Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-14
A NEW LAW R
Hon. John II McGraw and Hon. Mel
Vile ID. Post, Form "A Law Partner
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Hon. John Il McGraw and Hon. Mel
VILE ID. Post, Form a Law Partner
ship.
Hon. John T. McGraw, of Grafton,
and Hon. Melville d. Post, of this city,
have formed a partnership for the
practice of the law. The firm will have
it's office at Grafton, West Virginia, and
devote it's attention principally to cor
poration business and the practice in
the Federal Courts.
The intimate friends of both gentle
men have known for sometime that a
law partnership was contemplated.
About a year ago it was finally deter
mined and all the plans made, but as
Mr.. Post wished a year to travel abroad
and complete some literary work,
which he had promised to his publish
ers, the partnership was not to be ac-
lively entered upon until the spring of
1901. A number of influences preSuma-
bly, led to the organization of this law
firm, and its location in the industrial
interior of the State. Mr.. McGraW has
been for years a most prominent fac
tor in developing the resources of West
Virginia. He has made large invest
ments in coal and timber; built rail-
roads and been associated with al
most every enterprise of industrial i'm
portance in the interior of the State.
The magnitude of his business inter
ests has necessarily prevented him
from giving his law practice its full
measure of attention, while the volume
and diversity of those interests have
constantly resulted, in an ever increas-
ing legal business. At the same time a
location in the interior was desirable to
Mr.. Post. All of his property interests
are located in the neighboring counties
of Harrison. Barbour. and Lewis. The
advanced age of his father demanded
that Mr.. Post should be close enough
to share in some degree the exactions of
these landed estates.
Perhaps another factor was the in
crease in the volume of litigation re-
sulting from .ne phenomenal business
activity of this region. The coal and
oil development of these inland coun-
ties, have made them the seats of large
disputed interests. West Virginia has
no parallel for the magnitude and the
rapidity of the industrial development
of the counties of Marion, Monongalia.
Taylor and Harrison. Both Mr.. Nc
Graw and Mr.. Post are too well known
to require a comment. For years Mr..
McGraw has been the leader of the
Democratic party in West Virginia, and
in the last two contests, its candidate
of the United States Senate. He is a
man of fine scholarly manner and the
most cultured speaker in the Virginias.
Outside of West Virginia the name of
Mr.. McGraw is more intimately asso-
ciated with our State than that of any
other man in it-with both its poll
teal and industrial history. MIR. Nc
Graw's confidence in the inherent
wealth of West Virginia and his large
investments placed early in the Safes
development, have made him n of
the wealthiest men of the South.
A literary review of New York gives
the following sketch of Mr.. Post: Mr..
Melville d. Post. whose novel "Dwellers
in the Hills" is soon to be published
by G. P. Putnam's Sons. is a lawyer of
Wheeling, West Virginia. He was born
and spent his boyhood in the great blue
grass cattle country of West Virginia,
on the ranges of his father, the Hon.
Ira G. Post--the largest cattle owner
in the State. Mr.. Post is a graduate Of
the University Of West Virginia. In
both its academic and law departments
he was conspicuous student having