Preston County, West Virginia          Biography of Scott Harter WILSON

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 220

Scott Harter Wilson became a resident of Kingwood while he was in the
railroad service and when he resigned his post as a conductor he
established a drub business and has since been active in merchandising
and is one of the public spirited men of that prosperous community.

Mr. Wilson represents one of the old and prominent families of Preston
County, some of its members being represented on other pages of this
publication.  He was born in Portland District, October 28, 1877 a son
of Nathan and Sarah (Schaeffer) Wilson.

Scott Wilson grew up on the home farm, attended the common schools and
accepted the duties of the farm until he was twenty.  He then entered
the service of the Virginia and Northern Railroad and was with that
company nineteen years, serving through the ranks until he reached the
position of conductor.  For several years he had maintained his home at
Kingwood and when he left the railroad he established a new business,
The Korner Drug Store of which he is proprietor.

Mr. Wilson has never been active in politics though he has always voted
t local and general elections and has exercised an independent choice
though nominally a republican.  He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner,
being a past master of Preston Lodge No. 90, F. and A.M. and has
represented it in the Grand Lodge.  He is past grand of his lodge of Odd
Fellows, has been district deputy grand master and is a member of the
Encampment Degree of Odd Fellowship.  He is a member of the Methodist
Church and Mrs. Wilson is active in Home Mission work and in the Ladies'
Aid Society.

In Preston County, June 8, 1904, Mr. Wilson married Eula Menefee, who
was born in this county in April 1884, daughter of James and Jean
(McMackin) Menefee.  Her father was a soldier in the Civil war and his
civil life was spent as a farmer, his death occurring near Albright.
There were six sons and six daughters in the Menefee family and the
survivors are:  Mrs. Ollie Fenton of Idaho; Frank of California; Mrs.
Ella Smith of Albright; Robert of Terra Alta; James Walker and Wesley of
Morgantown; Mrs. Wilson; Mrs. Anna Morgan of Morgantown; and Clint, Mrs.
May Phillippet and Mrs. Lelia Waterbury residents of California.  Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson have two daughters: Genevieve and Syreta Mae Wilson.


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