Marshall County, West Virginia          Biography of CHARLES E. CARRIGAN

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 487


CHARLES E. CARRIGAN was born at Sherrard, Marshall
County, West Virginia, April 9 (Easter Sunday), 1871,
and was a son of John and Amanda Ellen Carrigan. On
his father's side the grandparents were Irish, and on the
mother's side the grandparents were Scotch-Irish.

Mr. Carrigan attended the public school at McConnell's
one-room school house, and entered West Virginia Univer-
sity, from which he was graduated in the classical course
in 1895. Later he studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1902. He taught school in Benwood, West Vir-
ginia, from September, 1895, to June, 1904, began the
practice of law at Moundsville, West Virginia, in August,
1904, and has been so engaged continuously until this time.

Mr. Carrigan was elected a member of State Senate of
West Virginia in 1902, tor a term of four years, was
elected prosecuting attorney of Marshall County, West Vir-
ginia, in 1908, for a term of four years, and in 1910 was
the nominee of the republican party for Congress from
the First District of West Virginia, but suffered defeat at
the general election in November of that year. In 1920
he was again a candidate for the nomination for Congress
from the same district, but was defeated by the small
margin of fifty-six votes. During the World war he was
chairman of Local Draft Board for Marshall County, and
with his associates made next to the highest records in
the entire State of West Virginia.

Mr. Carrigan is a member of the Presbyterian Church,
and belongs to Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Odd Fellows,
Elks, and Masonic fraternity. In the latter organization
he has been active for the past twenty years, being a past
grand master of West Virginia, has attained the thirty-
second degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,
and at this time is grand captain general of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar of West Virginia. Occa-
sionally when so requested he indulges in making addresses
on fraternal, educational, political and religious subjects.

In 1907 Mr. Carrigan married Harriett Rebecca Davis,
and to them one son, John Edgar Carrigan, was born.
He is now eleven years of age.