U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Zirkle, Charles I. (b. 1871) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 517 Charles I. Zirkle, born in Barker's District in 1871, son of Jacob and Rebecca (Sluss) Zirkle, was married July 1, 1897, to Georgia, daughter of Albert G. and Rosanna J. (Jones) Wilson. Their child's name is J. Albert. He is a member of the M. E. Church, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics; in politics is Republican, and by occupation is editor of the Philippi Republican and commissioner in chancery of the circuit court of Barbour County. Mr. Zirkle graduated in 1894 from West Virginia Seminary at Buckhannon, and the same year was elected superintendent of the schools of Barbour and served four years. He has engaged earnestly in educational work, teaching both public and private schools in Barbour, among them being normal schools at Belington in 1895 and 1896, in connection with M. C. Lough. Mr. Zirkle became editor of the Republican in 1896 and has kept the paper fully up to the high standard of excellence which it has always borne. He owns a fine home in Philippi at the corner of Pike and High Streets. The first man wounded in the Civil War, in West Virginia was shot while in a stable, June 3, 1861, on the site where his residence now stands. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------