Biography of Charles M. Scott - Mercer Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Chicago and New York, Volume II 
pg. 155

CHARLES M. SCOTT, M. D., began practice at Bluefield twenty years ago.
During the last ten years his time and skill have been predominently
devoted to surgery. His rank as a surgeon is among the best in the entire
state.

Doctor Scott was born at Graham, Tazewell County, Virginia, October 3,
1878, son of James and Nannie (Hale) Scott, being their only child. His
parents were natives of .Virginia and his father was a farmer. The
grandfather, Matthew Scott, was a jeweler and gunsmith, and repaired guns
for the Confederate army during the Civil war.

Charles M. Scott acquired a common school education, attended Princeton
Academy, the University of West Virginia at Morgantown and Richmond College
at Richmond, Virginia. In 1897 he entered the University College of
Medicine at Richmond, from which he graduated M. D. in 1901. The following
year he began practice at Bluefield, where he is handling a general
practice, but every year he did special work in surgery and other post
graduate courses in the New York Polyclinic, and in 1910 began specializing
in surgery, which now comprises eighty per cent of his professional work.
In the line of his profession Doctor Scott gave Bluefield a modern
institution in St. Luke's Hospital, which he built and established in 1905,
with accommodations for fifty patients and with every type of modern
hospital equipment. Doctor Scott is a busy professional man, has reached a
position of ripe achievement, is kindly and generous and one of Bluefield's
most useful citizens. He is a member of the Coun!
ty, State and American Medical associations and is a Fellow of the American
College of Surgeons. Doctor Scott is a Baptist, a member of the Chamber of
Commerce, Rotary Club and Blueficld Country Club, and is an Elk.

November 10, 1912, at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, he married Miss Hazel Morton,
daughter of Dr. W. W. and Edith (Hill) Morton. They have two children,
Helen and Charles Scott.

Submitted by Chris & Kerry <cmac4330@chesapeake.net>

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