Ohio County, West Virginia          Biography of Howard C. LANE

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 259


HOWARD C. LANE, of Wheeling, is a native of that city,
is a dentist by profession and had an overseas experience
during the World war.

He was born at Wheeling September 4, 1889. His father,
John Lane, was born in Marion County, West Virginia,
in 1856, and was about ten years of age when he accom-
panied his widowed mother to Ohio County, West Virginia.
He was reared, educated and married there, and for a
number of years was employed in one of the nail factories
at Wheeling, served four years as jailer for Ohio County,
and since 1896 has been in the service of 'the National
Exchange Bank, being custodian of its vaults. He is a
democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. John
Lane married Margaret Flynn. who was born in Marshall
County, West Virginia, in 1858, Martin, the oldest of their
children, is in the train service of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road and lives at Wheeling. Howard C. is the second in
age. Miss Marie is a teacher in the Webster School at
Wheeling.

Howard C. Lane acquired a public and parochial school
education at Wheeling, finished his high school course at
the age of seventeen and subsequently learned the profes-
sion of prosthetic dentistry.

Mr. Lane is unmarried. He is an independent in polities
and for a number of years was a member of the Wheeling
Board of Education. He is a Catholic and is affiliated with
Carroll Council No. 504, Knights of Columbus, and Wheel-
ing Lodge No. 28, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. On June 24, 1918, he entered the United States
service, having one month of duty at Camp Meade. Mary-
land, and was sent overseas with Evacuation Hospital No.
16. He was stationed at Revigny, France, and was with
the Army of Occupation in Germany at Coblenz until June,
1919. when he returned home with Evacuation Hospital
No. 16 and was mustered out at Camp Dix, New Jersey,
in August. 1919. He at once returned to Wheeling and
resumed his professional work.