Ohio County, West Virginia - Biography of George P. Whitaker

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Submitted by Valerie Crook.


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 641
Ohio

GEORGE PARKS WHITAKER. The name Whitaker has been
practically synonymous with the iron and steel industry
of the Wheeling District for a great many years. It makes
up part of the title of the Whitaker-Glessner Company, one
of the largest steel industries in the Ohio Valley and
subsidiary of the Wheeling Steel Corporation.

George Parks Whitaker, assistant treasurer of the Whita-
ker-Glessner Company was born at Wheeling, February 24,
1891, son of Albert C. Whitaker and Jessie Parks Whita-
ker. He attended the Linsly Institute at Wheeling, and
graduated in 1909 from Lawrenceville School in New
Jersey. From Lawrenceville he entered Princeton Univer-
sity, graduating A. B. in 1913. While at Princeton he was
a member of the Campus Club. After his university career
Mr. Whitaker returned to Wheeling and went to work in
the Whitaker-Glessner Company, filling a successive round
of responsibilities until his promotion to assistant treas-
urer. He is also assistant treasurer of the Wheeling Cor-
rugating Company, is secretary and treasurer of the Whita-
ker Iron Company and a director of the Industrial Savings
and Loan Company, He is a republican, is affiliated with
the Episcopal Church, and is a member of the Wheeling
Country Club. His home is at Beech Glen, Wheeling, and
his offices are on the eleventh floor of the Wheeling Steel
Corporation Building.

June 27, 1917, George P. Whitaker married Miss Marie
Stifel, daughter of Louis F. and Fredericka (Oesterling)
Stifel. Her mother lives at Wheeling. Her father, the late
Louis F. Stifel, was prominently identified with the finan-
cial life of Wheeling, and enjoyed a place of special honor
and esteem with the Dollar Savings and Trust Company, of
which for many years he was vice president and also sec-
retary of the Trust Department. Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker
have two children: John Oesterling, born May 29, 1918;
and Jessie Parks, born July 3, 1920.