Marion County, West Virginia    Biography of Henry Dickinson CAUSEY, 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 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.