John M. McConihay, M.D.

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II

pg 191

John M. McConihay, M. D.  More than forty-five years of the life of Doctor 
McConihay have been devoted to the profession of medicine and surgery.  One 
of the oldest and best known members of his profession at Charleston, Doctor 
McConihay has combined with his profession a distinctive service in the order 
of Masonry, the crowning honor in token of this long service coming in 
October, 1921, at Washington, when the Southern Grand Jurisdiction conferred 
upon him the supreme honorary thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite.

Doctor McConihay was born near Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia, in 1853, 
son of Ira and Mary (Morris) McConihay also natives of the state.  Doctor 
McConihay was a boy when his parents moved to a home on the Kanawha River in 
Mason County, where he was reared and where he attended the public schools.  
He completed his literary education in Dennison University of Ohio, and in 
1876 graduated M. D. from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville.  
After about a dozen years of arduous country practice at Leon in Mason County 
and Buffalo in Putnam County Doctor McConihay removed to Charleston in 1889, 
and for over thirty years has been one of the busy professional men of this 
city.  He is a member of the County, State and American Medical Associations.

His active service in Masonry began in 1880.  Among other honors he is a past 
grand master of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia, a past grand high priest of 
the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, was grand lecturer for eleven 
years, and his activities have covered a wide range of usefulness during 
forty years.  He is also a past potentate of Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine, and past commander of Kanawha Commandery of Knights Templar at 
Charleston.  For several years Doctor McConihay has been president of the 
Charleston Alumni Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

He married Miss Anna Evelith, a native of Tennessee but of West Virginia 
ancestry.  Their five children are Mrs. Evelith Wilkerson, Mrs. Almah Wilson, 
Mrs. Pauline King, Miss Vivian McConihay and Morris McConihay.


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