Marion County, West Virginia Biography of Henry Dickinson CAUSEY, M. D. ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by sue schell , March 2000 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, Pg 329 BIO: Henry Dickinson Causey, M. D., Marion Co., WV Henry Dickinson Causey, M. D., has gained inviolable place as one of the able and successful representatives of his profession in Marion County, where he is established in practice at Fairmont, the county seat. He was born at Milford, Delaware, October 14,1881, and is a son of Peter Foster and Jane (Dickinson) Causey. Peter F. Causey likewise was a native of Milford, where he was born in February, 1841. He was a son of Hon. Peter Foster Causey , and Anna (Richard) Causey and that his father was one of the honored and influential citizens of Delaware needs no further voucher that the statement that he served as governor of that state from 1858 to 1866, his administration having covered the climacteric period of the Civil war. For a number of years Peter F. Causey, Jr., father of the doctor, served as United States federal internal-revenue inspector and his death occurred in 1911, his wife having passed away in 1909. Mrs. Causey was born at Nashville, Tennessee, in May, 1841, a daughter of Henry and Francis (Hunter) Dickinson, natives respectively of Tennessee and North Carolina, the latter having been a daughter of General Hunter, a gallant officer in the patriot army in the War of the Revolution. In 1899 Dr. Causey was graduated in the high school at Milford, Delaware, and for three years thereafter he was a student in Wilmington Military Academy. When that school closed he found employment in his native city, and three years later he entered the medical department of the University of Maryland, in which he was graduated in 1911, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He served as a hospital interne for nine months thereafter, and then took effective post-graduate work at the great Rockefeller Institute and the New York Post-Graduate Medical College. Thereafter he was engaged in the active practice of his profession until the nation entered the World war, when he promptly subordinated all personal interests to enter service in the medical corps of the United States Army, his commission as captain having been received June 10, 1918. On the first of the following September he was assigned to duty at camp Lee, Virginia, where he remained until November 10, when he was assigned to overseas service and sent to Newport News for embarkation. The signing of the historic armistice caused revocation of the sailing order, and on the 4th of February, 1919, the doctor was granted his honorable discharge. He then returned to New York for further post-graduate work, but in the same year he came to Fairmont, where he has since been engaged in successful practice. He is retained as mine surgeon for the Consolidation Coal Company, the Virginia & Pittsburgh Coal Company, the Arkwright Coal Company and the Hudson Coal Company. In his profession Doctor Causey specializes in traumatic surgery. He is a member of the Marion County and the West Virginia State Medical societies, American Medical Association and the Association of Baltimore & Ohio Railway Surgeons. He has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, and is affiliated with the Mystic Shrine, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Maryland Lodge Knights of Pythias, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a loyal and progressive member of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce. August 25, 1912 recorded the marriage of Doctor Causey to Miss Ethel Wyman Wyaetnan, who was born in Virginia, in 1993, a daughter of Charles and May (Carrowl) Wyaetnan, natives respectively of Virginia and Maryland. Doctor and Mrs. Causey are earnest communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They have one child, Virginia Tyler, born May 21, 1913.