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In 1868 Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Jennie R. Stephenson who crossed the plains with her parents in 1853, the family settling in Washington. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born five children, three of whom are living: Edwin O., who is connected with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company; Karl, who is cashier of the Bank of Gresham; and Ralph W., a resident of Oakland, California.
Mr. Miller is a republican in his political views, yet somewhat liberal, and does not consider himself bound by party ties. He has had charge of elections for a number of years, also has been in charge of school elections and for eighteen years served as a school director. He has been prominently identified with the building of streets and public improvements, laid out Miller's addition to Portland, and his home is situated at the end of Miller avenue. With many phases of public progress and improvement he has thus been identified and the worth of his work is widely acknowledged, so that he is regarded as one of the valued and representative residents of Oregon, where for more than two-thirds of a century he has made his home.
WILLIAM BRATTON MUNFORD, M. D.
No man has done more for the building up and general welfare of the town of Banks, Oregon, and that section of Washington county in which Banks is located, than Dr. William B. Munford. He was born in Cottonville, Illinois, in 1873. His father was James Renwick Munford, a pioneer farmer of the state, whose Scotch-Irish ancestor had come to America in 1810.
William B. Munford was educated in the schools of Illinois, and when his father located in Kansas he matriculated at Washburn Medical College at Tokepa, Kansas, and in 1905 was graduated with the degree of Medical Doctor. He first took up practice in Kansas, but on account of his health came to Oregon in 1907 and in 1908 located at Banks. He was the pioneer physician of that settlement and from the time he located there was a potent factor in the growth of the little town, both professionally and other- wise. When the Commercial Club was formed Dr. Munford was its president, and he constructed one of the first buildings in the town, where he opened a drug store. His reputation as a physician was not confined to the vicinity of Banks, but soon spread to surrounding sections of Washington and nearby counties and with the late Dr. Linklater of Hillsboro he controlled the practice of the county. There was no enterprise looking to the advancement of Banks or the surrounding county but found in him an active and unselfish helper. Generous, kindly and optimistic to a degree Dr. Munford worked hard for the sick in his professional way and equally hard as a citizen for the progress of the town. The result of this activity brought about the undermining of his health for in 1918 he developed lung trouble and with his devoted wife took a trip to Colorado. The same year he passed away, leaving a host of mourning friends, the city of Banks having lost one of its most progressive citizens and the medical pro- fession of Oregon one of its brightest members. Dr. Bailey, Dr. Linklater and Dr. Munford have all passed away and the people of that vicinity feel keenly the loss of these splendid citizens.
Dr. Munford was married at Greeley, Colorado, in 1905, to Miss Flora A. Mawhinney, a native of Illinois, who was born in Cottonville, the doctor's own birthplace. She was likewise of Scotch-Irish ancestry whose forbears were pioneers in Illinois and descendants of generations of progressive Americans. From the time of his graduation she was his helpmate in every sense. Dr. Munford left his wife and two children, Charles Wilbert, now a student of the high school, and James Kenneth, a pupil of the grade school, who are being trained by their devoted mother to follow in the footsteps of their distinguished father. Mrs. Munford is an active member of the Methodist church and is the corresponding secretary of its Sunday school. She owns a fine farm
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of forty acres within two miles of Banks and also a town residence and some business property on the main street of the city.
Dr. Munford was a member of the Washington County Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was the local physician of the Southern Pacific Railway and the Oregon Electric Railway. The people of Washington county will long remember Dr. Munford as a mau always active along various lines that have been directly beneficial in the upbuilding of Banks and the advancement of its welfare.
JOHN A. COLLIER.
John A. Collier dates his connection with the Oregon bar from May, 1901, and has practiced in Portland continuously since 1909. He was born in Barren county, Kentucky, October 26, 1874, and is a son of Pleasant Pollard and Sarah A. (Sullinger) Collier. The father was born in the Blue Grass state in 1837 and was a soldier of the Civil war, going from Kentucky as a private in 1861 and serving with the Union army for three years. In days of peace he devoted his attention to farming and was also an apiarist. While in Kentucky he married Sarah A. Sullinger and his death occurred in 1909, while his widow survives and makes her home in Portland.
John A. Collier was reared on a farm to the age of twenty years and his were the usual experiences and training of the farm bred boy. He attended the country schools, worked in the fields through the summer months and for two years pursued a high school course. Not wishing to follow agricultural pursuits as a life work, he took up the study of law in 1898 and was admitted to the bar in May, 1901, at Pendleton, Oregon. He then practiced there for a year and afterward went to Fossil, Oregon, where he followed his profession for six years. In 1909 he opened a law office in Port- land, where he has since remained, and as the years have passed he has steadily ad- vanced in the path of his profession. He was deputy district attorney of the old seventh judicial district of Oregon from 1903 until 1907 and in the latter year was appointed by Governor Chamberlain district attorney for the eleventh judicial district, occupying that position until June, 1908. From the 1st of January, 1913, until October 1, 1918, he was deputy district attorney for the fourth judicial district and has since concentrated his efforts and energies upon an extensive and increasingly important private practice. He is also a director of the Atterbury Trust Sales Company.
On the 31st of December, 1901, in Pendleton, Oregon, Mr. Collier was married to Miss Arta B. Huston and they have become parents of a son, John Russell, who was born in October, 1904. Mr. Collier is a member of the Press Club. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He has exerted considerable influence in local political circles and during the war period rendered service in connection with the questionnaires and the promotion of the bond drives.
CHARLES ALONZO BELL.
Every commercial traveler of the west knows "Charley" Bell, the genial proprietor of the Mount Hood hotel at Hood River and tourists from all over the country have a kindly remembrance of the hospitality received and the interest taken in their trips around the Hood River valley and to the snowy slopes of Mount Hood, while the people of Hood River recognize in Mr. Bell the creator of the Mount Hood hotel, which has added prestige to their town and given it a reputation abroad. It is a recognized cer- tainty that when any enterprise is planned to further the interests of the city a list of its supporters will contain the signature of Charles A. Bell, for at all times he is most progressive and his example will bring to any movement of public worth a large following.
Mr. Bell was born in New Brunswick in 1860, his parents being Henry and Jane (Norman) Bell, who were pioneer residents of Canada, in which country the son obtained his education. In early life he turned his attention to the timber and lumber business and after coming to the Pacific coast was associated with the Oregon Lumber Company for many years in Washington and in Oregon. In 1893 he removed to Hood River and purchased a block of land opposite the depot of the Oregon Railroad &
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Navigation Company and built the Mount Hood hotel. Though he erected a large three-story structure it soon became inadequate to the needs of the traveling public and in 1913 he built a three-story brick annex extending through to Oak street, the business thoroughfare, the annex being one hundred by one hundred feet in dimensions. The hotel now contains one hundred and fifty rooms and is thoroughly modern in every department, giving to the public the highest standards of hotel service.
In 1889 Mr. Bell was married in Pendleton, Oregon, to Miss Rosanna E. Young, also a native of New Brunswick. She passed away in 1896, leaving a son, Frederick, who is now assisting his father in the conduct and management of the hotel. The son is a veteran of the World war, having enlisted early in the struggle. In September, 1917, he was sent for training to Boise, Idaho, becoming a member of the Twenty- second Infantry. Later he was sent to Camp Greene, where he was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment of the Sixty-sixth Field Artillery Brigade, and in December of the same year went to France, serving in that country and in Belgium until the armistice was signed. He then went into Germany with the army of occupation and returning to America in July, 1919, was demobilized. Mr. Bell was again married in 1907, when Miss Ola M. Stryker, a native daughter of Orgeon, became his wife. Her father, Dr. D. S. Stryker, had crossed the plains with an ox cart in pioneer times long prior to the building of railroads. He was for many years a prac- ticing physician of Portland and had been a California pioneer before he went to the east and married. The Stryker family has been represented on American soil from 1620, when Herman Von Stryker came to the new world from Holland and settled at New Amsterdam, New York. Later representatives of the family "moved up state" and established the town of Strykersville, New York. Various representatives of the family served with the American forces in the Revolutionary war and in the War of 1812. Dr. George Stryker of Everett, Washington; Dr. S. W. Stryker of Portland; Dr. Rey S. Stryker, who was graduated at Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois; and Guy O. Stryker of Hubbard, Oregon, are brothers of Mrs. Bell. Mrs. George Wissinger re- sides in Milwaukie, Oregon, and is in educational work. The family were all under- graduates of Willamette University at Salem, Oregon. Mrs. Bell possesses the same spirit of courage that served her father in his trips across the plains. She was for many years the manager of the Y. W. C. A. tea room in Portland and is largely respon- sible for the splendid culinary arrangement of the present Y. W. C. A. tea and lunch rooms in that city.
Mr. Bell has always been recognized as one of the most progressive residents of Hood River. He built the first wooden sidewalk in the town and promoted and held the franchise of a street railway for the city. He also served as a member of the city council for twelve years and is a leader in every sense of the term, standing at all times for those interests and activities which have constituted vital forces in the upbuilding and development of the community. He belongs to the Hood River Commercial Club and has thus been active in furthering the public welfare and fraternally he is well known as an exemplary representative of the Masons and the Elks.
WILLIAM WALKER DUGAN, JR.
Portland has always been distinguished for the high rank of her bench and bar. Almost from the city's beginning she has been represented by men of ability, capable of crossing swords in forensic combat with the ablest lawyers of the country. The younger generation of the legal fraternity in Portland is fully sustaining the record previously made and in this connection William Walker Dugan, Jr., is well known. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1888, and is a son of William Walker Dugan, Sr., whose birth occurred in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1863, while his father was a native of the north of Ireland, whence he came to the United States at the age of eighteen years. The father spent his youthful days in Tuscarawas county and when he attained his majority removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There he met and mar- ried Nettie E. Borland, who was a great-granddaughter of Cornelius Connor, who served with the rank of sergeant in the Thirteenth Virginia Infantry in the Revolutionary war. For many years William W. Dugan, Sr., was connected with the transportation department of the Pennsylvania Company at Pittsburgh and in 1905 crossed the con- tinent to Portland, where he lived retired in his later years, passing away January 22, 1920.
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His son and namesake was reared in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and there attended the country schools and also the Carnegie high school of Carnegie, Pennsyl- vania. His interest in a professional career led him to take up the study of law, which he pursued in the University of Oregon, being graduated therefrom in 1910 with the LL. B. degree. In June of the same year he was admitted to practice at the Oregon har and has since engaged in professional duties in Portland. He early recognized the fact that success at the bar cannot be attained through association nor outside influence but must be the outgrowth of individual effort and ability. He has displayed untiring industry, therefore, in the preparation of his cases and his presentation of a cause is always clear, cogent and logical.
On the 22d of November, 1916, in Portland, Mr. Dugan was married to Miss Minda Frost, a daughter of Louis E. Frost, a native of Minnesota. They now have one son, William Walker, Jr., who was born December 2, 1917.
Mr. Dugan was from 1912 until 1915 a private in the Oregon Coast Artillery and during the war served as a private in the Multnomah Guards of Portland. His political endorsement is given to the republican party. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and also belongs to the City Club of Portland and to the Oregon Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. His religious faith is manifest in his connection with the United Presbyterian church and his life has ever been actuated by high and honorable principles that make for loyalty in citizenship, integrity and enterprise in business and fidelity in friendship.
E. E. FISHER, M. D.
Since 1907 Dr. E. E. Fisher has been numbered with the leading physicians and surgeons of Salem and is now associated in practice with Dr. J. H. Garnjobst, who devotes his attention largely to the general practice of medicine, while Dr. Fisher is specializing in general surgery. He maintains a finely appointed suite of offices in the United States National Bank building, equipped with the most modern instru- ments and appliances, and his successful work along the line in which he specializes has secured for him a large and constantly increasing patronage.
Dr. Fisher is a native of Nebraska. He was born in Omaha on the 4th of August, 1870, and is a son of C. A. H. and Mary (Kirby) Fisher. The father was born in England in 1847, and in 1869, when a young man of about twenty-two years, he came to America, settling in Michigan. He was married in Adrian, that state, to Miss Kirby, who was born in New York in 1852. They removed westward to Nebraska in 1870 and in 1902 arrived in Salem, Oregon, where they now reside, mak- ing their home at No. 1211 Broadway. The father devoted the greater part of his life to agricultural pursuits and is now living retired. In their family were seven children.
Dr. Fisher attended the country schools in the vicinity of his father's home until fourteen years of age, when he became a student in the Highland Park Nor- mal School at Des Moines, Iowa. He also attended the Fremont (Neb.) Normal and was graduated with the class of 1892. He taught school both before and after his graduation, devoting five years to that profession, and in 1894 he took up the study of medicine, reading for one year under a physician. He then entered the medical department of Northwestern University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1898, and in 1907 he was graduated from the University of Iowa at Iowa City, following which he came to Salem, where he opened an office. He has con- tinued in practice in this city, specializing in general surgical work, in which he dis- plays marked skill and ability. He maintains a well appointed suite of offices, equipped with the most up-to-date apparatus for diagnosis and every modern appliance for the treatment of disease, including X-Ray machines of both the portable and stationary types. The stationary machine is supplied by a two hundred and twenty volt current and is employed for diagnosis and therapy. By means of a fluoroscope he is able to visualize the contents of the chest and some of the most important organs of the abdomen. Radiographs may also be made of these parts, including the head and extremities. X-Rays are therapeutically used for skin diseases, cancer growths and various goiters. The only advantage of the portable over the stationary is that it can be carried on an automobile and used wherever there is a one hundred and ten volt current available. The bacteriology incubator is used for the growth and study of various
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bacteria producing disease. This appliance is electrically heated by means of a spe- cial device, maintaining a uniform temperature equal to that of the blood, ninety- eight and six-tenths degrees Fahrenheit, which temperature is most favorable to bacterial growth. The Mckenzie self-inking polograph is used for studying the action of the heart and blood vessels. The Alpine Sunlight, emanating ultra violet rays, is produced by the arcing of an electric current through vaporized mercury and filtered through pure quartz glass. The ultra violet rays, next to the X-Rays, have the shortest wave lengths and the most rapid light rays at the violet end of the spectrum. They have no penetrating powers beyond possibly an eighth of an inch through the skin. They are chemical in action on photographics. Therapeutically they are used for their germicidal effect in skin diseases, old indolent ulcers and tuberculosis of the skin and bones. They stimulate the circulation of the blood in the skin and promote elimination of waste products, making them a valuable adjunct in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis or any other disease in which sun baths are indicated. The chemical laboratory is equipped with the latest clinical chemical appliances for the examination of the various secretions and excretions of the human body. An instrument known as the microtome is equipped with a razor blade so adjusted that it will section tissues, frozen or imbedded for microscopical study. Dr. Fisher has also proven a capable educator, having taught for two years in the medical department of Willamette University. He is likewise extensively interested in agriculture, owning a farm in Iowa, another in Nebraska and a third in southern Oregon.
In 1901 Dr. Fisher was united in marriage to Miss Alice Bates, a native of Iowa and a daughter of A. J. and Helen (Morris) Bates. The only child of this union is a son, Arthur A., who is eight years of age. In the field of professional service Dr. Fisher has made continuous progress, gleaning from comprehensive study, research and from practical experience valuable truths in connection with the work. Prompted in all that he does by laudable ambition and broad humanitarian principles, as a member of the medical fraternity he has attained high rank among those whose skill is uniformly acknowledged, while his prosperity is recognized as the merited reward of his labor. He belongs to the Marion County and Oregon State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association and keeps in close touch with the advanced work of the profession and its high ideals.
HERBERT EGBERT.
A resident at The Dalles, Herbert Egbert is numbered among the successful and well known farmers of central Oregon, having seven hundred and fifty acres of valuable land about nineteen miles from the city, devoted to wheat raising. Mr. Egbert is a native son of Minnesota. He was born at Red Wing, Minnesota, July 12, 1869, of the marriage of Joseph C. and Susan M. (Davis) Egbert. The Egberts are of an old New England family, the founder in America coming to the new world in 1627. Among his descendants were those who emigrated westward and the branch to which Herbert Egbert belongs first settled in Ohio and afterwards in Minnesota, being pioneers of both states. One of his uncles was a member of the first legislature of Minnesota and served as a captain in the first militia company organized in that state. In the Davis line Herbert Egbert comes from an old family of Pennsylvania that also became identified with Minnesota in early days. In the year 1879 Joseph C. Egbert brought his family to Oregon, settling in Union county, where he lived until 1881 and then re- moved to The Dalles.
Herbert Egbert when three years old went with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa, and in 1873 they went to La Porte, Colorado, and later to The Dalles. Herbert was educated in the graded schools and started out to provide for his own support by working in logging camps and also in connection with cattle raising. He was thus employed until 1896, when he took up farming, in which he has continued. His ranch is situated in township 1, north, range 15, east, in Wasco county, and is about nineteen miles from The Dalles. There he has seven hundred and fifty acres of excellent land which produces a crop of about twelve thousand bushels of wheat annually, the soil being splendidly adapted to the raising of that cereal. Mr. Egbert also engages in raising horses, cattle and sheep and has pedigreed sires, including Belgian and Clydesdale horses, Hereford cattle and Oxford sheep. He is regarded as one of the substantial farmers and stock
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raisers of the central section of the state and is altogether a most useful and valued citizen. He was for five years president of the Farmers Union and is now president of the Standard Hollow Grain Elevator Company. He has served as a delegate to most of the grain and farmers conventions throughout the northwest and has the esteem of the agricultural population of this section of the state to a marked degree. His efforts at all times have been an element in public progress and improvement and his labors have been especially helpful in connection with the development of the farm lands and the promotion of stock raising interests in the northwest.
In 1903 Mr. Egbert was married to Miss Grace May Johnson, daughter of Joel Johnson, one of the best known residents of the state. They were boy and girl com- panions and as they advanced in years became sweethearts. While out horseback riding Miss Johnson was thrown from her horse and sustained injuries that left her a cripple for life. This sad accident served but to accentuate the bond between them for though Mrs. Egbert would have released her fiance from his engagement he insisted upon the marriage and for the twelve years of their married life devoted himself to her care, giving to her every attention and comfort that thought and love could plan until she passed away in 1915.
Mr. Egbert is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias. For twelve years he served as a member of the local school board and in every possible way has aided in the growth, progress and prosperity of his county and state. He was elected in 1920 representative from the assembly district, embracing Wasco and Hood River counties. He crossed the plains behind the wagons of his parents in 1879, when a youth of ten years. The sturdy boy has grown into a man of strong and honorable purpose whose life has been crowned with successful achieve- ment and whose course may well serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when energy and enterprise point out the way.
. HENRY HEWETT.
For a period of more than four decades Henry Hewett figured actively, prominently and honorably in connection with the business development of Portland, and it was a matter of deep regret when he passed away at his home on Green Hills, near Mount Zion, on the 16th of February, 1915. The enterprise, initiative and progressiveness which he displayed in the field of marine insurance made him widely known on the Pacific coast and wherever he was known he was held in high esteem. He was of English birth, born at Hunters Hill, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the north of England, January 15, 1847. He remained a resident of that country until about eighteen years of age and then sought the opportunities offered in the new world, hoping to win busi- ness advancement by sojourning on the western continent. He came to the Pacific coast and after spending a short period of time in British Columbia, Portland and Cali- fornia, returned to the Rose City in 1870 and engaged in the grain business. In fact, he was for a long period the principal figure in the wheat export trade of the Pacific northwest. He cleared the first cargo of wheat for the United Kingdom that ever went through the Portland custom-house, the 'shipment being made early in 1871. With the growth and development of the country he increased his grain business and was widely known as one of the leading grain exporters of the coast. He later extended the scope of his activities to include marine insurance and eventually general insurance and finding it even more lucrative than the grain trade he finally devoted all of his energy to the business. His knowledge of shipping in the Pacific northwest was profound and thus he was enabled to promote his marine insurance business to a point of gratifying magnitude. He could quote facts and figures covering the develop- ment of marine transportation in Portland for a period of nearly half a century, as no other man could. This constituted an important element in his success after he entered the insurance field and enabled him to build up a most substantial underwriting business.
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