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Friends of Wheeling Tour - 3526 Jacob Street

Friends of Wheeling had an “After Tour” of 3526 Jacob Street on July 9, 2022. The property on which this house stands, “Square 23, Lot 5, Ritchie City,” along with the adjacent Lot 6, were sold by John Morgan to Robert Hazlett Cummins on August 18, 1852 for a total of $1000. Cummins, a medical doctor, lived at 1314 Chapline Street but apparently owned the Jacob Street property until his death from pneumonia on April 12, 1873 at age 56. At that time, it apparently transferred to his heirs. On June 15, 1887, Lots 5 and 6, along with several other lots in the general neighborhood, were deeded to Robert Cummins’s son, James, whose address in City Directories was on Wheeling Island . Later that same year (December 29, 1887), Harry B. Seybold purchased the Lot 5 property for $1750. Harry B. Seybold (1864-1940) was educated at Washington School, Linsly Institute, and Frazier Business College. His obituary states that he served as Justice of the Peace in Clay District of Ohio County . The 1888 Wheeling City Directory lists Harry B. Seybold as an “individual bookkeeper” at the Bank of Wheeling, who “resided at 3708 Chapline Street, after September 1, 1888 [at] 3526 Jacob Street.” That entry suggests that Seybold moved into the house in the fall of 1888. However, a portion of his December 29, 1887 deed includes, “Also all the household, kitchen furniture, and personal property now in the Brick House No. 3526 Jacob Street situate upon said lot No. 5.” That statement suggests that the house already existed by late 1887. There are no Cummins family members listed in City Directories at 3526 Jacob Street at that time, so it’s possible that the Cummins family built the house and rented it to others before selling it to Seybold. The style of the house is similar to the Klieves brothers houses on Chapline Street Row and the Robert W. Hazlett house at 921 Main Street. Those houses were designed by architect Edgar W. Wells during the same general time period that 3526 Jacob Street was built, so it’s likely that he was also the architect of this house. The rest of the history of the house is fairly straightforward. It passed from Harry B. and Minerva (Minnie) Seybold to Henry Wöhlert (aka Wheeler) on December 30, 1892. German immigrant Wheeler is listed in the 1880 City Directory as a cigar manufacturer, with a German-born wife, nee Caroline Seabright, and West-Virginia-born children Louisa (age 8), Henry (age 6), and Albert (age 1). Henry Wheeler died on May 17, 1912 and left the property to his daughter Louise, “subject to the use for the remainder of the natural life of wife Caroline.” Upon Louise’s death in 1935 it passed to her brother, Albert Wheeler. Albert followed his father’s profession of cigar maker. A feature article in the October 21, 1964 Wheeling New-Register quotes the then 87-year-old Albert as saying that in his younger years he could hand roll 1500 to 1800 stogies per day, when the average was just 500. He started his career with Augustus Pollock, whom he called “one of the best men he had ever worked for.” Albert proudly said that Pollock called him “King of the stogie makers” due to his speed. After Pollock’s death, his plant was struck by the union, and Albert Wheeler went to work for himself with as many as 14 employees. He reportedly seasoned his own tobacco in a building behind his home and during World War II supplied some 35 stogie rolling companies with tobacco. He also said that he delivered many Christmas baskets for Bill Lias, and that Lias always insisted that his name be kept secret. “I’ll stand up for him anytime,” Albert said. And he said he had met rival brewers Henry Schmulbach and Anton Reymann. He urged Wheeling to start its own brewery again, to “save millions of dollars from leaving the area for imported beer.” Albert and his wife Millie (nee McElroy) had three children, Dr. Albert M. Wheeler, who died just as he was about to go to Japan during World War II; Ellen, who was married to Dr. John Lowther; and William. Following the death of Millie, Albert married the former Mary Rhea Coleman. Albert died on February 14, 1973, and the property was sold to Charles and Agatha Holmes, then to Dorothy M. Browning (1979), James K. and Dawn Means (1999), and finally to Jared Stone in late 2013.