WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 186 Today's Topics: #1 SCHOOLS: Webster Co. WV Roll of Ho [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #2 BIO: CLARENCE SILAS BATES, M. D., [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #3 BIO: WALTER S. BAMBRICK, Hancock C [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #4 BIO: ALEXANDER B. PAXTON, Ohio Co. [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] #5 BIO: JOHN A. KANE, Mercer Co. WV [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:24:46 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000722232327.00bb4680@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: SCHOOLS: Webster Co. WV Roll of Honor, 1912 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed WV Schools Boys' and Girls' Roll of Honor 1911-12 The following students were neither absent nor tardy during the school year 1911-12. The figures in parantheses following names indicate that the pupil has been perfect in attendance for that number of years. Webster County Name, Address, Age Edna Crites, Cowen, 9 Leatha Carron, Cowen, 10 Virginia Giffin, Cowen, 11 Claud Delung, Cowen, 11 Lloyd Coff, Cowen, 7 Ida Johnson, Cowen, 10 Watson Johnson, Cowen, 15 Lois McDonald, Cowen, 10 Garnette Morton, Cowen, 10 Artie Loemley, Cowen, 9 Glen Hoover, Cowen, 13 Dennis Wilson, Cowen, 9 Ora Wilson, Cowen, 11 Bessie Hoover, Cowen, 17 Harry Woods, Cowen, 8 George Weese, Cowen, 8 Ruth Smith, Cowen, 14 Ardela Davis, Cowen, 7 Gray Simons, Cowen, 14 Arlie Miller, Kovan, 8 Bessie Gregory, Kovan, 7 Roscoe Cool, Diana, 9 Harry Fisher, Diana, 8 Raymond Lough, Diana, 10 Gladys Lough, Diana, 6 Owen Sizemore, Diana, 12 Arlen Gregory, Ralph, 8 Freman Gregory, Ralph, 13 Harlie Bennett, Ralph, 11 Arlie Bennett, Ralph, 8 Harry Hamrick, Benardstown, 14 Ruth Hamrick, Benardstown, 9 Aretus Hamrick, Ralph, 6 Ethel Powers, Cleveland, 9 Pearl Herron, Cleveland, 14 Kelvin McCray, Cleveland, 13 Olga McCray, Cleveland, 11 Johny Miller, Bergoo, 13 Camilla Cummings (4), Bergoo, 9 Uhla Cummings, Bergoo, 8 Lorena Cummings, Bergoo, 7 Selestia Hamrick, Bergoo, 13 Burl Mollohan (2), Replete, 19 Stephen Mollohan (2), Replete, 14 Wade Cutlip (2), Replete, 16 Nora Mollohan (2), Replete, 16 Lemmon Mollohan (2), Skyles, 8 Icy McCourt, Erbacon, 10 Georgia Keller, Marcus, 10 Shelly Green, Marcus, 11 Lillie Williams (3), Coe, 12 Hanna Stiltner, Howell, 10 Archie Coe, Howell, 13 Uneta Meredith, Webster Springs, 11 Elsie Cool, Webster Springs, 8 Patrick Cool, Webster Springs, 11 Ivy Bancroft, Webster Springs, 7 Bess Crouch, Webster Springs, 6 Holliday McCutcheon, Webster Springs, 6 Clarence Gillespie, Webster Springs, 7 Cressie Turnbull, Webster Springs, 8 Martha Wooddell, Webster Springs, 7 Virginia Wooddell, Webster Springs, 6 Charles Dorr, Webster Springs, 7 Mamie McCutheon, Webster Springs, 8 Flora Crouch, Webster Springs, 7 Winifred McCutcheon, Webster Springs, 10 Belle Arthur, Webster Springs, 9 Eula Reaser, Webster Springs, 10 Hawes Thurmond, Webster Springs, 11 Johnnie Hoover, Webster Springs, 11 Leo Cogar, Webster Springs, 11 Boyd White, Webster Springs, 7 Ira Luzadar, Webster Springs, 8 Thelma White, Webster Springs, 8 Rhonda Hamrick, Webster Springs, 17 Raymond Hamrick, Webster Springs, 6 Hinkle Baughman, Webster Springs, 13 Gordon Carpenter, Webster Springs, 10 Lina Carpenter (2), Webster springs, 15 Myrtle Gregory, Webster Springs, 8 Mamie Gregory, Webster Springs, 11 Verna Gregory, Webster Springs, 17 Mable Bean, Webster Springs, 12 Bessie Payne, Bolair, 15 Eliza Skidmore, Webster Springs, 12 Abbie Skidmore, Webster Springs, 13 Thomas Bennett, Penbro, 9 Donald Bryner, Penbro, 4 Esta Bryner, Penbro, 8 Frankie Bryner, Penbro, 14 Iva Bryner, Penbro, 12 Ina Bryner, Penbro, 11 Ralph Bryner, Penbro, 17 Ward Bryner, Penbro, 9 Anna Widrig, Penbro, 13 Julia Widrig, Penbro, 12 Dove Anderson, Wheeler, 11 Lucy Harris, Wheeler, 14 Nelson Harris, Wheeler, 8 Elmer Harris, Wheeler, 12 Boyd Anderson, Wheeler, 9 Annis McCoy, Skelt, 16 Floyd McCoy, Skelt, 12 Hansford McCoy (2), Skelt, 10 Tina McCoy, Skelt, 8 Walsie McCoy, Skelt, 13 Artie Cogar (2), Skelt, 12 Virgil Cogar, Skelt, 9 Shelvy Gregory, Skelt, 10 Byrd Morton, Strouds, 13 Edna Woods, Strouds, 15 Freda Woods, Strouds, 8 Jimmy Curry, Strouds, 10 Rossy Curry, Strouds, 11 Clide Wine, Strouds, 6 Nellie Goff, Boggs, 15 Susan Selmon, Boggs, 10 Lucy Selmon, Boggs, 6 James Dobbins, Lanes Bottom, 11 Stephen Morton, Lanes Bottom, 9 Earl S, Hamrick, Waneta, 11 Ruth Windom (2), Halley, 7 Pearl Payne, Halley, 13 Truman Rose, Webster Springs, 9 John Mace, Hacker Valley, 10 Guy House, Hacker Valley, 14 Charlie Cowger, Hacker Valley, 10 Lillie Cowger, Hacker Valley, 12 Delia Claypool, Hacker Valley, 14 Mary Claypool, Hacker Valley, 12 Delphia Butcher, Hacker Valley, 14 Flora Butcher, Hacker Valley, 12 Mattie Cowgar, Hacker Valley, 11 Wilma Cowgar, Hacker Valley, 7 Pearl Perrine (8), Erbacon, 14 Rush Perrine, Erbacon, 10 Memphis Jackson, Erbacon, 12 Inez Kelly, Erbacon, 11 Minor McMilleon, Erbacon, 12 Grear Salisbury, Erbacon, 14 Carl Cunningham, Wainville, 9 Elbert Lee, Wainville, 14 Evert Dodrill, Wainville, 15 Otis Bryant, Wainville, 10 Luster Given, Wainville, 16 Larna Ice, Pickens, 14 Marshall Ice, Pickens, 8 Jackson Bruffey, Removal, 9 Ada Salisbury, Removal, 10 Carl Hamrick, Woodzell, 7 Harvey Hamrick, Woodzell, 11 Mable Stalnaker (3), Woodzell, 12 ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:58:32 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000723005752.00cba490@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: CLARENCE SILAS BATES, M. D., Harrison Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 562 Harrison CLARENCE SILAS BATES, M. D. A native of Harrison County, where he devoted his early years to farming. Doctor Bates after graduating from medical college returned to the same community for the work of his profession, and for upward of twenty years has performed with quiet effi- ciency and ability the arduous round of duties required of a country practitioner. He was born on a farm in Harrison County, July 4, 1874. His great-grandfather was a native of England, and on coming to America settled in Erie County, Pennsylvania. The grandfather of Doctor Bates was Andy Bates, a native of Erie County, Pennsylvania, and an early settler in West Virginia. Notley S. Bates, father of Doctor Bates, was born in Doddridge County, this state, in 1846, and when he was three years of age his mother died and at the age of fourteen he left the home of his father and stepmother to begin life for himself. For several years he worked as a farm hand for a man whose daughter he married. After his marriage he settled on a farm in Harrison County. He served one year in the Union Army during Civil war, was an active republican, and he and his wife were Methodists. Notley S. Bates married Laura Frances Swiger, who was born in Harrison County. She died in 1898, and her husband died at Wilsonburg in 1918. She was a daughter of Jerah and Ruth (Wilson) Swiger, the former a native of Harrison County and the latter a native of Ireland, she having been brought to America when an infant. Clarence Silas Bates was one of a family of twelve chil- dren, ten of whom reached mature years. While on the farm he attended the public schools, also took a course in Wesleyan College at Buckhannon, and he remained a factor on the farm until he was twenty-six. He then entered the Baltimore Medical College, and remained there until graduating M. D. in 1904. In May of that year Doctor Bates located at Lumberport, and has ever since carried the burdens of a general practitioner. He is a member of the Harrison County, West Virginia State and American Medical Associations. Three times he has taken a vacation from his practice in order to keep in touch with the advanced knowledge of his science, and he took one postgraduate course in the Mayo Brothers Clinic at Roches- ter, Minnesota. Doctor Bates is a republican, a Baptist, and is a member of the Masons and Odd Fellows. In 1898 he married Allie A. Coffman, daughter of Jesse F. and Virginia (Harbert) Coffman, of Harrison County. Their two sons are Selman J., and Everett Brice. ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:59:07 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000723005835.00cc31e0@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: WALTER S. BAMBRICK, Hancock Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 562-563 Hancock WALTER S. BAMBRICK, who is United States postmaster at Weirton, demonstrates in his life the truth of the saying that real merit receives proper recognition, and the other saying as well, that nothing succeeds like success. Persist- ent, conscientious endeavor alone, along legitimate lines, has resulted in his case in public advancement, and in his official position he has discharged his duties faithfully and rendered the people of his community splendid service. Mr. Bambrick was born at New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia, September 19, 1888, and is a son of Lewis S. and Sarah M. (Baxter) Bambrick, natives also of Hancock County. The grandfather of Walter S. Bambrick, Thomas Bambrick, was born, reared and educated in Ire- land, where as a young man he was a teacher. He immi- grated to the United States about 1820 and settled in West Virginia, where he first engaged in teaching and later turned his attention to farming, also carrying on surveying work all over the state. As he was possessed of a superior education, he was frequently asked to do work of a semi- legal character for the pioneers, particularly before the creation of the County Court. He was the father of the bill which brought into being Hancock County, which was cut off from Brooke County, and sat as a delegate in the House of Representatives at the time the county was cre- ated, in 1848. He named the county seat Pughtown, and as such it continued for many years or until being removed to New Cumberland. He was a stalwart democrat, and in his death, at the age of eighty-four years, his community lost a strong leader and a reliable and straightforward citizen. Like his father, Lewis S. Bambrick was a teacher in his earlier years, but later turned his attention to farming and continued to be engaged therein in Hancock County all his active life, with the exception of two years passed in Wayne County, Iowa. He is now living in retirement, having reached four-score years, but takes a lively interest in the affairs of life and is a member of the Board of Equaliza- tion. In politics he is a democrat. Mr. Bambrick married Miss Sarah M. Baxter, daughter of Samuel Baxter, who was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, and at marriage came to Hancock County, where he spent the rest of his life in agricultural operations, being a progressive cattle and sheep breeder. He died when eighty-four years old. Mrs. Bambrick died at the age of sixty-six years, after a happy married life of about forty-five years. Walter S. Bambrick received his education in the graded and high schools of New Cumberland, and in 1912 came to Weirton as an employe of the shipping department of the Weirton Steel Company. He remained with this concern, until named postmaster, the duties of which office he as- sumed September 5, 1916. At that time the office boasted of two employes, occupied a one-room building, 11x36 feet, and had annual receipts amounting to $9,000. There are now eight assistants, the post office occupies a rented build- ing, 33x72 feet, and the receipts amount to $160,000 annu- ally. Mr. Bambrick gives his entire time and attention to the work of his position and has improved the service ma- terially. At the present time there are no deliveries made and no rural free delivery system, as the work of numbering the houses on the various streets has not been done in this fast-growing municipality. As soon as this work is accomplished deliveries will commence. Mr. Bambrick has the distinction of having his name on the Honor Roll and sent to the postmaster general at Washington, D. C., as a mark of special distinction. When the sale of War Sav- ings Stamps and Thrift Stamps was discontinued the new Treasury Savings Certificates were offered the public, and Postmaster Bambrick was an entrant in the postmaster con- test which closed December 31, 1921, in competition with all other postmasters of the same class offices in the Fifth Federal Reserve District, being one of the winners in this state. A bronze honor pin of attractive design, bearing the inscription "Honor Postmaster," has been conferred upon Postmaster Bambrick by Howard T. Cree, director of the Government Savings Organization, Richmond, Virginia, as a reward for patriotism and faithful service. Mr. Bam- brick is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and during his vacations humors his hobby of hunting. Mr. Bambrick married Miss Myrtle Herron, of New Cumberland, and they are the parents of two children: Walter Lewis and William Herron. ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:59:57 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000723005908.00bc9410@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: ALEXANDER B. PAXTON, Ohio Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 563-564 Ohio ALEXANDER B. PAXTON. Perhaps no other line of manu- factured goods better serves to make the City of Wheeling known abroad than the product of the Hazel Atlas Glass Company, whose general offices have been at Wheeling for many years. The industry is in fact largely one of local origin in this section of the Upper Ohio Valley. Alexander B. Paxton is identified with the Hazel Atlas Glass Company through direct relationship with some of the founders and also by virtue of a long and continued personal service. He is now vice president of the corporation. Mr. Paxton was born at Wheeling, August 31, 1866. His grandfather, Alexander Paxton, was a native of England, born in 1797, and from early manhood lived at Wheeling. He was one of the old time jewelry merchants, and later a man who used his capital in other enterprises. He died at Wheeling in 1874. His son, Elisha W. Paxton, was born at Wheeling in 1826, and for a number of years was mem- ber of the wholesale grocery house of Paxton, Oglebay & Company. Later he was an official in the North Wheeling Window Glass Company. On account of ill health he gave up active business in 3878 and bought a farm at Wellsburg, and finally moved to Washington, Pennsylvania, where he lived retired until his death in 1905, at the age of seventy- eight. He was always a thorough-going republican and an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Elisha Paxton married Flora Wellman, who was born in Massillon, Ohio, in 1828, and died at Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1906. Of their children the oldest is Mary, wife of C. N. Brady, now living retired at Washington, Pennsylvania. Mr. Brady was founder of the original Hazel Atlas Company of Wheel- ing. The second child is Mrs. Amelia N. Hensell. George P. died at Washington, Pennsylvania, at the age of fifty- four and Elisha, Jr., died in infancy. Martha is the wife of H. King Pendleton, now a retired minister of the Christian Church living in California. The sixth in the family is Alexander B. Jesse W. is president of the Highland Glass Company and lives at Washington, Pennsylvania. Richard M. is vice president of the Highland Glass Company at Washington. William P., treasurer of the Highland Glass Company, is New York City representative of that industry and lives at Montclair, New Jersey. Alexander B. Paxton was about twelve years of age when the family left Wheeling and went to a farm near Wells- burg. He attended public school in Wheeling and gradu- ated from the Wellsburg High School in 1883, and then spent one year in Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana. Practically his entire business experience has identified him with the glass industry. He was connected with the original Hazel Glass Company at Wellsburg as manager or superintendent four years. He and C. N. Brady then established the Hazel Glass Company at Washington, Pennsylvania, and Mr. Paxton was secretary of that com- pany until the consolidation of the Hazel Glass Company and the Atlas Glass Company in 1900. This was the source of the present widely known corporation, the Hazel Atlas Glass Company, of which Mr. Paxton has been secretary or vice president for over twenty years and has been a resi- dent of Wheeling during this time. He has held the post of vice president since 1917, and is manager of the export business. The general offices are in the Conservative Life Building at 1530 Market Street. The only plant of the Hazel Atlas Company in Wheeling is a metal plant for the making of metal caps for bottles, jars and also strip zinc. The glass plants are located, three at Washington, Pennsylvania, one at Grafton, and two at Clarksburg, West Virginia. The corporation is one of the largest in measure of potential benefit to this region, em- ploying in normal seasons six thousand hands. The Hazel Atlas products are justly famed, and comprise a great vari- ety of glass manufacture, tumblers, fruit jars and other containers and specialties. These products have a world- wide market. The officers of the corporation are: Joseph C. Brady, president; A. B. Paxton, vice president; A. F. Brady, treasurer and vice president; J. H. McNash, secre- tary; G. G. Oliver, vice president and general manager. Mr. Paxton is also a director of the Highland Glass Com- pany and of the Wheeling Bank & Trust Company. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, does his voting as a republican, is a trustee of the Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and the Elks Lodge at Washington, Pennsylvania, the Wheeling Country Club, Fort Henry Club of Wheeling, and is a member of the Na- tional Chamber of Commerce at Washington, D. C, On September 27, 1893, at Washington, Pennsylvania, Mr. Paxton married Miss Edna D. Maxwell. She was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, graduated from the Washington female Seminary, and also attended Kansas University at Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Paxton have two children: Elizabeth is the wife of Carl O. Schmidt, a Wheeling attorney; and the son, Alexander M., is living in Cleveland, and is connected with the Cleveland office of the Hazel Atlas Glass Company. He has a record of service in the World war, having been on a submarine chaser. ______________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:00:46 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000723010021.00bfc380@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: BIO: JOHN A. KANE, Mercer Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 564 Mercer JOHN A. KANE came from Baltimore, Maryland, to Blue- field, Mercer County, West Virginia, in the year 1910, and here established the commercial printing business which is conducted under the title of the Kane Printing Company. This is a modern printing plant of the best order, estab- lished in a building erected specially for the purpose and in a remarkably attractive location, the building command- ing a fine view of the valley, the Baptist College grounds and the city in general. With the best of mechanical equip- ment and accessories and with a corps of skilled employes this company is able to give the highest grade of service to its patrons, the work of the plant being confined to com- mercial printing and the trade of the concern being of most substantial order. Mr. Kane was born in New York City, on the 27th day of March, 1871, a son of John C. and Ellen Mary (Casserly) Kane, both natives of the State of New York. The father died in 1895, at the age of fifty-five years, his wife having passed away a few years previously. John C. Kane was manager for the firm of Hotchis, Field & Company, manu- facturers of steam boilers, in Mew York at the time of his death, and he was survived by three sons and two daugh- ters. John A. Kane profited by the advantages afforded in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of seventeen years he entered upon a practical apprenticeship to the printing trade in the office of the old .New York Re- corder. Later he found employment in the office of the New York World, and he had the distinction of becoming one of the first skilled linotype operators in the United States. In 1905 Mr. Kane found employment in the office of the Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colorado, later he worked on the San Antomo Express, San Antonio, Texas, and still later he worked in the State Printing Office of Texas, at Austin. His further experience included service with the Kansas City Star, the Oklahoma Daily News, and the Jacobs Advertising Agency in the City of Clinton, South Carolina. He thereafter established an independent commercial printing office in the City of Baltimore, where he remained until 1910, when he came to Bluefield, West Virginia, and founded the printing business of which he continued the executive head until his death, March 9, 1922. Mr. Kane was a valued and appreciative member of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce and the local Kiwanis Club. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and in politics was a leader in the local councils of the democratic party, as a representative of which he was manager of the party campaign in Mercer County in 1920. He was an ac- tive member of the Presbyterian Church, of which his widow is also a member. At Colorado Springs, in the year 1906, Mr. Kane married Miss Irene Mott Darland, daughter of C. C. Darland, and the two children of this union are Carroll John and Ellen Mary.