ENSOR R. DUNSFORD

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 569-570
Boone

ENSOR R. DUNSFORD, superintendent of the Buffalo-
Thacker Coal Company at Ottawa, Boone County, is a
graduate mining engineer and has had an extensive ex-
perience in practical mining operations in different parts of
the world.

He was born at Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, August 31,
1887, son of John Landon and Margaret (Clark) Dunsford.
The Dunsford family came from Devonshire, England. His
parents were natives of Canada, and in 1890 moved to
Columbus, Ohio, where John L. Dunsford was for many
years in the real estate business. He is now living retired
in Florida. He is a Mason and for a number of years was
superintendent of the Sunday school of the Episcopal
Church.

Ensor R. Dunsford was educated in the grammar and
high schools of Columbus, and in 1911 graduated with
the degree of Mining Engineer from Ohio State University.
During the following year he was with the Sunday Creek
Coal Company at Long Acre and the Darby Coal Mining
Company at Darby, Virginia. For three years he traveled.
all over the United States, Canada and South Africa, as
representative of the Myers-Whaley Company of Knoxville,
Tennessee, manufacturers of loading machines for under-
ground work. Then for two years he had charge of the
Gypsum mines of the Victoria Gypsum Mining and Manu-
facturing Company at Saint Ann, Nova Scotia. On re-
turning to the United States in 1917 Mr. Dunsford became
superintendent at Ottawa, West Virginia, for the Monte
Coal Company, and when that business was sold to the
Buffalo-Thacker Coal Company be continued as super-
intendent for the new owners.

At Columbus, Ohio, in 1812, he married. Miss Aline
Carder, daughter of Thomas H. and Caroline (Zimmer-
man) Carder, natives of Ohio. They have two children,
Ellis Aline and Ruth Helen Dunsford. Mr. Dunsford is a
Presbyterian, is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and
a member of the Knights of Pythias.


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