Marshall County, West Virginia - Biography of Orra F. Covert

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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. 539
Marshall

ORRA F. COVERT, M. D. The city of Moundsville, Mar-
shall County, claims Dr. Covert as one of its representative
physicians and surgeons and as a loyal and public-spirited
citizen. He was born at North Fairfield, Huron County,
Ohio, February 10, 1865, and is a scion of one of the sterling
pioneer families of the Buckeye State, to which the original
representative of the Covert family removed from the State
of New York and settled in the historic Western Reserve in
Ohio. Both the father and paternal grandfather of Dr.
Covert were born in Ohio.

Dr. Covert supplemented the discipline of the public
schools by attending Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio, and
in 1901 he was graduated from the celebrated Rush Medical
College in the City of Chicago. He came to West Virginia
in 1893, and has since been continuously engaged in active
and successful practice in this state. He has been a resident
of Moundsville since 1904, and here has a substantial general
practice of representative order. He has taken post-graduate
courses in the New York Post-Graduate Medical College, the
medical department of Tulane University in the City of
New Orleans, in leading clinics in the City of Chicago and
at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr.
Covert is chief surgeon of Glendale Hospital and is one of
the most prominent surgeons in this part of the state. He is
identified with the Marshall County Medical Society, the
West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Med-
ical Association. In the World war period Dr. Covert was
called into active service in the Medical Corps of the United
States Army, in which he received commission as a captain
and in which he was in service at Camp Sherman, Ohio, for
eight months. Since the close of the war he has served as
acting assistant surgeon in the United States Public Health
Service.

Dr. Covert married Miss Alice F. Farrar, of Burlingame,
Kansas, in which state her father was a pioneer settler, he
having taken prominent part in the vigorous service which
prevented the extension of slavery into that state. The land
which he owned is Osage County, Kansas, is still-in the
possession of the family, and his venerable widow is still living
(1921). Dr. and Mrs. Covert have one son, Leo D., who is in
the practice of medicine in Bellaire, Ohio, and who is special-
izing in diseases of the eye, nose and throat. He received his
degree of Doctor of Medicine from Western Reserve Medical
College, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. L. D. Covert married Gladys
Perry, of Asthabula, Ohio.