WOOD COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA 
******************************************************************
Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Pam Honaker
pam_honaker@hotmail.com
May 21, 2000
******************************************************************


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
page 463

Phillip D, Neal,  Wood County


PHILLIP D. NEAl.  During the past thirty years Philip D. Neal has had an 
official and directing part in the management of half a dozen or more of 
Parkersburg's chief industries, commercial and banking institutions.  His 
high place as a business man and citizen ia an additional honor to his 
family that has been of historic distinction in Wood County from the very 
beginning of settlement.

Mr. Neal is a great-grandson of the historic figure, Capt. James Neal, 
founder of Neal's Station, the first block house and center of settlement in 
Wood County from 1807 to 1809, in the latter year was chosen member of the 
House of Burgessess, and from 1800 until the end of his life he sat on the 
bench of the County Court.  His wife, whom he married in 1796, was Ephlis 
Hook, then about  sixteen years of age, who died in 1852.  Sheriff John Neal 
had thirteen children, and several of his sons carried the line of descent 
down to the present generation.

His tenth child was George B. Neal, who was born February 2, 1816, and died 
December 24, 1892.  He spent all his life at Parkersburg, where he was owner 
of a wharf boat and widely known in the river traffic.  He was a member of 
the Episcopal Church, a democrat, and while he never attained wealth he was 
highly respected.  He married Caroline McKinley, a daughter of William 
McKinley, of an old time family of Weston, West Virginia.  She died in 1897. 
  Her children were Eva, widow of W. W. George; Annie, wife of Dr. N.L. 
Guice; Phillip D.; Bettie, wife of Dr. George S. Bowles; Georgie M., 
deceased wife of Doctor Carr; Edward who died in infancy; and Emma, Mrs. 
W.C. McConaughey, of Parkersburg.

Philip Doddridge Neal was born at Parkersburg October 11, 1865.  He was 
endowed with sound inheritance, had an aptitude for business, was well 
educated in public and private schools, and his first regular employment was 
a a runner for the Parkersburg National Bank.  He was with the institution 
five years, then became bookkeeper for the Consumers Coal & Mining Company, 
and in 1899 organized the Citizens Coal Company, of which he became 
secretary and manager and of which he is now vice president and treasurer.  
Mr. Neal in 1895 organized and became secretary and general manager of the 
Parkersburg Chair Company, and is now president and treasurer of the 
industry.  He also organized as a subsidiary of the Citizens Coal Company 
the Citizens Concrete Company.  For several years he was president of the 
wholesale grocery house of Shattuck & Jackson Company, a vice president of 
the Citizens National Bank, and from time to time connected with other local 
organizations.

Mr. Neal is a Knight Templar York Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, 
and a charter member of the Rotary Club.  He is a member of th Episcopal 
Church.  In 1897 he married Miss Daisy Shattuck, daughter of Charles and 
Annie Shattuck.  There three children are:  Caroline McK., born in 1898; 
Phyliss Shattuck, born in 1899; and Annie Shattuck, born 1902.