Alexander F. Mathews
Alexander F. Mathews | |
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59th Virginia Infantry 1861-1863 | |
Alexander Ferdinand Mathews (November 13, 1838 – December 17, 1906) was an American lawyer, banker, and university board director in the
Early life
Alexander F. Mathews born on November 13, 1838, in
Civil War
On the outbreak of the
Postbellum
Mathews married Laura M. Gardner on December 28, 1865.[1] Together they had eight children: Mason, Charles Gardner, Mary Miller, Eliza Patton, Maud, Florence, and Henry.[3]
Due to the restrictions placed on former Confederates in the years after the war, Mathews was unable to practice the law. He taught for several years at the Lewisburg Academy, where he had received his early education. When restrictions for Confederates were lifted, he and his brother Henry M. Mathews opened a law firm under the name Mathews & Mathews, which became one of the most successful in the region.[4][2]
Mathews was appointed to the
In 1871, Mathews, along with Adam C. Snydor and Homer A. Holt, founded the first bank in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Until 1888, this was the only bank between Staunton, Virginia and Charleston, West Virginia some 200 miles apart. He served as president or director of the bank continuously until his death.[3] Mathews additionally took part in the founding the First National Bank of Ronceverte, when it was chartered by the State of West Virginia in 1888.[6]
He died on December 16, 1906, in
References
- ^ a b c d e Combs, p. 18
- ^ a b Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia. University of Virginia Press. 1907.
- ^ a b LLHE
- ^ The Virginia Law Register. J.P. Bell Company. 1909.
- ^ Undergraduate catalog. West Virginia University Libraries. Morgantown, WV : The University.
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Bibliography
- Combs, James Thurl (1987). Greenbrier, C.S.A. Wartime Letters of Mason Mathews to his son Captain Joseph William Mathews, C.S.A.,p. 5–44. Parsons, West Virginia: The Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society. OCLC 13983198.
- "The Credit of the County". Lewisburg Living History Exhibit. The City of Lewisburg. Retrieved October 19, 2012.