Biography of Harry James Edmonds - Summers Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, 
pg. 629-630 


HARRY JAMES EDMONDS, is the popular general manager 
of the Hinton Fruit & Produce Company, which now controls 
a substantial and prosperous business, with headquarters 
in a well equipped establishment at Hinton, the county seat 
of Summers County. The enterprise was initiated by its 
present manager in the year 1908, and in 1910 the business 
was incorporated under the present title. All of the 
stock in the company is held in the possession of the 
Edmonds family, the other interested principals being Ed- 
ward T. and George A. B. Edmonds. The Edmonds family 
was founded on the east coast of Virginia prior to the war 
of the Revolution, and the family name has been one of 
prominence in connection with development and progress 
in what is now West Virginia. The old home was in 
Accomac County, Virginia, and thence came the represen- 
tatives in the western part of the Old Dominion, now West 
Virginia, members of the family having been active in the 
furtherance of coal-mining industry in the New and Kana- 
wha River Districts of the latter state.
He whose name initiates this review was born October 
12, 1877, in Accomac County, Virginia, and he is a son 
of John W. and Nancy (Burton) Edmonds, the former of 
whom now resides at Hinton and the latter of whom passed 
to the life eternal in the year 1920. Harry J. Edmonds is 
indebted to the schools of his native state for his early 
education, and in 1900 he took a position in the office of 
G. M. Surpell, an executive of the Atlantic Coast Line 
Railroad, at Norfolk, Virginia, where he remained until 
1908, when he came to Hinton and established, on a modest 
scale, the business of which he is now the manager and 
which has under his direction expanded to most sub- 
stantial proportions. The company has a branch house at 
Norfolk, Virginia, and another at Huntington, West Vir- 
ginia, where the business is conducted under the title of 
the Guyan Fruit & Produce Company, under the manage- 
ment of Edward T. Edmonds, the house at Norfolk being 
conducted under the management of John B. Edmonds.
Mr. Edmonds is a democrat, but has had no desire for 
the activities of practical politics, as he is essentially and 
unreservedly a business man. He is liberal and public- 
spirited in his civic attitude, is actively identified with the 
Rotary Club at Hinton, and he and his wife are zealous 
members of the Presbyterian Church in this city, he being 
an elder in the same and also the teacher of a large class in 
its Sunday School.
In the year 1909 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Edmonds and Miss Margaret Savage, daughter of J. A. D. 
Savage, of Accomac County, Virginia, and she is a popular 
figure in the representative social activities of her home 
community.



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