OLIVERIO, Anthony, Signalman 3c, USNR. Father, Mr. Battista Oliverio, Box 13, Wilsonburg. O’NEILL, Robert T., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert O’Neill, 2714 Moyston St., Wheeling. ORTH, Thomas Albert, Seaman 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Orth, Rt. 2, Shinnston. OSBORNE, Ralph Ohley, Pfc., USMCR. Wife, Mrs. Pauline A. Osborne, Box 26, Ameagle.
PAGE, John Walker Jr., boilermaker 1c, USN. Father, Mr. John Walker Page, Sr., White Sulphur Springs. PAINTER, Thomas J., Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Stella W. Painter, Dothan. PALOVITCH, Steve Robert, Radarman 3c, USNR. wife, Mrs. Sophia Palovitch, 513 Warwood Ave., Wheeling. PAPPAS, Leo Louis, Electrician’s Mte 3c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pappas, 414 Bibby St., Charleston. PARK, William Edward, Seaman 2c, USN. Father, Mr. Claude Jackson Park, 2571 Collis Ave., Huntington. PATTERSON, Alfred Thompson, Seaman 2c, USN. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Taylor Patterson, Box 82, Lorado. PATTERSON, Paul Jesse, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2c, USN. Parents, Mr. and … Read more
YANICK, George, Aviation Radioman 3c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Anna Miskov, Grant Town. YATES, Cecil Clifton, Pfc., USMCR. Father, Mr. Clifton C. Yates, 405 2d Ave., South Charleston. YATES, Junior Harrison, Seaman 1c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Yates, Elkhorn. YOUNG, Carroll Fletcher, Radioman 2c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. F. C. Briscoe, 215 Hunt Ave., Charleston. YUHASZ, Albert N., Sgt., USMC. Mother, Mrs. Mary B. Roth, Maybeury.
CALE, Clarence R., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Cale, Rt. 1, Box 60, Masontown. CAMERON, Donald A., Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. golda B. Cameron, 330 1/2 Laidley St., Charleston. CAMERON, George Junior, Seaman 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Walter Cameron, Rt. 35, St., Marys. CAMPBELL, Charles Leslie, Jr., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Campbell, Sr., Borderland. CAMPBELL, Creed Bruce, Electrician’s Mate 1c, USN. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin Campbell, 1423 5th Ave., Charleston. CAMPBELL, Joseph Herbert, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Lee Campbell, Landisburg. CAMPBELL, Loyd Lawson, Seaman … Read more
WADE, Jack Wayne, Seaman 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Ray Wade, Rt. 1, Mount Clare. WALKER, Charles D., Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Leafy Walker, Powellton. WALKER, Walter C., Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Carrie H. Walker, 12th St., Beckley. WALLACE, Fred C., Cpl., USMC. Father, Mr. Charles Wallace, Odd. WALLACE, Ward Bell, Machinist’s Mate 1c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Wallace, Paden City. WALTZ, Forrest D., Pfc., USMC. Sister, Mrs. Avery F Royce, Kopperston. WARD, Willard Grozy, Shipfitter 1c, USN. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leslie Ward, 433 4th Ave., Huntington. WARNER, William T., Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Delphia … Read more
MAHON, Fred, Radioman 3c, USNR. Father, Mr. Rush Mahon, Ragland. MALLETT, James Edward, Electrician’s Mate 3c, USN. Father, Mr. Harley H. Mallett, Dunbar. MANOWN, Jay Ross, Jr., Lieutenant, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Ross Manown, Sr., 517 Locust Ave., Morgantown. MARCUM, William Elbert, Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vess Marcum, Box 42, Nolan. MARKOS, Manuel, Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs Paul S. Markakis, Box 625, Short Creek. MARSH, James G., Pvt., USMCR. Mother, mrs. Stella Nixon, 41 Long St., Shinnston. MARSHALL, Thomas Harold, Electrician’s Mate 3c, USN. Wife, Mrs. Ida Marshall, Box 244, Marmet. MARSTILLER, Frank Edward, … Read more
CAPT. GEORGE FRY, an old and honored citizen of Shannon County, Missouri, is a native of the Buckeye State, born in Franklin County in 1817. His father, George Fry, was a native of Pennsylvania, who went to Ohio in 1812 or 1813, floating down the Ohio River to the Sciota in flatboats with his family and household effects. He then went up the Sciota where he afterwards located, and there passed the balance of his days, dying when seventy-seven years of age. He was in the Indian War, and was in the battle of Tippecanoe. When he first went to … Read more
William Edward Davis is the youngest state auditor Kansas had ever had and one of the youngest men who ever held such an official dignity in any of the states. It may also be added, to express a general opinion current at the capital and over the state, that Mr. Davis’ administration as suditor had been a synonym of efficiency and economy. He represents that splendid type of young American manhood which had drawn attention by its capacity for accomplishment. Though most of his life had been spent in the Middle West, he was born in West Virginia, and his … Read more
Dallas Sprague has for many years been a resident of Champaign County, and his fine farm and home are located in Compromise Township, in section 8. He is one of’ the best known citizens of northeastern Champaign County and his own record and that of the family deserves a prominent position in this publication. Mr. Sprague is a native of West Virginia, born at Moundsville, on the Ohio River, in Marshall County, twelve miles below the city of Wheeling. His parents, John J. and Jane (Hull) Sprague, were also natives of the same state. When Dallas Sprague was about twenty-seven … Read more
Edwin P. Babb. The Babb family came to Champaign County in 1853. Five years later, at the home of his parents on a farm in North Ogden Township, Edwin P. Babb was born November 9, 1858. His life career has been one of commendable industry and accomplishment, has been liberally rewarded, and for a number of years he has lived retired in one of the comfortable city homes of Champaign. His parents were Milton and Elizabeth (Littler) Babb. Milton Babb was born in Grant County in what is now the state of West Virginia, grew up there, took up the … Read more
William H. Manser, M. D.,had that splendid satisfaction which comes to the man who found himself in a congenial vocation early in life and had steadily broadened and improved his service and capacity for doing good. Dr. Manser is now the oldest physician in point of continnous service at Burden, where he had practiced thirty-three years. Though of New England ancestry, the Mansers having located in Massachusetts in Colonial times, Dr. Manser is a native of old Virginia, born at Beckley in what was then simply Western Virginia and as a result of the Civil war became the State of West Virginia. … Read more
GREEN B. SMITH. – There are few names more widely known among the pioneers of Western Oregon than that which stands at the head of this sketch. Few lives have been more full of adventure. After a long life actively spent among the trials and vicissitudes incident to a frontier life, he finally yielded to the fiat of nature; and, in obedience to the summons that must come to all, he passed over the dark river. His death, which leaves but a comparatively small number of that old pioneer’s phalanx of 1845, who marched two thousand miles across a trackless … Read more
William A. Nelson, a real estate man at Fall River, knows the early pioneer, conditions of this section of Kansas from first hand. He was a homesteader in Greenwood County in the early ’70s. He passed through that trying period when grasshoppers, season after season of drouth, low prices for farm products and other conditions made the lot of the Kansas farmer one hardship after another. He came through it all, gained and still retains a large share of the landed wealth of Kansas, and is a man whose experience demonstrates that there is nothing whatever the matter with Kansas. … Read more
John P. Severin has been actively identified with varied business interests in and around Bendena in Doniphan County for a number of years, and now owned and conducts a farm and stock raising business near that village. Mr. Severin was born at St. Clara, West Virginia, August 8, 1869, and is of Holland Dutch lineage. His father, Frederick Severin, was born in Holland in 1811 and came to the United States when a young man. He chose as the stage of his active endeavors a heavily wooded wilderness section of West Virginia near St. Clara in Doddridge County. He lived … Read more
William H. Smith, of Marysville, is a man with a long and notable record in Kansas affairs. He came to Kansas with his arm in a sling as a result of a wound received at Malvern Hill during the Civil war. His home had been in the state for over half a century, and during that time he had been a pioneer farmer, merchant, public official and banker. A Pennsylvanian by birth, he is a grandson of James Smith, who came from County Tyrone, Ireland, and founded the family in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. William H. Smith was born in that … Read more
Moneton. Meaning “Big Water” people. Moneton Connections. The Moneton belonged to the Siouan linguistic family; their nearest connections were probably the Manahoac and Monacan of Virginia and perhaps Ofo of Ohio and Mississippi. Moneton Location.-Probably on the lower course of Kanawha River. Moneton History. The Moneton were first mentioned by Thomas Batts in 1671. (See Alvord and Bidgood, 1912.) Three years later they were visited by Gabriel Arthur, an indentured servant of the trader Abraham Wood, and this is the last we hear of them as an independent tribe. They probably united with the Siouan people in the Piedmont region … Read more
A leading representative of the building interests, of Boise, and the present register of the land office of this city, James King is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in Pittsburg, on the 15th of August 1832. He is of both German and English descent, his ancestors of those nationalities having settled in New York in 1664. They came with General Braddock and always remained in this land. In the war of the Revolution the family was represented by loyal Americans, who fought for liberty, and throughout many years they were prominently identified with the Presbyterian Church. The … Read more
One of the most straightforward, energetic and successful business men of Lewiston is James N. Stacy, who has also attained distinction in political circles and is now the honored state senator from his district. He is president of the Gold Bar Mining Company, a director in the Golden Gate Company and is also extensively engaged in real estate dealings. In studying the lives and characters of prominent men we are naturally I inquire into the secret of their success and motives that prompted their action. Success is not the result of genius, as held by many, but is the outcome … Read more
John P. Brady. Since he was fifteen years of age John P. Brady had had a varied and extensive experience as an oil worker. He began in his native state of Pennsylvania, and had been in most of the important oil fields of the country. For the past few years he had had his home at Havans, and is one of the leading individual producers in that section. His birth occurred at Parkers Landing in Pennsylvania on June 3, 1876. His people, however, were early settlers of Ohio. His grandfather Barney Brady was born in County Cavan, Ireland, came to … Read more
The self-made man, when he has made a place for himself in the world and installed himself in it, has done as much for the world as he has done for himself. The builder of his own fortunes is an active factor in advancing the best interests of the community in which he lives and flourishes, and every dollar he makes for himself becomes, in a sense, public capital. Such a progressive and helpful citizen is Sanford Evans, of Genesee, a prominent farmer and mill owner, who has done as much for the development of Genesee and its tributary territory … Read more