Barbour County, West Virginia Biography of Charles B. WILLIAMS, M. D. This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 337 CHARLES B. WILLIAMS, M. D. The distinction of Doctor Williams has been his devotion for more than a quarter of a century to the practice of medicine in the community of Philippi. He began practice with a superior education and training, and has sought opportunities since then to keep in touch with men of prominence and the growing knowledge in the profession of medicine and surgery. Doctor Williams was born at Grafton, Taylor County West Virginia, October 1, 1872. His father, George Williams, was a native of Maryland, and his father was a native of Wales. George Williams died at Grafton in 1874, while master mechanic in the Grafton Shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was twice married. By his first wife he had two sons and three daughters. The daughters all died in childhood. The sons were: George, who died at Grafton, and Chester, who died at Pittsburgh, both leaving families. The second wife of George Williams was Christina See, a daughter of Charles See, a farmer in Randolph County, West Virginia, where Mrs. Williams was born. They were married in Taylor County, and Doctor Williams was their only child. The mother of Doctor Williams subsequently married Moses H. Crouch at Lee Bell, West Virginia, and died at the home of her son in Philippi in 1916. Doctor Williams was only two years of age when his father died. He attended his first school in Grafton, and was a pupil of Miss Amanda Abbott, the venerable primary teacher of Taylor County, who is still active in the service of the schools at Grafton. When Doctor Williams was seven years of age his mother removed to Lee Bell, Randolph County, and he lived there until he went away to college, completing his work in the public schools. Later he became a student in the Augusta Military Academy at Fort Defi- ance, Virginia, and in June, 1895, graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School at Charlottesville. Immediately after completing his medical course Doctor Williams located at Philippi, and with only brief interrup- tions has been steadily engaged in his private practice in that city ever since. During 1911 he was absent for a time taking work in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School in New York City, and the following year he did post- graduate work in the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Outside his private practice he has served several terms as county health officer and is now city health officer and county health officer. He is also Baltimore & Ohio Railway surgeon at Philippi, and is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations and of the Baltimore and Ohio Surgeons Association. During 1918 Doctor Williams was commissioned as Cap- tain in the Medical Corps, and for six months was on duty at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, until discharged there Decem- ber 24, 1918. He is a charter member of Barbour County Post No. 44 of the American Legion. Doctor Williams is a republican, and voted at all the national elections since casting his first vote for Major McKinley. He took his Masonic degree in Bigelow Lodge No. 52, A. F. & A. M., at Philippi, has filled all the chairs in that lodge and been representative to the Grand Lodge, and is a member of Tygart Valley Chapter No. 39, B. A. M. He and Mrs. Williams are Presbyterians, and Mrs. Williams took a con- siderable part in the work of the local Red Cross Chapter during the war. At Philippi June 30, 1898, Doctor Williams married Miss Annie Bosworth. Her father was the venerable Doctor J. W. Bosworth, who is still living at Philippi at the age of eighty- five, a pioneer physician of the city and also a former Con- federate soldier. Doctor Bosworth married Mattie Dold, of Waynesboro, Virginia, and Mrs. Williams is her only child. Mrs. Williams finished her education in the Mary Baldwin Seminary at Staunton, Virginia, and married soon after leaving that school. Doctor and Mrs. Williams have one son, George Woodbridge, who finished his preparatory education in Broaddus College at Philippi, and is now a student in the Augusta Military Academy at Fort Defiance, Virginia.