Mineral County, West Virginia    Biography of Reginald P. ROBOSSON

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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. 17

REGINALD P. ROBOSSON, vice president of the Davis Na-
tional Bank at Piedmont, Mineral County, was born at
Flintstone, Maryland, on the 14th of October, 1881, and is
a son of Dr. Thomas P. and Virginia (Bell) Robosson, both
likewise natives of Maryland, where the former was born
at Flintstone and the latter at Piney Grove, a daughter of
Josiah Bell. Doctor Robosson passed his entire life in
Allegany County, Maryland, and was one of the oldest and
most revered citizens and leading physicians and surgeons of
that country for many years prior to his death, which
occurred at Flintstone in 1913, when he was seventy-three
years of age, his widow being now a resident of Cumber-
land, Maryland. Doctor Robosson gained his professional
education in the medical department of the University of
Maryland, and as a young man he was able to render an
appreciable amount of professional service in connection
with the Civil war, as a surgeon. He was in full sympathy
with the cause of the Confederacy, was a democrat in poli-
tics, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows and was a zealous communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, as is also his widow, members of the
Robosson family having erected the first Episcopal Church
in Allegany County, Maryland. Of the children of Dr.
Thomas P. and Virginia (Bell) Robosson the following are
living: Charles T., of Flintstone; Mrs. J. B. Humbird, of
Cumberland; Mrs. L. D. Bridges, of Hancock, all in Mary-
land; Mrs. B. D. Witherspoon, of Mercersburg. Pennsyl-
vania; William F., of Cumberland, Maryland; Miss Grace
L., of that city; Reginald P., of this review; and Mrs.
Hattie B. Wolford, of Flintstone. The Robosson family
was founded in the Flintstone District of Allegany County,
Maryland, in the early pioneer days, and the family there
acquired ownership of extremely large tracts of land. Dr.
Thomas P. Robosson was the only child of his parents, and
in all of the relations of life he well upheld the prestige of
an honored family name.

After having fully profited by the advantages of the
public schools of his native town Reginald P. Robosson com-
pleted a course in a business college at Cumberland. After
his graduation in this institution he assumed a clerical
position in the Second National Bank of Cumberland, with
which he continued his connection fifteen years and won
advancement to a responsible executive position. Upon
severing his association with this institution he came to
Piedmont. West Virginia, was elected vice president of the
Davis National Bank and assumed active direction of the
same on the 1st of January, 1918. His thorough experience
in banking and his progressive executive policies have done
much to advance the interests of this solid and well ordered
financial institution of Mineral County. He is a republican
in politics, is affiliated with the Elks and the Knights of
Pythias, and is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, in the faith of which he was reared. He was
active in promoting the sale of Government bonds and
furthering other patriotic measures in the World war period,
and while under the draft he was duly registered and classi-
fied in A-1, he was not called into military service. Mr.
Robosson's name is still enrolled on the list of eligible
bachelors in Piedmont.