Biography of George W. Lazenby

GEORGE W. LAZENBY. During the greater part of his
business career George W. Lazenby has been a wholesale
grocer, and is still active in that line as manager of the
Princeton Wholesale Grocery Company. His friends speak
of Mr. Lazenby as a genius in commercial lines, and one
who by remarkable energy and foresight has built up a
fortune when still only in the meridian of his years.

He was born in Bedford County, Virginia, October 19,
1873, and is of Virginia ancestry. The grandfather on his
father's side was Irish and his great-grandfather in the
maternal line was German. He is a son of H. L. and Eliza-
beth (Grounds) Lazenby, natives of Virginia. His father
was a wheelwright at Hendricks Store, Virginia, also post-
master there for a number of years, and was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

George W. Lazenby secured a common school education
in Bedford County. Since the age of seventeen he has
been working for himself, and all his accumulations have
been due to his own work and management. He learned
business clerking in a general store at home for three
years. Another three years he clerked in a general mer-
chandise store at Bedford City. From there he removed
to Bluefield, West Virginia, and for three years was asso-
ciated with the Flat Top Grocery Company. Leaving that
concern, he established a wholesale grocery business now
known as the Jeffrey-Matthews & Company. His next loca-
tion was at Graham, Virginia, where for a year and a half
he was with Walter & Company, wholesale grocers. After
this was consolidated with the Flat Top Grocery Company
at Bluefield Mr. Lazenby transferred his headquarters to
Princeton, where he organized the Princeton Wholesale
Grocery Company. This is an incorporated company and
does a business of more than $700,000 annually. Mr.
Lazenby is treasurer and manager of the company.

In 1898, in Franklin County, Virginia, he married Miss
Jennie Dudley, daughter of P. S. and Nellie P. (Newbill)
Dudley, natives of Virginia. Her father is a farmer. Mr.
and Mrs. Lazenby have seven children: Florence, Louise,
Dorothy, George W., Jr., Dudley, and Keith and Kennith,
twins. All are still in the home circle. Mr. Lazenby and
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. He is a Royal Arch Mason and Elk, and a member
of the Princeton Business Men's Club.

From The History of West Virginia, Old and New, page 43

Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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