Ohio County, West Virginia Biography of John C. Hupp. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal represen- ative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ DR. JOHN C. HUPP Dr. John C. Hupp is a grandson of John Hupp, a pioneer who was killed while defending Miller's block-house, on Buffalo creek, from the Indians, and was born in Donegal township, Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 24th, 1819. He was educated at West Alexander Academy, and at Washington College, from which he graduated in 1844; subsequently, in 1848, taking the degree of A. M. Studied medicine under F. Julius LeMoyne, and at the Jefferson Medical College, whence he graduated M.D. in 1847, settling in Wheeling in general practice. He was one of the founders of the Medical Society of the State of West Virginia, having introduced into the convention called to form that society the resolution "to establish and organize" it; brought chloral hydrate to the notice of the profession of Wheeling, February 21st, 1870; made in 1873 a successful effort before the board of education to extend to the colored children of Wheeling a free-school education, and a like effort before the same body in 1875, to make German a regular branch of study in the public schools of Wheeling; was appointed in 1875 a delegate to the American Medical Association to the European Medical association; was also a member of the executive committee of the Centennial Medical Commission to the International Medical Congress, which convened at Philadelphia, September 4, 1876; and witnessed the cremation of Baron de Palm, at Washington, Pa., December 6th, 1876. His notable cases include the case of a ruptured uterus, reported in the Transactions of the State Medical Society for 1874. He is a member of the American Medical Association, in which he was secretary of the section on the practice of medicine and obstetrics in 1869, and of the committee on nominations in 1875, 1876 and 1878; of the Medical Socirty of the State of West Virginia, of which he is treasurer, having been elected at its formation in 1867 and re- elected annually; of the Medical Society of the City of Wheeling and County of Ohio, of which also he is treasurer, having been in like manner elected at its formation in 1868, and annually re-elected; and of the Historical Society of West Virginia; a corresponding member of the Gynaecological Society of Boston, and a life member and vice president for West Virginia of the Alumni Association of Jefferson Medical College. Among other contributions to medical literature, he is the author of papers on "Placenta Praevia," 1863; "Salivary Calculus," 1863; "Vaccination and its Protective Powers," 1870; "Chloral in Puerperal Insanity," 1870, copied into medical journals from the Transactions of the State Medical Society; "Congenital Phymosis and Stone in the Urethra," 1870; "Opium Poisoning Treated by Belladonna," 1872; "Ruptured Uterus," 1874, copied into medical journals from Transactions of the State Medical Society; and "Encephaloid Abdominal Tumor," 1875; of a "Biographical Sketch of Joseph Thoburn, M. D.," prepared by request of the medical profession of Wheeling, 1865; of a memorial to the legislature of West Virginia on the appointment of a state geologist, 1870; and of a memorial to the same body on the establishment of a state board of health, 1877; and cases of "Phymosis and Adherent Prepuce," 1877, copied into medical journals from the Transactions of the State Medical Society; "Diagnostic Importance of Symptoms," 1878, copied into medical journals from Transactions of the State Medical Society. In 1850 he was physician to the Ohio county almshouse and Ohio county jail; has been physician ordinary to the prisoners of the United States district court from 1863 to the present time; was physician and secretary of the city board of health in 1864; has been physician to the Children's Home of Wheeling since 1863; was commissioned by Governor Pierpoint state vaccine agent, January 1, 1863, and successively reappointed by Governors Boreman, Stevenson and Jacob, making a service of nearly fifteen years; was president of the board of supervisors of the county of Ohio from 1863 to 1866, inclusive; is a member of the board of education of the independent school district of Wheeling, and has been since 1873, and president of the United States board of examining surgeons for pensions. At the formation, in 1863, of the state of West Virginia, including the establishment of its county organizations, he was elected a member of the board of supervisors of the county of Ohio, serving for three consecutive terms, during all of which he was president of the board; but when he was urged, subsequently, to stand for the city council, and also for the State Senate, he declined, the period of civil war and governmental transition, which impelled him to accept public office as a duty, having passed away. In March, 1853, he married Caroline Louisa, daughter of Dr. A. S. Todd, of Wheeling. From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.