Wood County, West Virginia Biography of GEORGE D. JEFFERS, M. D. This file 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. 528 GEORGE D. JEFFERS, M. D. One of the leading repre- sentatives of medicine and surgery at Parkersburg for the past twenty years, Dr. Jeffers has had other important interests outside the strict limits of his profession and has acted as a director in several business and financial cor- porations. His father, Lewis H. Jeffers, is a well known citizen of Wood County, but was born in Athens County, Ohio, May 22, 1836, son of Asa Jeffers. Lewis H. Jeffers became an Ohio farmer, but in 1870 moved to West Virginia, and for over half a century has lived in Wood County. He was a member of the House of Delegates in 1911. He is a devout Baptist, a democrat, and his life of eighty-five years has been one of exceptional usefulness and honor. He married Susan Page, daughter of George Page. Her mother was a Beebe, of a well known pioneer family of that name. Susan (Page) Jeffers' grandmother was with Martha Washington on Blennerhasset Island when she was sixteen years of age. Lewis H. Jeffers and wife had four children: George Del- mont; Perry Edwin, who lives at Lockhart Run in Wood County; Guy Carlos, who died at the age of seven; and Carrie Ritter, who died when four years old. Dr. George Delmont Jeffers was born in Athens County, Ohio, August 10, 1865, but was reared and educated in West Virginia. He attended public and private schools, began the study of medicine under Dr. J. C. Casto, and in September, 1887, entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, where he was graduated in 1889. For ten years Dr. Jeffers practiced at Cunningham, Kansas, and then, following a post-graduate course in his alma mater and in the New York Polyclinic, he located in Parkersburg in July, 1899. Dr. Jeffers has served as surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company. He is an active member of the County and State Medical Associations, the Southern and American Medical Associations, and during the World war was chairman of the Medical Advisory Board for District No. 2, comprising eight counties. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Dr. Jeffers married Laura B. Sigler, of Morganfield, Ken- tucky, who is descended from the Calvert family of Mary- land and a direct descendant of Lord Calvert. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffers have one daughter, Ruth Carlton, a student at Hamil- ton College, Lexington, Kentucky.