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CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Tina Hursh
Frog158@juno.com
December 8, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II
Pg. 70-71
CHARLES TRUEHEART TAYLOR, M.D. For half a century the name Taylor has been
prominent in Huntington in connection with the law and medicine. Doctor Taylor
is one of the leading surgeons of Huntington, and has practiced medicine and
surgery there for over twenty years. He is one of the owners of the Huntington
General Hospital and the Kessler-Hatfield Hospital, and is associate surgeon in
both these institutions.
Doctor Taylor was born at Weldon, North Carolina,August 8, 1872, but his home
since early childhood has been at Huntington. His grandfather was born in Old
Virginia in 1817, spent the greater part of his life there as a planter and was
a slave owner before the Civil war. For a number of years he lived at Oxford,
Virginia, and he finally retired to Huntington, West Virginia, where he died in
1897. He married a Miss Harrison, a native of Virginia, who died near Oxford in
that state. The Taylors are a Scotch-Irish family who settled in Virginia in
Colonial times.
Thomas Wallace Taylor, father of Doctor Taylor, was born in
Virginia in 1833, was reared and married there, and for four years lived at
Weldon, North Carolina, on a farm. He left the university of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill during his junior year to enter the Confederate army, and was in
active service about a year. He was severely wounded at the battle of Malvern
Hill, and incapacitated for further field duty. Subsequently he graduated from
the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and in 1874
established his home at Huntington, West Virginia, where he has since become
one of the leading lawyers of the state. He was a judge of the Criminal Court
of Cabell County for twelve years, from 1907-1919. He is a democrat and an
elder in the Presbyterian Church. Thomas Wallace Taylor, whose home is at 1134
Sixth avenue in Huntington, married Miss Maria Trueheart, who was born at Prince
Edward Court House, Virginia, in 1843. Charles Trueheart Taylor is their oldest
child. Mattie F., of 1136 Sixth Avenue, Huntington, is the widow of Rollo M.
Baker, who was Huntington attorney and general attorney for the Chesepeake &
Ohio Railway and a member of the law firm of Enlow, Fitzpatrick & Baker. The
third child, Thomas Wallace Taylor, died at the age of seventeen, Powhatan died
at the age of fourteen, and William died at the age of four years. Harvey C.,
the youngest, is in the real estate business at Huntington.
Charles Trueheart Taylor attended the grammar and high schools at Huntington,
Marshall College in that city through the junior year, and for thre years was a
student in Center College at Danville, Kentucky. He pursued his medical studies
in the Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville, where he graduated M.D. in
1897, and again did post-graduate work there in 1899 and 1905. In 1897 he was
an interne in the Gray Street Infirmanty of Louisville. On returing to
Huntington instead of beginning practice Doctor Taylor served a year as city
clerk, but since 1899 has devoted himself completely to his growing practice.
His offices are in the First National Bank Building. Doctor Taylor is president
of the Cabell Coutny Medical Society and a member of the State and America
Medical Associations. He is president of the Sovereign Gas Company of
Huntington and a director in the Huntington-Oklahoma Oil Company. Besides his
modern home at 1665 Fifth Avenue he has an interest in the Beverly apartment
building on Sixth Street.
Doctor Taylor is a democrat, a member of Huntington Lodge No. 53, F. and A.M.,
Huntington Chapter No. 6, R.A.M., Huntington Commandery No. 9, K.T., West
Virginia Consistory No. 1, Scottish Rite, Beni-Kedem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine at Charleston, and is also a member of the Knights of Phythias, Ancient
Order of United Workmen, Modern Woodmen of America, Reese Camp No. 66, Woodmen
of the World, and is a past exalted ruler of Huntington Lodge No. 313,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
During the war Doctor Taylor was chief examiner of the Cabell County Draft
Board, a very important and burdensome responsibility, and he also gave his
active influence to other patriotic causes at the time.
In 1900, at Huntington, he married Miss Bernice Stevenson, daughter of Mr. And
Mrs. James Stevenson, who were farmers and died at Beverly, Ohio. Mrs. Taylor
died at Huntington in 1910, survived by two children: Bernice, a student in the
National Cathedral School at Washington, D.C., and Charles Trueheart, Jr., born
September 11, 1906, now in the Huntington High School. In 1912, at Newark, New
Jersey, Doctor Taylor married Miss Stella Moore, a native of that city. They
have a daughter, Jane, born December 11, 1913.
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