U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chenoweth, Curtis W. (Rev.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Page 357 Rev. Curtis W. Chenoweth, son of William North and Ann H. Stump Chenoweth, was born in Gilmer county, West Virginia. He attended the public schools and began teaching when quite young. So rapid was his progress in learning that he determined to acquire an education, but before going away to school he married Jessie Rider, daughter of Benjamin and Julia Hyer Rider, and he and his young wife attended school for a few months, then he began preaching and was appointed to the Rosedale circuit by the Conference of the M. E. Church. After serving that charge for one or two years, he took work near Buckhannon, where he and his wife for the next five years attended school at the Seminary. Later he graduated with high honors at Harvard University, at the same time filling a pastorate in Cambridge, and after his graduation he held the chair of oratory in Harvard. Recently he resigned all his work and joined the U. S. army and was made Chaplin of the 302nd Mass. Field Artillery and ranks as First Lieutenant. Lieut. Chenoweth descended from Revolutionary stock; his great, great grand father John Chenoweth served in Gen. Washington's army, and on his maternal side his great grand mother Edith Chenoweth was a daughter of Capt. John Skidmore of the Revolutionary army. His mother descended from Major George Stump, also of Revolutionary fame. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Gilmer County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/gilmer/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------