Harrison County, West Virginia Biography of Karl Byron KYLE ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Vivian Brinker, , March 2000 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II. pg. 350 KARL BYRON KYLE entered upon the work of his profession as a lawyer with every advantage that good birth, rearing and scholastic training could bestow. He has already made a favorable reputation for himself in his native city of Clarksburg, where he is a junior member of the well known law firm of Carter & Sheets. He was born in Clarksburg, May 29, 1897, son of Aquila T. and Mollie (Boyles) Kyle. His parents represented two old and honored names of Harrison County. His father was born and reared in the county, for many years was engaged in farming and still owns a farm, but for the past twenty years has been a letter carrier with the Clarksburg postoffice. He and his good wife reared eight children. Karl B. Kyle graduated from the Clarksburg High School and then entered West Virginia University at Morgantown, taking one year of academic work and completed his four years' course in law and received his degree in 1920. He was then admitted to the bar and returning to Clarksburg became associated with the well known law firm of Carter & Sheets. He is a member of the County and State Bar associations, in politics is a republican, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Kyle was active in college fraternities at the university and has reached the eighteenth degree in Scottish Rite Masonry.