U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hansford, Lloyd (1857-1916) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Tucker County, West Virginia From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time. by Hu Maxwell Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884. Pages 413-414 Lloyd Hansford, son of W. W. Hansford, of Black Fork, was born March 16, 1857. In his younger school years he attended school under S. B. Dumire, Miss Jane Parsons, V. N. Gribble, A. B. Parsons and P. Lipscomb. This was at the Mount Pleasant School. Lloyd entered the Fairmont Normal School in September, 1876, and graduated in 1879, being the first graduate in Tucker from any of the Normal Schools of the State. While in the Normal School, he served awhile as instructor in the mathematical department. Afterward he came home and taught a select school at Alum Hill, and from his school sent fourteen applicants before the Board of Examiners, and they were all granted certificates. The school of ten weeks closed in September, 1880, and he entered into a stock company whose object was to foster the Tucker Democrat, which, at that time, was not self-sustaining. The company numbered among its members Senator Ewin, A. B. Parsons, L. S, Auvil and others. Hansford was elected Editor; for, it seems that the paper was conducted on the plan of those religious denominations that elect their preacher instead of selecting him, or allowing him to select himself. Hansford, with almost no experience in the business, was elected to manage the paper the first year. On the 19th of Sept., 1880, he was appointed principal of the Fetterman school, with two assistants. The newspaper business had furnished him plenty of hardwork; but the pay had not been as good as he wished. He had meanwhile, been studying the law, under Caleb Boggess, of Clarksburg. In 1881 he was appointed first assistant in the Piedmont Graded School, which he accepted. He then took contracts on the W. Va. C. & P. R. W. and worked just one year, at various kinds of work and with different crews of men. He belonged to the engineer corps that located the railroad from Fairfax to Bever. In 1883 he was appointed teacher of the St. George school. At the convention of June 7, 1884, he received the nomination for prosecuting attorney of Tucker County. He is a young man of steady habits, and has a good education. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - in the same book, Pages 201-202, LLOYD HANSFORD. As a lawyer Mr. Hansford has only a short record, having so recently entered the profession. But, in his qualifications he starts none behind his competitors and colleagues at the bar. A scholar of finished education, he begins with fewer disadvantages than many whose educations are more limited. He is the only graduate in Tucker County from the State Normal School, and was our first graduate from any State school. He graduated in 1879, in his twenty-second year. In 1880 he went to Clarksburg and studied law under Caleb Boggess. After six months he returned to Tucker, but still continued the study of law, and at regular times returned to Clarksburg to recite to Boggess. On the first of January, 1884, he received license to practice law, having been examined by Judges Boyd, Jacobs and Fleming. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Tucker County, WV (Page 78) FULL-NAME: L. Hansford AGE-AT-DEATH: Atty DEATH-DATE: Marsh 24, 1916 DEATH-PLACE: Parsons MARITAL-STATUS: Married CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Blood Disease ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Tucker County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/tucker/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------