Biography of Walter Allen Carr, M.D. - McDowell Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published in 1923, The American Historical Society Inc.
Chicago and New York Volume 11
Page 241
Walter Allen Carr, M.D. - McDowell Co.


   Walter Allen Carr, M.D.  In the practice of his profession Dr. Carr
is associated with Dr. David D. Hatfield, the former maintaining his
headquarters at War and the latter at Yukon, both in McDowell Co. As
partners the doctors have charge of the medical and surgical work at the
mines of the following named corporations on Dry Fork and on the line of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad: Warrior Coal Co., Williams Pocahantas
Coal Co., War Creek Coal Co., DomesticPocahantas Coal Co., Yukon
Pocahantas Coal Co., Buckhannon Coal Co., Dry Fork Coal Co., Sawyer
Pocahantas Coal Co., Dry Fork Colliery Co., and Flat Top Coal Co. Each
of these physicians also has a comprehensive and important private
practice of general order.
   Dr. Carr was born at New Hope, Mercer Co., West Virginia, Dec. 9,
1882, and is the son of Edward B. and Mary (Ellison) Carr, the former of
whom likewise was born at New Hope, in 1855, and the  latter of whom
was born in Grayson Co., Virginia, in 1862, a granddaughter of Rev.
Matthew Ellison, a distinguished and revered clergyman of the Baptist
Church in what is now West Virginia. Edward B. Carr was the third
student to enroll his name at the Concord Normal School at Athens, and
he has long maintained high prestige as a successful and popular teacher
in the schools of this state, the while he has taken special
satisfaction in inducing many of his pupils to attend his alma mater,
the State Normal School at Athens. He has wielded large and benignant
influence as an  instructor and counselor of young men and women, his
adiding sympathy and tolerance have been shown in human helpfulnesss,
and he has ever been instant in the aiding of those in suffering and
distress. It is pleasing to note that his son, Dr. Carr of this sketch,
has shown the same gracious attitude and gives his professional service
as well as other aid to those in need, just as willingly and earnestly
to those who have no means of paying him as to those in affluent
circumstances. Further than this, the Dr. attributes much of his
professional success and advancement to the aid and goodly counsel of
his honored father. Edward B. Carr taught in numerous rural schools in
Mercer Co. and also at the normal school at Athens, where he and his
wife now maintain their home. They are zealous members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and he has been a teacher in the Sunday School
for many years. He is independent in politics and is affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity. His father, Col. Shannon Carr, who was born in Wythe
Co. Virginia, represented the Old Dominion State as a gallant soldier
and officer of the Confederacy in the Civil War, in which he was colonel
of a regiment of Virginia infantry. He was a resident of Mercer Co.,
West Virginia, at the time of his death, and served many years as
sheriff of that county. Edward B. and Mary(Ellison) Carr became the
parents of five children: Dr. Edward S., a graduate of the University
College of Medicine of Virginia, is a representative physician and
surgeon at Narrows, that state; Mabel M. is the wife of S.C. Thornton of
Princeton, West Virginia; Alice is(1922) a popular teacher in the public
schools at War, McDowell Co.; Dr. Arthur B. graduated in the Medical
College of Virginia, at Richmond, and is now a professional assistant of
his brother, Dr. Walter A., who is the eldest of the children. Dr.
Arthur B. Carr was a member of the Students Army training Corps during
the period of America's participation in the World war.
   Dr. Walter A. Carr reverts with satisfaction that the major part of
his preliminary education was acquired in schools taught by his father.
Thereafter he continued his studies in the Concord State Normal School
at Athens until 1902, after which he taught school one term in Mercer
Co. In 1907 he graduated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and after thus receiving his degree of
Doctor of Medicine he engaged in practice at Palmer, Braxton Co. Three
months later he joined his brother Edward S. in practice at Narrows,
Virginia, where he remained eighteen months. Since that time he has been
doing admirable professional service in the coal fields of McDowell Co.,
West Virginia, where he now maintains his residence and office in the
village of War. The doctor holds membership in the McDowell Co. Medical
Society, West Virginia State Medical Society, and the American Medical
Association. He is independent in politics, and in the Masonic
fraternity he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge at Narrows, Virginia,
and with the chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Northfork, McDowell Co.
   In 1909 Dr. Carr wedded Miss Hettie Altizer, daughter of William
Altizer, of Harman, West Virginia, and her death occurred in Jan., 1913,
one son, Walter Hatfield Carr, surviving her. In 1917 was recorded the
marriage of Dr. Carr and Miss Elva M. Ward, daughter of George W. Ward,
of Inez, Kentucky, and the two children of this union are a winsome
little daughter, Betty May, and a baby boy, James Arthur.


Submitted by Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>

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