-----Original Message----- From: Joan Wyatt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 16, 2000 8:14 PM Subject: Bio- Harry Scherr,Esquire, Williamson, WV >The History of West Virginia, Old and New >Published 1923, The American Historical Society Inc. >Chicago and New York Volume 11 >Page 243 >Bio-Harry Scherr, Esquire, Williamson, WV > > > Mr. Scheer was born June 6, 1881, at Maysville, Grant Co., West >Virginia, the son of Arnold C. and Katherine (Nickel) Scheer. Arnold C. >Scheer was born in Switzerland, August 19, 1847, and accompanied his >parents to this country at the age of eight years. His father was a >colonel in the Swiss Army, who with other Swiss officers at the outbreak >of the Crimean war went to England and tendered his services to the >British Queen, becoming an officer in the British Army. Coming to the >United States, he was offered a colonelcy in the United States Army at >the outbreak of the Civil War, but could not accept on account of ill >health. > Arnold C. Scheer was a merchant and manufacturer, and for many years >was prominent in the public life of West Virginia. He served eight years >(1901-1909) as state auditor, and was the republican candidate for >governor in 1908, being defeated. He died in 1917. > The subject of this sketch attended the public schools at Maysville >and Keyser, a military academy in Allegheny Co., Maryland, and the West >Virginia University. He was admitted to the bar in the summer of 1905 >and located at Williamson, having accepted a position in the law office >of Sheppard and Goodykoontz. On July 1, 1907, he became the junior >partner in the firm of Sheppard, Goodykoontz and Scheer. In 1912 Mr. >Sheppard retired from the firm, and the present firm of Goodykoontz, >Scheer and Slaven became the successor of the firm of Goodykoontz and >Scherr in 1919, Mr. Lant R. Slaven having been admitted as a member. Mr. >Scherr is an officer and director in several financial and industrial >enterprises, among others the National Bank of Commerce of Williamson: >and is city attorney and member of the Board of Education of Williamson >Independent School District. He was the first president of the Coal City >Club, which later became the Chamber of Commerce, of which, he was the >first president and in which capacity he is now serving. He served two >years as assistant prosecuting attorney of Mingo Co., having been >appointed in 1906. During the entire period of the World war, he was a >member of the Local Draft Board of Mingo, Co. In 1920 he was a delegate >to the Republican Convention, which nominated President Harding. > Mr. Scherr is married and has two children, Harry, Jr., and Barbara. >He is an Episcopalian, a Kiwanian, and his college fraternities are >Kappa Alpha and Delta Chi. He is a member of the Mingo Co., West >Virginia State and American Bar associations. > > >==== WV-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== >********************************************************************** >WV-FOOTSTEPS/USGENWEB NOTICE: >These messages may NOT be reproduced in >any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or >persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, >must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal >representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb >archivist with proof of this consent. >********************************************************************** > >