Cabell County, West Virginia         Biography of Edward K. MAHAN

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg.63 & 64

EDWARD K. MAHAN. West Virginia is still one of the more important states
of the Union in the production of hardwood, and one of the largest
organizations in the state for the manufacture and handling of such
resources is the Peytona Lumber Company, of which Edward K. Mahan, of
Huntington, is president.

Mr. Mahan's great-great-grandfather came from the North of Ireland to
America in Colonial times and founded the family in Virginia. The
grandfather of the Huntington lumberman was Nelson Mahan, who was
born in Virginia in 1806, lived for a number of years in Monroe County,
West Virginia, in 1842 moved to Kanawha County, and died at Charleston
in 1888. His principal business was contracting for public works, and
among others he constructed the locks and dams on the Coal River. His
wife was Sarah Legg, who also died at Charleston.

John W. Mahan, father of Edward K., was born in Monroe County, March 24,
1841. He was a lumber manufacturer with mills at Catlettsburg, Kentucky,
and in Fayette County, West Virginia, where a village grew up around his
mills named in his honor, Mahan. From 1891 until his death his home was
at Huntington in Cabell County, but he died in a hospital at Charleston
August 5, 1905. He had a record of a Confederate soldier of the Civil war,
serving throughout that conflict with the border rangers under General
Jenkins and General McCauslands.

John W. Mahan married Romaine Myers, who was born at Gallipolis, Ohio,
in 1850 and died at Washington, D. C., June 9, 1916. They were the
parents of five children: Romaine, wife of Dr. William E. Philes, a
physician and surgeon at Washington, D. C.; Ed ward K.; Mabel F.,
living at Washington, D. C., widow of George T. Paige, a resident of
Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Jane, wife of an attorney, Marion Eustace,
at Caldwell, Idaho; and Clara, wife of Arthur B. York, an attorney at
Staunton, Virginia.

Edward K. Mahan was born at Madison in Boone County, West Virginia,
August 16, 1878. In 1904 he removed to Mansfield, Ohio, and was in
the wholesale lumber business. In 1906 he assisted in organizing the
Peytona Lumber Company, becoming its secretary, and since 1915 has
been its president. This company, with business offices in the
Robson-Pritchard Building at Huntington, has mills and other
facilities for the manufacture and, wholesale handling of hardwood
lumber and do an immense business in this line. Mr. Mahan is also
a stockholder and director in the Huntington Banking and Trust
Company, and is president of the Elk Creek Lumber Company.

His home is at 2678 Third Avenue in Huntington. In March, 1901, at
Catlettsburg, Kentucky, Mr. Mahan married Miss Victoria Williamson,
daughter of Benjamin and Pauline (Taylor) Williamson. Mr. and Mrs.
Mahan have one child, Virginia, born May 9, 1902.