Our Founders

 

Biographies by Robert Perry

 

 

As we celebrate the 90th anniversary year of the founding of the Rotary Club of Bluefield, West Virginia, we present a series of biographical sketches of the Bluefield businessmen who, in the spring of 1918, were our club’s 18 Charter Members.  

 

Much information will be taken from their obituaries, but anyone who can add additional personal stories, facts, or remembrances is asked to share that information.  There are a number of individuals in Bluefield today who are descended, or otherwise connected to these men. 

 

I believe this is a very fitting way to honor their memory and foresight.

 

  1. Henry Austin Lilly

  2. Chapman Lucas Borden

  3. C. H. "Dan" Goodykoontz

  4. David E. French

  5. Robert W. Lacy

  6. Isadore Cohen

  7. Everett A. Leonard

  8. Richard B. Parrish

  9. Myron Marsh

  10. E. H. Easley

  11. J. T. Thornton

 

 

 

 

 

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