BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY W. SHEETS, 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. 601-602
Harrison

HARRY WILBUR SHEETS represents an old family of Harrison
County, was born and grew up in that section of the state,
and has justly earned a commendable position at the local
bar. He is a member of the prominent law firm of Carter &
Sheets at Clarksburg.

Mr. Sheets was born on a farm near West Milford in Harri-
son County, February 14, 1885, son of Arthur and Annie
Jane (Wooddell) Sheets, and grandson of George H. Sheets
and William Wooddell, all of West Virginia or Virginia birth
and ancestry. Arthur Sheets was born in Harrison County
and his wife in Pocahontas County. Their four children are
Harry W., Earl W., Hazel, wife of Earl Romine, and Miss
Mary Sheets.

Harry W. Sheets while a boy on the farm attended the rural
schools. He also took some courses in West Virginia Wesleyan
College, and a source of valuable training to him in his subse-
quent career was an experience as a teacher in the public
schools for four years at Bridgeport. He completed his law
course at West Virginia University at Morgantown with the
LL. B. degree in 1909. He was admitted to the bar, and in
the same year began practice at Clarksburg as a partner of
David J. Carter.

Mr. Sheets votes as a democrat but is not active in politics.
He is a Methodist, is a Knight Templar Mason, has attained
the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite and is a member of
the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. In 1909 Mr. Sheets married Miss Hazel
LaMont, of Ashland, Wisconsin.  They have one child,
Alberta Lee.