Biography of William McClure Workman - Wayne Co. WV


William McClure Workman, son of Alderson and Rebecca McClure Workman, 
was born in Wayne county, March 15, 1851. 
Joseph Workman, his paternal grandfather, came to what is now Wayne 
county at an early day from Eastern Va., lived here for 
many years honored of all who knew him, and reared a large family of 
children. The maternal grandfather of William McClure 
Workman, and whose name he bears, also came from Eastern Va. to this 
section among it's pioneers, settling in what is now 
Lawrence county, Kentucky. He had a family of seventeen children and 
lived to be a good old age. A.N. and S.A. McClure, 
uncles of the subject of this sketch, were soldiers of the Federal army, 
14th Kentucky Infantry, in the was between the States. 
In Barboursville, West Virginia, October 20, 1880, Rev. J. W. Ramsey 
officiating clergyman, William McClure Workman and 
Charlotte Rachel Swann were united in marriage. The bride was the 
daughter of Benjamin Franklin Swann and Louisa Hatfield 
Swann of Cabell County, and was born in that county in 1859. Floyd Swann 
Workman, son of Mr. & Mrs. Workman, was 
born February 28, 1882. William McClure Workman began teaching at the 
age of eighteen years, having only attended such 
schools as the county then afforded. For four or five years he taught, 
attending the Normal School ( Marshall College) two or 
three months of each year. He was then employed on the Wayne Advocate, 
published at Fort Gay, as a local editor. He held 
this connection until 1880 when he became part owner and editor. In 
August, 1881, he severed his connection with the paper, 
and established the Enterprise at Ceredo, with which he is still 
connected, having in September, 1882, associated with him 
Mr. T. T. McDougal, a native of Ritchie County, W.Va.


Submitted by Lorna Corns Workman <pworkman@newwave.net> 

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