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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: SHIRKEY, Wilbur F.
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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. 427
WILBUR F. SHIRKEY, M.D., physician and surgeon at Malden, W. Va., where he is
an honored member of his profession, belongs to one of the old families of
Kanawha County, it having been established early by his grandfather, David
Shirkey, who came from old Virginia. The parents of Dr. Skirkey were John G.
and Martha (Matheny) Shirkey. His great grand-father came from Ireland about
1790 and settled in Virginia. He spelled his name "Sharkey." The name was
changed to Shirkey by his grandfather. The father of Dr. Shirkey was born
near Sissonville, Kanawha County, in 1832, and he died on his farm on the Elk
River, in Elk District, in 1887. He was a farmer and also a school teacher.
He married Martha Matheny, who was reared at Pinch, in Elk District, and
still survives. They had five children, namely: Wilbur F.; David W., who is
an attorney at law; Sherrian, who is manager of a company store in this
section; Margaret, who died at the age of eight years; and Susan.
Wilbur F. Shirkey was a child when the family moved to the farm in Elk
District and there his boyhood was spent. He attended the public schools and
also had advantages at Carbondale Academy, and attended medical lectures at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Baltimore, Md., beginning his
practiceat Jarrett Ford and later returning to the medical college to
graduate with the class of 1894. Subse-quently he took a post graduate
course at the New York Polyclinic, and a second one at the Chicago Post
Graduate College, at Chicago, Ill. In 1890 Dr. Shirkey came to Malden, where
he has ever since been established, and here, through professional ability
and sterling traits of character, he has won his way to success in his
profession and to the esteem of his fellow citizens. He keeps fully abreast
with the times and is a member of the Kanawha County Medical Society, the
West Virginia State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.
Dr. Shirkey was married April 14, 1881, to Miss Sarah Woody, a daughter of
Flem-ing Woody, and they have five children:
Ethel, who is accomplished in music, which she teaches; Wilma, who has turned
her talents in the direction of teaching; Sidney, who is a mining engineer;
and Wilbur F. and Sarah, twins, who are still in school. In his political
sentiments Dr. Shirkey is a Re-publican and is active in party councils,
be-ing a member of the County Republican Committee. He is identified
fraternally with the Red Men at MaIden and to the Ma-sons, belonging to Blue
Lodge No.27, at MaIden and to the higher branches at Charleston, being a
"Shnner."
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