BIOGRAPHY OF CECIL O. POST, HARRISON CO,
WEST VIRGINIA

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Submitted by Valerie Crook
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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,
pg. 583
Harrison

CECIL OMAR POST, M. D., has gained by his professional
ability and sterling personal characteristics a place as one
of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native
county and is established in successful practice in the City of
Clarksburg, the county seat. He was born on a farm in
Harrison County, September 10, 1888, and is a son of Michael
Rolandus Post and Sarah (Norman) Post, both likewise
natives of Harrison County, and representatives of old and
honored families of this section of the state. Michael R.
Post is a son of John Burnside Post, who was a son of Jacob
Post, the latter having been a son of Isaac Post. When it
is stated that each of these representatives of the family
was born and reared in Harrison County it becomes evident
that the family was here founded in the early pioneer era,
the lineage being traced back through numerous American
generations to German origin.

Doctor Post found his childhood and early youth com-
passed by the benignant influences of the home farm, and his
parents reared their children earnestly in the faith of the
United Brethren Church, of which they are zealous members.
The father is a republican in politics and is affiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He gave to his
children the best possible educational advantages, and after
Doctor Post had completed the curriculum of the public
schools he was enabled to continue his studies in the West
Virginia State Normal School at Fairmont. In 1908 he was
graduated from Salem College, and for two years thereafter
he was a student in the medical department of the University
of West Virginia. He completed his professional course in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Balti-
more, Maryland, from which he received in 1912 his degree
of Doctor of Medicine, the University of West Virginia con-
ferring upon him a similar degree in the same year. He has
since been continuously engaged in active general practice
at Clarksburg, where he is a member of the regular staff of
physicians for St. Mary's Hospital, and he is actively affil-
liated with the Harrison County Medical Society, the West-
Virginia State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Asso-
ciation and the American Medical Association. In the time-
honored Masonic fraternity the Doctor has received the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a
Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is affiliated also with the
Delta Tau Delta college fraternity and the Kappa Psi medical
fraternity. He is a republican in his political proclivities
and allegiance, and he and his wife are members of the
United Brethren and Methodist churches, respectively, in
their home city.

In 1912 Doctor Post wedded Miss Clara Clayton, who was
born at Wilmington, Delaware, but who was a young woman
when she accompanied her parents on their removal to
Clarksburg, where she is a popular figure in the representa-
tive social activities of the community.