Berkeley County, West Virginia Biography of Ernest L. LUTTRELL ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , March 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 19-20 ERNEST L. LUTTRELL. A lawyer of exceptional ability and well matured powers and experience, Mr. Luttrell has been a member of the Berkeley County bar, and while he has had official responsibilities during the greater part of the time since his admission he has also built up an exten- sive general practice. His offices are in the Shenandoah Bank Building at Martinsburg. Mr. Luttrell was born on a farm thirteen miles northwest of Winchester, in Frederick County, Virginia. His father, Charles W. Luttrell, was born near Collinsville, in the same county, on December 3, 1855. The grandfather was Lewis Luttrell, a native of the same county, and the great-grand- father was John Luttrell, also a native and life-long resident of Frederick County, where his ancestors settled when they came from England in Colonial times. Lewis Luttrell grew up on the farm, inherited a portion of the old homestead, but subsequently sold it and farmed as a renter. He died at the age of sixty-nine. The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Dick, a native of Frederick County and daughter of Richard Dick, a farmer and woodsman of that section. Charles W. Luttrell was reared on a farm. His ambition led him to make the most of his advantages in the local schools, and at the age of twenty-one he began teaching and was a factor in local educational circles for five years. From Frederick County he moved to Berkeley County, was clerk in a general store at Glengary and later at Ganotown, and in 1906 bought property at Nollville, where he was in the mercantile business until January, 1921. At that date he sold out and is now retired at Martinsburg. He served as postmaster at De Haven in Frederick County, and was assistant postmaster at Glengarry and postmaster at Gano- town, both these appointments coming during Grover Cleve- land's administration. In 1881 Charles W. Luttrell married Julia P. De Haven, a native of Frederick County. Her father, James De Haven, owned and operated a flour mill on Green Spring Creek in Frederick County. Charles W. Luttrell and wife had two children, Elston M. and Ernest L. The parents are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the father has been on the official board of the church. Charles W. Luttrell is very conspicuous for his religious work, to which he has devoted much of his time and means. He is sincerely interested in every movement for the betterment of his fellow man. Ernest L. Luttrell received a rural education during his early years, later attended Shepherd College, and from there entered West Virginia University, where he took a brief academic course and then continued in the law school until graduation in 1910. Mr. Luttrell has done all his practice as a lawyer at Martinsburg. In that city he became asso- ciated with A. B. Noll, and served four years as assistant district attorney under Mr. Noll and later four years under District Attorney W. W. Downey. Mr. Luttrell in 1919 formed a partnership with Decatur Rogers, and this firm is recognized as one of the strongest in Berkeley County. In 1912 Mr. Luttrell married Ida Lillian Rice, who was born in Jefferson County, daughter of William M. Rice, a farmer near Shepherdstown. Mr. and Mrs. Luttrell had two children, Edna Marie and Ernest Glenville. Mr. Luttrell is affiliated with Equality Lodge No. 44, A. P. and A. M., with the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Masons, is a member of Washington Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias, and the D. 0. K. K. branch of that order, and is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose and the Patriotic Sons of America.