BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE LEE DUNCAN, HARRISON CO,
WEST VIRGINIA

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Submitted by Valerie Crook
(vfcrook@earthlink.net)


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 583
Harrison

GEORGE LEE DUNCAN is prominently identified with
banking enterprise and other important business activities
in his native city of Clarksburg, Harrison County, where his
advancement and distinctive success represent the results
of his own ability and well directed endeavors. He received
the advantages of the public schools of Clarksburg, and at
the age of sixteen years be assumed the position of book-
keeper and office clerk for R. T. Lowndes, with whom he
has been continuously associated during the intervening
years. In 1896 he entered the private bank of R. T. Lowndes
& Company, and in 1905 he became secretary and treasurer
of the newly established Lowndes Savings Bank & Trust
Company, of which he has since continued the incumbent.
Mr. Duncan is president of the West Virginia Bank, one of
the oldest banking institutions at Clarksburg, and is also
vice president of the Merchants National Bank of this city.
He is treasurer of the Clarksburg Gas & Electric Light Com-
pany, and is associated with other enterprises of importance,
including oil and gas production in this section of the state.
His is a record of substantial and worthy achievement, and
be commands secure vantage place in connection with the
civic and business activities of his native county. He is
a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party, but
has had no ambition for public office of any kind. He has
received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite of the
Masonic fraternity, besides being a Noble of the Mystic
Shrine and a member of the Elks. He and his wife are com-
municants of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

In 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Duncan and
Miss Gertrude Smith, a daughter of the late A. G. Smith, of
Clarksburg. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan have four children,
George Lee, Jr., Elizabeth Rankin, Meade Lee and James
Jackson.

Mr. Duncan was born at Clarksburg on the 30th of Novem-
ber, 1872, and is a son of James Jackson Duncan and Maude
(Lee) Duncan, who likewise were born and reared in this
county, and who are representatives of old, honored and
influential families of this section of the state.