Biography of Millard Gilmore Whitlow - Mercer Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 637


MILLARD GILMORE WHITLOW as a young man, graduate
of a commercial school, looking for a place in which to
utilize his energies and abilities to the best advantage,
chose the new town of Bluefield in Mercer County, has
lived there thirty years, has linked his own with the larger
destinies of the city, and for a number of years has been
head of the largest hardware business there.

He was born in Franklin County, Virginia, December 27,
1870, son of E. H. Whitlow, who was of Scotch Irish, and
of Sallie C. (Gilbert) Whitlow, of English ancestry. An
original spelling of the name was Whiteley. E. H. Whitlow
and wife were both born in Franklin County, Virginia,
and the former spent his active career as a farmer, but
retired some years ago. During the Civil war he was with
a Virginia Regiment in the Confederate Army, and was
once captured, but otherwise sustained no bad results from
the service.

Millard G. Whitlow acquired a common school education
in Franklin County, attended school at Martinsville in
Henry County, and in 1892 graduated in the commercial
course from the Roanoke Business College. Soon after-
ward he came to Bluefield, and almost from the first was
in business for himself in metal working and plumbing.
Gradually he expanded his interests to the handling of
a general stock of hardware, and since 1904 has been
proprietor of a growing and prospering hardware business,
now the largest store of its kind in Bluefield and Mercer
County. Mr. Whitlow is a thorough business man, but
had the broad interest of one who reads a great deal of
good literature and keeps in touch with the welfare of
his community.

In March, 1915, at Appomattox, Virginia, he married
Miss Margaret Fleshman, a native of Virginia. Mr. and
Mrs. Whitlow are members of the Presbyterian Church.
He is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and
Shriner, a member of the Elks, and is identified with the
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club at Bluefield.



Submitted by Valerie Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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