Genealogical and Biographical Resources

A wide assortment of works with compilations of brief biographies of West Virginians of state and local prominence include:

Bench and Bar of West Virginia (1919)

Prominent Men of West Virginia (1890)

West Virginia Women (1974)

Missing Chapters: West Virginia Women in History (2 volumes, 1983 and 1986)

Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of West Virginia (1894)

Who's Who on the Ohio River and Its Tributaries (1931)

Men of West Virginia (1903)

Outstanding West Virginians of 1969-1970 (1969)

Talent and Courage: Outstanding West Virginia Women in the 1990s (1992)

Progressive West Virginians (l905 and 1923)

West Virginia Today (1941)

West Virginians: A Work of Biography (1928)

West Virginians of l934-1935 (1935)

Who's Who in West Virginia (l916, 1939, and 1983)

Additional sources for biography include the Personal Name Index, a card index for 50 works of West Virginia history, and the West Virginia Civil War Union Soldiers Index. Both are in the Robert C. Byrd Reading Room. The West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia is also an excellent source for biographical sketches of hundreds of West Virginians.