OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 325 native land. Mr. Hoffmann was married June 5, 185o, to Catherine Schlelein, a native of Bavaria, who came to America when young, and they have had ten children, of whom there are living six sons and three daughters. The sons, John and Frank, are in business with their father, and W. E. and Peter G. are proprietors of the Des Moines saddlery company, of Des Moines, Iowa. Henry H. Hornbrook, a prominent citizen and manufacturer of Wheeling, and vice president of the Wheeling Iron and Nail company, was born in this city December 16, 1842, being a representative of one of the oldest and most prominent families of the upper Ohio valley. His parents were Jacob and Ann M. (Killen) Hornbrook. The father was one of the pioneers of Ohio county. He was an Englishman by birth, having emigrated to the United States at an early age. Ann M. Killen was born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1820, and died in Wheeling March .I4, 1886. She came to this country with her father and two brothers when about twelve years old. Jacob Hornbrook died November 3, 1888. The parents were married August 1o, 1836, and the following children were born to them: Corrina, now the widow of John E. Wilson, residing in California.; Henry R., deceased; India H., the wife of John G. Kelley, of Philadelphia, and Henry H. The subject of this biography was reared in Wheeling, and was educated at Morgantown and at Washington college. April 13, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, First Virginia regiment, and participated in the fight at Phillippi, the first engagement that took place in what is now West Virginia. Serving out the first three months' enlistment, he re-enlisted for three years in Company H, of the First regiment, and was elected second lieutenant of his company. He was in the Shenandoah valley and took part in the engagements of that campaign as aide-de-camp to Gen. Thoburn, and was in the field of battle when Gen. Sheridan made his famous ride up that valley. After receiving an honorable discharge at the close of the war, Lieut. Hornbrook returned to Wheeling and remained there until 1866, when he went to Missouri, where he spent some years in stock-raising and farming. Returning to Wheeling in 1875, he engaged in steamboating in the Wheeling Tow Boat and Barge company, and subsequently he was in the same business with his uncle, Edwin Hornbrook, until October, 1881. He then took a position as clerk in the Top mill, and becoming a stockholder in that concern was made a director in January, 1882, and vice president in 1883. Mr. Hornbrook was married to Abbie H. Carter, September 14, 1866; she was a daughter of S. H. B. Carter, a pioneer of Ohio county, who settled in Elm Grove. Her death occurred May 11, 1876, in her thirty-first year. Five children came to this union. Mr. Hornbrook again married April 22, 188o, this time to Alice J. Cracraft, a sister of Dr. Cracraft, of Elm Grove. One child has come to bless their home. C. A. House, of Wheeling, W. Va., the leading dealer in musical instruments in the region covered by these volumes, was born in the state of New York in the year 1837. His father, Jacob House, was a prosperous farmer of that state, where he and his wife were born also. 326 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. The subject of this sketch spent his early years upon the farm and at school, receiving an academic education. Subsequently he was engaged at Syracuse in the study and practice of the profession of architecture, and in about 1856 he went to Minnesota, where for about four years he was engaged in contracting and building. Returning east in 186i he lived in Ohio two years, and then settled at Meadville, Penn., where he followed his profession and business until the winter of 1869-70. At that time he became general local agent for a sewing machine company, and remained in that business for five years. In the spring of 1876 he first embarked in the sale of musical instruments, and meeting with success transferred his business to. Wheeling in 1883, opening a store on Market street. He next removed to his present quarters, at 1324 and 1326 Market street. From a small beginning Mr. House has built up the largest music trade in the state, and besides this large establishment operates branch stores at Washington, Penn., and Keyser, W. Va. He does business in the four states of West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and has a considerable wholesale trade. The instruments he handles are recognized as the best of their kind, in all respects, and to this fact, and also in a considerable degree, to his notable energy and business tact, the success of his establishment is to be credited. Mr. House was married in 1859, while a resident of Ohio, to Sarah, daughter of Rev. Daniel H. Miller, a Baptist minister. She died in 1881, leaving three daughters. George E. House, of Wheeling, senior member of the extensive furniture and house-furnishing house of House & Herman, first visited this city in August, 1888, on a prospecting tour, having the intention of establishing at some promising point an establishment which should be a branch to his store in Washington, D. C. In walking about the city to obtain an accurate idea of its condition and prospects, he strolled out upon the suspension bridge, and the view he there obtained of the situation of the city and the magnitude of its manufactures as revealed by the smoke from the busy hives of industry in the city and at Bellaire, Benwood, Martin's Ferry, AEtnaville, and other suburbs, so impressed him that he at once decided that Wheeling was the city he was in search of. In the following September the branch house was established here, and its prosperity has confirmed the soundness of his judgment. Mr. House was born at Baltimore, Md., August 2, 1859. He is a son of George W. House, a. native of Baltimore, born in 1832, died October 1o, 1887, who was a builder by trade and for many years engaged in that vocation at Baltimore. He was a son of Jesse House, also a Marylander, who was a soldier in the war of 1812. The mother of George E. House was Mary E. Peregoy, who was born in Baltimore in 1838, and died June 6, 1878. By her marriage' to Mr. House she had seven sons and two daughters, all of whom but one daughter survive. George E. House was educated in the Baltimore schools and at the age of thirteen years became engaged in a furniture store, a business which has occupied him ever since, with the exception of two years in the picture trade. He left Baltimore in 1883, and settled at Washington OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 327 City, and after clerking for a while formed a partnership with J. P. Hermann, opening a furniture establishment in 1885. Mr. House is at the head of the establishment in this city, which deals in furniture, carpets, draperies, stoves, table-ware, and in fact everything necessary to the complete furnishing of a house, and the business is principally done on the installment plan. Though comparatively a new comer, he has proved himself a live and energetic young merchant, and is entitled to a prominent place as such among Wheeling's citizens. Mr. House is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, Knights of the Golden Eagle and Order of Elks, and socially is highly esteemed. John A. Howard, prosecuting attorney of Ohio county, W. Va., was born in Steubenville, Ohio, May 27, 1857, the son of John and Mary (McGarrell) Howard, both natives of Ireland. The father came to America when. about nine years of age, and lived at Johnstown, Penn., until he had grown to manhood, when he settled in Steubenville. He came to Ohio county in. 1858, and resided upon a farm in the county' until 1868, when he removed to Wheeling, where he died in 1887, at the age of fifty-eight years. His widow, who came to this country at twenty years of age, now resides at Wheeling, in her fifty-fifth year. The children of these parents were eight in number, four sons and four daughters, and all are living but one daughter. The subject of this mention, John A. Howard, was reared in Wheeling and was educated in the public schools. While a boy he found employment in the glass works, and during a portion of the time he was engaged in learning the trade of glass blowing he found time to take a commercial course in Frazer's Business college. He was engaged in the glass works until 1883, when he was given a clerkship in the office of the secretary of state. In May, 1885, he went to Charleston as the private secretary of Gov. Wilson, and while acting in the latter capacity he embraced the opportunity to read law in the governor's office, and was admitted to the bar at the capital. In 1887 he entered the University of Virginia, and took a course in law, and on the following January, began the practice of his profession at Wheeling, in partnership with Hon. J. B. Sommerville, the firm being known as Sommerville & Howard. The office which he at present holds he was elected to in the fall of 1888 as the candidate of the democratic party, and took charge of on the 1st of January, 1889. Mr. Howard is prominent among the young attorneys of the city. W. B. Howell, proprietor of the Howell House, one of the popular hotels of Wheeling, is a son of Squire John W. Howell, who was a prominent man in his day in Pennsylvania. The latter was a colonel in. the Pennsylvania militia, and for twenty years discharged with ability the duties of a justice of the peace, being always elected in the .face of an opposing political majority of considerable magnitude. He resided for some time at Claysville, Penn., and subsequently removed to McConnell's Mills, near Cannonsburgh, where his death occurred in March, 1881. His wife died about twenty years before his decease. Of the ten children born to them, six survive. W. B. Howell was 328 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. born in Washington county, Penn., in 185o, and was reared and given his education in his native county. Before he was of age he engaged in the marble business at Cannonsburgh, and remained there ten years, coming at the end of that time, in 1879, to Wheeling, where he took the position of manager of the marble business of Black Bros. In 1882 he and a brother embarked in the same business on their own account, and continued the same until 1884. In 1885 Mr. Howell leased the Green Hotel building and rebuilding the same, and handsomely refitting it, opened to the public the Howell House, which he has made a first-class hotel and has found that his enterprise meets with substantial approval by the public. The hotel has fifty-six rooms, and in both cuisine and lodging accomodations, is of rank among the best. Mr. Howell was married in. 1883, to Mrs. Lingeman, of Wheeling, by whom he had one child, Blanche, who is deceased. The Howell family is one of the oldest and most distinguished of American families, members of it having from time to time been very prominently identified with the United States army and navy, and also with state government. Andrew Allen Howell, the subject of this biographical mention, was born in the state of New Jersey, July 26, 1821. His boyhood and youth were spent in the city of Philadelphia. In 1841 he removed to Uniontown, Penn., where he was engaged in the stage business with his uncle, Lucius W. Stockton. In 1844, after the death of his uncle, he removed to Wheeling, where he continued in the stage business until 1847. In the latter year he formed a partnership with Henry K. List and William H. Stelle, in the wholesale grocery business, in which he was occupied until 1859. At the expiration of this time he was compelled to retire from active business life on account of failing health. Mr. Howell had a successful business career during the twelve years he was engaged in the grocery business in Wheeling, and his forced retirement was not only a misfortune to himself, but to the entire business community. He has been and is now associated with various important enterprises, being a stockholder in the Riverside Iron works, the Benwood Nail mill, several different banking institutions, and a large stockholder in the Wheeling Bridge Co., of which he is a director. Mr. Howell was married in 1848, to Miss Sarah W. Paull, daughter of Thomas Paull, a descendant of an old and prominent family, and an uncle of Judge James Paull. Five children have been born to this union, they are: Allen S., living in the vicinity of Wheeling; Richard L., minister in charge of Grace Episcopal church, of Sandusky, Ohio, Thomas P., of Philadelphia, where he was recently admitted to the bar; William P., a student of medicine at the university of Pennsylvania; and Sallie P., wife of Earl W. Oglebay, of Cleveland, Ohio, president of the First National bank of West Virginia. Andrew A. Howell is descended from revolutionary ancestry on both sides of his family. His father, Major Richard L. Howell, served in the American army during then entire war of 1812, and was in the Canada campaign. He was a volunteer on board Commodore Perry's ship in the victory on. Lake Erie, and his brother, William B. Howell (the father of Mrs. Jefferson OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 329 Davis) , was also a volunteer on Captain Elliott's ship. Richard Howell, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was governor of the state of New Jersey, for seven consecutive terms. A photograph of the tombstone of one of his ancestors was shown the writer of this sketch; it was taken from the tombstone, still standing in a cemetery on Long Island, and shows it to be in a state of excellent preservation. It is in memory of Major. John Howell, who died November 3, 1696, aged seventy-nine years. The coat-of-arms engraged on this stone is said to be among the first ever found on a tombstone in the United States. After the war Major Howell was appointed deputy collector of the port of Philadelphia, and served in that capacity for twenty-six years, at which time he died. He held his position under different political administrations, but his popularity with the merchants of Philadelphia was so great that public sentiment kept him in office. Mr. Howell's mother's maiden name was Rebecca Augusta Stockton; her forefathers were also prominent during the trying days of the revolution. Her grandfather was the brother of Richard Stockton, one of the signers of the declaration of independence, and her relatives have been honorably identified with the service of the nation and state to a great extent. Admiral John C. Howell, a brother of Andrew Allen Howell, married a daughter of Commodore Stockton, of New Jersey, his cousin. Dana Hubbard, whose name will ever fill a conspicuous place in the history of the city of Wheeling, was the founder of his family in this region, coming here when the difficulties which confronted him resembled those which were. encountered by the founder of his family in America nearly zoo years before. The ancester just referred to, was William Hubbard, a native of England, who left his mother country and came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1630. He subsequently settled at Ipswich, Mass., which town he represented in the general court six years, between 1638 and 1646, and from there he afterward removed to Boston. His eldest son, the Rev. William Hubbard, nine years old at the immigration, received from Harvard college, then in its infancy, the degree of A. B. at the age of twenty-one. He became a minister at Ipswich, was the' author of a history of the Indian wars, published in 1677, and a " History of New England," published in 1682, the original manuscript of which is now in the archives of the state of Massachusetts. In 1688 he was appointed by Sir Edward Andros to officiate as president of Harvard college, and to condpct the commencement exercises of that year. He was married to Margaret Rogers, the great-grand-daughter of Rev. John Rogers, of Smithfield fame, and their son, John Hubbard, was the father of Rev. John Hubbard, of Meriden, Conn., whose son, another John Hubbard, a major-general of militia of Connecticut, was the father of Dana Hubbard, .rho was born near New Haven, Conn., August 17, 1789. On October 16, 1811, Dana Hubbard was married to Asenath Dorman, a lady of earnest and devoted character and tender, Christian graces, who was born at Hamden, Conn., December 9, 1789. When their son, Chester, was six months old, Dana Hubbard and wife sought new oppor- 330 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. tunities in what was then the "west." The husband proceeded to Pittsburgh in March, 1815, and his wife followed in May, by ship, and by stage across the mountains, and in. April, 1819, they came down the Ohio river on a flat-boat, which was anchored in Wheeling creek and used for a home for the family, while the father built a log cabin. Mr. Hubbard soon became a pioneer in establishing manufacturing industries, and built in 1827 the first saw-mill, also the first grist-mill in Wheeling, and established the first steam saw-mill in western Virginia. He dealt in lumber also and ran a sash factory in connection with his mill. His last days were passed on a farm in Ohio county, where he died October 16, 1852. His wife survived him over a quarter of a century, dying April 23, 1878. In the same year that they came to Wheeling they joined the Methodist Episcopal, church, of which they were devoted members. Five children were born to them: Chester D., who was born November 25, 18 r 4 ; Henry B., born October 23, 1816, died September 17, 1888; William Dana, born September 11, 1818, died June 12, r834; John Rogers, born November 8, 1825, died August 18,, 1879; Martha R., born November 9, 1829, died August 4, 1832. Chester Dorman Hubbard, the eldest and only survivor of the family, was born at Hamden, Conn., and was aged four and a half years when his parents came with him to Wheeling. In his childhood he attended the schools at Wheeling until he was thirteen years old, after which he gave all his time to his father, working in the brick yards and mills of the latter until he reached his majority. On his twenty-first birthday he began preparations for acquiring additional education and subsequently entered the Wesleyan university .at Middletown, Conn., where he was 'graduated in 1840, with the honor of being the valedictorian of his class. On account of the failing health of his father he at once returned to Wheeling and engaged in business, beginning a career which is one of the most notable in the business history of the city. He was in the lumber business until 1852, when he with D. C. List and others established the bank of Wheeling, of which Mr. Hubbard was president. He continued in this enterprise until 1865. He is now president of the German bank of Wheeling, to which he has rendered good service. Recognizing the great good to result from the natural adaptation of Wheeling as a manufacturing site, he has rendered efficient aid in the development of her natural resources. In 1859 he was one of the firm of four members, under the title of C. D. Hubbard & Co., who leased the Crescent Iron mills, and engaged in the manufacture of railroad iron for something over a year. He was also one of the organizers of the Wheeling' Hinge company, and is still connected with it as a director. In 1871 he became secretary of the then reorganized Wheeling Iron and Nail company, a position he still holds, occupying thereby a leading place among the manufacturers of the region. As a member of the firm of Logan & Co. for twenty years, Mr. Hubbard was also associated with the commercial interests of the city, and he is now president of the Logan Drug company which recently succeeded the old firm. In 1873 he participated in railroad enterprises by becoming one of the reorganizers of the OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 331 Pittsburgh, Wheeling & Kentucky railroad, of which he has since become president, having been elected in 1874. With rare administrative ability he has put the road upon a profitable basis. -Mr. Hub-bard's business career has been highly honorable and successful, but he has also in public life had .occasion to render distinguished service to the state and nation. He was a member of the house of delegates of Virginia in 1852-3, and in 1861 was a member .of the Virginia convention which passed the ordinance of secession, which he strenuously opposed. Immediately after the passage of the ordinance he returned to his constituents at Wheeling and began agitating in the cause of the Union, and for the organization of military companies for home defense, and succeeded in having a meeting called at the American hall in center Wheeling and another at the Guards' hose house, and on Sunday afternoon, he having returned home Friday evening, he had the satisfaction of seeing two companies sworn in to support "the constitution of the United States and the old flag." Before the week was past, ten companies were organized into a regiment, of which he was elected colonel. This prompt action was of great service to the community and the nation, and prevented any open rupture between the unionists and confederates in this region. Mr. Hubbard was a member of the Wheeling convention of May 13, 1861, and of what is known as the second Wheeling convention of June 11, 1861, both conventions being held by the Union people of the state for the purpose of establishing a loyal government of Virginia and looking to the formation of the new state of West Virginia. After the organization of the new state, Mr. Hubbard served in the state senate, and subsequently in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth congresses, being elected as the republican candidate from the First district, and at Washington he was a faithful and distinguished representative of the important interests of his district. Mr. Hubbard has been an earnest friend of education, and is prominently associated with well known local institutions. He was elected a trustee of the Linsly Institute in 1848, and since 1873, has been the treasurer of the board of trustees. He was active in founding the Wheeling Female seminary in 1848, was one of the trustees, and since the change to the Wheeling Female college in 1865 has been president of the board of trustees. Mr. Hubbard's family life has been a pleasant and happy one. He was married September 29, 1842, to Sarah Pallister, who was born in England in 182o, and came to the United Stales in 1823. She was a step daughter to John List, one of the notable old, citizens. Five children were born to this union: William Pallister, Dana List, Chester Russell, Julia A., wife of W. H. Tyler, of Triadelphia, and Anna G., wife of Joseph C. Brady, secretary of the Wheeling Hinge company. William P. Hubbard, who has been a successful lawyer at Wheeling for a little more than a. quarter century,, has achieved honorable distinction both in the fields of jurisprudence and of politics. Mr. Hub bard was born at Wheeling, December 24, 1843, the son of Hon. Chester D. Hubbard, was reared in his native town, and received here 332 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. the rudiments of his education. After attending for a period the Linsly institute he entered the Wesleyan university at Middletown, Conn., where he was graduated in 1863. Returning to Wheeling he pursued the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in the following year, since when he has practiced his profession at this city. During the latter part of the war he was engaged in military service, being a member of the Third West Virginia cavalry, U. S. A., in 1865. From 866 to 1870 he filled the position of clerk of the West Virginia house of delegates, and in 1881-2 represented Ohio county in that body, serving on the committee on revision of the statutes. In i888 Mr. Hubbard was selected by his party as a delegate to the National republican convention at Chicago, and in the same year he was the republican candidate for the office of attorney-general of West Virginia. Myron Hubbard, senior member of the firm of Hubbard & Paull, wholesale grocers of Wheeling, was born in the town of Bolton, Tolland county, Conn., July 13, 1842. His family resided at that place place until 185o, when they removed to northern Illinois, remaining there fourteen years, after which they returned to Connecticut. In 1865 Mr. Hubbard went to Columbus, Ohio, and took the position of traveling agent for the Columbus Home Insurance company. He was occupied in this capacity for a year and a half in the states of Ohio and West Virginia, and during six months of this period was stationed at Wheeling. In the fall of 1866 he retired from the insurance business, and in the following spring he became a clerk in the. grocery store of his half-brother, Nathaniel Hubbard, at Wheeling. He was thus engaged for three years, after which he formed a partnership with his brother George, under the firm name of M. & G. Hubbard, and purchased the old Mutual store, where they carried on business for five years and more. Their next business venture was the purchase of the business of J. W. Boyd & Co., and they then embarked in the wholesale grocery trade under the style of Hubbard & Co., doing business without further change for over five years. Subsequently they removed to 1425 Main street, and in 1880 George Paull became a partner in the business and the firm of Hubbard, Paull & Co. was formed. George Hubbard retired in 1882, and the subject of this sketch and Mr. Paull have since conducted the business, which is among the most extensive of the city. Mr. Hubbard is also-interested in the Commercial bank, of which he is a director. . In religious and benevolent matter he is quite active, being a member of the First Presbyterian church, and a deacon of that organization, a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, also of the Children's Home and the Home for the Friendless. Mr. Hubbard was married in April, 1871, to Ella, daughter Of Thomas and Sidney List, of Wheeling, and to this union four children have • been born, of whom a son and a daughter survive. Alfred Hughes, M. D., of Baltimore, Md., was born at Wheeling, Va., on September 16, 1824. His great-grandfather, Felix Hughes, was a native of Ireland. He was a devout Catholic, and left the land OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 333 of his birth to find that religious freedom that he was there denied. He came to this country and settled in Loudon county, Va., in 1732. Four sons were born to him, of whom James, the grandfather of our subject, was a great huntsman, and crossing the mountains in quest of game, saw the beautiful region that is now Greene county, Penn., but then a part of Virginia. He determined to settle there and having married a Miss Dunn, of Jefferson county, Va., in 1772 moved to his newly located home, and was among the first white settlers of that section. At his death he owned large tracts of land in Virginia, Kentucky and what is now Indiana; he left three sons and five daughters, his oldest child being then only nineteen years of age. His youngest child but one, Thomas, was born and raised in what is now Greene county, Penn., and in early life married Mary, daughter of Charles von Odenbaugh of Winchester, Va. They shortly afterward moved to Wheeling, Va., where seven sons and three daughters were born to them. He served under Gen. Harrison in the war- of 1812. At his death in 1849, he had been treasurer of the city of Wheeling, and member of the city council for thirty-two years; president of the Wheeling Savings institution; president of the Wheeling Fire Insurance company; president of the Wheeling & Belmont Bridge company, and director in the Northwestern bank. His oldest living son was chosen to fill his place in the city council, and held the position to a year previous to his death, in 1870. His seventh child was our subject. He went through a thorough collegiate course of education, studied medicine and graduated at the Homeopathic Medical college of Philadelphia. On November 1, 1849, he married Mary Kirby Adrian, of Wheeling, a descendant of the Sedgwick family of Maryland, who settled in that state in the early part of the seventeen century. He began the practice of homeopathy at Wheeling in 1851. Of those who had essayed the task of practicing the new school and failed, two practitioners were from Philadelphia and one from Baltimore. Popular prejudice and the bitter opposition of the old school were too much for them, and their defeat rendered victory more difficult for their successor. Dr. Hughes, however, after a hard fight and many newspaper controversies, conquered, vindicating the advantages of the homeopathic practice. When the cholera made its appearance, in 1854, he, labored almost constantly night and day, being the only homeopathic physician" in the city, and meeting with almost unprecedented success in his treatment of the fearful scourge, then in epidemic form, homeopathy was then firmly established, he soon built up a large and lucrative practice, and now Wheeling, in place of one, has several new school practitioners. On the outbreak of the war, and when the first gun was fired at Charleston, his sympathies were enlisted in behalf of the south. When Virginia seceded, he engaged in newspaper political controversies, and became correspondent for the Baltimore Exchange. He was arrested for disloyalty in 1861, and was held a prisoner at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, for nearly eight months, when he was specially exchanged for a brother of Dr. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, captured at Blounnery Gap, Va., and a pris- 334 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER ONTO VALLEY. oner at Salisbury, N. C. On his way to Richmond with his wife and three children, he stayed in Baltimore, reporting to Gen. Schenck, to whom he had letters of introduction. He obtained from the secretary of war, Stanton, a permit to take his wife and children and extra baggage to Richmond. On the steamer in which they sailed for Fortress Monroe were several distinguished federal generals, among them Gen. Thomas, who rendered them great service in getting through their extensive baggage, consisting of some thirteen trunks, at a time when scarcely a bundle was permitted to go by a flag of truce boat. Having been landed at City Point, and the formalities of exchange gone through, he proceeded with his family to Richmond. At Petersburg he was arrested on a general suspicion created by the amount of his baggage, and it was not until dispatches were received from two of his friends in Richmond, Judge Brokenbrough and Hon. Charles W. Russell, vouching for his loyalty to the south, that he and his baggage were permitted to proceed. His arrival in Richmond accompanied by the unusual amount of baggage gave rise to a report that he was a commissioner of peace sent by the United States government clothed with power to end the war. He at once settled down into practice, and again had to fight homeopathy's battle against bitter prejudice and stubborn opposition. Once more he succeeded in establishing the system, and secured an excellent practice. After a while he was elected to the legislature of Virginia, and remained a member thereof up to the fall of Richmond. He was a warm advocate of the enlistment of slaves in the southern ranks. Among his patients during and since the war was the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee. On December 18, 1865, he removed from Richmond to Baltimore, where he soon established himself in a good and lucrative practice, such a one, indeed, as is obtained by few, even after long residence in a city. This he has done in spite of much competition. Thus he has established in his native city, and won respect for it in his own person, in two others. Dr. Hughes was an occasional contributor to the American Homeopathic Observer. He has had ten children, five sons and three daughters of whom are living. His oldest son a graduate in law of the university of Virginia is a practicing lawyer in Baltimore. Ais oldest daughter in 1869, was married to W. P. Moncure, M. D., son of Judge R. C. L. Moncure, deceased, formerly president of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia. His second daughter in 1877, was married to Frank A. Bond, formerly adjutant-general of the state of Maryland, and an officer in the confederate states army of northern Virginia. His family are widely extended through Virginia, West Virginia and part of Kentucky. He died in Baltimore, Md., February 25, 1880. There is a sketch of his life in Cleave's Biographical Cyclopdia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and in the Biographical Cyclopaedia of Prominent Men in Maryland and the District of Columbia. His eldest son, Thomas, born August 25, 185o, in Wheeling, was at the close of the war a cadet at the Virginia Military institute at Richmond, Va.; graduated in 1871 at the Baltimore City college, first in a class of nineteen students, completing the prescribed course of OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 335 four years in two years; and in the spring of the following year graduated in law at the university of Virginia, receiving the degree of B. L. He is a prominent lawyer in large practice in Baltimore; a member of the Bar association of Baltimore City, of the American Bar association, of the Maryland Historical society, past master of Concordia lodge, a member of Jerusalem chapter and of Beauseant commandery of Masons, past grand of Baltimore City lodge, and past chief patriarch of Mt. Araratt encampment of Odd Fellows, and a member of the Calumet, Crescent and Atheneum clubs of Baltimore. In 1875 he married Helen R. Thorburn of Fredericksburg, Va., daughter of Capt. Robert Donaldson Thorburn, formerly of the United States navy. Archie T. Hupp, one of the most prominent young business men of Wheeling, is the son of John C. Hupp, M. D., an eminent physician of the state, whose sketch and portrait appear in this work. He was born in Wheeling, W. Va., October 1, 1855. Mr. Hupp started life with the advantage of a liberal education, and when sixteen years of age, having determined to make the mercantile business his vocation in life, accepted a clerkship in the wholesale grocery house of Joseph Speidel & Company, and by dauntless energy and close attention to his duties he became such a valuable auxiliary to the firm that his services were soon appreciated to the extent of an admittance to its membership. His house probably does the largest jobbing trade of groceries in the Ohio valley. Mr. Hupp represented his firm in the territory adjacent to the Wheeling market for several years, and his withdrawal from the road to fill a more responsible position in the management of the firm's extensive business brought many expressions of regret from his patrons. This marked success has been attained only by great business ability and unbending integrity, which traits of character are possessed by Mr. Hupp in no small degree. Miss Addie, daughter of the late Harry C. Coen, became his wife in March, 1882. They are the parents of four children: Katharene L., Carolene L., John C., and Archie T. Mr. Hupp comes from a very old and influential family, and is possessed of those qualities which make men sought after in society, being a man of culture and refinement as well as a successful business man. John Cox Hupp, a distinguished physician of Wheeling, is a member of a family which in the days of Indian warfare, were distinguished for heroism and sacrifice. In 1770 Philip Hupp, John Hupp, Frank Hupp, Palsar Hupp and another brother whose name has not been preserved, came to the frontier from the Shenandoah valley, and settled on the waters of Buffalo, in what is now Washington county, Penn., but was then a part, of Virginia and remained so until after the running of Mason and Dixon's line. Frank was shot by an Indian at Jonathan Link's cabin, twelve miles east of Wheeling, on Middle Wheeling creek, September, 1771; John was killed while defending Miller's block house, on Buffalo creek, from the Indians, on Easter Sunday of 1782; Palsar settled on the banks of the Monongahela, near the village of Millsborough, and Philip, who was at the siege of 336 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. Miller's block house, afterward settled in Duck creek valley. John Hupp left a son of the same name, who was two years old at the time of the siege of the block house within which he was when his father was killed. He was born July 27, 178o, and on January 19, 1813, was married to Ann Cox, by whom he had four children: Isaac, Joseph, Louisa and. John C., of whom the latter only survives. The father died March 12, 1864, and the mother, who was born June 7, 1791, died November 6, 1875. John C. Hupp, the subject of this mention, was born in Donegal township, Washington county, Penn., November 24, 1819. He was graduated at Washington college in 1844, and in 1848 received the degree of A. M. He studied medicine under Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, and at Jefferson Medical college, where he was graduated in 1847. On December 16, of the same year, he began the practice at Wheeling. Since then his. life has been nobly devoted to the advancement of his profession, the promotion of general education, and the welfare of his community, and his old age is now crowned with the grateful remembrances and kind regards of all who have known him. Without entering into the details of his professional work, some salient points of his career may be noted. He was one of the founders of the Medical Society of West Virginia, was appointed in 1875 a delegate of the American Medical association to the European association; and was a member of the executive committee of the Centennial Medical commission to the International Medical congress which met at Philadelphia in 1876. His connection with the American association began in 1858, and he has since served several times on the committee on nominations, as secretary of a section, and was for man years chairman of the committee for his state on necrology, He, for ten years, served as treasurer of the State Medical association, and for the same period as treasurer of the Wheeling society. His contributions to the literature of his profession have been many and valuable. He has held various positions connected with his profession, not le among which was the office of state vaccine agent, which he held f early fifteen years. In the cause of education, Dr. Hupp made, in 1$ a successful effort before the board of education to extend a free school education to the colored children of the city; in 1873, before the same body, secured the establishment of an evening free school; in 1875, advocated making German a regular branch of study in the public schools; and in 1877, as chairman of the committee on rules and regulations, was successful in securing the adoption of industrial drawing as a regular study in the schools In 1870 he prepared a memorial to the legislature asking the appointment of a state geologist. Notable among his contributions to literature, aside from those strictly professional are, a memorial of Dr. Joseph Thoburn, and many other memorials of deceased physicians, a memorial to the legislature on the establishment of a state board of health, historical sketches of early life in Washington county, and the quarter-centennial historical sketch of his class at Washington college. Dr. Hupp has served the city and county as a member of the board of health, as president of the county board of supervisors from 1863 to OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 337 1866, as a member of the city board of education from 1873 to 1879, but has since declined all honors tendered him in the line of official preferment. For nearly a quarter of a century, from 1862 to 1885, he served the national government as president of the board of United States examining surgeons for pensions. Dr. Hupp was married March 1, 1853, to Caroline Louise Todd, daughter of the late Dr. A. S. Todd, of Wheeling, and they have had the following children: Archibald, born October I, 1855, of the firm of Speidel & Co.; Amanda Virginia, born October 9, 1859, wife of Charles L. Harding, of Washington, Penn.; Ann Louisa, born July 3o, 1862, wife of Dr. R. H. Bullard, of. Wheeling; Francis Julius Le Moyne, born July 8, 1865, surgeon on the medical staff of Presbyterian hospital, N. Y.; Augusta Genevieve, born December 1, 1863, and John C., deceased. Dr. Hupp is a member of the Presbyterian church. The firm of T. T. Hutchisson & Co., occupies a leading place among wholesale dealers and importers of saddlery hardware, and is prominent among the successful business concerns of Wheeling. This house was founded in 186o by John Knote, who had been engaged in the manufacture of saddles and harness at Wheeling since 1833, having learned his trade in Adams county, Penn., with Robert M. Hutchisson, father of the present senior member of the firm. Mr. Knote admitted to partnership at the outset, Mr. T. T. Hutchisson, in the business of wholesale dealing in saddlers' hardware. During the war period the business was conducted entirely by Mr. Hutchisson, Mr. Knote being in the south, but after the restoration of peace, the old firm was re-established, and the two gentlemen, as equal partners, conducted the business until 1882, when Mr. Knote withdrew, Mr. Hutchisson purchasing his interest. The latter carried on the business alone until 1888, when the present firm was formed by the admission of two old and trusted clerks, Jacob Reitz and J. A. Blum. Mr. Hutchisson was born in Adams county, Penn., August 25, 1827. His father, Robert M. Hutchisson, was a native of New Jersey, but lived for some time in Philadelphia. Early.in the twenties he settled in Adams county, Penn., and there followed. his trade of harness and saddle making. He was married while residing there to Sarah Blintzinger, by whom he had five children, three of whom are living. The mother died in Adams county about 1845, and the father died in Madison county, Ohio, where he had gone to make his home with a daughter in about 1875. Mr. Hutchisson is prominent in the history of the People's bank, having been one of the original stockholders, and assisted in its organization in 186o. He became a director of the bank in 1879, and in about 1885 was elected vice-president, a position he still holds. For forty years or more he has been a member of Franklin lodge, I. 0. 0. F. Mr. Hutchisson was married in 1852, to Mary Hervey, of Wheeling, who died June 23, 1874, leaving one daughter, who is still living. In 1881 he was married to Garafelia Nelson, of Wheeling. Joseph Hydinger, a leading grocer and confectioner of South Wheeling, is a native of Wheeling, born December 22, 1839. His 22-A. 338 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. father, Joseph Hydinger, a native of Alsace, France, came to Wheeling about 1833, and became one of. the pioneer gardeners. He owned at one time, by purchase of John McClure, the property now occupied by the city hospital. In December, 1847, he removed to a ten-acre tract he purchased of Messrs. Jacob and Selby, in what is now the Eighth ward, and there lived until his decease, September9, 1879. His wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, Elizabeth Schopany, by maiden name, was also a native of Alsace. Before her marriage to Mr. Hydinger, which occurred about 1836, she had been twice married, first to Jacob Schaeffer, who died in Pittsburgh, leaving one child, Elizabeth, now the wife of Joseph Humes, of Wheeling, and her second husband died in Cincinnati, of the cholera. By Mr. Hydinger she had six children, two of whom reside at Wheeling, one at Point Pleasant, W. Va., and three in Iowa. She came to Wheeling about 1831, and is still living in her seventy-eighth year. The subject of this sketch, in early life, assisted his father in gardening, and was also for brief periods engaged in the Washington mill, in trips down the Ohio and Mississippi, and in the summer of 1862, he, was employed in the commissary department of the United States army. In 1872 he embarked in his present occupation, as the proprietor of a confectionery store at No. 4306 Jacob street. Two years later he added a stock of groceries, and in these two departments of trade he has since done a flourishing business. He was married October 30, 1864, to Eiizabeth Rietz, a native of Bavaria, Germany, who accompanied her parents, Christian and Elizabeth Rietz, to Wheeling, in 1852. Mrs. Hydinger is the second of their nine children, eight of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Hydinger have had six children: Elizabeth; Charles F., deceased; Frank, deceased; Minnie and Bertha. Mrs. Hydinger is a member of the German Lutheran church; he of the Catholic. In politics he is a democrat. Clarence E. Irwin, secretary of. the LaBelle Iron works of Wheeling, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1843. Mr. Irwin is a representative of one of the pioneer families of the city of Wheeling, his father, R. S. Irwin, being one of the early pioneer merchants and manufacturers. The latter was a native of Wheeling, but in early manhood resided in Ohio, where the subject of this mention was born. Soon afterward he returned to Wheeling, and became subsequently connected with the firm of Morton, Bailey & Co., in the Belmont Iron company, and in 1852 he became a member of the firm of Bailey, Woodward & Co., who were the founders of the LaBelle Iron works, and afterward purchased the Jefferson Iron works of Steubenville. With both firms he was connected until his death in 1872, in his sixty-third year. The wife of R. S. Irwin was Zoraida Zane Fawcett, who was connected with the pioneer Zane family. She died in 186o. Clarence E. Irwin was reared at Wheeling, and educated in the schools of the city and the academy at Morgantown. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in May, 1861, in Company E, of the First Virginia volunteer infantry in the Union service, and after serving his term of three months he re-enlisted for three years. At the end of that period 339 - OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. he entered the veteran service, as captain of Company G of the Second West Virginia V. V. I., and served until July, 1865. At the completion of this extended period of patriotic service, Mr. Irwin returned to Wheeling and was engaged in the office of Bailey, Woodward & Co. until 1876, when he embarked in the wholesale grocery business under the firm style of C. E. Irwin & Co. In the following December he went west with the intenti of finding a new location, but not being satisfied he returned to W eling in the fall of 1877, and became a resident of Martin's Ferry, and a clerk in the Benwood Blast furnace. Subsequently he took the position of book-keeper in the office of the Standard Iron company at Bridgeport, and in 1887 resigned that position to accept the one he holds at present. Mr. Irwin is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a comrade of the G. A. R. In 1868 he was married to Hannah B. Woodward, daughter of Simpson N. Woodward, of the firm of Bailey, Woodward & Co., and they have two children. He is a member of the board of education from Madison subdistrict for the school district of Wheeling. Ex. Gov. John J. Jacob of Wheeling, well known throughout the state as a distinguished jurist and public man, has served the community, the county and the state, in various high positions, honorably and with ability. As legislator, judge, and chief magistrate of the commonwealth, he has been faithful and true to the interests of the people. Judge Jacob is a son of Capt. John J. Jacob, a native of Maryland, who during the war of the revolution, served in the famous Sixth regiment of the Maryland line as lieutenant, quartermaster and captain, rendering gallant service with that command, which was pre-eminently distinguished for severe and heroic service. At the close of the war he settled on the Potomac river in Hampshire county, Va., where he wedded the widow of Capt. Michael Cresap, one of the most prominent characters on the border during the revolutionary period, and who is commemorated, though with unjust reference, in the famous speech of Logan, the Indian chief. Subsequently Capt. Jacob was mar ried to Susan McDavitt, a niece by marriage to Sergt. John Champ, that brave officer who was selected by Washington to make the attempt to capture Benedict Arnold, a daring exploit which failed but not for want of courage and skill of the sergeant. By this second marraige four children were born, two of whom died in infancy. One of the survivors, Julia, became the wife of John W. Vanderver, of Missouri, in which state she died in 1882, at the age of fifty-five years. The other, Judge Jacob, was born at the Hampshire county home, December 9, 1829. The parents died in Hampshire county, the father in 1839, in his eighty-first year, and the mother in 1880, aged eighty-five years. Judge Jacob was reared at Romney, and received an academic and collegiate education, and was graduated at Dickinson college, Penn., in 1849. He chose the law as his profession; but removing to Missouri, occupied the chair of political economy, etc., at the Missouri university at Columbia, from 1853 to 186o, before engaging in the practice. He subsequently practiced law at Columbia, Mo., until 1864, when he returned to Hampshire county, where he continued in his profession, 340 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. and attained prominence in that region. In 1869 he took an active part in politics as a democrat, and was elected to the legislature. In 1870 he was nominated by the democratic party for governor of West Virginia, and was successful,, being the first democratic governor of the state. In 1872, under the new constitution, he was re-elected, and held office during the stor scenes incident to the putting in force of the new constitution, an he removal of the state capital from Charleston to Wheeling. Up the expiration of his term as governor, March 4, 1877, he made h home at Wheeling, and resuming practice, at once took 'rank as one of the leading jurists of the state. In 1879 he was the representative of Ohio county in the state legislature. In 1881 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the circuit judgeship, and in the following year he was elected to the office for a term of six years. On retiring from the position of judge of the first circuit he resumed the practice of the law, in which he is still engaged. Judge Jacob was married in 1853, to Jane Baird, a native of Washington, Penn., and daughter of William Baird, a prominent attorney of that state. Three children have been born to this union, one of whom a daughter, survives. Wilbur Jacobs, a leading brick and stone contractor of Wheeling, was born at Wellsburg, W. Va.; in 1854. His parents were B. F. and Elizabeth (St. Ledger) Jacobs, both natives of West Virginia. The mother died in January, 1888. B. F. Jacobs has been a contractor all his life, and is now living a retired life at. Wellsburg. The subject of this biography lived in Wellsburg until his sixteenth year, and attended the public schools of that place. When about sixteewherers of age he went to Pittsburgh, wheie he followed the trade of a bricklayer for about two years, and then began contracting for himself. He resided in Pittsburgh for nearly twelve years, and then returned to Wellsburg, remaining there for two years, and then he came to Wheeling, settling here permanently, though he had been doing business here before his removal to this city. He was for some time a member of the Wheeling Mining & Manufacturing company, which he withdrew from in July, 1886. He has since been carrying on a large and successful business in brick and stone contracting, having erected many buildings in Wheeling, which speak for his ability and honesty. He was the first contractor to introduce steam power in the hoisting of materials for buildings in course of construction, and now owns the only apparatus for that purpose in the city. Among other structures he has erected the First ward puchrchl; Bridgeport Presbyterian churchfrch; First Methodist Episcopal chuich, of Bellaire; Y: M. C. A. building, in Wheeling; Bloch Brothers' factory; Fifth ward school-house of Bellaire; theToronto White Ware works; repaired the custom house, and many other buildings too numerous to mention.. He is a member of the Bricklayers' union. Politically, he is a democrat. In 1876 he married Sarah Bowden, of Allegheny City, Penn., the ceremony taking place. May 27 of that year. Bessie, B. F., Mazie, Lucy and Charles, are the children which have been born to them. OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 341 Frank P. Jepson, cashier of the Bank of the Ohio valley, is one of the most prominent young business men of Wheeling. He was born at Baltimore, Md., July I I, 1853, but being brought to Wheeling by his parents one year later, he was reared in this city, and here received his education. His has been an active life from childhood. He was under instruction in a private school from his third to fifth years, and was then placed in the Second ward public school, and being promoted to the Fifth ward school remained there until he was thirteen years of age. He then left school, and shortly afterward, in 1861, President Lincoln having appointed Thomas Hornbrook surveyor of customs of Wheeling, entered the office of that official. The latter resigned the office upon the advent of the Johnson administration and engaged in the real estate business, and young Jepson then became his office boy. On April I, 1867, Mr. Jepson though not yet fourteen years of age, became messenger for the First National Bank of Wheeling. He soon evinced qualifications for higher positions and passed rapidly through the various grades as a bank clerk, book-keeper, teller, etc., the bank meanwhile becoming merged in the Bank of the Ohio Valley, until on February 9, 188o, he was appointed cashier, a position he still holds. He is one of the youngest cashiers of the city, and it may justly be added that he is one of the most efficient. The confidence generally reposed in his integrity and capacity was manifested by his appointment by the city council in 1881 as one of the three commissioners of loans, in which capacity he negotiated a loan of $196,000. Being commissioned for a similar duty in 1885 he negotiated a loan of $270,000, and was recently appointed one of the three commissioners to negotiate the bridge loan. He has been honored with various other trusts. During the last four years he has been a member of the board of trustees of the city gas works, and for two years has served as president of that body. He was commissioned a notary public by Governor Wilson in 1885, was appointed an aid on the governor's staff in 1887, with the rank of colonel, a position he resigned in 1888, and on April I, 1889, he was appointed by the governor as director of the second insane hospital for the term of six years. In 1889, Mr. Jepson was the projector of the Wheeling Ice and Storage company. He has not taken part in politics as an aspirant for office, but as a political leader has wielded much influence, and has held the secretaryship of the democratic executive congressional committee for the first district, from 1886 to 1888. Mr. Jepson is prominent as a Mason, which fraternity he joined in 1874. He is a member of Wheeling lodge, No. 5, of Wheeling Union chapter, No. I, and of Cyrene commandery, No. 7, K. T. He was the treasurer of Wheeling lodge for several years and is now treasurer of Cyrene commandery. During the floods of 1884 he served as chairman of the Masonic relief committee, and as such visited the sufferers along the river as far down as the Kentucky line, dispensing the funds in the hands of the committee. Mr. Jepson was married in 1876 to Ida E., daughter of Col. Joseph H. Pendleton, a 342 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. member of the Virginia legislature during the war, and sister of Hon. John 0. Pendleton, congressman-elect for the first district. S. L. Jepson, A. M., M. D., a prominent physician of Wheeling, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 7, /842, a son of John Jepson, one of the early citizens of Belmont county, Ohio. The latter was a native of Lancashire, England, and was born in 1795. He was married in 1823 to Hannah Hunt, also a native of Lancashire, born in 1803. About 1830 John Jepson came to America, prospecting for a new home and so spent about two years in New York, during which time he was joined by his family and a brother. From New York he came west to Ohio, journeying by way of Cleveland, and made his home in Belmont county, one mile east of St. Clairsville, where he engaged in agriculture. Subsequently, while assisting a neighbor in the raising of a barn, he met with an accident which left him unfit for farm labor, and he afterward gave up farm life and engaged in merchandise at St. Clairsville. He remained there in that employment during the remainder of, his active life, with the exception of a period of two years from the spring of 1852 to the spring of 1854 spent at McConnelsville and Wheeling. He was an elder of the Presbyterian church, and a man of strong character. In 1874 he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding, and during ten years longer lived happily together. They died in 1884 and 1885 respectively, deeply mourned by their family and friends. To them were born eleven children, two were born in England. Four children survive: Hannah E., Nathaniel H., a jeweler of Washington, Ind.; George, a merchant of St. Clairsville, and the subject of this sketch. Dr. Jepson was given a liberal education in the St. Clairsville school, and in 1860 entered the junior class of Washington college, where he was graduated in 1862. His brothers having enlisted in the Union army, he went into his father's store at St. Clairsville, where he clerked during the war period. Immediately after the close of the war, in July, 1865, he took up the study of medicine, and in' 1866 he entered the Ohio Medical college, and was graduated in medicine in 1868. After graduation he was by competitive examination appointed resident physician of the Cincinnati hospital, for one year. He located at Wheeling in 1869, and began the practice of his profession. He soon became k prominent in his profession, and in 1873 was elected health officer of Wheeling for a term of two years, and was twice re-elected, serving continuously until 1879. During this period he added to his medical acquirements by study in London, Edinburgh and Vienna, during a year's visit to Europe. The doctor has held various important positions in the gift of the people, having served as a member of the city council from 188o to 1884, as a member of the board of education, elected in 188o and 1886, for terms of six years each, and he is secretary of the board of trustees of the Wheeling Female college. He has received a due share of the honors of the medical, organizations with which he has affiliated, has served as secretary for four years and president one term of the medical society of the city of OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 343 Wheeling and county of Ohio, was four years secretary of the State Medical society, and was elected president of the state society in 1886, presiding over the meeting held at White Sulphur Springs in 1887. He is also a member of the American Medical association. In 1883 he was appointed acting assistant surgeon of the United States Marine hospital service, a position he resigned in 1890. In May, 1889, he was appointed United States examining surgeon of pensions, and is secretary of the board at Wheeling. Dr. Jepson's contributions to leading medical journals are as follows: " The Duality of the Chancrous Virus," New York Medical Journal, September, 1871; " Sudden Death in Puerperal Cases," The American Journal of Obstetrics, Au- gust, 1872; "Cholera in Wheeling, W.Va.," Transactions of American Health Association, Vol. I, 1874; " Pyo-pneumothorax Following Acute Pneumonia in a Child," American Journal of Obstetrics, July, 1881; " Cases of Long Retention of Placenta after Abortion," idem, October, 1883; " Treatment of Bursae," 1875. In State Transactions of various dates, " On Typhoid Fever; The Relation of Ovulation to Menstruation; Puerperal Fever, Its Intra-urine Antiseptic Irrigation," and others. His annual address as president of the State Medical society at White Sulphur Springs in July, 1887, met with much favorable criticism from both the press and the profession. Dr. Jepson was married in 1871 to Isabella, daughter of Rev. Andrew Scott, of Jefferson county, Ohio, and has four daughters. The doctor and wife are members of the First Presbyterian church, and the doctor is an elder. William J. Johnston, son of William and Mary J. Johnston, both formerly of county Armagh, Ireland, was born in the city of Wheeling, W. Va., February 17, 1843. Being of poor parentage he was early cast upon his own resources for subsistence. His father died July 4, 1849, leaving a family of five children, four sons and one daughter, the eldest, John, twelve years of age, and the second child, Robert, age ten years, being the only support of the family. William J., the third child, at the age of nine years entered a glass factory and worked in various capacities for a term of five years or thereabout. In the spring of 1856 he entered the Wheeling Intelligencer job rooms, and January I, 1857, commenced a three year apprentice-*ship as a printer, in the said job rooms then in charge of Col. John. Frew. In the spring of 1861, being desirous of getting some newspaper experience, he accepted a case on the Wheeling Press, and worked at the case until the closing of that establishment by the United States army, by order of Gen. Hunter, some time in. 1862, after which event he returned to his former position of job pressman in the Intelligencer job rooms. In the spring of 1865, being desirous of bettering his condition, he purchased an interest in the book and job printing concern carried on under the firm name of A. S. Trowbridge & Co., but soon becoming dissatisfied with the management, and having been misled as to the financial condition of the establishment, he made a proposition to buy or sell, and the latter was accepted. He then associated with him a book binder by name I. Risteau 344 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. Amos, under the firm name of Johnston & Amos, book binders and job printers. In the year 1867, this firm was induced to commence the publication of a temperance weekly paper called the Home Visitory, edited by Mrs. Ada Gregg, grand secretary of the grand lodge I. 0. G. T., of West Virginia. After a life of some four months this undertaking had to be abandoned for lack of support. In the year 1868, Mr. Amos disposed of his interest in the firm to Mr. Alfred Glass, of Wellsburg, W. Va., and the business of the firm was carried on under the firm name of Johnston, Grass & Co., who did a good business in the jobbing line for a time, that is until they conceived the idea of publishing an evening paper, which paper was started under the name of the Evening Commercial. This evening paper had the same fate of every effort of the kind ever made in Wheeling. After a short existence it had to- be abandoned for want of support. Late in the year 1868, Mr. Glass wishing to sell his interest, his proposal was accepted, and the business was conducted under the firm name of of W. J. Johnston, and so continued until April I, 187o, when our subject consolidated his plant with the Wheeling Register, taking an interest in the firm of Lewis Baker & Co., in payment for same. On entering this firm he was assigned the position of manager of the job department, and contractor for all book and job work, which position he still holds. Representing said firm he. was West Virginia state printer and binder from January, 1877, to January, 1879; state printer, binder and contractor for furnishing the state with paper and stationery, from January, 1879, to January, 1881; state printer and binder from January, 1881, to January, 1883, and representing the West Virginia Printing company, state binder from January, 1889, to January, 1891. He was married September 7, 1865, to Sarah H. Thompson, daughter of Alex Thompson, deceased, of Wheeling, who died November 16, 188o, leaving five children, viz.: John T., now foreman of the Wheeling Register Book Bindery; Mary Belle: Robert D., Jane and Sarah. Mr. Johnston was again married November 26, 1884, to Mary Adela Turner, daughter of Alexander Turner, one of Wheeling's most prominent pioneer Wholesale grocers, and founder of the now prosperous Wheeling firm in that line of Messrs. Neill & Ellingham. H. F. Jones, of Wheeling, W. Va., was born in Brooke county, that' state, March 10, 1843, the son of Isaac and Eliza (Faulk) Jones. The subject of this mention left Brooke county in 1852, the family removing to Martin's Ferry, Ohio. There he passed the remainder of his childhood, and his youth until he had attained the age of nineteen years, when he enlisted in Battery D, First West Virginia light artillery, with which he served from 1862 until the close of the war. After the restoration of peace he came to Wheeling and found employment with the firm of Chapman & Co., founders, as salesman in their warehouse, and later for six months as traveling salesman. In the latter capacity he served with D. Lynn & Co., successors of the former firm, until about 1871, after which, until 1879, he was engaged with Joseph Bell & Co., in the same work. In 1872 in partnership with his brother, OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 345 J. H., Mr. Jones established the business which is still conducted under the firth style of Jones Brothers, and since leaving the road he has given this his personal attention. The firm manufactures and deals in tinware, and has an extensive trade in stoves, cutlery, etc., ranking among the successful and prosperous business concerns of the city. Mr. Jones possesses an extensive business acquaintance, on account of his former commercial occupation, and is everywhere highly esteemed. At home he possesses the confidence and regard of the community. He has taken part in municipal affairs as a member of the water board since 1887, being elected in that year and re-elected in January, 1889. Mr. Jones is a member of Virginius lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F., and Abrams encampment, No. 1, of the same order, of Alpha lodge, Knights of Honor, and of Sheridan post, No. 86, G. A. R. In 1872 Mr. Jones was married to Anna P., daughter of E. J. Stone, deceased, formerly a prominent business man of Wheeling and member of the dry goods house of Stone & Thomas. To this union three children have been born. One of the most prominent financiers of Wheeling is Mr. John J. Jones, cashier of the Exchange bank. Mr. Jones is a native of Belmont county, Ohio, and came to Wheeling in 1863, three years later he entered the First National bank, now the Bank of the Ohio Valley. He continued with this institution until .1871, when be became connected with the Exchange bank as its cashier, a position he has since held. Aside from the banking business Mr. Jones is prominently identified with several other extensive manufacturing concerns of Wheeling and vicinity, being a large stockholder in the same. In his relations to the community through this the largest banking house in the state, Mr. Jones has always held the reputation of being a financier of great ability and of strict integrity. Few men can hope, at his age, to attain to such a desirable position, and to such a lofty place in the esteem of the citizens of as large a city as Wheeling. Nothing but ability and probity could have placed him where he is. Henry Juergens, a respected citizen of Wheeling, has been engaged there in the retail grocery business since 1875, and occupies a high rank among the business men of the city. Mr. Juergens was born in Fuerstenberg, Germany, July 12, 1832, and is the son of Leopold and Sophia Juergens, the former of whom died in Germany in 1851. In the next year the mother, with seven children, Leopold, William, Henry, Louisa, Charlotte, Charles and Arnold, came to America, whither the eldest son, Bernard, had preceded them in 1848, and the eldest daughter, Sophia, with her husband, Frederick Knabe, in 1855. The mother and the children; who accompanied her, settled at Wheeling, where she died in May, 1869. Mr. Juergens had learned the trade of carpentry in his native land, and he followed that in his new home, until November 6, 1874, when, while employed in a planing-mill, he lost his left arm. In the following April he embarked in the grocery business, to which he has since given his undivided attention. He was married October 23, 1859, to Bernardine Regina Ritter, a native of Germany, and daughter of Andrew and Mary Do- 346 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. rothea Ritter, the latter of whom died in 1849. In 1853 Mrs. Ritter, with her father and the other children, Theresa A., Ernestina, Ernst E. and Albert M., came to America, and settled in Wetzel county, W. Va.. where the father died November 7, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Juergens have had eleven children, Ernest L., Louisa M., Henry F., Sophia, Charles A., William F. (deceased), Anna, Emma, Albert (dedeased) , Charlotte and Clara. Mr. Juergens and wife are members of the German Lutheran church, and he is affiliated with the German Benevolent society, and the order of Druids. The Right Reverend John Joseph Kain, D. D., at present bishop of the diocese of Wheeling, was born at Martinsburg, Va., May 31, 1841. At an early age he was sent to St. Charles college, near Ellicott City, Howard county, Md., and made his collegiate course in that noted school, On the completion of the course of study in that institution he passed to the department of philosophy and theology in. St. Mary's university, Baltimore, Md. Throughout the collegiate, philosophical and theological studies, he evinced rare talent, and was regarded as one of the most gifted, if not the most gifted, students in those large schools. He was ordained priest, July 2, )866, and assigned to the mission of Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg, W. Va. When the See of Wheeling became vacant in 1874, the bishops of the province of Baltimore convened to provide a successor to the Right Reverend Richard V. Whelan, D. D. Among the three names submitted to Rome for that exalted office was that of the Rev. J. J. Kain. In February of 1875, the anouncement came that Rome had appointed the Rev. J. J. Kain, and on the 23d of the following May, the new bishop was solemny consecrated in the Wheeling cathedral, honored by the presence of a large number of his brother priests and several Right. Rev. Bishops from various parts of the country. Those of the clergy of the diocese of Wheeling who knew the incoming bishop rejoiced, because it was apparent to them that the choice was an excellent one. In a very brief time all realized the grateful fact that Rome had placed at the helm in the diocese a man of extraordinary fitness; a man thoroughly equipped as a. scholar, possessed of a very high order of administrative ability, and withal having few peers as a pulpit orator. The episcopate of the Right Reverend Bishop Kain for fourteen or fifteen years has more than confirmed these anticipations. Time has proved that in the present bishop the clergy has found a ruler as kind as a father, the church a model prelate, and the people a chief pastor whose zeal, influence and devotedness guarantee their their spiritual well-being as long as it may please God to spare their bishop. Socially, as well as intellectually, the subject of this sketch is a most worthy successor of the illustrious and revered Bishop Whelan, Truly Rome seems to have been partial to Virginia before the division into two states, and afterward in the character of the men placed over the Catholic church,— Bishops Whelan, McGill, Gibbons and Keane at Richmond, and Whelan and Kain at Weeeling. It is doubtful if any two Catholics Sees in the United States have had abler and more efficient bishops than Richmond and Wheeling. Bishop Kain is yet OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 347 a young man. He is studious, industrious, attentive to his duties, able in pulpit and on platform, ever watchful of the interests of his. church, and is highly esteemed by all who knew him. Isaac Kelley, one of the earliest settlers of Ohio county, came to the valley from the east at a very early date in the opening of the country, and being a man of much force of character and ability, was chosen sheriff of Ohio county, at a time when the county embraced all of the territory now divided between Brooke, Ohio, Marshall and Hancock counties. His vocation was farming, and he was a man of -considerable property. His son, John Kelley, was born in this county, April 7, 1784. He followed farming, and also held the office of deputy sheriff of Ohio county, under his father. He married Elizabeth Wilson, a daughter of Adam Wilson, one of the early settlers. She was born at the forks of Yough, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1785, and died December 23, 1859. John Kelley had just passed his fortieth year when he died, May 1, 1824. Seven children were born to them, of whom two are living: John Kelley, who resides near Mansfield, Ohio, and Adam Wilson Kelley, who has for over a third of a century been prominently interested in manufacturing at Wheeling and vicinity. He was born six miles east of this city on January 21, 1815, was reared as a farmer and followed that vocation until about 1847. In about 1853, he removed to Benwood and engaged in the manufacture of nails, as a member of the firm of Gill, Kelley & Co. In 1855 he returned to the farm where he remained until 1858, during which period the firm of Gill, Kelley & Co., at Benwood, failed in business, and in the fall of the year last named, Mr. Kelley leased the nail works and again removed to Benwood, and a few months later, when the property was sold on a deed of trust, he became the purchaser and operated the works on his own account, until July, 1864, when he sold the business and removed to Wheeling. Mr. Kelley was then for a considerable period not actively engaged in any enterprise, avail the failure of the Belmont Nail company, in 1879, when he joined with the other bond-holders, and purchased the works in August of that year. Upon the re-organization of the company he was chosen president, a position he has since held. Though particularly connected with the branch of manufacture just mentioned his enterprise and investments have by no means been confined to that channel, and among his other interests it may be mentioned that he is a director of the Exchange bank and of the Belmont Bridge company. Mr. Kelley was married October 23, 1855, to Anna D. Musser, daughter of Joseph Musser, late of Washington, Penn., and to this union five children have been born, two of whom are living: Alice V., now the wife of Dr.. A. F. Hustead, of Morgantown, W. Va., now of Wheeling; and Wilson I. Kelley, of Wheeling. Those deceased were: Kate, died three weeks old; Cora, died thirteen months old, and an infant not named. Mr. Kelley and family are members of the First Presbyterian, church. John W. Kennen, of Wheeling, well-known 'as an enterprising retail grocer of that city, was born at Wheeling, November 25, 1854, 348 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. the son of Samuel and Fannie M. (Surghnor) Kennen. The parents, the former of whom was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and the latter in Scotland, were married in county Antrim about 1848, and in 1850 came to America, and made their home at Wheeling, where the father died, March 12, 1885, and where the mother still resides. My. Kennen received a good early education in his native city, and then at the age of fourteen years became a clerk in a grocery store, where he continued to be occupied until he reached the age of twenty.; three. During seven years of that period he was in the employment of the late K. J. Smyth. He embarked in business independently in 1877, and in the time that has since elapsed has met with flattering success, building up a prosperous business, and gaining the esteem of the community. Mr. Kennen was married May 27, 1888, to Ida M. Armstrong, daughter of John S. Armstrong, of Wheeling, and they have one child, John A., who was born March 9, 1889. Mr. Kennen is a member of Nelson lodge, No. 30, A. F. & A. M., and socially is highly regarded. John J. Kenney, a well-known citizen of Wheeling, was born in that city March 27, 1854, the son of Patrick Kenney, a worthy gentleman who has served the city for several years as market-master. The latter is a native of Ireland. He came to America about 1846, and after serving an apprenticeship as a moulder at Pittsburgh, came to Wheeling in about 1852, and there has since made his home. He followed his vocation until 1884, when he was appointed market-master of the Second ward market, and held under that appointment until 1886. In January, 1889, he was again appointed to the same position for a term of two years, and he filled the place to the general satisfaction, and with much credit to himself. His management of the office during his first term resulted in larger receipts from the market than had ever accrued before in the history of the city. He has also served a term in the city council, and is in every way regarded as one of the valuable citizens. John J. Kenney was reared at Wheeling and educated in the city schools and at St. Vincent's academy. When about fourteen years of age he found employment in the nail mills, and after working there for about ten years, he engaged in the retail liquor trade for something over nine years. In 1887 he embarked in the brewery business, purchasing the large establishment of Kilian Kress, on the corner of Seventh and Market streets, at the same time associating with himself in the ownership of this brewery Christian Blum. This establishment was built about thirty years ago by Henry Daub, and'is a building of four stories, 66x120 feet in dimensions. An extensive business is carried on by the firm of Kenney & Blum in the production of ale and porter, and there is a great demand for their product which is increasing in quality as rapidly as in quantity produced. Mr. Kenney is one of the prominent young men of the city, and has served the city with notable efficiency as a member of the city council, to the first branch of which he was elected in 1884, for the term of four years, from the First ward. In 1889 he was elected to the first branch for a term of two years. Mr. Kenney was mar- OHIO COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA - 349 ried in November, 1877, to Mary, daughter of Wendel Schafer, and to them two children have been born, one of whom is living. Thomas W. Killeen, a successful grocer of Wheeling, is a native of that city, born July 26, 1854. His parents, John and Bridget (Degan) Killeen, both natives of county Kings, Ireland, came to America, and met for the first time at Wheeling, where they were married in the spring of 1853. A few years later they removed to Benwood, where the father died August 10, 1861. Subsequently the mother was married to Anthony Loftes, whom she survives, now making her home at Wheeling. Mr. Killeen, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest of four children of his parents. He received a good common school education in childhood, and in early manhood was employed as a boiler in different iron works, at Wheeling, an occupation which he began in childhood, and pursued until 1884. On January 27, 1885, he became a member of the police force of Wheeling, and continued in that capacity until February 12, 1889. In the meantime he had opened a grocery store in June 1883, at No. 2901 McCulloch street, which until he retired from the police force was conducted by his wife. Mr. Killeen is a courteous and wide-awake business man, and has a large custom. He is a member of the Grocers' Protective association, is a democrat in politics, and is active in the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He and wife are members of the Catholic church. He was married May 18, 188o, to Elizabeth Rafferty, and they have five children: William, Mary, Anna, John J., and Regina, of whom the eldest is deceased. Mrs. Killeen was born at Wheeling in 1856, the daughter of James and Maria (Casey) Rafferty. They were born respectively in county Longfield and county Limerick, Ireland, and coming to this country, met and were married at New York, in 1854. In the next year they settled at Wheeling, where the father died September 19, 1888. Of their ten children, Mrs. Killeen is the eldest. Michael Kirchner, a well-known citizen of Wheeling, is a member of the firm of G. Mendel & Co., the leading furniture dealers and undertakers of that city. He was born in Bavaria, March 21, 1847, and remained in his native land until he was about twenty years of age, learning and working at the trades of paper-hanging, painting, etc., working mostly at painting and frescoing. In 1867 he came to America and landing at New York came directly to Wheeling, where he found employment in Arbenz's furniture factory in March, 1868. He remained in that employment until January, 187o, after which he worked three months with Bodley & Fraby, but the factory of the latter burning down, he entered the employment of G. Mendel & Co. After he had been engaged with that firm ten years, he was given charge of the furniture department, and in 1886 he was admitted to partnership in the firm. He continues to have charge of the furniture department. Mr. Kirchner is a member of St. Alphonsus Catholic church, and is associated with the pioneer society. He is held in high esteem throughout the city. In 1869 he was married to Catherine Colman, of Wheeling, and to them have been born nine children, of whom six are living.