Found this on the Internet 4/14/97...sorry, no URL. I suspect Robert H. Beall is somehow related to the Brooke County Ninian Beall--2 of his children married Hammonds... Wellsburg, West Virginia, is one of the centers of an industry about which little has been written, but whose products are familiar to all- The paper bag industry. Here in 1835, McClung and Mayhall (later McClung and Grimes Company) started the manufactur of paper. Harvey, Manser, and company and Jones and McCrea made straw paper in 1851 and 1852. Samuel George and W. Harvey bought the Gould, Pierce and Company cotton mill and converted this to the manufacture of paper bags from straw. T S. George Company is one of the foremost manufaturers of rope paper in the United States today. Since 1882, S. George and Company have limited their production to the manufacture of paper bags. At one time, W.C. Barclay was a partner in this firm. Later Mr. George employed Archibald Rae to to supervise the addition of printing presses and machinerey for cutting and folding. The George and Sherrard Paper Company started operations at 18th street about 1908. This Company was purchased by the International Paper Company, who sold it to the Hammond Bag and Paper Company in 1937. T.H. Hammond, having completed five successful years with the Taggert Brothers of Watertown, New York, returned in 1922 to his native Brooke County where he was joined in his venture with Merrit J. Davis, who came to Wellsburg from Watertown, New York. Others in this corporation included Robert H. Beall.