John Marshall Woolverton and Laura V. Harold
Husband John Marshall Woolverton [4365]
Born: 31 Jan 1872 - Big Bend, Calhoun County, WV Christened: Died: 19 Aug 1944 - Richwood, Nicholas County, WV Buried: - Odd Fellows Cemetery, Richwood, Nicholas County, WV
Father: James Sheldon Wolverton [4363] (1830-1908) Mother: Elizabeth Ann (Eliza) Ferrell [4364] (1835-1930)
Marriage: Dec 1907 - WV [MRIN:1437]
Wife Laura V. Harold [4374]
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
1 M John Lanty Woolverton [59244]
Born: 12 Apr 1913 Christened: Died: 31 Mar 1914 Buried:
2 F Helen Woolverton [4377]
Born: 22 Jun 1914 Christened: Died: Buried:
3 M James H. Woolverton [4375]
Born: 19 Jun 1916 Christened: Died: Buried:
4 F Barbara Ruth Woolverton [4376]
Born: 17 Sep 1918 Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - John Marshall Woolverton
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"The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 567-568
Nicholas
JOHN MARSHALL WOLVERTON. In point of continuous
service John Marshall Wolverton is the dean of the Nicholas
County Bar. He is the present prosecuting attorney, serving
his second term, and for many years has enjoyed an
extensive practice in all the courts of this district.
His father was a farmer, and the son grew up on a
farm, but was named in honor of the great chief justice,
John Marshall, and the name may have had something to do
with his choice of a career. Mr. Wolverton was born on
the home farm at Big Bend in Calhoun County, West Vir-
ginia, January 31, 1872, son of James S. and Eliza Ann
(Ferrell) Wolverton. His father waa born in 1832 in
Taylor County, West Virginia. His mother was born in
1835 at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and was a child when
her parents settled at White Day in Monongalia County,
West Virginia. James S. Wolverton was both a farmer
and business man at Big Bend in Calhoun County, and
for twenty-four years held the office of justice of the
peace at that place. He was a democrat. His father,
Joab Wolverton, was a Baptist minister, but in the absence
of a church of that denomination James S. Wolverton
became affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. He passed away venerable in years, highly re-
spected and honored and within a month of his eightieth
birthday. Hia widow is now living with her oldest son,
Thomas 3., on the home farm in Calhoun County. The
nine children of these worthy parents were: Helen A., wife
of S. G. Yoke, of Morgantown; Thomas J., mentioned above,
a bachelor; Lewis C., a farmer also on the homestead;
Robert F., deceased; Joab D., an attorney at Long Beach,
California; James A., deceased, who died a short time before
graduating in medicine; Lillian, who died in infancy; John
Marshall, next to the youngest of the family; and Hattie
M., wife of Doctor S. W. Riddle, of Mount Zion in Calhoun
County.
John Marshall Wolverton grew up in his native county,
acquired a common school education, attended the Glenville
and Fairmont State Normal schools, and graduated in the
Law Department of West Virginia University in 1901, being
admitted to the bar at Grantsville, Calhoun County, the same
year. Mr. Wolverton practiced law at Grantsville until
August 1904, when he moved to Richwood, Nicholas County,
and has since been permanently established there. He was
a partner of A. L. Craig, under the firm name of Craig and
Wolverton, for a number of years, until the retirement of
Mr. Craig. Since then he has been associated with Mr.
Ayres, and the firm is now Wolverton & Ayres. For three
years, until April 1, 1922, W. G. Brown, present state
prohibition commissioner, was a member of the firm, under
the name of Brown, Wolverton and Ayres.
Mr. Wolverton was elected in 1912 for a term of four
years as prosecuting attorney of Nicholas County. He had
the distinction of being the only republican elected on the
county ticket that year. His efficient service justified in
every way the confidence of the people indicated by his
election. In 1920 he was again elected prosecuting attorney,
and in the line of public duty he also served one term as
mayor of Richwood. Mr. Wolverton owns the building
where his office is located. It is thoroughly modern, and
contains perhaps the best law library in Nicholas County.
Mr. Wolverton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, and is affiliated with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows.
In December, 1907, he married Laura V. Harold, a native
of Nicholas County and daughter of Lanty W. and Laura
B. (McNutt) Harold. Her father was a prominent and
substantial farmer and stockman of Nicholas County. Four
children of Mr. and Mrs. Wolverton were: John Lanty,
born April 12, 1913, and died March 31, 1914; Helen, born
June 22, 1914; James H. born June 19, 1916; and Barbara
Ruth, born September 17 1918."
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971. pp. 1950-1951.
"WOLVERTON, John Marshall, A Representative from West Virginia; born in Big
Bend, Calhoun County, W. Va., January 31, 1872; attended country schools and Glenville and
Fairmont State Normal Schools; was graduated from the law department of the West Virginia
University at Morgantown in 1901; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Grantsville, Calhoun County, W. Va.; moved to Richwood in 1904; mayor of
Richwood in 1918 and 1919; prosecuting attorney of Nicholas County 1913-1917 and 1921-
1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; elected to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3. 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Richwood, W. Va., where he died August 19, 1944; interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery."
General Notes: Wife - Laura V. Harold
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