MARION COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA 
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PJSTON@aol.com
December 15, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II

pg 198

George Hustead Brownfield, M. D., a representative physician and citizen of 
Fairmont, Marion County maintains his residence and office at the old 
homestead where he was born, on Main Street, his birth having occurred March 
31, 1871.   His father, the late Dr. James Hustead Brownfield, was long one 
of the leading physicians and surgeons at Fairmont.

Doctor Brownfield gained his early education in the public schools of his 
native city, and thereafter was for four years a student in the University of 
West Virginia, where he passed two years in the literary department and two 
in the medical department.  In 1898 he was graduated from the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, and in the same 
year became surgeon for the Murray Mines, three in number in Marion County.  
He continued his professional service in this connection nine years, and in 
the meanwhile, in 1903, again became a resident of Fairmont, where he was 
associated in practice with his father until the latter's death and where he 
has since continued his substantial and representative general practice, his 
service as surgeon with the mining company having continued until 1907.  He 
is now retained as physician and surgeon to two of the largest mines of the 
Consolidated Coal Company.  He is a member of the Marion County and State 
Medical societies, the Southern Medical Association and the American Medical 
Association.  His Masonic affiliations are with the Fairmont Blue Lodge, 
Chapter and Commandery of the York Rite, and he has received the 
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with 
Osiris Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wheeling.  He holds membership in the 
Fairmont Lodge of Elks and the Fairmont Country Club.  He and his wife are 
members of the Baptist Church.  The Doctor married Ida L., a daughter of 
Allison Bartlett, of Harrison County.  They have no children.