U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Teter, Irvin (1856-1923) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 587-588 IRVIN TETER, born June 7, 1856, at Sunny Valley, Upshur County. Son of Jacob Teter and Catherine R. Loudin, the daughter of Thomas Loudin and Hannah Conley. His mother's death occurred January 26, 1873. His grandparents were James Teter, who died January 20, 1848, and Barbara Reger, who afterward married Peter Zinn, of Barbour County. She was the daughter of John Reger, and her death occurred August 21, 1885. His great grandfather, Jacob Teter, was married in Pendleton County, and came to the Tygarts Valley, and founded there the Teter family, of Western, Va. Jacob Teter, Sr., was the son of Phillip Teter, of Pendleton County. Just how Jacob Teter, Sr., came to settle on the Tygarts Valley River, may be shown by the Virginia Land Book, which notes that a Teter by the name of George owned land on the Tygarts Valley, now Barbour. This was in 1787, and this same book shows that Teters Creek was named about 1783. From these incidents and records it may be possible that there were two families of Teters, and their ancestors in the Valley of the Virginia were known as the Dietricks, the German form of the present name, Teter. The Dietricks came from Pennsylvania to Virginia at the close of the Revolutionary War, and the particular branch of the family we write about emigrated from the Valley of Virginia to Pendleton County, thence to Randolph county, and then Barbour county. His grandfather had six children, whose names were: Infant, Alva; John, born March 19, 1825, married Lucinda McCoy, 1845, and have six daughters and two sons; moved to Kansas in 1865, and upon retiring from business, owned several thousand acres of land, many cattle and horses, and had a good bank account. His second wife was Mrs. Maggie Winn Spillman, whom he married May 16, 1900. John died April 14, 1905. The fifth child of James Teter was Isaac Pearl, born May 11, 1829, married Rebecca Jackson, October 25, 1850. Licensed as exhorter of the M. E. Church at a district quarterly conference held at Mt. Lebanon, October 18, 1851. Two years afterwards he joined the Iowa M. E. conference, was chaplain of the 7th Iowa Infantry, and on the resignation of Rev. I. I. Stuart as chaplain of the Military Hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, was appointed by President Lincoln to fill the vacancy, which position he filled till the close of the war. He was delegate to the general conference of the M. E. Church at Cleveland, in May, 1896, and died March 6, 1900. The sixth child was Granville, who died at the age of eight. The fourth child was Jacob, born May 20, 1827. His life was very active and successful. He was captain of the militia, deputy sheriff under his brother, Alva Teter, and was appointed deputy provost marshal for Barbour and Upshur County. His political faith was Democratic, his religious was Methodistic. He had the distinction of living in two states and three counties, and always living on the same farm. His second wife was Mary S. Knabenshue. He died August 22, 1905. His children were John Alfred, born August 18, 1853, died September 13, 1903; John A., married Victoria C. Post, and their children were Ivy and Icy. The subject of this sketch is the only living son of Jacob Teter, he was educated in the public schools, began farming in young manhood and is a prosperous farmer; owns four hundred acres of good land on Peck's Run, Warren district, and is the first farmer in Upshur county to sell his coal on a royalty, he has just made a contract of sale to the Newcomer Coal Company, of Barbour County, for the coal underlying his land, which will bring him a handsome income and a price per acre estimated at $600. He was a candidate for the legislature on the Democratic ticket in 1906. He married, October 9, 1878, Kate White, daughter of Henry West White and Mary Ann Paugh, the daughter of William Paugh and Mary Loudin, and her only sister married Moses Howell. Mrs. Teter was a granddaughter of Abram White, who settled in Barbour in 1834. and married a Miss Hopkins there. Her sisters and brothers living were: Clarence, who lives in Indiana; Jenny E., the wife of J. M. Conley, who lives at Bowlder, Col., and three dead. Children of Irvin Teter: Jacob Carl, (dead); Clara Rue, wife of T. B. Farnsworth, was born December 16, 1882, and Ralph White, born September 6, 1888, now a student of the Wesleyan College of West Virginia. Mr. Teter and family each and all, belong to the M. E. Church at Reger Chapel in Barbour County, the oldest church in this section of the country, and he has a Bible published in 1753 in Germany and brought over to this country by Jacob Reger, one of his ancestors. It weighs twelve pounds, is brass mounted, and has dimensions of 16 inches long, 12 inches wide and 5 inches thick. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #16852 FULL-NAME: Dr. Irvin Teter BIRTH-DATE: June 7, 1856 BIRTH-PLACE: Barbour Co., W.Virginia DEATH-DATE: December 2, 1923 (at age 67y-5m-25d) DEATH-PLACE: Warren District, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Farmer FATHER: Jacob Teter (born in Lewis Co., W.Va.) MOTHER: Catherine R. Loudin (born in Lewis Co., W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Heart failure & Pneumonia INFORMANT: Florence C. Curry (of Buckannon, W.Va.) BURIAL: Teter, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------