A. Jay, son of Andrew and Rachel (Digman) Valentine, was born in Barbour county, March 8, 1866. He attended the public schools, after which he taught school for several years and then read law in the office of Captain A. C. Bowman, at Valley Furnace, Barbour county, West Virginia. His legal studies were completed under the instruction of W. B. Maxwell, then of St. George. Tucker county, West Virginia (now of Elkins, Randolph county). In 1887 he was admitted to the bar, and opened an office at St. George, then the county seat of Tucker county. When the county seat was removed to Parsons, Mr. Valentine came thither, and has there enjoyed a lucrative practice. He is local counsel for the Western Maryland Railway Company, general counsel for the Dry Fork Railway Company, local counsel for the Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company, the J. K. Mosser Tanning Company, the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Company, the Davis Coal and Coke Company, and does other corporation work. He is vice-president and counsel of the Tucker County Bank. Mr. Valentine is a member of the State Bar Association, and has been president of the Tucker County Bar Association. His fraternal order is the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he has been through its chairs. In politics he is a Republican, but not active; he has been frequently mentioned for a judgeship.
The Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company, of which he is counsel, is one of the flourishing industrial institutions of Parsons. It was first organized in 1900, by R. F. Whitmer of Philadelphia and others, as The Parsons Pulp and Paper Company. In 1909 it was rcchartcred under the present name, with R. F. Whitmer, president; D. G. Wilson, secretary and treasurer, and W. T. Robinson, superintendent and general manager. The capital is three million dollars. The pulp output is fifteen hundred tons per month; silk board and tag paper are manufactured, three thousand tons per month. The lumber mills are at Laneville, Horton. and Dobbin, West Virginia. The pulp mill, paper mill and power plant, of twenty-eight hundred horse-power, foundry, etc., are at Parsons, and occupy one hundred thousand square feet of space, besides which there are several acres of yards. At Parsons, one hundred and fifty men are employed. The Tucker County Bank, of which Mr. Valentine is now vice-president, was organized in 1900, and opened the fourth of June, in that year, with the following officers: M. C. Feather, president; O. Jay Fleming, cashier; Riley Harper, vicepresident. Mr. Feather was succeeded by F. S. Landstreet, and he by Riley Harper, who is now president. A. DeW. Strickler succeeded Mr. Fleming as cashier, August 1, 1901, and still continues in that office. The capital is twenty-five thousand dollars; surplus and undivided profits amount to twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, and the resources to over two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Valentine married Lummie, daughter of Samuel I. Kalar, of Tucker county. Mrs. Valentine is devoted to her family and home. Children: Zillah, a student at Broadus College; Arthur, attending the high school at Parsons; Mark Twain; Paul.
[West Virginia and its people, Volume 3 by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell - Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
The Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company, of which he is counsel, is one of the flourishing industrial institutions of Parsons. It was first organized in 1900, by R. F. Whitmer of Philadelphia and others, as The Parsons Pulp and Paper Company. In 1909 it was rcchartcred under the present name, with R. F. Whitmer, president; D. G. Wilson, secretary and treasurer, and W. T. Robinson, superintendent and general manager. The capital is three million dollars. The pulp output is fifteen hundred tons per month; silk board and tag paper are manufactured, three thousand tons per month. The lumber mills are at Laneville, Horton. and Dobbin, West Virginia. The pulp mill, paper mill and power plant, of twenty-eight hundred horse-power, foundry, etc., are at Parsons, and occupy one hundred thousand square feet of space, besides which there are several acres of yards. At Parsons, one hundred and fifty men are employed. The Tucker County Bank, of which Mr. Valentine is now vice-president, was organized in 1900, and opened the fourth of June, in that year, with the following officers: M. C. Feather, president; O. Jay Fleming, cashier; Riley Harper, vicepresident. Mr. Feather was succeeded by F. S. Landstreet, and he by Riley Harper, who is now president. A. DeW. Strickler succeeded Mr. Fleming as cashier, August 1, 1901, and still continues in that office. The capital is twenty-five thousand dollars; surplus and undivided profits amount to twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, and the resources to over two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Valentine married Lummie, daughter of Samuel I. Kalar, of Tucker county. Mrs. Valentine is devoted to her family and home. Children: Zillah, a student at Broadus College; Arthur, attending the high school at Parsons; Mark Twain; Paul.
[West Virginia and its people, Volume 3 by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell - Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
A. Jay, son of Andrew and Rachel (Digman) Valentine, was born in Barbour county, March 8, 1866. He attended the public schools, after which he taught school for several years and then read law in the office of Captain A. C. Bowman, at Valley Furnace, Barbour county, West Virginia. His legal studies were completed under the instruction of W. B. Maxwell, then of St. George. Tucker county, West Virginia (now of Elkins, Randolph county). In 1887 he was admitted to the bar, and opened an office at St. George, then the county seat of Tucker county. When the county seat was removed to Parsons, Mr. Valentine came thither, and has there enjoyed a lucrative practice. He is local counsel for the Western Maryland Railway Company, general counsel for the Dry Fork Railway Company, local counsel for the Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company, the J. K. Mosser Tanning Company, the Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Company, the Davis Coal and Coke Company, and does other corporation work. He is vice-president and counsel of the Tucker County Bank. Mr. Valentine is a member of the State Bar Association, and has been president of the Tucker County Bar Association. His fraternal order is the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he has been through its chairs. In politics he is a Republican, but not active; he has been frequently mentioned for a judgeship.
The Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company, of which he is counsel, is one of the flourishing industrial institutions of Parsons. It was first organized in 1900, by R. F. Whitmer of Philadelphia and others, as The Parsons Pulp and Paper Company. In 1909 it was rcchartcred under the present name, with R. F. Whitmer, president; D. G. Wilson, secretary and treasurer, and W. T. Robinson, superintendent and general manager. The capital is three million dollars. The pulp output is fifteen hundred tons per month; silk board and tag paper are manufactured, three thousand tons per month. The lumber mills are at Laneville, Horton. and Dobbin, West Virginia. The pulp mill, paper mill and power plant, of twenty-eight hundred horse-power, foundry, etc., are at Parsons, and occupy one hundred thousand square feet of space, besides which there are several acres of yards. At Parsons, one hundred and fifty men are employed. The Tucker County Bank, of which Mr. Valentine is now vice-president, was organized in 1900, and opened the fourth of June, in that year, with the following officers: M. C. Feather, president; O. Jay Fleming, cashier; Riley Harper, vicepresident. Mr. Feather was succeeded by F. S. Landstreet, and he by Riley Harper, who is now president. A. DeW. Strickler succeeded Mr. Fleming as cashier, August 1, 1901, and still continues in that office. The capital is twenty-five thousand dollars; surplus and undivided profits amount to twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, and the resources to over two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Valentine married Lummie, daughter of Samuel I. Kalar, of Tucker county. Mrs. Valentine is devoted to her family and home. Children: Zillah, a student at Broadus College; Arthur, attending the high school at Parsons; Mark Twain; Paul.
[West Virginia and its people, Volume 3 by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell - Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
The Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company, of which he is counsel, is one of the flourishing industrial institutions of Parsons. It was first organized in 1900, by R. F. Whitmer of Philadelphia and others, as The Parsons Pulp and Paper Company. In 1909 it was rcchartcred under the present name, with R. F. Whitmer, president; D. G. Wilson, secretary and treasurer, and W. T. Robinson, superintendent and general manager. The capital is three million dollars. The pulp output is fifteen hundred tons per month; silk board and tag paper are manufactured, three thousand tons per month. The lumber mills are at Laneville, Horton. and Dobbin, West Virginia. The pulp mill, paper mill and power plant, of twenty-eight hundred horse-power, foundry, etc., are at Parsons, and occupy one hundred thousand square feet of space, besides which there are several acres of yards. At Parsons, one hundred and fifty men are employed. The Tucker County Bank, of which Mr. Valentine is now vice-president, was organized in 1900, and opened the fourth of June, in that year, with the following officers: M. C. Feather, president; O. Jay Fleming, cashier; Riley Harper, vicepresident. Mr. Feather was succeeded by F. S. Landstreet, and he by Riley Harper, who is now president. A. DeW. Strickler succeeded Mr. Fleming as cashier, August 1, 1901, and still continues in that office. The capital is twenty-five thousand dollars; surplus and undivided profits amount to twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, and the resources to over two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Valentine married Lummie, daughter of Samuel I. Kalar, of Tucker county. Mrs. Valentine is devoted to her family and home. Children: Zillah, a student at Broadus College; Arthur, attending the high school at Parsons; Mark Twain; Paul.
[West Virginia and its people, Volume 3 by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell - Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
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