Preston County, West Virginia          Biography of Everett A. LUZADER

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923,  The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York,  Volume ll.
pg. 116-117


Everett A. Luzader, superintendent of the schools of Valley District in 
Preston County, is one of the forceful young men engaged in the modern 
educational program of West Virginia, and his life so far has been devoted 
either to getting an education himself or teaching and school administration.

He was born at Auburn, Ritchie County, West Virginia, March 2, 1884. His 
grandfather, Daniel D. Luzader, was born at Grafton, West Virginia, son of
the founder of the family in this state, who came from German. Daniel D. 
Luzader was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil War, enlisting from 
Taylor County. He married Martha Newlon of Grafton, and the oldest of 
their nine children was Winfield Scott Luzader. The latter born at Grafton
in October, 1853 and has spent his active career as a teacher and farmer. 
He taught in Ritchie County for ten years, but in now devoting his time to
his farm. He married Clara Davis, whose father, John Davis, enlisted as a 
Union soldier in the state of Minnesota, and after the war returned East 
and spent the rest of his life as a farmer near Berea in Ritchie County. 
Mrs. Scott Luzader died June 10, 1900. Her children were: Lucretia, wife 
of Mr. Woodzell, of Hot Springs, Virginia; Everett A.; Flossie, wife of 
E.E. Brown, of Auburn; May, a teacher in the Auburn schools; Gladys and 
Thyzra, twins, and Otis, all living on their father's farm. Scott Luzader
has always kept in touch with educational affairs, and for twelve years 
was a member of the Board of Education of Union District.  He has given an
active support to the Republican party, and the family record is that of 
men interested  and more or less active in politics. He and his family are
Baptists.

Everett A. Luzader is, therefore, representative of a family long identified
with the cause of education and agriculture. He spent his early life on a
farm, attended county schools, and completed the normal course of Salem 
College in 1909, but had already taught two years before graduating. The next 
three years he devoted his time consecutively to the duties of the school room.
The following year he was a student in the University of West Virginia, then 
returned to Salem College, where he finished his literary education and 
graduated A.B. in 1915. 

After graduation Mr. Luzader was principal of the Salem High School for four 
years, was principal of the Newburg High School one year, and came to Masontown 
as principal of the school of that village, but one year later, in July, 1920, 
was elected Superintendent of Valley District. As superintendent he has
supervision of seventeen schools, two of them being high schools, and a 
staff of thirty-one teachers. He has done something constructive and 
progressive in the local educational program, including the completion of
the Masontown school building, the improvement of its campus, adding a course 
in citizenship to the school curriculum and also increasing by a year, the 
time devoted to the study of agriculture, economics and sociology.

Mr. Luzader is affiliated with Salem Lodge, Knights of Pythias. At Tunnelton, 
December 10, 1914, he married Miss Gail Hemsworth, formerly of Harrisville, 
Ritchie County, where she was reared. She was born May 26, 1892, graduated 
from the Harrisville High School and the normal department of Salem College, 
and at the age sixteen began teaching. She is the mother of three children, 
Brooks Morgan and Ralph, but at the same time she keeps up her educational 
work as one of the teachers in the Valley District High School at Masontown.