West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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' Ai. -iniaiis is his couiilrv Imnic near ' lK■clin known as Waddington. Tlcre he has about .mc ihuusaiid acres of the hill land of West Virginia which he has wonderfully imi)roved and which he is using to demon- strate the possibilities ot ' agriculture in West Virginia. On his farm he has a splendid summer home in which he and his estimable wife tind great delight in disjjensing a charming, elegant but delightfully simple liospitality. Mr. Ogleljav has .shown his interest in agriculture not only in his own sucessful farming, but he has most generously furnished the means with which to build at i ' .ethany College, his Alma Mater, a building for agriculture and domestic science, and he has besides purchased the old .Ckxander Campbell farm, equipped it with a splendid barn and other needed buildings, and turned it over to the college for use in agricultural instruction. In 1910. Governor Glasscock appointed Mr. Oglebay a member of the State Board of Regents. Tie has been a most valuable member of the Board, bringing into it his splendid business ability and his con- tagious enthusiasm for agricultural education. Ir. Oglebay is the friend of all things that are good and true, and the class of 191 4 is proud to dedicate to him this number of the Monticola.

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•Si.- i ' jf Earl William Oglebay . W ILl.lAM U ■ l.l B. ■. altlKuiul) a West ir ,Mnian by residence is an Oliiuan In Ijirih. His liirlli place was Bridgeport, Ohio, and he is the son of Crispin and Caro- line Scott Oglebay. Mr. Crispin Ogieiiay, with his family moved to W heeling. . a. at the close of the Civil war and became actively engaged in the iron, steel, and whole- sale grocery business, with incidental interest in banking, lie remained in Wheeling until his death in 1876. The maternal ancestry of . lr. Oglebay is of some special intcr- t,, jK-, ,pl c ac(|uainted with ' the early history of Morgantown. in that his maternal grandfather. .Moses Rhodes and grandmother. Nancy Mar- tin were married at .Morgantown in 1802. .Moses Rhodes was descended from Kuglish Onakers who moved into what is now Hardy county. West irginia. many years before the Revolutionary war: but, being ijuakcrs. thev have no war record. Moses Rhodes moved to Bridge- port. Ohio, in 1800. to which place he took his bride with her own slaves Nancy Martin was the laughler of Jesse .Martin and Hannah Scott .Martin. Her grandfather, Charles Martin, commanded a fort in Revolu- tionary times near the present city of Morgantown. built as a defense for the whites against the Indians. Charles Martin was a irginian coming into this section from . lbemarle county about 1770. At his house in 17S4 was organized the first .Methodist Ei)iscopal church in irginia. He was sheriff of .Monongalia county at the time of his death in 1790. a pul)lic ])osition which, at that time signified the very high standing of its incumbent. David Sett, maternal grandfather of Nancy .Martin, served as a Captain in Dunmore ' s war and rendered other public service in his time. In 1785 he was appointed one of the board of trus- tees to lay out the city of Morgantown. Mr. ( )glebav was given his elementary education at the school of II. Wilson Harding at Wheeling, ami the Kenwood school, at New Hrighton, Ta. His college education was received at Bethany, West a.? that historic, classical school of the I ' an Handle on the banks of tlu- old Buffalo . He was married in 1881 to Miss . ally I ' aull Howell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .A. .Mien Howell, of Wheeling. Mr. Oglebays earlTer business career was a ; a nienil)er of the firm of C. Ogleb.ty i : Sons, wholesale grocers at Wheeling. He later became interested in the iron and steel business. I ' or twenty-five years he has been a mem- ber of the firm of ( )glebay Norton and Company, of Cleveland. Ohio, engaged in the mining an l sale of Lake Superii r iron ore. He has been enunentlv successful as a business man and has amassed a handsome fortune. He is President of the National Bank of West irginia at heeling. Director of the Wheeling Steel and Iron Company, and was a directo ' r of the Bellaire Steel Company, Wheeling, until it was sold to the United States Steel Corporation. Of peculiar interest to West Vir- 30637

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. ' ■CW- - -it-.A Co nil U)t)o tinlir nt Ijrart tlir brsirr for a better mil) grrntrr (LiUst Ihr gmia. greetings.