Cabell County, West Virginia Biography of Charles Clifford HARROLD ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , July 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 169-170 CHARLES CLIFFORD HARROLD. To administer capably the affairs of large enterprises requires sound judgment, execu- tive ability and a capacity for earnest work. Especially is this true when the interests of others are involved, for in such a case the individual so circumstanced has to con- sider their rights as well as the general welfare and the exigencies of certain conditions. Among the most impor- tant phases of business life is that which deals with cred- its, and the responsibilities devolving upon the secretary- treasurer of the Huntington Association of Credit Men are therefore numerous and significant. This office is held by Charles Clifford Harrold, who has passed his entire career at Huntington, where he has gained advancement through the possession of the qualities noted above. Mr. Harrold was born at Huntington, May 31, 1883, and is a son of Charles B. and Georgia Lee (McCullough) Har- rold, and a member of a family which originated in Eng- land and was founded in Virginia during Colonial days. James Madison Harrold, the paternal grandfather of Charles C. Harrold, was born in 1821 in Virginia, and was a pioneer in what are now Kanawha and Mason counties, West Virginia, where he was engaged in business as a salt manufacturer. During the war between the states he served in the Quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army. In or about 1887 he retired from business activities and took up his residence at Huntington, where he became a well-known and highly respected citizen and served for some time as a member of the board of education. In politics he was a democrat. Mr. Harrold died in 1897. He married Jane Turner, who was born in North Carolina and died at Huntington. Charles B. Harrold was born in Kanawha County, Vir- ginia (now West Virginia), April 5, 1855, and was reared there and in Mason County, where he received a public school education. He accompanied his parents to Cabell County and attended Marshall College, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1872, and then en- gaged in the grocery business at Huntington, in which he has continued to the present. He now resides at No. 1118 Tenth Street. Mr. Harrold is a democrat in politics. He has always shown an interest in education and was formerly secretary of the board of regents of Marshall College for a number of years. He belongs to Johnson Memorial Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South, of Huntington, and frater- nizes with the Masons. Mr. Harrold married Miss Georgia Lee McCullough, who was born February 3, 1861, at Hunt- ington, and died here July 21, 1921. They became the parents of five children, of whom two died young, the sur- vivors being: Charles Clifford; Frank L., a resident of Huntington; and Grace Christine, the wife of George T. Sigler, a locomotive engineer residing at Huntington. Charles Clifford Harrold attended the public schools of Huntington, this being subsequently supplemented by a commercial course at Marshall Business College. In the meantime, at the age of fourteen years, he began work with D. E. Abbott & Company, in the albumen printing de- partment, where he remained six years. On June 1, 1904, he engaged in the grocery business with W. B. Wilson and others under the corporate name of the W. B. Wilson Com- pany, with which he was identified for two years, and then accepted a position with the Adams Express Company, with which he was identified for a short time. Mr. Harrold next became night baggage agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, a position which he held from November 21, 1906, until August 14, 1907, when he went into the Chesapeake & Ohio shops as general foreman's clerk. On October 20, 1907, he was promoted to general timekeeper of the shops, and remained in that capacity until January 1, 1912, when he was again promoted, becoming accountant for the store departments, covering territory known as the Western General Division. On October 17, 1917, he was made storekeeper for the West Virginia General Division, with headquarters at Huntington. Mr. Harrold left the Chesapeake & Ohio, September 16, 1919, to become assistant manager of the Tri-States Credit and Adjustment Bureau, and February 21, 1921, was elected secretary and treasurer of the Huntington Association of Credit Men, an office to which he was re-elected February 20, 1922. The Tri- States Credit and Adjustment Bureau and the Huntington Association of Credit Men are affiliated interests. He is generally recognized as one of the best informed and most capable credit men in this part of the state. Mr. Harrold is a democrat. He belongs to the Johnson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Hunting- ton, and sings in the church choir. During the World war he assumed the responsibility of keeping war material and supplies moving for general railroad repairs, and nineteen hours a day was not unusual for him to work in this con- nection. In addition he found time to assist in all the drives, and was a liberal contributor to all movements. He is the owner of a modern residence at No. 937 Eleventh Avenue, Huntington, and has other real estate in the city and a one-third interest in the grocery store situated at No. 1001 Sixteenth Street. On June 26, 1907, Mr. Harrold married Miss Iva C. Me- Caffrey, daughter of William S. and Jeannette (Smith) McCaffrey, both of whom are now deceased. Mr. McCaff- rey fought as a Union soldier during the war between the states. Three children have come to Mr. and Mrs. Harrold: Jeannette Lee, born April 25, 1909; Darwin Abbott, born April 17, 1912; and Charles Clifford, Jr., born March 6, 1919.