Hayes Picklesimer

Background

Picklesimer, Hayes was born on January 25, 1899 in near Hager, Kentucky, United States. Son of Boyd and Mary (Williams) Picklesimer.

Education

Student Magoffin Institute, Salyersville, Kentucky, 1914-1916, Eastern Kentucky State Normal School, Richmond, 1917. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia, 1963.

Career

With Salyersville National Bank, 1917, Kanawha Valley Bank, Charleston, West Virginia, in various capacities, 1918-1923. Cashier Bank of Wyoming, Mullens, West Virginia, 1923-1924. Deputy commissioner of banking, West Virginia, 1924-1926.

Public accountant, offices at Charleston and Huntington, 1926-1928.

Assistant cashier, Kanawha Valley Bank, Charleston, 1928-1929, cashier, 1929-1935, vice president, 1935, director, 1936, executive vice president, 1940-1949, president, 1949-1966, chairman board, 1967-1969.

Achievements

• Hayes Picklesimer has been listed as a noteworthy banker by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member board trustees Morris Harvey College, Memorial Hospital, Charleston. Member Small Business Credit Commission, 1943-1946. Member West Virginia Bankers Association (past president), American Bankers Association (chairman commission on state legislation 1948-1950), West Virginia Chamber of Commerce (treasurer, since 1938).

Mason.

Clubs: Rotary, Edgewood Country, Berry Hills Country.

Connections

Married Sara Ruth Matthews, January 8, 1919. Children: Mary Janice, John.

Father:

Boyd Picklesimer

Mother:

Mary (Williams) Picklesimer

Spouse:

Sara Ruth Matthews

child:

Mary Janice Picklesimer

child:

John Picklesimer