Preston County, West Virginia Biography of DANIEL JAMES RUDASILL, M. D. This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: ********************************************** ***The submitter does not have a connection*** ********to the subject of this sketch.******** ********************************************** This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 557-558 Preston DANIEL JAMES RUDASILL, M. D. An accomplished and successful physician and surgeon Doctor Rudasill has been a resident of Kingwood fifteen years. He located there soon after finishing his medical education, and along with a growing medical practice he has won a host of friends in his adopted community and is regarded as one of Preston County's most valued citizens. Doctor Rudasill came to West Virginia from old Virginia. His great-grandfather on coming from Germany established his home in Rappahannock County, where he spent his remain- ing years as a planter. The grandfather of Doctor Rudasill was also a planter in the same county. James A. Rudasill, father of the Doctor, was a merchant in Culpeper, Virginia, and after the war conducted a farm and lived out his life in Madison County. During the war he was in General Mosby's command of Confederate troops, and as a private soldier was in many campaigns but escaped wounds or capture. He had no political ambitions, though he served as a squire in his com- munity. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of his Masonic Lodge. James A. Rudasill married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter, daughter of John Carpenter, and of a family that was identified with the first settlement of Robinson Valley in Madison County. She died in 1897. The children of James A. Rudasill and wife were: Charles M., who died as a farmer in Madison County; Nannie B., wife of William B. Lacy, of Madison County; Harry Carpenter, who died in Chicago at the age of fifty years; William Albert, of Orange, Virginia; Kate, wife of C. M. Thomas, of Madison County; Nellie, wife of J. H. Tanner, of Culpeper County; Lucien Albert, of Orange; Dora Dean, wife of James P. Bick- ers, of Madison County; and Daniel James. Daniel James Rudasill, youngest of the family, was born on the old farm in Madison County, Virginia, July 18, 1879. While a boy there he attended the public schools, was also a pupil in the Locustdale Academy, and at the age of twenty left home to enter the Medical College of Virginia at Rich- mond. Doctor Rudasill graduated in 1905, and for six months following was an interne in the Newport News General Hospital. He then removed to West Virginia and located at Kingwood. During 1912 he attended the Post-Graduate school of Medicine and Hospital in Chicago, and during 1912- 13 he conducted a hospital in Kingwood. He has served as county health officer and is a member of the County and American Medical Associations. Dr. Rudasill was for a time a member of the City Council of Kingwood. In politics he has always voted and given a rather independent support to the democratic party. He is a Master Mason and is a member of the Session of the Pres- byterian Church. At Carmichael, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1917, Dr. Rudasill married Mrs. Mary (Laidley) Groom, a native of Carmichael. They have one daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, born February 16, 1920.