Zachary Taylot Vinson
(1857 - 1929 )

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Zachary Taylor Vinson (1857- 1929 was born in Wayne County and educated at Bethany (West Virginia) College, the Law School of the University of Virginia and Boston University law School. He first practiced law in Ceredo, West Virginia, and then moved to Huntington where he was a director and general  counsel for the United States Coal and Oil Company and attorney for the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Co. He was one of the founders of Huntington's Central Christian Church and taught a Sunday School class there. On his death the class was named the Vinson Memorial Bible Class. Westmoreland's Vinson Junior High and later Vinson High School were named for one of Wayne County's most prominent families.

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