Greenbrier County, WV - Biography of Charles N. [Newton] AUSTIN, M. D. (2 Bios) ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , April 1999 ************************************************************************** Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974. CHARLES N. [Newton] AUSTIN, M. D. - was born in Augusta County, Virginia, March 16, 1832. His parents were both natives of that county, Alexander M. AUSTIN, born January 3, 1803, and Mary L. (HUNTER) AUSTIN, born October, 1808. At Jackson C. H., Jackson County, (then) Virginia, April 6, 1858, Dr. C. N. AUSTIN was united in marriage with Martha J. ARMSTRONG, who was born in Jackson County, January 13, 1839. Their children were nine, born: Mary K., December 30, 1858; Charles L., August 28, 1860; Virginia, June 6, 1865; James A., December 31, 1866; Annie R., December 19, 1868; Ernest L., January 20, 1871; Lyle A., April 1, 1874; Samuel C., January 10, 1878; Lorentz M., September 30, 1881. Charles L. is a practicing physician and makes his home in Pocahontas County, this State, and the other children are with their parents at Lewisburg. James ARMSTRONG, born in Preston County, (then) Virginia, died in Jackson County at the age of seventy-five years, was the father of Mrs. AUSTIN. Her mother, whose maiden name was Catharine WEAS, was born in Randolph County, now West Virginia. Charles N. AUSTIN was a graduate, class of 1856, from the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College. During the war between the States he was in the Confederate service, first as lieutenant, then as surgeon. In 1864 he took up residence and entered into practice in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and that is still his residence and post office address. ********************************************** Lieutenant Charles Newton AUSTIN, M. D., a promi- nent physician of Lewisburg, was distinguished for loy- alty to the State of Virginia during the crisis of 1861. He was born in Augusta county in 1832, and was there reared until fourteen years of age, when he removed with his parents to Harrison county, now within the limits of West Virginia. He was graduated as doctor of medicine by the Cleveland medical college, Ohio, in 1856, after which he located and embarked in his profession at Ripley, Jackson county. In the spring of 1861 he was the principal organizer of a company of infantry in that county, which in June was assigned to the Twenty-second Virginia infantry regiment as Company B. Of this company he was made second lieutenant and he served in that capac- ity until General Wise, in command of the forces at that time, moved from White Sulphur Springs to Big Sewell Mountain, when all the sick and wounded were left at the former place in charge of Lieutenant AUSTIN, with orders to establish a hospital. Soon afterward he received a commission as assistant surgeon, and about a year later was promoted surgeon. Immediately after the battle of Lewisburg he was assigned to duty as sur- geon of Edgar's battalion, and with that command he continued on duty in the field with the exception of the period when the battalion served in the Shenandoah val- ley, and later when it joined the army of Northern Vir- ginia. In the spring of 1864, on account of physical dis- ability, he was compelled to retire from the service. During the course of his military service he participated in the battle of Fayetteville, W. Va., and the Confederate advance from that point to Charleston. Since the close of hostilities Dr. AUSTIN has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Lewisburg.