A 1908 Directory has been preserved that identifies where Follansbee residence lived by streets.  Home addresses did not yet exist. The Directory indicates where Individuals were employed, their profession, business, wife’s name or widow’s name, and if they were boarders.  No telephone listings were given since few residences had a phone.  The Directory identified 948 Follansbee residents. The occupation of sixteen persons was that of well drillers, which coincides with the 1907 discovery of the Follansbee oil field north of town where they may have been employed.  (See Follansbee Oil Field on Timeline)

The following were among the Follansbee business listed:

S. Keighley Metal Ceiling & Manufacturing Co., B. Barnett (Men’s & Boy’s Clothing), Albert G. Hartenstein (Drugs, Ice Cream), John M. Brady (Contractor),  Builders’ Supply Co.,  Brooke County Improvement Co. (Real Estate),  Cooper Insurance Agency,  Curtis & Reeves (Fire Insurance & Real Estate),  Hawkins’ Dry Goods (In Steubenville),  Citizens Bank of Follansbee, Dr. Charles Cochrane (Physician & Surgeon),  Alex S. Craig (Contractor),  East Ohio Limber Co.,  Follansbee Brothers Co. (Steel Mill),  D.M. Floyd (Follansbee Hotel),  B. Mervis (Staple & Fancy Groceries),  R. Humes’ Large Department Store,  Hatley & Co. (General Merchandise),  Dr. Leo Huth (Physician),  Henry Scott Kane (Railroad Agent),  Brown Latimer (Justice of the Peace),  Moore Brothers (Gen. Merchandise),  John Magee (Drayman),  Zed F. Simpson (Draying & Hauling),  Charles W. Miller (Billiard Parlor),  Robert L. Ramsay (Attorney of Law), Dr. A.C. Schwartz (Dentist), Pan-Handle Abstract Co. (Sole Agents),  Sheet Metal Specialty Co. (Roofing, Stove Pipe),  John V. Shipley (General Merchandise/Groceries), Dr. D.L. Talkington (Physician & Surgeon), and James Wamsley (News Stand).

“1908 City Directory of Wellsburg-Follansbee,” Brooke County Library (Genealogy Division), Wellsburg, WV.