BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES PHILIP CLIFFORD, HARRISON CO, 
WEST VIRGINIA

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Submitted by Valerie Crook
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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. 579-580
Harrison

JAMES PHILIP CLIFFORD. It requires the help of no friendly
pen to bring to public notice the good citizenship and high
professional standing of such a man as James Philip Clifford, a
representative member of the Clarksburg bar, for his fellow
citizens have known him all his life and, commanding their
respect and confidence as neighbors and friends, he has
steadily made his way and has honorably earned his large
measure of professional success.

Mr. Clifford was born at Clarksburg, West Virginia, Octo-
ber 6, 1889, and is a son of James Philip and Calore Virginia
(Stout) Clifford, and a grandson of James and Sarah (Ruddy)
Clifford. The grandparents were natives of County Mayo,
Ireland, but the greater part of their lives were spent in
Harrison County, West Virginia. In this county their son,
James Philip Clifford, was born in 1858, and died at Roswell,
New Mexico, in 1898. For many years he had been success-
fully engaged in the practice of law at Clarksburg, being a
graduate of Rock Hill College, in the State of Maryland, and
of the University of Virginia, earning his degree of Bachelor
of Arts in the former institution and of Bachelor of Law in
the latter. He was prominent and influential in republican
politics, and served four years in the office of county prosecut-
ing attorney.

James Philip Clifford married Miss Calore Virginia Stout,
who died in Tucson, Arizona, in 1912. She was a member of
one of the large and highly respected old families of Harrison
County. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford became the parents of four
children: Lucy Clare, now Mrs. M. O. Bond; James Philip,
of Clarksburg; Charles Patterson, of Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia; and Mary Ruddy Clifford, residing with her sister,
Mrs. Bond. Mr. Clifford was a faithful Catholic.

James Philip Clifford not only bears his father's honored
name but has followed in his professional footsteps. After
attending Broaddus Institute at Clarksburg, he entered Rock
Hill College, as did his father, from which he was graduated
with the degree of A. B., then entered Harvard University,
where he won his degree of LL. B. in 1912, was admitted to
the West Virginia bar and in the same year began the practice
of his profession at Clarksburg and has rapidly forged his
way to the front.

In 1913 Mr. Clifford married Miss Georgie B. Edmiston,
of Buckhannon, West Virginia, who is a granddaughter of
Hon. Mathew Edmiston, who for several years was a Supreme
Court judge in West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford have
two daughters: Mary Virginia and Catherine Galore.

Active as a citizen, Mr. Clifford is ever watchful concerning
the best interests of Clarksburg and is influential in many
directions, but in an unofficial capacity, for he has never con-
sented to serve in a public one. He is identified with several
law associations and is a member of the order of Knights of
Columbus.