Joseph Robert Hughart Bio
Monongalia Co. WV


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

pg 195 +196

Joseph Robert Hughart, M. D., one of the leading physicians and surgeons of 
Morgantown, and health officer for Monongalia County, was born on a farm on 
Cooper's Creek, Kanawha County, West Virginia, the son of James Madison and 
Martha (Rogers) Hughart, and grandson of Joseph Hughart, who was born in a 
log fort in Greenbrier County, Virginia, where his parents, with other 
settlers, had taken refuge during one of the numerous Indian raids of that 
day.

James Madison Hughart was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, in 1820, and 
during the war between the states served in the Union Army as a member of 
Company A, Seventh Virginia Cavalry, under General Averil, and as such was 
captured and confined in Libby Prison for six months.  After the close of the 
war he married and removed to Kansas, where he homesteaded a tract of land, 
but in 1874 returned to West Virginia and settled in Kanawha County, twelve 
miles from Charleston.  In 1880 he removed to Roane County, this state, where 
his death occurred in 1881.  His wife, Martha, was born in Nicholas County, 
West Virginia, in 1840, and died in 1880.  She was a daughter of Robert 
Jackson Rogers, a full cousin to Gen. Andrew Jackson.  The Rogers family were 
Protestants who came from the North of Ireland.

Joseph Robert Hughart was born April 16, 1871, and was reared on the home 
farm and obtained his early education in the country schools.  At the age of 
nineteen years he began to teach school and when he had reached his thirtieth 
year he had taught sixteen terms of school, he having secured a first-class 
certificate to teach at the beginning.  While teaching he applied himself to 
the study of medicine, having early determined upon a professional career, 
and in 1903 was granted a license to practice by the State Board of Medical 
Examiners of West Virginia.  He attended the Maryland Medical College at 
Baltimore, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution 
in 1904, and at that time entered practice at Burnsville, Braxton County, 
West Virginia.  In 1913 he went before the State Board and was given another 
license, and in 1914 entered practice at Morgantown.  Here he has risen 
steadily in his calling, and is now accounted one of the leaders therein in 
Monongalia County, having a large representative and lucrative practice and 
being recognized as a physician whose views accord with the highest and best 
professional ethics.

On April 1, 1921, Doctor Hughart was appointed county health officer of 
Monongalia County, to fill out an unexpired term, and July 1 of the same year 
was reappointed for a full term of four years.  He is a member of the 
Monongalia County Medical Society and the West Virginia Medical Society, 
holds membership in the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce and is a well-known 
Mason, belonging to Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M.; Chapter 
No. 29, R. A. M., and Commandery No. 16, K. T., the two latter of Sutton, 
West Virginia.  His religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  While he is not a politician, Doctor Hughart takes an interest in 
public affairs, particularly those affecting the general civic welfare of his 
adopted city, its institutions and its people, and public-spirited movements 
and enterprises find in him a generous and willing supporter.

On February 12, 1898, Doctor Hughart was united in marriage with Miss Russia 
E. Carper, daughter of Clifton H. and Prussia (Stackhouse) Carper, 
agricultural people of Roane County, this state, and to this union there have 
come two children:  Robert J., born July 14, 1902; and Joseph M., born March 
24, 1905.