From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 335-337.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN COX HUPP

John Cox Hupp, a distinguished physician of Wheeling, is a member of 
a family which in the days of Indian warfare, were distinguished for 
heroism and sacrifice.  In 1770 Philip Hupp, John Hupp, Frank Hupp, 
Palsar Hupp, and another brother whose name has not been preserved, 
came to the frontier from the Shenandoah valley, and settled on the 
waters of Buffalo, in what is now Washington county, Penn., but was 
then a part of Virginia and remained so until after the running of 
Mason and Dixon's line.  Frank was shot by an Indian at Jonathan 
Link's cabin, twelve miles east of Wheeling, on Middle Wheeling 
creek, September, 1771; John was killed while defending Miller's 
block house, on Buffalo creek, from the Indians, on Easter Sunday of 
1782; Palsar settled on the banks of the Monongahela, near the 
village of Millsborough, and Philip, who was at the seige of Miller's 
block house, afterward settled in Duck creek valley.  John Hupp left 
a son of the same name, who was two years old at the time of the 
seige of the block house within which he was when his father was 
killed.  He was born July 27, 1780, and on January 10, 1813, was 
married to Ann Cox, by whom he had four children: Isaac, Joseph, 
Louisa, and John C., of whom the latter only survives.  The father 
died March 12, 1864, and the mother, who was born June 7, 1791, died 
November 6, 1875.  John C. Hupp, the subject of this mention, was 
born in Donegal township, Washington county, Penn., November 24, 
1819.  He was graduated at Washington college in 1844, and in 1848 
received the degree of A.M.  He studied medicine under Dr. F. Julius 
Le Moyne, and at Jefferson Medical college, where he was graduated in 
1847.  On December 16, of the same year, he began the practice at 
Wheeling.  Since then his life has been nobly devoted to the 
advancement of his profession, the promotion of general education, 
and the welfare of his community, and his old age is now crowned with 
the grateful remembrances and kind regards of all who have known him.  
Without entering into the details of his professional work, some 
salient points of his career may be noted.  He was one of the 
founders of the Medical Society of West Virginia, was appointed in 
1875 a delegate of the American Medical association to the European 
association; and was a member of the executive committe of the 
Centennial Medical commission to the International Medical congress, 
which met at Philadelphia in 1876.  His connection with the American 
associationbegan in 1858, and he has since served several times on 
the committee on nominations, as secretary of a section, and was for 
many years chairman of the committee for his state on necrology.  He, 
for ten years, served as treasurer of the State Medical association, 
and for the same period as treasurer of the Wheeling society.  His 
contributions to the literature of his profession have been many and 
valuable.  He has held various positions connected with his 
profession, notable among which was the office of state vaccine 
agent, which he held for nearly fifteen years.  In the cause of 
education, Dr. Hupp made, in 1873, a successful effort before the 
board of education to extend a free school education to the colored 
children of the city; in 1873, before the same body, secured the 
establishment of an evening study in the public schools; and in 1877, 
as chairman of the committee on rules and regulations, was successful 
in securing the adoption of industrial drawing as a regular study in 
the schools.  In 1870 he prepared a memorial to the legislature 
asking the appointment of a state geologist.  Notable among his 
contributions to literature, aside from those strictly professional 
are, a memorial of Dr. Joseph Thoburn, and many other memorials of 
deceased physicians, a memorial to the legislature on the 
establishment of a state board of health, historical sketches of 
early life in Washington county, and the quarter-centennial 
historical sketch of his class at Washington college. Dr. Hupp has 
served the city and county as a member of the board of health, as 
president of the county board of supervisors from 1863 to 1866, as a 
member of the city board of education from 1873 to 1879, but has 
since declined all honors tendered him in the line of official 
preferment.  For nearly a quarter of a century, from 1862 to 1885, he 
served the national government as president of the board of United 
States examining surgeons for pensions.  Dr. Hupp was married March 
1, 1853, to Caroline Louise Todd, daughter of the late Dr. A. S. 
Todd, of Wheeling, and they have had the following children:  
Archibald, born October 1, 1855, of the firm of Speidel & Co.; Amanda 
Virginia, born October 9, 1859, wife of Charles L. Harding, of 
Washington, Penn.; Ann Louisa, born July 30, 1862, wife of Dr. R. H. 
Bullard, of Wheeling; Francis Julius LeMoyne, born July 8, 1865, 
surgeon on the medical staff of Presbyterian hospital, N.Y.; Augusta 
Genevieve, born December 1, 1863, and John C., deceased.  Dr. Hupp is 
a member of the Presbyterian church.       


(Linda Fluharty)