From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by Carol Taylor Lanza 
 
Pages 846-847 
 
DR. WILLIAM S. BEBOUT, a prominent member of the medical profession, 
located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, has been engaged in 
practice here since 1890.  He was born in Athens County, Ohio, May 15, 
1852, and is a son of Stewart Bebout. 
        Stewart Bebout was born in Ohio in 1822, and died January 8, 
1901, at Wheeling.  He was a blacksmith and carriage-maker by trade. 
 He married Minerva Watters, who was born in Meigs County, Ohio, in 
1825, and died in Washington County, Ohio, in 1896.  They had eight 
children, namely: Eliza J., who was the wife of Levi Stump, and died in 
1898, at the age of fifty-three years; John, deceased, who was born in 
1848; Rexarilla, who was born in 1850, and married Sylvester Phillips, 
a farmer in Illinois; one who died in infancy; William S.; Isabel, 
deceased, who was born in 1855; Preston, deceased, who was born in 
1857; and Ulysses, born in 1859, who is a farmer in Washington County, 
Ohio. 
        William S. Bebout attended Beverly College, at Beverly, Ohio, 
where he took a classical course of study. He then taught school for a 
period of seven years, after which he entered a medical college in 
1877, and received his diploma as physician and surgeon in 1880.  He 
took a special course in skin diseases and affections of the heart and 
lungs, and also a special course in electricity.  His first practice 
was at the town of Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio, in the fall of 1880, 
and he continued there for about ten years.  In 1890, he removed to 
Wheeling, West Virginia, where he has since successfully practiced his 
profession, his office and residence being at No. 120 Sixteenth Street. 
 He is member of the Ohio County Medical Society. 
         Dr. Bebout married Matilda A. Keever, September 18, 1877.  She 
was born September 18, 1856, and is a daughter of W. S. and Sarah 
(Hall) Keever.  Her father was born in Ohio, in 1837, and was a farmer 
by occupation.  Her mother was born in Ohio in 1838.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Keever had five children, namely; Marietta; Matilda A.; Wheeler; Eva, 
wife of Henry Beech, of Zanesville, Ohio; and Raymond.  The Doctor and 
his wife have three children, namely; William Rupert; who was born 
February 17, 1879, and entered the medical department of the University 
of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, October 1, 1901; Guy B., born October 
20, 1880, who is taking a course in civil engineering in Ohio 
University; and Ada, born May 15, 1882, who lives at home.  Dr. Bebout 
and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church.  Fraternally, 
the former is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Tribe of Ben 
Hur.