Ohio County, West Virginia Biography of Clem E. PETERS This file was submitted by Tina Hursh, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. 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 111 Pg. 361 & 362 Clem E. Peters has shown fine initiative and constructive powers in his executive administration as secretary and treasurer of the Conservative Life Insurance Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, and admirable institution of which specific record is given in following review. Mr. Peters was born and reared in the State of Ohio where he received excellent educational advantages, and he has been a resident of Wheeling, West Virginia, for a quarter of a century. Here he was for some time employed as clerk in a drug store, later was here engaged independently in the drug business, and it was in his sleeping apartment over his drug store that the insurance company of which he is now secretary and treasurer virtually had its inception, in 1906, while it has been in large measure due to his resourceful energies and progressive and careful policies that the company has forged to the front as one of most substantial, well ordered and beneficent functions-a home institution of which West Virginia may well be proud. Of the determined spirit that animated Mr. Peters and his associates in their efforts to build up this worthy enterprise results speak for themselves, but the casual observer can have slight comprehension of the heavy responsibilities assumed, the great obstacles surmounted, and the discouragements set aside in the stupendous evolution of a solid and noble institution of broad scope and ever widening influence. The review of the inception and growth of this insurance corporation, as given in following pages in this publication, should be read in connection with this sketch of the progressive and representative citizen who has played so important at part in the upbuilding of the company and business.