From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 674.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


DAVID BONAR

David Bonar, a well-known citizen of Meade district, Marshall county, 
was born in that county May 21, 1849. He is the son of John Bonar, a 
native of Virginia, who was an industrious and prosperous farmer, and 
active in various ways as a good citizen.  He was a trustee and class 
leader of the Methodist Episcopal church for a period of more than 
seven years.  After a life of fifty-nine years in which, since youth, 
he had not experienced a day's sickness, he died in March, 1867, 
after an illness of only eight hours.  His wife, whose maiden name 
was Lucinda Gorby, died in September, 1889, aged seventy-five years.  
To these parents were born eight children, only four of whom, besides 
the subject of this sketch, are living.  David Bonar, at the age of 
twenty years, went to Illinois, and after a year's employment there 
returned to Marshall county, and began clerking in a general store at 
Rosby's Rock, and later at Moundsville.  In his early manhood he had 
received a limited education at Moundsville and in Waynesburgh 
college.  In 1872 he turned his attention to teaching.  Since then he 
taught seventeen terms, fourteen of which have been in Meade, his 
home district, a record without a parallel in the county.  Being 
thoroughly equipped for his profession and naturally endowed as an 
instructor, he has throughout given remarkable satisfaction.  He has 
served as superintendent of schools of the county, from 1880 to 1882, 
with much efficiency, and for two years has acted as assistant county 
examiner.  Politically he is active as a prohibitionist, and he was 
honored by nomination for senator from the second district in 1888.  
Mr. Bonar was married September 20, 1877, to Catherine V., daughter 
of Jehu and Catherine (Yoho) Parsons, of Wetzel county.  They were 
early settlers in that county, and the father served as justice of 
the peace many years.   He died at the age of seventy-one years, she 
at the age of sixty-three.  To their marriage have been born three 
children: Cecil Parsons, John S. and Carl Fisk.  Mr. Bonar and wife 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. 


(Linda Fluharty)