CANTY - James Monroe Jr
CANTY Roots
Father
James Monroe Canty Sr.
Mother
Adella H Daniels Canty
James Monroe Canty Jr.
B: December 23, 1865
Marietta, Georgia
D: February 16, 1964
Institute, West Virginia
Occupations: Superintendent of Mechanics at the West Virginia Colored Institute, Machinist, Instructor
William C. Lovett
Mulatto
1821-1888
Family
Father
Name
Black
Dates
Mother
Name
Black
Dates
Sarah J. Harris Canty
B:
West Virginia
Black
D: August 20, 1894
Institute, West Virginia
Occupation: Teacher
Florence S. Lovett Canty
B: April 11, 1866
Winchester, West Virginia
Mulatto
D: October 29, 1963
Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia
Burial: Institute, West Virginia
Occupation: Teacher
Father
Sarah E. Weaver
Mulatto
1823 - 1909
Mother
Sarah E. Weaver
Mulatto
1823 - 1909
CHILDREN of James and Florence
Portia Dorsette Canty (Dansby)
B: February 27, 1892
West Virginia
D: Jan 1974
Institute, West Virginia
Married: March 24, 1914
Occupation: Teacher
Marcia Elizabeth Canty (Hammonds)
B: January 19, 1906
West Virginia
Mulatto
D: June 9, 1985
Institute, West Virginia
Burial: Jefferson City, Cole County
Occupation: Teacher
Florence Ruth Canty
B: January 19, 1906
West Virginia
Mulatto
D: June 11, 1929
Jackson, Madison, Tennessee
Burial: Jul 1929 Charleston, W VA
Occupation: Teacher
Eugenia Grace Canty (Mitchell)
B: May 25, 1908
Boliva, West Virginia
D: January 12, 2000
Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia
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Flodella E Mitchell
Beatrice Mae Mitchell
Eugenia Ruth Mitchell
Janet Marie Mitchell
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By 1905, Canty owned a farm consisting of 100 acres nearly adjacent to the institute’s campus. His home in Institute, known variously as the Canty House or “The Magnolia”, was built originally around 1900 and renovated in 1923 by Canty and his wife Florence into the current neoclassical structure. Following Canty’s death in 1964, the house was purchased by West Virginia State College and became the only example of Neoclassical architecture on its campus. The house has been relocated three times and served as an office building and the campus health clinic before becoming the site of the West Virginia State University Athletic Hall of Fame. The Canty House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 1988.
*On November 24, 1851, Institute, West Virginia was founded. Originally an all-Black town, Institute is an unincorporated community on the Kanawha River in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
The town was founded by a Black former slave woman, Mary Barnes. She bequeathed land to her children that became Institute and later home to West Virginia State University (formerly the West Virginia Colored Institute) and the West Virginia State Police Academy. The community is the location of the prehistoric Shawnee Reservation Mound, one of three remaining Adena-era earthwork mounds and enclosures found in an eight-mile stretch along the river. Also called Fairgrounds Mound and Poorhouse Mound, it is within Shawnee Regional Park. The mound is about 20 feet high and 80 feet in basal diameter but was originally 25 feet high and greater than 80 feet in diameter.