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Article: Peyton remembered as 'Renaissance man': ; Civic leader who served city in numerous capacities dies at 81
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- December 19, 2008
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Angus E. Peyton - a Charleston lawyer, banker, business
president, government leader, philanthropist and volunteer - has
died.
Peyton, 81, died Thursday at his South Hills home.
He helped found the job-creating Business and Industrial
Development Corp. and was its unpaid chairman for 23 years, stepping
down before BIDCO merged into the Charleston Area Alliance.
He was a driving force behind West Virginia Graduate College -
located on Angus Peyton Drive in South Charleston - before it was
absorbed into Marshall University. Through the graduate college, he
and colleagues launched the Science and Technology Center of
Southern West Virginia to spur advanced industrial development.
Sen. Jay ...