From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean. 

pp. 549-550
DR. EUGENIUS AUGUSTUS HILDRETH, who has been a most prominent member of 
the medical profession of Wheeling since 1888, was born in this city 
July 10, 1864, and is a son of Dr. E. A. Hildreth.
	His grandfather, Ezekiel Hildreth, was a teacher in the 
Lancasterian Academy at Wheeling, but retired some years previous to his 
death, which occurred in March, 1856.  He was born at Sterling, 
Massachusetts, in 1784, and married Sally Zane, who was born at Wheeling 
in 1796, and was a daughter of Jonathan Zane, who was one of the 
defenders at the siege of Fort Henry.
	Dr. E. A. Hildreth was born Septembr 13, 1821, and completed a 
college education at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1840.  He then 
took up the study of medicine at the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, from which institution he was graduated in 1844.  In 1845 he 
opened an office at Wheeling and successfully practiced medicine until 
his death in 1895.  He was prominent in his profession, and also found 
time to devote to other interests.  He was a member of the board of 
education several terms, and was president of that body in 1879.  He was 
a member of the board of commissioners of the penitentiary at 
Moundsville from 1868 to 1872.  He served as a member of the board of 
examiners of surgeons for appointment to army service, and later was 
pension examiner.  He was noted as a writer on atmospheric, meteoric and 
climatic phenomena, as well as on medical science.  He was a member of 
the Ohio County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the American 
Medical Association, and an honorary member of the California Medical 
Society and the Victoria Institute of Great Britain.  In 1851 Dr. 
Hildreth married Susan McMechen, who was born in 1824 and was a daughter 
of Benjamin McMechen.  They reared the following children:  Frank C., 
born in 1852, who was an attorney of Wheeling, and at the time of his 
death, in 1895, was serving as cashier of the Commercial Bank; Benjamin 
M., born in 1854, who spent his active life in the glass business and 
resides at Woodsdale; Sally Zane, wife of William S. Brady, who resides 
at Echo Point; Dorrie List, wife of F. G. Krammerer, of Chicago, who has 
two children, Eugenius Hildreth and Frances; and Eugenius A., the 
subject of this biography.  Benjamin M. Hildreth married Kate Turner in 
1874, and they have a son, Eugenius A., who is now a medical student of 
the University of Pennsylvania.
	Dr. Eugenius A. Hildren was primarily educated in Linsly Institute 
and then studied medicine in Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, graduating in 1885, his residence during 1886-7 being the 
Brooklyn City Hospital.  After taking a special course in New York City, 
he returned to Wheeling, where he has practiced since 1888.  His office 
and residence are at No. 1207 Chapline street.  He is a member of the 
Ohio County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American 
Medical Association.
	Dr. Hildreth was united in marriage, in 1892, with Jane Neave 
Brady, and they have five children:  William; Richard; Eugenius A., Jr.; 
Hugh Brady; and Mary Caldwell.  The Doctor is a Republican in politics, 
and a member of the board of education and the board of trade.  Dr. and 
Mrs. Hildreth are members of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal church, 
of which his father was a vestryman.