Logan County, West Virginia         Biography of HIRAM H. FARLEY, 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. 603
Logan

HIRAM H. FARLEY, M. D., is not only one of the repre-
sentative physicians and surgeons of the county of Logan,
where he is engaged in successful practice in the thriving
little city of Logan, the county seat, but here also he is
associated with Doctor Steel in the ownership and con-
ducting of a thoroughly modern private hospital, with accom-
modations for fifty resident patients. Drs. Farley and
Steel purchased this hospital, known as the Logan Hospital,
in 1908, and have brought the same to a high standard of
service.  Doctor Farley specializes in the diseases of
women and children, and in addition to his general and
hospital practice he is retained as official physician for
the Aracoma, the Shamrock and the H. T. Wilson Coal
Companies, prominent mining corporations in this section
of the state.

Doctor Farley was born on a farm near the former
rural Post Office of Burch, in what is now Mingo County
but then in Logan County, and the date of his nativity was
October 15, 1878.  The original representative of the
Farley family settled in Virginia, and in Giles County,
that state, was born the paternal grandfather of the
Doctor. He became one of the pioneer farmers in what is
now Logan County, West Virginia. Doctor Farley is a
son of Thomas B. and Nancy B. (Pinson) Farley, the
former of whom was born in what is now Logan County
and the latter of whom was born in Kentucky. Thomas B.
Farley served in the Civil war as a soldier in the Con-
federate forces commanded by Gen. Jubal A. Early, and
after being captured by the enemy he was held six months
as a prisoner of war. He became one of the prosperous
fanners and representative citizens of Logan County,
served as justice of the peace and was for two terms
assessor of Logan County prior to the creation of Mingo
County. He and his wife became the parents of a fine
family of fifteen children, and he was one of the venerable
and honored citizens of Logan County at the time of his
death, in May, 1920, at the age of eighty-two years.

After an academic course in Marshall College, Doctor
Farley entered the Peabody Medical School of the University
of Nashville Tennessee, where he remained one year. There-
after he was for three years a student in the Hospital
College of Central University, Louisville, Kentucky, in
which he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of Doctor
of Medicine. For the ensuing two years he was engaged
in practice at Mann, Logan County, during the following
two years he maintained his residence and professional
headquarters at Holden, this county, and he then, in 1908,
removed to Logan, the county seat, where he has since
been established in practice. The Doctor is an enthusiast
in his profession, with a fine sense of stewardship, and has
kept in line with advances made in medical and surgical
science. In 1910 he took a post-graduate course in the
medical department of the University of Louisville, where
his studies were in connection with the diseases of women
and children, and in 1918 he completed an effective post-
graduate course in the great New York Polyclinic, besides
which in 1920 he similarly availed himself of the advantages
of New York Post-Graduate School of Medicine. He is
actively identified with the Logan County Medical Society,
the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association.  The Doctor is affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, and he and his wife hold membership in the Mis-
sionary Baptist Church.

The year 1902 recorded the marriage of Doctor Farley
and Miss Myrtle May Prichard, who likewise was born and
reared in what is now Mingo County, she being a daughter
of James and Victoria Prichard, natives of West Virginia
and residents of Burch, this county, where the father is
a merchant.  Dr. and Mrs. Farley have two children,
Erman and Violet.