. West Virginia and its people. court room were knownas the Arsenal. For two years he held the position of city attorney atCrested Butte. Upon leaving Colorado he went to Los Angeles, Califor-nia. In California Mr. Stiles practiced law and in 1888-89 h^d the officeof city auditor and ex-officio clerk of the city council. In the autumn of1891 he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, where he entered into a lawpartnership with Samuel W. Clififord. Two years later he went toCharleston, West Virginia, where for sixteen years he was engaged inrepresenting claimants of the great Robert Morris grant, pa
. West Virginia and its people. court room were knownas the Arsenal. For two years he held the position of city attorney atCrested Butte. Upon leaving Colorado he went to Los Angeles, Califor-nia. In California Mr. Stiles practiced law and in 1888-89 h^d the officeof city auditor and ex-officio clerk of the city council. In the autumn of1891 he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, where he entered into a lawpartnership with Samuel W. Clififord. Two years later he went toCharleston, West Virginia, where for sixteen years he was engaged inrepresenting claimants of the great Robert Morris grant, patented toRobert Morris of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the litigation concerningwhich was known to lawyers as the Great King Land Case. Since thesettlement of those matters, Mr. Stiles has paid special attention to landcases. He is looked upon as one of the prominent lawyers of the he is a Democrat and a leader in his party. He and his familyattend the Kanawha Presbyterian Church. He married, in Gunnison, Col-. WEST VIRGINIA 4- orado, in 1884, Ellen S., daughter of Benjamin F. and Eliza A. (Trow-bridge) Field, natives of Wisconsin, but of New England ancestry. Herfather was the inventor of many useful manufacturing processes, espec-ially relating to straw-board and paper-making in general. He was ofthe noted Field family, from which came Cyrus W. Field of Atlanticcable fame, and the merchant prince of this name in this country. Mrs. Stiles have no children of their own, but adopted one knownas Tomasa Stiles, born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 19, 1890. Shewas well educated at the schools of Charleston, and is a young lady of re-finement and high culture. Her sister is the wife of T. S. Clark, of thelaw firm of Chilton, McCorkle & Chilton. The names Mathews and Matthews, very probablyMATHEWS variant spellings of one family name, were already common in Maryland and Virginia, in the earliest col-onial times, and among them those of men of great distincti
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