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Nease, S. M. (b. 1868)
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Men of West Virginia, Volume II
Biographical Publishing Company
George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
Chicago, Illinois, 1903

Pages 573-574

S. M. NEASE, president of the Frank Glass Company of Wellsburg,
Brooke County, West Virginia, and one of the town's substantial and
representative citizens, was born March 5, 1868, in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, and is a son of H. B. and Jane (McElroy) Nease, both
of whom were born in Pennsylvania. The mother died May 17, 1899.

The Nease family is an old one on American soil and one member
distinguished himself in the War of the Revolution. Harman Nease,
the great-grandfather, was born on the first island in the
Susquehanna River, below Harrisburg. He learned the carpenter trade
at Germantown. Pennsylvania, and secured work on the repairing of
Fort Duquesne, driving to Pittsburg with a four-horse team in order
to reach his destination. He made Pittsburg his home and there his
son David was born and engaged for a long period in a sawmill
business in combination with boat building. Both David Nease and
his father died in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, the latter at the
age of 84 years and the former aged 67 years.

H. B. Nease, father of our subject, was born in Steubenville, Ohio,
and for a long period was successfully engaged in an extensive
lumber business in Pittsburg and at Saginaw, Michigan. He now
lives, retired from activity, in Wellsburg and is financially
interested in the glass business. His family consisted of five
children, namely: Clara, deceased: Mary Emma; David A., president
of the Coal River Coal Company: Anna Bell, wife of Benjamin Moore
of Chicago; and S. M., of this sketch.

S. M. Nease spent his boyhood in the busy city of Pittsburg and
there received an excellent education. His business instincts were
developed with his father in the lumber business, and he did much
traveling through Michigan in the interests of the same business.
In 1899 he moved to Wellsburg to engage in the glass business,
securing a controlling interest in the Frank Glass Company, which
was incorporated in 1896, with Mr. Nease, president and treasurer
(since 1892); M. D. Galbreath of Saline, Ohio, as secretary; and
James Frank, of Wellsburg, vice-president and manager. They are the
exclusive manufacturers of Meyer's patent closure device for jars,
etc., an arrangement by which the can can be made air-tight without
the rubber coming in contact with the contents of the can. It is
the only all-glass can in the market. The house makes a specialty
of preservers' and packers' glassware, and they give employment to
about 200 men. In the spring of 1903, the Nease-Meyer Glass Company
was incorporated. It is planned to build a large factory at Weston,
West Virginia, which will be in operation by September 1, 1903.
Employment will be given to about 230 persons.

On June 14, 1892, Mr. Nease was united in marriage with Katherine
E. Perrine, of Pittsburg, and their two children are: Sarah
Josephine and Samuel M., Jr. Mr. Nease has other business
interests, one of these being the Monarch Iron & Steel Company of
Parkersburg, of which corporation he is president. He is a young
man of great business ability and is well and widely known in his
section of the State.

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