U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Feather, Karl Ward (b. 1893) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 774-775, KARL WARD FEATHER. The Feather family has been a very prominent one in the Crab Orchard from the first settlement of the county. John Feather, great- grandfather to Karl, married Mary Ervin, and lived on the farm now owned and occupied by Clinton D. Feather, and died there March 25, 1870. The house now standing there was built by him over eighty years ago. The farm is midway between Albright and Lenox, and consists of 285 acres of the best farming land in this part of the state and has been in the family from the time of its exemption. John Feather was Justice of the Peace in those earlier years of that first settlement, and from reports must have been a man of some business and political capacity. His children were: Abraham, Isaac, Levi, Jacob, James C., David O., Joseph, Marcellus, Harrison, John Quincy, Samuel, Equacious, and others not named. His daughters were Lydia N., Catherine, Rebecca, Rachael Virginia, and Louisa Jane. David O., born August 9, 1841, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one time candidate for the sherifalty of the county. He married Amanda J. Albright, January 15, 1869, and died March 16, 1906, aged 65 years. Their only child was Clinton D., born April 8, 1870, and on March 13, 1892, married Annie D. Murray Hayden, daughter of H. M. and Flora B. Hayden. Two children: Karl Ward, born March 18, 1893, and Helen Mable Feather, born April 4, 1896, were the fruits of this union. Karl W. Feather was born and reared on the homestead, and educated in the common schools of the county, graduating in 1910. He is at present in the automobile business at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, employed by the Standard Automobile Company. He was a very successful teacher in Preston county four terms, before going out of the state. --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------