Biography of Hugh Holmes CARR, M. D., Marion County, West Virginia This file was submitted by Cheryl McCollum, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm HUGH HOLMES CARR, M. D., is a skilled specialist in the surgical department of his profession and is engaged in active practice in his native City of Fairmont, Marion County, where also he is chief of the staff of surgeons of Cook Hospital. The doctor was born at Fairmont, December 23, 1882, a son of Dr. Lloyd Logan Carr and Maria C. (McCoy) Carr. Dr. Lloyd L. Carr was born at Fairmont, April 26, 1854, and is a son of Hugh H. and Lydia E. (Pitcher) Carr. He was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1876, and was engaged in the active practice of his profession at Fairmont until 1891. Thereafter he was engaged in practice in New York City until 1909, when he retired from the active work of the profession, which he had dignified and honored by many years of effective service, and he now maintains his home in his native City of Fairmont, save for the intervals which he passes in California. As a young man he married Miss Maria McCoy, likewise a native of Fairmont, and she died in 1884, Dr. Hugh H. of this review, being the only child. In 1897 Dr. Lloyd L. Carr wedded Linda Bergen. Hugh H. Carr, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born near Woodstock, Virginia, March 29, 1817, a son of Richard and Abigail (Longacre) Carr. He became a prominent drug and tobacco merchant in what is now West Virginia, where he was associated in the ownership and conducting of stores at Fairmont, Morgantown and Wheeling, under the firm name of Logan, Carr & Company. He continued his extensive business activities until his death, September 15, 1854. His wife, who was born June 25, 1826, died February 28, 1906, she having been a daughter of Jonathan J. and Eliza Pitcher. Dr. Hugh H. Carr was graduated from Greenwich Academy, Connecticut, in 1897, and in 1900 was graduated from Pennington Seminary, in the State of New Jersey. In 1904 he was graduated from the medical department of Cornell University, and in 1905-6 he served as an interne in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, where during a part of the last year he held the position of house surgeon. Thereafter he continued his technical studies in Vienna, Berlin and Berne, in which last mentioned city he studied under Professor Kocher, the distinguished surgeon of Switzerland. After his return from Europe Doctor Carr established himself in practice at Fairmont in 1907, and since 1914 he has here confined his practice to surgery, in which he has gained high reputation. In July, 1918, he was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army and was detailed for service at Rockefeller Institute, New York City. There he took the prescribed course in military surgery, after which he was detailed to service as surgical operative at the base hospital of Camp Devens, Massachusetts. There he remained for some time after the signing of the armistice brought the World war to a close, and there he received his honorable discharge in May , 1919. Doctor Carr is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Bellevue Alumni Association, the Cornell Medical Alumni Association, the Phi Alpha Sigma medical college fraternity, and the American Legion. In 1921 he was president of the Fairmont Rotary Club. October 17, 1910, recorded the marriage of Doctor Carr and Miss Helen Kirkland, who was born at Warren, Pennsylvania, in 1886, a daughter of J. L. and Catherine (Alexander) Kirkland. Doctor and Mrs. Carr have one daughter, Katherine Bergen, who was born in 1915.