Ritchie County, West Virginia          Biography of Charles W. SINNETT

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III
pg. 54

CHARLES W. SINNETT is giving an excellent administration
as postmaster of Auburn, Ritchie County, and is one of the
well known and distinctively popular citizens of his native
county, his birth having occurred at Washburn, this county,
June 27, 1873. In Ritchie County were also born his par-
ents, John P. and Helen V. (Stanley) Sinnett. The father
was here born in the year 1847, where he was reared on a farm,
and though he was a mere boy at the time of the outbreak
of the Civil war, his youthful loyalty to the cause of the
Union prompted him to enlist in the Tenth Virginia Infantry,
with which he continued in service until the close of the war.
After his return home he continued his active alliance with
farm enterprise until he turned his attention to lumbering
operations as the owner of a sawmill. With this line of
business he continued his associations for many years prior
to his death. He and his wife were zealous members of the
Indian Creek Baptist Church, he was a stalwart republican,
and was a valued and appreciative member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Of the six children Charles W., of
this review, is the eldest; Alberta is deceased; Mary E. is
the wife of Floyd Jones; Eliza May is the wife of 0. H.
Waller; Clarence M., an oil-well driller by occupation,
resides at Harrisville, judicial center of Ritchie County; and
Clinton L. resides at Burnt House, this county, he having
been a member of the United States Navy and having been
in the aviation service of the nation in the period of the World
war.

Charles W. Sinnett remained on the home farm until he
was nineteen years old, and that he had profited by the
advantages of the public schools is evidenced by the effective
service which he gave as a teacher in the rural schools for
four terms. He became identified with the operation of a
saw mill, and later was a partner in the operating of a flour
mill also at Auburn, besides which he acquired skill and
worked at the carpenter's trade. In 1914, after civil-service
examination, he was appointed postmaster at Auburn, in
which village he has maintained his residence since 1892,
and his administration has fully justified his appointment
to this office. He owns the building in which the Post Office
is established, and has given the same a modern equipment,
so that the service facilities are of the best. He also owns
and occupies one of the attractive homes of the village.
Mr. Sinnett is a staunch republican, and in a fraternal way
is a past chancellor of Auburn Lodge No. 47, Knights of
Pythias, which he represented in the Grand Lodge of the
state in 1909-10. His wife is an active member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1905 Mr. Sinnett married Miss Laura J. Watson, and
of this union six children have been born, all of whom are
living except the youngest. The names and respective birth-
dates of the children are here recorded: Lois, January 18,
1906; Lora, April 11, 1908; Helen, October 27, 1910; John
Willard, January 28, 1912; Harmon R., September 11, 1915;
and May, who was born January 8, 1921, and died January
12, 1921.