https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/038506https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/038506.jpgJim McCoy of Morgantown, W. Va.ca. 1890Dentists--West Virginia--Morgantown.Portraits--M.According to an 1897 obituary, Jim McCoy was a dentist. He died while in Alliance, Ohio. The cause of death was alcohol poisoning after he drank a "quantity of wood alcohol as a substitute for whiskey". He was 50 years old and left a wife and four children.West Virginia History OnView