Ohio County, West Virginia  Biography of John H. Pipes.

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JOHN H. PIPES, M. D.

He was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1839.  His parents 
were Washington and Cynthia Ann Pipes, nee Clark.  The former was of 
Irish and the other of French extraction.  The great grandfather of 
our subject located in Greene county, about the close of the 
revolution.  Washington Pipes was a blacksmith and farmer.  He died 
in 1878 at the age of sixty-four.  His wife died in 1874, about sixty 
years of age.  Dr. Pipes was educated at an academy at Carmichael, 
Pennsylvania, and the Waynesburg college, Pennsylvania. He read 
medicine at Cameron, Virginia, having come there in 1860 for that 
purpose.  He graduated in the medical department of the University of 
Wooster, in 1866, and from Bellevue Medical College, New York City, 
in 1873.  He practiced at Cameron, West Virginia, from 1865 to 1873.  
In the latter year he removed to Wheeling, and has from that date 
been in the active work of the profession.  While a resident of 
Cameron he was the examining surgeon of pensions.  He was married in 
1861 to Miss Jane McNay, daughter of John and Jane McNay nee Reed, of 
Greene county, Pennsylvania. 


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.