WAYNE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: MCLAUGHLIN, Paul Rainey M.D. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 347

        PAUL RAINEY MCLAUGHLIN, M. D. Through a period of fifteen years
Doctor McLaughlin has given his very best talent and experience to the
practice of medicine and surgery in the community of Guysville in Athens
County. However, for more than two years he was absent from his home
community in army service, coming out of the army at the close of the World
war with the rank of major in the Medical Corps.
        Doctor McLaughlin was born on a farm at Shreve, Wayne County, Ohio,
May 20, 1883. His parents, J. W. and Minerva (Rainey) McLaughlin, still
live at the old homestead in Wayne County, his father aged sixty-nine and
his mother, sixty-six. His father for years has been known as one of the
successful and progressive men in the agricultural community of his county.
He is a republican. There are two sons, Dr. Paul R. and Ralph. The latter
has worked his way from lineman to chief clerk in the Chicago offices of
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
        Paul Rainey McLaughlin was reared in a country community, attended
country schools, also high school, and finished his literacy education in
Wooster University. He graduated in 1904 from the pharmacy department of
Ohio Northern University, and subsequently entered the medical department
of Ohio State University, from which he received his Doctor of Medicine
degree in 1909. Soon after graduating he located at Guysville in Athens
County, and has made and sustained an enviable record as a professional
man. He spent fourteen years in the Ohio National Guard, becoming a member
of the Fourth Infantry in 1904, and in 1909 he was made first lieutenant of
the Medical Corps and captain in 1912. In 1916 he went out with the troops
sent to the Mexican border, a member of Companies A and B of the Ohio
Signal Corps. He was trained for the medical service at Fort Bliss, Texas,
also at Fort Sheridan, Illinois and Camp Perry, and Camp Sheridan,
Illinois. September, 1917, he was transferred to command Field Hospital No.
146, Thirty-seventh Division, and went overseas with that outfit. He was
discharged about the 1st of May, 1919, at Camp Dix, and immediately
returned home to take up his practice. He is now a member of the Officers'
Reserve Corps and a member of the American Legion, Crossen Post, at Athens.
He had ten months of service overseas as administration officer at Camp
Hospital No. 51 and Hospital No. 29 in France. Altogether his active
service as a soldier and medical officer covered a period of two years and
ten months.
        He is a member of the various medical organizations and is
affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1905 he
married Miss Leta Richmond, of Moundsville, West Virginia. They have three
children: Claire, Paul R., Jr., and Paulleta.


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