U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hatfield, Henry Drury (1875-1962) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 727-728 HENRY DRURY HATFIELD, M. D. Eckman, McDowell County, has in Dr. Hatfield a physician and surgeon of marked ability and thorough professional education. He has been a resident of that place since 1900. Dr. Hatfield was born in 1872*(see note) at Logan Court House, Logan County, West Virginia, and is a son of Elias and Elizabeth (Chaffins) Hatfield, both natives of Logan County. Elias Hatfield was born in 1841 at Logan Court House and still resides there. He served through the Civil War under Col. A. G. Greenway, and had an excellent record. In politics he is a Democrat and fraternally he is an Odd Fellow. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. The mother of Dr. Hatfield was born in 1845. Four sons and one daughter were born to our subject's parents, namely: Greenway W., sheriff of Mingo County, West Virginia; Wayne W., a prominent physician at Chicago, Illinois; an infant deceased; Edna, and Henry Drury, our subject. Dr. Hatfield obtained his education in the common schools at Logan Court House and at Franklin College; the latter institution he entered at the age of 16 years and graduated from it four years later, having completed the scientific course. In 1890 he entered the University of Kentucky at Louisville, and in 1893 graduated in medicine and surgery. He located for practice at Matewan, Mingo County, West Virginia, and remained there four years, as division surgeon for the Norfolk & Western Railway. He then located at Eckman, McDowell County, where he has become interested in various business enterprises and has become well known and appreciated as an able practitioner. He has taken four post-graduate courses at the New York Polyclinic; one at the New York Post-Graduate; one at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and belongs to the various medical associations of the State of West Virginia. He occupies many very responsible positions; is president of the West Virginia Miner's Hospital, No. 1, at Welch, being at present surgeon in chief; a member of the International Association of Railway Surgeons; local surgeon for the Norfolk & Western Railway; physician and surgeon for the Pulaski Iron Company; physician and surgeon for the Empire Coal & Coke Company; physician and surgeon for the Bottom Creek Coal & Coke Company; and occupies a similar relation to the Tide Water and the Big Four Coal & Coke companies. On March 27, 1895, Dr. Hatfield was united in marriage to South Carolina Bronson, who was born in Kentucky. They have a little daughter, Hazel. Mrs. Hatfield is a member of the Methodist Church. Fraternally the Doctor is connected with the advanced Masonic bodies, the Elks and the Odd Fellows. - - - - - - - *NOTE: Death-year in the biography differs three years from his birth-record and death certificate, which both have 1875. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH CERTIFICATE, Cabell County WV, #'62-015159 FULL-NAME: Henry Drury Hatfield BIRTH-DATE: September 15, 1875 BIRTH-PLACE: Logan Co., W.Va. DEATH-DATE: October 23, 1962 AGE-AT-DEATH: 87 years DEATH-PLACE: St. Marys Hospital, Huntington, Cabell County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 1550 Fifth Avenue, Huntington, Cabell County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Physician / Medical FATHER: Elias Hatfield MOTHER: Elizabeth Chafin CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease INFORMANT: Hazel H. Fairless (of 1550 Fifth Ave., Huntington) BURIAL: Woodmere ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for McDowell County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/mcdowell/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------