West Virginia Statewide Files WV-Footsteps Mailing List WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: Mrs. Rachel E. (GRANT) TOMPKI [SSpradling@aol.com] #2 BIO: William Redford COX, Kanawha [SSpradling@aol.com] #3 CEM:unknown,CABELL/LINCOLNCO. [PTyler107@aol.com] #4 BIO: Harry L. BROOKS, Hancock Co., [Valerie & Tommy Crook Subject: BIO: Mrs. Rachel E. (GRANT) TOMPKINS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Kanawha County George W. Atkinson 1876 p. 305-307 RACHEL E. TOMPKINS Mrs. R. E. Tompkins, wife of the late William Tompkins, was born in Pennsylvania in 1804. Her father, Captain Noah Grant, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving valiantly until its close. He was one of the party who threw the tea overboard in Boston harbor. He moved to Maysville, Kentucky, in 1811, where he resided until his death, which took place in 1820. After the death of her father, the subject of this sketch lived with her brother, the late Peter Grant,who was so well known to all of the old citizens of Kanawha as the principal man in the salt manufacturing firm of Armstrong, Grant & Co., which was founded in January, 1827. She made her first visit to Kanawha in August, 1827, to her niece, Mrs. James Hewitt, a daughter of Peter Grant. Mr. Hewitt was at that time a resident of Malden, doing business for the company of Armstrong, Grant & Co., of which he was a stockholder and director. In 1831 she was united in marriage with William Tompkins, who was at that time manufacturing salt at the Burning Springs furnace, ten miles above Charleston, and had, by industrious application to business, ac cumulated a handsome estate. Mr. Tompkins was one of the pioneer salt manufacturers of the Kanawha Valley. He came here in April, 1815, aged twenty-two years, after having fought his country's battles in the war of 1812-14, and first obtained employment as a blacksmith, at a small salary. This, however, was increased annually, enabling him to lay by a sufficiency of means to purchase a small interest in a salt furnace. He applied himself strictly and diligently to the business of salt making, until he became able to purchase a furnace of his own. He not only made a pecuniary success of his business as a salt manufacturer, but he was the inventor of a number of appurtenances and improvements in furnaces and salt wells, which are still in use by all salt manufacturers in the Kanawha Valley. Mr. Tompkins was a man of great character as well as of great energy. By his scrupulous integrity, and promptness in all of his business engagements, he won and ever retained the confidence of all his associates and neighbors. In 1844, he applied the gas of the burning spring to his furnace, and thereby reduced the expense of manufacturing salt to a price not exceeding one cent per bushel. He resided at the Burning Spring furnace, in the house now occupied by his son, William H. Tompkins, till 1845, when he moved to Cedar Grove, at the mouth of Kelly's creek, twenty miles above Charleston, where he died in May, 1857, and where Mrs. Tompkins still resides. Mr. Tompkins never aspired to or held a public office, yet he often held positions of trust for the salt companies, such as hipmaster, traveling agent, treasurer, and was always one of the Board of Directors of the Kanawha Salt Company, which was a combination of all the salt manufacturers of the valley. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Tompkins has continued to reside at the old Kelly's creek homestead, which by the way, is one of the finest farms on the Kanawha. In speaking of her experience during the late war, she used this language: "Living in the country, with armies moving, was not only annoying, but extremely hazardous; and but for the safeguard furnished me by General U. S. Grant, which I frequently had occasion to use as a weapon of defense, I would have suffered even more than I did in pecuniary loss and anxiety." Mrs. Tompkins is a lady of unusual good sense, and possesses quite a business-like turn of mind, as is shown by the following language used in a recent letter to the author, which is peculiarly her own: "My recollections of the first days of Kanawha are those fraught with prosperity and happiness for all whose industry rendered them deserving. Those were days when our labor was not brought in competition with the pauper prices paid by foreigners. A healthy tariff then was our protection ; and my observations have been, that old Kanawha has prospered and bankrupted just as this Protection has been afforded and denied us." Mrs. Tompkins is the sister of Mr. Jesse Grant, the father of General Ulysses S. Grant, the present President of the United States. She is intimately acquainted with the President, and is very much attached to him. Very naturally, of course, she is proud of the fact that her nephew has been twice elected to the highest position in the gift of his countrymen. Mrs. Tompkins is the mother of eight children, all of whom are living, and are respected and deserving citizens. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:27:06 EDT From: SSpradling@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <93a127b1.2516cb4a@aol.com> Subject: BIO: William Redford COX, Kanawha County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit History of Kanawha County George W. Atkinson 1876 p. 307-308 WILLIAM REDFORD COX. William R. Cox was born in Amherst county, Virginia, March 5, 1788. When he was but three years of age his father died, and ten years later his mother likewise passed away. William was the youngest of a large family, and the estate which his father had left to his family was almost absorbed by the elder brothers, under the excuse that they had to care for the younger members of the fainily, and should therefore be entitled to the lions share of the property. Such conduct was not satisfactory to William, and he resolved that he would leave home and care for himself. This he did when quite young. He went to Richmond, and engaged as a laborer on the line of keel-boats running on the James river between Richmond and Lynchburg. After laboring for about a year as a boatman, and having laid by a considerable sum of money, one afternoon, while his boat was lying at the Richmond wharf, two negro boys were being sold by an auctioneer-one of them was lame, and the other had but one eye. The price at which they were going was so low that Mr. Cox became their purchaser, at remarkably small figures. He took them with him on a keel boat, and very shortly found that he had made a good investment of his money. A year or two later he came west, bringing his two negro boys with him; and in 1815 he arrived in Kanawha. Here he found an excellent field in which to labor; and from the first his business undertakings proved lucrative. For a time he worked as a laborer at a salt furnace in the Salines; but the proprietors, the Steele brothers, seeing the energy and enterprise displayed by young Cox, gave him the position of overseer of their furnace. He continued in the Capacity of manager for the Messrs. Steele for several years, until he had accumulated, from his own labor and that of his two slaves, a considerable sum of money. He had, by this time, become pretty well schooled in business, and therefore determined to start out for himself. He bought property in Charleston, and each year made it a point to add something to it, so that by the time he had reached the meridian of life, he had accumulated a comfortable and handsome estate. He was a man of limited education, but of good sense and extraordinarily good judgment. He was honorable and upright in all of his dealings; and among business men his word was as good as his bond. He had a pleasant disposition, and was revered and respected by all of his associates. He died September 8, 1843, and his remains are enclosed by a stone vault on the brow of the high hill which bears his name, in the rear of Charleston, and over them stands a neat stone monument, which can be seen at the distance of several miles from every direction. No more beautiful spot for the repose of the dead could have been selected. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:44:27 EDT From: PTyler107@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: CEM:unknown,CABELL/LINCOLNCO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This cemetery is located south of Salt Rock,WV along the railroad tracks following the Guyandotte River. The cemetery is beside the road at the first crossing on the road. This is close to the Lincoln/Cabell County line, am unsure which county it is actually in. This is very grown up, but there are at least 10 graves there, only 1 grave has a headstone, 9 others are marked with fieldstones. It reads: Elizabeth D. (or R.) wife of Elisha Shelton died November 23, 1877 age 59 yrs. 5 mos. 7 days ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:58:20 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990919215820.00ff3140@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Harry L. BROOKS, Hancock Co., WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 253-254 Hancock County HARRY L. BROOKS. Under the modern conditions and or- ganization the police department of a city like Weirton is one of the most important in the municipal service, and its management requires rare abilities of an executive nature, good diplomaic powers in the handling of a force of men so that the machine may run without retarding friction, the bravery of a fearless soldier and the broad judgment of an able general. All of these traits are possessed by Harry L. Brooks, chief of police of Weirton and president of the West Virginia Association of Police Chiefs. Chief Brooks was born at Grafton, West Virginia, a son of Richard Brooks, for over thirty years a locomotive engi- neer on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, running out of Clarksburg, West Virginia. He eventually retired, with a splendid record, and died in 1921, at the age of seventy-two years. He was also engaged in police work at Clarksburg, and continued to give the merchants of that city protection even after his son had become chief. A man of many ex- cellent qualities, he had hosts of friends, and his loss was widely mourned. Harry L. Brooks was reared at Clarksburg, where he received his education in the graded and high schools, and in 1901 joined the police force. His promotion was rapid and he soon advanced to the position of chief. In 1908, at the solicitation of John C. Williams, general manager of the Weirton Steel Corporation's Plant, the building of which about that time brought the City of Weirton into being, Chief Brooks resigned his post at Clarksburg and came to Weirton to become the first chief of police of this place, with a force of ten men, this constituting the De- partment of Public Safety. His initial duties also included those of welfare worker, he being placed in charge of all public improvements and the social betterment of the mill employes. The Weirton Police Department now consists of fourteen men. Weirton also boasts of one of the most modern homes for its police department of any town in the state, a modern structure which cost about $35,000 and which is excellently equipped with all the latest devices, and includes private offices, a court room, etc. Chief Brooks, who was elected nine times by vote of the people, is known as "the ideal chief." Of powerful and well proportioned physique, his mere presence is sufficient to quell any ordinary disturbance, and he has long been a terror to law-breakers, although a kind-hearted friend to the unfortunate and a protector of the innocent. No third- degree methods are tolerated in the Weirton Police Depart- ment. cowardice and brutality are reasons for instant dis- missal from the force, and merit is the basis of advance- ment. Chief Brooks is at present president of the West Virginia Association of Police Chiefs and a member of the International Association of Police Chiefs, connections which have proved beneficial to him in his quests as detec- tive and police officer. In 1919. before the International As- sociation of Police Chiefs, Chief Brooks was called upon for an address, and his talk was one of the very few considered worthy of publication, being reproduced in full in the Washington Herald. Chief Brooks addressed the associa- tion upon their duty to the Government, as to their share in the raising of funds for patriotic purposes, and in regard to the town of Weirton, which he stated had raised two and one-half times its quota in Liberty Loans, Red Cross work and the Y. M. C. A. drives. Chief Brooks married Miss Calla Davis, daughter of Evander Davia, who was formerly a teacher at Salem, West Virginia. One son has been born to this union, Richard, who at present is captain of a gun crew on the U. S. Battle- ship "Idaho." U. S. N. Chief Brooks is a member of the Knights of Pythias. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:58:20 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990919215820.00ff1980@trellis.net> Subject: BIOS: Robert C. and Jesse S. EVANS, Hancock Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 254 Hancock County ROBERT C. AND JESSE S. EVANS. None of the mercantile establishments at Weirton are better known or have gained a greater success during a like period of years than the general merchandise enterprise of Evans Brothers, the pro- prietors of which are Robert C. and Jesse S. Evans. These men have built up a large and flourishing business from small beginnings, and while advancing their personal success have contributed to the progress of the community not only through the development of a worthy commercial venture but through their constructive and helpful support of meas- ures promulgated for the betterment of the city's institutions. The Evans brothers were born at New Cumberland, Han- cock County, West Virginia, Robert C. on June 4, 1873, and Jesse 8., June 24. 1879, their parents being James Madi- son and Emma E. (Evans) Evans. Mrs. Evans, who was born at Wheeling, still survives and resides at New Cumber- land, at the age of eighty-four years. James Madison Evans was born near New Cumberland, in 1841, a son of Jeremiah C. Evans, an agriculturist, who passed his life in Hancock County and was an extensive operator. On reaching man- hood James Madison Evans adopted farming for his life work, and spent his whole life in Hancock County, where up to the time of his retirement he tilled the soil and was a large grower of fruit. He resided at New Cumberland, surrounded by the comforts attainable by the fruits of his early industry and where he died in March, 1916. Robert C. and Jesse S. Evans received good, practical educational advantages as lads in the public schools of Hancock County. They were reared as farmers' sons, but neither desired to lead an agricultural life, and accordingly accepted positions as clerks, where they gained their intro- duction to business methods. Robert C. Evans also served two terms, or eight years, from 1904 to 1912, as assessor of Hancock County, an office to which he was elected on the republican ticket. In May, 1912, the Evans brothers founded the Weirton Supply Company, a grocery and mar- ket, their initial capital being about $2,500. The business was continued in the same way, although with growing success, until 1918, when it was connsolidated, with a store at Weirton which the brothers had started in 1916 as a branch of the original business. In the same year they had erected a double store, three stories in height, of brick, at the present location, coating $28,000, and in 1921 an- other store was added, with lodge hall and two apartments above, making the entire building cost about $37,000. The first year's sales were about $30,000, but have run as high as $225,000, and the stock carried regularly is valued at from $20,000 to $25,000, or more than ten times the original stock. Eight employes are kept busy and the trade is by no means confined to Weirton, many of the patrons of the establishment residing in the rural districts and the nearby towns and villages. The brothers are men of sound integ- rity who have established excellent reputations for honor- able dealing and honest representation. They are inter- ested as good citizens in civic matters and give their moral and material support to all measures which promise to be of benefit to their community. They have several connec- tions of a fraternal character, and their friends are numer- ous in social circles. Robert C. Evans married Miss Mary L. Mayhew, daughter of J. H. Mayhew, who was superintendent of the Hancock County Infirmary for a number of years. To this union there have been born two children: Edna, a teacher in the public school at Holliday's Cove; and James Henderson, D. D. S., a graduate of the Pennsylvania University at Philadelphia. Jesse S. Evans was united in marriage with Miss Vir- ginia Wilson, of New Cumberland, and they have five chil- dren: Emma Virginia, Dorothy, James L., Fred W. and Lambert. ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:53:27 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990919215327.00ff49d0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Harris Clinton HAWKINS, Wetzel Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 255 Wetzel County HARRIS CLINTON HAWKINS is one of the energetic busi- ness men of New Martinsville, a. young, progressive citizen, who has succeeded in building up a widely extended and prosperous insurance business. Mr. Hawkins was born at Belington in Barbour County, West Virginia, December 14, 1884. His grandfather, Wil- liam Hawkins, spent the greater part of his life at Buek- hannon, where he was associated with the Giffin Lumber Company. He was in the Quartermaster's Department of the Union Army during the Civil war, and died at Buck- hannon. His wife was Caroline Farnsworth, who died at Sutton but is buried at Buckhannon. Thomas Henry Hawkins, father of the New Martinsville business man, was born at Buckhannon September 22, 1857, and was reared and educated there. Shortly after his marriage he was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for a number of years continued active in the ministry, both in West Virginia and in Missouri. He also engaged in business as a merchant in Belington, but in 1887 removed to Sutton, where he continued merchandising, and in 1898 established his home at New Martinsville, where he organized the West Virginia Monumental Works and later resumed merchandising. He died at New Martins- ville in October, 1912. He served two terms on the City Council, was a republican, and after retiring from the ministry kept up a deep and sincere interest in the working affairs of his church and was especially prominent in the first church of the Methodist Episcopal denomination at New Martinsville. He was also a Knight Templar Mason. Thomas H. Hawkins married Mary King Harris, who was born in Henry County, Virginia, October 17, 1863, and now lives with her only surviving child in New Martinsville. Her older child, Bertha, died at the age of twenty-one years. Harris Clinton Hawkins acquired his early education in the public schools of Sutton and New Martinsville, and spent two years in West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buck- hannon. Leaving college in 1903, he was for six or seven years employed by the Brast Hotel Company of New Martinsville, but since 1910 has been giving his time and talents to the life insurance business, and is now state manager for the Masonic Mutual Life Association of Wash- ington. The main offices are in the Federal Realty Build- ing on Main Street, New Martinsville, and also branch offices are maintained at Wheeling, Huntington, Charleston, Bluefield, Clarksburg, Fairmont and Bramwell, West Vir- ginia. Mr. Hawkins is a past master of Wetzel Lodge No. 39, F. and A. M., and district deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge. He is affiliated with West Virginia Con- sistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine in that city. When the Kiwanis Club of New Martinsville was organized he was elected its first president, in 1921. He is also vice presi- dent and a director of the Ohio Valley Builders Supply Company of New Martinsville. Mr. Hawkins is a repub- lican and a member of the Official Board of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. During the war he assisted in all the drives for funds, and took charge of the Salvation Army drive for Wetzel County. February 27, 1913, at New Martinsville, he married Miss Maude Amelia Funk, daughter of Thomas J. and Helen (Fisher) Funk, residents of New Martinsville. Her father is now retired after a long service with the Koontz Lumber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have four children: Mary Helen, born February 7, 1914, Eloise Frances, born Decem- ber 15, 1915, Harris Funk, born December 5, 1917, and Betty Ann, born February 3, 1920. ______________________________X-Message: #7 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:52:00 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990919215200.00ff3da0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: Rev. Andrew WILCZEK, Hancock Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 254-255 Hancock County REV. ANDREW WILCZEK. During the six years that Rev. Andrew Wilczek has been the pastor of Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church at Weirton he has impressed the community with his disinterested work in the cause he serves, and has given evidence of the possession of qualities which must assuredly call forth general admiration, even from those who differ most sharply with him theologically and otherwise. His sincere piety, his intense moral earnest- ness, his uninterrupted industry, his unfailing kindliness and his spirit of tolerance have gone far to make him beloved by his flock and prosperous in the affairs of his parish, and have gained him the good will and assistance of those of other creeds, without which no priest considers that he has achieved the fullness of his mission. Father Wilczek was born in Poland, where he received his early education at the University of Cracow and a Military Academy and held the rank of sub-lieutenant in the army. Coming to the United States in 1910, he com- pleted his theological education and was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church at Detroit. His first services were at Norfolk, Virginia, where he built a church and spent two years, and at the end of that period came to Weirton. accepting the call to Sacred Heart of Mary parish. This parish was started at the beginning of the town of Weirton by Father Madert, the first congregation of thirty of forty families meeting for service in a small building on Avenue A. Father Madert remained one year and was succeeded by Father Przybysz, who continued for a like period, the next priest in charge being Father Lo Monacco, who re- mained only a few months. His successor was Father Pawlowski, who continued one year, and October 16, 1916, he was replaced by Father Andrew Wilczek, who has con- tinued to the present. One year following his arrival Father Andrew Wilczek had so straightened out the financial affairs of his parish that he was able to buy the present property on Avenue F and to build a combination building of church, school, hall, dining hall, kitchen, etc., at a cost of $100,000. On September 7, 1919, the corner stone was laid and the church was dedicated October 24, 1920. On both these occasions Father Wilczek entertained Bishop P. J. Donahue of the Diocese of Wheeling, who assisted at the above named ceremonies. Prominent men of Weirton were served at a banquet in the rectory. The neighboring clergymen, with their people, participated in both those events, and high compliment was paid the Pastor, Andrew Wilczek, by sev- eral of the speakers present for the wonderful growth and development of this congregation. In September, 1917, the school started, under the charge of two Franciscan Sisters, there being at that time eighty pupils in attendance. At this time there are 250 pupils and five teachers, and the high school graduation is on the same basis as that of the public schools. At the present time the Sacred Heart of Mary congregation includes some 220 families, or ap- proximately 1,000 souls. The parish maintains nine Polish societies, of which two own their own buildings, and these societies include in their objects dramatics, music and civics. About 120 of the parish own their own homes, their inclinations in this direction having been encouraged by Father Wilczek, who realizes what a great factor the home is in making for education, higher morals and better citizen- ship, for he himself became a citizen of the United States January 16, 1917. He is active throughout the Wheeling diocese, and acts not only as a spiritual guide to his people, but as their advisor on all matters pertaining to their wel- fare and as their sincere friend in all the situations of life. ______________________________X-Message: #8 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:42:30 EDT From: PJAFLA@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: BIO REV. MEREDITH HAMMACK Lincoln Co Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock, Richwood: Comstock, 1974. REV. MEREDITH HAMMACK--and Martha Walker were united in wedlock in Roane county, West Virgina April 9, 1863, and they have been blessed with eight children all now living at home, Mary Catherine born Janurary 1, 1864; Daniel St.Clair, July 6, 1865; Elizabeth Mildred, April 6, 1866; John Monroe May 19, 1867; Nathaniel March 11, 1869; Sarah Jane, December 21, 1871; Hugh Pepin, November 5, `879; Olevia Belle, March 11, 1882; Mrs. Hammack was born in Botetourt County, Virginia. February 1, 1841, and her parents are Daniel and Catherine (Myers) Walker; the former died in 1879. Mr. Hammack has been a member of the Christian Church twenty years and he has been an ordained minister twelve years. His wife and daughter, Mary C., belong to the same church, the former having been a member eighteen years. Mr. Hammack was born in Roane county (now) West Virginia, November 27, 1842 and he is a son of St. Clair and Catherine (Phillips) Hammack, residents of Lincoln county. Meredith Hammack came to Lincoln county in 1881, and now owns a grist and saw mill on Big Creek, six miles northeast from Hamlin. For two years he was a member of the board of school examiners in Roane county, and he has taught school for twelve years. The postoffice address of the Rev. Mr. Hammack is Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia. ______________________________X-Message: #9 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:07:32 EDT From: PJAFLA@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <9887ef91.2516fef4@aol.com> Subject: BIO David Emory Wilkinson Lincoln Co Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock, Richwood: Comstock, 1974. DAVID EMORY WILKINSON -was admitted to the bar May 12, 1883 and practices in all the courts of Lincoln county and the counties adjoining. He is a native of Lincoln county, born March 23, 1856 and a son of John Samuel and Pamelia (Kayser) Wilkinson, who came to Lincoln county in 1850 from Harrison county (then) Virginia. David E Wilkinson was teacher of public and select school nine years member of the board of school examiners two years and commissioner of the circuit court three years which office he still holds. D. E. Wilkinson attorney-at-law is a promising young man and a brilliant future is before him. His postoffice address is Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia. *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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