From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 585-586.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


THOMAS McCORMIC

Thomas McCormic was of Irish birth; studied medicine and surgery with 
D. Williams, of Clarksburg, Harrison county (then Virginia).  
Practiced at Elizabethtown, now Moundsville, W.Va., from about 1820 
to 1837.  He was an accomplished physician, exceedingly popular, 
enjoyed a large practice and was very sussessful, sharing like D. 
Masters the hardships and difficulties attending the practice of 
medicine in that day.  He loved his profession, was energetic, but 
finally succumbed to the opium and alcohol habit.  He died about the 
year 1837, leaving very little property.  George Stidger practiced in 
Marshall county during the years 1830 to 1850.  His practice was 
extensive. He once swam his horse, he on its back, across the Ohio 
river opposite Moundsville, in order to attend an urgent case.  He 
lived to a good old age, and died in Iowa, whither he had removed 
some years before.  He, like his predecessors, accumulated no wealth.  
Daniel Peck came to Moundsville at a period whose date is unknown.  
He was a most excellent and accomplished physician, very popular, and 
endeared himself to his patrons by many acts of kindness.  Old gray 
headed men still visit his grave, and reverentially strew it with 
flowers.  He died about 1848.  George Gaus, physician and surgeon, 
practiced at Moundsville from 1836 to 1863.  At the outbreak of the 
rebellion he became a surgeon in the United States army, dying in the 
service.  He was surgeon of a division at the time of his death.

(Linda Fluharty)