THE HISTORY OF MARSHALL COUNTY
by Scott Powell, 1925
Contributed by Frank Manning.
ASSESSOR'S REPORTS & COUNTY RECORDS Pages 320-325.
by Scott Powell, 1925
Contributed by Frank Manning.
ASSESSOR'S REPORTS & COUNTY RECORDS Pages 320-325.
ASSESSOR'S REPORT
Of Marshall County for 1860
LIVE STOCK
Number of horses....................................... 2,413
Number of milch cows................................... 1,501
Number of work oxen and other cattle................... 3,686
Number of sheep........................................ 10,002
Number of hogs......................................... 8,447
Value of live stock.................................... $253,063
Value of slaughtered animals........................... 44,944
FARM LAND
Number of acres of improved land....................... 59,136
Number of acres of unimproved land..................... 62,543
Cash value of the farms ...............................$2,499,909
Value of farm machinery and implements................. 58,262
FARM PRODUCTS
Number of bushels of wheat............................. 74,750
Number of bushels of corn.............................. 241,911
Number of bushels of oats.............................. 133,617
Number of bushels of potatoes.......................... 46,634
Number of pounds of tobacco............................ 10,590
Number of pounds of hemp............................... 146
Number of pounds of flax............................... 7,722
Number of bushels of flax seed......................... 675
Number of pounds of silk cocoons....................... 20
Number of pounds of maple sugar........................ 19,520
Number of gallons of maple molasses.................... 1,958
Number of gallons of sorghum molasses.................. 13,954
Number of pounds of honey.............................. 7,707
Number of pounds of beeswax............................ 213
Value of manufactured goods and wares.................. $14,179
ASSESSOR'S REPORT
1910
LIVE STOCK
Number of horses.......... 4,708 Value............. $475,580
Number of cattle.......... 7,786 Value............. 382,560
Number of sheep........... 29,681 Value............. 238,570
Number of hogs............ 2,735 Value............. 51,356
ASSESSED VALUATION OF PROPERTY
1923
Real Personal Board Total
Estate Property P. W. of all
Cameron District.......$3,236,460 $1,356,810 $1,143,644 $5,736,914
Clay District.......... 1,433,970 239,000 1,487,154 3,160,124
Franklin District...... 2,497,390 430,230 1,248,016 4,175,635
Liberty District....... 2,103,960 492,390 2,560,709 5,158,259
Meade District......... 1,771,030 393,789 964,410 3,129,220
Sand Hill District..... 1,205,460 223,620 290,817 1,819,896
Union District......... 7,046,380 3,794,760 4,400,813 15,241,953
Washington District.... 1,895.230 721,170 857,952 3,474,252
Webster District....... 1,868,580 263,420 247,764 2,379,764
Moundsville Independent
District .......... 7,269,140 3,297,860 1,126,591 11,693,591
__________ __________ __________ __________
$30,427,500 $11,214,040 $14,327,870 $55,969,410
Cameron City..........$1,294,690 $1,021,230 $136,317 $2,452,237
Benwood City.......... 3,716,980 3,188,250 3,542,607 10,447,837
McMechen City......... 1,508,680 323,950 602,587 2,435,117
Moundsville City...... 6,894,720 3,141,420 1,093,836 11,129,976
__________ __________ __________ __________
$13,415,070 $7,674.750 $5,375,347 $26,465,167
SALARIES OF COUNTY OFFICERS
The Board of Supervisors, at a regular session held on the twentieth day of
May, 1864, fixed salaries for county officers for the year as follows:
For prosecuting attorney.................... per annum, $200
For clerk of the board of supervisors....... per annum, 350
For clerk of the circuit court.............. per annum, 75
For sheriff................................. per annum, 50
For members of the board of supervisors for
time spent in actual service............ per diem, 2
On the twentieth of August, 1864, the board of supervisors completed the work
of fixing salaries for county and township officers:
For township clerk.......................... per annum, $ 25
For county superintendent of free schools... per annum, 200
For recorder................................ per annum, 50
The county treasurer was allowed three per centum for all county levy.
The sheriff was allowed five per centum of all taxes collected except war
tax. which per agreement with the board of supervisors, was fixed at two and
one-half per centum of all collected.
At a regular meeting of the board of supervisors. held on the twenty-third
of June, 1865, the salary schedule was amended:
For county superintendent of free schools.. per annum, $400
For recorder............................... per annum, 100
For sheriff................................ per annum, 150
For clerk of the board of supervisors...... per annum, 300
SALARIES OF COUNTY OFFICERS
1923
For many years county officials were remunerated for services by fees for such
services rendered with a small salary paid them in addition to the fees received.
The sheriff of the county served also as treasurer. He received five per cent. of
taxes he collected subject to a discount of two and one-half per cent. for taxes
paid in a discount period of one month.
After 1916 all county officers were paid an annual salary, paid in equal monthly
payments. The salary schedule for county officers for the year 1923, as fixed by
the county court or otherwise provided for, was as follows:
Sheriff (and treasurer)......................... $3,500
Clerk of the Circuit Court...................... 2,250
Clerk of the County Court....................... 2,750
Prosecuting Attorney............................ 1,800
Assessor of the county.......................... 2,400
County Road Engineer (new office)............... 2,400
Commissioners of the County Court, each $1,200, with an additional remuneration
of two dollars per day for each day in session as a court.
County Superintendent of Schools, $2,150 and expenses.
At the present day there are many assistants such as deputy sheriffs, deputy
assessor, field assistants, deputy clerks and other assistants at salaries in
proportion to those of the several officers named above.
Fifty years ago, 1873, under the fee system, the salary schedule for the several
officers as fixed by the county court or otherwise was as follows:
Sheriff......................................... $200
Clerk of the Circuit Court...................... 200
Clerk of the County Court....................... 200
Prosecuting Attorney............................ 400
Assessors (two) each............................ 400
County Superintendent of Schools................ 300
Assessors were allowed ten cents for each birth or death reported.
No allowance was made for expenses of County Superintendent.
MISCELLANEOUS
Voting places as ordered by the Board of Supervisors on March 29, 1864:
Cameron Township--Cameron and Terrell's Schoolhouse.
Clay Township--Moundsville and Roseby's Rock.
Franklin Township--Mouth of Fish Creek and Fairview.
Liberty Township--Big Run Schoolhouse and Forks of Fish Creek.
Meade Township--Mouth of Lynn Camp and Gorby & Gufy's Store.
Sand Hill Township--Sand Hill Schoolhouse.
Union Township--Benwood and Chestnut Grove Schoolhouse.
Webster Township--Smart's Store and Cross Roads.
Washington Township--Courthouse and Limestone Schoolhouse.
Meeting Places of the County Court
From June 19, 1835, to April 23, 1836, at a hotel kept by Mrs. Susan Parriott
in Moundsville, then called the Lower Town.
From May 19, 1836, to September 19, 1836, at the county jail.
From September 19, 1836, until the present day, it has always met in a room at
the courthouse.
The County Court, in the year 1858, levied taxes for county purposes to the
amount of $4,473.25.
For the year 1918. the County Court laid a levy for county purposes of $94,438.52.
EARLY RECORDS
The first marriage recorded in this county is recorded in the following letters
and figures:
I, John Parriott, do hereby certify that I celebrated the rite
of matrimony between Alexander Ogle and Mary Ann Baker, both of
Marshall County, on the 18th of June, 1835.
June 19, 1835. John Parriott.
The first deed of conveyance of land recorded in the records of Marshall County
is in the proceedings of the County Court in the following swords and figures,
and certified to by two justices of the peace present at a regular session of
County Court.
A deed from Shipley Martin and his wife Nancy to John Gallaher
for lot No. ____, situated in the addition to Moundsville, the same
being duly certified and admitted to record the 19th day of
June, 1835.
The deed conveyed a lot situated on the east side of Water Street fronting sixty-two
and one-half feet on that street and extending back one hundred and forty-five feet
to a sixteen foot alley. The price paid was ninety-five dollars.
The lot was the one on which a brick house now stands and in which was formerly the
store of Joseph Gallaher, later removed into a frame building at the corner of
Fourteenth and Water Streets.
BREAK IN RECORDS
In preparing this work breaks in the county records prevented complete connection.
Records show that Arthur O. Baker was elected sheriff of this county at a regular
annual election held on the fourth Thursday of May, 1862, to serve a regular
term of two years from the first day of January, 1863. Records further show that
he entered upon the discharge of his official duties at the commencement of the
year and served until some time in the latter part of the summer of 1864. He
enlisted in the United States service and was commissioned Captain of Company A,
Seventeenth West Virginia Infantry, on the second day of September of that year.
Later records indicate that Jackson Reed served as sheriff of this county the
latter part of that year and also the two years following, that is, from the first
of January, 1865, until the thirty-first of December, 1866.
By what authority Jackson Reed served as sheriff for that time, especially the term
of two years, from January 1. 1865, to December 31. 1866, is impossible to ascer-
tain, as no record is found concerning it and it has passed beyond the recollection
of the oldest citizens now living.
No record is found of any meeting of the County Court or any similar body, from a
regular session of the County Court composed of justices of the peace of the county,
held on the 19th of June, 1863, until the first meeting of the Board of Supervisors
on the 26th of January, 1864, nor is there any county record of the results of the
regular annual election held on the fourth Thursday of October, 1863, and it will
be clearly seen that the work was attended with no little difficulty.
POPULATION
By Magisterial Districts
1920 1910 1900
CAMERON, including city, town and villages...... 3,685 3,442 2,350
CLAY, including city and village................ 1,994 1,862 1,807
FRANKLIN........................................ 1,467 1,655 1,957
LIBERTY......................................... 1,487 1,874 2,297
MEADE........................................... 1,224 1,527 1,580
SAND HILL....................................... 969 1,066 1,300
UNION, including cities, town and villages...... 10,398 10,001 7,688
WASHINGTON including city, town and village..... 11,266 9,656 5,986
WEBSTER ........................................ 1,191 1,305 1,479
Incorporated Cities or Towns
1920 1910 1900
BENWOOD......................................... 4,773 4,926 4,511
CAMERON......................................... 2,404 1,660 964
McMECHEN........................................ 3,356 2,291 1,465
MOUNDSVILLE..................................... 10,669 8,918 5,352
1920 1910 1900
MARSHALL COUNTY................................. 33,681 32,383 26,444
