Z. B. WEST, lawyer, Fairfield.
Samuel West, father of Z. B. West, was of Irish descent, born in Illinois in 1827, and is still living.
Samuel West, grandfather of Z. B., was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1794, and died in 1844. His wife, grandmother of Z. B., was a native of Ohio, and of English descendants died in 1873, at the age of seventy-four years.
Margaret A. (Hoover) West, mother of Z. B, was born in Illinois in 1830 was of German descendant is still living. Her father, Peter Hoover, was born in Germany in 1778; came to America in 1809, and died in 1871.
Margaret A West's mother was of German descent; born in Pennsylvania in 1802, and died in 1854.
Mr. Z. B. West was, born March 1, 1854, in Wayne County, Ill. His early education consisted of what could be obtained by a some what a irregular attendance in the district schools. He there succeeded through personal effort in preparing himself for the profession of a teacher, which duties he first assumed in the year 1873. Inspired by a thirst for knowledge, he appropriated the means thus acquired to carry him through a collegiate course. In the spring of 1874, he entered Hollbrook Normal School of Lebanon, Ohio, and graduated in the teachers and business courses in 1876. He subsequently became a student in the Ladoga (Ind.) College, at present the Danville (Ind.) Normal College, taking the scientific course, and receiving the degree conferred by that institution in 1881 . In the interim's of his attendance at college, he has been actively engaged in teaching, having taught forty-eight months. His reputation as a teacher in Grayville, Fairfield, and in fact throughout Wayne and Edwards Counties, is well known, and requires no comment here. In the fall of 1881, Mr. West was appointed to the position of County Superintendent of Schools for Wayne County, and was the choice of the people for the same position, to which he was elected in the fall of 1882, and which he is now filling with universal acceptance.
Though Mr. West has chosen the legal profession, he justly looks with a degree of pride upon his experience in the interest of education, and is the author of a School Superintendent Record, which is destined to meet with favor wherever and whenever examined. Mr. West read law under the instruction of Messrs, Hanna & Adams, of Fairfield, and was regularly admitted to practice on the 29th of August, 1883.
He is a member of the Fairfield Lodge, No. 206, A. F. & A. M., and in politics he is a democrat.
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