Harrison County, WV: Bios - Charles W. Louchery
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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. 11
Harrison County

CHARLES W. LOUCHERY. The Harrison County bar is
made up of men of recognized ability in the law, some already
long experienced and eminent, and others who, although not
old in the profession, have many times demonstrated their
possession of the qualities and unmistakable talent that are
part of the equipment of every successful lawyer. One of
the latter class, who has a substantial record and extensive
practice, is Charles William Louchery, a representative citi-
zen as well as prominent attorney of the City of Clarksburg.

Mr. Louchery was born at Salem in Harrison County,
West Virginia, March 9, 1888, and is a son of Dr. Daniel
Carson and Mary Catherine (Lynch) Louchery. Doctor
Louchery was born in Marion County, West Virginia, June
2, 1845, his father, Daniel Louchery, was born in either
Greene or Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and his father,
James William Carson Louchery, at that time spelled Lough-
rey, was the son of a Revolutionary soldier. The great-
grandfather of Charles W. Louchery was born in Maryland,
and in early manhood settled in Western Pennsylvania,
then moved to what at the present time is Marion County,
West Virginia. For generations the Louchery family has
been known and held in high regard throughout this section
of country.

Daniel Louchery, the grandfather, removed with his
family to Harrison County before his marriage. Daniel
Carson Louchery for some years after the close of the war
between the states, in which he served as a soldier in the
Union Army, taught school and later became superintendent
of the schools of the City of Clarksburg and county super-
intendent of schools for Harrison County. In the mean-
while he had studied medicine in the School of Medicine
in the University of Maryland, and after qualifying as a
physician, practiced at Salem for some years and then came
to Clarksburg, where he is still engaged in active practice.
He married Mary Catherine Lynch, who was born in Har-
rison County, a daughter of John Perry Lynch and a grand-
daughter of Hiram Lynch, all of Harrison County. Doctor
and Mrs. Louchery have had four children: Zeppa, Lucy,
Edna and Charles William, Lucy being deceased. Mrs.
Louchery is intelligently interested, like her husband, in
public affairs, and both are identified politically with the
republican party, and both are faithful members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Charles W. Louchery had public school advantages at
Clarksburg, then entered the West Virginia Wesleyan Col-
lege and was graduated from the seminary department in
1907. Three years later he received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts from the West Virginia University at Morgantown,
and from the same university the degree of LL. B. in 1911.
His preparation for the law went still further, and in 1913
he received the degree of LL. B. from the University of
Wisconsin, at Madison, and following this he entered upon
the practice of law at Clarksburg. Well grounded in every
branch of the law, be has successfully handled a number of
important cases before the courts and is retained as counsellor
by business concerns that have learned the wisdom of at all
times having at command the sound judgment and trained
legal faculties of an able and honorable attorney.

Mr. Louchery married May 24, 1917, Miss Mildred Belle
Lamberd, who is a daughter of Charles E. and Belle (Johnson)
Lamberd, well known residents of Clarksburg. Mr. and
Mrs. Louchery have one son, Daniel Lamberd Louchery.
They have a wide social circle, and Mr. Louchery belongs
to the fraternal order of Elks. An earnest citizen consistently
concerned in the welfare of his city, county, state and country,
he is not slow to recognize the claims made on his time,
attention and means, but politically has never consented
to allow his republican friends to present his name for public
office.
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