From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Page 263  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.


MRS. J. P. TROLL, milliner and dealer in notions, 2226 Market street, is the 
eldest daughter of Edward Plankey, a veteran in the Mexican war and captain of 
the Second Virginia Infantry during the late war. She was born in 1851, at 
Wheeling, and was married last year (1878) to J. P. Troll, clerk to J. L. Rice, 
merchant tailor and dealer in gents' furnishing goods, on Twelfth street. She 
took her early experience in the business with Miss Attie Shankland, at 
Barnesville, Ohio, subsequently engaging with T. T. Sorgler, F. C. Myers, and 
Speyer Bros., on Main street, and opened her present neat store in 1877. She is 
an accomplished lady in her business and enjoys a most desirable city trade 
beside a fair share of support from country patrons.