From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Page 268  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.


DR. THOMAS LUNSFORD, operating and mechanical dentist, of 1217 Market street, is 
a native of Ohio County, West Virginia, and is second son of Levris Lunsford, 
born 1802, and who has very many years been popular as a contractor and 
superintendent of railroads and other public works. Dr. Thomas Lunsford was born 
in -- and graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania. He commenced his 
studies in dentistry, in 1860, with Dr. W. Fundenberg, a highly popular dentist 
in Pittsburgh, and subsequently selecting Wheeling for his future home, he 
opened up in business here, remaining in the same to this day. He was married in 
1867, to Mary E., daughter of Dr. A. S. Todd, one of Wheeling's most valuable 
pioneers, and by her he has an interesting family of two sons.