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UPSHUR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
April 13, 2000
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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. 411
HAROLD T. STURM is mine engineer of the Philmont coal
mine of the Hercules & Pittsburgh Coal Company, and
also of the Hesper Mine, all in Upshur County, and he
maintains his home at Buckhannon, the county seat.
Mr. Stum was born in Harrison County, West Vir-
ginia, October 26, 1896, and in the same county were born
his parents, John J. and Leila (Tetrick) Sturm, who now
reside at Shinnston, that county, where the father is liv-
ing virtually retired, he having for a number of years
been successfully engaged in business as a contractor in
railroad construction. John J. Sturm is a past master
of St. John's Lodge No. 24, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, at Shinnston, and a Knight Templar, is a stalwart
republican and has served as a member of the County
Court of Harrison County. Of the four children Harold
T., of this review, is the eldest; Richard, a graduate of
the Shinnston High School is, in 1921, a student in Wash-
ington and Lee University in Virginia; Frank is attend-
ing the Shinnston High School; and Robert is attending
the public schools of that city.
Harold T. Sturm was reared in West Virginia and Ohio,
in each of which states he attended the public schools.
Since his graduation from the high school at Shinnston
he has given his active attention to mine engineering from
the time of initiating his independent career, and he has
gained his standing in his chosen field of service. He
is aligned loyally in the ranks of the republican party,
and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity has received
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides be-
ing a member of the Mystic Shrine, while his basic affilia-
tion is with St. John's Lodge No. 24, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, at Shinnston.
In September, 1915, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Sturm and Miss Aladine Bassel, who completed her
education by attending the West Virginia Wesleyan Col-
lege and who is a popular figure in the representative
social activities of Buckhannon.
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