Pollock, Augustus
merchant, banker, was born July 5, 1830, in Westphalia. He emigrated to America in 1849; and in 1852 started in business for himself in Baltimore, Md. Two years later he moved his business to Wheeling, W. Va., which has since been his home. In 1860 he established a wholesale notion house in Wheeling, which he continued until 1871.
He then founded a cigar and tobacco factory, which he still continues, employing regularly over one hundred hands in the production of Crown Stogie cigars. He has always been a leader in every movement that had for its object the development of the business interests of his adopted city. He had been president of the German bank; president of the West Virginia Tobacco company; a director in the German Insurance company, and other incorporations. During the civil war he encouraged the organization of the first German company of Wheeling volunteers in the union army, and enlisted himself in the home guards.