Ohio County, West Virginia          Biography of Clem E. PETERS

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 111
Pg. 361 & 362


Clem E. Peters has shown fine initiative and constructive powers in his
executive administration as secretary and treasurer of the Conservative Life
Insurance Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, and admirable institution of
which specific record is given in following review.

Mr. Peters was born and reared in the State of Ohio where he received
excellent educational advantages, and he has been a resident of Wheeling,
West Virginia, for a quarter of a century.  Here he was for some time
employed as clerk in a drug store, later was here engaged independently in
the drug business, and it was in his sleeping apartment over his drug store
that the insurance company of which he is now secretary and treasurer
virtually had its inception, in 1906, while it has been in large measure due
to his resourceful energies and progressive and careful policies that the
company has forged to the front as one of most substantial, well ordered and
beneficent functions-a home institution of which West Virginia may well be
proud.  Of the determined spirit that animated Mr. Peters and his associates
in their efforts to build up this worthy enterprise results speak for
themselves, but the casual observer can have slight comprehension of the
heavy responsibilities assumed, the great obstacles surmounted, and the
discouragements set aside in the stupendous evolution of a  solid and noble
institution of broad scope and ever widening influence.  The review of the
inception and growth of this insurance corporation, as given in following
pages in this publication, should be read in connection with this sketch of
the progressive and representative citizen who has played so important at
part in the upbuilding of the company and business.