BYRER, BOYD/OTT - BARBOUR CO; W.VA
HUGH
S. BYRER is a member of the Philippi bar, an expert title lawyer,
and
has done a great deal of professional business with the coal
interests
of the state. His grandfather and father were both men of
prominence
in Barbour County, and the name is therefore one of long and
honorable
standing here.
Mr. Byrer,
who is a native of Philippi, attended the public schools
there,
graduated in 1903 from the West Virginia Conference Seminary at
Buckhannon,
and in 1906 was given his LL. B. degree by the University of
West
Virginia. In the same year he was admitted to the bar at Philippi,
but
he soon located at Huntington, where he practiced law until the
early
spring of 1917, when he returned to his old home. While in
Huntington
he was for two years in the coal fields of Northeastern
Kentucky,
abstracting titles to coal properties in behalf of the Beaver
Creek
Consolidated Coal Company. That service was a valuable schooling
to him
in the matter of real estate titles.
Mr. Byrer
in politics, has always voted as a democrat. He was the
democratic
candidate in the Thirteenth Senatorial District for the State
Senate
in 1920. He has been active in several campaigns. He is a member
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and has done much work in the Sunday
school.
He is affiliated with Huntington Lodge of the Elks.
At Harrisonburg,
Virginia, February 16, 1921, Mr. Byrer married MISS
ELIZABETH
ROTHWELL OTT, a native of that locality, where she finished
her
high school education. Her parents were FRANK
CAMPBELL and MARY
(BOYD)
OTT, also natives of that section of Virginia,
farming people. Mrs
Byrer,
who is the oldest of a family of two sons and two daughters, is
the
mother of one son, Frederick Ott Byrer, born January 16, 1922.
Source:
The History of West Virginia, Old and New, The American
Historical
Society, Inc.,Chicago and New York, Volume III
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