Harrison County, West Virginia          Biography of Harry V. VARNER, 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 III,
pg. 202-203

HARRY V. VARNER, M. D., one of the able and repre-
sentative members of his profession engaged in practice
in the City of Clarksburg, Harrison County, was born on
a farm near Salem, this county, May 28, 1873, and is a
son of Allen and Amanda (Powell) Varner, the former
a native of Harrison County and the latter of Taylor
County. The mother was reared in Doddridge County, a
daughter of the late Ralph and Roxaline (Williams)
Powell. Allen Varner, a son of John and Phoebe (Pew)
Varner, maintained his home in Harrison County during
his entire life and wag fifty-four years of age at the time
of his death, his widow being still a resident of this
county. He was a successful exponent of farm industry
and also made an excellent record as a traveling salesman.
He enlisted for service in the Union Army at the time of
the Civil war. He was a loyal republican in his political
alignment and was a consistent member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, as is also his widow. Of their children,
three sons and two daughters attained to years of ma-
turity: Wheeler, who died at the age of twenty-five years;
Rev. Weldon P. Varner, a clergyman of the Pittsburg
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Mrs. Jen-
nie M. Backman, who is now deceased; Dr. Harry V., of
this sketch; and Mrs. Stella King, whose husband has
charge of the old homestead farm of her father, where
her widowed mother likewise remains.

Doctor Varner gained his initial experience in connection
with the activities of the home farm, and after complet-
ing the curriculum of the rural schools he was for five
years a student in Salem College. In preparation for his
chosen profession he entered the Baltimore Medical Col-
lege, and in this excellent Maryland institution he was
graduated in 1903. After thus receiving his degree of
Doctor of Medicine he established himself in general prac-
tice at Clarksburg, and here he has gained both reputa-
tion and unqualified success in his effective service as a
physician and surgeon. The doctor maintains active af-
filiations with the Harrison County Medical Society, the
West Virginia State Medical Society, and the American
Medical Association. He was a member of the Examin-
ing Board during the World war, and was health officer
of the City of Clarksburg and Harrison County for eleven
years. He is aligned staunchly in the ranks of the re-
publican party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity,
and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

On October 7, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Doc-
tor Varner and Miss Maude Morrison, of Clarksburg, and
they passed their honeymoon in Europe, where the doctor
availed himself of the clinics of various leading hospitals
in Great Britain, besides which, after he and his wife re-
turned to the United States, he completed a six weeks'
course in the New York Post-Graduate School of Medicine.
Doctor and Mrs. Varner have three daughters:  Helen,
Mildred and Marie, the latter two being twins.