From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Page 273.  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.


WOODFIELD & KLEINHAUS conduct a prosperous and flourishing upholstering business 
at 1058 Main street. Martin Kleinhaus was born in Germany in 1846, and landed at 
New York in 1865. Having learned his trade as an upholsterer, he first engaged 
in New York, with Anthony Bros.; next with Alexander Roux, Herter Bros., and 
several other prominent houses, but in 1874 left there for Pittsburgh, where he 
went with E. Edmundson & Sons, whom he served two years, and then came to 
Wheeling. Here he was employed by George Mendel & Co. for a year and a half, 
when he started in the upholstering business for himself, at his present 
address, which he continued to January, 1879. He then took into partnership Mr. 
J. L. Woodfield; hence the firm style of Woodfield & Kleinhaus, who added 
furniture to the original upholstering branch, and now preside over quite an 
inviting store, also conducting considerable manufacture. Mr. Kleinhaus was 
married in 1875, to Mary, eldest daughter of Vender Miller, of Holland, but at 
that time a resident of Pittsburgh, and by her he has a family of two children, 
girls.