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Friends of Wheeling Tour - 97 Bethany Pike Howgait

Friends of Wheeling toured “Howgait” 97 Bethany Pike on November 4, 2023. This 2 ½ story, five-bay brick house was built in 1911 by Wheeling manufacturer and publisher George A. Laughlin and his second wife, Anna on three parcels of land purchased in August 1910. Noted Wheeling architect Edward Bates Franzheim was the architect. The couple named it “Annaknoll.” George Ashton Laughlin (1862-1936) was a son of Samuel Laughlin, who had been head of Laughlin Drug Company, president of the Junction Iron Company, and the holder of a large interest in the Laughlin nail mills in Martins Ferry. George had received his early education at the Linsly Institute and was then associated with his father in the iron business. He married Anna (nee Boettger) Bruning in 1906 in New York City. Laughlin was instrumental in the founding of the Wheeling Board of Trade in 1900, serving as its first president. That same year, he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates. In 1908, he was chosen as a delegate-at-large from West Virginia to the Republican National Convention, during which William Howard Taft was nominated for the presidency. He later supported Theodore Roosevelt when the Republican party split in 1912. He narrowly lost an election to the U.S. Congress that same year. Laughlin’s business interests over his career included serving as president of the Cleveland-Canton Spring Company and chairman of the board of directors of the Western Spring and Axle Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. He served as president of the Wheeling Intelligencer Company from 1900 until 1908, guiding the editorial policies of the newspaper from 1902 through 1904. He leased the Wheeling Telegraph in 1914 and was its publisher until the newspaper was discontinued in 1929. For many years, he was a member of the board of directors of The Wheeling News and The Wheeling Intelligencer. Laughlin was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and was on the boards of directors of the Woodsdale Children’s Home and the West Virginia Home for Aged Women. He donated land along Bethany Pike and provided a playground there. And he was very involved in the 18th Street Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church. Today, that chapel bears his name. He is also remembered today for his funding of the “Laughlin Plan,” which provides interest-free home loans to qualified buyers. As of this writing, some 300 families have benefitted from this program. Laughlin died of a heart attack on December 7, 1936. Anna Laughlin (1878-1951), George Laughlin’s widow, remained in their home until she died. She had been a member of the Fort Henry Club, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, and the Wheeling Country Club. The couple had no children together. The property was left by will to Anna’s son from her first marriage, Joseph Bruning, and his wife Muriel. He had been a member of the Wheeling Country Club and the Elks, and served on the board of directors of the Fort Henry Club. The Brunings sold the property in early 1954 to William W. and Margaret Glass Holloway. The Holloways had sold their former home to the Sisters of St. Joseph. They called their new home “Howgait,” reportedly Welsh for “hollow way.” William Warfield Holloway (1886-1969) was heavily involved in the area’s steel industry. Educated at Yale University, he began his professional career in 1909 in the open-hearth department of LaBelle Iron Works, Steubenville, Ohio, a predecessor company of Wheeling Steel. In 1912, he began with Wheeling Corrugating, also later part of Wheeling Steel. After serving three years with the U.S. Army during World War I, he returned to Wheeling Corrugating. In 1922, he was elected president of Whitaker-Glessner Company, another Wheeling Steel predecessor, and a year later became president of Wheeling Corrugating. He was elected to the board of directors of Wheeling Steel in 1927 to 1964 and became its chairman in 1941 to 1958. Holloway also served as a director and member of the executive committee of the American Iron and Steel Institute (1931-1958) and as a director of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he was a director of the Belmont County National Bank, Fostoria Glass Company, Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, and Wheeling Dollar Savings and Trust Company. William Holloway’s wife Margaret Glass Holloway (1886-1980) was a daughter of Alexander Glass, who had also served as chairman of the board of Wheeling Steel. She was one of the founders of Wheeling Country Day School. Following her husband’s death in 1969, she remained living in Howgait until her own death. In early 1981, executors of her estate sold the property to Henry C. and Edna R. Miller. The Millers divided the property into rental units. Following Henry’s death, Edna sold the property to the current owners, Jon and Kathleen Ren, in late 2011. Since that time, the Rens have returned the home to a single-family residence.