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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: NORTON, Wilber S.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 21, 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. 357-358
WILBER S. NORTON, who is a representative of a family that settled at Malden,
W. Va., before that town was laid out, has spent almost his entire life in
Malden District and is well known as a business man and citizen. He was born
at Maiden, January 15, 1865, and is a son of Moses and Emily M. (Reed) Norton
and a grandson of Moses and Mary (White-cotton) Norton.
Grandfather Norton came to Mason County, Va., from Ohio, and from there came
to Mai-den, Kanawha County, when his son Moses, was a child, the birth of the
latter taking place January 25, 1816, in Mason County. He spent his life in
Maiden District and was interested in the coal and salt industries. He was
married first in 1849, to Frances Putney, who died in 1862. They had three
children; Mary Ellis, James Henry, and Mary Frances. He was married secondly
on August 29, 1863, to Emily M. Reed, who died May 13, i868, survived by
their one child, Wilbur Springs Norton. Moses Norton survived his second
wife for many years, his death occurring January 13, 1896.
Wilbur S. Norton was educated in the public schools and a business college in
Cincinnati. He has been identified with the Camphells Creek Coal Company
since I 88o, being employed first as a clerk in the company's store and later
becoming bookkeeper, having charge of this part of the business since 1904.
Mr. Norton casts his vote with the Democratic party but takes no very active
interest in politics, being no seeker for office. He belongs to several
fraternal organizations including the Knights of Pythias and the Red Men,
both at Maiden. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he is a
deacon.
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