U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Boyers, Lee Bernard (1879-1952) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahale Valley, West Virginia Arthor: James Morton Callahan Volume II, Page 451 Dr. Lee Bernard Boyers, son of Dr. Cyrus Fletcher Boyers, was born October 30, 1879. He attended the schools and graduated in the academic course at the Fairmont State Normal. The years 1897-98 he spent in the Baltimore Medical College, and graduated from the Maryland Medical College, May 15, 1900, at the age of twenty years. Before he reached the age of twenty-one he had full charge of the Franklyn Square Hospital of Baltimore City. In 1902 he commenced the practice of medicine in Fairmont. He makes a specialty of gynecology, having obtained a special diploma on that branch of medicine. He already has a gold medal awarded him for special work in this line of work in women's diseases. He belongs to various medical societies, including the Marion County Medical Society, West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is an honored, progressive member of Fairmont Lodge, No. 9, Masonic fraternity, and also holds membership and is the examiner of risks in the Woodmen of the World. Politically he votes an independent ticket, and in church connection is a member of the Methodist Protestant denomination. He married, June 2, 1908, Jessie Pearl, born in Roaring Springs, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1886, daughter of John Dilliny Soyster. She graduated at the high schools of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Her father is the manager of a large wholesale flour and feed establishment in Altoona. Dr. Boyers and wife have one child: Elizabeth Lee, born January 14, 1911. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- from Death Certificate: Date of Death: March 25, 1952 Place of Death: Fairmont, Marion County, WV Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Fairmont WV ---------------------------------------------------------------------