Gilmer County, West Virginia Biography of JOHN E. ARBUCKLE This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, 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 III, pg. 470 JOHN E. ARBUCKLE is the cashier of the Kanawha Union Bank at Glenville, Gilmer County, a well ordered institu- tion that is a state depository and that effectively safeguards and advances the business and civic interests of the com- munity in which it is established. The bank bases its oper- ations upon a capital stock of $40,000, has a surplus fund of equal amount, its undivided profits are in excess of $6,000, and its deposits are nearly $600,000. S. A. Hays is president of the Bank, C. M. Bennett is vice president, John E. Arbuckle is cashier, and L. D. Zinn is assistant cashier. Besides the president, vice president and cashier the directorate of the institution includes also James H. Arbuckle. Jacob Moore, John S. Withers, A. L. Holt, G. B. Feed and N. E. Rymer. John E. Arbuckle was born in the Village of Troy, Gilmer County, West Virginia, on the 24th of February, 1879, and is a son of James H. and Margaret E. (McClintock) Ar- buckle, the former of whom was born in what is now Green- brier County, this state, in 1846, and the latter of whom was born in Bath County. Virginia, both families having early been founded in the Old Dominion State. James H. Arbuckle was for many years engaged in the general mer- chandise business at Troy, and is one of the venerable and substantial citizens of Gilmer County, with inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He was a Confederate soldier in the Civil war, is affiliated with the United Con- federate Veterans and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Of the six children five are living: Eustice M., who graduated in the West Virginia State Normal School at Glenville. now resides at Parkersburg, this state, and is in the United States internal revenue service; John E., of this sketch, is the next in order of birth; Miss Alice C. remains at the parental home, at Glenville; J. Earl, a graduate of the normal school at Glenville, is one of the prosperous farmers and stock-growers of Gilmer County; and Alma J., a graduate of the State Normal School at Glenville, is now a successful and popular teacher in this institution. John E. Arbuckle acquired his youthful education in the public schools of Troy, and in 1901, shortly after attaining to his legal majority, he took a position as bookeeper for the Little Kanawha Valley Bank at Glenville. Later he was chosen cashier of the bank, and in this executive position he continued his efficient service from 1904 to 1906, in which latter year that institution was consolidated with the First National Bank of Glenville, under the present corporate title of the Kanawha Union Bank, and he was made cashier of the new institution, to the success of which he has contributed much by his careful and progressive policies. He is one of the representative business men of his native county, and here his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. He and his brother are the owners of a valuable landed estate of 1,500 acres in Gilmer County, and he has capitalistic interests also in gas and oil production arid also coal mining in this section of the state. Mr. Arbuckle is a past master of Gilmer County Lodge No. 118, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and at Weston he is affiliated with the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the Commandery of Knights Templar, the while he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry and is a member also of the Mystic Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star. In politics he is found arrayed as a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Glenville, and he is serving as an elder in the same. Oh the 6th of October, 1909, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Arbuckle and Miss Mildred Ruddell, who was born and reared in Gilmer County and who was graduated from the musical department of the Mary Baldwin Semi- nary at Staunton, Virginia, she having there received the gold medal awarded for special proficiency in music. Mr. and Mrs. Arbuckle have no children living, but they have one daughter dead.