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Lipscomb, P.
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History of Tucker County, West Virginia
From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time.
by Hu Maxwell
Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884.

Pages 204-205, and Pages 430-431
P. LIPSCOMB. 

The present Prosecuting Attorney of Tucker County has built for
himself a business and worked himself into a practice that speaks
plainly of his success in the law. He is a self-educated man; and,
by his own exertions he has built his own business. He first filled
the office of County Superintendent of schools for Tucker County,
and reduced our school system to more order than it was ever in
before. During this time he was zealously prosecuting his study of
the law, and was making good progress. But, it was even several
years before this that he obtained license to practice. He
established himself at St. George, and was the only lawyer there.
Mr. Ewin resided near the town, but not in it. The town, too, was
then much smaller than it is now, and there was little business
done. But, when the term of Circuit Court came, business grew more
lively, and the lawyers found more to occupy them.

Lipscomb did not confine his practice to Tucker County, even at the
first. He practiced in the Maryland Court, at Oakland, in Garrett
County, and had nearly as much business there as in his own county.
His greatest success has ever been in jury practice. He well
understands the arguments that will persuade and convince, and he
knows just to what men each order of argument is most applicable.
In his style of speech he is more practical than theatrical. He
speaks to the point, and is not so particular as to the words used.
He never fails to arrest and hold the attention of a jury.

Of course, a lawyer of this kind will be more or less successful in
criminal practice; and, a criminal case seldom comes before the
court that is not represented on one side or the other by Lipscomb.
In the memorable campaign of 1880, he was elected to the office of
Prosecuting Attorney, and held the office four years.

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Pages 430-431

P. Lipscomb commenced the study of the law in 1871, and the next
year was granted license to practice, having been examined by
Judges Dille and Berkshire. He never studied under or recited a
lesson to a lawyer in his life. As a lawyer he has been successful,
having practice not only in the Circuit and Supreme Courts of W.
Va., but also in Maryland; his cases have been numerous in the
Circuit Courts of Tucker and the adjoining counties. His ability
sets rather toward criminal practice; and, his influence over
juries is plain to be seen.

He has been an officer of one kind and another nearly ever since he
came to Tucker County; he was county superintendent four years,
prosecuting attorney four years, commissioner to settle with the
sheriff four years, besides several minor positions, such as town
and corporation offices and member of the county board of examiners
for teachers. His war history is not of special importance; he was
eighteen days a prisoner having been taken by Reed. He owns tracts
of land in different parts of the county.

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