WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                           Volume 00 : Issue 144


Today's Topics:
  #1 BIO: KENT TYLER ROYAL, M. D., McDo   [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #2 BIO: HANNON REED, Berkeley Co. WV    [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #3 THE POINT PLEASANT NATIONAL BANK,    [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]
  #4 BIO: ALBERT G. RUTHERFORD, M. D.,    [Valerie & Tommy Crook <vfcrook@ear]



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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.