From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 721.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


WILLIAM B. MATHEWS

William B. Mathews, a son of Christopher (listed), and one of the 
leading young men of Moundsville, was born in Marshall county, August 
27, 1866.  He began his education in the common schools and was 
subsequently a student in the Moundsville high school, where he was 
graduated in 1883.  He then entered Waynesburg college, Penn., and 
became a graduate of that institution in 1886.  He has taught school 
six terms, and he is of high repute in his profession, and popular in 
the community as a skillful and thorough teacher.  For two years he 
has served on the board of examiners of Marshall county, and at 
present he is engaged in the study of law.  Mr. Mathews is captain of 
Gen. B. F. Kelley camp, Sons of Veterans, is in politics, a 
republican, and is a member and steward of the Methodist Episcopal 
church of Thompson.  In 1880 he received the appointment of notary 
public.

(Linda Fluharty)