Boone County, West Virginia    Biography of George W. COYLE

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Submitted by <AUPQ38A@prodigy.com> (MRS GINA M REASONER)


WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 310

GEORGE W. COYLE is president and superintendent of the Columbus-Darby Coal
Company, with headquarters at Keith, Boone county, and he has been long and
prominently concerned with coal mining operations, in which connection he
now has important interests in various Ohio coal fields.
Mr. Coyle is able to revert to the fine old Buckeye State as the place of
his nativity, his birth having occurred in Perry county, Ohio, August 26,
1870, and he having been the second in a family of four sons. Charles H.,
eldest of the sons, resides at Niles, Ohio; Frank M. died in May, 1925; and
James, Jr., is a resident of Columbus, Ohio. James Coyle, Sr., father of
the subject of this review was identified with coal mining industry many
years, and in Ohio he was long associated with the Stratville Mining
company. At Columbus, capital city of Ohio, the death of James Coyle
occurred in 1902, and there his widow, whose maiden name was Rebecca
Miller, still maintains her home.
The Ohio public schools afforded George W. Coyle his youthful education,
and he early became associated with coal mining, with which his father was
prominently connected at that time. It should be noted also that his father
was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served as
a member of the One Hundred Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and took
part in many important battles, as well as in the numerous minor
engagements in which his command was involved. James Coyle, Sr., was a man
of well fortified political convictions, was active in the local councils
of the Democratic party, and served in commissioner, City councilman and
member of the Board of Education in his home city.
The earlier activities of George W. Coyle in connection with coal mining
were staged in his native State of Ohio, where, as previously noted, he
still retains interests in various coal fields. In 1902 he came to Kelly's
Creek, West Virginia, and entered service with the Kanawha & Hocking Valley
Coal & Coke Company. Here he remained two years, and he next held for two
years the position of mine superintendent with the Cardiff Coal Company.
After being for several years identified with the Guyan Valley coal
interests he returned to Ohio, where he served as superintendent with
various coal companies. He next gave similar service in Eastern Kentucky,
where he remained until 1923. In 1925 he assisted in the organizing of the
Columbus-Darby Coal Company, of which he has since continued the president
and superintendent, J.H. Warren being vice president and Samuel Brown, the
secretary and treasurer of the company. Mr. Coyle is financially interested
also in oil and gas companies.
Mr. Coyle is a Democrat in politics but has had no desire for public
office. He and his family hold membership in the Grandview Heights
Community Church, in one of the attractive suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, this
being the leading community church of this kind in the entire United
States. Mr. Coyle is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks as a member of the lodge at Huntington, West Virginia.
On the 20th of December, 1902, Mr. Coyle was united in marriage to Miss
Jeannette Wilson, daughter of Thomas and Janet (Nelson) Wilson, the former
of whom died in March, 1924, and the latter of whom still resides at
Corning, the other children of the Wilson family being: Robert, Christine,
Johanna, William, Kate, Jean, Thomas, Jr., Ellen and Jemima. Mr. And Mrs.
Coyle's only child, Mabel, was born September 25, 1910.