Volume I, undated

The Willamette University Medical Department records consist of two handwritten, leather-bound volumes.

Volume I (1878 February 8-1896 September 14) contains the minutes of the Oregon Medical College stockholders, Board of Directors, and faculty; and enrollment records for the Willamette University Medical Department for the years 1878-79 through 1895-96 and alumni lists. Two news clippings are attached to the inside cover and first page, and a photocopied, typewritten mailing list is attached to the back page. Material in this volume documents the creation of the Oregon Medical College and the transfer of the Willamette University Medical Department from Salem to Portland on June 5, 1878.

Volume II contains Willamette University Medical Department faculty meeting minutes, dated 1878 June 18-1888 May 28. A photocopy of an examination of jurisprudence was loose in the volume; it was removed to a folder during processing. Some minutes are taken in shorthand. Minutes in this volume record the irreconcilable differences between members of the faculty and their formal resignations on April 8, 1887,