PVT - Co C, 100th Pa Inf. - Enlisted; as Robert Trusdle/Trusdie on the roster; Mar. 7, 1865. Mustered out; July 24, 1865.
From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. pp. 438-439
"Robert TEASDALE. The large volume of business accomplished by the West Virginia Coal & Ice Company evidences the far sighted enterprise of the manager and proprietor, Robert Teasdale. A resident of Wheeling since 1881, he was born in Stafford county, Virginia, June 4, 1845, and is a son of Sydney Teasdale, a man of unquestioned honor and commanding influence in the localities where he lived.
A native of New Jersey, Sydney Teasdale was born in 1816, and removed to Virginia in 1830. He was reared to an appreciation of the dignity and usefulness of an agricultural life, and spent his days in tilling the soil.
In 1863 he settled in Maryland, where he continued
to farm and raise stock, and where his death occurred in 1893.
An uncompromising Abolitionist, he was actively interested in political undertakings, and among other offices of trust acceptably filled by him during his life in Virginia and Maryland, was that of justice of the peace, which he held for several years.
Of a devout nature, he worked and sympathized particularly with the Baptist denomination, and was instrumental in securing the erection of three Baptist churches.
He was twice married; his second wife was formerly Susan
Patton, who was born in Strafford county, Virginia, about 1820, and died in Maryland in 1885. Of this union there were the following children: Robert, of the West Virginia Coal & Ice Company; Charles W., a Baptist clergyman residing near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Monroe Oliver, deceased; Simeon Garrett, a merchant, living near Batavia, Ohio; Loretta (McChesney), living in the District of Columbia; John, also a Baptist minister; and Wesley Lloyd, a ranchman of Texas, who died in 1900.
From the first marriage of Mr. Teasdale there were three children, namely: Lemuel, engaged in the grist mill business at Cincinnati, Ohio; William Henry, who died at Washington, Pennsylvania; and Cooley Austin resides with his brother, Robert.
The mental training of Robert Teasdale was obtained in the public schools principally in the vicinity of Washington, D. C., and into an otherwise uneventful youth came the opportunity to serve his country during the Civil War. In 1863 he enlisted in Company C,100th Reg. PA Vol. Inf., in the Third Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps, in which he served until the mustering out of the regiment July 26, 1865, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The general vicissitudes of war were not experienced to an intense degree, for Mr. Teasdale was neither wounded, captured, nor laid up in the hospitals.
With the return of peace and consequent business activity, he for a time engaged in farming with his father in Maryland, and moved to Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1867. The following year he became interested in the coal business, and has since sought no other field of activity.
In Washington a large retail and wholesale trade rewarded his untiring energy, and upon disposing of his interests there, and moving to Wheeling in 1881, his previous good fortune did not desert him. Some time afterward he was for three years in partnership with George Crumbacker, but in the latter "eighties" he again conducted business on his own responsibility, on the corner of Sixteenth and Chapline streets, in the buildings erected by himself and former partner.
Mr. Teasdale has conducted his business since 1894 as the West Virginia Coal & Ice Company, and is now the sole owner of the large concern. He is able to furnish both lake and manufactured ice, and he carries principally Monongah coal. Six wagons are required for the delivery of these commodities, and goods are shipped and received in carload lots.
While living at Washington, Pennsylvania, Mr. Teasdale married Mary E. Paul, who was born and reared in Washington,
and died January 16, 1897, aged forty-seven years. Mrs. Teasdale left three children, namely: Mrs. Martha Leffler, of Wheeling; Edward, who married Lula McLaughlin, and is employed by the Wheeling Ice & Storage Company; and William, who died in Washington, D. C., in 1900.
The Teasdale residence, at the corner of Fourteenth and Jacob streets is not now occupied by the owner thereof, who since the breaking up of his family, prefers to room and board.
Politically Mr. Teasdale is a stanch Republican, and is socially affiliated with the Shield of Honor, the Tribe of Ben Hur, of which he is treasurer, and the Grand Army of the Republic, J. W. Holiday Post, No. 12. He is a member of, and generous contributor toward, the Baptist church. Mr. Teasdale embodies a high quality of citizenship, and any worthy effort in behalf of the general improvement of Wheeling may be sure of his hearty co-operation and support.
PVT - Co C, 100th Pa Inf. - Enlisted; as Robert Trusdle/Trusdie on the roster; Mar. 7, 1865. Mustered out; July 24, 1865.
From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. pp. 438-439
"Robert TEASDALE. The large volume of business accomplished by the West Virginia Coal & Ice Company evidences the far sighted enterprise of the manager and proprietor, Robert Teasdale. A resident of Wheeling since 1881, he was born in Stafford county, Virginia, June 4, 1845, and is a son of Sydney Teasdale, a man of unquestioned honor and commanding influence in the localities where he lived.
A native of New Jersey, Sydney Teasdale was born in 1816, and removed to Virginia in 1830. He was reared to an appreciation of the dignity and usefulness of an agricultural life, and spent his days in tilling the soil.
In 1863 he settled in Maryland, where he continued
to farm and raise stock, and where his death occurred in 1893.
An uncompromising Abolitionist, he was actively interested in political undertakings, and among other offices of trust acceptably filled by him during his life in Virginia and Maryland, was that of justice of the peace, which he held for several years.
Of a devout nature, he worked and sympathized particularly with the Baptist denomination, and was instrumental in securing the erection of three Baptist churches.
He was twice married; his second wife was formerly Susan
Patton, who was born in Strafford county, Virginia, about 1820, and died in Maryland in 1885. Of this union there were the following children: Robert, of the West Virginia Coal & Ice Company; Charles W., a Baptist clergyman residing near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Monroe Oliver, deceased; Simeon Garrett, a merchant, living near Batavia, Ohio; Loretta (McChesney), living in the District of Columbia; John, also a Baptist minister; and Wesley Lloyd, a ranchman of Texas, who died in 1900.
From the first marriage of Mr. Teasdale there were three children, namely: Lemuel, engaged in the grist mill business at Cincinnati, Ohio; William Henry, who died at Washington, Pennsylvania; and Cooley Austin resides with his brother, Robert.
The mental training of Robert Teasdale was obtained in the public schools principally in the vicinity of Washington, D. C., and into an otherwise uneventful youth came the opportunity to serve his country during the Civil War. In 1863 he enlisted in Company C,100th Reg. PA Vol. Inf., in the Third Brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps, in which he served until the mustering out of the regiment July 26, 1865, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The general vicissitudes of war were not experienced to an intense degree, for Mr. Teasdale was neither wounded, captured, nor laid up in the hospitals.
With the return of peace and consequent business activity, he for a time engaged in farming with his father in Maryland, and moved to Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1867. The following year he became interested in the coal business, and has since sought no other field of activity.
In Washington a large retail and wholesale trade rewarded his untiring energy, and upon disposing of his interests there, and moving to Wheeling in 1881, his previous good fortune did not desert him. Some time afterward he was for three years in partnership with George Crumbacker, but in the latter "eighties" he again conducted business on his own responsibility, on the corner of Sixteenth and Chapline streets, in the buildings erected by himself and former partner.
Mr. Teasdale has conducted his business since 1894 as the West Virginia Coal & Ice Company, and is now the sole owner of the large concern. He is able to furnish both lake and manufactured ice, and he carries principally Monongah coal. Six wagons are required for the delivery of these commodities, and goods are shipped and received in carload lots.
While living at Washington, Pennsylvania, Mr. Teasdale married Mary E. Paul, who was born and reared in Washington,
and died January 16, 1897, aged forty-seven years. Mrs. Teasdale left three children, namely: Mrs. Martha Leffler, of Wheeling; Edward, who married Lula McLaughlin, and is employed by the Wheeling Ice & Storage Company; and William, who died in Washington, D. C., in 1900.
The Teasdale residence, at the corner of Fourteenth and Jacob streets is not now occupied by the owner thereof, who since the breaking up of his family, prefers to room and board.
Politically Mr. Teasdale is a stanch Republican, and is socially affiliated with the Shield of Honor, the Tribe of Ben Hur, of which he is treasurer, and the Grand Army of the Republic, J. W. Holiday Post, No. 12. He is a member of, and generous contributor toward, the Baptist church. Mr. Teasdale embodies a high quality of citizenship, and any worthy effort in behalf of the general improvement of Wheeling may be sure of his hearty co-operation and support.
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