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Monongalia Co. WV
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg 200
Robert Raymond McFall, general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel
Company of Mortgantown, has had an interesting diversity of experience in
business and in educational circles, and since locating at Morgantown has
found ample satisfaction not only for his business energies but for the desires for social and civic service.
A native of Northern New York, he was born in the Village of Naumburg, Lewis
County, January 29, 1884, son of John and Lillian A. (Eldred) McFall, the
former a native of St. Lawrence County and the latter of Jefferson County,
New York. His grandparents, William and Mary McFall, were born in Glasgow,
Scotland, and were pioneers in St. Lawrence County, New York. John McFall
was a carriage maker by trade, and occupation and business he followed for
many years at Naumburg, where he died in 1918, at the age of sixty-four. His
widow is now sixty-two years of age and lives at Castorland, New York.
Robert R. McFall was educated in the Lowville, New York, Academy, and
completed his literary education in Adrian College of Michigan. His first
regular business experience was as shipping clerk for the Beaver River Lumber
Company at Castorland, New York, in 1902. Following that he was paymaster
for the Carthage Tissue Paper Mills at Carthage, New York. During his student career at Adrian, Michigan, he was secretary to the president of the
college. On leaving college he spent one year at Valley City, North Dakota,
as registrar of the State School of North Dakota. He then returned to Adrian, and for four years was registrar of Adrian College and secretary to
the board of Trustees.
Mr. McFall came to Morgantown in 1914. Here he built and managed the plant
of the Barley Foods Company, conducting that business five years. Since 1919
he has been general manager and treasurer of the Southern Fuel Company. He
is also secretary of the Morgantown Wholesale Coal Association and a director
of the Union Bank and Trust Company. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega
college fraternity, belongs to the First Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with the Rotary, Masonic and Old Colony clubs, the Morgantown and
Pittsburgh Chambers of Commerce. February 14, 1914, Mr. McFall married Miss
Lucile Goucher. She was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of
Samuel Boone and Anna (McConnell) Goucher. Her father was descended from the
Daniel Boone family. Mr. and Mrs. McFall have two children: Anna Gene, born
August 8, 1915; and J. S. Robert, born November 5, 1916. |
