The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-09-12
Entered at the Grantsville,
~. Va, Post Office as second
sl,,ss mail matter.
lion. Williamson Blizzard

lersburg State Journal has con-
Quoted column under the cap
ton Geographic Biographs, "
giving biography of a promi-
nent man of the city each day.
In its issue of Tuesday, it takes
up Hon. Williamson Blizzard. a
former local attorney, who is
making good in the down-river
metropolis. The article fol-
lows;
The common idea of a law yer
is an artful individual, who uses
his profession as 4 means to skin
he public, and who in any given
case, absorbes all the money and
does it legally-a man, in short.
who is utterly unscrupulous and
who will stick at nothing to gain
his point or win a case. There
are as many popular jokes based
oil the tricky lawyers as there are
"a the green Irishman-an that
l. saying q good deal. If all law
yers were like the subject of
Film CIX., this notion would
never have taken root, much less
grown to its present proportions.
Williamson Blizzard, in the COM
paratively short time he has
been a member of the Wood
county bar. has attained to pos
ition in the very front rank of
that splendid body of profession
al men; and his rapid advance to
that position has been due quite
as much to his uncompromizine
honesty and plain square-dealing,
as to his concededly high attain
ments as an attorney. Brilliant
legal counselors are much more
hume rous, more's the pity, than
ones who can be absolute depend
ed upon to take no advantage of
ii client and to treat an opponent
with fairness -ones in brief, who
retain what the common run of
men seem to be losing, day by
day-a regard for the principles
of business morality and a rever-
ence for the laws of God as well
as those of man. Such men as
the subject of this Biograph are
the salt of the earth, as we'll as
of their profession.
Mr.. Blizzard has been quite
successful in his chosen calling
and ID regarded as one of the
safest advisers and legal guides
IN this part of the state also as
a fighter of vim and staying quail
tiles, waging legal battle with
bulldog like tenacity, that rec
ognizes no such word as failure.
With all his devotion to his pro-
fersion, he finds time for a great
deal of general reading, is one of
the best posted men on literary
subjects in the city, and is a close
and sympathetic student of the
great poets. His owr literary
work, done in leasure moments.
IS OF a rare quality end would
alone win him an enviable repu-
tation, if the modesty of the au-
thor would allow him to publish
1T. These pursuits, however, are
but advocations, relaxations from
more serious work. Mr.. Blizzard
IS first and always the jurist,
with the judicial temperament
and cast of thought.
There is excellent timber for
the bench in Williamson Blizzard.
ana the TACT IS being generally
recognized. No man in the
county would fill judgeship more
ideally from every point Of view.
His unquestioned honesty and
conscientiousness qualify him in
an especial manner, to say moth
ing of his legal ability and extern
siye knowledge of the law. The
Telegraph man ventures to predict
that, if there isn't a second Judge
blizzard within the next few
years it will be because The sec
ond possibility didn't want the
job!