Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of HARRY LEE BEARD, M.D. This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: 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 History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 182-183 HARRY LEE BEARD, M.D. Dr. Harry Lee Beard, physician, was born on September 7, 1889. He is the son of John Jordan Beard, born in Renick Valley, W. Va., and of Minerva Edmiston Beard, of Hillsboro, W. Va. They were married in 1866. Dr. Beard's ancestor, John Beard, emigrated to America in anti-Revolutionary times, settling first in Pennsylvania, subsequently in Augusta county, Virginia, then coming to Greenbrier county, finally. To John Jordan Beard and his wife were born three children. Besides their son, Henry Lee, one daughter was born, in 1867, Mary M. Beard, who died in 1894, and a son, J. Fred Beard, born in 1871. John Jordan Beard, like his ancestors before him, was a man of some political influence. He was county clerk at one time and was also clerk of the circuit court. Harry Lee Beard was educated at Hillsboro Academy, Pocahontas county, and at the University of West Virginia, at Morgantown. He was a student, later, at the University of Virginia, in the medical department, and graduated from that institution in 1893. After leaving school Dr. Beard was stationed at the United States Marine Hospital, in New Grleans, where he remained for something over a year. He then located in Lewisburg, where he is now doing a general practice.