Summers County, West Virginia Biography of Oscar P. VINES ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , April 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 645 OSCAR P. VINES, cashier of the Citizens National Bank at Hinton, judicial center of Summers County, was born in Mercer County, West Virginia, October 17, 1880, and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Ellison) Vines, both like- wise natives of what is now the State of West Virginia, the father having been born in Monroe County, in 1848, and the birth of the mother having occurred in 1856, she being now a resident of Princeton. Mercer County, where the death of her husband occurred in 1909. John W. Vines was reared in his native county, and in 1870 he established his residence in Mercer County, where he became a prosperous farmer, besides conducting a general country store at Barn. Thereafter he was for twenty-five years a leading merchant at Princeton, the county seat, and he was one of the honored and representative citizens of Mercer County at the time of his death. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party, and he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as is also his widow. His father, Silas S. Vines, was one of the early settlers in Monroe County, whither he came from Augusta County, Virginia. He established his residence near Sinks Grove, Monroe County, and being a tailor by trade, he was called upon to make uniforms for Confederate soldiers in the Civil war, besides serving as a soldier in that conflict. Oscar P. Vines, of this review, is the eldest in a family of six children; Daisy remains with her widowed mother at Princeton; Cora is the wife of C. A. Brown, of Chicago, Illinois; Hallie is the wife of W. E. Rice, of Minden, West Virginia; Charles L. is in the employ of a coal-mining company in Fayette County; and Abney holds a position in the Virginian Bank of Commerce at Princeton. Oscar P. Vines received the advantages of the public schools at Princeton, the Concord Normal School and the Capital City Commercial College at Charleston, in which last named institution he was graduated in 1900. As a boy he had clerked in his father's store, and after leaving the business college he served two years as bookkeeper in the office of the Noyes-Thomason Company at Charleston. Dur ing the ensuing two years he was employed in the Bank of Raleigh, at Beckley, Raleigh County, his next position being with the National Bank of Summers at Hinton. Later he was prime mover in the organization of the First National Bank of Peterstown, Monroe County, and after serving five years as cashier of this institution he returned, in 1916, to Hinton, where he has since continued the efficient cashier of the Citizens National Bank. Mr. Vines is a loyal supporter of the principles of the democratic party, his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, his wife being a mem- ber of the Baptist Church, and he is vice president of the Hinton Chamber of Commerce. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he is affiliated also with the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. The year 1914 recorded the mariage of Mr. Vines and Miss Mabel Ould, daughter of William T. Ould, of Glenlyn, Virginia, and the one child of this union is a son, Sterling. Mr. Vines takes deep interest in all that concerns the city and material welfare and advancement of his home city, and here he is serving as a member of the Board of Education.