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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: McWHORTER, Hon. Louis E.
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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. 387
HON. LOUIS E. McWHORTER, junior member (of the well known law firm of H. C. &
L. E. McWhorter, at Charleston, W. Va., is one of the representative mem-bers
of the Kanawha County bar and a cit-izen of public worth. He was born
November 30, 1856, at Spencer, Roane County, Va., and is a son of Hon. J. M.
and Julia A. (Stalnaker) McWhorter.
Judge J. M. McWhorter, father of Louis E., has long been identified with
public life in this section, in 1863 representing Roane County in the state
legislature, and serving as the first auditor of West Virginia, from 1865
until 1869. Later he removed to Greenbrier County, and in 1870 was appointed
circuit judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit; again, in 1896, he became
circuit judge of the Tenth Judicial District. He was married first to Julia
A. Stalnaker, who died in 1869, having been the mother of ten children. Judge
McWhorter was married secondly in 1870, to Julia Kinsley.
Louis E. McWhorter was educated first in the public schools of Greenbrier
County and later at Lewisburg Academy. He then entered upon the study of the
law, under the supervision of his father and also under that of Hon. H. C.
McWhorter, afterward entering the law department of the University of
Virginia, at Charlottesville. He was admitted to the bar in 1882 but did not
enter actively into practice until four years later, when he formed a
partnership with Judge H. C. McWhorter, which continued until 1897, when
Judge McWhorter retired from practice in order to assume the duties of judge
of the Supreme Court of Appeals. Shortly afterward, Louis E. McWhorter became
associated in practice with Isaac Loewenstein, and this partnership lasted
until May 31, 1909. In the meanwhile Judge McWhorter had retired from his
high public office and on August 1, 1909, again resumed private practice in
partnership with L. E. McWhorter, under the old firm name of H. C. & L. E.
McWhorter, with offices in the Alderson-Stephenson Building.
Mr. McWhorter was married June 27, 1883, to Miss Emma M. Champe, a daugh-ter
of Sewall and Almeda Champe. Five children were born to them, four daughters
and one son: Julia, Almeda, Lou Emma, Louis Edwin and Ruth Annette. Julia,
the eldest, died April 17, 1904. They are mem-bers of the State Street
Methodist Episcopal church. In politics Mr. McWhorter is a Republican, and he
represented Kanawba County in the House of Delegates in 1905, and was city
attorney for the city of Charleston, from April, 1905, to April, 1907. His
residence is at No.110 Bradford Street, Charleston. Mr. McWhorter is a
liberal and public spirited citizen. He lives up to the demands of the day
and takes an earnest interest in the institutions and enterprises which
promise to build up the prosperity of this section.
Sandy Spradling
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