Ohio County, West Virginia - Biography of Nelson E. 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

NELSON EVANS WHITAKER, son of A. C. Whitaker and
Jessie Parks Whitaker, was born at Wheeling, January 11,
1893. He attended the local Linsly Institute, and spent
eight years in Lawrenceville Preparatory School and Cornell
University, graduating from both. He was a student at
Lawrenceville from 1907 to 1911, and at Cornell University
from 1911 to 1915. He had the A. B. degree from Cornell
and is a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. In
1915 he entered the steel industry with the Whitaker-
Glessner Company plant at Portsmouth, Ohio.   He
remained there until August 1, 1920, with the excep-
tion of eighteen months in service as First Lieutenant
of Artillery. He then came to Wheeling and was elected
secretary of the Whitaker-Glessner Company. He is also
secretary and treasurer of the Beech Bottom Land
Company.

Mr. Whitaker is a member of the Episcopal Church, the
Wheeling Country Club, and is a republican. His home is
at Bae Mar, Wheeling. April 3, 1918, at Zanesville, Ohio,
he married Miss Augusta Connolley Haldeman, daughter of
Lunsford and Grace Haldeman, residents of Portsmouth,
Ohio, where her father is president of the Kentucky Fire
Brick Company. Mrs. Whitaker finished her education at
Dana Hall, Wellesley College, Massachusetts. They have
two sons, Nelson Evans Whitaker, Jr., born November 11,
1919, and Harry Cecil Whitaker, born August 26, 1922.