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HANCOCK COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BEAUMONT, Frank P.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
September 19, 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 III,
pg. 248-249
Hancock County
FRANK P. BEAUMONT, M. D. It is not unnsual for the
male members of a certain family to follow the same
profession or vocation through several generations, and
this is particularly true in the medical profession, where
son frequently inherits a predilection for the calling and
passes it on down to a son of his own. In this connec-
tion it is interesting to note that four generations of the
Beaumont family have practiced medicine in Hancock
County, and that the name is one that is prominent and
highly esteemed in medical circles and held in the high-
est of confidence by the people.
In the third generation of Beaumonts who have be-
come physicians and surgeons is found Dr. Frank P.
Beaumont, of New Cumberland, a skilled and thorough
practitioner and a man of prominence and influence. He
was born at New Cumberland, August 5, 1865, a son of
Dr. Godfrey L. and N. A. (Campbell) Beaumont. His
grandfather, Dr. William Beaumont, was born in England,
where he received his education and as a young man came
to Lisbon, Ohio, where he engaged in the manufacture of
woolens. He was likewise a minister of the Christian
Church, in which he preached for many years, but eventu-
ally came to New Cumberland, West Virginia, where he
applied himself to the practice of medicine until his death,
which occurred in old age.
Godfrey L. Beaumont was born in Ohio, but as a youth
was brought to New Cumberland. He inherited a love
for the medical profession, and prepared himself partly
under the teaching of his father and partly by attend-
ance at a medical school. In 1869 he commenced the
practice of his profession, and applied himself thereto
assiduously and without interruption until his death in
1891, when he was but fifty-four years of age. His wife,
a member of the well-known family which formerly owned
a large part of the land upon which is now located the
town of New Cumberland, has spent her entire life here
and still survives at the age of eighty years.
Frank P. Beaumont was given the advantages of a high
school education at New Cumberland, following which
he entered upon his preparation for the following of a
medical career. He did some preliminary work prior to
entering the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, where
he pursued a full course and received his degree of Doctor
of Medicine, and later took postgraduate work in New
York City. Doctor Beaumont commenced the practice
of his profession at New Cumberland in 1887 in associa-
tion with his father, and this connection continued until
the elder man's death four years later. Doctor Beau-
mont has risen to a recognized place in the ranks of his
calling in Hancock County, and has adhered closely to the
Eclectic teaching He belongs to the Eclectic medical
societies, both state and national. He was a member of
the Board of Pension Examiners for many years, served
as county health officer for twenty years and has been
a town health officer for a decade. During the World war
he also acted on the Draft Board, and since the close of
that struggle has been an examiner in connection with the
Veteran's Bureau. In politics he is a stanch republican.
Doctor Beaumont married Miss Maggie B. Joseph, who
was reared at Toronto, Ohio, a daughter of John A. Joseph.
Four children have been born to this union: Dr. Dudley
H., a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
and now engaged in the practice of medicine and sur-
gery at New Cumberland; Helene L., a graduate of Bethany
College; Frank C., a student in the dental college of the
University of Pittsburgh; and Godfrey L., who is attend-
ing high school.
Dr. Dudley H. Beaumont, while a graduate of the
regular school of medicine, uses much of the Eclectic sys-
tem, and since 1921 has been associated in practice with
his father. He is in the fourth generation of doctors of the
Beaumont name to practice in this community, and attends
the same families as have his father, grandfather and
great-grandfather before him. For about seventy years
a Doctor Beaumont has been counselor and medical ad-
visor at birth, through life and during the last illness
of dozens of families, amounting to thousands of individ-
uals. Fraternally Dr. Beaumont is a Mason and religi-
ously is a Presbyterian.
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