Category:Henry Bell Gilkeson
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English: Henry Bell Gilkeson (June 6, 1850 – September 29, 1921) was an American lawyer, politician, school administrator, and banker in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Gilkeson served in the West Virginia Legislature as a state senator representing the 12th District in the West Virginia Senate (1890–1893) and as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1883–1885 and 1909–1911). Gilkeson also served as superintendent of Hampshire County Schools (1877–1879), the mayor of Romney (beginning in 1885), principal of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind (1887–1888), and the first president of the Bank of Romney (1888–1913).
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Date of birth | 6 June 1850 Moorefield | ||||
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Date of death | 29 September 1921 Mountain Lake Park | ||||
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- Gilkeson (surname)
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- 1850 births
- 1921 deaths
- 19th-century men of the United States
- 20th-century men of the United States
- Alumni of Hampden-Sydney College
- Members of Beta Theta Pi
- Burials at Indian Mound Cemetery
- Businesspeople from West Virginia
- Democrats from West Virginia
- Educators from West Virginia
- Lawyers from West Virginia
- Mayors of Romney, West Virginia
- Members of the Romney Literary Society
- Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates
- People of Moorefield, West Virginia
- People of Romney, West Virginia
- People of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind
- Presbyterians from the United States
- Schoolteachers from the United States
- American people of Scottish descent
- West Virginia State Senators
- Male politicians of the United States
- Education in Hampshire County, West Virginia