Marion-Tyler County WV Archives Biographies.....Meredith, James Alva January 27, 1875 - April 18, 1942
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Source: Bench and Bar of West Virginia
Author: Geo Wesley Atkinson, LL.B., LL. D.

Virginia Law Book Company; Charleston, W.Va.; 1919

Pages 476-477, James A. Meredith, A.B., LL.B.

Mr. Meredith, son of Absalom and Catharine (Riley) Meredith, was born at Alma,
Tyler County, West Virginia. January 27, 1875, and was educated at the Normal
and Classical Academy at Buckhannon, West Virginia, and at the West Virginia
University at Morgantown. He completed the course at the Academy in 1895, and
was a member of the graduating class of the State University Of 1900, receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Later he took the law course at the State
University and was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to
practice at Middlebourne, Tyler County, the year he left the University.
Desiring a wider field in which to use his talents and energy, he moved his
residence to the city of Fairmont, in Marion County, where he is now conducting
a large and profitable law business. His practice embraces all branches of the
law. He is a hard student and works early and late in his profession, and is a
safe counselor. He has thoroughly mastered the technique of the law, and ranks
high as a trial lawyer. He prepares his cases thoroughly, and tries them in a
masterful manner. He is an upright man, and is honest in thought and purpose. He
never orders a law suit to be brought unless there has been an actual breach of
the law which shows that there is just cause for a verdict. In other words, he
is not engaged in the practice for revenue only. He is, therefore, careful and
thoughtful in giving advice to persons seeking his opinion. With his modesty and
urbanity go no shadow of weakness or lack of decision. On the contrary, he is
firm and unchangeable in what he believes to be justice and right and his duty
as a counselor to a client. He is solidly grounded in his profession, is upright
in character, and shows marked legal ability in important causes in which he is
often engaged. On the whole, although he is not yet at his best, he has made a
record to be envied. He is particularly strong as a trial lawyer, being full of
resources when he finds himself in a close place. His practice extends to all
the courts of the State and to the general government also.

Mr. Meredith is a Republican in his political convictions, but has never sought
or held an office of any kind. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and is a Freemason and an Elk. He is a Phi Sigma Kappa, and is a member of the
West Virginia and American Bar Associations.

He was united in marriage with Miss Gillian Jamison November 18, 1902. They have
one child.


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Death Certificates
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Marion County Death Certificate #4963
Name: James Alva Meredith
Date-of-Birth: Jan 27, 1875 in Alma, Tyler County WVa
Date-of-Death: Apr 18, 1942 in home at Fairmont, Marion County WV
Cause-of-death: Coronary Occlusion
Residence-at-time-of-death: 1797 Morgantown Avenue, Fairmont
Husband-of: Gillian Jamison
Son-of: Absalom Meredith (WV) and Catherine Riley (WV)
Place-of-Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery

Marion County Death Certificate #11640
Name: Gillian Jamison Meredith
Date-of-Birth: May 25, 1877
Date-of-Death: Sep 21, 1956
Cause-of-Death: Terminal uremia
Dau-of: James M. Jamison and Elizabeth Lynch Boyers
Place-of-Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery


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