Harrison Co., WV: Bios - Charles S. ELLIOTT
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Submitted by Valerie Crook

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

pg. 641
Harrison
CHARLES S. ELLIOTT, manufacturer and business man of
Clarksburg, grew up in a rural district of Southeastern
Pennsylvania, and while he lived in a home untouched by
either dire poverty or the luxury of wealth his future
depended largely on opportunities of his own contrivance.
In the prosperous business man of today there is nothing
to reveal the youthful struggles and problems he had to
meet. His ambition for proper educational equipment
was not satisfied until he was twenty-six. Soon afterward
he came to West Virginia in the capacity of a civil and
mining engineer. For twenty years his home has been in
Clarksburg, and throughout this period he has been one of
the city's most forceful business men.

Mr. Elliott was born at Redstone, Fayette County, Penn-
sylvania, February 24, 1872, son of Robert and Sarah
(Gore) Elliott, who spent their lives as Pennsylvania
farmers. They had a family of ten children and reared
nine, six sons and three daughters, Charles being next
to the youngest. In such a large household Charles S.
Elliott had to be satisfied without special privileges and
beyond the common schools of his home district he largely
paid for his own education. For eighteen months he at-
tended a state normal school in Washington, Pennsylvania,
and subsequently he entered West Virginia University, at
Morgantown. He graduated in 1898, with the degree
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

The Pittsburg Coal Company then employed him as a
mining and civil engineer, and for a time he was employed
in a similar capacity by the Monongahela Coal Company.
He removed to Clarksburg in 1902 and was the technical
expert in opening the Perry Mines at Adamston and the
Lucas Mine at Lumberport, both these being Perry prop-
erties. After two years Mr. Elliott sold his interest in
this business and for eighteen months was superintendent
of the Short Line Coal Company at Dala.

About that time Mr. Elliott acquired some stock in the
Clarksburg Window Glass Company, manufacturers of hand
made glass. For the past twelve years he has been actively
associated with this company and for ten years has been
its president. He has made this one of the important
glass industries of West Virginia, the output being shipped
all over the country. It is a business employing about
three hundred men.

Mr. Elliott in 1918 helped organize the Hudson Coal
Company of Clarksburg, and was its president two years
and is still a director. He was one of the organizers in
1914 of the Clarksburg Trust Company, and is one of the
original Board of Directors still in service. As a success-
ful business man he has diversified his interests and in-
vestments, and is owner of considerable real estate in and
around Clarksburg.

Mr. Elliott is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner, and he and Mrs. Elliott are Presbyterians and both
of them active republicans. Mrs. Elliott is chairman of
the Harrison County Republican Central Committee. Sep-
tember 15, 1901, he married Miss Emma K. Kinder, of
Washington County, Pennsylvania, daughter of H. H. and
Marie (Bailey) Kinder. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott live in one
of the commodious homes of Clarksburg, at 950 West Pike
Street.

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