Person:David Shriver (2)

From Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I - III by Frank William Shriver

David Shriver, born April 24, 1769, married in 1803, Eve Sherman; he was associated with his brother Andrew in the erection and operation of the mills, etc., at Union Mills, Carroll county, Maryland, and a prominent business man of that section.

from Abridged Compendium, page 1431.

He built a national road to Columbus, Delaware County, Ohio, and laid out the road to St. Louis. He served as U.S. Commissioner of Public Works. He founded the Cumberland National Bank.

Internet - The Shriver Family by Paul Burig. - from a Lecture presented before the Wheeling Historical Society & the annual meeting of The Union Mills Homestead Foundation maintained by the Shriver Family

David Shriver, Jr.

David Shriver, Sr., had at least five sons and three daughters. I will be concerned with only his first three sons: Andrew, David, Jr., and Abraham in that order. I have no significant information about Rachel, Mary, Isaac, Jacob, and Susanna.

Let's look at David Shriver, Jr., first. He was born at Little Pipe Creek, Carroll County, Maryland, in 1769. This area is now known as Union Mills, Maryland His first occupation was with his brother, Andrew, in the improvement of property at Little Pipe Creek. He gave up this business and as a civil engineer was appointed as superintendent for the location and construction of the Reisterstown Turnpike, northward from Baltimore.

There is nothing in the historical records to indicate his educational background that led to a civil engineering career. In 1806, upon completion of that project, he was appointed by the Federal Government to superintend the location and construction of the National Road from Cumberland to Wheeling. He appointed Frederick Dent as his assistant. Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was a daughter of Frederick Dent. He also appointed a nephew, James Shriver, also a civil engineer, as another assistant.

The National Road was completed to Wheeling by 1818 but it appears that David continued to be associated with the maintenance and operation of the road.

By 1824, his work concerning the Cumberland to Wheeling section of the National Pike was completed and he was commissioned to extend his work westward on the extension of the National Road to Missouri. It was during this time that he moved his family to Wheeling.

On January 5th, 1827 a bill was passed by the Virginia General Assembly to permit David Shriver and five other men of Wheeling to operate a ferry from their lands lately owned by Jonathan Zane in the County of Ohio, across the Ohio River, to the opposite shore. The act also provided guidelines for the setting of rates for various types of goods.

During the time when David Shriver was engaged in the construction of the National Road westward, he undoubtedly came in close contact with Ebenezar Zane who much earlier had been commissioned by the Federal Government to layout what became known as the Zane Trace across the state of Ohio to Chillicothe.

Zane got peeved with the people who were in control of Wheeling and eventually moved his family across the river to the State of Ohio. He was involved in the formation of the settlement which bears his name, Zanesville, and is buried in Walnut Cemetery in Martins Ferry, Ohio. The name Zane was to become famous in more recent years. Zane Gray, author of a large number of novels about the west, some of which were made into movies, is a descendant of the same family. The Zane Gray Museum is located near present day Zanesville.

In 1833, when he had left the government in the construction of the National Pike and other engineering projects, David returned to Cumberland and became president of the Cumberland Bank of Allegany which was the successor bank to one that David had been a member of the board since its formation in 1811. He served as its president until his death in 1852. He was the first of a series of Shrivers who were president of that bank.

David and his wife, Eve Sherman, had at least four children: Jacob Sherman, whose career in Wheeling and the Civil War I have already given, Elizabeth, (wife of Andrew Stewart of Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, who as a member of the United States House of Representatives and one of the chief proponents of the National Pike,) William Wagoner, also previously discussed, and George, who was born in 1815 and died in 1818.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer. Ferree - du Bois Family Tree. (1913).
2. ↑ Alice L. Luckhardt. Family Genealogy of Bixler. (Web Page)
   07-07-2004.
3. ↑ kamp3genealogy@@netscape.net. Heisterkamp, Charles, III, M.D..

   1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, PA, 17601, ckamp3@@netscape,net, 717-392-0562

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D. Annotated Landis Ferree Tree. (30 April 2004).

   Date of Import: Jul 14, 2004

5. ↑ Frank William Shriver. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III. (1911).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} WorldConnect Project. (RootsWeb)
   Cheryl Levine - 15 February 2001.
7. ↑ WorldConnect Project. (RootsWeb)
   Cheryl Levine - 15 February 2001.

   RootsWeb, WorldConnect Project, "Electronic," Cheryl Levine - 15 February 2001. - states "14 April 1769"

8. ↑ Estimated date.
9. ↑ Frederick Virkus. Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy. (Frederick A. Virkus & Company, Chicago, Ill. 1925)
   page 1431.
10.   Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D..

    1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, 17601-5529, kamp3genealogy@netscape.net