Jenkin J. Gilmore, Logan

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 111
Pg. 370



Jenkin J. Gilmore, after completing a very liberal education, returned to
West Virginia and entered the coal industry, and is one of the well known
mine superintendents in Logan County.  His headquarters are at Barnabas on
the Omar branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio, about twelve miles from Logan.


Mr. Gilmore was born January 1, 1888, at Bramwell in Mercer County, West
Virginia.  He is of Scotch and Irish ancestry, and a son of Milton and Alice
(Becker) Gilmore.  His parents were both born in Virginia.  His father , who
died in 1907, was a member of a Virginia regiment in the Civil war, and for
many years was associated with the mining interests of the firm of Freeman &
Jones at Bramwell.


Jenkin J. Gilmore acquired a common and high school education at Bramwell,
finishing his high school course in 1903.  For three years he pursued
advanced training in Mount St. Joseph School at Baltimore, Maryland, and in
1908 graduated in a bookkeeping and general business course at Eastman's
Business College of Poughkeepsie, New York.  On returning to West Virginia
he was given work that constituted a general training in the mining industry
under Colonel Tierney in the Pocahontas coal field.  At the end of three
years he had been advanced to mine boss and foreman for the Pocahontas
Consolidated at Cherokee, where he remained two years.  In 1915 he came to
the Logan Field for the Main Island Creek Coal Company, where his first work
was building a supply house.   He was then made mine boss or foreman, and
since 1919 has been mine superintendent for the Main Island Creek Coal
Company at Barnabas.  During the was he made every effort to get into
service, but was ruled out, since his work in the coal fields was more
essential to the winning of the war.


In 1917,  at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, he married Miss Edna Easley, daughter
of Frederick and Lou (Hatcher) Easley, the former a native of Virginia and
the latter of West Virginia.  Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore have one son, Frederick.
Mr. Gilmore is a Catholic, while his wife is a Presbyterian.  He is
affiliated with the Knights of Columbus.