Biography of Wade Hampton St. Clair, M.D. - Tazewell Co. VA


The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Chicago and New York, Volume II 
pg. 159 & 160

WADE HAMPTON ST. CLAIR, M. D., has from the first been the associate
organizer and founder with Dr. John F. Fox in the Bluefield Sanitarium, one
of the best institutions of the kind in the state. These very capable
physicians and surgeons have kept adding to the facilities of the
Sanitarium from time to time until it now represents a large and complete
modern hospital, and its clinics are attended as part of the professional
training routine by an increasing number of physicians and surgeons from
this and adjoining states.

Doctor St. Clair was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, April 18, 1877, son
of Alexander and Maria (Tiffany) St. Chair. He is of Scotch and Irish
ancestry, and his people have been in America for a number of generations.
His parents were both born in Virginia, and his father at the age of
eighteen enlisted in the Confederate Army and served with a Virginia
regiment two years. After the war he followed farming and planting, was a
banker, and a man of great influence in Tazewell County.

Wade Hampton St. Chair attended the common and high schools of Tazewell
County and completed his literary education in Randolph-Macon Academy at
Bedford City and in Emory-Henry College at Emory, Virginia. He took his
preliminary medical course in the University of Virginia, graduating M. D.
in 1900. Far about two years following he was in New York City as an
interne, specializing in surgery at the New York Polyclinic Hospital.
Following that he located at Bluefield and entered general practice, soon
becoming associated with Doctor Fox in the building of the original
Bluefield Sanitarium. In September, 1921, the Bluefield Sanitarium was
incorporated with a capital of $200,000. Doctor St. Clair is known for his
great thoroughness and skill as a surgeon, and while he has been steadily
engaged in practice for twenty years he has never lost contact with the
progressive ideas and methods being worked out in the great medical centers
of the world. Each year he has attended some clini!
cs or professional course in such cities as New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and the Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minnesota. Doctor St. Clair
has a personality that supplements his professional skill. He is a
wholesome, genial gentleman, and his fine character has been a distinct
asset to the sanitarium and to the community of Bluefield.

Doctor St. Clair is a member of the County and State Medical Societies of
Virginia and West Virginia, the American Medical Association, and the
American College of Surgeons. At Bluefield he is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce, Rotary Club and Country Club.

At Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, in 1906, Doctor St. Clair married
Elizabeth Armstrong, daughter of George W. and Bell (Boyd) Armstrong. They
hare two children, Wade H., Jr., and Alexander Armstrong St. Clair.


Submitted by Chris & Kerry <cmac4330@chesapeake.net>

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