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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: COYLE, George F.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 455
GEORGE F. COYLE, a member of the well known firm of Coyle & Richardson,
Charleston, W. Va., was born in Berkeley County, Va. (now West Virginia), in
1852, a son of Ed-ward V. and Mary Winpyglar Coyle. His great-grandfather,
James Coyle, emigrated to this country from Donegal in the North of Ireland
in the year 1745, settling as a pioneer in what Is now Jefferson County, West
Virginia. A part of his original estate is still in the family name, being
the home of a brother of our subject, Jerome B. Coyle.
Edward V. Coyle, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Jefferson
County Au-gust I, i86o, and died in Berkeley County in May, 1890. His
sympathies were with the South in the war of 61-65; and although too old to
serve as a soldier he was active in his aid to the Confederacy and was held a
prisoner at Fort McHenry for several months, not having been released until
some time after the war was over.
Three of his sons were in the Confederate Army, one of them, Joseph C. Coyle,
a mem-her of the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, was killed at the age of
twenty-two while on a scouting expedition with a detachment of Colonel
Mosby's command, in 1864. The other sons, James W. and Jerome R, escaped all
serious casualities, the former dying at his home in Jefferson County some
years after the war.
Mr. Coyle was married in Thomasville, Ga., in 1884 to Miss Nannie G. Coyle,
no relation, though of the same family name. She was born in North Carolina,
and is the daughter of Dr. Thomas Finley and Nancy (Cardwell) Coyle, members
of prominent North Carolina families.
Mr. and Mrs. George Coyle are the parents of two children, Margaret Lynn and
George Lacy. The former was educated in the p~blic and high schools of
Charleston and private school in Baltimore. George was educated in the
public schools and at Fishburne's Military School, and Washington and Lee
University. He now holds a responsible position in the Coyle & Richardson
store.
The Coyle family are all active members of the First Presbyterian church of
Charleston, and take an active interest in every movement for the moral and
material betterment of the community.
The firm of Coyle & Richardson is composed of George F. Coyle and J. Lynn
Richardson; the two partners having been associated since boyhood, commenced
business in Charleston in 1884, and now have one of the handsomest, largest
and best equipped business houses in the city, and a business that is second
to none in the state. Their store is on the corner of Capitol and Lee
streets, the most prominent and accessible part of the city.
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