Wagner's+Livery

Before trolleys and cars, livery stables rented horses and carriages. This is the livery stable of Caleb E. Wagner at 1500-1504 Main St, between 14th and 16th Streets. The sign at top left says, //Pay before you ride. Positively no smoking.// Caleb Wagner was born in Morgantown in 1847. In 1876 he moved to Wheeling where he worked in the wholesale liquor business before buying a livery stable. The pictured stable building was 120 x 66 ft and could hold 40 horses. He married Mary Louisa Cotts in 1874. Drawing and info (p 275) from Newton, Nickols and Sprankle, 1879