Biography of John Edward MARSCHNER, M.D., Ohio County, West Virginia

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JOHN EDWARD MARSCHNER, M.D., is established in the successful practice of his
profession in his native City of Wheeling, where he was born on the 9th of
June, 1886,  His father, August E. Marschner, who is still a resident of
Wheeling, was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1861, and was about ten years of
age at the time of the family immigration to the United States, where the
home was established at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  From the old Bay State the
family came to Wheeling, West Virginia, about 1877, and here August E.
eventually became identified with a glass manufacturing enterprise.  In 1893
he engaged in the brewing business, and he continued as president and general
manager of the Schmuebach Brewing company until 1913.  Thereafter he gave
much of his time and attention to the affairs of the Wheeling Bank & Trust
company until he retired from active business in 1919.  He served several
terms as a member of the City Council of Wheeling, and is one of the
substantial and highly esteemed citizens of the West Virginia metropolis.  He
is a republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
the Order of Elks.  In Wheeling was solemnized the marriage of August E.
Marschner and Miss Sophia Roth, who was born in this city in 1858, and of
their children Dr. John E., of this sketch, is the elder, the younger of the
two, Louis E., being engaged in the plumbing-supply business in Wheeling.

The public schools of his native city gave to Doctor Marschner his early
educational advantages, and here also he attended Linsly Institute.
Thereafter he continued his studies in a preparatory school at Lawrenceville,
New Jersey, in which he graduated as a member of the class of 1906.  For one
year thereafter he was a student in the Worcester Polyclinic Institute at
Worcester, Massachusetts, and then, in consonance with his ambition and well
formulated plans, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the
City of Baltimore, Maryland.  In this great institution he was graduated in
1911, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  The doctor is affiliated with
the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity and also with the Phi Beta Pi
fraternity of the medical school.  He gained valuable clinical experience
through one year of service as an intern in Mercy Hospital in the City of
Baltimore, and equal period of similar service in the Maryland Lying-in
Hospital in that city.  Thereafter he held a position for one year in the
Montana State Hospital for the Insane at Warm Springs, Montana, and in 1914
he engaged int the active general practice of his profession in his native
City of wheeling, where the scope and character of his practice attest alike
his technical skill and his personal popularity.  He held for four years the
position of city bacteriologist of Wheeling and was coroner's physician three
years.  The doctor is an active member of the Ohio County Medical Society,
the West Virgina State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
He gave three years of service as a member of the Ohio County Lunacy
Commission, and in July, 1919, he was appointed health commissioner of
Wheeling, in which position his loyal and effective service led to his
reappointment in July, 1921, for another term of two years.  Doctor Marschner
is a stockholder in the banking institution known as the Community Savings &
Loan Company, and he owns his attractive residence property at 2311 Chapline
Street, where he maintains his office also.  He and his wife are active
members of the Second Presbyterian Church, and his Masonic affiliations are
here briefly noted:  Ohio Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons;
Wheeling Chapter No. 1, Royal Arch Masons; West Virginia Consistory No. 1,
Scottish Rite, in which he has received the thirty-second degree; and Osiris
Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of which he has been medical director for the
past several years.  He holds membership also in Wheeling Lodge No. 28,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

In 1914, at Fayetteville, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor
Marschner and Miss Grace V. Hamilton, daughter of Alexander W. Hamilton, who
is a member of the representative firm of corporation lawyers, Payne &
Hamilton, in that city, and also president of the Fayette County Natinal
Bank.  His wife is deceased.  Mrs. Marschner is a talented pianist, a
graduate of the celebrated Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and she is a
popular figure in the representative social life of Wheeling.  Doctor and
Mrs. Marschner have two children: Margaret, born November 7, 1914, and
Elizabeth, born in February, 1916.

Reverting to the family history of Doctor Marschner, it is to be noted that
his grandfather, Edward Marschner, a native of Brussels, Belgium, there
became a successful glass manufacturer, and after establishing his residence
in Wheeling, West Virginia, in the 70's, he here became associated with the
old Hobbs-Brockunier glass Works, the business of which is now continued
under the title of the H. Northwood Company.  In this city Edward Marschner
passed the remainder of his life, and here his venerable widow still resides.
 Of their children the eldest is August E., father of Doctor Marschner;
Jennie is the wife of Henry Rithner, proprietor of a glass factory at
Wellsburg, this state; Frances is the wife of Nicholas Kopp, president and
general manager of the Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass & Glass company at Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; and Ernest, a resident of Wheeling, is retired from active
business.