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Index: US - WV - Harrison - Roy Earl Parrish

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Biographies of Harrison County, WV

Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature, 
Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 
West Virigina, 1917

Source:
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917,
Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate, 
The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va.
pgs. 719 - 770

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

pg. 728

PARRISH, ROY EARL. (Republican.) Born Novem-
ber 24, 1868, at Wallace, Harrison county; educated in pub-
lic schools and West Virginia Wesleyan College and West
Virginia University; attorney by profession; studied law. at
the University; member House of Delegates 1913; chairman
Republican Executive Committee Harrison county; elected
to the Senate in 1914 from the Twelfth District ;jcommittee
assignments 1917: Insurance (Chairman); Judiciary, Educa-
tion, Railroads, Militia, Public Library, Passed Bills, Virginia
Debt. Absent with leave from extra session of 1917, having.
entered the officers' military training camp at Fort Benja-
min Harrison, Indiana; is now Second Lieutenant U. S.
Reserves, stationed at Chillicothe, Ohio.


Submitted by: Valerie Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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