Wood County, West Virginia          Biography of Fred Blaine DEEM

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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. 205

FRED BLAINE DEEM in half a dozen years has achieved
honor and success in the legal profession at Clarksburg,
where he is one of the prominent young lawyers.

He comes of an old Wood County family, where the
Deems were established in pioneer times by his great-
great-grandfather, who came from Pennsylvania and was
of German ancestry.  The grandfather of the Clarksburg
lawyer was Jacob Deem, who died only a few years ago,
at the age of ninety-six. The parents of Fred B. Deem
are Peter and Letha Viola (Cook) Deem, both natives of
Wood County, where they have spent all their lives, the
father a successful farmer and stock raiser. Letha Cook's
ancestry is English, and her father came to West Virginia
from Massachusetts. Fred Blaine Deem is the younger
of two sons, his brother, Ralph Lemuel, being a teacher in
the schools of Wood County.

Fred Blaine Deem grew up on a farm, had the advan-
tages of the rural schools and also attended a preparatory
school of the State University. He had two years in the
literary department of the State University, and then con-
centrated his studies in the law school, where he was
graduated LL. B. in 1913. Admitted to the bar, he prac-
ticed two years in association with the prominent law firm
of Smith & Jackson at Clarksburg, and since then has
been depending upon his own exertions and abilities to
achieve his professional success and render service to the
enlarged clientage accorded him. He is a member of the
Clarksburg City Board of Education, in politics ia a re-
publican, and is unmarried. Mr. Deem is a member of
the Baptist Church, is a Knight Templar, thirty-second
degree Mason and Shriner, and is affiliated with the Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  He belongs to
the County and State Bar associations.