Ohio County, West Virginia  Biography of Will A. Quimby.

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Submitted by Valerie Crook.

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 535-536
Ohio

WILL A. QUIMBY, M. D. A Wheeling physician. Doctor
Quimby after several years or general practice specialized
in X-Ray and Radium work, and through his broad study
and specialization of the technical facilities on which he
has concentrated has made his specialty an invaluable serv-
ice to the public and to the medical and surgical profes-
sion of Wheeling.

Doctor Quimby is a native of Wheeling, where he was
born August 19, 1881. His father, Charles H. Quimby,
was born in Boston; Massachusetts, in 1838, was reared in
Massachusetts and Maine. In 1862 he moved to Marietta,
Ohio, and in 1865 located at Wheeling. He was a tanner
by trade, and continued to follow that work for some time
after coming to Wheeling. He then engaged in the news-
paper and stationery business, and was an active merchant
of Wheeling until he retired in April, 1920. He is now
living at Bridgeport, Ohio. He is a republican, and for
many years has been a faithful member of the Baptist
Church. He first married in Peabody, Massachusetts, but
the two children of that union died in infancy. After
coming to Wheeling he married Sarah Baker, who was
born at Captine, Ohio, in 1841, and died at Blaine, that
state, in 1905. To that marriage were born six children:
A. Judson, an X-Ray specialist in New York City; Charles
H., Jr., a civil engineer at Washington, D. C.; Miss Jennie
C., a graduate nurse and superintendent of the Maternity
Hospital at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Will A.; Mary D., wife
of Milton Kennedy, a contractor at Bridgeport, Ohio; and
John C., a teacher of agriculture in the State Normal
School at Dillon, Montana.

Will A. Quimby acquired his early education in the pub-
lic schools of Blaine, Ohio. He graduated from Linsly
Institute at Wheeling in 1903, attended the West Virginia
State University, and subsequently entered Starling-Ohio
Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he was gradu-
ated M. D. in 1908. One year he spent as interne in the
Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, and also did some gen-
eral practice there. Doctor Quimby has been a member
of the medical profession at Wheeling since 1909. He was
the first physician in Ohio County to use radium in the
treatment of certain cases, and his work is practically con-
fined to X-Ray and Radium practice, for which he has
an equipment probably not excelled in any other city in
the Ohio Valley. His offices are in the Wheeling Steel
Corporation Building.  Doctor Quimby is a member of
the Ohio County, West Virginia State and the American
Medical Associations, the American Roentgen Ray Society,
the Radiological Society of North America, and is secre-
tary and treasurer of the Curie Radium Society, Inc., of
Wheeling.

In politics he is a republican, is a member of the Metho-
dist Church, is affiliated with Bridgeport Lodge No. 181,
F. and A. M., Wheeling Consistory of the Scottish Rite,
Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of
Fort Henry Club. His residence is at Lenox, Wheeling.

Doctor Quimby married at Bridgeport, Ohio, in 1913,
Mrs. Helen Dunlevy Sprott, daughter of Major Seymour
and Emma (Rhodes) Dunlevy, both of whom died at
Bridgeport.