Harrison County, West Virginia          Biography of Arthur B. BOGGESS

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 202

ARTHUR B. BOGGESS has given effective service in various
public and semi-public offices at Clarksburg, judicial center
of Harrison County, where he is now the incumbent of the
position of clerk of the Circuit Court. The various official
preferments that have come to him bear distinct evidence
of the secure place he holds in popular esteem in his native
county.

Mr. Boggess was born at Lumberport, Harrison County,
November 30, 1870, and is a son of John W. and Margaret
J. (Bowman) Boggess, the former a native of Harrison
County and the latter of Ohio County, this state. The
Boggess family settled in what is now the State of West
Virginia at a very early period, and it is one of the oldest
and most numerous in Harrison County at the present
time. Albertus Boggess, grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, passed his life in Harrison County, he having been
a son of Samuel Boggess. John W. Boggess was a miller
at Lumberport for a number of years and was also engaged
in farm enterprise near that town. He served many years
as justice of the peace, and was otherwise a figure of
prominence in his community. He was seventy-six years of
age at the time of his death. By his first marriage he was
the father of several children, and Arthur B., of this review,
is the only child of the second marriage, his mother having
been in her eighty-ninth year at the time of her death.

The early education of Arthur B. Boggess was acquired
in the public schools of his native village and in the Buck-
hannon Academy. As a youth he found employment at
Clarksburg, and he there continued his service in various
capacities until he assumed a clerical position in the Clarks-
burg Post Office, in which he became assistant postmaster
and served as such for ten years. In January, 1909, he was
appointed deputy circuit clerk for Harrison County, and
in this position he continued the efficient incumbent until
August, 1921, when Judge Haymond Maxwell, presiding on
the bench of the Circuit Court of that county, appointed
him clerk, to fill out the unexpired term of I. Wade Coff-
man, who resigned.

Well fortified in his views concerning political and eco-
nomic matters, Mr. Boggess is found aligned loyally in the
ranks of the republican party. He has completed the circle
of York Rite Masonry, and is a Shriner, and has received
the eighteenth degree in the Scottish Rite of the time-
honored fraternity. He is also a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, being one of the charter mem-
bers of Clarksburg Lodge No. 482.

The year 1901 recorded the marriage of Mr. Boggess and
Miss Nellie Post, daughter of Russell E. and Ella Fowkes
Post, and the one child of this union is a daughter, Ella
Louise.