Notes for: William J. Gaston
Name given as William C. Gaston in 1860 Census of Lewis County, (W)VA, but William J. Gaston elsewhere. He practiced medicine in Good Hope, Harrison Co, WV, from 1884 to 1907, when he joined practice with Dr. Arnett in the Goff Building in Clarksburg, WV.
"In the country schools of Lewis Countv our subject was educated and later became a teacher in the schools of the countv. He attended the State Normal at Fairmont and Otterbein University at Westerville, Ohio, and in 1880 began reading medicine with Dr. Florent Gibson, a cousin, at Freemanburg, this State. In 1884 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute, of Cincinnati. Ohio, and in the Fall of the same year located on Two-Lick Creek, fourteen miles southwest of Clarksburg, where he soon built up a good practice, partly among the people with whom he had been reared and who had had every opportunity to judge of his character and qualifications, and onlv five miles from where he was born. He is a member of the West Virginia Eclectic Medical Association, and of Harrison Countv Medical Association, and stands high in the estimation of his professional brethren. He is one of the busiest of this busy class of men, and is well and fully prepared to meet any professional demand that may be made upon him, and has met with flattering success from the start. In the vear 1884 he married Miss Nellie J. Thrash, daughter of Richard and Eliza J. Thrash, of Harrison County. She died May 3. 1892. On the 25th of March 1894, the doctor married Mrs. Sue Easter, daughter of Perry Wolf. Dr. Gaston has a small but well-improved farm, but devotes his entire attention to his profession. Socially he is a Mason, a member of Jackson Lodge No. 35, at Good Hope, and is Worthy Master. In 1894 he represented this lodge in the Grand Lodge. He is a Democrat in politics."