Harrison County, West Virginia    Biography of Irving D. COLE, 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,
Pages  311- 312


IRVING D. COLE, M.D.   since removing to Clarksburg, Doctor Cole has
largely confined his professional practice to special work in the eye,
ear, nose and throat, and as a specialist he is widely known throughout
that section of the state.
   Doctor Cole is a native of Harrison County, born on a farm July 21,
1881.  His parents, Daniel M. and Elizabeth (Wolverton) Cole, were of
English ancestry, and of Old Virginia stock, were born in Barbour
County, West Virginia, but spent all their married lives on a farm in
Harrison County.  His father died in 1911 at the age of sixty-two and
the mother is still living.  They were the parents of ten children and
eight survive.
   Doctor Cole grew up on the farm and after the rural schools he enter
Broaddus College, then located at Clarksburg, where he was graduated in
1901.  For three years he taught school and then entered West Virginia
University for the purpose of preparing himself for the law.  A year and
a half later an illness interrupted his law studies and when he
recovered he made an entire change in his professional plans and entered
the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was
graduated M.D. in 1908.  Doctor Cole first practiced at Hillsboro in
Pocahontas County and enjoyed a good business and an increasing
professional reputation there for about seven years.  During 1914-15 he
spent two periods of post-graduate work in eye, ear, nose and throat at
Chicago and New York, and after this he located at Clarksburg, where he
has practiced as a specialist since 1915.  Besides his large private
practice he is a member of the staff of St. Mary's Hospital, being the
eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, and is also a lecturer to the
Hospital Training School.  Doctor Cole is a member of the Harrison
County, West Virginia, American and Southern Medical associations, and
in 1919-1920 was secretary of the County Medical Society.  He is
thirty-second degrees Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic
Shrine, and is a Baptist.
   July 21, 1908, he married Miss Regina France, daughter of Jacob and
Ida J. (Cullimore) France, of Baltimore.  Doctor and Mrs. Cole have a
daughter, Jane, born in 1909.