Biography of McHenry Tabor, M.D. McHENRY TABOR, M. D. The earnest and skillful labors of Dr. McHenry Tabor as a physician and surgeon have been applied to the benefit of the important coal mining communities of McDowell County. He is held in the highest personal as well as professional esteem in the coal mining town of Crumpler, which is located on a branch of the Nor- folk & Western Railway, connecting with the main line at North Pork. Doctor Tabor was born at Camp Creek, Mercer County, West Virginia, August 15, 1885, and is of Old Virginia ancestry, more remotely of Dutch and Irish origin. His parents were George and Olive (Worrell) Tabor, the former a native of Tazewell and the latter of Carroll, Virginia. His father served in a Virginia regiment under General Wise during the war between the states. After this serv- ice he returned to his farm and later for fifteen years was in the general merchandise business. He was an active member of the Christian Church. McHenry Tabor attended the common schools in Mercer County, finished his work in the State Normal at Athens in 1905, and took his medical course in the Medical College at Richmond, Virginia, where he graduated in 1910. For six months he was an interne in the City Hospital at Rich- mond, and then began his work in the West Virginia coal fields. For some seven or eight years he handled a very successful general practice at Glenalum, and in 1918 came to Crumpler in charge of the medical work for the Zenith mines of the United Pocahontas Coal Company. During the World war he made two attempts to get into the army service, but the authorities said that he could not possibly do a greater or more patriotic work than he was doing as a mining physician. Doctor Tabor is a member of the County, West Virginia State and American Medical Asso- ciations, is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Episcopal Church. In 1915, at Glenalum, he married Miss Elizabeth L. Mitchell, daughter of Daniel and Fannie (Loving) Mitchell, of Abingdon, Virginia. Her father was a banker and died in March, 1921, at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Tabor have one daughter, Nancy Overton. The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 22 Submitted by Valerie F. Crook **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ****************************************************************