CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

ST. CLAIR/ARMSTRONG/BOYD

Bell Boyd / George W. Armstrong

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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