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.


Pages 562-563.

DR. SIMON B. WEST, deceased, one of the pioneer physicians of Martin's
Ferry, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1812, the son of Henry
West, one of the early settlers of that county. Dr. West spent his
early years on the farm, and began the study of medicine, about 1833,
with his brother, Dr. Henry West, then practicing at Bridgeport. He
completed his professional studies at the Ohio medical college, at
Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1836. Coming to Martin's Ferry
in the same year, he began a practice which he continued in for
exactly fifty years, then retiring, and devoting to rest his
remaining years, which were terminated by death in 1885. He was one
of the most eminent men in his profession in this region, and is
also remembered as one of the most enterprising of the citizens of
Martin's Ferry, ever ready to aid in enterprises for the advancement
of the material and social interests of the place. He was one of the
directors of the Ohio City Nail company, and interested in various 
other projects. Dr. West was married in July, 1838 to Mary Zane Martin,
daughter of Ebenezer Martin, and she died in 1882. Of their eight
children there is but one survivor, the wife of Oliver C. Parker.