Marion County, West Virginia         Biography of Grady Veer MORGAN, 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, page 123

    Grady Veer Morgan, M. D., who is engaged in the practicing of his
profession in the City of Fairmont, Marion County, is a representative of a
family whose name has been one of distinctive prominence in the history of
Northern West Virginia, the City of Morgantown here perpetuating the family
name and prestige.
    Doctor Morgan was born at Downs, Marion County, December 26, 1893, a son
of Lloyd E. and Virginia (Parish) Morgan, both likewise natives of this
county, where the former was born in 1854, and the latter in 1860, a daughter
of the late Edward Parish.  Lloyd E. Morgan was engaged in mercantile
business at various points in his native county until 1910, and he and his
wife now reside at Fairmont, where he is living retired.
    After having attended the high school at Mannington, Doctor Morgan
entered the preparatory department of the State Normal School at Fairmont,
and in this institution he continued his studies until his graduation, in
1912, in the academic course and his completion of the normal course in 1913.
In 1918 he was graduated from celebrated Eclectic Medical College in the City
of Cincinnati, one of the oldest Eclectic institutions in the West, and after
thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was given charge of the
Government Emergency Hospital, located between Metuchen and New Brunswick,
New Jersey, where the Government has several hundred men at work in the
building of an arsenal in connection with the nation's preparations for
participation in the World war. Doctor Morgan has been engaged in active
general practice at Fairmont since 1919, and his ability and personal
popularity are attested by the scope and representative character of his
clientage. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society and the West
Virginia State Medical Society.
    July 1, 1916, recorded the marriage of Doctor Morgan and Anna Lulu
Thomas, who was born at Grafton, this state, February 10, 1894, a daughter of
Garrett E. and Lavara (McGill) Thomas, and a grandson of Garrett Thomas and
James McGill, early settlers at Grafton. Mr. Thomas taught school several
years and thereafter was for twenty-three years in the employ of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. In 1912-13 he served as city collector of
Grafton, and he and his wife have been residents of Fairmont since 1914. Dr.
and Mrs. Morgan have two sons: Grady Thomas, born March 22, 1917, and William
Richard, born December 3, 1919.


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