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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: HANSFORD, John Hamilton
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 462-465
JOHN HAMILTON HANSFORD, M.D., who is engaged in the practice of medicine at
Pratt, Kanawha county, W. Va., was born in Ptiiaski county, Va., July 24,
1864, and is a son of Felix G. (2d) and a grandson of Felix G. Hansford (1st).
The Hansford family is an old one in Virginia, being settled in the state by
the great grandfather of our subject, John Hansford, who came in Indian times
and who was a man of political prominence, serving as a member of the early
state legislature, at Richmond. It is said that he erected the first house
in Kanawha county that had glass windows, and two years were consumed in
building what was then considered as a very pretentious mansion. He died at
Paint Creek, in Kanawha county, being survived by his widow, Jane Morris
Hansford.
Their son, Felix G. (1st), grandfather of Dr. Hansford, married Sallie
Frazer, who lived to the advanced age of ninety-four years. He owned a large
plantation and was an extensive farmer. His son, Felix G. Hansford, Jr.,
married Luella Hamilton, a native of Kentucky. He died at Crown Hill, Kanawha
county, W. Va., in 1891, aged sixty-five years. Their children were,-Lillian,
Goldie, Lulu, Felix G. (3d), now deceased, and John Hamilton. Lulu married
Robert C. Grigg, and both are now deceased. They left three children-Adrian
H., Helen and Ruth.
John Hamilton Hansford acquired his early education in the public schools and
in early manhood was employed in the' transportation department of the C. &
0. railroad. He later entered the University of Louisville, Ky., medical
department, where he was graduated in 1888. He entered upon the practice of
medi-line at Crown Hill, his old home, and from there, in 1895, came to
Pratt, where he is in the enjoyment of a good practice.
Dr. Hansford was married November 28, 1899, to Miss Katharine Schultz,
daughter of William and Sarah (Hansford) Schultz, and they have two children,
John Hamilton and Edward M. In politics the Doctor is a Democrat. He is a
Mason of high degree, belonging to the Shrine at Charleston; also to the Odd
Fellows' lodge at Paint Creek.
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