The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-07

OF INC faclhc Mills, Wheeling, who with
nor prosperous and rapidly rising hus-
band. aud her three interesting little
children, have beautiful home al En-.
glowood, New Jersey, whore they live Il.
neighoora and on visiting relations
with tho Hon. William Waller Phelps,
iato mIiiistor to Germany. who has n
nlanofiaI estate at Englowood Of 1000
netes, and WHO is, a, all your readcra
know VINO havo met him at Washing.
ION or IN national conventions, a charm.
ing anu accomplished gentleman.
AN INTERESTING CHARACTER.
Yot another mos. interesting Wheel.
Ing lady is Mrs. Eugene Prayer, nee
Miss Fannie Wilson, a native Of Clarks.
burg, but not many yoars ngo resident
oil wheeling, whose husband was for.
merry associated horc In tho practice OF
law with Congressman Warner, aud
whose mother 10, In point Of years, tho
Oldest representative OF Wheeling in
th's CITY, having been born there In the
yoar lSOo In tho thon village OF North
wheeling. The venerable lady IL tho
daughter OF tho lato Joseph Caldwell, OF
Caldwelpo Run, South Wheeling, and Il
sister OF the late A. i. Caldwell who
dled ut his homo OIL tho Island a year
or 90 ago, aud, all in all, sho ia tho most
remarkable woman OF her ago l have
eVor mot Romarkablo in tho fact that
sne mas really never been sick in hor
ille-1ncver, as abe says, having had so
much rs q he0dache-and remarkable
also IN hor total exemption from tho
mental inhrmltics OF age. She never
gooa out OF tho house from
ono yoar's end to tho other, yet Is al.
ways well and always bright and cheer
iul reads until far into tho night and
riaos corrcspoudingly late in tho morn.
ing, and sitting in her chair cnn enter.
tain you by tho hour in regard to
wheeling, Clarksburg and other
Wost Virginia places, and In regard also
to matters historical, literary and polit-
icai, evening alter evening. To mo abe
is simply marvel. Like tho great law
giver OF Israel, cher eye is not din nor
her natural force (of mind abated," and
really her eye is the fullest and bright
est l ever saw in person of her great
ago, and in its fire and lus.ro reminds
inc not little Of Gladstone's wonderful
orbs.
There Ia also m other venerable
Wheeling lady in New York in the per.
son OF Mrs. Elizabeth PAUL Mitchell,
who resides with hor daughter, Mrs.
George W. Carr, nco Miss Julia
Mitchell, at No. l27 West Seventy
seventh strcct, and she too, rs many OF
the readers know, is no ordinary
woman. She is tho grandmother Of
MIR. John r. Dunlap through her first
marriage, and her father tho lato
Archibald PAUL, was one Of the pioneer
iron men OF Wheeling,
COL. THoMrSoN's SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
With the names OF most OF these colo
nists many OF your readers are more or
less familiar, and with the names OF
Col. Thompson and Row. DR.. Greer it
may be assumed that they arc especi-
ally familiar. No two pilgrims from
Wheeling. ut any time in the history OF
the city, so far as l can recall, have
achieved moro decided success in life
in their respective fields. well re.
member tho colonel as young man in
Wheeling. beginning life as n newly
tledged lawyer Mt tho llme was setting
out on the 1STELLIGEScER, and many OF
the citizens OF Marshall county will re-
cal! him as the subsequent embryo
farmer who reversed the Scriptural for.
mula and beat his plough share into
battle ax, and hied of to tho wars under
command OF Col. Porterticld, at Phil
,ippi. The colonel may have had dreams
OF field marshaps baton in those days,
but l presume he had no dreams what
ever OF the actual career that really
awaited him after wars wild alarming
should be over aud done with.
All that he missed in military
glory and sucCoss he has GER
tuinly more than mado up in
iamo and fortune since the war, first
in tho service Of the Standard OIL
Company and next in tho pres
idency OF the National Lead
Co. There is time in mans
life, as the great Shakespeare has told
us, when an opportunity occurs--per-
haps only one solitary opportunity
which ii embraced at the right no
mont in the right way, leads on to for-
tune, but which, if neglected, all our
subsequent life ia "bound in shallows."
Hence two Of tho notices of tho wise
man OF antiquity were first to discern
Alright an opportunity when 1t should
come, second to embrace it hcroically
and theoretically before it passed away.
1t can be said OF the distinguished
'Wheelingite of whom ain speaking
that he discerned this opportunity
when it occurred and that he certainly
embraced it hcroically, cnergettcally
and successfully, and thus it has hap.
pcncd that in peace md not in war si2.
nal victory pcrched upon tho standard
OF tho Colonel.
REV. On. GREER's POPULARITY AND EMI-
SESCE
And the came thing ia true OF that
other distinguished Wheeling man TO
whom have alluded. and of whom his
other former townspoople are, without
distinction OF sect or creed, all proud,
the Rev. David Ii. Greer, whose VEN
cradle father is still the senior member
OF the highly reputable old house OF
Greer & Laing. To him, too, the oppor
tunity came TO make name for him.
self in life, and he, too, was fully equal
to it, aud hence at fifty years OF age,
after only six years Of residence here,
he stands foremost, il not first, among
the Episcopal clergy OF New York. This
prc-eminencc did not occur to MIN acct
den,ally, but was hewn out by years of
activity, study and discipline all along
his previous pathway, beginning as q
boy At tho Wheeling schools and con-
tinuing on as a student at Washington,
Pa, and Mt Berlin. in Germany, and at
the Theological Seminary ut Gambler,