Edgar P. Rucker

[3][4][10] On September 3, 1890, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the West Virginia National Guard's 2nd Regiment, Company A, which was organized and mustered into service in Princeton.[18] In 1892, Rucker then moved to Bramwell in the burgeoning Pocahontas Coalfield region, where he remained for one year and served as the editor of the Flat Top Monitor, a Republican newspaper.[10] This partnership lasted until 1898, after which Rucker was joined by other law partners, including Luther C. Anderson, William Wellington Hughes, and Daniel J. F.[28][29] On July 23, 1896, at the state convention in Parkersburg, he was formally nominated as the Republican candidate for attorney general,[30] and in November, he ran for election against Democratic incumbent Thomas S.[1][33][34] At the start of his term, he was directed by the West Virginia Board of Public Works to represent the state in the case Pittsburgh, C., C. & St. L. Ry.Co. v. Board of Public Works of West Virginia, 172 U.S. 32., and appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court alongside his predecessors Riley and Thayer Melvin.[37] In September 1897, Rucker went to Keystone to intervene in a mob intending to lynch Tom Major, who was being held in jail in connection with the murder of special officer Newt Hines.[35] Rucker went to Wheeling and assisted Ohio County prosecuting attorney W. C. Meyer in instituting proceedings against the saloonkeepers who were violating state law.[20] In April 1908, Rucker underwent surgery at Episcopal Hospital in Washington, D.C., to remove from his nose a malignant polyp that had caused a partial loss of eyesight.[49] At the West Virginia Republican Party's 6th Senate district meeting at Keystone in August 1908, a resolution expressing sorrow at Rucker's death was passed.Always intensely active, wholly devoted to the interests of his clients, ever resourceful, particularly in an emergency, a fine orator, a born leader of men, he was a good lawyer and a splendid gentleman.
Black and white photograph view of buildings in downtown Welch, West Virginia, in 1915.
Downtown Welch , 1915
Black and white photograph of a stone church, adjacent to a graveyard
Old Stone Church cemetery in Lewisburg
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