Logan County, West Virginia Biography of WILLIAM V. MCNEMAR This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, 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, pg. 573-574 Logan WILLIAM V. MCNEMAR. Logan County claims an ex- cellent contingent of able and successful lawyers, and among the number is he whose name initiates this review and who is established in practice at Logan, the county seat. Mr. McNemar is a scion of Scotch and Irish ancestry, his paternal grandfather, Col. Joseph McNemar, having commanded a Virginia regiment in the Confederate service in the Civil war, his home having been in what is now Grant County, West Virginia, where he served as sheriff and was otherwise influential in community affairs. He married a young woman who bad been abducted from the coast of Ireland and brought to this country, where she became the wife of Colonel McNemar. William V. McNemar was born at Lahmansville, Grant County, this state, on the 4th of March, 1886, and is a son of Samuel B. and Lizzie (Harris) McNemar, the former of whom was born in that county and the latter in the State of Illinois. Samuel B. McNemar became a successful teacher in the schools of Grant County, there gained prece- dence as a progressive farmer, and, while influential in community affairs, he invariably refused to become a candi- date for public office. He died in 1912 and his widow still maintains her home in Grant County. Samuel B. McNemar was a member of the Southern Methodist Episco- pal Church, and Mrs. McNemar is a Baptist. To the schools of his native county William V. Mc- Nemar is indebted for his preliminary education, which was advanced by his attending a preparatory school at Keyser, Mineral County. Thereafter he attended the University of West Virginia until ill health compelled his retirement, but in 1910 he graduated from the State Normal School at Shepherdstown. In the State University he graduated in 1913, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and from the law department of that institution he received in 1915 the degree of Bachelor of Laws, with virtually concurrent admission to the bar of his native state. Bis professional novitiate was served at Parsons, Tucker County, where he remained one year, and for the ensuing three years he was engaged in practice in the City of Charleston. He then removed to Logan and entered into a law partnership with Charles S. Minter, with whom he has since been associated in successful and representative practice in this thriving little city. In the World war period Mr. McNemar was not called into military service, but he was vital and zealous in the furthering of all patriotic activities in the City of Charleston, where he was residing at the time. He is identified with the Logan County Bar Association, the West Virginia Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In the Masonic fra- ternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, is affiliated also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife hold mem- bership is the Presbyterian Church. At Oakland, Maryland, in the year 1913, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McNemar and Miss Helen Babb, daughter of John L. and Margaret M. (Mathes) Babb, both natives of Grant County, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. McNemar have two children: Margaret E. and Anna D.