BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 571.

DEXTER W. BOONE - One of the most skillful and successful of Belmont
county's young physicians, is Dexter W. Boone, M. D. Dr. Boone was born
in Roane county, W. Va., in the year 1858.  He is the son of D. G. Boone.
The mother was Mary J. (Parson) Boone. D. G. Boone was a native of Green
county, Penn., and his wife, of West Virginia. The former was a son of
Joseph Boone, also of Pennsylvania. There is every reason to suppose
that this family is a branch of the same stock from which the famous
and valiant Daniel Boone came. Joseph was a blacksmith in Pennsylvania
until some time about 1850, when he moved to Roane county, W. Va.,
where he remained some years. He then removed to Tyler county, W. Va.,
where his death occurred in 1870. Two of the four children born to him
still survive. D. G. Boone received his early schooling in Pennsylvania,
after which he prepared himself for a civil engineer, and also acquired
a knowledge of blacksmithing. Subsequently he came to West Virginia
with his parents and taught school in this state, also giving lessons
in surveying. The call for volunteers in 1861, brought from him a
patriotic response, and he became in that year, a member of the Home
guards at Spencer, Roane county, W. Va., and shortly after, he met his
death, while bravely attempting to protect the town from the ravages
of bushwhackers. His marriage took place about the year 1855, and
he became the father of a daughter and one son, the latter being Dr.
Dexter Boone. The wife was married a second time, and with her husband,
moved to Clay county, Mo., where she now resides. Dexter Boone started
out at the early age of sixteen years, to seek his fortune, having
spent some time in the schools of his native county. For about three
years, be was absent from home, having lived in the states of Kansas,
Nebraska and Missouri during that time. Returning to his home in
1878, he took up the study of medicine, under the tutelage of Dr.
J. S. Boone, of Powhatten, with whom he remained for three years,
and then in 1881, entered the Columbus Medical college, and was graduated
therefrom with honor, in the year 1883. Dr. Boone first began the practice
of medicine at Sardis, Monroe county, Ohio, subsequently in 1886, he
entered the New York Polyclinic, Gompleting his course in about three
months. In 1886, the young doctor settled in Belmont county, locating
at Bellaire, and was soon accepted as a thoroughly equipped and
progressive physician, and has since met with unusual success in
his practice. In political faith he is a republican.