Lincoln County, West Virginia The Biography of David Emory WILKINSON The Biography of David Emory WILKINSON was submitted by Pat R. Adkins, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1894. Rpt. in West Virginia heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock 1974 DAVID EMORY WILKINSON -was admitted to the bar May 12, 1883 and practices in all the courts of Lincoln county and the counties adjoining. He is a native of Lincoln county, born March 23, 1856 and a son of John Samuel and Pamelia (Kayser) Wilkinson, who came to Lincoln county in 1850 from Harrison county (then) Virginia. David E Wilkinson was teacher of public and select school nine years member of the board of school examiners two years and commissioner of the circuit court three years which office he still holds. D. E. Wilkinson attorney-at-law is a promising young man and a brilliant future is before him. His postoffice address is Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia.