Fayette County, West Virginia Biography of Homer WISEMAN This file was submitted by Kerry Armour, 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. 157 & 158 HOMER WISEMAN is one of the younger business men of Charleston, but enjoys that substantial element of success due to associations in an executive capacity with one of the most substantial of the city's industries, the West Virginia Brick Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. The West Virginia Brick Company is a local industry of some years' standing. Through the special quality of its product "Charleston Brick" has a reputation among building engineers as being one of the highest grade fire brick manufactured anywhere. It has proved superior to the usual product, as shown by the most rigid tests. This brick fuses only at the exceedingly high temperature of 3146 degrees. It is made from a superior clay which the company mines on its own property. The plain brick is used mostly for boiler room construction. The pressed face brick has a widely distributed sale in many cities, chiefly New York, and many architects give it first choice for exterior brick in the most beautiful modern structures. Mr. Wiseman was born at Elliott in Fayette County, West Virginia, in 1887, son of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Crist) Wiseman, natives of this state. He grew up in Fayette County, attended public schools there, and when past the age of fifteen he came to Charleston and attended business college. For some five or six years he was in the employ of the firm Crawford & Ashby and with the South Charleston Land Company. Mr. Wiseman in 1912 went into the brick manufacturing business as a member of the West Virginia Clay Products Company, which had been founded in 1910 and which has since become the West Virginia Brick Company. As secretary and treasurer he is also active head of the company, since the president of the corporation lives at Louisville. The West Virginia Brick Company has a modern plant adjacent to Charleston, at Elk Two Mile, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Mr. Wiseman has devoted his best efforts to the building up of this essential industry, and his part therein is a record of which many ambitious business men might well be proud. He is a member of the Charleston Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Wiseman married Miss Elizabeth Crookshanks, also a native of Fayette County. Their two children are Homer Clyde and Claude Franklin. ==== WV-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== ********************************************************************** WV-FOOTSTEPS/USGENWEB NOTICE: These messages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. **********************************************************************