From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 280-281.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


DAVID FRANCIS FALLOURE

David Francis Falloure, of Wheeling, who has been prominent both in 
the river traffic and the local business of the city, but is now 
retired from active affairs, was born at Wheeling, December 17, 1829.  
He is of French descent, his grandfather being the first in the 
paternal line to become an American citizen.  His father, Brittain 
Falloure, was born at Manchester, near Pittsburgh, about 1799, was 
married to Louisa Young, who was born at Philadelphia about 1800, and 
settled at Wheeling about 1827.  Brittain Falloure died September 13, 
1844, and his wife March 13, 1887.  Of their eight children, the 
fourth is David Francis, the subject of this mention.  He was 
educated at Wheeling, finding employment at intervals upon a farm, 
and in the glass and rolling mills.  Between the ages of sixteen and 
thirty-three he worked as a riverman, in various capacities, boating 
on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries.  In 1853 he 
crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the old steamer "Fort Henry."  
Abandoning this life he engaged in the fall of 1861, in the 
restaurant business at Wheeling, and a year later made a trip to 
Pike's Peak, Col., whence after four month's stay he returned to his 
business at Wheeling.  For five years he conducted a restaurant and 
confectionery store on Twelfth street, near the McClure House, and 
for three years afterward managed a similar establishment on Market 
street.  For four years, from  1872, he was in the grocery business 
on the Island, and then opened the Opera House dining-room, on Market 
street, which under his management for three years was reputed the 
finest the city ever had.  Mr. Falloure now resides on the Island, 
where he has valuable property.  He was married March 16, 1862, to 
Sarah E., daughter of John and Sarah (Scroggins) Smoot, both natives 
of Virginia, who were married in Noble county, Ohio, where Mrs. 
Falloure was born February 9, 1830.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Falloure are Edwin R., John B. and Etta M. 


(Linda Fluharty)