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 [/References Newton, Nickols and Sprankle, 1879]