Marion County, West Virginia Biography of Capt. Simon C. BOORD ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , March 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 5-6 CAPT. SIMON C. BOORD. A distinctly modern profession, at the same time an indispensable asset to commercial or- ganizations and individual business men, is that of the certified public accountant. One of the best known in this profession in West Virginia is Capt. Simon C. Boord, of Fairmont, who is an especially well known expert on all phases ot cost accounting and the coal and lumber industries. Captain Boord was born at Farmington, Marion County, West Virginia, February 8, 1883, son of William and Alcinda (Snoderly) Boord. His parents were also born in Marion County, each representing pioneer families in this section of the state. The mother now lives at Watson, West Virginia, where the father died in June, 1920. Captain Boord spent his early life on a farm, but at the age of nine years, in 1892, his parents moved to Watson, where his father was in the service of the Gaston Gas Coal Company, now the Consolidation Coal Company. Captain Boord attended public schools at Watson, the Fairmont State Normal School, and also began his working career with the Gaston Gas Coal Company at Watson. Later he was employed by the Fairmont Coal Company at Fairmont, then by the Federal Coal & Coke Company at Grant Town, West Virginia, and subsequently with the United States Coal & Coke Company (a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation) at Gary, West Virginia. Later he was employed as auditor for the Wisconsin Steel Company's coal and coke operations at Benham, Kentucky. Captain Boord received most of his training in public accountancy from the Walton School of Commerce, Chicago, Illinois. In 1915 he located at Fairmont, and has since, with the exception of a portion of the war period, carried on an extensive practice as a public accountant. In 1917 he passed the C. P. A. examination and was given a license to practice as a certified public accountant. He has handled a large amount of difficult accounting problems for glass, coal and lumber corporations in this state. In April, 1918, Captain Boord entered the government service as a civilian in the cost accounting branch of the Construction Division of the army, with headquarters at Washington. He had charge of all traveling cost accountants in that division, and was a member of the committee ap- pointed by Chief of Division to revise and rewrite the Cost Accounting Manual. November 7, 1918, he was com- missioned captain in the Quartermaster Corps and assigned to the Organization and Method Section of the administrative branch of the Construction Division, in which he continued until his discharge on December 26, 1918, after which he resumed his professional work at Fairmont. In a professional way Captain Boord represented the Northern West Virginia coal operators in their hearing before the Federal Trade Commission on their petition for an increase in the selling price of their coal. He also repre- sented the Northern West Virginia operators in their hearing before the Bituminous Coal Commission appointed by Presi- deat Wilson. Captain Boord is a member of the National Association of Cost Accountants, and is a past president of the Association of Certified Public Accountants of West Virginia. He served three years as a member of the National Guard of this state, and is now a reserve captain in the Quartermaster Corps. He is a member of the American Legion, West Virginia Department. Captain Boord is affiliated with Fields Lodge No. 832, A. F. and A. M., at Poor Fork, Kentucky, is a member of the Kentucky Con- sistory of the Scottish Rite and Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Louisville.