Biography of Kent Tyler Royal, MD - McDowell Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, 
pg. 417 


KENT TYLER ROYAL, M. D., a member of the staff of 
Welch Hospital No. 1, maintained by the State of West 
Virginia at Welch, judicial center of MeDowell County, 
is one of the representative young physicians and surgeons 
of this vital little industrial city.
Doctor Royal was born at Harvard, Massachusetts, 
October 25, 1891, and is a son of Dr. Herbert D. and Alma 
(Eaton) Royal, the former a native of Maine and the 
latter of Massachusetts, one of her ancestors having been 
Governor Bradford, the first chief executive of the Massa- 
chusetts colony. Doctor Royal traces his lineage to Eng- 
lish origin on both the paternal and maternal sides, and is 
a scion of stanch Colonial stock in New England, that 
cradle of much of our national history. Dr. Herbert D. 
Royal is a leading physician and representative citizen of 
Harvard, Massachusetts, where he is serving as a member 
of the Board of Education and is otherwise prominent in 
community affairs.
In the public schools of his native town Dr. Kent T. 
Royal continued his studies until his graduation from the 
high school, and in 1911 he graduated from Worcester 
Academy. In 1915 he graduated from Colby University, 
Waterville, Maine, from which he received the degree of 
Bachelor of Science, and in preparation for his chosen pro- 
fession he then entered the medical department of Harvard 
University, in which he was graduated in 1919, with the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine. While a student in the 
medical school the doctor became a private in the Medical 
Reserve Corps of the United States Army, at Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, and served as medical examiner for the 
Students' Army Training Corps at Harvard University. 
After his graduation Doctor Royal came to West Virginia 
and entered professional service at Sheltering Arms Hos- 
pital, at Hansford, where he remained from March, 1919, 
to October 15, 1921, when he removed to Welch and assumed 
his present position at Welch Hospital, where he specializes 
in surgery. He is giving as much attention as possible to 
private practice also, and is an enthusiast in the work of 
his exacting profession. He is affiliated with the American 
Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the 
West Virginia State Medical Society, and the McDowell 
County Medical Society, as well as the Delta Epsilon 
medical fraternity of Harvard University.
In 1920, at New Albany, Pennsylvania, Doctor Royal 
wedded Miss Jane Benjamine, daughter of A. H. and 
Ann (Van Dyke) Benjamine, and the one child of this 
union is a winsome little daughter, Belle Ann. Doctor and 
Mrs. Royal are members of the Congregational Church.


Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@earthlink.net> 

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