Willamette University

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This collection consists of photocopied biographical material on Dr. James Hawthorne (1819-1881, founder of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane) and Dr. Simeon Josephi (1849-1935) collected by James H. Beck, a descendent of Hawthorne's.

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Hannibal Blair, M.D., matriculated at the Willamette University Medical Department in 1881 and graduated with a degree in medicine in 1883. This collection consists of materials acquired by Blair during his time at Willamette, including class schedules, attendance cards, matriculation tickets, event invitations, and correspondence.

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Dr. Curtis Holcomb donated his medical school class notes from 1886-1887 taken while a student at Willamette University's Medical Department (WUMD).

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Class notebooks of Dr. Orla B. Miles, M.D., from the Willamette University Medical Department for the years 1903 to 1905.

Abstract Lucy I. Davis began her service at UOMS in 1918 and continued her duties until shortly before her death on October 8, 1943. While registrar, Lucy compiled the record of the activities of women graduates of the school. The materials were added to the Library collection. Materials included in the collection (originally in the form of a scrapbook) are photographs, biographical information, obituaries, newspaper clippings, chronological graduate lists, marital statuses, survey forms,...

Abstract Willamette University began medical lectures in Salem in 1867. Oregon Medical College was incorporated in Portland in 1878; the founders of this institution then convinced Willamette to relocate their medical department to Portland, and unincorporated the Medical College in the same year. Willamette’s medical courses continued on in Portland until 1895 when they returned to Salem, but in 1913, the department was discontinued and absorbed by the University of Oregon Medical School, which had...