Mingo County, West Virginia         Biography of JOHN CARL LAWSON, M. D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 597
Mingo

JOHN CARL LAWSON, M. D. One of the younger men in
the profession, Doctor Lawson is an exceptionally able and
skillful surgeon, and has the heavy responsibilities of being
physician and surgeon in charge of all the mining practice
for the Borderland Coal Corporation, the Chattaray Coal
Company and the Winifrede-Thacker Coal Company's mines
in Mingo County. His home and office are in Borderland.

Doctor Lawson is a native of Mingo County, born on
Sycamore Creek, near Williamson, July 20, 1894. He is the
son of Harry and Ellen (Murray) Lawson, residents of
Williamson. His father is fifty-five and his mother is fifty-
one. Harry Lawson, beginning in early manhood and eon-
tinning until a few years hence, was an active timber man
on Tug River. He rafted a great volume of timber to mar-
ket on the Ohio River and became widely known as a
successful business man. He also was born on Sycamore
Creek in Mingo County, while his wife is a native of Louisa,
Kentucky. The Cinderella Coal Mines are located on the
Lawson lands. Doctor Lawson is the second in a family of
four children. All three of the sons saw active service in
the World war. Dr. L. E. Lawson, a Williamson dentist,
became a first lieutenant, was trained at Camp Gordon, and
during the fifteen months he was in service was first with
the Fifty-seventh Engineers and then in the Third Pioneer
Infantry, and while on duty in the battle lines was severely
wounded. He received his discharge at Camp Grant. Lee,
the youngest son, trained at Camp Houston, Texas, and
completed his early literary education in the University of
Maryland and is now in the University of West Virginia.
The daughter, Lena, is a student in West Virginia Uni-
versity.

John Carl Lawson acquired his early education in the
Randolph-Maeon Academy and Randolph-Macon College, and
in 1917 he graduated from the College of Medicine and
Surgery of Chicago. While in school he made surgery his
special study, and after graduating he was house surgeon of.
St. Anthony's Hospital in Chicago. From there he re-
turned to West Virginia and was connected with the Logan
Miners' Hospital at Logan. In April, 1918, he was com-
missioned a first lieutenant. He began his medical training
at Camp Grant, and later was assigned to Camp Lee and
then to Camp Mills and from there went overseas. After
the armistice was signed he was with the Eighth Division
and the Embarkation Hospital, taking care of the wounded,
and after his return to the United States he remained for
eight months in charge of hospital trains from Hoboken to
all parts of the United States. Upon his discharge from the
army Doctor Lawson came to his present duties at Border-
land.

He is a member of the various medical associations, and
is affiliated with O'Bryan Lodge No. 101 at Williamson,
Wheeling Consistory and a Shrine in Charleston. He is an
active member of the Presbyterian Church.

October 4, 1919, he married Esther Clyde, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Clyde, of Olean, New York. Doctor and
Mrs. Lawson have one son, John C., Jr.