Biography of Adrian D. Daly - Summers Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 605-606


ADRIAN D. DALY began his career as a railway telegrapher,
studied law while acting as a train dispatcher at Hinton,
and about fifteen years ago resigned from the railway to
establish himself in practice in the county seat of Sum-
mers County. In his profession and in public affairs he has
earned a merited place among the first citizens of influence
in the county.

Mr. Daly was born at Bridgeport, Alabama, July 11, 1876,
son of P. E. and Margaret (Loving) Daly, who were also
natives of Alabama. His mother died in 1883, P. E.
Daly, now living at Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of
seventy-five, has spent many years in the service of the
Southern Railway Company, chiefly as a conductor. His
second wife was Martha Gray, of Powells Valley, Tennessee.
By the first marriage there were two children: Adrian D.
and Maud, the latter the wife of Sam P. Frost.

Adrian D. Daly spent his early childhood and youth in
Knoxville, Tennessee, attended school there, and at the age
of fourteen began learning telegraphy in an office of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, now part
of the Southern Railway System. At the age of sixteen he
was in the service of the Chesapeake and Ohio at Quinni-
mont, West Virginia, and he rose to the responsibilities of
train dispatcher and acted in that capacity for a number
of years at Thurmond and at Hinton.

He began the study of law in a private office, and in 1902
entered the law department of West Virginia University,
passing the bar examinations in 1903. He was examined
for the bar by the West Virginia Law Faculty and his
license was granted by Judges H. C. McWhorter, Henry
Brannon and George Poffenbarger on January 30, 1903.
Though qualified for practice, he continued with the rail-
road company as dispatcher until 1907. In that year, when
a law was passed establishing the office of police judge for
the city of Hinton, he received the appointment, and by his
energy gave that office a standard of efficiency that well
justified its establishment. Mr. Daly has also served as city
attorney and as commissioner in chancery, and in 1916 he
was elected prosecuting attorney of Summers County, enter-
ing that office January 1, 1917, and serving until December
31, 1920. He was prosecuting attorney and in charge of
the law enforcement in the county throughout the period of
the World war. In addition to the unusually heavy burdens
of his office he acted as Government appeal agent for the
Draft Board, and was a leader in the sale of bonds and
other war campaigns. He is an ardent democrat in politics.

In 1905 Mr. Daly married Vella V. Flanagan, daughter
of Andrew G. Flanagan, of Hinton. They have two children,
Dorothy and Nancy. Mr. and Mrs. Daly are members of
tlie Methodist Church. He is a Royal Arch and Knight
Templar Mason, a member of the Shrine at Charleston, is a
past grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a
charter member of Hinton Lodge of Elks and was formerly
secretary of the Masonic Development Company. Mr. Daly
is an adjutant in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and is
brigade commander of that order for West Virginia.


Submitted by Valerie Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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