Taylor County WV Archives Biographies.....Shrader, Samuel Wood April 25, 1876 - 
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Author: George Richmond

Men of West Virginia
Biographical Publishing Company,
George Richmond, Pres.; C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
Chicago, ILL 1903

Volume I, Pages 287-288

SAMUEL WOOD SHRADER, president of the Irondale Valley Coal Company, and
vice-president of the Monongahela Bituminous Coal Company, one of the leading
citizens of Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, was born April 25, 1876, in
Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of William and Eliza
Jane (Dyers) Shrader. William Shrader was also born in Elizabeth, Allegheny
County, and was a son of William Shrader, who was a German pioneer settler of
that county. The latter lost his father and mother on the sea, en route to the
United States, and the boy was sold for his passage as was the custom at the
seaports at that time. William Shrader (2) was a coal operator and a member of
the well known firm of Wood, Shrader & Company and now lives retired, aged 63
years. In politics he is identified with the Republican party. Fraternally he is
a Mason. The mother of our subject, now residing at her home in Elizabeth, at
the age of 58 years, is a daughter of Henry and Mary Jane Byers, and was born at
Grapeville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Like her husband, she is a member
of the Presbyterian Church. The children born to William Shrader and wife were:
John, a capitalist at Chester, West Virginia; Frank, engaged in the cattle
business in the West; Alice (Mrs. John B. Edmondson) of Glassport, Pennsylvania;
Frederick W., deceased; Bertha B. (Mrs. Bert W. McClure), of Beaver Falls; and
Samuel Wood, of this sketch.

Samuel Wood Shrader completed the common school course, and finished his
commercial education at Duff's Business College, immediately after going into
the coal business as an operator, in which he has successfully continued ever
since. The two great companies with which, he is so prominently identified
control the output of a large extent of country and own 9,000 acres of coal land
in Barbour, Upshur, Preston and Taylor counties, West Virginia. Their offices
are located at Grafton.

In 1898 Mr. Shrader married Elizabeth E. Miller, who was born at McKeesport,
Pennsylvania, in 1878. and is a daughter of Henry J. and Elizabeth M. (Ditmer)
Miller. Two children were born to this union, -- Elizabeth Virginia, and Samuel
Gramm. deceased. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shrader are members of the Presbyterian
Church. In politics he supports the Republican party. His business interests are
large and in the responsible positions, which he has been called upon to fill,
he has displayed a wisdom and ability which testify to his thorough
understanding of the demands of the trade, the conditions of labor and the trend
of the times. 

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