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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: HARLESS, Floyd H. (published 1923)
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Submitted by
Valerie Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
September 12, 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 III,
pg. 235
Kanawha County
FLOYD H. HARLESS, a Charleston attorney, where he has
been in active practice for over ten years, has the honor of
being state councillor for West Virginia of the Order United
American Men. As head of this order in the state he
is greatly interested in spreading its principles and making
the order a vehicle of genuine service and usefulness as
a defender and propagator of real Americanism and good
citizenship.
Mr. Harless inherits some of the strong and sturdy char-
acter of his ancestors, who have lived in the Mountain
State for several generations. He was born on the Harless
homestead on the Straight Pork of Mud River in Lincoln
County in 1884. His parents, G. W. and Louisa E.
(Humphrey) Harless, are still living, the former a native
of Lincoln and the latter of Kanawha County. Harless is
a name of German origin, but the first American ancestor
settled in Virginia about the time of the Revolution. He
reared a family of eleven sons and two daughters. Four of
these children lived to be over 100 years old, and in all
the generations the Harlesses have been noted for long life.
The grandfather of the Charleston lawyer was Rev. Edwin
Harless, who lived to be over ninety years of age, and for
seventy of those years was an active Baptist minister.
Floyd H. Harless attended the country schools of Lincoln
County, Marshall College at Huntington, and studied law
in West Virginia University at Morgantown. He finished
his law course in 1910, was admitted to the bar the same
year, and at once located at Charleston, where among many
of the state's foremost lawyers he has won creditable dis-
tinction by his abilities and has been favored with a grow-
ing general practice. His practice is in the various County,
State and Federal courts. He is a member of the Knights
of Pythias and Odd Fellows.
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