WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 144 Today's Topics: #1 BIO: KENT TYLER ROYAL, M. D., McDo [Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000704204055.00cc4cb0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: KENT TYLER ROYAL, M. D., McDowell Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 417 McDowell KENT TYLER ROYAL, M. D., a member of the staff of Welch Hospital No. 1, maintained by the State of West Virginia at Welch, judicial center of MeDowell County, is one of the representative young physicians and surgeons of this vital little industrial city. Doctor Royal was born at Harvard, Massachusetts, October 25, 1891, and is a son of Dr. Herbert D. and Alma (Eaton) Royal, the former a native of Maine and the latter of Massachusetts, one of her ancestors having been Governor Bradford, the first chief executive of the Massa- chusetts colony. Doctor Royal traces his lineage to Eng- lish origin on both the paternal and maternal sides, and is a scion of stanch Colonial stock in New England, that cradle of much of our national history. Dr. Herbert D. Royal is a leading physician and representative citizen of Harvard, Massachusetts, where he is serving as a member of the Board of Education and is otherwise prominent in community affairs. In the public schools of his native town Dr. Kent T. Royal continued his studies until his graduation from the high school, and in 1911 he graduated from Worcester Academy. In 1915 he graduated from Colby University, Waterville, Maine, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science, and in preparation for his chosen pro- fession he then entered the medical department of Harvard University, in which he was graduated in 1919, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. While a student in the medical school the doctor became a private in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served as medical examiner for the Students' Army Training Corps at Harvard University. After his graduation Doctor Royal came to West Virginia and entered professional service at Sheltering Arms Hos- pital, at Hansford, where he remained from March, 1919, to October 15, 1921, when he removed to Welch and assumed his present position at Welch Hospital, where he specializes in surgery. He is giving as much attention as possible to private practice also, and is an enthusiast in the work of his exacting profession. He is affiliated with the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the West Virginia State Medical Society, and the McDowell County Medical Society, as well as the Delta Epsilon medical fraternity of Harvard University. In 1920, at New Albany, Pennsylvania, Doctor Royal wedded Miss Jane Benjamine, daughter of A. H. and Ann (Van Dyke) Benjamine, and the one child of this union is a winsome little daughter, Belle Ann. Doctor and Mrs. Royal are members of the Congregational Church. ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:43:16 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000704204049.00c4daa0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: HANNON REED, Berkeley Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 416-417 HANNON REED has been successfully identified with farm enterprise and coal operations in his native state, and is now one of the substantial and popular citizens of Martins- burg, Berkeley County. Mr. Reed was born in the Village of Romines Mills, Har- rison County, West Virginia, and on a pioneer farm in the same county his father, Fielding Reed, was born Febru- ary 19, 1832, a son of Minor Reed, supposedly a native of Virginia and for many years numbered among the prosper- ous farmers of Harrison County. Late in life he removed to Ohio, where he continued to reside until his death, his wife, whose family name was White, having died in Har- rison County, West Virginia. Fielding Reed was reared on the old home farm, and after his marriage he resided for some time at Romines Mills. He next engaged in farm enterprise in that county, and later purchased a farm in Lewis County, where he remained about five years, at the expiration of which he returned to Harrison County and purchased a farm on Elk Creek. There he continued his successful activities as an agricul- turist and stock-grower for many years and there he died at the venerable age of eighty-two years, as one of the hon- ored native sons of the county. He became extensively engaged also in the buying and shipping of live stock, which he consigned to the markets in Philadelphia and Baltimore. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Debar, was born in Upshur County, a daughter of William and Nancy (Reed) Debar, the latter of whom was a daughter of Stephen Reed, a Virginia farmer. Mrs. Sarah (Debar) Reed died when comparatively a young woman and left four small children: Hannon, Nancy, Lincoln and Ida. Nancy became the wife of William Miles and is now de- ceased; and Ida married Stephen Stewart. For his second wife Fielding Reed married Mary Boyer, who died January 9, 1922, at Clarksburg, West Virginia. Of this union were born four children: Florence, Watt, Minnie and Mary. Florence is the wife of Robert Stewart; Minnie is the wife of Holden Stewart; and Mary is the wife of John Cum- mings. Hannon Reed gained his early education in the rural schools, and early acquired valuable business experience. At the age of twenty-one years he became associated with a partner in the operating of a coal mine, and later he was engaged in farming in Barbour County, where he remained one year. He then returned to Harrison County, where lie continued his active alliance with productive farm industry until 1908, since which year he and his wife have maintained their home at Martinsburg, where he has been identified with various lines of business. He purchased a tract of land on the hill overlooking the city and surrounding coun- try, leveled the tract effectively and there erected the modern house in which he and his wife now reside. November 19, 1884, recorded the marriage of Mr. Reed and Josephine Miles, who was born on a farm five miles southeast of Buckhannon, Upshur County, a daughter of John J. Miles, who was born in England. John J. Miles' brother William and sister Priscilla likewise came to the United States, and Priscilla married a man named Williams, they making settlement in Ohio; William settled in Upshur County, West Virginia. In this county John J. Miles pur- chased a farm, and he not only became one of the successful agriculturists of Upshur County but also actively identified with the mining of coal. He died in that county, aged seventy-seven years. He married Mary Miller, who was horn in Virginia, a daughter of Joseph Miller, who was a carpenter and farmer, his farm having been on Beverly Pike, about three miles distant from Buckhannon. Joseph Miller had five sons, Jacob, John, Joseph, Jr., James and George, and of the number all except Jacob became Union soldiers in the Civil war, George having been killed in battle and all of the others having long survived the war and having received pensions from the Government. Mrs. Mary (Miller) Miles died at the age of sixty years, she having become the mother of seven children: Susan, Priscilla, Josephine, Philip, John, Sarah and Charles. Susan became the wife of Sherman Shreeves; Priscilla married Lafayette Westphall, who also served in the Civil war. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Reed; Dorsey Miles Reed is in the employ of the United States Government. Tressie May is the wife of Owen S. Fisher. Russell Fielding Reed entered the military service of the United States in April, 1918, and at Camp Lee, Virginia, was assigned to the Three Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment. of the United States Army, with which, on the 25th of May of that year, he sailed for France and proceeded with his command to the front lines. He gained a full share of the arduous and hazardous ex- perience on the stage of conflict in the great World war, and he was both wounded and gassed, lie having been in a hospital in France at the time when the armistice was signed and brought the war to a close. Russell F. Reed received his honorable discharge after his return home, and to his enduring honor will stand his record of service in the greatest war in the annals of history. ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:45:47 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000704204439.00c10b10@mail.earthlink.net> Subject: THE POINT PLEASANT NATIONAL BANK, Mason Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 417-418 THE POINT PLEASANT NATIONAL BANK affords valuable business and civic facilities in the thriving little City of Point Pleasant, the judicial center of Mason County, and is one of the substantial and well-ordered financial institu- tions of this section of West Virginia. The bank was organized in 1901, mainly through the promotive activities of James Vapehard, who became the first president and who retained this office five years, his resignation having then been given on account of his seriously impaired health, he was succeeded by J. O. Shinn, who has since con- tinued as president of the institution. The bank opened its doors for business in the spring of 1902, and its original capital stock of $25,000 has since been increased to $30,000. J. Friedman became vice president of the bank at the time of its incorporation, and thus served until his death in 1920, when he was succeeded by Rankin Wiley, the present in- cumbent. W. L. McCoy, the first cashier, died in April, 1902, shortly after assuming his' executive duties, and he was succeeded by the assistant cashier, James W. Windon, who has since continued the efficient cashier, and of whom specific mention is made in the sketch immediately following this review. A. L, Neale succeeded Mr. Windon in the office of assistant cashier, and continued his service in this capacity until June, 1921, when he was succeeded by the present incumbent, H. L. Johnson. Mr. Neale continues, in 1922, one of the directors of the bank, and in addition to the president and vice president the present directorate includes also Dr. H. A. Barbee and W. H. Vaught. The stock of the bank is all held locally, and the institution thus is throughly representative of the general interests of this community and county. The two-story bank building was erected in 1907, and is a substantial and modern brick structure, the upper floor being rented for offices. The deposits of the bank now aggregate $300,000 and the surplus fund is $10,000. Regular dividends have been paid, and none of the stock of the institution is now on the market. ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 21:26:34 -0400 From: Valerie & Tommy Crook To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000704212522.00c2aea0@trellis.net> Subject: BIO: ALBERT G. RUTHERFORD, M. D., McDowell Co. WV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 431-432 ALBERT G. RUTHERFORD, M. D., the able and efficient superintendent of Welch Hospital No. 1, in the City of Welch, McDowell County, was appointed to this respon- sible position on the 1st of July, 1921, and is giving an administration that attests to his professional ability and also his executive powers. In that part of Logan County, West Virginia, that later became Mingo County, Doctor Rutherford was born on the 25th of May, 1877, a son of Lewis and Arminta (Ferrell) Rutherford, and a grandson of Dr. Elliott Rutherford, who was gradu- ated in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Medical College and who for many years was a leading physician and surgeon at Matewan, now in Mingo County, where he died at the venerable age of eighty-five years, a noble and honored citi- zen who had devoted his life to the service of his fellow men. He was born at Guyandotte, Cabell County, Vir- ginia (now West Virginia), where his father, a native of Scotland, settled in the pioneer days. Doctor Rutherford gained more than local reputation in his profession and gave effective service as a member of the State Board of Health, besides which he represented his district in the State Legislature. He was one of the prominent and in- fluential citizens of the Tug River Valley, and served as a surgeon with the Confederate forces in the Civil war. Lewis Rutherford became one of the representative farmers and timber dealers of what is now Mingo County and was also the owner of 2,300 acres of coal land. He owned and operated a sawmill on Sprouse Creek, and sent many rafts of logs down to Tug and Big Sandy rivers. He was a signally vital and discriminating business man and was suc- cessful in his various operations, his home having been five miles west of Matewan. He was a democrat, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Baptist Church. He was sixty-one years of age at the time of his death, and his wife passed away at the age of fifty-two years. They became the parents of eight sons, and of the number Doctor Rutherford of this sketch was the second in order of birth. One of the sons, Dr. Lafayette Rutherford, is engaged in the practice of medicine at Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and is president of two or more banking institutions in that state, he being a graduate of the University of Louisville, Ken- tucky. Dr. Grover Rutherford, another of the sons, was graduated in the dental department of the University of Louisville and engaged in the practice of his profession at Muskogee, Oklahoma. He died in Muskogee on October 3, 1919. Dr. Albert G. Rutherford is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early education, and in 1897 he was graduated in Marshall College at Huntington. At Matewan he taught the first graded school in Mingo County, and through his successful work as a teacher during a period of four years he earned the funds to defray the expenses of his course in the medical department of the University of Tennessee at Nashville, in which he was grad- uated as a member of the class of 1900. After thus ob- taining his degree of Doctor of Medicine he took a post- graduate course in surgery in the celebrated New York Polyclinic in 1905, and in 1910 he did post-graduate work in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Since that time he has taken special post-graduate work each successive year, and has availed himself of the ad- vantages of leading medical colleges and hospital clinics in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City. In 1900, shortly after his graduation, Doctor Ruther- ford engaged in the general practice of his profession at Williamson, judicial center of Mingo County, where he re- mained two years. He then removed to Thacker, that county, where he became official physician and surgeon for the Thacker Coal & Coke Company and the Thaeker Coal Mining Company, besides serving as local surgeon for the Norfolk & Western Railroad. In these connections he had charge in a professional way of the service at eight or more different coal mines, besides which he served twelve years as health officer of Mingo County and as president of the Board of Health of that county. At the time when he assumed his present office at Welch he was president of the Mingo County Medical Society, and he has been made an honorary member of the McDowell County Medical Society. He is actively identified also with the West Virginia State Medical Society, the Southern Gynecologieal Society, the American Medical Association and the American Railroad Surgeons Association. In the period of the nation's partici- pation in the World war Doctor Rutherford served as medical examiner of the Draft Board of Mingo County. The Doctor is a director of the Commercial National Bank of Williamson, of which he was one of the organizers. He is a stalwart republican and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Doctor Rutherford is a past master of O'Brien Lodge No. 101, A. F. and A. M., at Williamson, where he is affiliated also with the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, his chivalric affiliation being with Ivanhoe Commandery No. 10, Knights Templars, at Bramwell, Mercer County, and his Scottish Rite affiliations being maintained at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a member of the Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charles- ton, the Lodge of Elks at Bluefield and Perrell Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Thacker, of which he is a past noble grand. In 1903 Doctor Rutherford wedded Miss Minnie Harris, daughter of William A. Harris, of Whiteport, Kentucky. They have no children. In the closing paragraphs are given a resume of Welch Hospital No. 1, of which Doctor Rutherford is the efficient superintendent. One of McDowell County's biggest assets is the Welch Hospital No. 1, located in this city. This institution is sup- ported and maintained by the state and was established by an act of the Legislature in 1899. While this hospital is known as the "Miner's" hospital, it is not operated ex- clusively for the benefit of those who are connected with the mining industry, but stands as a ministering angel for all who are in need of medical care and attention. Situated in the center of 3 1/4 acres of land in the western portion of the city it is the city's real beauty spot. The institution is located on land donated by the citizens of Welch, another example of the generosity of the people. The ground is level and well located. The buildings are of brick construction and consist of the main building which is three stories high, the nurses' home, the homes for employes, the power plant and the laundry. In the main building are located the administration offices, the operating room, the sterilization room, private rooms, with wards in either wing. On the first floor is located the administration office with private offices for the superintendent and the superintendent of nurses, a wait- ing room for relatives and friends of patients; wide, spacious, well ventilated corridors, a laboratory, the X-ray room, as well as the various wards, of which there are eight. The second floor is given over entirely to private rooms. On the third floor is located one of the most modern oper- ating rooms in the state. Recent improvements made on this floor put it on a par with many of the country's lead- ing institutions. A new sterilization room and instrument room adds greatly to the facilities. On this floor is also located a bandage room in which the nurses prepare ban- dages and dressings. Present plans include further improve- ments on this floor devoting one room entirely to tonsil operations. The capacity of the wards and private rooms at the present time is about -one hundred although in an emergency this can be increased to one hundred and twenty-five. The Welch Hospital has the most complete X-ray equip- ment obtainable and in this department is better equipped than most of the leading institutions in the country. This equipment was just recently installed and one section of the main building is given over to work of this nature. If the Welch Hospital is well able to meet every emer- gency from an equipment standpoint it is also well equipped from the standpoint of personnel. The institution is now in charge of Dr. A. G. Rutherford, who took charge in July, 1921, following the resignation of Dr. C. F. Hicks, who was dearly beloved by the people of this community. Doctor Rutherford is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and since receiving his degree at that institution has taken extensive post-graduate work in different parts of the country. He was with Mayo Brothers at their clinic as well as taking extension work at the University of Penn- sylvania. The staff was recently reinforced by the arrival of Dr. George Edward W. Hardy, of Baltimore, Maryland, where he was associated witli Dr. J. N. T. Finney, the celebrated surgeon who was consulting surgeon of the A. E. F. Doctor Hardy is a graduate from Johns Hopkins, receiving his A. B. degree in 1913 and his M. D. in 1917. He is a native of Baltimore and at the close of his school work entered the service as a first lieutenant. He was assigned to Camp Meade as sanitary inspector and later assigned to Rockefeller Institute in New York City, where he was sta- tioned for fourteen months. This was a demonstration hos- pital and much of his time was given to experimental work with the Carrell-Dakin treatment. While at this hospital Doctor Hardy was in charge most of the time. Following his discharge from the army with a rank of captain, Doctor Hardy returned to his native city and was given a post at the Union Memorial Hospital as assistant to Doctor Finney. Welch is extremely fortunate to have a man of the caliber of Doctor Hardy connected with one of its institutions. Dr. W. W. Wilson is the hospital's X-ray, expert. Pol- lowing his graduation from the University of Maryland he entered the Bayview Hospital at Baltimore as surgical interne. While at school he was resident interne of the Maryland state prison. Doctor Wilson came to the local institution in October and later returned to Baltimore to take extension work on the X-ray under the exports, Batjer and Waters. Miss Rose Fuller is superintendent of nurses of the local institution and is assisted, by Miss Virginia Barnett. Both women are graduates of Lewis Gale Hospital of Roanoke. Miss Fuller is particularly proud of her nurses' training school. At the present time there are fifteen girls in train- ing, but within a short time this number will be increased to twenty-five. Regular school sessions are held following the regular hospital duties, lectures being delivered by Doctor Rutherford, Doctor Hardy, Doctor Wilson, Dr. J. Howard Anderson, Dr. F. B. Quincy and Dr. H. G. Camper.