Prior to 1898, there was no established medical facility in the Clarksburg, WV area. Care was provided by circuit riding doctors, family members and local midwives, company doctors in coal camps, and the few established physicians licensed after the 1881 licensure law was put into effect. To meet the need for medical care in Clarksburg, a group of physicians incorporated the Harrison County Hospital in 1900. The founding doctors of the Harrison County Hospital Group were Drs. D. P. Morgan, R. L. Morrison, Waldo Goff, Nelson Peck, Fleming Howell, Robert A. Haynes, T. M. Hood, J. W. Johnson, E. N. Flowers, and Edward Wehner. The original hospital building was constructed on Washington Ave, between Sixth and Chestnut Streets, and was operational by May 1902. Considered at that time to be a state-of-the-art facility, the 25-bed hospital had steam heat, electric lights, an elevator, and an ambulance service. [1]
