Logan County, West Virginia Biography of C. Mcdonald ENGLAND This file was submitted by CJ Towery, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. 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 The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 235-236 C. MCDONALD ENGLAND. The development of trade and commerce throughout the Guyan Valley is part and parcel of the experience and life work of C. McDonald England. In earlier years he traveled over the valley selling goods to the retail merchants, and has been established at Logan since the first line of railway reached that town. The institution with which most of his business history is concerned is the Logan Hardware & Supply Company, of which he is vice president, treasurer and manager. Mr. England has been active manager since the organization of the company in 1904. Far a number of years the company did a wholesale and retail business in several lines, but in recent years for a more efficient handling of the business two subsidiary companies have been formed. In 1919 the W. F. Bevill & Company was organized to take over the retail hardware business of the older company. Another subsidiary, established July 1, 1922, is the Logan Wholesale Furniture Company. The president of the Logan Hardware & Supply Company is J. W. Ruff of Bluefield, and C.W. Beckner is secretary. Mr. England was born at Covington in Alleghany County, Virginia, March 19, 1882, a son of Dr. J. B. and Anna (McAllister) England. His mother was born at Covington, where she is still living. Dr. J. B. England, was born in Carroll County, Maryland, in 1842, served as a Confederate soldier in a regiment organized in West Virginia, and after the Civil war he studied medicine in Baltimore. He practiced in Alleghany and Bath counties, Virginia, in Greenbrier and Monroe counties, West Virginia, and was engaged in the arduous duties of his profession for a number of years. The last twenty-five years of his life he was retired from practice and lived on his farm at Covington, where he died in 1912. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, was a Master Mason and a democrat. Doctor England and wife had a family of four sons and three daughters. C. McDonald England graduated from the Covington High School at the age of nineteen, and soon afterward he located at Bluefield, West Virginia, where he began his career in the hardware business as an employee of the Bluefield Hardware Company. He remained with that concern for three years, making acquaintances that proved valuable to the early progress of the Logan Hardware and Supply Company when he helped organize that industry, about the time the railroad was built to Logan. Mr. England is also vice president of the First National Bank of Logan. He is a public spirited citizen, has served several terms on the City Council, has been president of the Chamber of Commerce, is past master of Aracoma Lodge No. 99, A. F. and A. M., high priest of Logan Chapter, B. A. M., a member of Charleston Commandery No. 4, K. P., has taken the Scottish Rite degrees in Huntington and in the Wheeling Consistory, and is a member of the Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charleston. He is president of the Rotary Club of Logan. In 1910 Mr. England married Miss Alma H. Hines, daughter of 3. W. and Emma Hines. She was born at Danville Virginia. They have three children: Kathryne McAllister, Anne Elizabeth and C. McDonald, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. England are members of the Presbyterian Church and, like his father, he holds the post of elder in that church. In politics he is a democrat.