G.L. Beaumont MD   Biography  Hancock County, WV
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Submitted by Dale Patterson <Norton750@aol.com>

Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:

G. L. Beaumont:
    physician and surgeon, a native of Ohio, was born in Steubenville on the 
2nd of August, 1837.  His parents removed to New Lisbon, where they remained 
only a few years and then returned to the former place in 1846.  At the age 
of eighteen he began the study of medicine with his father, (who had acquired considerable reputation in physics.)  Our subject formed the 
acquaintance of Miss Nancy A, Campbell, of New Cumberland and was married to 
her in 1858.  In 1869 he graduated at the Eclectic Medical College, under 
the new system.  Upon his return from college he commenced the practice of 
his profession.  Since he has begun he has met with flattering success.  He 
has a family of ten children.  In his business, as well as socially 
considered, he is courteous and agreeable.