Biography of William A. Creager WILLIAM A. CREAGER learned banking in Cincinnati, and for a number of years has been associated with the First National Bank of North Fork, McDowell County. He is cashier of this institution, one of the largest and strongest in the county, with total resources of over $1,000,000. It has a capital of $100,000, and its surplus and undivided profits account nearly equals the capital. Mr. Creager was born at Loveland, Ohio, March 22, 1873, son of Leamon and Mary Kelly (Alcoke) Creager, natives of Ohio. Through his father he is of Pennsylvanian German ancestry, while his mother was of old Virginia stock of English descent. Leamon Creager served in the Home Guards of Ohio during the Civil war, spent his active life as a farmer, and was never in polities to any extent. William A. Creager acquired a common and high school education at Loveland. For several years he worked on a farm, clerked in stores, and on account of failing health went West, to Oregon. He was in Oregon when the Span- ish-American war broke out, and he then joined the Sec- ond Oregon Regiment of Volunteers, with which command he went to Manila and for eleven months was in that city doing hospital work as acting steward. Mr. Creager in 1907 entered the employ of the Fifth Na- tional Bank of Cincinnati in the transit department, and was with that institution for five years. With this thor- ough metropolitan experience in banking he came to North Fork, West Virginia, in 1912 as clerk and bookkeeper for the First National Bank. He was soon promoted to as- sistant cashier, and since March, 1916, has been cashier. He is an able banker, a conservative business man, and is re- garded as one of the ablest citizens of his community. September 1, 1921, at Tazewell, Virginia, Mr. Creager married Miss Jane A. Thompson, whose father is a promi- nent dentist of that place. The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 23 Submitted by Valerie F. Crook **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ****************************************************************