U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Parriott, James D. (b.1880) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Bench and Bar of West Virginia Author: Geo Wesley Atkinson, LL.B., LL. D. Virginia Law Book Company; Charleston, W.Va.; 1919 Pages 414-416, James D. Parriott Our subject was born at New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia, June 16, 1880, and is the son of the Rev. George W. and Jane (Clark) Parriott. He received his education in the public schools of Marshall County and in the High School at Mannington, Marion County, of his native State. Later he entered the Law Department of the West Virginia University, from which he graduated in the class of 1909. He was admitted to the Moundsville, Marshall County, Bar in July, 1909, where he has since practiced with a marked degree of success. His office is at Moundsville, but his practice has extended into the adjoining counties and has become quite lucrative for a lawyer of his years. Mr. Parriott is an industrious, well-equipped young lawyer, and is honest and upright in both thought and purpose, elements which are absolutely essential to permanent success in any business or calling in life. He has gained strength and standing by experience and associations, and in the same proportion his business has grown to satisfactory proportions for an attorney of his years. He has, therefore, it may be said, passed the experimental stage in his professional career. Mr. Parriott is a Republican in politics, but his record shows that he prefers to be a lawyer instead of a politician, because he has never aspired to office except that of Prosecuting Attorney of Marshall County, which is strictly in the line of his profession, except one position, that of County Superintendent of Public Schools, which he held from 1903 to 1907, before he began to practice law. He was nominated and elected to the office of County Prosecutor in 1912, and filled that responsible legal office with such a degree of satisfaction that he was re-elected to the same office in 1916, and is now serving his second four years' term, ably and efficiently. He has shown himself to be a satisfactory officer for the people, who prosecutes all violators of the law, without fear or favor, and has seen to it that no guilty person has escaped. He has, therefore, made a clean record in that responsible position worthy of emulation by others in the same line of the public service. Mr. Parriott married Miss Bessie Sadler, of Point Marion, Pennsylvania, in 1910, and is the father of two children. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and of the Sigma Nu Greek Letter Fraternity. He resides at the city of Moundsville, where he is well known and is regarded as an honorable, upright Christian gentleman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- MARRIAGE RECORD Fayette County, PA, Marriage License #22496 James D. Parriott, age 29, son of G. W. & Jane C. Parriott Bessie J. Sadler, age 26, dau of C. K. & Susie Sadler married 14-Apr-1910 in Fayette County, PA --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1920 Census, Marshall County WV Washington District, Moundsville City, 2nd Ward ED: 65, Sheet 19A Lines 37-39, Dwelling 414, Family 445 217 Tomilson(sp?) Ave PARRIOTT, James D (39), head, WV-VA-WV, Prosecuting Attorney ", Bessie S (36), wife, PA-PA-PA ", Foster C (6), son, WV-WV-PA ", Susan A (4), dau, WV-WV-PA --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1930 Census, Denver County CO Denver City, ED:16-118, Sheet 22A Lines 19-25, Dwelling 343, Family 343 4045 E. 18th Avenue PARRIOTT, James D (49), head, WV-VA-VA, Lawyer, General-Practice ", Bessie S (46) wife, mar-at-age 26, PA-PA-PA ", Foster C (16) son, WV-WV-PA ", Susan A (15) dau, WV-WV-PA ", Joseph M (10) son, WV-WV-PA ", James D Jr (6) son, WV-WV-PA ROUSSIN, Mary L (29) servant, MO-MO-MO --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1940 Census, Denver County CO Denver City, ED:16-179, Sheet 2A Lines 14-19, HH#28, owns-home, value $8,000 4045 E. 18th Avenue PARRIOTT, James D (59), C-4, WV, Lawyer, Private Practice ", Bessie S (56), wife, H-4, PA ", Foster C (26), son, C-4, WV, Architect, Building ind. ", Susan [ab] (25), dau, C-4, WV, Educational Admin, College ", Joseph M (20), son, C-1, WV ", James D Jr (16), son, H-2, WV ---------------------------------------------------------------------