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LINCOLN COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: CHILTON, Joseph E.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PJAFLA@aol.com
September 17, 1999
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Source: Hardesty, Henry H Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia. New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West
Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974.
JOSEPH E CHILTON --was born at
the mouth of Coal river, Kanawha county, (now) West Virginia, December 6,
1855, and came to Lincoln county in 1878. He is a son of William Edwin and
Mary Elizabeth (Wilson) Chilton. Joseph E. Chilton taught in the public
schools of Kanawha county, West Virginia, five years, two years of which were
spent in Charleston. He read law in the office of Kuna & Walls while
teaching, and at the age of twenty-one was admitted to the bar. In 1880 he
was elected prosecuting attorney of the counties of Lincoln and Boone, West
Virginia, which office he still holds. Mr. Chilton is a Regent of West
Virginia University, having been appointed by Gov. Jackson in October, 1882.
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