HARRISON CO., WV: Bios of Albert Lafayette LOHM
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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 III
pg. 104
Harrison

ALBERT LAFAYETTE LOHM, member of the Clarksburg law
firm, Neff & Lohm, brought to his career at the bar some
unusual associations and advantages derived from a work-
ing contact with leading men of affairs in other lines. He
has been extremely successful as a lawyer, and his firm is
one of the ablest represented in the Harrison County Bar.

Mr. Lohm was born at Keyser, Mineral County, West
Virginia, May 9, 1884, one of the five children of George
W. L. and Ella R. (Shaw) Lohm. His father was a native
of Jefferson County and his mother of Taylor County. The
Lohm family was established in America several generations
ago from Germany, and many of the name still live around
Shepherdstown in Jefferson County. The Shaw family is
of Scotch ancestry, one of the oldest in Taylor County, and
Robert Shaw was a pioneer settler at Grafton.

George W. L. Lohm has spent his active life as a rail
road man. When Albert Lohm was twelve years of age
the family moved to Oakland, Maryland, where his parents
still live. The son acquired a high school education in
Maryland, graduated at the age of sixteen from the Oak-
land High School, and the following year attended a busi-
ness college at Cincinnati. For one year he was private
secretary to the general passenger agent of the Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie Railroad at Pittsburgh. He left the railroad
service to enter the law department of the University of
West Virginia at Morgantown, and completed his course
in 1906 and was admitted to the bar that year. In 1907
he became private secretary to Hon. William P. Hubbard
of Wheeling, member of Congress from their First Con-
gressional District of West Virginia. Mr. Lohm was with
Mr. Hubbard during his two terms in Congress, and saw
much of the life and affairs of the capital city. While in
Washington he pursued post graduate studies in law at
George Washington University, from which he was grad-
uated LL. B. in 1909.

Since 1911 Mr. Lohm has given his entire time to the
practice of law, in association with Mr. Carl W. Neff. In
1917 he was appointed United States commissioner for the
Federal District Court at Clarksburg, and performed the
duties of that office until May, 1921.

Mr. Lohm has also earned prominence in the republican
party of West Virginia. In 1912 he was a delegate to the
State Republican Convention, and was chairman of the
committee on credentials, a special compliment to a man
of his years. He belongs to the County and State Bar as-
sociations, and in Masonry is a member of the K. C. C. H.
in Scottish Rite and is venerable master of Mizrah Lodge
of Perfection No. 5. He is a Presbyterian.

November 16, 1916, Mr. Lohm married Miss Mary Gene-
vieve Harrison, of a distinguished West Virginia family.
Her great-grandfather, Judge William A. Harrison, came
from Prince William County, Virginia, and established his
home at Clarksburg in 1821, just a century ago. She is
the only granddaughter of Hon. Thomas W. Harrison, who
at one time was a judge of the West Virginia Supreme
Court. She is the only daughter of Hon. Samuel R. Har-
rison, former banker and clerk of the United States Cir-
cuit Court at Clarksburg. Mrs. Lohm completed her edu-
cation in Wheaton Seminary in Massachusetts. They have
one son, John Harrison Lohm, born May 9, 1918, on his
father's thirty-fourth birthday.

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