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age, working meanwhile in his father's flouring mill jiiid nwiHtcriug the miller's trade. At an early age he displayed a fondness lor the medical profession and in 1868 he went east and entered the Bellevne Medical (J.il- lege in New York City, being at the same time a jirivate student under Dr. Lewis A. Say re, who is undoubtedly as fine a surgecm as America (san boast of. After attending two courses of lectures, he applied for a position in the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island, and ranked first in the cl;i.ss at the special eiamination, only six of about one hundred applicants passing suc- cessfully. He was at once appointed first surgeon and remained thereabout two years and a half, the average number of patients meanwhile being over 1000. At the end of his term of service he was presented by the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities and Corrections with an elegant case of surgical instruments as a recognition of his skillful attention, which testi- monial he still keeps and highly prizes. He graduated with high honors and received his diploma in 1872, returning to Oregon in the fall of the same year and locating at Portland, and at once entered into a lucrative practice. Desiring a change, however, he went to Umatilla county in 1S78 and entered the stock business. He moved to Salem in 18^0 and resumed his practice, which he is still following with marked success. He has de- voted himself especially to the study and practice of surgery, and has, sinc« his return to Oregon, performed some operations that are indeed astonish- ing in their nature, and bid fair to add a still greater amount of knowledge to the store now possessed on that wonderful branch of medical science. His skill and intelligence is conceded and honored by the profession. Sin- cerity of purpose and largeness of sympathy for the sufferings of the imfor- tunate, beam forth in every feature on his visits to the sick room. During bis residence in Oregon he has performed upwards of sixty successful am- putations, and has three times successfully performed the intricate opera- tion of tying the subclavian artery. Dr. Kiimey has never but once aspired to political honors. At the last general election he was one of the Demo- cratic nominees for State Senator in Marion county, and, although the county usually gives a Republican majority of from 500 to 700, Dr. Kinney's popularity was so universal that he was beaten by but seven votes. His canvass of the county was a "still hunt" that his opponents will long re- member, but his political ambition is satisfied, and surgery and the practice of medicine will attract his entire attention hereafter. He was married in Portland January 28, 1874, to Miss Louisa P. Dickinson, and one child has thus far blessed their union. He is a well-built man, slightly rotund, with pleasant facial expression, and a keen, penetrating eye, with nerves as steady as clock work.

HON. JAMES 0- TOLMAN, Our present Surveyor-General, is a man to whom much credit is due for the industry and application he has displayed in working his way onward and upward to places of honor and trust. He was born in Washington county, Ohio, in 1813, and moved to Champaign of the same State in 1821, where he resided until 1839, when he moved to Iowa. From there he imm igrated to