Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of W. A. DRIEHORST

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 146

W. A. DRIEHORST. Two attractive residential districts on
the National Road, now included within the corporate limits
of the City of Wheeling, are Fulton and Birch Lynn, and
he whose name initiates this paragraph is vice-president of
the Bank of Fulton, besides being engaged in the grocery
business at Birch Lynn and Edgewood, all of these places
being attractive suburbs of Wheeling.

Mr. Driehorst claims Wheeling as the place of his nativ-
ity, his birth having here occurred January 4, 1851, and
he being a representative of an old and honored family
of this section of the state, as data on other pages of this
publication clearly indicate. He gained his early educa-
tion in the schools of his native city and as a young man
became identified with the retail grocery business, in which
he eventually became one of the principals in the Albert
Stolze Company, with which he continued his connection
twenty-five years, he having been in the employ of the con-
cern fifteen years and having then been admitted to part-
nership. Eventually he became the sole owner of the busi-
ness, which he incorporated under the title of the W. A.
Driehorst Company. Thereafter he continued the enter-
prise at the same location until about 1915, when he erected
his present store as a branch establishment. About three
years later he sold the store and business in the city and
has since concentrated his mercantile interests in the
suburban stores. The establishment is one of large capacity,
with the best of stock at all times, and commands a sub-
stantial and prosperous business, in the conducting of which
about fifteen employes are retained. Mr. Driehorst is presi-
dent of the company, is a director of the Wheeling Whole-
sale Grocery Company, and is vice-president of the Fulton
Bank & Trust Company. For the past five years he has been
treasurer of St. John's German Evangelical Church, of
which he and his wife are zealous communicants. Mrs. Drie-
horst, whose maiden name was Nellie Leonhardt, is a
daughter of the late Adam Leonhardt, who was a tailor
by trade and who came to Wheeling from Marietta, Ohio,
at which latter place Mrs. Driehorst was born. Mr. and
Mrs. Driehorst have four sons: Leonhardt is now an inter-
ested principal in the grocery company of which his father
is the executive head; Howard is employed in the Dollar
Savings & Trust Company's offices at Wheeling; and Robert
and William A., Jr., are attending the public schools. Mr.
Driehorst is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.