MCGUIRE, Dr. William David

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• Occupation: Physician, and later Planter

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School as M. D. in 1830, and soon afterward began the practice of medicine at Winchester, Virginia, but after a few years gave up his profession and became a planter near Winchester. Before the civil war he was a Whig, but after the war a Democrat; served as presiding justice in the justice court of his county for some years. Died February 4, 1877, at or near Winchester, Virginia.
He married (first) Lucy Catherine Ware, in 1833, who had issue several children of whom only one daughter lived to maturity, to wit: Elizabeth Holmes, born in 1834 in Clarke county, Virginia. He married (second) Nancy Boyd Moss, daughter of Captain William and Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, February 16, 1841, in Fairfax county, Virginia. She was born December 4, 1818, at Aspen Hill, Fairfax county, Virginia; her mother, Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, was a daughter of Colonel Joseph Holmes, of Winchester, Virginia, and her father, Captain William Moss, was a son of Ann Minor by Captain John Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was an officer in the revolutionary war. Said last mentioned John Moss was a son of Thomas Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was the son of Thomas Moss, of Westmoreland county, Virginia, and the latter a descendant of Edward Moss, of York county, Virginia, whose father came to Virginia in 1625, from Staffordshire, England. Dr. William David McGuire and his wife had eleven children, ow whom only the following mentioned survived to maturity, namely: Margaretta Holmes, born January 12, 1844; Nannie Wilmer, born May 30, 1854; Evelyn Parker, born November 7, 1857; William Edward, of whom more hereafter.

Birth:
Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia.

William married WARE, Lucy Catherine in 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married MOSS, Nancy Boyd on 16 Feb 1841 in Fairfax Co, VA, USA. Nancy (daughter of MOSS, Captain William and HOLMES, Gertrude) was born on 4 Dec 1818 in Aspen Hill, Fairfax, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Berryville Academy, Berryville High School, followed by study of medicine at University of Virginia, graduating in 1886 as MD
• Occupation: Civil Engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad Co, and later MD

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. William Edward McGuire, son of William David and Nancy Boyd (Moss) McGuire, was born March, 1860, at Norwood, near Berryville, in Clarke county, Virginia. He attended the Berryville Academy, and the Berryville High School, after which he studied medicine at the University of Virginia, and graduated therefrom as M. D. in 1886; however, prior to that time, he had spent three years as a civil engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. After his graduation in medicine he began practice in Richmond, Virginia, where he has continued as a physician and surgeon since that time. He was at one time president of the Richmond Academy of Medicine at Richmond, Virginia; from 1894 to 1911, professor of gynecology in the University College of Medicine at Richmond, Virginia; professor of clinical medicine in the same institution from 1911 to 1913, and thereafter professor of clinical medicine in the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Virginia. He is a member of the Virginia State Medical Society, the Southern Medical and Surgical Society, and of the American Medical Association. In politics he is a Democrat, and member of the Protestant Episcopal church, also of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond, and of the Country Club of Virginia.
Dr. McGuire married Mary Stuart McGuire, daughter of Dr. Hunter Holmes and Mary (Stuart) McGuire, October 9, 1894, at Richmond, Virginia. She was born 3, 1872, in Richmond, Virginia, and had a son, Hunter Holmes, born October 22, 1895, in Richmond, Virginia, was educated at the McGuire University School, at Richmond, Virginia, the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Virginia, and the University of Virginia.

William married MCGUIRE, Mary Stuart on 9 Oct 1894 in Richmond, VA, USA. Mary (daughter of MCGUIRE, Dr. Hunter Holmes and STUART, Mary) was born in 1872 in Richmond, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: McGuire University School, Richmond VA, and Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, VA, and the University of Virginia