Logan County, West Virginia    Biography of John Edwin ROBERTSON, 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. 187


JOHN EDWIN ROBERTSON, M. D. The fine little City of
Logan, judicial center of the West Virginia county of the
same name, claims Doctor Robertson as one of its repre-
sentative physicians and surgeons, he having been estab-
lished in practice since 1913 and his popularity and
prestige being reinforced by the fact that he is a native
son of Logan County. He was born at Logan on the 3d
of August, 1888, and is a son of S. B. and Etta (Bryan)
Robertson, both likewise natives of West Virginia. S. B.
Robertson is engaged in the wholesale grocery business at
Logan and is one of the leading citizens of Logan County,
where he has been prominent and influential in civic affairs
as well as in the domain of business enterprise.  He
served as sheriff of Logan County four years, 1900-1904,
he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian
Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in
which he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scot-
tish Rite, besides being a member of the Mystic Shrine. He
is a son of John Edwin Robertson, whose widow is now a
resident of the City of Huntington. The Robertson family
was founded in Virginia in an early day, as was also the
Bryan family. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Rob-
ertson is a resident of Barbersville, Virginia, and is now
venerable in years.

After attending the public schools of Logan, Doctor
Robertson continued his studies in Alderson Academy, a
preparatory institution at Alderson, Monroe County, and in
1909 he graduated from the Ohio Military Institute in the
City of Cincinnati. In preparation for the profession of
his choice he then entered the medical department of the
University of Louisville, in which excellent Kentucky in-
stitution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1913,
he having further fortified himself while attending this
school by serving one year in Mount Hope Hospital at Hunt-
ington. Upon receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine
he returned to his native city, where he has since been en-
gaged in active and successful practice and where he has
gained specially high reputation as a surgeon of marked
judgment and skill. He is a member of the surgical staff
of the hospital at Logan, where most of the surgical work is
assigned to him, and the demands placed upon him in this
connection and in his general practice were such that he
was not called into service in connection with the World
war. Doctor Robertson is an active and valued member of
the Logan County Medical Society and is identified also
with the West Virginia State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. He and his wife are mem-
bers of the Presbyterian Church in their home city.

At Louisville, Kentucky, in May, 1910, was solemnized
the marriage of Doctor Robertson and Miss Helen James,
daughter of A. B. and Ellen (Grey) James, both natives of
the State of Indiana. Mr. James is engaged in the whole-
sale grocery business at Louisville.  Doctor and Mrs.
Robertson have one son, John Edwin, Jr.