From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 277.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN H. EGGER

John H. Egger, of Wheeling, the head of the well-known house of 
Egger, Warrick & Co., dry goods, was born in Monroe county, Ohio, 
April 25, 1853.  There he was reared and attended the common schools 
of the county until he was seventeen years of age, when he left the 
farm and became a clerk in a dry goods store in his native county.  
Going west in 1874 he remained there two years, which he spent in the 
dry goods business, and returning to his native county he again 
entered the dry goods house in which he continued until 1879, when he 
came to Wheeling, where he took a position as clerk in the 
establishment of Henry Jacobs & Co.  He remained with that house 
eight years, then in 1887, after serving seventeen years, at the age 
of thirty-four he formed the firm of Egger, Warrick & Co., the 
members of the firm being S. B. Warrick and R. B. Roberts.  The firm 
is composed of young men, all of whom have succeeded through their 
own enterprise and devotion to business.  Messrs. Egger and Warrick 
had been clerks all their life, and Mr. Roberts had been connected 
with the nail works, and the capital they invested was the result of 
their savings from salaries.  Beginning business with a full stock, 
they have since increased it over 100 per cent, and though a young 
firm, have already taken rank among the leading dry goods men of the 
city.  Success has met their efforts half way, and their enterprise 
is allowing no opportunity for advancement to go on unimproved 
assures still greater success in the future.  Mr. Egger being the 
oldest son and third child of a family of thirteen children, all of 
whom are living.  Mrs. Egger is the oldest daughter and third child 
of a family of thirteen children, a coincidence rarely to be met 
with.  Of Mrs. Egger's brothers and sisters, eleven are living at 
this time.     


(Linda Fluharty)