Cabell County, West Virginia - Biography: Charles Marsh GOHEN

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Transcribed by <AUPQ38A@prodigy.com> (MRS GINA M REASONER), 1999

WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 17-18

Charles Marsh Gohen, president of the First Huntington National Bank, has a
unique record among West Virginia financiers in that he has served
continuously and consecutively practically one institution, since the bank
over which he now presides is a successor of the institution which he
entered as a boy of fourteen in the capacity of practically janitor.
Mr. Gohen was born at Aurora, Indiana, September 18, 1876, but has lived at
Huntington since 1884. his grandfather, Thomas A. Gohen, was born in 1832
in Ireland, was educated for a chemist, and on coming to America was
associated with the Marsh & Harwood Chemical Company of Cincinnati. he died
in that city in 1900. His wife, Anna De Coursy, was born in France, in
1834, and died at Cincinnati in 1902. Several of their sons became
prominent.
James A. Gohen, father of the Huntington banker, was born in Cincinnati,
May 5, 1849, was a carriage manufacturer at Aurora, and on moving to
Huntington in 1884 became identified with the motive power department of
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. In 1904 he went to Indianapolis. His wife
was Malvina Fenton Marsh, who was born at Aurora, Indiana, September 8,
1852.
Charles Marsh Gohen, only child of his parents, had his school
opportunities limited between the years of eight and fourteen at
Huntington. He then went to work in the commercial Bank of Huntington,
where after a time he was made a messenger, then became teller. he went
along with the other property of this institution when in 1894 it was
consolidated with the Bank of Huntington in the Huntington National Bank.
He remained as teller, was promoted to assistant cashier, cashier, and on
July 1, 1919, was chosen president at the age of forty-three, becoming head
of a bank with resources of upwards of eight million dollars. Still another
merger was made in 1924, the Huntington National and the First National
combining as the First Huntington National bank, of which Mr. Gohen is now
president. He has also served as president of the Huntington Clearing House
Association, president of the West Virginia Paving and Pressed Brick
Company, and has been a director in a number of corporations. He is a
member of the West Virginia State and American Bankers Associations, and
during the World war was county chairman for the war savings drive and
active in the Liberty Loan campaign.
Mr. Gohen is a vestryman in the Episcopal Church, is a Democrat, member of
the Country Club, and other social and civic organizations. He married at
Huntington, June 14, 1906, Miss Mary Elizabeth Emmons, her grandfather,
Delos E. Emmons, was the resident engineer and manager in the laying out
and founding of the City of Huntington, acting in that capacity under a
commission from his brother-in-law, the great railroad magnate, Collis P.
Huntington. Mrs. Gohen was born at Huntington, daughter of Carlton Delos
and Minnie (Gibson) Emmons. Her father was president of the Emmons-Hawkins
Hardware Company of Huntington. Mrs. Gohen was educated in schools at
Huntington and in Hollins College at Roanoke, Virginia.

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