Harrison County, West Virginia    Biography of Roscoe James NUTTER, 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,
Page 315

   ROSCOE JAMES NUTTER, M. D.  It is scarcely possible in these modern
days for a man to be a successful physician without being also a man of
learning and of solid, scientific acquirements.  Often the youth who
feels the inspiration that ultimately leads him into the medical
profession, finds his progress one of difficulty from lack of
encouragement, opportunity or capital, and when all these drawbacks are
overcome through personal effort, battles have been won that make firm
the foundations of character.  Of the physicians of Harrison County who
have advanced through persistent effort and strict adherence to the
highest ethics of their calling, one who has traveled far is Dr. Roscoe
James Nutter, who has been engaged in practice at Clarksburg since 1919
and who is now the possessor of a large and representative clientele.
   Doctor Nutter was born on a farm in Barbour County, West Virginia,
August 26, 1886, and is a son of Enoch and Leah (Hudkins) Nutter,
natives also of Barbour County, where they have always resided, the
father being engaged in agricultural pursuits.  Enoch Nutter was born in
1856 and his wife in 1859.  The paternal grandparents of Doctor Nutter
were Hiram and Hannah          ( Chrislip) Nutter, and they were natives
of Barbour County, as were also the maternal grandparents, Richard
Hudkins and his wife, who was Miss Dickenson.
   The fourth oldest in a family of eight children, three daughters and
five sons, Roscoe James Nutter was reared on the home farm, where he had
the usual experience that falls to the lot of farmers' sons, working at
all the tasks of the home land and learning the value of industry and
the virtue of hard work.  In the meantime he attended the rural schools
and later had the benefit of attendance for two years at the West
Virginia Wesleyan College, and then for three years taught in the county
schools, the money gained in this manner assisting materially in
defraying his expenses in gaining an education for the profession of
medicine, which he had decided to adopt.  When he ceased teaching he
enrolled as a student at the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond,
where he was graduated in Medicine in 1910 and received his degree of
Doctor of Medicine.  Immediately thereafter he located at New Milton,
Doddridge County, West Virginia, where he practiced his profession with
a measure of success until December, 1915, in that year joining the
post-graduate class at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and
Post-Graduate School, for a course in surgery.  He remained there until
July, 1917, when he located at Glenville, Gilmer County, and while there
tendered his services, August 1, 1918, to the United States Army Medical
Corps.  He was accepted, commissioned a first lieutenant, and sent to
Nitro, West Virginia, where he remained until January 26, 1919, then
being given his honorable discharge.  February 1, 1919, he located at
Clarksburg, where he is a steadily building up a good general practice,
occupying offices at 26 Lowndes Building.  Doctor Nutter has reached a
high standing in professional circles and is known as one of Harrison
County's reputable and entirely capable physicians and surgeons.  He is
on the visiting staff of St. Mary's Hospital, and is an active and
interested member of the Harrison County, the West Virginia State and
the Southern Medical societies, and the American Medical Association.
Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in both of which he has
numerous friends.
   In 1911 Doctor Nutter was united in marriage with Miss Vera de Oneal,
of Buckhannon, west Virginia, a native of Barbour County.  The Doctor
and Mrs. Nutter are the parents of two children:  Paul James and Eva
Lee.