Lincoln County, West Virginia          The Biography of Joseph E. CHILTON

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Source: Hardesty, Henry H Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia. New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West
Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974.


JOSEPH E. CHILTON --was born at the mouth of Coal river, Kanawha county,
(now) West Virginia, December 6, 1855, and came to Lincoln county in 1878.
He is a son of William Edwin and Mary Elizabeth (Wilson) Chilton.
Joseph E. Chilton taught in the public schools of Kanawha county,
West Virginia, five years, two years of which were spent in Charleston.
He read law in the office of Kuna & Walls while teaching, and at the
age of twenty-one was admitted to the bar. In 1880 he was elected
prosecuting attorney of the counties of Lincoln and Boone, West
Virginia, which office he still holds. Mr. Chilton is a Regent of West
Virginia University, having been appointed by Gov. Jackson in October, 1882.