From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E. J. Heinemann 
 
p. 634 
 
THEODORE G. CUPP, a cornice and sheet-metal worker, and general manager  
of the Wheeling Roofing & Cornice Company, was born in Somerset county,  
Pennsylvania, November 16, 1865, and is a son of Eli and Elizabeth  
(Miller) Cupp, also natives of Somerset county. 
    In the vicinity of his residence in Somerset county, Eli Cupp is  
regarded as one of the most worthy of the pioneer settlers, and no one  
understands better than he the trials and deprivations incident to  
crude and undeveloped conditions of existence.  Upon the old homestead  
which he has witnessed the struggles for a maintenance of this  
courageous early settler and his wife, their declining years are being  
spent, in peaceful retirement from active participation in farm work.  
At the age of seventy-three years, they are still in possession of  
unimpaired faculties, their longevity being inherited from sturdy  
ancestors, who exercised their activities in the state of Maryland.  
The maternal grandfather served in the War of Revolution, and lived to  
be ninety-eight years of age.  Eli Cupp and his wife are stanch and  
active members of the English Evangelical Lutheran church, and are well  
known for their moral and humanitarian principles.  Of the five  
children born into their family but two survive, and of these, John W.  
lives on the old homestead in Somerset county, having married Anna  
Pickins, a daughter of Judge Pickins. Five children are the result of  
this union: Webster; Franklin; Vernon; Robert; and Howard.  The  
deceased children of Eli Cupp were: Lucy Ellen, who died in 1875, at  
the age of five years; Edwin M., who married Mary Bittner, and died at  
the age of thirty-three years; and Sarah, who became the wife of  
Gabriel Good, and died in July, 1891, at the age of fifty years. 
    After completing his study in the public schools of Somerset 
county, Penna, Theodore G. Cupp traveled extensively through different  
states of the country, and, being a keen observer of men and events,  
accumulated a valuable store of general information.  In 1894, he came  
to Wheeling and embarked in his present business with J. F. Agnew; in  
1900, in partnership with G. C. Jansen, A. J. Wagener and A. A.  
Horcher, he bought out Mr. Agnew.  These men constitute a corporation,  
the Wheeling Roofing & Cornice Company, which has in preparation plans  
to increase its facilities for manufacture, and in the near future the  
company will be able to place on the market cornices, roofing, tar felt  
paper, galvanized iron, and other commodities of a similar nature. 
    The marriage of Mr. Cupp and Mrs. Theresa Reynolds occurred October  
20, 1896, Mrs. Cupp being a daughter of George J. and Christina (Wink)  
Lang, and the widow of Joseph Reynolds, by whom she had two  
children-Clara and Joseph.  Mr. Reynolds died January 29, 1893, at the  
age of thirty-two years.  George J. Lang was born February 17, 1841,  
and died October 29, 1899.  By occupation a stone cutter, he but  
followed the example of his father, Joseph J. Lang, who was born in  
Germany and came to America in the early "thirties".  George J. was the  
fourth child in his father's family, and his twin sister, Theresa, is  
also deceased.  Mr. Lang came from one of the very old families of  
Wheeling, for when he arrived there was but a dim prophecy of the  
Wheeling of today.  He assisted Bishop Whelan in putting the top stone  
on the beautiful cathedral on Eoff street.  With his three brothers, he  
was famous as a stone cutter, the four brothers having a special gift  
in this line of work.  He was a most kind and amiable man, and was ever  
ready to relieve distress wherever found.  Mrs. Cupp is the oldest in a  
family of 11 children, viz., Theresa; Joseph C., who married Elizabeth  
Goldbaugh, and is a roller in the Whitaker Mill; George G., who is a  
cigar maker, married Elizabeth Herbig, and has six children, namely:  
David C., George A., Mary L., Catherine, Edward and Hilda; Andrew J.,  
who works in the Whitaker Mill; Magdelena, who is at home; Charles A.,  
who is a painter; Mary C., who is a saleslady at the Bon Ton; Francis  
W., who works at the tin mill; and Elizabeth, Catherine and Margaret,  
deceased.  The mother of Mrs. Cupp was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, June 10,  
1843, and came to Wheeling in the "sixties."  Mrs. Cupp was educated at  
a Catholic school, and after finishing her education clerked for seven  
years for Andrew J. Roth.  For a year and a half she was with the same  
firm in Chicago.  She is a woman of culture and tact, and understands  
the art of creating a happy home.  Mr. And Mrs. Cupp have hosts of  
friends in Wheeling, and are esteemed for their hospitality, good  
fellowship and warm sympathy.