Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-05-26
STAUNTON HELPING PiTTSBURG
Many of its Foremost Men We're Former
Staunt0nIans

Staunt0nianS
z Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, is a larg,
D town than StauntOn. Virginia. larg,
Y even than StauntOn and FiShersvil
II both together. But Andrew Carnegi
u H. &. Frick and 39S other millionaire
4 and others have helped Pittsburg VI
y while StauntOn has had to help herse
q and has even robbed herself to bel
y PIttsburg. She has sent some of ihe
d best men there and Pittsburg woul
q not be today what she is. were it,; no
3 tor the town builders that have gon
B there from Staunton, and Staunto
would be better off today than she i
had they remained at home. A Staun
ton man while i'll Pittsburg recently
Z met some of these good men of his owl
4 city among the live and successful
men OF the smoky city at almost every
turn and wondered how many more
J there we're who he did not meet.
Among those were former Judge of
Augusta county and also chairman oi
the Augusta County Democratic Com
mittee, w. A. Hudson. He is one of the
successful men at the Pittsburg bar
where one court or the other is in ses
sion the year round, Judge Hudson is
well equipped for the management of
bis large practice with an able young
attorney, Mr.. Joseph Hawley as his
law partner, handsome three room
office in the st. Nicholas building,
stenographer, and interpreter for bis
star clients, who don't know word
OF English and come to Hudson and
Hawley with their damage and other
suits. Judge Hudson owns a handsome
and convenient residence in asfashion-
able quarter of East st. Louis, one of
the most attractivegin that section of
the city IN the wealthy ward, which
has more milliOnaires in it than any
other ward of the city, said to repres-
ent $4OO 900 900, more it is claimed in
this single ward than the assessable
value OF all the real estate in Virginia.
Mr.. Severn P. Ker, son of Heber
her of Staunton, has been a citizen of
Fittsburg, some 20 years and entering
The service OF, the large Crucibe Steel
companies of the city, has worked his
way up to responsible and lucrative
position, which he fills with ability
and Is high in the confidence of the
management. But surrounded as he
is by his clerks and assistants, Office in
the elegant $5,000,00O, Frick building
does not begrudge the time spent in
dong the courteous and hospitable to |
Staunton men who come his way. Mr..
her lives in comfortable style in his |
suburban home and gives all bis spare |
time and vacations to large fruit and |
stock farm he has acquired in Clarke
county, Va.
Mr.. Heoer Ker, a younger brother,
has been residing in Pittsburg long
enough to be fully identified with the
progress and progressive men of the
city and is doing a lucrative business
10 life insurance patronized by some of
the millionaireS of the burgh He also
resides in hOspltable, nice suburban
home also in Sewickley where Virgin
ians, especially these from Staunton
are at home.
Mr.. Louis Peck, son of Henry D.
Peck, has been In Plttsburg several
years with the great estlnghouse
Company for which his brother, John
went last winter to Manchester, Eng
land, as high official. He occupies a
responsible position with this company
at Pittsburg, and has the full confid-
ence OF the company.
Mr. Thomas b. Lee, another old
Staunton boy, son of the late A. Y. Lee,
so long, well and favorably known in
Staunton, is president of the State
Mutual Telephone company, connected
with and stockholder of another. the
Pittsburg and Allegheny which does a
large city and suburban business and i,
is surveying pipe line for the great
Philadelphia Gas Co. now putting
down line of piping 1873 miles from
Pittsburg to Weston, W. Va. This
company is drawing gas from the neigh
borhood of Travellers Repose, W. Va,
it's wells being, strange to say nearer
to StauntOn than to Pittsburg, as the
pipe runs. Tom Lee owns a sweet
home in West Pittsburg, new SUBJ
urb, away from the smoke and dirt of
the city, Is miles run by trolley where
ne has other profitable holdings. He
is worthy son of his old Confederate
father and is president of the R. E.
Lee camp, sons of Confederate vet
Grams of Plttsburg. We notice in the
Richmond papers last week among the
kilograms of sympathy sent Mrs. Fitz.
hugh Lee, one sent by L. b. Lee in the
name of his camp of sons.
Augustine Lee, a younger brother,
has his home also in Pittsburg. and lis
doing well as engineer of the American
Bridge company, while John Med. Lee,
another son of Capt. A. Y. Lee, has a
good position as clerk and stenographer
of the we'll known law firm of Way.
Walker q Morris, offices in Frick
Building.
Richard Haislip, son of r. D. Hais.
lip, though only two years in the city
has worked his way into the we'll
merited confidence of the management
OF the Pittsburg Telephone company,
wnere he Is spoken of as industrious
and capable with future well assured.
Young Cecil, from Barterbrook, a
son OF Mr.. L G. Cecil, a promising,
young man, who also two years ago
cast anchor in the great and busy city