President in 1876. He was 28 years old. Time the that opportunity that people were getting into iron and deal in coal and iron ore and realized where the future was, and that is when he decided to get fully involved and opening up working with iron ore mines. In 1881 when he was 31 years old, he was married to sally howell. Her parents were involved in a lot of the banking industry. She lives down the street from him. He and sally were happily married for many years. He passed away from whooping cough. During the time they were married they had one daughter, named sir reda, spanish for little sarah named after her mother. He was the love of her life she was lovely, told, much taller than the average woman. Because you saw a lot of opportunity with iron or being one of the principal ingredients in making steel, you saw the plants were opening up. He located to cleveland. That is where the business was. They lived on euclid avenue. One of the nextdoor neighbors was john d rockefeller. Al
He was on this mission to be a great humanitarian. Mr. Oglebay died in 1926. I think because he was a wealthy man, a very famous man in this area, people did not know him on a personal basis very well. He was very formal when he was out. I think that people are very grateful that he left his land to the city of wheeling to become a park. I think it was an amazing gift. Very generous. It was nice that the family did not quibble with any of this. They thought this was a great gift. When mr. Oglebay passed away in 1926 at the age of 77, his wife of course had predeceased him, they had the daughter sarita and her husband, and they supported it so much that they paid the taxes here until the city accepted it as a gift. It took two years for the city to accept this gift. People were reluctant because of the responsibility. But they accepted in 1928. And then, of course, it was named oglebay in his honor. Waddington farm was then named oglebay. I think of the park is a great heritage today. P
They will be perfectly fine for many, many years. Beginning in the 1890s, there was a concerted effort to find and collect West Virginias remaining civil war battle flags. During that decade they collected these flags. At the time, they did not know how to preserve them. Some of them used chemicals that were detrimental to the flags. But for over six decades these flags set in dark storage. They did not see light at all until we could figure out how to conserve them, how to repair them, and how to put them in these climate controlled cases. So, they have been conserved. They have been restored as much as possible. What is left will be there for many generations to come. But to be beside a flag, to be in the presence of that object is to be in the presence of the past, because this is that tangible, real connection people can have to the past. All weekend, American History tv is featuring wheeling, West Virginia. The city was the first state capital of West Virginia after it seceded fro
Grocery industry. He was involved in nails which was a big big thing in wheeling. Whealing made and produced a lot of cut nails. Being low kated on the National Road and with the river, which was a major highway and, also with the railroads, cut nails were used to produce and to produce and make all the things out west. So this was an important part of our industry here. At that time, being an industrialist meant that you were an entrepreneur. That you saw the opportunity to make money and knew kind of the connections and the people to work with at that time. And mr. Ogelbee had all of those advantages. When he was a young man, he succeeded his father as a Bank President a a bank in wheeling called the North Western bank of virginia. And he succeeded his dad as president in 1876 he was 28 years old and the youngest Bank President in the united states. And he saw at that time the opportunity that people were getting into iron and steel and coal and iron ore and he kind of realized where