Harrison County, WV: Bios - Daniel Carson Louchery M.D.
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Submitted by Valerie Crook

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 10-11
Harrison County

DANIEL CARSON LOUCHERY, M. D. To the credit of
Dr. Daniel Carson Louchery of Clarksburg is a record of
forty-two years of active practice as a physician and surgeon,
and an earlier record of a prominent educator.

Doctor Louchery and Doctor Fleming Howell, now of
Oakland, Maryland, are the only survivors of the original
organizers of the Harrison County Medical Society, about
1887 or 1888. Other men prominent in the early history of
the said society were Dr. A. L. Hupp, Dr. D. P. Morgan,
Doctor Hill of Bridgeport, Dr. William Late and Dr. A. 0.
Flowers, who was the first doctor admitted after the society
was organized.

Daniel Carson Louchery was born on a farm near Fair-
mont, West Virginia, June 2, 1845, only son and child of
Daniel and Rhoda (Miller) Louchery. Daniel Louchery
was born in Pennsylvania, March 29, 1816, and died June
27,1845. His father, James Louchery, was a native of Mary-
land, and waa the son of a Revolutionary soldier. The name
Louchery was originally "Loughrey", of Scotch Presbyterian
stock. Rhoda Miller, the mother of Doctor Louchery, was
born in Marion County, West Virginia, May 31, 1824, and
died September 4, 1866. She was the daughter of David
and Nancy (McGee) Miller, also of Scotch ancestry. Right
after the death of her first husband she was married to John
Riley, and by that union had four children.

Daniel Carson Louchery grew up with his mother on a
farm, and had poverty to contend with in his youth and hia
advantages were largely of his own seeking. He attended
the subscription schools at Boothsville, West Virginia and
one year at Doctor White's Academy at Fairmont. In
1864 he enlisted in the Union Army, serving until the close.
He was mustered out June 10, 1865. After the war he con-
tinued his education until he was qualified for teaching.
On December 25, 1866, he married Mary Catherine Lynch.
He married only a few months after the death of his mother.
Mrs. Louchery was born in Harrison County November 4,
1849, daughter of John P. and Zipporah (Farris) Lynch. Mr.
and Mrs. Louchery attended school together for two years
after their marriage, and for one year she was his pupil
while he was teaching. Doctor Louchery completed his
literary education in Southwestern Normal School at Leb-
anon, Ohio, and for one term had attended the West Virginia
Agricultural College and was also a student in Ohio Univer-
sity at Athens. Partly in the intervals of hia own student
life he did his effective work as a teacher for twelve years.
The last five years of that period he was superintendent of
city schools at Clarksburg. During 1870-71 he was county
superintendent of schools of Harrison County.

Doctor Louchery acquired his medical education in the
University School of Medicine of Maryland at Baltimore,
where he graduated March 6, 1880. For twenty-two years
he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Salem, West
Virginia, and since 1901 has been located at Clarksburg.
For many years his practice has been in special lines, par-
ticularly eye and ear diseases, and in preparation for his
specialty he attended many clinics and post graduate courses
in New York and Philadelphia. He was a student in the
Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary at New York, also
attended the Polyclinic, The New York Eye and Ear In-
firmary, New York Post Graduate Hospital and the Phila-
delphia Polyclinic. Doctor Louchery is a member of the
West Virginia State Medical Society, the American Academy
of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and a member of
the American Medical Association. He is a republican
and a member of the Methodist Church, and has been a lay
delegate to the West Virginia Conference.

Doctor and Mrs. Louchery had four children: Mrs.
Zeppa L. dark; Edna E., wife of Doctor Ogden; Charles
W., a prominent Clarksburg attorney whose career is sepa-
rately noted in this publication; and Lucy Virginia, who died
at the age of sixteen.
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