Arthur Lee GASTON
1876 - 1951 (74 years)
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Name Arthur Lee GASTON Born 14 Aug 1876 Chester, Chester Co, SC 
[1] Gender Male Occupation attorney, judge [1] Died 1951 [1] Notes - "Gaston, Arthur Lee, attorney: born at Chester, SC August 14, 1876; son of T.C. and Adelaide (Lee) Gaston; attended Davidson College, NC, University of Va., Charlottesville, VA; A.B. degree from Davidson College; lieutenant-colonel Gov., R.I Manning's staff four years; member S.C. House of Representatives six years; delegate to Democratic National Convention at San Francisco, 1920; engaged in active law practice in State and Federal Courts, representing interests in cotton mills, banks and industrial companies; at present director of Baldwin Cotton Mill, Commercial Bank (Chester, SC) and Chester Building and Loan Assn.: first Lieutenant Co. D., 1st S.C. Volunteer Inf., Spanish American War, served as chairman local board and as field chairman of district for Liberty Loan campaigns in State during World War; married Virginia Aiken (deceased), Greenwood, SC; next Elizabeth Byrd Smith, August, GA; member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Home is Chester SC."
[Who's Who in South Carolina - A dictionary of Contemporaries containing biographical notices of eminent men of South Carolina - Geddings Hardy Crawford, Editor, 1921]
Person ID I49166 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 7 Feb 2010
Father T. Chalmers GASTON, b. 1847, d. 1885 (Age 38 years) Mother Adelaide LEE, b. 1854, d. 1895 (Age 41 years) Family ID F20246 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Virginia AIKEN, b. 1881, d. 1907 (Age 26 years) Children + 1. David Aiken GASTON, b. 21 Aug 1903, d. Sep 1988 (Age 85 years) Family ID F20247 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Elizabeth Byrd SMITH Family ID F26125 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- "Gaston, Arthur Lee, attorney: born at Chester, SC August 14, 1876; son of T.C. and Adelaide (Lee) Gaston; attended Davidson College, NC, University of Va., Charlottesville, VA; A.B. degree from Davidson College; lieutenant-colonel Gov., R.I Manning's staff four years; member S.C. House of Representatives six years; delegate to Democratic National Convention at San Francisco, 1920; engaged in active law practice in State and Federal Courts, representing interests in cotton mills, banks and industrial companies; at present director of Baldwin Cotton Mill, Commercial Bank (Chester, SC) and Chester Building and Loan Assn.: first Lieutenant Co. D., 1st S.C. Volunteer Inf., Spanish American War, served as chairman local board and as field chairman of district for Liberty Loan campaigns in State during World War; married Virginia Aiken (deceased), Greenwood, SC; next Elizabeth Byrd Smith, August, GA; member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Home is Chester SC."
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Sources - [S2134] Gaston of Chester, Chalmers Gaston Davidson, (Davidson Printing Co, Davidson NC (1956)), p. xiii.
- [S2134] Gaston of Chester, Chalmers Gaston Davidson, (Davidson Printing Co, Davidson NC (1956)), p. xiii.