Upshur County, West Virginia          Biography of ISHMAEL G. CUTRIGHT 

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 432-433
Upshur

ISHMAEL G. CUTRIGHT is one of the successful lumber
manufacturers of Central West Virginia and maintains his
home and office headquarters in the City of Buckhannon,
Upshur County. He was born in this county, on the 17th
of January, 1871, and is a son of Granville S. and Eliza-
beth (Hinkle) Cutright, the former of whom was like-
wise born in Upshur County, October 29, 1842, and thn
latter of whom was born in Randolph County, August 1,
1839. Elmore Cutright, grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, was bom and reared in Upshur County, where the
family was founded in the early pioneer days. Elmore
Cutright married Nancy Wolfe. He was a son of Jacob
and Nancy Elizabeth (Westfall) Cutright, and Jacob was
a son of John and Rebecca (Truby) Cutright, whose mar-
riage occurred in 1788.

Granville S. Cutright was reared on the old home farm
in Upshur County, and while he attended school only four
weeks he supplemented his education by careful study and
reading and became a man of broad information and ma-
ture judgment.  His marriage to Elizabeth Hinkle oc-
curred November 30, 1867, and prior to this time he had
been a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil
war, in which he served three years as a member of the
Upshur Battalion of Light Artillery, in which he was
made a corporal. After the war he continued as one of
the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of his na-
tive county for many years. His political allegiance was
given to the republican party, and both he and his wife
were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Of their nine children one died in infancy and another
at the age of fourteen. Abraham H. is a resident of Salt
Lake City, Utah, where he is engaged in the real estate
business. W. B., a graduate of the University of West
Virginia and also of Columbia University, received from
the former the degree of Bachelor of Arts and from the
latter that of Bachelor of Laws. He was a, member of
the faculty of the preparatory department of the Uni-
versity of West Virginia in 1896-7, thereafter having been
for one year principal of the State Normal School at
West Liberty, and he is now engaged in the practice of
law in Buckhannon, as one of the leading members of the
bar of his native county. D. H. is a successful farmer
in this county. I. G., of this sketch, was the next in order
of birth. C. B. is a lumberman and farmer of Clarks-
burg, this state. Miss Iva K., a graduate of the Buck-
hannon High School, is now bookkeeper in the office of
A. P. Russell, of this city. Miss Corinne is the youngest
of the number.

I. G. Cutright remained on the home farm until he was
twenty-two years of age, and in the meanwhile had prof-
ited fully by the advantages of the public schools. For
ten years he was engaged in the general merchandise busi-
ness, and for twenty years he has been actively identified
with the lumber industry in this part of the state, besides
which he has operated rather extensively in the buying
and leasing of coal land and has important real-estate in-
terests aside from this. He is president of the company
owning the Upshur Office Building. He is a director of
the Cutright-Sharps Company, manufacturers of window-
shade rollers at Buckhannon, and is also a stockholder
in the Buckhannon Bank.

Mr. Cutright is one of the liberal and progressive citizens
of Buckhannon, is a republican in politics and has served
as a mamber of the City Council. He is past chancellor
of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and has rep-
resented the same in the Grand Lodge of West Virginia.
He and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church.

On the 28th of June, 1905, Mr. Cutright wedded Miss
Mary E. Brown, who was born in Pennsylvania and who
graduated from the high school at Butler, that state. They
have five children: Virginia B., I. G., Jr., Iva Catherine,
Mary E. and Nancy C.