Ohio County, West Virginia - Biography of Alfred Paull

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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. 614-615
Ohio

ALFRED PAULL, senior member of the firm of Alfred Paull
& Son, which conducts one of the leading general insurance
agencies of West Virginia, with headquarters in the Board
of Trade Building in the City of Wheeling and with sub-
agencies numbering about 135 at different points in the
state, is not only one of the vital and progressive men who
have done much to further the civic and material advance-
ment of Wheeling, but is a son of the late Judge James
Paull, who was a distinguished member of the West Vir-
ginia bar and who served as a member of the Supreme
Court of the state. A tribute to his memory is given in
the preceding sketch.

Alfred Paull, son of Judge James Paull and Jane A.
(Fry) Paull, was born in the City of Wheeling, October 14,
1854, several years prior to the creation of the State of
West Virginia, of which his native city became one of the
two original capitals. Reared in a home of culture and
gracious influences, he supplemented the discipline of the
local schools by a course in Washington and Jefferson Col-
lege, Pennsylvania. From his youth to the present time he
has been actively associated with business interests in Wheel-
ing, and his influence has been wide and important. He
served as secretary of the Manufacturers Insurance Com-
pany, a West Virginia corporation with its general offices
in Wheeling. In January, 1885, he became secretary of the
Underwriters Insurance Company of that city. He wielded
much influence in the upbuilding of the business of each of
these corporations and gained authoritative position in con-
nection with the insurance business in the state. He gave
long and effective service as secretary of the Ohio Yalley
General Hospital, from which office he retired January 1,
1931. He is vice president of the Bank of the Ohio Valley.
Deeply interested in all things pertaining to the welfare
and progress of his native city, his civic liberality has been
on a parity with his civic loyalty. He served four years as
a member of the City Council and eight years as a member
of the Board of Education. Mr. Paull has been influential
in the local councils and campaign activities of the repub-
lican party, and was specially prominent in the time honored
Masonic fraternity, in which his affiliations may here be
briefly noted: Bates Lodge No. 33, Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons; Union Chapter No. 1, Royal Arch Masons;
Cyrene Commandery No. 7, Knights Templars; and Osiris
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
He is a past grand commander of the West Virginia Grand
Commandery of Knights Templars, and past potentate of
the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

Alfred Paull married Lee Singleton, a daughter of Cap-
tain W. T. Singleton, of Wheeling, West Virginia. Four
children have blessed this union: Alfred S., who is men-
tioned in later paragraphs; Mary Irwin, married to Arthur
G. Hubbard, and they have four children, Lee A., Elizabeth,
Chester and Paull; Lydia P., married to Lyman B. Kirk-
patrick, of Rochester, New York and their two children are
Helen and Lyman; Lee C. married Mary Glessner, daughter
of William L. Glessner, and they have two children, Lee C.
and William Glessner.

Alfred Singleton Paull, the junior member of the repre-
sentative insurance firm of Alfred Paull & Son and presi-
dent of the Saturn Foundry and Machine Company and the
McClaskey, Inc., of Wheeling, was born in this city on the
4th of April, 1883. He attended Linsly Institute at Wheel-
ing and later a preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New
Jersey, after which he entered Princeton University, of
which Woodrow Wilson, former president of the United
States, was then the president. In this institution he was
graduated as a member of the class of '05 and with the
degree of Bachelor of Science. Since that time he has been
actively associated with his father in the insurance business,
and his energy and progressive policies have contributed dis-
tinctly to the expansion of the enterprise. He is a repub-
lican of unwavering allegiance, and holds membership in the
Rotary, Country, Fort Henry and Hamphshire Clubs of
Wheeling.

In April, 1913, was solemnized the marriage of Alfred S.
Paull and Miss Mary Virginia Sands, daughter of Lawrence
E. Sands, who was formerly connected with the National
Exchange Bank of Wheeling and who is now an executive
of the First National Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Paull have one child, Eugenia.