U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- West, George Silas (b. 1867) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages, 726-727 GEORGE SILAS WEST, M. D., a practicing physician at Parsons, Tucker County, West Virginia, was born in Turkey, in 1867, and is a son of Dr. Henry S. and Lottie (Tontz) West. Dr. Henry S. West, who was born in New York, near Bringhamton, was an eminent physician of that city, and was selected by the American Board of Foreign Missions, connected with the Presbyterian Church, as one of its representative physicians in the Turkish field. In 1859 he assumed the duties of that position and faithfully performed them until his death, in 1876, at the age of 49 years. During his residence in the United States, he was politically identified with the Republican party. In religious faith he was a Presbyterian. The mother of our subject was born in 1838 near Binghamton. New York, and still survives, making her home with her son George S. She is a consistent and active member of the Presbyterian Church at Parsons. Dr. George Silas West was one of a family of seven children, consisting of five sons and two daughters. He came to the United States at the age of nine years, after his father's death in 1876. His higher education was secured at Princeton College, where he was graduated in 1890, and his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, which institution he entered in 1893 and was graduated in 1897. From the latter date to 1899 he was assistant to Dr. O. H. Huffman. In 1899 he began individual practice at Springfield, West Virginia, where he remained until 1903, when he opened an office at Parsons, where he is building up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. West keeps in touch with medical movements and discoveries all over the world, and belongs to the Tri-State Medical Society of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, and is also a member of the Tucker County Medical Society. He is the examiner for a number of life insurance companies. Although Dr. West was nine years of age before he ever saw the American home of his parents, he is a good American in every fiber, and, like his father, is identified with the Republican party. His religious connection is with the Presbyterian Church. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Tucker County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/tucker/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------