Dr. Charles B
Schoolfield
Kentucky: A
History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Campbell Co.
Dr. Charles B. Schoolfield was born near Foster, Bracken County, Ky., March 6,
1846, and is the fourth in the family of ten children born to George T. and Mary
(Maxwell) Schoolfield, the latter a daughter of William Maxwell, of Bracken
County, but native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1819, and is still living.
George T. Schoolfield was born on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay,
Maryland, in 1801; was a farmer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; immigrated West in 1816, and died in 1875. Charles B. Schoolfield
was
educated in Bracken County and at Falmouth, Ky. He read medicine with
Dr. William Clark, of Foster, and also Dr. William McCormick of the same
place. He graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, in 1873, and began
the practice of his profession at Dayton, Ky., where he has since
continued.
In 1868 he married Miss Florence Holmes, daughter of George
B. and Mary (Yelton) Holmes, the former a native of Brown County, Ohio.
Three children have blessed this union: Clarence, Pearl and Raymond.
Mr. Schoolfield is a Mason, and, with his wife, a member of the Baptist
Church.
Dr. Schoolfield died 7 December 1905 in Charleston, West Virginia but was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.
Dr. Charles Schoolfield 1905 Obituary
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The following comes from History of Medicine in Campbell-Kenton Counties, Kentucky Published 1970, page 101
Dr. C B Scoolfield was born in Foster, Ky. March 6, 1846. The family is traced back to the widow Schoolfield who in 1632 came to Maryland from England. Dr. Schoolfield received an academical education at Foster and Falmouth. He attended the Ohio Medical College and graduated in 1873, coming at once to Dayton, and entering upon what had grown to a large practice. He was a member of the Cincinnati Societyof Medicine, the Cincinnati Obsterical society, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, practitioner of gynecology in the Good Samaritan Hospital, and trustee of the Speers Memorial Hospital.
In 1868 Dr. Schoolfield married Miss Florence Holmes of Newport, who died in 1889, leaving him three children. In 1892, he married Mrs. Ida Lee Arthur, a daughter of J M McArthur, who died in 1894. Of the children, George C Schoolfield was a practicing physician in Charleston, W Va.
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Children of Charles B Schoolfield and Missouri Florence Holmes (1849-1889)
1.
George
Clarence Schoolfield b-10 June 1869 in Foster Ky. d-26 Feb 1955 in
Charleston W Virgina; b-Sunset Memorial Park in South Charleston; m-Georgiana
Young
2. Edna Pearl Schoolfield b-June 1872; d-6 Jan 1956 in Detroit Mich; br-Evergreen Cemetery;
m-William Alexander Young
3. Edward Raymond Schoolfield b-21 Mar 1876* in Dayton Ky. d-18 July 1959 in
Tiffin Oh; br-Oakwood Cemetery in Bucyrus Oh; *newspaper account says 1877
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Pearl Schoolfield 1897 Wedding
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Children of George Clarence Schoolfield and Georgiana Young (1873-1938)
John Charles Schoolfield
Raymond Roy Schoolfield b-11 Oct 1896 in Charleston, W Va.
Georgiana
Schoolfield b-25 June 1908 in Charleston, W Va. d-Feb 1986 in Charleston, W Va.
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Child of Edna Pearl Schoolfield and William Alexander Young
Florence Young b-18 Jan 1899 in Newport; d-11 Mar 1974 in Detroit, Mich; br-Oakview Cemetery in Royal Oak, Mich.
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