DELL ROY RICHARDS

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II.
pg. 360.



Dell Roy Richards, cashier and director of the Bank of
Morgantown, has been identified with the banking and 
business intersts of the City of Morgantown for the last
twenty years, and during that time has worked his way up
from the position of street car conductor and bank 
messenger to the cashiership of one of the strongest 
banking institutions of the city, winning, likewise, a
place among the leading citizens of the community.  He
is of Welsh-Scotch stock, and was born on the old 
Richards home farm in Belmont County, Ohio, March 7, 1881,
a son of William and Catherine (Compher) Richards, and
a grandson of William Richards.

William Richards, the father of Dell R., was born in
Belmont County, Ohio, where as a young man he adopted
the vocation of agriculturist.  This he followed in
Belmont County until he removed to New Cumberland,
Hancock County, West Virginia, and in that community
rounded out an honorable, useful and successful career.
He was a man of integrity and good citizenship, and
won and held a number of warm friends and admirers.
Mrs. Richards, who is a resident of Long Beach, 
California, was also born in Belmont County, Ohio, 
and is a daughter of the late John Compher.

Dell Roy Richards spent his boyhood days upon the home
farm in Belmont County, Ohio, and at New Cumbeland,
Hancock County, West Virginia, to which community the
family moved when he was eight years of age.  He
attended the public school at New Cumberland, and in
1898 graduated from high school, following which, in
1900, he enterd the University of West Virginia, and
spent two and one-half years at that institution.
While a student there, in order to assist in paying 
for his education, he worked as a conductor on the
street railway and likewise served as cashier of the
Union Utility Company, operators of the street-car
lines.  In 1904 Mr. Richards began his regular 
banking experience as a messenger in the Bank of
Monongahela Valley at Morgantown, and during the
next seven years worked his way up from that position
to that of teller of the institution.  He resigned
his post in December, 1910, to accept that of cashier
of the Bank of Morgantown, an institution then four 
years old, and with resources amounting to $300,000,
which, since Mr. Richards became cashier, have
increased to the sum of $1,700,000.  While banking 
has been his intimate and leading intrest, he has
been concerned officially and otherwise with 
additional honorable enterprises, and for some time
has been president of the Central Automobile
Corporation, which maintains plants at Morgantown,
Clarksburg, Fairmont and Mannington, West Virginia.
He is a member and elder of the First Presbyterian
Church of Morgantown, and as a fraternalist holds
membership in Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M., and the
Kappa Alpha college faternity.

Mr. Richards married Miss Elizabeth B. Davis,
daughter of the late Marcellus Davis, of Morgantown,
who was widely known in business and financial 
circles of the city.


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