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Jenkin J. Gilmore, after completing a very liberal education, returned to West Virginia and entered the
coal industry, and is one of the well known mine superintendents in Logan County. His headquarters are
at Barnabas on the Omar branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio, about twelve miles from Logan.
Mr. Gilmore was born January 1, 1888, at Bramwell in Mercer County, West Virginia. He is of Scotch and
Irish ancestry, and a son of Milton and Alice (Becker) Gilmore. His parents were both born in Virginia.
His father , who died in 1907, was a member of a Virginia regiment in the Civil war, and for many years
was associated with the mining interests of the firm of Freeman & Jones at Bramwell.
Jenkin J. Gilmore acquired a common and high school education at Bramwell, finishing his high school
course in 1903. For three years he pursued advanced training in Mount St. Joseph School at Baltimore,
Maryland, and in 1908 graduated in a bookkeeping and general business course at Eastman's Business College
of Poughkeepsie, New York. On returning to West Virginia he was given work that constituted a general
training in the mining industry under Colonel Tierney in the Pocahontas coal field. At the end of three
years he had been advanced to mine boss and foreman for the Pocahontas Consolidated at Cherokee, where he
remained two years. In 1915 he came to the Logan Field for the Main Island Creek Coal Company, where his
first work was building a supply house. He was then made mine boss or foreman, and since 1919 has been
mine superintendent for the Main Island Creek Coal Company at Barnabas. During the was he made every
effort to get into service, but was ruled out, since his work in the coal fields was more essential to the
winning of the war.
In 1917, at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, he married Miss Edna Easley, daughter of Frederick and Lou (Hatcher)
Easley, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore have one
son, Frederick. Mr. Gilmore is a Catholic, while his wife is a Presbyterian. He is affiliated with the
Knights of Columbus.
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 111
Pg. 370
Submitted by Tina Hursh Sept 23 2000
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