Cabell County, West Virginia Biography of Henry Clay WARTH This file was submitted by Joyce Vickers, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 263 Henry Clay Warth. In the law, business and public affairs Henry Clay Warth has been steadily accumulating honors and success since he engaged in practice at Huntington fifteen years ago. He is descended from a great frontiersman and Indian fighter, George Warth, a native of Old Virginia and one of the first settlers in Jackson County, West Virginia. He and his brother, John A., had a contract for carrying the mail over the trails from Jackson County into Meigs County, Ohio. As a mark of the service he rendered in these frontier days the Government erected a monument to the memory of George Warth at Great Bend, Meigs County. He lived in that county the latter part of his life, owning a farm there. His wife was Ruth Fleahart, a native of Newton, Virginia, who died in Meigs County. His name is also commemorated in a locality in Jackson County known as Warth's Bottom. A on of this pioneer, Robert A. Warth, was born in old Virginia in 1800, and was a small boy when the family moved to Jackson County, where he spent his active life as a cooper and farmer. He died in Jackson County in 1892. He married there Mary Johnson, a native of old Virginia, who died in Jackson County. John A. Warth, their son, and father of the Huntington lawyer, was born at Warth's Bottom in Jackson County, August 6, 1847, and is now living at Gallipolis Ferry in Mason County, West Virginia. His active career has been that of a successful farmer, and in 1903 he removed to mason County, where he still owns and operates a farm. He is a democrat in politics. John A. Warth married Ann Starcher, who was born on Big Sandy in Jackson County in October, 1856. Their children are: Myrtle, wife of William Hall, a building contractor living at Ocean View, Virginia; Henry Clay; Arthur L., who lives on the home farm in Mason County, grows blooded livestock and practices his profession as a veterinary; and Miss Mary Belle, who for a number of years was a teacher and is now a Government employee at Washington. Henry Clay Warth was born at Willow Grove in Jackson County, February 11, 1878. He started with a rural school education, but in 1900 graduated from Marshall College at Huntington, and in 1905 received the A.B. degree from Oberlin College of Ohio. He took his law course in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, from which he received his LL. B. degree in 1907. Mr. Warth is a member of the Delta Chi college fraternity. since his graduation in 1907 he has been steadily practicing law at Huntington, and has handled a large volume of business in both the civil and criminal branches. He was a member of the firm Warth, McCullough & Peyton. Their offices are in the Ohio Valley Bank Building on Third Avenue, and Mr. Warth is vice president of the Ohio Valley Bank. He has been a leader in the democratic party in his section of the state. In 1912 he was elected to represent Cabell County in the House of Delegates, and served the sessions of 1913 and 1915. He is prominent in the First Congregational Church, being director of the choir. Fraternally he is affiliated with Huntington Lodge No. 313, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Kiwanis Club and Huntington Chamber of Commerce, and is a director in the Community Service Organization of Huntington and a member of the Cabell County and State Bar associations. His home at 297 Water Street occupies a beautiful location on the banks of the Ohio River. He owns considerable other improved real estate, including a business corner at Ninth Street and Third Avenue. During the war Mr. Warth sought active duty in the Y.M.C.A., was appointed a transport secretary, and performed the service of that organization for soldiers and sailors while being transported overseas. His regular station was the U.S. Huron, and he crossed the ocean six times. In 1899, at Huntington, Mr. Warth married Miss Ruth A. Parsons, a daughter of Chester F. and Mandana (Shaw) Parsons, now deceased. Her father was from many years a hardware merchant at Huntington. Mrs. Warth is also a graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio, receiving her A.B. degree in 1905. They have one son, Henry, born August 30, 1906, now a student at Huntington High School.