Biography of Gordon S. Seal - Mercer Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923,  The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York,  Volume ll.
pg. 115

    GORDON S. SEAL, of Bluefield has had an extensive experience as a coal
operator, banker and in other lines. This is one of the prominent names in
West Virginia business circles, his father, Capt. John R. Seal, having long
been prominent as a banker and coal man in Charleston.
    While Gordon S. Seal is a native of New York City where he was born
June 23, 1880, his parents were born in Virginia and he represents an old
family of Virginia ancestry. He is a son of Capt. John R. and Nannie (Wood)
Seal. Hid father was vice president of the Charleston National Bank, and
for many years had extensive holdings and management of coal and railroad
properties.
    Gordon S. Seal acquired a common and high school education at
Charleston, and from there entered Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore,
where he graduated  A.B. in 1902. Since his university career he has given
undivided attention to his business affairs, first entering the coal
business with his father. In 1913 they sold their interests, and Gordon
Seal was then for the following two years associated with the John T.
Hesser Coal Company. He removed to Bluefield in 1915, and from 1916 to 1918
was in the real estate and banking business with the Virginia Realty & Loan
Company. In August. 1919, he assisted in organizing and incorporating the
Curtis-Seal Company, a firm handling general office supplies over an
extensive territory in which the important pints are Williamson, Bluefield,
Welch, Bramwell, and Tazewell, but he sold out of this business in
November, 1921.
    Mr. Seal in 1907, at Montgomery, West Virginia, married Miss Inez
Austin, daughter of George C. and Jennie Austin. Four children were born to
their marriage, and the three living are Lyall Austin, John Ridley and Jane
Ann. Mr. Seal and family are members of the Episcopal Church, and he is a
Royal Arch, Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of
the Elks, the Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce and Bluefield Country Club.
He is an outdoor man, fond of strenuous exercise, plays golf and tennis,
and his hobby is motor trips to distant points.


Submitted by John "Bill" Wheeler <wheeler@gru.net>

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