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N. T. Downs (b. 1874) —
of Mill Creek, Randolph
County, W.Va.
Born in Flintstone, Allegany
County, Md., October
26, 1874.
Democrat. Railway
freight and ticket agent; telegraph operator; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Randolph County, 1941-46.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Royal
Arcanum; Order
of Railroad Telegraphers.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William H. Downs and Elizabeth (Chisholm) Downs; married, June 14,
1899, to Philomena Patterson. |
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Charles Kinsley McWhorter (1922-1999) —
also known as Charles K. McWhorter —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lewisburg, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., February
19, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in
the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
chairman, National Federation of Young Republicans; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1956 ;
legislative assistant to Vice President Richard
Nixon, 1957-61; executive assistant and attorney for AT&T
until 1987.
Injured in an automobile
accident on Cape Cod, and died ten days later in Massachusetts
General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 11,
1999 (age 77 years, 81
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Nathan McWhorter and Besse Belle (Laing)
McWhorter. |
| | | Image source: News and Record, April
29, 1956 |
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Francis Pierpoint Moats (b. 1869) —
also known as Francis P. Moats —
of Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va.
Born near Harrisville, Ritchie
County, W.Va., July 2,
1869.
Lawyer;
indepedent telephone business; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates, 1903-04; Progressive candidate
for West
Virginia state senate 3rd District, 1914.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Moats and Mary Isabelle (Pierpoint) Moats; married, October
4, 1893, to Fanny Shrewsbury Neal. |
| | | Image source: West Virginia and Its
People (1913) |
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Harry E. Moats (b. 1913) —
of Harrisville, Ritchie
County, W.Va.
Born in Harrisville, Ritchie
County, W.Va., March
16, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
vice-president and director, Ritchie Telephone Company;
treasurer and director, West Virginia Insurance
Company; Ritchie
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1941-49; member of West
Virginia state senate 3rd District, 1949-60; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates, 1970-76 (6th District 1970-74,
7th District 1975-76); appointed 1970.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Lions;
Moose;
Delta
Sigma Rho; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Carlie S. Moats and Viola (McDougal) Moats; married, November
13, 1948, to Irene Jenney Swiger. |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1951 |
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George Selden Wallace (b. 1871) —
also known as George S. Wallace —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born near Greenwood, Albemarle
County, Va., September
6, 1871.
Democrat. Telegraph operator; manager, telegraph
office; train
dispatcher for Chesapeake & Ohio Railway;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; Cabell
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1905-08; member of West Virginia
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1910; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1912;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Cabell County, 1936;
appointed 1936; president, Union Bank &
Trust Co., Huntington.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary;
Society
of the Cincinnati; Phi
Sigma Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Irving Wallace and Maria Logan (Sclater) Wallace; married,
October
4, 1905, to Frances Bodine Gibson. |
| | | Image source: Huntington Through
Seventy-Five Years (1947) |
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