The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-07
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NV ToEK, May 5.-My late letter to
le lSrrLLrGEScrR was dated at larry
own and was mainly devoted to some
fcminisccnccs Of Revolutionary days
occurring at that historic point on tho
Hudson. This letter, as you will pcr.
eeivc, Is dated ut place twenty-five
miles lower down tho river, that is
aometiines spoken OF as Manhattan
Island, but mora commonly known us
Scw York. Hero have pitched my
nomadic tent for some time past, and
tron here 1t has occurred to mo to write
solnc notes in regard 10 some Of tho peo-
spla | have met during my solourn. Tho
Atatc OF West Virginia has not RutIi-
Client number Of representatives here to
form, as in tho case OF several other
ttates. an association, like Ohio for In
Stance, but. nevertheless, shc Is not un.
represented in tho great metropolis,
aud, in course of timc, her colony may
pc largo enough Tor atate association.
AZ present the colony 10 principally
nude up OF former Wheeling people,
aud while 1t Is not particularly numer.
Gus, yet it is OF n character to do no dis.
$predit to the little mother city on the
banks Of the Ohio.
~ g TIE WHEELING COLONY,
- In the order oil seniority OF residence
n scarcely know how l should enumcr-
ate the different members OF this
colony, but possibly Col. William P.
Thompson, president OF the National
Load Company, is tho ranking mem
der, and after him comes, l suppose,
the Rev. David II. Greer, rector OF St.
Bartholomew's Episcopal church. and
then such other members as Alr. John
u Dunlap, editor and proprietor OF the
Engineering M5ga-ine, (onceo OF tho Wheel
ing Sunday Lader), Mr.. David B. Nell.
Eaine, formerly otthe hardware house OF
Greer x Lalug, at Wheeling. now in tho
same business hero at Ill Chambers
Street; Mr.. Archie Mitchell, one OF tho
nwners OF prosperous trade paper
here called the HardDare, q weekly
journal; Mr.. George B. Wilson, q
nephew OF the late DR.. Baird, OF Wheel
ing, whose place Of business as a broker
reproduce ia over in jersey City; Rev.
George Q. McGrew. formerly Of King.
wood. Preston county, W. Va, q son OF
the Hon. James @. McGrew, who once
represented the Second district in Con-
Sgress. and who is Oh assistant horo OF
SBE Greer's at st. bartholomew, and
sJsho WIS once Methodist missionary
an India; Mr.. Richard @. Campbell, OF
sWheeling, who was lately private secre.
tary TO Hon. John W. Mason. commits
Homer Of Internal revenue at Washing
ION, and who Ellis q similar position
nov under Col. William p Thompson,
IN the office OF the National Lead Com
pany, at No. broadway, in the stately
9pile at Battery Place, known as the
Field building.
j. T. Scott &; Co., jewellers, at No. 8
Maiden Lane, soma Of the late J. I. Scott,
whowas in the same business in Wheel
Ing for 40 many years, first as ]. I.
Scott g. Co., aud afterwards rs Scott *
Henuesan. Flo came to New York
fni,cr the war, bringing with him these
Two native boys, who now conduct
largo and prosperous wholesale business
as legacy from their worthy father.
81 Rev. j. Sumner Stone, son OF the late
=. J. Stone Of Stone 8: Thomas, and his
estimablc wifo, nee Miss Kate Elson,
Daughter of Mr.. W. X. Elson. the glass
mi 70 nh p1~ Ii
in Wheeling TO need any comment OF
Smine to identify thcm, have accom-
plished great good hero in their mis-
eion work in, tho slums. Their noble
hacritices do thcm and the city OF their
abirth great honor.
II THE SOFTER SEX.
Possibly there may BIO other West
Virginia aud Wheeling people hero. but
III so have not happened to hear their
names mentioned among those with
whom I havo come in contact, and
9thercioro they will not, sh ould they
sead these lines, feel TINT / have made
Sany Intentional omissions.
d Beside these former male citiz ems OF
Sthe state whom l have enume rated
4there are nnumbar OF ladies, ma rried
tand single, whom might very proper.
ly mention US worthy members OF tho
&colony. For instance, tnerc Ia Mrs.
sarah Patterson, whose popular board
ping house in Thirsy-fourth street Is
headquarters for Wheeling people,
Especially ladies, visiting New York,
sand whore that accomplished Wheeling
3artist, Madame Rolla Mrs. kato Wheat
lammelaberg), makes hor homo most
FOL the time when In this country, and
From whence she departs for Europe
once moro OIL the 9th OF this month.
Besides Mrs. Patterson and her
daughter, Miss Nnrcissa, there are such
other ex-WheeIing ladics as Mrs. DR..
Moore, nee Miss Lucy Wilson, daughter
foi tho late John Z. Wilson, OF the one
stime dry goods house OF Simpson. Wi.
son 4 Hogc, who resides in East Forty
nth street, and who received very
precious little Easter gift this year in
kthe shape Il promising son, and who
looks not q day older than whom l saw
her visiting 4: Miss Jennie Wilson's OIL
the leland years ago, since which time
She has not only become q wife and 4
mother, but an exclusive traveller in
Europe and America.
WELL KNOWN WHEELING LADIES.
Another we'll known Wheeling lady
is Mrs. D. B. McIIwaine, nee Miss
Belle Kelly, second daughter OF the late
General B. F. Kelly, and niece Of tho
late William Goshorn, who resides with
her husband and family Mt tho Hotel
Jefferson, in Fifteenth street, just of
Union Square. They gave up their
home in Eighty.sccond street last fall.
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