Mingo County, West Virginia          Biography of Harry SCHERR

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Page 243

   Mr. Scheer was born June 6, 1881, at Maysville, Grant Co., West
Virginia, the son of Arnold C. and Katherine (Nickel) Scheer. Arnold C.
Scheer was born in Switzerland, August 19, 1847, and accompanied his
parents to this country at the age of eight years. His father was a
colonel in the Swiss Army, who with other Swiss officers at the outbreak
of the Crimean war went to England and tendered his services to the
British Queen, becoming an officer in the British Army. Coming to the
United States, he was offered a colonelcy in the United States Army at
the outbreak of the Civil War, but could not accept on account of ill
health.
  Arnold C. Scheer was a merchant and manufacturer, and for many years
was prominent in the public life of West Virginia. He served eight years
(1901-1909) as state auditor, and was the republican candidate for
governor in 1908, being defeated. He died in 1917.
   The subject of this sketch attended the public schools at Maysville
and Keyser, a military academy in Allegheny Co., Maryland, and the West
Virginia University. He was admitted to the bar in the summer of 1905
and located at Williamson, having accepted a position in the law office
of Sheppard and Goodykoontz. On July 1, 1907, he became the junior
partner in the firm of Sheppard, Goodykoontz and Scheer. In 1912 Mr.
Sheppard retired from the firm, and the present firm of Goodykoontz,
Scheer and Slaven became the successor  of the firm of Goodykoontz and
Scherr in 1919, Mr. Lant R. Slaven having been admitted as a member. Mr.
Scherr is an officer and director in several financial and industrial
enterprises, among others the National Bank of Commerce of Williamson:
and is city attorney and member of the Board of Education of Williamson
Independent School District. He was the first president of the Coal City
Club, which later became the Chamber of Commerce, of which, he was the
first president and in which capacity he is now serving. He served two
years as assistant prosecuting attorney of Mingo Co., having been
appointed in 1906. During the entire period of the World war, he was a
member of the Local Draft Board of Mingo, Co. In 1920 he was a delegate
to the Republican Convention, which nominated President Harding.
   Mr. Scherr is married and has two children, Harry, Jr., and Barbara.
He is an Episcopalian, a Kiwanian, and his college fraternities are
Kappa Alpha and Delta Chi. He is a member of the Mingo Co., West
Virginia State and American Bar associations.