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John F. May, M.D.- Logan Co.
John F. May M.D. All the years of his active life Doctor May has been
identified with some work that has a vital part in the welfare of his
community. He was a teacher for many years, later took up and studied
medicine, and after practicing some years in his native state of Kentucky
moved to West Virginia, and has been one of the leading mine physicians
of Logan County. His present location is at Rossmore in that county, on
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad branch from Logan to Omar.
He was born in Johnson County, Kentucky, September 9, 1869. His family
established themselves in the Big Sandy Valley in Eastern Kentucky more
than a century ago. His great-grandfather left old Virginia in 1810, and
while coming down the Big Sandy found at the mouth of Middle Creek what
seemed to him an ideal place for a home with abundance of game to supply
him with food. He took up his claim there, and lived in that locality
until his death. The grandfather of Doctor May was prominent in politics
and a power in that community. He died in 1855. Doctor May is a son of
Thomas Green and Martha (Rice) May, both natives of Kentucky. His father
was a farmer and stock man, was a deacon in the Baptist Church and a member
of the Masonic Order. He had a brother in the civil war.
John F. May attended common schools in Johnson Co., also the Baptist
Seminary, known as the Enterprise High School, and soon afterward began
his work as a school teacher, a vocation he followed for seventeen years.
While teaching he pursued normal cources, and finally, in 1902, he took up
the study of medicine in the University of Kentucky at Louisville, where he
graduated M.D. in 1905. During the following five years Doctor May practiced
in Boyd Co., Kentucky, at Princess Post Office. Since then his professional
work has been in Logan Co., West Virginia. For eight years he practiced at
Ethel and in the City of Logan, and for two years was associated with Doctor
Farley at Holden. Since December, 1921, he has been located at Rossmore as
physician for the Logan Mining Company and the Switizer Coal Company.
In 1891, at Flat Gap, Kentucky, Doctor May married Miss Charlotte Seagraves,
daughter of E. G. and Sarah (Gray) Seagraves, her father a native of Kentucky
and her mother of Tennessee. E.G. Seagraves for twenty years was a school
teacher and was also a farmer and merchant. Doctor and Mrs. May have one child,
Grace May, now Mrs. Lucian Adkins. She and her two children, Frank and Charles
reside with Doctor May. Doctor May is a Baptist, is a Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner and a republican.
History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago & New York, Volume 111
Page 370
Joan Wyatt
mewyatt@uakron.edu
March 24, 2000
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