RAY, Charles A. M.D.

Kanawha County, West Virginia          Biography of Charles A. RAY, 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. 214-215

CHARLES A. RAY, M. D., has completed a third of a cen-
tury in the essentially social service of a physician and sur-
geon. The greater part of his time has been given to his
duties as physician and surgeon for coal companies, but
he is now one of the staff of the Kanawha Valley Hospi-
tal at Charleston, all his work being in connection with that
institution.

Doctor Ray was born at Kanawha City in Kanawha
County in 1864, son of John E. and Deborah (Gay) Ray.
His father devoted practically his entire active career to the
great salt industry of the Kanawha Valley. His home was
at Kanawha City, where he died in 1920, at the age of
eighty-six. The mother is still living. Both parents rep-
resent long lived families.

Doctor Ray attended public schools, and received his
medical education in the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons at Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1887. The
first twelve years after his graduation he was physician and
surgeon for the Winifrede Coal Company in Kanawha
County. For eighteen years following that he was surgeon
for the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company in the
same county. Thus for thirty years he performed the im-
portant duty of a mine physician, safeguarding the health
and treating disease in the mining towns. Doctor Ray be-
came associated with the Kanawha Valley Hospital at
Charleston in 1917. The head of this hospital is Dr. G. A.
MacQueen, whose professional record is given on other
pages. Doctor Ray has charge of diagnosis and internal
medicine as a member of the staff. He is active in both
his profession and as a citizen, is a member of the State,
County, Southern and American Medical Associations, and
for many years has been one of the influential leaders in
county politics. He is chairman of the democratic county
executive committee. Doctor Ray has an important and
valuable diversion in a nice stock farm in Kanawha County.

He married Miss Mamie A. Fisher. They are the par-
ents of three sons: John V., a lawyer at Charleston; T. S.
Ray, in the coal business; C. A. Ray, a student in the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati. Doctor Ray is a York Rite, Knight
Templar and Shriner Mason, an Elk and a member of the
Kiwanis Club.