Walter A. Strayer, M.D.
Walter A. Strayer, M.D., physician and surgeon, at Mingo Junction, where, in addition to a large general practice, he is professionally retained by the Carnegie Steel Company and the Wabash and the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, has lived in this place since 1905. He was bom on the old family farm on which his grandfather settled, in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 11, 1878, and is a son of William A. and Mary (Calhoun) Strayer.
William A. Strayer was born on the farm above mentioned and is a son of Samuel Strayer and a grandson of Andrew Strayer, who came from Germany in very early days. This farm is still in the Strayer family and the original patent from the government is preserved. William Strayer was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Jefferson County during his active years and now both he and wife reside in Cross Creek Township, west of Steubenville, being highly respected in that section. Wiliiam A. Strayer married Mary Calhoun, who was born at East Springfield, O.
Walter A. Strayer remained on the home farm during his school days, which included local attendance at the district school and a course in the Steubenville High School, where he was graduated in 1897. He then entered upon the reading of medicine with the late Dr. A. A. Elliott, of Steubenville, and from his instruction entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1903. He spent two years as an interne in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital at Pittsburgh and the Roselia Hospital, in the same city. In 1905 he came to Mingo Junction as assistant to Dr. W. W. McMillen, who was then physician and surgeon to the corporations which Dr. Strayer now serves, the latter succeeding to these important and responsible offices when Dr. McMillen retired, this appointment being made in October, 1909. Dr. Strayer is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Association of Surgeons of the Carnegie Steel Company and the Ex-Residents' Association of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. He belongs also to the fraternal orders of the Masons, at Steubenville, and the Odd Fellows, at Mingo. He is a Republican in his political affiliations.
Dr. Strayer was married in April, 1909, to Miss Henrietta M. Reineman, a daughter of George Reineman, of Pittsburgh. Dr. Strayer 's residence is on St. Clair Street and his office is in the Brettell Block, Commercial Street, Mingo.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910