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About Oregon City courier=herald. (Oregon City, Or.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1902)
OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER. 4i DR. W. E. CARLL. JOHN F. CLARK. Was born in Missosuri August 2.?, i860, and came to Oregon in the fall of 1874 and set tled in Polk County, where he resided on a farm till he attended school at McMinnville college in 1883. He graduated from said college in 1888 with the degree of A. B. in scientific and classical course, and two years later had degree of A. M. conferred. After teaching school for two years in Polk and Yamhill counties he was manager of The Dallas branch of the Union Hardware Co, ' 1 V , for three years. In 1894 Mr. Clark came to Oregon City and organized the Clackamas Abstract and Trust Company. In 1897 he was admitted to the bar. This company, of .which Mr. Clark is manager, has the only complete set of abstract books in Clackamas county, and all abstracts turned out have the personal supervision of Mr. Clark and in all respects are reliable. Mr. Clark is well versed in land law, and all cases of this de scription could not be in safer hands. Mr. Clark is a substantial citizen of Oregon City, and, we are pleased to say. has an increas ing portion of the abstract business. . ..? Try- i"": ' ;- V .... : s - ... - . if ' st: f RESIDKN'CR OF O., W. EASTHAM. S. C. SEAMANN, M. D. Never did society make a greater demand lor capable, ambitious young men, men filled with the new wine of life. The Courier Herald therefore introduces with no little satisfaction to its thousands of readers, our fellow-citizen, Dr. C. S. Seamann, whose ot rice is in the Barclay block, at the suspen sion bridge. Though a native of Vermont, he is in every respect an Oregonian, having grown here from youth to manhood, and be ing a graduate of the Oregon State Univer sity and the Oregon State Medical School. sician to the Ancient Order of Foresters. The success in his profession that has crowned his efforts since he located among us is an augury of the future years of use fulness to humanity that are in store for him. "'" ',1 '- V, . HENRY MELDRUM, Surveyor General of Oregon, is a Clacka mas County resident, and a credit to our commonwealth. He was born in 1852, near llwaco, Wash., then a part of Oregon, and has since made his home in Oregon. He at tended Pacific University in Forest Grove along with Harvey Scott and Judge Stott. Mr. Meldrum has been U. S. Deputy Sur veyor for 20 years, and iias done work all over this country. From 1876 to j88j he ran a livery stable at Tillamook, and during this time filled mail contracts. He was elected Surveyor of Clackamas County in 1884 and refused re-election in 1886. He has but re cetilly been appointed 'oumii-r Genr.il i.f Cognizant of the educating influences of travel, Dr. Seamann recently made a trip to the Orient, visiting Japan, China and the Phillipine islands, making a study of the dis eases peculiar to Asiatic countries, and that particularly at the hospitals in Manila. While taking his medical course the doctor made a specialty of diseases of the eye, and therefore, in addition to being a regular practicing physician, he is prepared to at tend to all cases that come within the scope of the optician and oculist. His ability-in this particular is certainly of great advant age to our citizens. Dr. Seamann is medical inspector for ,-everal insurance companies, as the Metropolitan Insurance Company and the Pacific Mutual, and is also court phy- Oregon, and has done away with much of the red tape connected with the office ami has practically brought the work up-to-date. All can rest assured that the Surveyor Gen eral's office will make a better record during his term than at any previous one, which shows that the Clackamas County man is all right.