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 533.


WILLIAM E. HERVEY, M. D., a successful physician and surgeon of Martin's
Ferry, was born in Ohio county, W. Va., October 2, 1855. He is a grandson
of William Hervey, one of the early residents of the state of West Virginia,
a farmer by occupation, and an influential citizen. Thomas H. Hervey, son
of the latter, and the father of Dr. Hervey, was born in Ohio county. He
followed farming and stock-raising and was a prosperous and worthy man.
By his marriage in 1851 to Rachel A. Maxwell, he had eight children, all
of whom are living. Dr. Hervey was reared in Ohio county, and was educated
at the West Liberty Normal school, the academy at Cannonsburgh, Penn., and
at the Washington and Jefferson college, where he was graduated. In 1879
he began the study of medicine under Dr. J. T. Carter, of Triadelphia, and
in the following year he entered the medical college of Ohio, at Cincinnati,
where he was graduated in 1882. He opened an office at Martin's Ferry in
the same year, and has since then been actively engaged in the practice.
He is held in high regard as a physician and as a citizen. The doctor was
married in October, 1886, to Jennie, daughter of John Armstrong, elswhere
mentioned. They have one child, Margaret A. Dr. Hervey and wife are members
of the Presbyterian church.