Davis, Aaron W. (Dr.)

Passed: 1901-12-29

Age: 73

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice: 1901-12-29

Obituary Date:

Information: THE LATE DR. DAVIS - In the HERALD of May 29, 1891, appeared the following concerning Dr. Davis--then a member of the pension board--whose death is reported by ? Murraysville correspondent:  President of the board, is perhaps the oldest practitioner in the county, being nearly sixty-three years old and for thirty-eight years engaged in the practice of his profession.  He is a native of Belmont county, O.  When six years of age his father moved to Morgan, an adjoining county, where young Aaron received a primary education.  He afterwards studied the higher branches at the Ohio University.  In the winter of 1850 he began reading medicine with Dr. Samuel Mason Gillis, of Ringgold, Morgan county, attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, began the practice of medicine with an uncle in Newcastle, Belmont county, married Miss Hannah Ward of the same place in the following September and continued the practice of medicine at Newcastle until 1859, when he moved to Apple Grove, Meigs county.  Up to 1860 he was distinctly an Ohio man.  That year he cast his lot with the people of Warth's Bottom, this county.  In 1862 he obeyed the call of his country, enlisting as a private in Company H of the Third W.Va. Cavalry.  At the organization of the Company he was elected 1st Lieutenant.  He was soon afterwards ordered before a board of examing surgeons at Wheeling, his examination was approved and he was commissioned 1st Assistant Surgeon of his regiment, a position he filled with bravery, fidelity and skill until the war closed and he received an honorable discharge at Wheeling Island on the 30th of June 1865.  He returned to his family and the same year moved to Grant district, in which he still resides.  Since his return from the war his continuous practice has exceeded that of any other physician in this section of the State, extending over portions of Jackson, Wood and Meigs counties, and has enjoyed the confidence of his patients to a degree rarely witnessed.  His skill as a physician is only surpassed by his modesty as a gentleman.