Preston County, West Virginia         Biography of CHESTER L. GOLDSMITH, M. D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 563
Preston

CHESTER L. GOLDSMITH, M. D. took up his work as a
physician and surgeon in West Virginia ten years ago, and
all of his practice has been done in Preston County.

Doctor Goldsmith was born at Everett, Massachusetts,
December 4, 1880, and he inherits the sturdy Americanism
of ancestors that located in Massachusetts at the time of the
Mayflower. His parents, Thomas and Eva (Mason) Gold-
smith, both represented old family lines in that state. His
father was a seafaring man and spent his last years at
Worcester.

Chester L. Goldsmith attended the public schools of
Massachusetts, the Massachusetts School of Pharmacy, did
preparatory work for medical college in Milton Academy,
and in 1911 graduated from the old Maryland Medical Col-
lege, the second last class before amalgamation with the
Baltimore Medical School. Since then he has taken con-
siderable post-graduate work. Doctor Goldsmith opened his
first office as a physician at Hazelton in Preston County,
and three years later removed to Terra Alta. He is a member
of the County, State and American Medical Associations.

Doctor Goldsmith married in Massachusetts Miss Ethel
Currier, whose ancestors also run back to the days of the
Mayflower, she being the seventh descendant of John and
Priscilla Alden. Doctor and Mrs. Goldsmith are Methodists
and Mrs. Goldsmith is much interested in church work at
Terra Alta. Doctor Goldsmith is a Scottish Rite Mason
and a noble of Osiris Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.