James Mason TETER

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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. 213-214 James Mason Teter, M.D. During more than a quarter of a centuryDr.James Mason Teter has been identified with the medical professionof West Virginia and through the faithfulness of his labors and thehigh quality of his services has entrenched himself strongly in theconfidence and esteem of those qualified to judge as to ability andfidelity. On more than one occasion he has worked self-sacrificeinglyand successfully in combating serious epidemics and throughout hisprofessional career has maintained a high standard of ethics andprofessional conduct. For four years his field of active usefulnesshas been the City of Petersburg and the surrounding community, wherehe is widely known and greatly respected. Doctor Teter was born in Union District, Pendleton County WestVirginia, May 11, 1873, and is a son of George and Mary (Harman)Teter. Reuben Teter, the grandfather of Doctor Teter, was born inUnion District, Pendleton County, where he became a large landownerand a man of influence and died at about the opening of the warbetween the states. He was a devout churchman. Mr. Teter marriedMiss Margaret McLaughlin, and they became the parents of the followingchildren: Jehu, who spent his life as a farmer in Pendleton County,where his death occurred; Laban, who lived the life of anagriculturist in the same county and is buried there; Ruth, whomarried David Harman and passed her life in Grant County; John, whowas a miller for a time at Harman, Randolph County, but died in TuckerCounty, this state; David K., who was a plain countryman and farmerand died in Pendleton County, a veteran of the Union Army during thewar between the states, as was his elder brother John; Jennie, whomarried Job Davis and passed away in Tucker County; Rebecca, whobecame Mrs. B.F. Bennett of Tucker County; George, the father ofDoctor Teter; Jacob, who is a farmer at Oldtown, Maryland; Bettie, whomarried Amos W. Bennett of Harman West Virginia and Rueben, a farmerof Tucker County West Virginia. George Terter was born in Union District, Pendleton County, January 3,1846 and secured a fairly good education for his day and locality,being a teacher in young manhood for several years. During the warbetween the states he served as a member of the Home Guards and was astrong Union sympathizer. He is a republican in politics and was fora number of years one of the county commissioners of Pendleton County,where he now resides and where he has been engaged successfully inagricultural pursuits during his career. In 1866 he married MaryHannah (Miller) Harman. The Harmans, like the Teters were among thefirst to settle in Pendleton County and all were rural people andidentified with the farm. They were all Union sympathizers on theissues of the Civil War and none of them owned slaves. Mrs. Teterdied in 1902 having been the mother of the following children: Alice,who is the wife of Isaac Robinson of Pendleton County; Charles G., ofRiverton, that county, Oliver Cromwell, a farmer of the Mill RunDistrict; Dr. James M. of this notice; and Ida, the wife of Joseph H.Smith of Petersburg. James Mason Teter grew to early manhood in the Mill Run District ofPendleton County where he secured further experience as a teacher ofthe German School in his home district, following which he took up thestudy of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J.M. Sites of UpperTract, with whom he studied for about a year. Being thus prepared fora college course, he entered the Lebanon Normal University forinstruction in his chosen calling, and spent a year in that famousHolbrook school. He then returned to his home community and shortlythereafter went to Baltimore where he completed his medical course inthe Baltimore Medical College, graduating April 22, 1896 with hischerished degree. On leaving that institution he sought about for asuitable location for practice and finally decided upon Macksville,Pendleton County where he spent two years. Subsequently he moved toRiverton in the same county, where he was identified with the practiceof his calling for a period covering twenty years. In the fall of1918 he first came to Grant County, where he has since been busilyengaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery and where hehas not only built up a large professional business, but has gainedthe confidence of the people and the good will and esteem of hisfellow practitioners. While practicing at Riverton, Doctor Teter wascalled upon to combat a source of typhoid fever which inoculated thatterritory with germs carried from the river and made a winning fight,carrying the community through with but small loss of life. Hereached Petersburg in time to assist in fighting the epidemic ofSpanish influenza, which scourged the county so greatly in 1919 andfought it off with other doctors in 1919. Again, in 1921 he wascalled upon to act in the same capacity and in this year the loss oflife was small. Doctor Teter was one of the promoters of the Potomac Valley Bank ofPetersburg and a director thereof for some time. He is still astockholder therein. With politics he has had little concern. Hecomes of a family of republicans, and his first presidential ballotwas cast in favor of the presidential candidacy of Major McKinley,although two years before he had cast his first vote of importancewhen he supported Judge Dayton for a seat in Congress. He holdsmembership in the various organizations of his profession and as afraternalist is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows andthe Modern Woodmen of America. His religious faith, like that of hisparents, is that of the United Brethren Church. The work of winingthe World War had a warm place in the hearts of both Doctor Teter andhis wife, and both labored indefatigably and effectively, the formerin a profession way and the latter as a member of the Red CrossSociety. At Riverton, Pendleton County, August 1, 1898, Doctor was united inmarried with Miss Zadie Mauzy, who was born in Union District,Pendleton County, September 7, 1879, and educated in the publicschools, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah E. (Teter) Mauzy, faming peopleof that county. Mr. and Mrs. Mauzy were the parents of the followingchildren: Texie, who died as Mrs. George Harper; Zadie, who is Mrs. Teter;Hattie, who is unmarried and resides in Pendleton County; Wilbur, whodied as a youth of sixteen years; Bessie, the wife of Wilbur Harper;Margie, who married Oscar Harper of Pasadena California; and Caddie,the wife of Billie Hines of Pendleton County. Three children havebeen born to Doctor and Mrs. Teter: Eva Lena of Huntington WestVirginia who is a teacher of music; Elsie who was a victim of theinfluenza epidemic of 1918, dying at the age of seventeen years; andMacie, who is a student at the Lutheran Academy, Petersburg.

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