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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

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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 31/4 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 sceond 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- geney 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 with 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 los- 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. Fol- lowing his gradnation 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 experts, 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.

ISHMAEL G. CUTRIGHT is one of the successful lumber manufacturers of Central West Virginia and maintains his home and office headquarters in the City of Buckhannon, Upshur County. He was born in this county, on the 17th of January, 1871, and is a son of Granville S. and Eliza- beth (Hinkle) Cutright, the former of whom was like- wise born in Upshur County, October 29, 1842, and the latter of whom was born in Randolph County, August 1, 1839. Elmore Cutright, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in Upshur County, where the family was founded in the early pioneer days. Elmore Cutright married Nancy Wolfe. He was a son of Jacob and Nancy Elizabeth (Westfall) Cutright, and Jacob was a son of John and Rebecca (Truby) Cutright, whose mar- riage occurred in 1788.

Granville S. Cutright was reared on the old home farm in Upshur Connty, and while he attended school only four weeks he supplemented his education by careful study and reading and hecame a man of broad information and ma- ture judgment. His marriage to Elizabeth Hinkle oc- curred November 30, 1867, and prior to this time he had been a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil' war, in which he served three years as a member of the Upshur Battalion of Light Artillery, in which he was made a corporal. After the war he continued as one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of his na- tive county for many years. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and both he and his wife were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their nine children one died in infancy and another at the age of fourteen. Abraham H. is a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is engaged in the real estate business. W. B., a graduate of the University of West Virginia and also of Columbia University, received from the former the degree of Bachelor of Arts and from the latter that of Bachelor of Laws. He was a member of the faculty of the preparatory department of the Uni- versity of West Virginia in 1896-7, thereafter having been for one year principal of the State Normal School at West Liberty, and he is now engaged in the practice of law in Buckhannon, as one of the leading members of the bar of his native county. D. H. is a successful farmer in this county. I. G., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth. C. B. is a lumbermau and farmer of Clarks- burg, this state. Miss Iva K., a graduate of the Buck- hannon High School, is now bookkeeper in the office of A. P. Russell, of this city. Miss Corinne is the youngest of the number.

I. G. Cutright remained on the home farm until he was twenty-two years of age, and in the meanwhile had prof- ited fully by the advantages of the public schools. For ten years he was engaged in the general merchandise busi- ness, and for twenty years he has been actively identified with the lumber industry in this part of the state, besides which he has operated ratber extensively in the buying and leasing of coal land and has important real-estate in- terests aside from this. He is president of the company owning the Upshur Office Building. He is a director of the Cutright-Sharps Company, manufacturers of window- shade rollers at Buckhannon, and is also a stockholder in the Buckhannon Bank.

Mr. Cutright is one of the liberal and progressive citizens of Buckhannon, is a republican in politics and has served as a member of the City Council. He is past chancellor of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and has rep- resented the same in the Grand Lodge of West Virginia. He and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Epis- copal Church.

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On the 28th of June, 1905, Mr. Cutright wedded Miss Mary E. Brown, who was born in Pennsylvania and who graduated from the high school at Butler, that state. They have five children: Virginia B., I. G., Jr., Iva Catherine, Mary E. and Nancy C.

EDMUND H. KELLY has shown in bis business career marked energy, initiative and progressiveness, and is now one of the prominent exponents of the automobile busi- ness in the City of Buckhannon, Upshur County, where he is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Kelly Motor Company.

Mr. Kelly was born in Preston County, West Virginia, November 10, 1869, and is a son of Smith and Mary (Browning) Kelly, both natives of the State of Mary- land. Smith Kelly was reared on the Maryland farm of his father, Edmund Kelly, and eventually he became the owner of a small farm in Preston County, West Virginia, where also he followed the carpenter's trade. He was fifty-two years of age at the time of his death, and his wife survived him by a number of years. Both were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in the same Mr. Kelly served many years as class leader. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a republican in political proclivities. Of the eleven children two died in infancy and one at the age of six years, the other eight attaining to years of maturity.

Edmund H. Kelly passed his boyhood days on the home farm and profited by the advantages of the public schools of his native county. At the age of nineteen years he found employment, but until he attained to his legal ma- jority he turned over to his parents the most of his earn- ings. At the age of twenty-one years he found employ- ment in a livery establishment, and he received for his services $12.50 a week. After passing two years in this service he invested his earnings in sheep, which he later sold for $200. With this financial fortification he pur- chased the livery business of his employer and incidentally assumed an indebtedness of $1,800, for which he gave his notes. He continued in the livery business at Terra Alta twelve years, and then made an advantageous sale of the property and business, after which he went South, for the benefit of his health, which had become impaired. After returning to West Virginia he engaged in the buggy business at Buckhannon, and developed a substantial and prosperous enterprise, with a large stock on hand to meet all demands. He continued this business two years, or until September, 1917, when he purchased a lot and erected a substantial building for use as an automobile garage and salesroom. Here he opened his automobile business on the 1st of September, 1918, and as agent for the Buick automobiles he has here built up a well ordered and pros- perons business, his garage being modern in equipment and facilities, and the enterprise being conducted under the corporate title of the Kelly Motor Company. Mr. Kelly is the owner of a fourth interest in 100 acres of coal and pasture land and a half interest in a valuable little tract of ten acres of coal land, besides which he is a stockholder in the Buckhannon Light & Water Company. He is one of the vital and valued members of the Buck- hannon Board of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, is president of the Board of Education of his home city, is a republican in politics, and both he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he being a trustee of the church at Buckhannon. Mr. Kelly is affiliated with the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery bodies of York Rite Masonry, and is a past master of the Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Terra Alta, Preston County. His wife, whose maiden name was Maude L. Warden, is a daughter of Rev. J. M. Warden, a clergyman of the Methodist Church, and her public-school discipline was supplemented by a two years' college course. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have one child, Mary E., born July 28, 1914.

STANLEY B. HERSMAN, the efficient superintendent of the West Virginia Central Gas Company, maintains his

residence and official headquarters at Buckhannon, Upshur County, and is one of the progressive business men of the younger generation in this city.

Mr. Hersman was born on a farm near Berlin, Lewis County, West Virginia, on the 17th of June, 1888, and is a son of Mark and Oliver R. (Hinzman) Hersman. Mark Hersman was born in Lewis County, March 4, 1844, a son of George and Sarah (Starcher) Ilersman, whose mar- riage was solemnized June 17, 1834. George Hersman was a son of Mark Hersman, who was born August 11. 1790, and whose marriage to Polly Kiger occurred April 4, 1811. Mark Hersman's father, Christopher IIersman, was a son of Matthias Hersman, who was born and reared in Germany and who became the founder of the family in America, he having come to this country in 1763 and having settled in Hampshire County, Virginia, where he reclaimed and developed a farm and where he passed the remainder of his life, which was prolonged to the re- markable age of 125 years. Christopher Hersman be- came a farmer and trader in Pennsylvania, and his son Mark became an exponent of farm industry in Ohio and what is now West Virginia. George Hersman, grandfather of the subject of this review, was numbered among the substantial farmers of what is now Lewis County, West Virginia, and there his son Mark was born and reared on the home farm. Mark Hersman had the genius of suecess, and exemplified the same in his progressive and extensive operations as a farmer near Berlin, Lewis Coun- ty, where he became the owner of a valuable farm prop- erty of 340 acres. He was a loyal soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served two and one-half years. He was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, was a re- publican in politics, and both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Protestant Church. Of their twelve children the following are living at the time of this writing, in 1921: Mollie is the wife of Theodore Queen, of Hodgesville, this state; Blaine is superintendent of the West Virginia & Maryland Gas Company at Rowles- burg, Preston County, this state; Miss Nita was the next in order of birth; and Stanley B., of this sketch is the next younger; C. Sarah is the wife of Olin Rohr, of Ber- lin, Lewis County; and Grace is the wife of Harrison Lewis, of that place.

The boyhood and early youth of Stanley B. Hersman were diversified by work on the home farm and attending the public schools of his native county. At the age of eighteen years he entered the employ of a gas company, and he has since continued his connection with the gas industry in this state. He has been a resident of Buck- bannon since 1919, and is the valued superintendent here of the West Virginia Central Gas Company. He owns a farm of about eighty-five acres near Berlin, Lewis County. Mr. Hersman is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Buckhannon, is affiliated also with Franklin Lodge No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, is a stanch democrat in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

September 19, 1909, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hers- man and Miss Maude F. Sutton, and they have four chil- dren: Harry, Harold, John and Grace.

ORIE O. BENNETT, M. D., is an able physician and sur- geon who is honoring his native state of West Virginia by his faithful stewardship in his chosen profession as well as by his sterling characteristics as a citizen. He is one of the representative practitioners in Upshur County, with residence and professional headquarters at Buckhannon, the county seat.

Doctor Bennett was born on the parental homestead farm in Nicholas County, this state, and the date of his nativity was August 1, 1871. He is a son of Jacob H. and Fran- cenia J. (Nicholas) Bennett, both likewise natives of Nicholas County, where they were reared and educated, where their marriage was solemnized and where Jacob Il. Bennett became a prosperous farmer as the owner of a valuable landed estate of 230 acres. His father purchased in an early day a tract of 1,000 acres in Nicholas County

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and eventually divided this property among his children. Jacob H. Bennett and his wife reside at Hinkelville, Up- shur County, and both are zealous members of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. Mr. Bennett is a republican in politics. Of the two sons Doctor Bennett of this review is the younger, and the elder, Dr. E. C. Bennett, a grad- uate of the Eclectic Medical College in the City of Atlanta, Georgia, is now engaged in the successful practice of medicine at Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia.

Dr. Orie O. Bennett as a boy and youth assisted in the work of the home farm, and in the meanwhile dnly availed himself of the advantages of the local schools. Later he continued his studies in Shelton College, besides having for a time been a student in the West Virginia State Nor- mal School at Athens and for part of a session was a student at the Willamuth University, Salem, Oregon. For three

years he was successfully engaged in teaching in the schools of his native state and for an equal period thereafter he followed the same vocation in the State of Washington. Upon his return from the Pacific Coast he finally entered the Southern Medical College in the City of Atlanta, Geor- gia, and later he completed his technical course in Barnes Medical College in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. For twenty-three and one-half years thereafter Doctor Bennett was actively engaged in general practice in Webster Coun- ty, West Virginia, where he controlled a large and repre- sentative practice and was a citizen of prominence and influence in his community. Since resigning his practice in that connty the doctor has maintained his home and been established in successful practice in the City of Buckhannon. He is a stockholder in the Buckhannon Build- ing and Loan Association and also in the Metal Products Corporation at Fairmont, this state. He is a republican in polities and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.

On November 24, 1898, Doctor Bennett wedded Miss M. E. Dnke, of Webster County, and they have two chil- dren: Mabel is a graduate of the Buckhannon High School and also of the West Virginia Wesleyan College; and Way- man, who is fourteen years of age (1922), is attending the high school at Buckhannon.

LOWRY W. PAGE, M. D., has been engaged in the prac- tice of his profession in his native county since 1909, and since 1916 has made Buckhannon, judicial center of Up- shur County, his place of residence and his professional headquarters. His prestige indicates alike his personal popularity and his professional ability, and he is dis- tinetively one of the representative physicians and sur- geons of his native county. The doctor maintains active affiliation with the American Medical Association, the West Virginia State Medical Society and the Upshur County Medical Society. He was born at French Creek, this county, on the 15th of December, 1872, and is a son of Frank and Martha (Young) Page, the former of whom was born in Highland County, Virginia, and the latter in Upshur County, West Virginia, as now constituted. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in Upshur Connty, and here the father became a progressive exponent of farm enterprise. He was in the very prime of life at the time of his death, and his widow is still a resident of this county. Of their four children three are living: A. D. is a prosperous farmer at French Creek, this county ; Festus Y. is associated with copper-mining enterprise in the State of Arkansas; and Doctor Page, of this sketch, is the youngest of the number. The father was a stanch republican and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow.

The early education of Doctor Page included the ad- vantages offered by the public schools of French Creek, later attending the Normal Clinical Academy at Buck- hannon, and thereafter he made a record of ten years of effective service as a teacher in the schools of his native state. In preparation for his chosen profession he en- tered the Eclectic Medical College in the City of Cinein- nati, Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1909. After thus receiving his

degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by the valuable clinical experience which he gained by serving as an interne in Seton Hospital at Cincinnati. He initiated his professional carcer by engaging in practice in the Village of Rock Cave, Upshur County, where he continned his successful practice until he broadened his field by removing to the county seat, Buckhannon, where he has been established in active general practice since 1916.

Doctor Page is one of the loyal and progressive citizens of Buckhannon and is a director of the local Chamber of Commerce. 1Ie served as deputy clerk of Upshur County from 1902 to 1906. His political alignment is with the republican party, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The doctor is affiliated with Franklin Lodge No. 7, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Upshur Chapter No. 34, Royal Arch Masons; and Buek- hannon Commandery of Knights Templars.

The year 1894 recorded the marriage of Doctor Page and Miss Clara Hamner, and their only child, Basil L., was born July 24, 1899. He is a graduate of the Buckhannon High School and the West Virginia Wesleyan College, and was a member of the Students' Army Training Corps at this college in the period of the World war. In 1922 he entered the Western Reserve Medical College at Cleve- land, Ohio.

BENJAMIN F. MALONE, who is now living retired in the attractive little City of Buckhannon, Upshur County, was born at Malden in Kanawha County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on the 19th day of December, 1849, and is a son of William and Charlotte Brian Malone, natives of the Valley of Virginia, where the father followed farming until in middle life he became a stone and brick mason in Kanawha County. He was a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and five of his sons likewise gave them- selves to the same service. Of these five young soldiers Benjamin F. Malone is the only one now living, the brother and three half brothers having answered the last roll-call. One sister, Mrs. R. C. Morrison, widow of the late L. W. Morrison, lives in Buckhannon. Benjamin F. Malone passed a part of his childhood and early youth on a farm and attended the common schools of his locality. On March 15, 1864, he enlisted in Company M, Third Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry, for the term of three years or during the war, and served until the discharge of his regiment June 30, 1865, having taken an active part in the Lynch- burg raid in Virginia, the historic Shenandoah Valley cam- paign under General Sheridan, and under the same com- mander in a movement beginning February 27, 1865, from winter quarters near Winchester, and ending so far as fighting was concerned with the surrender of the Con- federate Army of Northern Virginia, April 9, 1865. It is with pardonable pride that Private Malone recalls that as an unmounted cavalryman he "footed" a distance of 600 miles through the valleys and over the monntains of Virginia under General Hunter, rode other hundreds of miles with the distinguished officers Averell, Custer and Sheridan, meanwhile taking a man's part in several im- portant battles and numerous minor engagements, winding up with a day's dnty with his reg ment as escort to the great commander in chief, General Grant, on his way from near Burkeville to the place of Lee's surrender, a night of duty as picket guard between the lines on Appomattox field, and after a wearisome ride from near the southern boundary of Virginia through Petersburg and Richmond to the nation's capital and a place in Custer's Third Cavalry Division in the spectacular Grand Review on Pennsylvania Avenue on a glorious day in May.

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