Marshall County, West Virginia Biography of Benjamin F. BONE, M. D. ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , March 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 102-103 BENJAMIN F. BONE, M. D., who is engaged in the prac- tice of his profession in the City of Moundsville, Marshall County, has unequivocal prestige as one of the leading phy- sicians and surgeons of this section of the state and has gained specially high reputation as a skilled surgeon. His success has been on a parity with his professional ability, and his personality has gained to him a host of stanch friends in the county of his adoption. The doctor has iden- tified himself most fully with local interests and owns and occupies one of the finest homes in Moundsville. Doctor Bone was born at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, October 4, 1875, and is a scion of one of the honored pioneer fami-' lies of the old Buckeye State. His paternal grandfather came to the United States from Haling Island, England, and was a resident of Ohio at the time of his death, in 1879, when seventy-six years of age. His brother, Rev. Henry Bone. was for forty years pastor of the Methodist Church at Martin's Ferry, Ohio. A maternal uncle of Doctor Bone was Dr. Nathaniel R. Coleman, who served as president of the Ohio State Board of Health and held other positions of influence in connection with public affairs. The Coleman family was founded in Ohio in the early pioneer period of its history. After completing the curriculum of the high school Doctor Bone entered the medical department of George Washington University at Washington, District of Columbia, and after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he came to West Virginia and engaged in practice at Tunnelton, where he also held the position of railway surgeon. Later he was engaged in practice at Fairmont until 1908, when he came to Moundsville, where he had charge of the prison hospital, under the administration of Governor Dawson. He confines his attention largely to office and surgical practice, is a valued member of the staff of the Reynolds Memorial Hos- pital, and just prior to the signing of the armistice which brought the World war to a close he had been accepted for service in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. At the inception of the movement to send medical units to the stage of warfare Doctor Bone had tendered his serv- ices but at that time there was no requisition for his aid in this capacity. Doctor Bone is liberal in politics and gives his support to men and measures rather than being constrained by strict partisan lines. He has received the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Bite of the Masonic fraternity and is affiliated also with the Mystic Shrine. He is a director of the City and County Bank at Moundsville, and in a pro- fessional way is actively identified with the Marshall County Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His chief diver- sion is found in annual hunting trips in Northern Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior, where he maintains a cabin as a domicile for use in hunting seasons of deer. He has several fine trophies of the hunt, including splendid deer heads. He has also maintained a summer home for the past ten years at Lake Odessa. Michigan, where the family spend the summer, and the fishing is very good. His wife, whose maiden name was Myrtle G. Harr, is a daughter of the late and honored Dr. Wayne Harr, of Fairmont, West Virginia. The three children of this union are Margaret, who is, in 1921, a student in the University of West Vir- ginia, she having been previously graduated in Washington Seminary, at Washington, Pennsylvania; Dorothy, like her sister graduated from high school and is now a student in the State University; and George, who graduated from the Linsly Military Academy of Wheeling, West Virginia, is now attending Washington and Jefferson College.