Fayette County, West Virginia Biography of CHARLES F. MAHOOD, 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. 555-556 Fayette CHARLES F. MAHOOD, M. D. In the midst of these epoch-making times recognition of the work of the medical profession has come to a fresh and even thrilling distinc- tion. Through its skill and knowledge that wonderful ma- chine, the human body, is not only rehabilitated, but sometimes reconstructed. Medical science is elastic, its boundaries are limitless, but it is at all times held firmly in the grasp of intelligent men who uncover its mys- teries. Some of the most important discoveries in recent years have come in the treatment and cure of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, a department of the profession in which many physicians specialize. In this branch of his honored and humane calling Dr. Charles F. Mahood, of Alderson, has made rapid strides, and is now accounted one of the leaders in his specialty in this section. Doctor Mahood was born at the village of Oak Hill, Fayette County, West Virginia, January 19, 1878. His father, Chester B. Mahood, was a native of Giles County, Virginia, and was a contractor and builder by vocation. When he was little more than a boy he enlisted in the Confederate Army for service during the war between the states, belonging to Colonel French's company of Stark's battery. He developed into a man of the finest character and of unusual mental stability, whose life was an inspira- tion, whose ideals were of the highest and whose probity and integrity were unquestioned. During the early '70s he went to Fayette County, West Virginia, to assist in the construction of the court house, and thereafter made his home at Oak Hill, where his death occurred February 27, 1922. He had reached the age of seventy-three years, having been born November 9, 1848. Mr. Mahood was a democrat in politics, and served very capably for three terms as mayor of Oak Hill, winning and holding the confidence of the people. Fraternally he was a Mason. His religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was one of the founders of the church of that faith at Oak Hill, of which he was for years an official member. He married Lucy Margaret Huddleston, a member of a pioneer family of Kanawha County, this state, who died March 29, 1920, leaving eight children, of whom all but one are living. Chester B. Mahood was a son of Capt. Francis Preston Mahood, a Virginian by birth, who attained his rank in the Confederate army during the war between the states. His father was a native of the North of Ireland, whence he moved to Scotland and then immigrated to the United States, founding the family in Virginia. The third child in order of birth, and the eldest son, Charles F. Mahood was primarily educated in the public schools of Oak Hill, supplemented by private tuition, and then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore in 1898. Later he enrolled as a student at the University College of Medicine (now the Medical College of Virginia), and was graduated therefrom in 1901, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine, follow- ing which he entered upon the practice of his profession at Oak Hill, where he followed his calling until coming to Alderson in 1907. Here he has built up a splendid practice of the most desirable kind, and at the same time has risen to a high place in the confidence of his patients and in the esteem of his fellow-practitioners. In 1906 and 1907 he took special work in the New York Poly- clinic of New York City in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. At the time that the United States entered the World war Doctor Mahood entered the Medical Officers' Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he received his commission as a first lieutenant and served as surgeon in the eye departments of the camps at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, and Camp Green, North Caro- lina. He was promoted to the rank of captain and honor- ably discharged as such at the close of the war. Since coming to Alderson he has specialized in the same depart- ment of work, in which he has met with great success. He is a member of the Greenbrier Valley Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. While a democrat in politics, he is not active in public matters, although taking a good citi- zen's interest in civic affairs. He is a Presbyterian in his religious faith, and as a fraternalist is a Knight Templar and York Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. On November 11, 1903, Doctor Mahood married Mary Marguerite Connor, daughter of Morgan and Virginia (Bright) Connor, of Greenbrier County. They have one daughter, Kathleen.