Atkinson, George W
lawyer, author, governor, was born June 29, 1845, in Virginia. In 1870 he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university; took a post-graduate course at Mount Vernon college; studied law two years; attended lectures at Columbian university; graduated from the law department of Howard university; and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He has been eminently successful as a lawyer; was four years United States marshal for West Virginia; was elected to the fifty-first congress. from Virginia as the representative of the Wheeling district; and in 1896 was elected to the high office of governor of West Virginia. In conjunction with Alvaro F. Gibbons, he is the author of Prominent Men of West Virginia; a Volume of Poems; and a half-dozen other works.