Cyrus Haymond Maxwell, M.D. Bio
Monongalia Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Page 178



   Distinguished as a physician, Dr. Cryus Haymond Maxwell occupies a
prominent place among the medical men of Morgantown, where for twenty
years he has devoted his high attainments to the accomplishment of work
that has brought him widespread recognition and numerous honors. His
professional achievements are based  upon an intimate knowledge of the
intricate subjects of human anatomy and scientific therapeutics.
   Doctor Maxwell was born March 22, 1863, at St. George, Tucker County,
Virginia, his birth occurring only a short time before what is now West
Virginia, including Tucker County, withdrew from the mother state of
Virginia. He is the son of Rufus and Sarah Jane (Bonnifield) Maxwell,
and in the direct descent from Thomas Maxwell, who married Jane Lewis,
of near Germantown, Pennsylvania. After the death of her husband Jane
Maxwell and her six children, accompanied by her parents, came to
Harrison County, West Virginia, then Virginia. Levi Maxwell, son of
Thomas and Jane Maxwell, was born in Pennsylvania in 1788, and died in
West Virginia in 1884. He married Sarah Haymond. Their son, Rufus
Maxwell, was born at Weston, West Virginia, October 19,1828, and died in
Tucker County in 1908. Educated for the law, he practiced his profession
until the breaking out of the war between the states, but after the
close of that conflict devoted himself to the pursuits of agriculture.
He married Sarah Jane Bonnifield, who was born at St. George, West
Virginia, the daughter of Dr. Arnold Bonnifield, one of the earliest
physicians west of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia.
   Dr. Cyrus Haymond Maxwell attended school in Weston, West Virginia,
Valparaiso, Indiana and Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also attended the
University of Colorado at Boulder, and was graduated of Doctor of
Medicine, class of 1898 from Gross Medical School, the medical
department of Rocky Mountain University.
   Prior to taking his medical degree he taught school in West Virginia,
Oregon, California and Arkansas. He practiced medicine for four years at
Aurora, West Virginia, prior to locating at Morgantown in 1902. From
that year until 1920 he served as chief of the medical department of the
Morgantown and Kingwood Railway, and since that road was taken over by
the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, in 1920, Doctor Maxwell has served as
surgeon of the B.&O. system. He is physician on the staff of the
Morgantown City Hospital, is an ex-president of the Monongalia Medical
Society, of which he has been for a number of years secretary, a post
which he occupies at this time, and belongs also to the West Virginia
Medical Society, of which he is one of the councilors. He keeps
thoroughly informed concerning all that modern research, experiment and
investigation are bringing to light bearing upon the practice of
medicine and surgery. A well-trained and discerning mind enables him to
grasp readily the vital and salient points presented, not only in
medical literature but in the discussion of the broad questions which
involve the welfare and progress of the individual and country at large.

   In 1887 Doctor Maxwell married Miss Melvina Jane Adams, who was born
at Limestone, Tucker County, West Virginia, the daughter of George W.
Adams. Doctor and Mrs. Maxwell have had the following children: Hugh
Thurman, born in 1889, who died aged 1 1/2 years; Ruth, born in 1891;
Paul born in 1894; Ralph, born in 1898; Cyrus Jr., born in 1899 and a
child born in 1900, who died in infancy.