From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 500-501.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


G. R. E. GILCHRIST

G. R. E. Gilchrist, a prominent attorney of Wheeling, was born at 
Beaver, Beaver county, Penn., January 8, 1857.  He received a through 
academic education, and completed his literary studies at Wooster 
university, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1879.  He then began 
preparation for the profession of law, and pursued a course of study 
in that department for two years, 1880-81, in the  University of 
Virginia, at Charlottesville.  In July, 1881, he was admitted to the 
bar, and he then formed a partnership for the practice of his 
profession with Hon. E. G. Cracraft, of Wheeling, with whom he was 
associated until the death of the venerable gentleman and 
distinguished  practitioner.  Among the attorneys of Wheeling, which 
Mr. Gilchrist has chosen as his field of labor, he now occupies a 
creditable place, and has in a notable degree, the confidence and 
esteem of the community.  He is at present one of the commissioners 
in chancery for the circuit court.  Mr. Gilchrist has his residence 
at Elm Grove.  He was married April 25, 1883, to Jennie E. Murphy, of 
East Liverpool, Ohio, and to this union two daughters have been born, 
Ethel, October 16, 1884, and Mabel, January 5, 1888.  Mr. Gilchrist 
is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church of Wheeling.     


(Linda Fluharty)