Ohio County, West Virginia Biography of Nelson Evans WHITAKER ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , April 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 641 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.