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. 638 
 
WILLIAM F. KLAGES, a successful agriculturist, lives near Elm Grove, in  
Marshall county, West Virginia, and is a son of Theodore and Amelia  
(Behrens) Klages.  Theodore Klages, who was a native of Ohio, at the  
age of thirty-nine years, was taken ill and died of typhoid fever,  
leaving his wife, and William F. to manage their farm of 205 acres. 
     Mr. Klages was born in Marshall county, December 5, 1873, and 
received his mental training in the public schools.  After his father's
death, he assisted his mother on the farm until October 12, 1898, when
he was married to Mary Brosh, born in Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia,  
and a daughter of Charles Brosh, who was born in Germany, and is now a  
very prosperous farmer.  Shortly before his marriage, or on February  
25, 1898, work was commenced on the house in which they now reside, and  
which with 50 acres of  land was given to  him by his mother, as a  
place to live when he married.  Mr. Klages and his wife have on child,  
Charles. 
     When he was married, his younger brother assisted his mother on 
the farm.  His sisters, Minnie, Emma, Carrie and Dora, all grew to maturity  
and are married. 
     Mr. Klages is a member of the Protestant Lutheran church, of  
Triadelphia.  He is held in great respect by all his friends.