Marion County, West Virginia Biography of Henry Sanford YOST, M.D. This file was submitted by Joan Wyatt, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, Page 248 This is a brief record of a family of physicians whose professional work through three generations has been done in Marion Co. The name is one of honorable distinction in citizenship as well as in the profession. The American ancestor of this branch of the Yost family was John Yost, who immigrated from Bavaria in 1773, landing at New York City. A year later he removed to Elizabeth, New Jersey, then to Trenton in the same state, and for several years was a soldier in the war for independence. After that war he came over the mountains and was one of the pioneers in Monongalia County, on Indian Creek. At Elizabeth, New Jersey, he married Katie Snuiche (Snook), of Holland and English descent. A son of this pioneer couple, also named John Yost, was born near Cumberland, Maryland, in 1775, and spent his active life in Monongalia Co., where he died in 1850. He married Susie Dawson, who was born in 1780, and died in 1864. Aaron Yost, son of John and Susie Yost, was born in Monoongalia Co. in 1800 and died in 1879. His wife was Sarah Pitzer, daughter of John Pitzer. This is a brief account of the first three generations, all of whom lived in West Virginia. The fourth generation was represented by Dr. Jorier Yost, son of Aaron Yost. He was born in Marion Co., West Virginia, June 11,1833. Early in his life he took up the study of medicine with Dr. Fielding H. Yost, of Fairview, attended lectures of the Electric Medical School of Cincinnati, and throughout his active life was a capable and high minded practitioner of medicine in the Fairview community. During the Civil war he was made a prisoner by the Federal troops. On October 30,1867, Dr. Jorier Yost married Harriet Neptune. She was born in Marion Co., May 18,1848, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Raber) Neptune. Her father, Samuel Neptune, was the son of Henry Neptune and a grandson of Henry Neptune, who came from Greece in 1760, settling in Virginia, and some tears later bore arms with the colonists in their struggle for independence. Dr. Henry Stanford Yost, a son of Dr. Jorier Yost, was born at Fairview, Marion Co., April 28,1869, and while he is now in the prime of his powers and activities as a typical physician and surgeon, he has two sons enrolled in the profession and a third preparing therefor. He had a liberal education, attending the Fairmont State Normal School in 1884-5, graduated in 1888 from the Central Normal College of Danville, and in 1890, graduated from the Eclectic College of Indianapolis. For a number of years Doctor Yost practiced his profession at Fairview, but in September, 1905, removed to Fairmont. He handles an extensive, general practice and is also a member of the medical staff of Cook Hospital. He did post-graduate work during 1900-01 and 1906-07 in the Electric Medical College of Cincinnati. From 1892 to 1896 Doctor Yost was a United Sates Pension Examiner, and is surgeon for Monongahela Railroad Co. He is a member and a trustee of West Virginia State Eclectic Medical Association, a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association, and is also affiliated with the Marion Co., West Virginia Sate and American Medical Ass. His fraternal affiliations are with Fairmont Lodge No. 9, A.F. and A.M., Orient Chapter No. 9, R.A.M., Crusade Commandery No.6, K.T. and Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Wheeling; is a past grand of Mill City Lodge No. 110, I.O.O.F., of Fairview, has been a member of the Grand Lodge of the state in that order; and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and Knights of the Maccabees. While living at Fairview, Doctor Yost served as mayor of that city one term, and has since been a member of the Fairmont City Council. On August 28,1890, he married Leanore Phillips. Mrs. Yost was born January 1,1869, daughter of Remembrance Lindsay Phillips, of Greene County, Pennsylvania. Her father made a record of teaching school in Pennsylvania for thirty terms, and then bought a farm near Fairview, Marion County, where he lived until his death in May, 1898, at the age of fifty-seven. Following this paragraph it is appropriate to give briefly a record of each of the three sons of Doctor and Mrs. Yost. Herschel R., the oldest, was born June 1, 1891, graduated from the Fairmont High School in 1911, received his M.D. degree from the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati in 1915, spent six months in Seton Hospital of Cincinnati, and twelve months as house surgeon at Bethesda Hospital. After practicing for a few months at Carthage, Ohio, he returned home and has since been associated with his father at Fairmont. He is a member of the staff of Cook Hospital and is mine surgeon at Rivesville for the Monongahela Railway. Dr. Herschel Yost is a member of the Marion County and the American Medical associations, the National Eclectic Medical Association and the Southern Ohio Eclectic Medical Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with Acacia Lodge, A.F. and A.M., and with the Scottish Rite and Shrine, and is also a member of the Elks. Three days after the United States entered the World war he applied for enlistment, but was rejected on account of physical disabilities. In May, 1918, he again volunteered and was accepted and commisioned first lieutenant in the Medical Corps. During the same month he was called to duty at Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, and on the Demobilization Board for examination of returned soldiers, and in March, 1919, gained his honorable discharge and soon afterward resumed his private practice in Fairmont The second son, Jorier Yost, born December 12,1894, graduated in 1918 from the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and was on duty at the Metropoliton Hospital, New York City, awaiting call to the service, but the war closed before he recieved active detail. He is now in practice with his father and brother. Paul Yost, the youngest of the family, was born November, 1897, recieved his A.B. degree in1920 from West Virginia University, and is now in his junior year of medicine at West Virginia University.