ST. CLAIR/ARMSTRONG/BOYD - Bluefield, W.VA
WADE
HAMPTON ST.CLAIR, M.D., has from the first been the associate
organizer
and founder with Dr. John F. Fox in the Bluefield Sanitarium,
one
of the best institutions of the kind in the state. These very
capable
physicians and surgeons have kept adding to the facilities of
the
Sanitarium from time to time until it now represents a large and
complete
modern hospital, and its clinics are attended as part of the
professional
training routine by an increasing number of physicians and
surgeons
from this and adjoining states.
Doctor
St. Clair was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, April 18,1877,
son
of Alexander and Maria (Tiffany) St. Clair. He is of Scotch and
Irish
ancestry, and his people have been in America for a number of
generations.
His parents were both born in Virginia, and his father at
the
age of eighteen enlisted in the Confederate Army and served with a
Virginia
regiment two years. After the war he followed farming and
planting,
was a banker, and a man of great influence in Tazewell County.
Wade
Hampton St. Chair attended the common and high schools of Tazewell
County
and completed his literary education in Randolph-Macon Academy at
Bedford
City and in Emory-Henry College at Emory, Virginia. He took his
preliminary
medical course in the University of Virginia,graduating M.D.
in 1900.
Far about two years following he was in New York City as an
interne,
specializing in surgery at the New York Polyclinic Hospital.
Following
that he located at Bluefield and entered general practice,
soon
becoming associated with Doctor Fox in the building of the original
Bluefield
Sanitarium. In September 1921, the Bluefield Sanitarium was
incorporated
with a capital of $200,000. Doctor St. Clair is known for
his
great thoroughness and skill as a surgeon, and while he has been
steadily
engaged in practice for twenty years he has never lost contact
with
the progressive ideas and methods being worked out in the great
medical
centers of the world. Each year he has attended some clinics or
professional
course in such cities as New York,Philadelphia, Baltimore
and
the Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minnesota. Doctor St. Clair has a
personality
that supplements his professional skill. He is a wholesome,
genial
gentleman, and his fine character has been a distinct asset to
the
sanitarium and to the community of Bluefield.
Doctor
St. Clair is a member of the County and State Medical Societies
of Virginia
and West Virginia, the American Medical Association, and the
American
College of Surgeons. At Bluefield he is a member of the Chamber
of Commerce,
Rotary Club and Country Club.
At Peterborough,
Ontario, Canada, in 1906, Doctor St. Clair married
ELIZABETH
ARMSTRONG, daughter of GEORGE W. and BELL
(BOYD)
ARMSTRONG.
They have two children, Wade H., Jr., and
Alexander
Armstrong
St. Clair.
Source:
The History of West Virginia, Old and New, The American
Historical
Society, Inc. Chicago and New York, Volume II
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to Karen from Ohio, USA