Harrison County, West Virginia    Biography of John Patrick MCGUIRE, 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 313-314


JOHN PATRICK MCGUIRE, M. D.,  who controls, in the City of Clarksburg,
Harrison County, a professional practice that indicates alike his
ability and personal hold upon popular confidence and esteem, claims the
old Keystone State of the Union as the place of his nativity, his birth
having occurred at Altoona, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1873.  He is a
son of John and Mary (O'Reilly) McGuire, both natives of Ireland, where
the former was born in 1834 and the latter in 1849, she having been a
young woman when she severed the home ties and immigrated to the United
states, to which country her brother Thomas had preceded her.
   John McGuire bas born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and was a lad of
eleven years when, in 1845, his parents, Philip and Bridget (O'Reilly)
McGuire, came to America and established their residence in Blair
County, Pennsylvania.  Philip McGuire was born 1798, in Ireland, and
died at Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1884.  His mother was a daughter of an
English army officer, General Hamilton, who had been a member of
Cromwell's forces, and thus Doctor McGuire of this review can claim both
Irish and English ancestry.  John McGuire was reared to manhood in
Pennsylvania and he gave a number of years' service as a locomotive
engineer, being killed in an accident while on duty in this capacity,
the 24th day of April, 1880.  Of his family of seven sons and one
daughter, three of the sons died in infancy.  Dr. Thomas J., eldest of
the surviving children, is a representative physician and surgeon in the
City of Parkersburg, West Virginia;  Rev. Philip P. is pastor of St.
Vincent Catholic Church in the City of Baltimore, and with him his
venerable mother is making her home at the time of this writing, in the
spring of 1922; Dr. John P., immediate subject of this sketch, was the
next in order of birth; Dr. William C., likewise a physician and
surgeon, is engaged in successful practice at Huntington, this state;
and Mary P. (Mrs. Krugh) resides in the City of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
   In the parochial and public schools of his native city Dr. John P.
McGuire acquired his early education, and thereafter pursued higher
academic studies by attending St. Michael's College at Toronto, Canada.
Thereafter he completed the prescribed four years' course in the medical
department of the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, and he received
his degree of Doctor of Medicine on the 13th of May, 1905.  In the
following month he established himself in practice at Clarksburg, West
Virginia, and here he has gained secure success and vantage-ground as of
the able and popular representatives of his profession in Harrison
County.  He keeps in close touch with the advances made in his
profession and is actively identified with the American Medical and the
Southern Medical associations, and the West Virginia State Medical and
Harrison County Medical societies.  He and his wife are communicants of
the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus
and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
   On the 21st day of September, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of
Doctor McGuire to Anna ( Mulheran) Summers, who was born at Clarksburg,
on the 20th of June, 1878, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (O'Ryan)
Mulheran.  Thomas Mulheran was born in Ireland and was six years old at
the time of the family immigration to the Untied States.  He served as a
teamster with the Union army in the Civil War, and he was a resident of
Clarksburg at the time of his death, July 3, 1887.  His widow, who still
maintains her home in this city, was born at Kingwood, Preston County,
this state, June 20, 1853.  Doctor and Mrs. McGuire have no children.