Marion County, West Virginia    Biography of Herschel Layman SATTERFIELD, D.D.S.

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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. 126

    Herschel Layman Satterfield, D.D.S., a popular and representative member 
of the dental profession in Marion County, is established in successful 
practice in the City of Fairmont, where he was born at Palatine, now in the 
First Ward of the city, on the 8th of September 1882. He is a son of Samuel 
Layman and Virginia Catherine (Wilson) Satterfield. Samuel L. Satterfield was 
born on Pharo's Run, this county, August 5, 1846, a son of Francis M. and 
Susan (Layman) Satterfield, the family genealogy tracing back to English 
origin, and the first representatives of the Satterfield family in what is 
now West Virginia having come from Pennsylvania in 1790 and made settlement 
at the present site of Colfax, on the Tygarts Valley River.  Francis M. 
Satterfield was a pioneer settler on Pharo's Run, Marion County. He served 
three years as a soldier of the Union, and his son Samuel L. ran away from 
home in 1862 and enlisted in Company C, Tenth West Virginia Volunteer 
Infantry, in which he gave three years of gallant service as a loyal young 
soldier of the Union. Francis M. Satterfield became one of the prosperous 
farmers of Marion County, but was a resident of Holt, this state, at the time 
of his death.
    Samuel L. Satterfield was reared on the home farm and later learned the 
carpenter's trade at Holt. After his marriage he removed to Palatine, now a 
part of Fairmont, and his death occurred July 31, 1903. His wife was born at 
Fairmont, December 12, 1849, a daughter of Arza D. and Catherine (Shrirer) 
Wilson, the father having been for many years a cabinet maker at Fairmont. 
Mrs. Satterfield still resides at Fairmont, as one of its venerable and 
revered native daughters.
    After having attended the public schools and the State Normal School at 
Fairmont, Doctor Satterfield entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 
in which Maryland institution he was graduated in 1912, with the degree of 
Doctor of Dental Surgery. He has since been actively and successfully engaged 
in practice at Fairmont, and in the meanwhile he has taken effective 
post-graduate work in the City of Pittsburgh. In the World War period he 
served as dental examiner to the Draft Board of Marion County, under 
appointment by the governor of the state, and he was active in the 
furtherance of the various patriotic services in his home county. he is a 
member of the West Virginia State Dental Association and the national Dental 
Association. In the Masonic fraternity his basic affiliation is with Fairmont 
Lodge No. 9, Ancient Free and Accepted masons, and he has thus far received 
the fourteenth degree in the Scottish Rite and all of the degrees of the York 
Rite. He is a member of the local lodge of Elks and the Rotary Club, and he 
and his wife hold membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
    Doctor Satterfield wedded Miss Helen McClure, who was born at Wheeling, 
this state, a daughter of James H. and Belle McClure. Doctor and Mrs. 
Satterfield have three children: Martha Jane, born September 8, 1915; James 
McClure, born May 2, 1917; and Betty Ann, born March 31, 1921.