Biography of Edward Calvin Eagle - 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. 607


EDWARD CALVIN EAGLE, who has been a very successful
lawyer of Summers County for years, was elected prosecut-
ing attorney in 1920 on a platform that called for the
suppression of moonshining and law-breaking in general.
While the task has been a difficult one, he has never wavered
in the performance of his duty so far as the power of the
law and his personal courage and energy avail to that end.

Mr. Eagle was born on a farm in Pocahontas County,
West Virginia, May 24, 1873. His parents, Charles F. and
Elizabeth Anderson Eagle, are now eighty-four years of
age, and have been married since 1866, a period of fifty-six
years. The father was born in Clay County, West Virginia,
and has devoted his life to farming. The mother is a
native of Greenbrier County. Charles F. Eagle was a Con-
federate soldier in the Twenty-second Virginia Infantry,
but since the war has always voted as a republican. He
and his wife have been loyal Methodists for many years.
Edward C. Eagle is one of five living children. The others
are: Maggie, at home; Ruth, wife of Rev. T. M. McCarthy,
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; John, a
farmer of Frankfort, West Virginia; Meta, wife of A. W.
Hill, of Pocahontas County.

Edward C. Eagle attended the common schools of Poca-
hontas County and Hillsboro Academy, and for five years
was a teacher in country districts. Through teaching he
paid his way through West Virginia University, graduating
in 1896, and in 1898 located at Hinton, where for nearly
a quarter of a century he has enjoyed a place of leader-
ship in the local bar. While engaged in general practice
his specialty has been real estate and chancery law.

Mr. Eagle served his first term as prosecuting attorney
of Summers County from 1902 to 1904. For twenty years
he was United States commissioner at Hinton. In the
campaign of 1920 he was urged by his numerous friends
to make the race for prosecuting attorney, and entered the
contest on the republican ticket. The county is normally
democratic, and he was elected by five hundred votes of his
democratic rival. Since he took this office he has directed
the forces of the law in the capture of seventy-two moon-
shine stills in the county, and altogether has secured two
hundred and twenty-five convictions in court.

Mr. Eagle married in 1900 Miss Mollie Baker, daughter
of W. A. Baker of Sweet Springs, West Virginia. They
have one son, Harold. Mr. Eagle is a member of the
Board of Stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
for years was superintendent of Sunday School. He took
an active part in local affairs during the World war, serv-
ing on various committees.


Submitted by Valerie Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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