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CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Chris & Kerry
cmac4330@chesapeake.net
December 4, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II
pg.63 & 64
EDWARD K. MAHAN. West Virginia is still one of the more important states of the
Union in the production of hardwood, and one of the largest organizations in
the state for the manufacture and handling of such resources is the Peytona
Lumber Company, of which Edward K. Mahan, of Huntington, is president.
Mr. Mahan's great-great-grandfather came from the North of Ireland to America in
Colonial times and founded the family in Virginia. The grandfather of the
Huntington lumberman was Nelson Mahan, who was born in Virginia in 1806, lived
for a number of years in Monroe County, West Virginia, in 1842 moved to Kanawha
County, and died at Charleston in 1888. His principal business was contracting
for public works, and among others he constructed the locks and dams on the
Coal River. His wife was Sarah Legg, who also died at Charleston.
John W. Mahan, father of Edward K., was born in Monroe County, March 24, 1841.
He was a lumber manufacturer with mills at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and in
Fayette County, West Virginia, where a village grew up around his mills named
in his honor, Mahan. From 1891 until his death his home was at Huntington in
Cabell County, but he died in a hospital at Charleston August 5, 1905. He had a
record of a Confederate soldier of the Civil war, serving throughout that
conflict with the border rangers under General Jenkins and General McCauslands.
John W. Mahan married Romaine Myers, who was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1850
and died at Washington, D. C., June 9, 1916. They were the parents of five
children: Romaine, wife of Dr. William E. Philes, a physician and surgeon at
Washington, D. C.; Ed ward K.; Mabel F., living at Washington, D. C., widow of
George T. Paige, a resident of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Jane, wife of an
attorney, Marion Eustace, at Caldwell, Idaho; and Clara, wife of Arthur B.
York, an attorney at Staunton, Virginia.
Edward K. Mahan was born at Madison in Boone County, West Virginia, August 16,
1878. In 1904 he removed to Mansfield, Ohio, and was in the wholesale lumber
business. In 1906 he assisted in organizing the Peytona Lumber Company,
becoming its secretary, and since 1915 has been its president. This company,
with business offices in the Robson-Pritchard Building at Huntington, has mills
and other facilities for the manufacture and, wholesale handling of hardwood
lumber and do an immense business in this line. Mr. Mahan is also a stockholder
and director in the Huntington Banking and Trust Company, and is president of
the Elk Creek Lumber Company.
His home is at 2678 Third Avenue in Huntington. In March, 1901, at Catlettsburg,
Kentucky, Mr. Mahan married Miss Victoria Williamson, daughter of Benjamin and
Pauline (Taylor) Williamson. Mr. and Mrs. Mahan have one child, Virginia, born
May 9, 1902.
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