Ritchie County, West Virginia          Biography of James B. WILSON, 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 III, pg. 58

JAMES B. WILSON, M. D. Born and reared on a farm near
Pennsboro, after completing his medical education Doctor
Wilson returned to his home community to practice, and for
nearly thirty years has been one of the competent physicians
and surgeons in this locality.

His birth occurred on a farm three miles south of Penns-
boro February 11, 1866. He is a son of Leroy P. and Vir-
ginia S. (Rinehart) Wilson, the former born in Ritchie County
in 1832 and the latter at Oakland, Maryland, in 1839. The
mother is living at the age of eighty-three. Leroy Wilson had
a common school education, excelled in mathematics, and
for a number of years followed surveying, though his m in
business was farming and cattle raising and dealing. He was
a man of unusual business ability and a leader in public
affairs in Ritchie County. He was elected as a democrat to
several local offices, was president of the Board of Education
and president of the Ritchie County Fair Association. He was
especially prominent as a student of Masonry, and for a time
was district deputy grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge. He
was a past master of Harmony Lodge No. 59, A. F. and A.
M., for nine years and was a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason. Leroy Wilson was the father of twelve children,
ten of whom are living. Archie J. is a merchant at Harrisville;
Molly, died when about six years of age; Dr. James B.; Miss
Agnes, a graduate of the Fairmont State Normal School and
a teacher; Anna, wife of S. H. Hamilton, of Pennsboro; B. F.
Wilson, who is located at Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the
oil business; Minnie, deceased, was the wife of S. M. Hoff, of
Huntington, West Virginia; Zilpha, who is a graduate of
medicine and is now the wife of a Presbyterian minister in the
State of Washington; Susan is the wife of A. L. Davis of
Charleston, West Virginia; Lee is in the oil business, with
home at Wichita Falls, Texas; J. Marsh is an oil field worker;
and Okey lives in Texas and is in the oil industry.

Dr. James B. Wilson spent his early life on the farm,
acquired a common school education and was a teacher for
several terms. He began the study of medicine in the Univer-
sity of Maryland, and in 1893 graduated M. D. from the
University of Louisville, Kentucky. He then returned to
Pennsboro, and has had a large practice in that part of
Ritchie County ever since. He is a member of the County,
State and American Medical Associations, and is local sur-
geon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway.

Doctor Wilson is a director of the First National Bank of
Pennsboro and is owner of considerable real estate in that
town and Clarksburg. He is a democrat and, like his father,
is interested in Masonry, serving three terms as master of
Harmony Lodge No. 59, A. F. and A. M., and is also affiliated
with the Royal Arch Chapter, Knight Templar Commandery
and Shrine. He and Mrs. Wilson are members of the Presby-
terian Church. Doctor Wilson's first wife was Alice Sherwood
of Baltimore, Maryland. By this marriage he has a son,
Sherwood, who is a graduate of high school. Doctor Wilson
for his second wife married Olive Bond, of Clarksburg, West
Virginia.