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TAYLOR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Tina Hursh
frog158@juno.com
December 18, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 73
Dudley L. Shields, eldest of the children of the late Thomas L. Shields, to
whom a memorial tribute is paid in the review immediatley predeeding this
article, was born at Grafton, judicial center of Taylor county, West Virginia,
on the 28th of August, 1886, and he was about five years of age at the time
of the family of the family removal to Parkersburg, in which city he
continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation in the high
school as a member of the class of 1903. For two years therafter he was a
student in the University of West Virginia, and upon the death of his father he
left this institution and assumed active control of the substantial wholesale
produce business which his father had established at Parkersburg. Later he was
employed six years as a teller in the Parkersburg National Bank, and in 1917
he engaged in the automobile business, of which he has become one of the
prominent and successful representatives at Parkersburg, where he operates a
large and well equipped garage and repair shop, in which he handles a full line
of automobile accessories, besides as distributor in this district of the fine
Buick and Cadillac automoviles. His modern garage is located at the corner of
Eight and Avery streets.
Mr. Shields is one of the alert and progressive young business men of
Parkersburg, is a member of the local Board of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club, is
a democrat in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the First
Baptist Church of their home city. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Shields has
attained the Scottish Rite degrees and is a thirty-second degree Mason, besides
being affiliated also with Nemesis Temple of the Mystic Shrine and with the
Parkersburg Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is an
active and appreciative member of the Parkersburg Country Club. The first wife
of Mr. Shields bore the name of Greek Douglas, and she is survived by one son,
Douglas. For his second wife Mr. Shields wedded Miss Lois Partidge, and they
have two children, Dudley L., Jr. and Grace.
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