W. C. WICKHAM RENSHAW in a leading member of the bar at Huntington, former representative In the Legislature, and is a man of unusual gifts and accomplishments. Prior to becoming a lawyer be was in the civil engineering profession. Mr. Renshaw was born of American parents, but his birth occurred in a foreign land. He was born at Oratava, Teneriffe, Canary Islands Nov her 19, 1881. His grandfather was William Renshaw, a native of Madrid, of English ancestry. For many years be was in the British diplomatic service, and some of the more important post which he held were in Spain and Venezuela. He married a Spanish lady, Miss Beatrice De Medicis. Robert H. Renshaw father of the Huntington lawyer, was born at Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1833, but was reared at Caracas, Venezuela, where be acquired his early education. He graduated A. B. from Harvard University In 1855, and for several years practiced law at Baltimore During the Civil war he was a captain in the Confederate army, and following the war be settled down to farming in Clark County, Virginia, where be remained until 1900 and then retired to Charlottesville, where he died in 1910. He was a democrat, a member of the Episcopal Church and the Masonic fraternity. His first wife was Miss Lucy Carter, a native of Virginia and their only child Charlotte, died in infancy. His second wife was Maria Carter, of Philadelphia. To this union where born two children: Charles C., now sales agent for a coal company in Philadelphia, and Maria deceased. The third wife of Robert H. Renshaw was Anne Carter Wickham, who was born in Hanover County Virginia, in 1851 W. C. Wick- ham Renshaw Is their oldest child; Frank is a civil engineer at Huntington; Robert is a road building contractor in Snow Hill Maryland; and Julia is the wife of Alfred R. James, an, architect at Cleveland, Ohio.Mrs. Renshaw was married in 1920 to Dr. W. Z. Byerly, retired professor of mathematics of Harvard University, and now lives in Waverly, Massachusetts. W. C. Wickham Renshaw grew up In Virginia, attended private schools including the Clay Hill Academy in Clarke County, and in 1902 graduated Master of Arts in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Greek letter fraternity. For three years he taught Chattanooga, Tennessee, and then followed his career as a civil engineer a profession that engaged him in various districts of Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia, He first came to West Virginia In 1899. Mr. Renshaw continued his profession a civil engineer until 1914, in which year be was admitted to the bar and since then has been busy with his work as a lawyer. He in member of the firm Vinson, Thompson Meek & Renshaw, with offices in the Holeswade Building. Mr. Renshaw was elected to represent Cabell County in the house of Delegates in November, 1916. During the session of 1917 be was chairman of the taxation and finance committees, and member of the judiciary, mines and mining, labor and other important committees. He was elected as a democrat. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, Kiwanis Club of Huntington, the Guyandotte Club. Guyan Country Club of Huntington, the West Virginia and American Bar associations and is a director in the Hunting Development and Gas Company and President and director of Guyan Big Ugly & Coal River Railroad. His home is at 1105 Eleventh Street. In November, 1911, at Richmond, Mr. Renshaw, married Miss Martha Chaffin daughter of Richard B.and Sarah (Harvie) Chaffin. SOURCE: History of West Virginia old & New, Vol.II , published 1923