Marshall County, West Virginia - Biography of Franklin Earnest Flowers

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Submitted by Valerie Crook.

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 579
Marshall

FRANKLIN EARNEST FLOWERS, M. D. A physician and
surgeon who has rendered a splendid service in the community
of Mannington for a dozen years past, Dr. Flowers is the son
of an old and well known physician in the game county.

His father was the late Dr. A. J. Flowers, who was born in
Marshall County, West Virginia, March 9, 1856. For some
years he was a minister of the gospel, later studied and took
his degree in medicine at West Penn Medical College, and for
many years was a capable practitioner in the Mannington
district of Marion County. He died January 5, 1916. Dr.
A. J. Flowers married Sarah Earnest, who was born in Mar-
shall County, April 28, 1865, daughter of Henry Earnest and
Rebecca Ott. Henry Earnest was a Union soldier in the
Civil war.

Franklin E. Flowers was born while his parents lived in
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, on August 7, 1884. He
acquired a public school education, attended the West Vir-
ginia preparatory medical school, and then entered the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, Maryland, where
he was graduated M. D. in 1907. On the same date the
University of West Virginia conferred upon him the honorary
degree of M. D. Before beginning practice Dr.
Flowers had the experience of an interne in the Haskins
Hospital at Wheeling for about eighteen months, and after
eighteen months of practice in Monongalia County located at
Mannington. Dr. Flowers is a member of the Marion County,
West Virginia State and American Medical Associations.
Since April, 1919, he has held the office of president of the
Mannington Board of Health. In 1918 he was commissioned
a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, but was not
called to duty before the armistice was signed. Dr. Flowers
is a member of Mannington Lodge No. 31, A. F. & A. M.,
West Virginia Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Bite at Wheel-
ing, is also affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Mannington Kiwanis
Club, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On September 27, 1906, Dr. Flowers married Miss Ruth
Miller. She was born October 8,1885, at Strasburg, Virginia,
and her parents, John and Laura (Mort) Miller, were also
natives of that state. They have one child, Helen B.