Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of George R. E. GILCHRIST

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Chicago and New York, Volume II, 
Pg. 410 

GEORGE R. E. GILCHRIST was born January 8, 1857.  His father was a civil
engineer and his mother was a daughter of a civil engineer who after the
close of the Civil war was engaged by the Government as chief engineer 
under General Weitzel, in charge of the construction of the Louisville 
Canal.  Both the father and mother died years ago at their son's home.

George R. E. Gilchrist had a sister, Adelaide, who was an artist, and he
had a brother, Harry.  The sister died unmarried and the brother, likewise
the latter while attending school at the University of Virginia.  Both
died before their father and mother.

George R. E. Gilchrist received his academic education at the University of
Wooster and his education in law at the University of Virginia.  He was 
admitted to practice in West Virginia, at Wheeling, in 1881, and has always 
lived there.  In more than forty years of work he has specialized in
corporation, estate and labor union litigation in State and Federal Courts;
while in his offices, rooms 600 to 608, making up the sixth floor of the 
National Bank of West Virginia Building, he has one of the largest individual
law libraries to be found in the United States.

George R. E. Gilchrist married in 1883, and of that union three children 
were born.  Ethel, the eldest, unmarried, lives with her parents in Wheeling.
Mabel, the second child, is married, and with her husband and the two children
born to that union lives at Phoenix, Arizona.  Virginia, the third child,
died unmarried in 1914, while attending a girl's school near Roanoke.