Marion County, West Virginia          Biography of Harry Stanley KEISTER, 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,
pages 230-231

HARRY STANLEY KEISTER, M. D. A talented young physician and surgeon, Doctor
Keister enjoys a successful practice at Fairmont, and was in service with
the Medical Corps during the World war.

He was born at Upper Tract in Pendleton County, West Virginia, son of Eugene
and Christina (Smith) Keister. His parents were both born in Old Virginia, his
father in Rockingham County in 1850 and his mother in Franklin, Pendleton
County, in 1860. Both his grandfathers were soldiers in the Confederate army,
his maternal grandfather losing his life in battle. The paternal grandfather,
Henry Keister, was a native of Virginia and of German ancestry, and was a
lieutenant in the Confederate army. Eugene Keister as a man removed to Pendleton
County, and until he retired was active in business as a building contractor.
He and his wife are still living.

Doctor Keister graduated from high school in 1902, and in 1905 received a degree
in pharmacy from the Valparaiso University of Indiana. For two years he followed
the profession of pharmacist in Morgantown and Fairmont. He then entered the
Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery at Chicago, where he graduated M. D. in
1912. He also had a year of special work as an interne in the American Hospital
of Chicago, and began his active practice at Chiefton in Marion County, and three
years later removed from Fairmont.  During the summer of 1916 Doctor Keister
took post-graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School at Baltimore.

As soon as America entered the war against Germany he promptly volunteered and
was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, assigned to the
Twentieth Division. He was on duty at Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina,
and then at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia, where he continued his duties until
the armistice was signed. After leaving the army Doctor Keister resumed his
professional work at Fairmont. Besides his growing practice he is on the staff
of the Cook Hospital as chief of the department of genito-urinary surgery.

Doctor Keister is a member of the Marion County, West Virginia State and American
Medical Associations. He is affiliated with Acacia Lodge, A. F. and A. M., at
Fairmont, with West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite, and Osiris
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling. He is a member of the American Legion
and the Presbyterian Church.