Fred E. Brammer, M.D.
Huntington is the home of some of the ablest physicians and surgeons in West Virginia, men devoted to their profession and absorbed in their work, and one of them deserving of more than passing mention is Dr. Fred E. Brammer, a physician and surgeon who is becoming well known. He was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, November 26, 1889, a son of Oliver E. and Sarah E. (Ashworth) Brammer, both of whom were born in the same county, where Mrs. Brammer is still living, making her home on the home farm that Mr. Brammer was engaged in cultivating until his death. Of the seven children born to the parents five survive, Doctor Brammer being the eldest. Oliver E. Brammer was born in 1865 and died November 13, 1910, being a son of James O. Brammer, also a native of Ohio, who served in the Union army during the war between the states. The maternal grandfather, Henry Ashworth, was born in Virginia, and he, too, was a Union soldier during the war of the sixties.
First attending the public schools of Lawrence County, Doctor Brammer later was a student of Rio Grande College, Valparaiso University, the Ohio University, and took his profession work in the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1921, with the degree Doctor of Medicine. For one year thereafter he interned at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, and then established himself in practice at Huntington, West Virginia, and later at Dehue, Logan County, West Virginia, devoting a part of his time to each place, where he has built up a wide and valuable connection, devoting all of his time to his profession. During the World war he was a member of the Student Army Training corps of the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, and was honorably discharged therfrom December 20, 1918.
In 1918 Doctor Brammer married Miss Olive Ann Cofer, who was born in Gallia County, Ohio, and educated in Rio Grande College. For several years prior to her marriage she was engaged in teaching school, and Dr. Brammer earned the money for his medical education by school teaching, first in elementary schools and later in high schools. Doctor and Mrs. Brammer have four children: Melba Pauline, Joseph Oliver, Ruth Ann and Doris Marie. Mrs. Brammer belongs to the Baptist Church, and while Doctor Brammer is not a member of any church, he attends religious service of the different denominations. Doctor Brammer is a Scottish-Rite Mason, and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Arcanum, the Omega Upsilon Phi medical fraternity, the Cabell Medical Society, the West Virginia Medical Society, the South Medical Association, and is a Fellow at the American Medical Association. In political faith he is a Republican, but his professional duties are so onerous as to prevent his being active in politics, much as his is interested in progress of all kinds, and willing as his is to aid as far as lies in his power to advance the welfare of the community. His skill, his unfailing sympathy and courtesy, his kindly manner and unending charity make him the ideal physician, as well as the noble and upright citizen.
From West Virginia In History, Life, Literature and Industry, The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5