Upshur County, West Virginia Biography of IVERSON W. CRITES This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 279-280 Upshur County IVERSON W. CRITES, who served with the engineers in France, is a young business man of Weston, and for a number of years his experience has been chiefly in the lumber industry. He is one of the proprietors and officers of the Hope Lumber Company in Weston. Mr. Crites was born in Upshur County, West Virginia, January 19, 1887, son of Gilbert N. and Martha A. (Kerr) Crites. His parents were born, reared, educated and mar- ried in Upshur County, and his father is still numbered among the successful farmers of that section. They are Methodists, and the father is a republican. Of their nine children five are living: Flora, wife of John Prince, a farmer in Braxton County; Albert A., a minister of the United Brethren Church; Iverson W.; Alvin M., a farmer in Upshur County; and Lester W., in a business college in the State of Washington. Iverson W. Crites spent the days of his youth on a farm, attended the common schools, and began working for himself and earning his own living when he was fifteen. He had made every possible use of his advantages while in school, qualified as a teacher and for six years taught winter terms of school. The summers he spent working in lumber camps and around the saw mills, and when In- gave up the teaching profession he turned his complete energies to the lumber industry. Mr. Crites in 1917 ac- quired stock in the Hope Lumber Company. This is an incorporated company with A. O. Harper as president and manager, S. F. White, vice president, J. A. Genderson, treasurer, and I. W. Crites, secretary. Mr. Crites is also a stockholder in the Arch Run Lumber Company. During the World war he enlisted and was trained at Richmond, Virginia, later at Camp Forrest in Georgia, and went overseas with the Four Hundred and Sixty-seventh Engineers. He was on duty in Prance five months and was a sergeant. He is a member of Weston Post of the Amer- ican Legion. Mr. Crites is unmarried, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics votes as a republican.