SIEGEL WORKMAN

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 499
Boone

SIEGEL WORKMAN, United States marshal for the South-
ern Judicial District, is not only a very capable official, but
one of the most efficient men and good citizens of Boone
County. For years he has been one of the leading repub-
licans of this part of the state, and his wife is also effec-
tively interested in public matters. He was born in Boonc
County, December 10, 1880, a son of John L. and Harriet
L. (White) Workman, natives of Giles County, Virginia,
and West Virginia, respectively. The Workman family was
established in Virginia at a very early day, its members
having taken part in the development of the country through
its various phases. John L. Workman was a farmer, and
when the war broke out between the North and the South,
he entered the Union Army and served until peace was de-
clared. After his honorable discharge he settled in Boone
County, West Virginia, and resumed his farming. He was
an ardent republican, and zealous in behalf of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which he was long a member.

Reared in Boone County, Siegel Workman attended its
public schools, and, entering Marshall College, took a gen-
eral course for one term, and then the commercial course.
Returning to Boone County, he went into the timber and
lumber business with Win. Osborn as his partner, and this
connection was maintained from 1902 to 1908, when it was
dissolved, and Mr. Workman became assistant cashier of the
Madison National Bank, and held this position until April
1, 1922, when he was appointed to his present important
office, to succeed his old partner, Mr. Osborn. Mr. Workman
was a member of the Republican State Central Committee,
serving from 1912 until 1920, and chairman of the Repub-
lican Central Committee of Boone County. Mrs. Workman
is a member of the Associate State Central Committee of
Women, and was the only woman in Charleston in the fall
of 1920 who was willing to go into Logan County and work
for the success of the republican ticket.

In 1917 Mr. Workman married Miss Eva Echols, a daugh-
ter of Louis F. and Viola (Long) Echols, of Madison. Mr.
Echols is county assessor of Boone County, and one of the
leading farmers of this part of the state. For many years
he was a dominating figure in the lumber business in his
part of the state, and is a man of great influence in the
republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Workman have one son,
Siegel, Junior, born August 6, 1918. Mr. Workman is a
thirty-second degree Scottish-rite Mason, and belongs to the
Mystic Shrine. The local lodge of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks also holds his membership. In every-
thing he has undertaken he has displayed commendable
energy and unquestioned ability, and is one of the rising
young men of Boone County, whose name is going to be
associated with much higher honors than those already be-
stowed upon him. Boone is his home county, and he is very
proud of it, and anxious to insure its welfare in every par-
ticular. Both he and his wife are ardent in their interest in
politics, and she is one of the members of her sex who is
justifying in marked degree the passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment. They are deservedly popular with all classes,
and have friends of moment all over the state.


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