Biography of Isaac Taylor Peters, M.D.

ISAAC TAYLOR PETERS, M. D., has the sterling character-
istics and the technical knowledge and skill which make
for maximum success in the exacting profession of his
choice, and he is established in active general practice at
Maybeury, McDowell County. In an important mine prac-
tice he is associated with his older brother, Dr. E. F.
Peters, in whose personal sketch, on other pages of this
work, is given adequate record concerning the family his-
tory.

Doctor Peters was born at Camp Creek, Mercer County,
West Virginia, January 3, 1890, and is a son of Joseph and
Mary Alice (Ellison) Peters, the father having been born
in Virginia and the mother in West Virginia. Joseph
Peters was a successful teacher prior to his marriage, and
thereafter became a prosperous merchant and influential
citizen of Mercer County, where he served many years as
county assessor.

After leaving the public schools, Doctor Peters entered
the Concord State Normal School, at Athens, West Vir-
ginia, 1906, and in this institution he was graduated in
1910. He taught one term of rural school and then was
made superintendent of the schools of the North Fork and
Elkhorn districts in McDowell County, an office of which he
continued the incumbent two years. In 1918 he was gradu-
ated in the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Vir-
ginia. In 1913, the New Medical College of Virginia con-
solidated with the University College of Medicine under the
name of The Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, and
has nothing to do with the school at Charlottesville. In his
senior year he served as an interne in the Memorial Hospi-
tal at Richmond, and after receiving his degree of Doctor
of Medicine he passed seven months as an assistant in the
Johnston & Willis Sanitarium in that city, where he gained
further fortifying experience. For the ensuing ten months
he was associated in practice with Dr. R. V. Shanklin, at
Gary, West Virginia, and since that time he has maintained
a professional alliance with his brother, at Maybeury. He
has in connection with his practice a well equipped oper-
ating room and also a limited number of beds for the im-
mediate accommodation of patients who may require same
prior to being taken to regularly constituted hospitals.
Doctor Peters is an active member of the McDowell County
Medical Society, and holds membership also in the West
Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical
Association. He is a republican in political adherency, is
affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery
bodies of York Rite Masonry, as is he also with the adjunct
organizations, the Mystic Shrine and the Order of the
Eastern Star, besides which he is a member of the Knights
of Pythias.

In 1920, at Huntington, this state, was solemnized the
marriage of Doctor Peters to Miss Lillian V. Davis, daugh-
ter of John L. and Dora (Rhodes) Davis, Mr. Davis being
engaged in business as a real estate dealer, timber operator
and contractor. The only child of Doctor and Mrs. Peters
died in infancy.

From The History of West Virginia, Old and New, page 40

Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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