CLARENCE AUBREY BROCKMAN

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

pg. 144
Kanawha
CLARENCE AUBREY BROCKMAN. Circumstances turned
C. A. Brockman when a youth into a career associated with
the great coal industry of West Virginia, and in the past
twenty years he has risen high in the ranks of the leading
coal operators of the state.

Mr. Brockman, whose home is in Charleston, was born
in Louisa County, Virginia, in 1881, and was reared and
educated in his native county. In 1900 he came to West
Virginia and entered the service of the Victoria Coal &
Coke Company at Caperton, Fayette County. During the
next succeeding two years he filled practically every posi-
tion in the coal mining industry, including that of mine
superintendent. So well did he acquit himself in his service
for others that he was admirably qualified to become a coal
operator on his own account.

Mr. Brockman established his home in Charleston in 1914,
and from that city he conducts his coal operations. He is
president of the Stone Cliff Collieries Company, which was
incorporated in December, 1921, with a capital stock of
$50,000. The company mines are at Stone Cliff, in Fayette
County, on the main line of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.
The production in normal times runs about 60,000 tons
annually.

An interesting and perhaps unique distinction is accorded
Mr. Brockman among West Virginia coal operators. He
was the first operator in West Virginia to establish a profit
sharing system in his mines and among his men. The prop-
erties are operated on this basis, and with a degree of
satisfaction and profit that has put the system beyond an
experimental stage, and in one form or another it has been
widely copied and is undoubtedly one of the most munificent
principles introduced into American industrial management.

Mr. Brockman is also receiver of the Beury Brothers Coal
& Coke Company of Charleston. Outside of business inter-
ests he is very deeply concerned with Sunday school work.
For several years he has been prominently connected with
the Kanawha County Sunday School Association. He is
Sunday school superintendent of his home church on the
south side of Charleston, the Elizabeth Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church.

In 1907 Mr. Brockman married Lucy Morton Watts,
daughter of Rev. Charles E. Watts, of Virginia. They have
four children, Clarence A., Jr., Winnie Preston, William
Watts and Lucy Virginia.


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