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CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Chris & Kerry
cmac4330@chesapeake.net
December 3, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg.64
JOSEPH N. DOYLE, present county engineer of Cabell County, has had a wide
experience and numerous responsibilities in the civil and construction
engineering profession. He is a native of Huntington, where his father at one
time was a foundryman and manufacturer.
Mr. Doyle was born at Huntington, May 19, 1887. His grandfather was a native of
Ireland, and on coming to America settled in old Virginia. James Thayer Doyle,
father of the county engineer, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1844,
was reared at Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia, was married in Huntington,
where he owned and operated a machine shop and foundry, and in 1891 removed to
Montgomery, where he continued in the same business, his chief output being
mining cars. Returning to Huntington in 1893, he went on the road as a salesman
for the Ensign Car & Foundry Company, flow a branch of the American Car &
Foundry Company. From 1900 until his death in 1916 James T. Doyle was a mechanic
in the service of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. He was a democrat, and a
deacon and very enthusiastic member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Lucy
Maupin, who was born in Cabell County in 1849, and died at Baltimore in March,
1921. Of their four children the oldest is James E., a general and road
contractor of Huntington; Mary Alice is the wife of H. S. Gresser, in the
automobile business at Washington, D. C.; Joseph N. is the third in age; and
Caroline Hope is the wife of Robert L. Hooven, also in the automobile business
at Washington.
Joseph N. Doyle acquired a public school education at Huntington, graduating
from high school in 1905 and almost immediately became an employee of the
Leete-Maupin Engineering Company at Huntington. In the service of this firm he
acquired a practical knowledge of civil engineering, and worked up to the rank
of transit man. Leaving Huntington in 1910, he was for a time located at
Indianapolis, where he had charge of an engineering party for the
Moore-Mansfield Construction Company. On his return to Huntington he did work
for A. B. Maupin, his uncle, then city engineer of Huntington, until 1914. In
that year he was put in charge of all the field work for the firm Renshaw &
Breece, mining engineers. In 1916 he and his associate, under the name of
Stulting & Doyle, succeeded by purchase to the professional business of Renshaw
& Breece, and for a year continued the work in civil and mining engineering.
Mr. Doyle then sold out to Stulting and formed the firm of Doyle Brothers, his
brother James E. being his associate. They continued civil and mining
engineering until the winter of 1919, since which date Mr. Doyle has continued
alone and is one of the leading authorities on mining engineering in the state.
His offices are at 320½ Ninth Street.
Mr. Doyle's position of county engineer came to him by appointment from the
County Court of Cabell County in April, 1921. He is a member of the American
Association of Engineers and the American Society of Engineers. In politics he
is a democrat, is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and is a member of
Huntington Lodge No. 313 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His home is a
modern residence at 1612 Third Avenue. He married at Huntington in 1911 Miss
Beulah Stephenson, daughter of Vinson W. and Nora (Walker) Stephenson, who
reside at 402 Main Street, Huntington, her father being a retired timber and
lumber man. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle have one son, James Thayer, born March 28, 1913.
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