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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: ASHBY, Hon. Walter Lewiis
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
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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. 385
HON. WALTER LEWIS ASHBY, a member of the Charleston bar, is senior of the
well known law firm of Ashby & Woodroe, and is associated in business with E.
T. Crawford, the firm name being Crawford & Ashby. He is prominent in
politics, and in 1898 was elected a member of the state senate of West
Virginia. He was born November 3, 1862, in Norborn County, Mo., and
accompanied his parents to Boone County, W. Va., in 1865, and four years
later to Kanawha County.
Walter L. Ashby attended the public schools at Charleston and subsequently
Rock Hill College, Maryland. After deciding upon the study of law, he entered
the office of his half-brother, the late Senator John E. Kenna, and was
admitted to the bar, January 30, 1885. A short time afterward Mr. Ashby
entered into part-nership with Hon. C. C. Watts, who was later
attorney-general of West Virginia, with whom he was associated until 1900.
Since then Mr. Ashby has practiced alone and also with partners, his present
firm having been established in 1905. Public matters have interested Mr.
Ashby ever since he attained manhood, when he identified himself with the
Democratic party, and through that medium has been tendered public positions.
While serving as state senator he was a member of committees that had much to
do with important legislation, and on account of his legal ability he was
extremely valuable in that position. He is one of the representative citizen
of Charleston, where he
has invested in property and for the past twenty-five years has identified
himself with the leading interests of the city.
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