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George R. E. Gilchrist

George R. E. Gilchrist was born on January 8, 1857.

The

History of West Virginia

, Chicago: American Historical

Society, 1923 (v.2, p. 410) gives these details of his life:

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His father was a civil engineer and his mother was a

daughter of a civil engineer who after the close of the

Civil war was engaged by the Government as chief

engineer under General Weitzel, in charge of the

construction of the Louisville Canal. Both the father

and mother died years ago at their son

‘

s home.

George R. E. Gilchrist received his academic education

at the University of Wooster and his education in law at

the University of Virginia. He was admitted to practice in West Virginia, at

Wheeling, in 1881, and has always lived there. In more than forty years of work

he has specialized in corporation, estate and labor union litigation in State and

Federal Courts; while in his offices, rooms 600 to 608, making up the sixth floor

of the National Bank of West Virginia Building, he has one of the largest

individual law libraries to be found in the United States.

George R. E. Gilchrist married in 1883, and of that union three children were

born. Ethel, the eldest, unmarried, lives with her parents in Wheeling. Mabel, the

second child, is married, and with her husband and the two children born to that

union lives at Phoenix, Arizona. Virginia, the third child, died unmarried in 1914,

while attending a girl

‘

s school near Roanoke.

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The top of this prong extractor is engraved

―

Geo.

R. E. Gilchrist, Wheeling, W. Va.

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Marked

STERLING 2206, PAT. MAY 9

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99.

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This is the M.

D. Converse patent #624457.