Greenbrier County, WV - Biography of William P. BLACK, M. D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume II pg. 143

WILLIAM P. BLACK, M. D. A physician and surgeon
whose home and practice have been in Charleston for half
a dozen years, Doctor Black is filling the office of county
coroner of Kanawha County.

A native of West Virginia, he was born in Meadow Bluff
District, Greenbrier County, in 1883, son of S. T. and Laura
(Bivens) Black, natives of the state and members of old
families in Greenbrier County. Doctor Black's uncle, Rev.
Sam Black, was one of the prominent men in his section
of the state, a Methodist minister, known and revered in
many localities.

Doctor Black spent his early life on the farm. He had
indifferent school advantages while there, and after leav-
ing home at the age of eighteen he earned the money for
his better education.   He attended the Smoot Normal
School and graduated from the Dunsmore Business College
1906, at Staunton, Virginia. He studied medicine in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, now the
medical department of the University of Maryland, where
he graduated in 1914. For the first two years he practiced
at Blakely, and in 1916 removed to Charleston. Doctor
Black is skillful and noted for the thoroughness of his
work and consequently has a high standing in the medical
profession.

Particularly he has won general approval by the judg-
ment and consideration with which he has discharged his
duties as coroner, an office to which he was qualified in
January, 1920. He is a member of the County, State and
American Medical Associations, is a York and Scottish Rite
Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Methodist Epis-
cipal Church.

Doctor Black married Miss Grace Royston, of Baltimore.
their two children are Iva D. and William P., Jr.