Logan County, West Virginia          Biography of James B. AGEE

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
page 234

JAMES B. AGEE is a prominent young coal man of Logan County, with home at
Logan. He is superintendent of the Shamrock Coal Company, whose operations
are at the coal village of Shamrock. This is one of the mine properties of
the Litz-Smith Coal Company.

Mr. Agee was born at Jacksboro, Tennessee, February 24, 1887, son of James
W. and Lassie (Hollingsworth) Agee, also natives of Tennessee. His father
for a time was in the railroad service, and for three years had charge of
the station at Logan for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Otherwise
practically his entire active life was spent in some county office in
Campbell County, Tennessee, where he was sheriff and also clerk of the
Chancery Court. James B. Agee secured a com-mon school education at
LaPollette, Tennessee, and at the age of seventeen began work as clerk
in a local store, and some three years later came to West Virginia, in
1907, and became clerk in the commissary for the Turkey Gap Coal and Coke
Company. He was there about three years, and then came to Shamrock as
store manager and pay roll clerk for the Litz-Smith Company, owners
of the Shamrock Mine. For one year he was still manager and payroll clerk,
and since then has been superintendent of the mines. During the World
war it is literally true that Mr. Agee worked night and day in order
to stimulate increased production of coal.

In December, 1910, at Delorme, West Virginia, he married Miss Lena A.
Fletcher, daughter of James H. and Media Fletcher, natives of Kentucky.
Her father has been a railroad trainman during his active life. The three
children of Mr. and Mrs. Agee are Arnold B., Raymond H. and Doris Ruth.
The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Agee is
an Elk, and in Masonry is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and the Knight
Templar Commandery, the Mystic Shrine, and recently has completed the
route of the Lodge of Perfection.