Upshur County, West Virginia          Biography of H. A. ZICKEFOOSE

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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. 428

H. A. ZICKEFOOSE, president of the Peoples Bank of
Buckhannon, is also serving as sheriff of Upshur County,
to which office he was elected in November, 1920, and in
which he had previously made a splendid record during
the term from 1913 to 1916. After an interregnum of
four years he was again called to the office of sheriff of
his native county, for a term of four years, and this elec-
tion attested alike the efficiency of his previous adminis-
tration and the secure place that is his in public confidence
and esteem.

Mr. Zickefoose was born on a farm in Upshur County,
December 15, 1873, and is a son of Sampson and Marietta
(Queen) Zickefoose. From his boyhood until he attained
to his legal majority Sheriff Zickefoose was actively asso-
ciated with the operation of the home farm, and in the
meanwhile he profited by the advantages offered in the
local schools. After leaving the parental home he was
employed a short time in a lumber camp, and he next ob-
tained employment in a boarding house, at a salary of
$20.00 a month. He was thus engaged one year, and he
then purchased from his brother a general store, with a
small stock of goods, at Hemlock, this county, his invest-
ment in this enterprise being $475. He continued in suc-
cessful business at Hemlock eleven years, and in the
meantime had served as postmaster of the village. While
conducting the store at Hemlock he had purchased a good
farm, which he still owns, and also had become interested
in the lumber business. After selling his store he removed
to Buckhannon, the county seat, and for two years there-
after he was a traveling salesman for a wholesale grocery
house. Upon retiring from this position he gave his at-
tention to the lumber business until he was elected sheriff
of the county, without opposition, in 1912. He gave a
most vigorous and effective administration of four years,
and upon retiring from office the audit of his books showed
that the county still owed him $27.98. After an interval
of four years his services were again enlisted in the office
of sheriff, the duties of which he assumed in January,
1921. Sheriff Zickefoose is chairman of the Republican
Executive Committee of Upshur County, and has been
active and influential in the councils and campaign activ-
ities of his party for a number of years. He became a
stockholder and director of the Peoples Bank of Buck-
hannon, and of this substantial institution he is now the
president. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights
of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The maiden name of Mrs.
Zickefoose was Nellie Lewis, she being a daughter of
A. D. Lewis, a merchant at Hampton, Upshur County.
Sheriff and Mrs. Zickefoose have one child, Gladys, who was
born in 1909, and who is attending the public schools of
Buckhannon.