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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: ALDERSON, George P.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 25, 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. 419-420
GEORGE P. ALDERSON, a well known member of the Kanawha County bar, residing
in Charleston, was born at Sulphur Springs, Texas, in 1879, and is a son of
Irving N. Alderson, whose death occurred in our subject's childhood. The
latter has since then resided with his uncle, Col. J. Coleman Alderson,
formerly of Wheeling, W. Va., but now a prominent citizen of Charleston.
Irving N. Alderson was born in Amherst County, Va., in 1845, a son of Rev.
Louis A. Alderson.
George P. Alderson in his boyhood attended a preparatory school in Garrett
County, Md. He then entered Columbia College and was subsequently a student
at George Washington University, both institutions of Washington, D.C.
Graduated with his degree in law in 1905, be was admitted to the bar in
Washing-ton, D. C., on January 1st of the following year and later became a
member of the bar of Kanawha County, W. Va., and is now located in the
Alderson-Stevenson Building. He is a man of recognized ability in his
profession, a good citizen having at heart the interests of his adopted city,
and in politics is a Democrat.
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