GALLIA COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: SHAVER, James A. (published 1928)
***********************************************************************
OHGENWEB NOTICE:  All distribution rights to this electronic data are
reserved by the submitter.  Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted
material will require the permission of the copyright owner.
***********************************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Gina M. Reasoner
AUPQ38A@prodigy.com 
February 4, 1999
***********************************************************************

WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 122-123

        JAMES A. SHAVER, agent for the New York Central Lines at Dunbar,
has spent practically all his mature life in the railroad service. He also
has important interests in the industrial suburb of Dunbar as a
manufacturer and in other lines of business.
        Mr. Shaver was born at East Bank in Kanawha county, West Virginia,
December 2, 1883, son of James L. and Aurilla (Wiseman) Shaver, and a
grandson of James and Mary (Edwards) Shaver. His grandfather was born in
Ireland and his grandmother in Scotland. James L. Shaver was born and
reared in Gallia County, Ohio, attended public schools there, and up to the
age of twenty-one lived on a farm and shared in its work. He then moved to
East Bank, West Virginia, and became manager of the store of the Stewart M.
Buck Coal Company. He was with that corporation fourteen and a half years
and then engaged in business for himself as a merchant at East Bank.
Fifteen years later he retired, in 1908, and he and his wife now reside on
their farm in Gallia county, Ohio. He became a charter member of Morning
Star Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife
still retain their membership in the Freewill Baptist Church at East Bank,
a church of which they were charter members.
        James A. Shave grew up in the East Bank community, attended public
schools there, and continued his higher education in Ohio University at
Athens. When he left college in 1903 his first employment was with the old
Kanawha & Michigan Railroad, now a part of the New York Central Lines. He
has given undivided loyalty and service to that railroad for over
twenty-three years, starting as yard clerk and receiving several
promotions. Since July 1, 1915, he has been the local agent of the company
at Dunbar, which is an original source of large volume of traffic for this
road. Mr. Shaver is president of the Dunbar Supply Company, a wholesale and
retail flour and feed business. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Dunbar.
        His activity in business has had a counterpart of his interest in
public affairs. From 1919 to 1912 he was president of the Dunbar School
Board and was mayor of the city from 1923 to 1925. Mr. Shaver is a member
of the traffic committee of the New York Central Railroad Company and a
member of the freight claim prevention committee. He is a Republican in
politics, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, Mason and Shriner, and a
member of the Freewill Baptist Church.
        He married at Charleston, April 3, 1907, Miss Ethelyn Grimsley, who
was educated in the grammar and high schools of Charleston. She is a member
of the Missionary Baptist Church, the Eastern Star, the Woman's Club. Her
parents were J.H. and Sirilla (Clemans) Grimsley. Her father, a native of
Culpeper County, Virginia, was a school man and taught in the public
schools of Kanawha County, West Virginia, until his death in 1890. Her
mother is still living in Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Shaver have four
children, James Dana, Byron G., Nell Virginia and Dorothy Louise. The son
James is a member of the class of 1930 in Ohio University at Athens. Byron
is attending the Union District High School, and Nell is a grammar school
pupil at Dunbar.


==== OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ====