Mingo County, West Virginia          Biography of William H. PRICE, 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 11
Page 242

   With headquarters in the vital industrial village of Chattaroy, Mingo
Co., Dr. Price finds ample demand upon his time and attention in
connection with his official professional service as mine physician and
surgeon for The Buffalo Thacker Coal Co., Fall Branch Coal Co. and
Wygart Coal Co., all of which are operating in this immediate vicinity.
   Dr. Price was born at Montvale, Bedford Co., Virginia, October 7,
1879 and is a son of Dr. Samuel H. Price and Francis (Harris) Price, the
latter of whom died in the year 1898. Dr. Samuel H. Price was born in
Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, is now (1922) sixty-nine years of age, and
has long been a representative physician and surgeon in Bedford Co.,
that state, where he still maintains his home at Montvale. He was
graduated in the medical department of the University of Virginia in
1875, and he is one of the honored and influential citizens of Bedford
Co., of which he has served twenty-one years as treasure, and prior to
his election to that office he had been for five years a member of the
County Board of Supervisors. He is a staunch democrat, is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity, has been for forty years an elder in the
Presbyterian Church and is interested in many business enterprises. Of
the children two sons and one daughter are living. Dr. Samuel O. was
engaged in the practice of his profession at Maybeury, McDowell Co.,
West Virginia, at the time of his death, when twenty-six years of age,
he previously having been connected with hospitals at New-port News,
Virginia, and Huntington and Welch, West Virginia. Dr. Howard E.,
another of the sons, is a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia,
and is now engaged in the practice of dentistry at Altavista, Virginia.
Mary Ross Price, the one surviving daughter, is the widow of Dr. Walter
S. Slicer, who received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the
University of Medicine and who was engaged in the practice of his
profession at Cripple Creek, Virginia, when he entered the medical corps
of the United States Army for services in the World War, he having held
the rank of captain and having died while in service. His widow is now a
resident of Roanoke, Virginia.
   Dr. William H. Price graduated from a college academic course when he
was seventeen years of age, and for the ensuing year he was employed in
the store conducted by his father at Montvale, Virginia. In 1898 he
entered the medical department of the University of Virginia, and in the
same he graduated as a member of the class of 1901. Since thus receiving
his degree of Doctor of Medicine he has taken effective post-graduate
courses in the celebrated New York Polyclinic. The doctor initiated
practice by establishing his residence at Caperton, Fayette Co., West
Virginia, where he became physician and surgeon in connection with the
mines of George L. Wise & Company. He next removed to Eckman, McDowell
Co., one year later he engaged practice at Big Creek, Logan Co., and
since June 1909, he has maintained his residence and professional
headquarters at Chattaroy. Dr. Price is a  member of the Mingo Co.
Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. Though he was reared in the faith of the
democratic party, he is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, as
is also his wife, and both are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is
affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery organizations of
the Masonic fraternity, as well as the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, and
he is a member also of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and
the Modern Woodmen of America.
   November 29, 1916, recorded the marriage of Dr. Price and Miss Lucy
Fowble Millendor, daughter of Cornelius F. Millendor, of Huntington. The
two children of this union are Francis and Margaret.