Ohio County, West Virginia      Biography of ANDREW GLASS

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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.68 & 69

ANDREW GLASS is one of the very active and influential younger men
in the industrial and commercial life of Wheeling, and his practical
field of experience since leaving school has been the iron and steel
industry.

He was born at Wheeling, June 25, 1881, son of Woodward W. and Mary
C. Glass. His grandfather, Andrew Glass, was one of the original
stockholders of the LaBelle Iron Works, one of the pioneer iron
industries at Wheeling, established seventy years ago, and now a
subsidiary of the Wheeling Steel Corporation.

Mr. Andrew Glass acquired most of his public school education in
Chicago, and as a youth became a salesman in the Chicago store
of the Wheeling Corrugating Company. Later he was made general
manager of the Portsmouth, Ohio, works of the Whitaker-Glessner
Company, and for several years past has been president of the
Whitaker-Glessner Company and vice president of the Wheeling
Steel Corporation and his business offices are in the Wheeling
Steel Corporation Building.

Mr. Glass is a republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and
a member of the Elks, and belongs to the Fort Henry Club, Wheeling
Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Association. August 2, 1920,
he married Dorothy Varner, and they have an infant son, Alexander
Glass.