always kept
in touch with educational affairs and public matters in general. He knew
Mercer County and the Mercer County people thoroughly, and when the
county was revalued he was made assessor for the assessment of all
property, coal and timber ands in the county.
Elbert F. Peters acquired a common school education, attended the Normal
college at Athens, and following that taught school four years. He took
up the study of medicine in the Maryland Medical College of Baltimore,
graduating M. D. in 1902. Doctor Peters throughout his professional
career has done a great deal of industrial practice. His first practice
was in McDowell County as physician and surgeon for the Pocahontas
Consolidated Colleries Corporation, now the Pocahontas Fuel Company.
He is still physician and surgeon for this corporation, and supervises
the medical and surgical service for five large coal operations. He
maintains a main office at Maybeury in McDowell County, where he has
complete operating room and four beds for emergency cases. There is a
branch office at Switchback, where he has an assistant.
His natural qualifications and the early success he achieved in his
practice did not tend to quiet Doctor Peters' aggressive ambitions for
the highest possible attainment in his chosen career. He has associated
with many of the greatest men in surgery, and has kept in touch with
the advancement of the science in various schools. He attended the New
York Polyclinic in 1906, in 1908 spent six months at the University of
Maryland at Baltimore, pursuing a general course in medicine and surgery;
spent several weeks in the Northwestern University at Chicago in 1911,
six weeks in 1912 at the New York Post Graduate School and Hospital,
three months in 1916 in the same school, and during the World war he
volunteered for active service, and while not called Out, he has his
certificate as a volunteer.
Doctor Peters was from September, 1918, to December, 1921, a member of
the Memorial Hospital Corporation of Princeton, West Virginia. This is
a private hospital formerly owned by Dr. C. C. Peters, Dr. G. L. Todd
and Dr. E. F. Peters. Doctor Peters was one of the principal figures
in the organization of this hospital and an active member of the hospital
staff.
In 1899 Doctor Peters married at Camp Creek, Mercer County, Miss Rose
Elizabeth Shrewsbury, daughter of L. C. and Nancy (Rose) Shrewsbury,
the former a native of West Virginia and the latter of North Carolina.
Doctor and Mrs. Peters have five children, named Bernard Purcell, Nellie
French, Gladys Mae, Joseph Ellwood and Elsie Rowena. Doctor and Mrs.
Peters are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is a
member of the McDowell County, West Virginia State, American Medical
and Southern Medical Associations, is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar
Mason and Shriner, an Elk and Knight of Pythias, and is a charter member
of the Princeton Country Club. The recreations and interests that refresh
and take his mind from his daily duties are hunting, fishing and motoring.
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Subject: Bio: HOMER WISEMAN of Elliott in Fayette County, West Virginia
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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. 157 & 158
HOMER WISEMAN is one of the younger business men of Charleston, but enjoys
that substantial element of success due to associations in an executive
capacity with one of the most substantial of the city's industries, the
West Virginia Brick Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer.
The West Virginia Brick Company is a local industry of some years' standing.
Through the special quality of its product "Charleston Brick" has a
reputation among building engineers as being one of the highest grade
fire brick manufactured anywhere. It has proved superior to the usual
product, as shown by the most rigid tests. This brick fuses only at the
exceedingly high temperature of 3146 degrees. It is made from a superior
clay which the company mines on its own property. The plain brick is
used mostly for boiler room construction. The pressed face brick has
a widely distributed sale in many cities, chiefly New York, and many
architects give it first choice for exterior brick in the most beautiful
modern structures.
Mr. Wiseman was born at Elliott in Fayette County, West Virginia, in 1887,
son of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Crist) Wiseman, natives of this state. He
grew up in Fayette County, attended public schools there, and when past the
age of fifteen he came to Charleston and attended business college. For some
five or six years he was in the employ of the firm Crawford & Ashby and with
the South Charleston Land Company.
Mr. Wiseman in 1912 went into the brick manufacturing business as a member
of the West Virginia Clay Products Company, which had been founded in 1910
and which has since become the West Virginia Brick Company. As secretary
and treasurer he is also active head of the company, since the president
of the corporation lives at Louisville. The West Virginia Brick Company
has a modern plant adjacent to Charleston, at Elk Two Mile, on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad. Mr. Wiseman has devoted his best efforts to the building
up of this essential industry, and his part therein is a record of which
many ambitious business men might well be proud. He is a member of the
Charleston Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Wiseman married Miss Elizabeth Crookshanks, also a native of Fayette
County. Their two children are Homer Clyde and Claude Franklin.
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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. 158
DAVID H. THORNTON, M. D. Engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery
in Mercer County for nearly thirty years, and for twenty years of that
time a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, Doctor Thornton
has in addition to his character as a high minded and proficient doctor
exerted a helpful influence in community affairs and particularly in behalf
of the simplicity of original Christianity and the application of the Bible
to the common life and affairs of mankind.
Doctor Thornton was born in Mercer County, June 30, 1865, is of English
and Irish descent and of Virginia stock, both his parents, William M.
and Eliza J. (Hatcher) Thornton, being natives of Virginia. His father
was a farmer, served as a soldier in the Civil war with a Virginia regiment
under Colonel French, and was all through the fighting to the end. In the
battle of Clark, near Princeton, he was wounded in the arm, but recovered
and rejoined his command. After the war he returned to his farm, and lived
there, manifesting a commendable interest in public affairs, and was a
member of the Primitive Baptist Church, but before his death became
attracted to the study of the Bible with his son, Doctor Thornton.
David H. Thornton acquired a common school education, attended the State
Normal at Athens, and, leaving there, went to Janesville, Wisconsin, to
the Valentine School of Telegraphy. After mastering the technique of the
telegraph key he entered the service of the Norfolk & Western Railway as
clerk of the Clinch Valley Division while it was under construction. Doctor
Thornton was a railroad man for three years, and following that bought a
store from his brother at Elgood and was in the general mercantile business
two years. He sold out and used his capital to prepare himself for the
profession of medicine. In 1893 he graduated M. D. from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, and began practice at Athens where
he remained twenty years, and since then has had his home and professional
headquarters at Princeton. Doctor Thornton began specializing in 1902 in
the eye, ear, nose and throat, taking in that year a post-graduate course
at the Chicago Post-Graduate School and also a private course on the ear
under Albert Andrews and on the eye under R S. Pattillo. In 1912 he did
other work along his special lines in the New York Post Graduate School
and Hospital; and for a number of years his practice has been limited to
his specialties.
In 1889, at Graham, Virginia, Doctor Thornton married Mary Jennings,
daughter of William H. and Isabel (Shanklin) Jennings, natives of West
Virginia. Doctor and Mrs. Thornton had six children: Chauncey Bryan,
Eunice Janetta, Mabel Clara, Paul Benson, Joseph Harry and David Jennings.
Two of them are now deceased, Eunice and Joseph H. The daughter Mabel is
the wife of C. J. Moore, an employe in the general office of the Norfolk
& West Virginia Railway. The son Chauncey, who is an electrician with the
Appalachian Power Company at Bluefield, married Hattie Meadow, daughter
of Attorney J. H. Meadow. His son David is an electrician in the navy on
the battleship destroyer Davis No. 65.
Doctor Thornton many years ago was attracted to the independent religious
movement of Pastor Russell, and has been an enthusiastic member of the
International Bible Students Association and for several years has
conducted a class for the study of the Bible, which is outside of all
denomination and free from creeds, concentrating upon the essential
teachings as presented by Christ and his followers. Some years ago,
before the World war, in prosecution of his study of the Bible and his
interest in Old World affairs, Doctor Thornton and his brother J. T. of
Bluefield made a long and interesting trip abroad through Asia, Africa,
the Holy Land, Germany, Italy and France.
Doctor Thornton is a member of the Business Men's Club at Princeton,
belongs to the County and State Medical Society, is a Fellow of the
American Medical Association, and was formerly active in Masonry, being
a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner. He served as master
of his Lodge and as high priest of his Chapter.
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Subject: Bio: Frank Roache Scroggins of Wheeling West Virginia
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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. 158 & 159
FRANK ROACHE SCROGGINS, proprietor of the White Laundry in the City of Wheeling,
is one of the progressive and successful business men of his native city, his
birth having occurred in Wheeling on the 17th of January, 1868. His father,
George Washington Scroggins, was born at Wheeling in 1843 and here passed his
entire life, his death having occurred in 1896. George W. Scroggins initiated
his productive career by serving as a water boy around the local boat yards,
and in the Civil war period he aided in the manufacturing of bullets. He became
an expert stationary engineer, and served sixteen years as engineer of the city
waterworks of Wheeling, of which position he was the incumbent at the time of
his death. In his young manhood he was a member of the volunteer fire department
of his native city. He was a democrat ill politics and was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as were both his first and second wives.
Mr. Scroggins first wedded Caroline Nidick, who was born at Trail Run, Monroe
County, Ohio, and whose death occurred in 1873. Of the children of this union
the eldest is William J. foreman in his brother's White Swan Laundry; Allen C.
likewise remains in Wheeling, and is steward for the local Theatrical Club
and for the Fraternal Order of Eagles; Frank R., of this review, was the next
in order of birth; Charles Scott is a foreman in the White Swan Laundry. For
his second wife the father married Lovenia Loverage, and she now resides at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Daisy, first child of this second marriage, died
at of twenty-eight years; George is a resident of the City of Pittsburgh,
where he is engaged in the trucking ness; and Reed B. is a stationary
engineer in the waterworks of Pittsburgh.
The public school of Wheeling afforded Frank R. Scroggins his early education,
and he was but eleven years when he found employement in a local glass factory.
After the passing of five years he began an apprenticeship to the trade of
machinist, and his Service in this connection continued from the time he was
sixteen until he was twenty years of age. From 1888 to 1891 he was stationary
engineer in the employ of Lutz Brothers, and for sixteen months thereafter
was in charge of the washing department and also served as engineer of the
Troy Laundry. From 1892 to 1895 he was general manager of the Wheeling Laundry,
and he then established the White Swan Laundry, of which he has continued the
executive head during the intervening period of more than a quarter of a century
and which he has kept at the highest standard in equipment and service. The
offices of this popular laundry are at the corner of Tenth and Market streets.
Mr. Scroggins started his independent laundry business on a modest scale, in a
base. meat at his present location, and his original corps of employes consisted
of one man and one woman. He has built up one of the leading enterprises of this
kind in the state, the mechanical equipment and all accessories of the White Swan
Laundry being of the most modern type and the establishment giving employment to
seventy persons.
On the National Turnpike, in the Tenth Ward of Wheeling, Mr. Scroggins
purchased a fine lot, 140 by 830 feet in dimensions, on which he erected
a modern laundry building 100 by 200 feet in dimensions, the only building
in existence, so far as is known of that dimension, whose interior is not
supported by a single post. It is a one-story and basement structure, with
a separate building for the power plant. Here he will have one of the most
complete and modern laundry plants in West Virginia, in fact one of the
show houses in modern laundry construction in this country, and in connection
with the general laundry business he will establish an up-to-date dry-cleaning
and rug-cleaning department. His success has been well earned, as he started
in business with a capital of only $212, has been progressive and energetic,
has ordered his business with utmost integrity and fairness, and has developed
an enterprise that in 1920 represented gross earnings of $150,000. His new
laundry plant represents an investment of an amount equal to this.
Mr. Scroggins is independent in politics, is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum,
and is one of the loyal and vigorous members of the local Rotary Club, in which
he is chairman of the boys' work committee and takes lively interest in its work.
The family home is an attractive modern house at 757 Market Street.
Mr. Scroggins was zealous in the local patriotic activities during the World
war period, aided in the campaigns in support of Government loans, Red Cross
service, etc., and supplied to the United States Navy a valuable set of
binoculars, which were eventually returned to him, together with $1.00
and a certificate as reward of merit from the Navy Department. It is needless
to say that he prizes both the certificate and also the binoculars, the latter
of which were in active use in the navy.
Although Mr. Scroggins left school when a mere boy, his alert mind and his
appreciative instinct have enabled him through reading and study at home,
which he still continues, and through other effective self-discipline, to
round out a symmetrical education of practical order. His paternal grandfather,
John Peyton Scroggins, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, was one of the pioneers of
Wheeling, where he served a long period as bank messenger and where his death
occurred he having been a native of Ireland.
In 1889 Frank R. Scroggins wedded Miss Catherine E. Neimer, daughter of the
late Philip and Margaret Neimer, of Wheeling, Mr. Neimer having been a shearman
in the local sheet-iron mills, in which he met his death in an accident. Mr.
and Mrs. Scroggins' only child, Franklin Pierce, died at the age of 4½ years.