From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902.

Typed by Carol Taylor Lanza.

Pages 719, 720, & 723

HON. JAMES PAULL is remembered by the older residents of Wheeling and 
of the state of West Virginia as a prominent attorney, a member of the 
legislature, and at the time of his death, May 11, 1875, in his fifty-
seventh year, as a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West 
Virginia.  In this last capacity he had served since 1872.  At his 
death, about six years remained to complete his term of office.
Judge Paull was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and was a son of Joseph 
and Elizabeth Paull.  During the Judge's boyhood his father moved to 
Wheeling with his family.  His three sons, John, Alfred, and James, 
spent the greater part of their lives in this city.  John studied 
medicine, but died in young manhood.  Alfred studied theology and was 
for many years pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Wheeling.  
About 1863 he removed to Philadelphia, where he died in 1873.  James, 
the subject of this sketch, chose the legal profession.  His academical 
education was obtained at an institution located at Crosscreek Village, 
Pennsylvania.  In 1835 he graduated from Washington College in 
Pennsylvania and subsequently studied law in the office of Zachariah 
Jacob, of Wheeling.  He completed his professional studieds by 
attending the law department of the West Virginia University.  During 
the remainder of his life, with the exception of a short time during 
which he had charge of Linsly Institute, he devoted himself to his 
profession.  He represented Ohio County in the legislature with signal 
ability, and in every relation, whether in public or in private life, 
he bore himself with honor.  Upon the adoption of the new constitution 
of West Virginia, in August, 1872, he was elected one of the four 
judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, and was 
serving the third year of his eight year term at the time of this 
death.  His nomination was entirely unsolicited by him, and he was 
elected by a great majority.  At his death resolutions of respect were 
framed and adopted by the members of the Ohio County bar, who attended 
his funeral in a body.

Judge Paull first married Jane A. Fry, a daughter of Judge Fry, 
formerly of Wheeling.  She died, leaving three sons.   In March, 1861, 
he married Eliza J. Ott, a daughter of Samuel Ott of Wheeling.  Three 
sons and two daughters blessed this union.  Judge Paull was extremely 
opposed to ostentation in anything, and his life was characteristic of 
his nature, one of simplicity and kindness.  He was a devoted father 
and husband.  As a young man, he united with the First Presbyterian 
Church, to the support of which he was ever a liberal contributor.  He 
was a ruling elder in this church for eighteen years.

Alfred Paull, a son of Judge Paull, was born October 15, 1854, in 
Wheeling, and was educated mainly at Washington and Jefferson College, 
of Pennsylvania.  At the close of his sophomore year, in 1873, he 
entered the manufacturing business in Wheeling.  In this and in other 
kinds of business he continued until he engaged in his present line, 
that of general insurance.  Mr. Paull is manager for a number of 
companies for the state of West Virginia, and has from 75 to 100 agents 
who report to him.  All adjustments are made and all losses are paid 
from his office.  Mr. Paull devotes his entire time to his business.  
His office has been, for the past five years, at No. 1120 Market 
Street, where a force of clerks is kept busy.

Alfred Paull married Lee Singleton, of Wheeling, a daughter of Capt. 
Thomas Singleton.  Her mother was a descendant of Samuel Irwin, the 
Irwins being an early family of Ohio County.  Mr. And Mrs. Paull have 
two sons and two daughters, as follows:  Mary Irwin, who married Arthur 
Greer Hubbard, secretary of the Wheeling Mold & Foundry Company; Lyde; 
Alfred Singleton, who is attending Princeton College; and Lee, who is 
twelve years old.  Mr. Paull owns a beautiful home at No. 729 Main 
Street.  He served for four years in the first branch  of the city 
council, and was a member of the board of education.  He is past grand 
commander of the Knights Templar of West Virginia.  On July 20, 1901, 
he received the commission of aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, 
on the staff of Governor White.

Mr. Paull is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, in which he is 
an elder.  He has been one of the directors of the Young Men's 
Christian Association since it's organization.  He is director and 
chairman of the executive committee of the City Hospital, with which he 
has been associated since it's organization.  He is also a member of 
the board of trade.