Ohio County, West Virginia Biography of ANDREW GLASS This biography was submitted by Kerry Armour, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II pg.68 & 69 ANDREW GLASS is one of the very active and influential younger men in the industrial and commercial life of Wheeling, and his practical field of experience since leaving school has been the iron and steel industry. He was born at Wheeling, June 25, 1881, son of Woodward W. and Mary C. Glass. His grandfather, Andrew Glass, was one of the original stockholders of the LaBelle Iron Works, one of the pioneer iron industries at Wheeling, established seventy years ago, and now a subsidiary of the Wheeling Steel Corporation. Mr. Andrew Glass acquired most of his public school education in Chicago, and as a youth became a salesman in the Chicago store of the Wheeling Corrugating Company. Later he was made general manager of the Portsmouth, Ohio, works of the Whitaker-Glessner Company, and for several years past has been president of the Whitaker-Glessner Company and vice president of the Wheeling Steel Corporation and his business offices are in the Wheeling Steel Corporation Building. Mr. Glass is a republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and a member of the Elks, and belongs to the Fort Henry Club, Wheeling Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Association. August 2, 1920, he married Dorothy Varner, and they have an infant son, Alexander Glass.