Kenna J. Heatherman, M.D
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 111
Pg. 368


Kenna J. Heatherman, M.D., is engaged in the successful practice of his
profession at Omar, Logan County, where he is official physician and surgeon
for the Main Island Creek Coal Company and the Middle Fork Coal Company,
besides which he is secretary, treasurer and manager of the
Chafin-Jones-Heatherman Coal Company, a new operating corporation which made
its first shipment of coal from its mine at Peach Creek, Logan County in
March, 1922.


Doctor Heatherman was born at Bramwell, Mercer County, West Virginia, on the
8th of December, 1889, and is a son of William T. and Harriet Ann (Gilmore)
Heatherman, the former of whom was born in West Virginia and the latter in
Ireland, the father being now superintendent of mines at Powhatan, near
Bramwell, in which former place he and his wife maintain their home.  The
Heatherman family ancestry is of Scotch-Irish origin.


Doctor Heatherman acquired in the schools at Powhatan, McDowell County, his
early education, and in 1908 he graduated in a preparatory school in the
City of Baltimore, Maryland.  He then entered the medical department of the
University of Louisville, Kentucky, and in this institution he was graduated
in 1912, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  He engaged in practice at
Glenalum, Mingo County, West Virginia, and mine physician for the War Eagle
Coal Company, and there he remained until January, 1918, when he removed to
Omar to assume mine practice of the various mines controlled by the Main
Island Creek Coal Company.  He has proved personally and professionally
equal to the responsibilities placed upon him in connection with a large and
important mine practice, which includes many surgical cases, and he utilizes
the hospital facilities at Huntington, Hatfield and other points.  The
Doctor was anxious to enter the Medical Corps of the United States Army in
connection with the world war, but field-production was a matter of major
importance during the climacteric period and he was held to his executive
professional duties at the mines, where the government considered his
services of equal value.  He is a member of the Logan County medical
Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical
Association.  The Doctor is affiliated with the Pi Mu medical college
fraternity.


At Lousville, Kentucky, in 1912, Doctor Heatherman married Miss Pearl May
Arbuckle, daughter of J.M. and Jane Arbuckle, the Arbuckle family having
been one of prominence in Indiana.  Mrs. Heatherman's death occurred at
Omar, and she is survived by two children, Kenna J., Jr., and Harriet Jane.