Nicholas County, West Virginia    Biography of Edward G. FEUERHERM

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
Pg. 470-471

EDWARD G. FEUERHERM is general manager of the William F. Mosser Company, 
engaged in the leather business in the City of Richwood, Nicholas County, 
where he is also a director of the First National Bank, with secure status as 
one of the representative business men of this vital and progressive little 
city.

Mr. Feuerherm was born at Newark, New Jersey, October 22, 1876, and is a son 
of Randolph and Bertha (Von Groitsczh) Feuerherm.  He received his early 
education in the public schools of his native place, where also he attended 
the Newark,New Jersey, Technical School, and  the New Jersey Business College 
after which he continued his studies in Marquette University at Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, besides which he has taken special courses of study pertaining to 
the tanning and finishing of leather, especially upper and sole and glove 
leather.  When he came to Richwood and first became associated with the 
William F. Mosser Company he remained here four years.  He thereafter was in 
the employ of the great meat packing corporation of Morris & Company of 
Chicago, and when the nation became involved in the World war he returned to 
Richwood and became associated in the tanneries of the William F. Mosser 
Company, these local tanneries being the largest of the kind in the United 
States and he being now general manager of the same.

Mr. Feuerherm is a stalwart republican, and was active and influential in the 
affairs of the party while residing in the State of New York and also in the 
New England States.  At Clarksburg, West Virginia, he is affiliated with the 
Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are 
communicants of the Catholic Church.  The maiden name of Mrs. Feuerherm was 
Catherine R. Berry, and they have two daughters, Marie and Catherine, both 
having attended Mt. St. Joseph College in the City of Dubuque, Iowa.