Mingo County, West Virginia          Biography of James D. MCLAUGHLIN

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society Inc.
Chicago and New York Volume 11
Page 241

   At Kermit, Mingo Co., Mr. McLaughlin is the efficient and popular
general manager of the Earlston Coal Company, one of the important
producing companies of this district.
   Mr. McLaughlin was born at Perrysville, Ohio, September 11, 1885, and
is a son of Rev. Harvey McLaughlin and Maria (Glasgow) McLaughlin, both
of sterling Scotch lineage. Rev. Harvey McLaughlin was born in what is
now Braxton Co., West Virginia, where he was reared on the farm of his
father, and after attending Dennison University, in the State of Ohio,
he completed a divinity course in the theological seminary in the City
of Louisville, Kentucky, his ordination to the ministry of the
Missionary Baptist Church having occurred when he was twenty-five years
of age. While pastor of a church at Perrysville, Ohio, his marriage to
Miss Maria Glasgow was solemnized, she being a representative of an old
and well known Ohio family. After his marriage Mr. McLaughlin held his
pastoral charges in Ohio, and in 1893 he returned to West Virginia and
became pastor of the church atAlderson, Greenbrier Co., where he
remained for four years. Thereafter he held various charges in the coal
districts of the state. He was sixty-six years old at the time of his
death, in October 1917, his wife having died when their son James D., of
this review was a child.
   After the death of his mother James D. McLaughlin was taken into the
home of his maternal grandfather at Perrysville, Ohio, where he
continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation from
the high school in 1903. Thereafter he attended a preparatory school at
Wooster, Ohio, and after leaving this institution he was for two years a
student at Dennison University, his fathers alma mater. In 1910 he
graduated as a civil engineer from Ohio State University, and for two
years thereafter he was professionally associated with the firm ofClark
& Krebs at Charleston, West Virginia. He passed the next year in the
service of the Milburn Coal & Coke Company on Paint Creek, and from 1913
to 1919 he was with the New River & Pocahantas Consolidated Coal Co., in
the engineering department, at Berwind, McDowell Co. He then took charge
of the Earlston Coal Co., of which Henry E. Harmon in president, and as
general manager he has developed the Earlston plant from a wagon mine
into one of the best equipped in this field. He is a republican in
politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
   In 1919 was solemnized the marriageMr. McLaughlin and Miss Louise
Stealey, daughter of John E. Stealey, of Clarksburg, she being a
graduate of the university of West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin
have one child, Miriam Louise.