Preston County, West Virginia          Biography of Wade H. POST, 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. 116

Wade H. Post, M.D.    

For  sixteen consecutive years Doctor Post has applied himself to the 
practice of medicine and the varied service demanded of a capable and 
high minded physician in the Masontown community of Preston County. He
came here  as successor to the old physician, Doctor Cobun, who had carried 
most of the burden of local practice.

Doctor Post was born in Lewis County, West Virginia, April 8, 1877. His 
grandfather, John Post, spent his active life in Lewis County, and married
a Miss Cookman. Of their eight children, six are still living. William F. 
Post, father of Doctor Post, was a native of Lewis County and married 
Elizabeth Jane Young, of Harrison County. Her children were: Scott of 
Seattle, Washington; Birdie, wife of W.E. Rhodes, of Lewis County; Wilda,
wife of Dr. C.L. Cookman, of Buckhannon, West Virginia; Wade H.; Ansel B.,
of Lost Creek, West Virginia; and Porter W., who was killed in an automobile 
accident at Morgantown in June 1919, leaving a wife and daughter, Jane Porter 
Post.

Wade H. Post lived on his father's farm during his youth and continued to 
call that his home until he was about twenty-five years of age and qualified 
for professional work. He was educated in the county schools,in Union College 
at Buckhannon one term, then in the national Normal University at Lebanon, 
Ohio, and prepared for his profession in the Baltimore Medical College, where 
he graduated in 1901. Dr. Post first practiced at Jane Lew in Lewis County, 
remaining there a year, and then at dellglow in Monongalia County. When he 
located at Masontown he moved only a short distance across the county line 
from Dellglow. Doctor Post has served a year as president of the County 
Medical Society, is a member of the West Virginia State and American Medical
Association, is a local surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway and a member
of the Railway Surgeons Association of the Baltimore & Ohio system.

Aside from his busy days as a physican, Doctor Post was one of the organizers 
and is first vice president and one of the directors of the Bank of Masontown.
He is also president of the Reed Run Coal Company, and has had other business 
interests but has disposed of them. He avoids to many of the honors and 
responsibilities of politics, but is a member of the Executive Committee
of the Democratic Party in Preston County. His first national vote went 
to Mr. Bryan in 1900. Doctor Post is affiliated with Preston Lodge No. 90, 
A.F. and A. M., Royal Arch Chapter No. 30 at Morgantown; Osiris Temple of 
the Mystic Shrine in Wheeling; and he is also a member of the Independent 
Order of Odd fellows and Knight of Pythias.

In Harrison County, October 7, 1902, Doctor Post married  Miss Mary Eleanor
Eib, a native of that county and sixth and youngest child of James M and
Arminda (Arnold) Eib. Her father was a farmer of the Lost Creek community
and member of an old family of German origin. Doctor Post lost his first
wife by death. She is survived by three children: Mary Christine, James 
William and Helena Arminda. At Rockville, Maryland, April 8, 1915, Doctor
Post married Miss Grace Clayton. The only child born to Doctor and Mrs. Post
died in infancy.