Biographies Index
➤ Wheeling History | ➤ People of Wheeling | ➤ Biographies
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| A | Arkle, Edward A. | 1876 | 1946 | Newspaper man |
| Armstrong, Alexander | 1775 | 1868 | Early newspaper man, built Fulton paper mill | |
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| B | Bachman, Wheeler H. | 1870 | 1932 | Dry goods jobber and financier and a portrait of Mr. Bachman |
| Bagby, Sara Lucy | 1833 | 1906 | Last person returned to slavery under the Fugitive Slave Act | |
| Bates, Charles W. | 1870 | 1927 | Architect | |
| Battelle, Gordon | 1814 | 1862 | Minister, Abolitionist, WV Constitutional Convention Delegate | |
| Beltz, John W. | 1861 | 1932 | Manufacturer of building materials and contractor | |
| Bennett, Louis, Jr. | 1894 | 1918 | WWI Flying Ace | |
| Berry, Charles H. | 1825 | 1889 | Rope and cordage manufacturer and merchant | |
| Berry, Chu | 1908 | 1941 | Jazz musician | |
| Bippus, Edward S. | 1884 | ? | Physician | |
| Birch, John Mitchell | 1851 | 1911 | Linsly Headmaster, City Superintendent of Schools. | |
| Bleakmore, M. M. | 1818 | ? | Lawyer | |
| Bloch, Jesse A. | 1879 | 1951 | Politician and Businessman | |
| Bloch, Samuel S. | 1850 | 1937 | Founder of Bloch Brothers Tobacco | |
| Boggs, Lydia | 1766 | 1867 | Frontier's Woman, Mistress of Shepard Hall (Monument Place) | |
| Brittingham, Jacob | 1852 | 1926 | Rector of St. Luke's church in early years of 20th century | |
| Brues, Hal | 1872 | 1949 | President of water board | |
| Bullard, Dr. Robert Hazlett | 1853 | 1922 | Physician | |
| Burdats, Dr. O. W. | 1870 | 1957 | Dentist | |
| Burke, Walter | 1841 | 1923 | Street car worker since 1860s | |
| Burkett, Jesse | 1868 | 1953 | Baseball Hall of Fame member | |
| Burrus, William | African American Postal Executive | |||
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| C | Caldabaugh, Harry E. | 1879 | 1975 | Engineer and businessman |
| Carey, Dominick | 1844 | 1892 | Contractor: Terminal Railway bridge; killed building Main Street Bridge | |
| Carlin, Capt. John | 1823 | 1887 | Soldier in Mexican War and Civil War | |
| Carney, E. B. | 1852 | 1927 | Proprietor of the Windsor Hotel | |
| Carter, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. | -- | -- | Celebrate their 49th wedding anniversary | |
| Clouse, Harry T. | 1892 | 1956 | Sheriff of Ohio County | |
| Coen, Alexander | 1822 | 1887 | Carpenter | |
| Colmar, Fred | 1872 | 1929 | Printer, newspaper man | |
| Connelley, Martin Luther | 1842 | 1928 | Insurance man | |
| Crockard, John | 1847 | 1916 | Wharf-master, Crockard & Booth proprietor | |
| Curtis, Hannah M. | 1824 | 1904 | Wife of Gen. William Baker Curtis of West Liberty | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| D | Davis, Rebecca Harding | 1831 | 1910 | Author, pioneer in literary realism. |
| Day, Elijah | 1794 | 1887 | Grocer, Public Official | |
| Dungan, Ellis | 1909 | 2001 | International Film Director | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| E | Ebeling, Henry | 1805 | 1887 | Musician |
| Elig, Charles (Chas.) J. | 1863 | 1906 | Carriage maker | |
| Eberts, George S. | 1867 | 1921 | Businessman involved in Richland school district | |
| Ellet, Charles, Jr. | 1810 | 1862 | Suspension Bridge engineer | |
| Ellingham, William | 1837 | 1922 | Pioneer in IOOF and wholesale grocery business | |
| Elliott, W. B. | 1867 | 1957 | Founder of Elliott School of Business | |
| Eoff, Beverly | 1822 | 1887 | Prominent business man | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| F | Faris, Frederick | 1870 | 1927 | Architect |
| Fluty, Beverly | 1931 | 2009 | Preservationist | |
| Franzheim, Charles W | 1853 | 1912 | Architect | |
| Franzheim, Edward Bates | 1866 | 1942 | Architect | |
| Freese, Gene | 1934 | 2013 | Professional baseball player | |
| Frew, John | - | - | Newspaper Publisher | |
| Frissell, John, M.D. | 1810 | 1893 | Physician and Co-founder of Wheeling Hospital | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| G | Garden, John B. | 1860 | 1940 | Wheeling Electric Company |
| Gacioch, Rose | 1915 | 2004 | Professional baseball player | |
| Gee, Harry Walter | 1880 | 1971 | Gee Electric Company | |
| Gilchrist, George R. E. | 1857 | 1940? | Attorney | |
| Girty, Simon | 1741 | 1818 | Frontiersmen, renegade, subject of Zane Grey's frontier trilogy series, Betty Zane, Spirit of the Border and The Last Trail. | |
| Glasscock, Jack | 1859 | 1947 | Major league baseball player | |
| Good, L.S. | 1855 | 1927 | Department store founder | |
| Goshorn, W. S. | 1814 | 1891 | Businessman, owner of last slave returned under the Fugitive Slave Act. | |
| Greer, Joseph | 1792? | ? | Pioneer, soldier, boatman | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| H | Hall, Granville Davisson | 1837 | 1934 | Second secretary of state of West Virginia (1865 to 1867), Wheeling Intelligencer editor, Author of Rending of Virginia (1902) and other books |
| Hall, Van B. | 1835 | 1887 | Businessman | |
| Hamm, Harry | 1923 | 1991 | Journalist/City Editor | |
| Hancher, Charles N. | 1864 | 1945 | Jeweler | |
| Haskins, Dr. Thomas M. | 1859 | 1938 | Doctor, Hospital Director | |
| Hearne, Col. Julian G. | 1904 | 1995 | Lawyer/Army Officer/Songwriter | |
| Hearne, Dr. Lydia Cromwell (Mrs. Julian Hearne) |
1874 | 1961 | Physician and civic leader | |
| Hearne, William L. | 1818 | 1895 | Prominent manufacturer of Wheeling | |
| Henderson, Campbell | 1881 | 1953 | General manager of Wheeling Telegraph | |
| Hoge, Francis Lyell | 1841 | 1901 | City Engineer (Main St. Bridge) | |
| Holliday, Dr. Gail Hamilton | 1872 | 1969 | Teacher and naturalist | |
| Holliday, John W. | 1840 | 1882 | Civil War Soldier and G.A.R. post namesake | |
| Holliday, Mrs. Lydia Wilson "Mother" | 1802 | 1899 | Civil War Nurse | |
| Horkheimer, Morris | 1849 | 1912 | Businessman and civic leader | |
| Howley, Chuck | 1936 | Pro Football Hall of Famer | ||
| Hubbard, Chester D. | 1814 | 1891 | Congressman, businessman, state founder | |
| Hubbard, William P. (Hubbard, Chester D., Hubbard, Dana) |
1843 | 1921 | Statesman & legislator | |
| Hughes, Dr. Eliza | 1817 | 1882 | Physician | |
| Hugus, Wright | 1890 | 1958 | Lawyer and legislator | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| I | Irvine, William B. | 1866 | 1940 | National Bank of West Virginia |
| I | Irwin, William W. | 1863 | 1924 | Businessman and Politician |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| J | Jaeger, Otto | 1853 | 1941 | Founder of Fostoria, Seneca, and Bonita Art Glass |
| Jones, Dr. Harriet B. | 1846 | 1943 | Physician, Legislator, Suffrage Leader | |
| Jones, Harry H. | 1887 | 1974 | Attorney, Civil Rights Advocate, African American leader | |
| Jones, J. McHenry | 1858 | 1909 | Educator, author, African American leader | |
| Jones, Wilbur S. | 1909 | 1977 | Stone & Thomas executive | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| K | Kelley, Benjamin F. | 1807 | 1891 | Civil War Brig. General |
| K | Kirkpatrick, Frank C. | 1873 | ? | Involved in oil development |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| L | Lee, Everett | 1916 | 2022 | Classical music conductor |
| Leighton, William | 1833 | 1911 | Glass manufacturer and poet | |
| Lias, William G. | 1900 | 1970 | Racetrack Owner and entreprenuer | |
| Luikert, Fritz (Jacob Frederick) | 1857 | 1940 | Maker of Unzer-Fritz bacon and sausage | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| M | McColloch, Samuel | 1750/2? | 1778 | Of leap fame |
| McLain, D. B. | ? | 1880 | Pioneer printer and journalist (Evening Argus) | |
| McLure, John | 1816 | 1893 | Steamboat captain and boatbuilder | |
| McLure, John | ? | ? | Merchant and hotel founder | |
| Markell, Harold R. | 1887 | 1971 | Businessman | |
| Miller, Wilbert S. | 1883 | 1944 | Real estate agent | |
| Miller, Eileen | 1921 | 2010 | Educator | |
| Moore, John A. | 1870 | 1951 | Warwood Tool Co. | |
| Morrison, Agnes W. | 1854 | 1939 | WV's first woman attorney | |
| Moses, Marion Theresa | 1936 | 2020 | National Authority on pesticides, physician to Cesar Chavez and Dorothy Day | |
| Moss, Joel E. | 1887 | ? | Founder of J. E. Moss Iron Works | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| O | O'Brien, Tim | 1954 | Bluegrass musician | |
| Owens, Michael | 1859 | 1923 | Glass industrialist and inventor | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| P | Page, William | ? | 1879 | Head engineer on the towboat Nail City |
| Paull, Judge James | 1818 | 1875 | Judge | |
| Paull, Lee C. | 1889 | 1958 | Insurance Underwriter | |
| Paxton, James W. | 1821 | 1896 | Businessman, state founder | |
| Peppers, George H. | 1830 | 1879 | Riverman | |
| Peterson, William F. | ? | 1896 | Business Man | |
| Pierpont, Francis | 1814 | 1899 | Father of West Virginia | |
| Pollack, Augustus | 1830 | 1906 | Wheeling Stogies | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| R | Rainbow, J. S. | 1858 | 1947 | Prominent African-American resident |
| Reilly, Michael | 1808 | 1892 | Wholesale grocer, businessman | |
| Reppetto, Harvey Bender | 1886 | 1940 | Associated with Wheeling Stove and Range Co. | |
| Reuther, Walter | 1907 | 1970 | Labor and Civil Rights leader | |
| Reymann, Anton | 1837 | 1924 | Brewer, Businessman | |
| Robertson, Richard | 1845 | 1928 | Printer, involved in newspaper development | |
| Rogers, Alexander | 1802 | 1887 | Merchant | |
| Rogers, George Jackson | 1876 | 1957 | Attorney | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| S | Sands, Col. George H. | 1856 | 1920 | Retired Army officer |
| Schmeichel, Frederick | 1841 | 1892 | Furniture maker, businessman | |
| Schmulbach, Henry | 1844 | 1915 | Brewer, businessman | |
| Schrader, Louis | 1869 | ? | Court reporter | |
| Schwinn, Dr. Jacob | ? | ? | Prominent physician | |
| Scott, John T. | 1849 | 1923 | Founder of Scott Lumber | |
| Scroggins, Frank R. | ? | ? | Proprietor of White Swan Laundry | |
| Short, John M. | ? | ? | Policeman, deputy U.S. Marshal | |
| Shriver, Gen. W. W. | 1805 | 1880 | Politician, businessman | |
| Simeral, Glenning D. | ? | ? | Printer | |
| Smith, W. C. | 1822? | 1897 | Civil engineer | |
| Sonneborn, Moses | 1855 | 1929 | Businessman | |
| Spears, William | 1816 | 1904 | Businessman, Axle Manufacturer | |
| Speidel, Joseph | 1843 | 1918 | Wholesale grocer | |
| Sprigg Family (Zachariah and Samuel) | Early Settlers | |||
| Stamm, William | ? | ? | Early Wheeling resident | |
| Steber, Eleanor | 1914 | 1990 | Opera Singer | |
| Steinmetz, Christian | 1843 | ? | Box manufacture | |
| Stillyard, Boswell Henson (B.H.) | 1847 | 1916 | Medical Doctor and first African American elected to Wheeling City Council (1913) | |
| Stone, E.J. | ? | ? | Co-founder of Stone & Thomas department stores | |
| Stone, E.J. (II) | ? | ? | Stone & Thomas department stores | |
| Stroehmann, Baker Fred | ? | ? | Stroehmann's Vienna Bakery | |
| Sweeney, A. J. | 1827 | 1893 | Founder of Wheeling Electric, Mayor of Wheeling | |
| Sweeney, Thomas | 1827 | 1893 | Colonel | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| T | Thomas, Ann Prince | 1938 | 2019 | First Black Registered Nurse |
| Thomas, Clyde | 1940 | 2006 | First Black City Councilman and Wheeling Ironmen Football Player | |
| Thomas, Thomas P. | 1827 | 1923 | Grandson of Betty Zane | |
| Thompson, William P. | ? | 1896 | Financier, connected with Standard Oil | |
| Tighe, M. F. | ? | ? | Elected president of the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly | |
| Todd, Dr. Archibald S. | April 10, 1798 | May 1, 1883 | Physician | |
| Turner, William Alexander | 1865 | 1928 | Wheeling's first African American police officer | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| W | Wagner, Edward | 1856 | 1929 | Wholesale Grocer |
| Wemple, Charles E. | ? | ? | Founder of American Stone Co., pulpstone manufacturer | |
| Wetzel, Lewis | 1763 | 1808 | Early Frontiersman | |
| Wetzel, Martin | ? | ? | Brother of Lewis Wetzel | |
| Wilkinson, Nathan | ? | 1889 | Businessman, Civil War commander | |
| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| Y | Yarnall, John Joliffe | 1786 | 1815 | Naval hero of Lake Erie, War of 1812 |
| Young, James Edward | 1926 | Prominent African American Physicist | ||
| Young, John "J.J." | 1929 | 2004 | Railroad photographer and educator | |
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| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SIGNIFICANCE | |
| Z | Zane, Betty | 1765 | 1823 | Heroine of Fort Henry |
| Zane, Ebenezer | 1747 | 1811 | A Founding Father of Wheeling | |
