WILLIAM HOMER WILSON, M. D.

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 528-529
Kanawha

WILLIAM HOMER WILSON, M. D. The First National
Bank of St. Albans, of which Doctor Wilson is president, is
an institution that has combined conservative banking with
effective service to the community. A number of the best
known citizens in that part of Kanawha County have been
executive officers and directors of the bank.

The bank was established in January, 1910, and its
capital is still maintained at $25,000, while the surplus and
profits are nearly equal to the capital. The organizer of the
bank was C. J. Pearson, who was its president until 1921.
When he removed from St. Albans and resigned he was
succeeded in August, 1921, by Dr. W. H. Wilson, who was
one of the original directors and had been vice president for
one year before his election to the presidency. The original
vice president was M. W. Stark, who about two years ago
left St. Albans. The first cashier was R. C. Sweet, who
sold his interest to S. D. McGee, who for two years has been
vice president and cashier. The bank now has total re-
sources of about $500,000, and the deposits equal over
eighty per cent of the resources. The bank has steadily
paid dividend, and its stock is worth over $200.

Dr. W. H. Wilson was born at St. Albans, November 14,
1875. Oliver T. Wilson, his father, a building contractor,
was also born at St. Albans, son of Samuel and Parthia
(Teays) Wilson. Samuel Wilson came from Virginia when
a young man and was a farmer and tobacco manufacturer.
He died at the age of ninety-two, and his son Oliver T., at
the age of seventy-three. Oliver T. Wilson married Mary
C. Carpenter, and she is living.

Dr. W. H. Wilson grew up at St. Albans, where he at-
tended the public schools, and in 1898 graduated from the
Baltimore Medical College. He was at Washington the day
the first shot was fired in the Spanish-American war. For
three years he practiced as assistant physician in the insane
asylum at Spencer, and another three years in the Hospital
for the Insane at Huntington. This was a wonderful ex-
perience and a valuable training preceding his private prac-
tice. Since 1904 he has been engaged in a general practice
at St. Albans, and is an able physician and surgeon as well
as a successful banker. He is a member of the Kanawha
County, West Virginia State and American Medical Asso-
ciations.

Doctor Wilson has served several times on the St. Albans
Council and also as mayor. He has been vice president and
president of the Board of Trade, and is president of the
High Lawn Land Company. He is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights
of Pythias and president of the Rotary Club. Doctor Wilson
married Kate L. Lackey, of St. Albans. 

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