-----Original Message----- From: Joan Wyatt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, January 15, 2000 3:20 AM Subject: Bio- William H. Price M.D.- Mingo Co. >The History of West Virginia, Old and New >Published 1923, The American Historical Society Inc. >Chicago and New York, Volume 11 >Page 242 >Bio- William H. Price, M.D.- Mingo Co. > > > With headquarters in the vital industrial village of Chattaroy, Mingo >Co., Dr. Price finds ample demand upon his time and attention in >connection with his official professional service as mine physician and >surgeon for The Buffalo Thacker Coal Co., Fall Branch Coal Co. and >Wygart Coal Co., all of which are operating in this immediate vicinity. > Dr. Price was born at Montvale, Bedford Co., Virginia, October 7, >1879 and is a son of Dr. Samuel H. Price and Francis (Harris) Price, the >latter of whom died in the year 1898. Dr. Samuel H. Price was born in >Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, is now (1922) sixty-nine years of age, and >has long been a representative physician and surgeon in Bedford Co., >that state, where he still maintains his home at Montvale. He was >graduated in the medical department of the University of Virginia in >1875, and he is one of the honored and influential citizens of Bedford >Co., of which he has served twenty-one years as treasure, and prior to >his election to that office he had been for five years a member of the >County Board of Supervisors. He is a staunch democrat, is affiliated >with the Masonic fraternity, has been for forty years an elder in the >Presbyterian Church and is interested in many business enterprises. Of >the children two sons and one daughter are living. Dr. Samuel O. was >engaged in the practice of his profession at Maybeury, McDowell Co., >West Virginia, at the time of his death, when twenty-six years of age, >he previously having been connected with hospitals at New-port News, >Virginia, and Huntington and Welch, West Virginia. Dr. Howard E., >another of the sons, is a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, >and is now engaged in the practice of dentistry at Altavista, Virginia. >Mary Ross Price, the one surviving daughter, is the widow of Dr. Walter >S. Slicer, who received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the >University of Medicine and who was engaged in the practice of his >profession at Cripple Creek, Virginia, when he entered the medical corps >of the United States Army for services in the World War, he having held >the rank of captain and having died while in service. His widow is now a >resident of Roanoke, Virginia. > Dr. William H. Price graduated from a college academic course when he >was seventeen years of age, and for the ensuing year he was employed in >the store conducted by his father at Montvale, Virginia. In 1898 he >entered the medical department of the University of Virginia, and in the >same he graduated as a member of the class of 1901. Since thus receiving >his degree of Doctor of Medicine he has taken effective post-graduate >courses in the celebrated New York Polyclinic. The doctor initiated >practice by establishing his residence at Caperton, Fayette Co., West >Virginia, where he became physician and surgeon in connection with the >mines of George L. Wise & Company. He next removed to Eckman, McDowell >Co., one year later he engaged practice at Big Creek, Logan Co., and >since June 1909, he has maintained his residence and professional >headquarters at Chattaroy. Dr. Price is a member of the Mingo Co. >Medical Society, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the >American Medical Association. Though he was reared in the faith of the >democratic party, he is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, as >is also his wife, and both are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is >affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery organizations of >the Masonic fraternity, as well as the Mystic Shrine at Charleston, and >he is a member also of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and >the Modern Woodmen of America. > November 29, 1916, recorded the marriage of Dr. Price and Miss Lucy >Fowble Millendor, daughter of Cornelius F. Millendor, of Huntington. The >two children of this union are Francis and Margaret. > > >==== WV-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== >********************************************************************** >WV-FOOTSTEPS/USGENWEB NOTICE: >These messages may NOT be reproduced in >any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or >persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, >must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal >representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb >archivist with proof of this consent. >********************************************************************** > >