Upshur County, West Virginia Biography of RALPH G. CUTRIGHT, 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 III, pg. 605 RALPH G. CUTRIGHT, M. D., has been busily engaged in his work as a physician and surgeon at Rock Cave in Upshur County for the past twenty years. He is member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Upshur County, one that has furnished good citizens at all times since almost the beginning of history here. He was born at Sago in Upshur County, October 2, 1870, son of Granville H. and Elizabeth J. (Beer) Cutright. Granville Cutright, who was born in Upshur County in 1841, was one of four or five brothers who served as Union sol- diers. He enlisted in 1861 in a West Virginia regiment, and was in service until after the close of the war. The regiment was on duty in the West, and he was not mustered out until 1866. He then returned to Upshur County, and on September 29, 1866, married Elizabeth J. Beer, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1844. They then settled on a farm at Sago, and lived out their lives there. The father was an active republican. There were five children: Lyman, de- ceased, who was graduated at the West Virginia University Law School and was a member of the bar; Ralph G.; Frank, who graduated A. B. from West Virginia University and received his Master of Arts degree from Columbia College in New York and is now superintendent of the public schools at Gassaway; Delos M., a graduate of the Mountain State Business College at Parkersburg and is a dairyman at Berlin, Maryland; and Ward S., who died in infancy. Dr. Ralph G. Outright grew up on the home farm, ac- quired his early advantages in the public schools, attended a select high school, and finished his medical education at Lebanon, Ohio. He also took special courses at Louisville, Kentucky, and since 1899 has been a hard working country practitioner at Rock Cave. He is a member in good stand- ing of the various medical societies and has prospered in a business way, having his home and office at Rock Cave and considerable real estate. He is an independent voter and is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church in his home town. Doctor Cutright married Ella Rohrbough, who died in June, 1909, leaving one child, Ella K., born in September, 1906. Doctor Cutright later married a sister of his first wife, Byrd R. Rohrbough. *********************