James Stanley Corder Biography Barbour County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by: Valerie Crook The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 594 Barbour JAMES STANLEY CORDER, son of William Alonzo Corder, is a prominent young banker of Philippi. He was born at the home of his parents in Barbour County, October 11, 1887, and was liberally educated, graduating from the public schools and from Broaddus College of Philippi, and attended the preparatory school of "West Virginia "University at Keyser, and West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buck- hannon. He taught school in Barbour County for two years. His early ambition was for a medical career, and he had attended college with that in view. However, upon the organization of the People's Bank of Philippi on September 15, 1908, he entered that institution as teller, and served in that capacity until 1914, when he became cashier. He was the youngest teller and also the youngest cashier in the city and the county when he entered upon the respective duties of those positions. The active officers of the bank are Lee J. Sandridge, president; William A. Corder, first vice president; B. E. Snyder, second vice president; J. Stanley Corder, cashier; and Sherman Lindsey, assistant cashier. J. Stanley Corder married Miss Audrey Dyer, and they have one daughter, Ruth Reynolds Corder. J. Stanley Corder is high in Masonry being a Knight Templar and Shriner.