he was in the host cell measure industry and involved in a stockholder, iron industry and in nails, which was a big thing. wheeling made and produced a lot of cut nails, which was very important, because being located on the national road and river that was the national highway and railroads, cut nails were used to make all of the things out west. this was an important part of the industry. at that point it meant you were an entrepreneur. you saw the opportunity to make knew the connections and the people to work with at that time. he had all of those advantages. when he was a young man, he succeeded his father as the bank president called the northwestern bank of virginia. succeeded his dad as

president in 1876. he was 28 years old. time the that opportunity that people were getting into iron and deal in coal and iron ore and realized where the future was, and that is when he decided to get fully involved and opening up working with iron ore mines. in 1881 when he was 31 years old, he was married to sally howell. her parents were involved in a lot of the banking industry. she lives down the street from him. he and sally were happily married for many years. he passed away from whooping cough. during the time they were married they had one daughter,

named sir reda, spanish for little sarah named after her mother. .he was the love of her life she was lovely, told, much taller than the average woman. because you saw a lot of opportunity with iron or being one of the principal ingredients in making steel, you saw the plants were opening up. he located to cleveland. that is where the business was. they lived on euclid avenue. one of the next-door neighbors was john d rockefeller. all of the basic they miss industrialists of cleveland is done euclid avenue. he made his fortune in mr. oglebay made his fortune in 1900 when he was asked to manage j. d. rockefeller's iron ore mines. that was the mesabi range. it was the largest iron ore range in the world.

mr. oglebay was involved in managing all of that. in 1900, he and rockefeller sold their interests in the iron ore mines to u.s. steel, and they walked away multimillionaires. mr. oglebay was 51 years of age. he always had an affinity for wheeling. even in cleveland, he had an absentee ballot for wheeling. he loved the area, wanted to come back. his wife's family owned this little summer place up on the top of the hill. 25 acres of land. he purchased it for $8,000 from his wife's brothers. he would buy bits and pieces as he could until he assembled 1500 acres of property on the hill above wheeling. he called it waddington. that was the name given to this property by the second owner of the mansion in 1856.

a man from england called george smith. mr. smith felt that the rolling hills reminded him of his ancestral home in england. mr. oglebay, doing some research on the property, fell upon that name, loved the name, and called it waddington. the house, when it was built in 1846, was a farmhouse. it had eight rooms, four bedrooms, four downstairs room, central staircase. it was a basic farmhouse. a red brick farmhouse when he originally purchased it. mr. oglebay wanted to make it more fitting of a summer home of an industrialist, of a wealthy man. at that time, a lot of wealthy industrialists had beautiful summer estates. you think about the biltmore, which is the largest private

home in america and how beautiful it is. this is nothing like that. but i am sure mr. oglebay knew mr. vanderbilt, knew those sorts of folks, and wanted to have a summer estate that was more befitting his status. the first thing he did was hire a good friend of his who was the most prominent architect in wheeling at the time, a man named edward bates franzheim. they decided to add on to the house. a master bedroom. three bathrooms. he also installed a larger dining room. the room we're in now was added by mr. oglebay. this was more of a room where the family could sit and relax, more of a true sitting room style. mr. oglebay was very aware of what was going on around him at all times. he was aware that as people moved from the farm to the city, as our economy shifted from agrarian to a more industrial economy and more people found

manufacturing jobs in the city, that city folks needed safe food. at that time period, there were not a lot of regulations in processing food. milk could kill you, because it was not always pasteurized or homogenized. he wanted to take care of the dangers. he was also a great humanitarian. he thought that having an agrarian economy was an important thing for people with food distribution. he was very involved in all that sort of thing. he had this great vision for developing a farm that had the best agricultural processes it could have. he had the financial resources to do this. waddington farm became a model farm for this sort of thing. he hired experts from the university of wisconsin, from cornell. he had a cattleman come in from london. he had the best of the best. he had a wonderful model farm here for 26 years.

he was a very dedicated, serious man when it came to industry. but he loved his family. sarita was married and had a grandson he doted on, courtney burton, jr. we have a beautiful goldfish pond, quite large, on the property. mr. oglebay always gave the order that you are not allowed to mess with the goldfish -- they were big koi -- or anything like that. but the boys would fish. i remember a story -- we had a man who worked here for many years. he was courtney burton's boyhood best friend. they were fishing in the pond when they were not supposed to. they heard laughing and it was mr. oglebay behind them. he did not say anything and let them fish. he also gave the boys a gold

coin whenever he possibly could. for something, shopping, whatever they wanted to do. he was very generous and that way. but he was also very serious minded. he was on this mission to be a great humanitarian. mr. oglebay died in 1926. i think because he was a wealthy man, a very famous man in this area, people did not know him on a personal basis very well. he was very formal when he was out. i think that people are very grateful that he left his land to the city of wheeling to become a park. i think it was an amazing gift. very generous. it was nice that the family did not quibble with any of this. they thought this was a great gift. when mr. oglebay passed away in 1926 at the age of 77, his wife of course had predeceased him, they had the daughter sarita and her husband, and they supported it so much that they paid the

taxes here until the city accepted it as a gift. it took two years for the city to accept this gift. people were reluctant because of the responsibility. but they accepted in 1928. and then, of course, it was named oglebay in his honor. waddington farm was then named oglebay. i think of the park is a great heritage today. people are surprised when they find out it is a city park, one of the biggest in the country. >> on favoring 9, 1950, senator joe mccarthy gave his -- on february 9, 1950, senator joe "enemiesgave his within" speech. he claimed he had evidence of thecommunist working for

government. he continued making these claims until he was censured by the senate in 1954. up next, we learn more about the speech that began what is now known as "mccarthyism." mccarthy: at his request --t the information be given >> the term mccarthyism entered the lexicon of american history starting right here in wheeling on this spot. today we are in the mcclure and market, and we are in west virginia, which is important because of its with senator joseph

mccarthy. 40 when he came to wheeling. he was not a well regarded senator at that time. penchant for calling his fellow senators names. rumpledlways a rather person. he was at the height of his power, in a sense. a photographic memory. he was a very bright man. unfortunately, he had a tendency to lie about things. he made up his own resume, which was not true. he was coming up for reelection in 1952. this is 1950. a lot of people felt he had not done a lot and were getting concerned. so, he got a group of advisors together in d.c., one of which was a priest from georgetown. he said, what can i run on?