Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of Clyde Charles PUGH

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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. 274

    CLYDE CHARLES PUGH is a civil engineer by education and profession, and 
is now a member of the firm Conrad & Pugh, civil and mining engineers, with 
offices in Wheeling.
    Mr. Pugh is a birthright citizen of Wheeling and through his mother is 
identified with some of the pioneer families of this section of the Ohio 
Valley.  Mr. Pugh was born on Wheeling Island, December 29, 1890.  His 
father, Charles Lincoln Pugh, was born at Martins Ferry, Ohio.  His mother, 
Diadema Curtis Oliver, was born at Wheeling in 1868, daughter of Fred and 
Nancy (Stevens) Oliver, both of whom died at Wheeling.  Fred Oliver was an 
Ohio River steamboat pilot.  Nancy Stevens was the daughter of a Wheeling 
pioneer who owned a great amount of property in this vicinity in the early 
days.
    Clyde Charles Pugh was the only child of his parents, grew up at 
Wheeling, attended the public schools, and received his technical training at 
the University of West Virginia at Morgantown.  He graduated in 1912 with the 
degree Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.  While in university he was 
a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.  In September, 1912, he began his 
regular employment as a civil engineer in the Maintenance of Way Department 
of the Wheeling Traction Company, and in 1913 was similarly employed in the 
Maintenance of Way Department of the West Virginia Traction and Electric 
Company at Wheeling.  In September, 1914, he became instructor of 
mathematics, physics, and mechanical drawing in Linsly Institute at Wheeling, 
having charge of those subjects for six months.  In February, 1915, he became 
a civil engineer for the C. B. Kimberly Company, general contractors of 
Wheeling.  In January, 1917, he was appointed assistant county road engineer 
of Ohio County, and performed the duties of that office a year.  In January, 
1918, he became assistant engineer for C. C. Smith, civil and mining engineer 
of Wheeling, but in November, 1918, returned to the C. B. Kimberly Company, 
this time as one of its executive officers, being vice president until 
February, 1921.  At that date he and H. A. Conrad established the firm of 
Conrad & Pugh, civil and mining engineers.  Their offices are in the National 
Bank of West Virginia Building.  Mr. Pugh is a member of the American 
Association of Engineers, is a republican, a Methodist, and is affiliated 
with Wheeling Lodge No. 28, B. P. O. E.  At Pittsburgh in September, 1917, he 
married Miss Helen Majesky, daughter of John and Florence (Carrico) Majesky.  
Her mother lives at Wheeling, where her father died in 1911.  He was a hotel 
proprietor.  Mrs. and Mrs. Pugh have on daughter, Nancy Ann, born June 13, 
1921.