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Willamette University was founded in Salem in 1842, ... In 1865, ... another step of significance to the welfare of the state was taken in launching, under the auspices of the university, of the medical department. The initial steps in this venture were taken by Governor A. C. Gibbs and others in 1864. They sent a communication to the Board of Trustees of Willamette University asking that body to organize a medical department. They further asked that the department be located in Portland, and that certain gentlemen be elected officers and professors of the same. On February 15, 1865, the Board voted to establish such a department in Portland, to be called the "Oregon Medical College", ... The faculty elected consisted of Judge M. P. Deady, emeritus professor of medical jurisprudence. R. Glisan, M. D., professor of theory and practice of medicine; J. A. Chapman, M. D., professor of civil and military surgery; A. M. Loryea, M. D., professor and demonstrator of anatomy; R. B. Wilson, M. D., professor of physiology and institutes of medicine; Hon. A. C. Gibbs, professor of medical jurisprudence. It is interesting to note that a professor emeritus was elected before the school had begun to function. A temporary office was established at Number 5 Washington Street, which by the present system of numbering is 205 Washington Street. Difficulties arose ... and for a time the project was abandoned. The faculty named above never gave instruction.

"Oregon's low-brow historian", Stewart H. Holbrook calls him self. If it is any seal to his classification, he has written about Harry Tracy, Calamity Jane, Butch Cassidy, Lola Montez, "Shanghai Days in Portland","The Last of Bunco Kelly", "Gay Dogs of Portland's Old Saloon Days"; and so much about loggers that the mere titles of his articles are full of connotation of life in the big woods—"Hercules in the Timber"; "Paul Bunyans, Then and Now", "Bullcooks", "Gastronomy in the Woods", "History of Port Ludlow", "The Largest Log Drive", "The Logging Camp Loses Its