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went up to the Warm Springs Indian Agency, where he spent a year as " medicine man" among the aborigines. He returned to Salem and grad- uated from the Medical Department of the Willamette University in 1S(J8. He settled in Dallas, where, ou August 26, 1868, he was married to Miss S. Coshow. He went East and in 1871 graduated at the Bellevne Hospital and Medical College in New York City, and returnin;,' to Oregon he settled at Salem, where he has since resided. He occupied the chair of Professor of Anatomy in the Medical Department of the Willamette University for sev- eral years. In 1879 he received the unanimous vote of his ward as a mem- ber of the Common Council, which compliment was again paid him in 1880. The Doctor is a short, thick-set gentleman with pleasant features, a bright, keen eye, face well covered with whiskers of a dark brown, and a good- shaped head. He is an indefatigable worker and very attentive to his pa- tients. He is considered one of our most successful physicians and enjoys a lucrative practice. Always genial, courteous and good natured, he im- bues cheerfulness to those around liim, and is respected and esteemed by all who know him. He is a pronounced Republican, though liberal in his views, but is not a candidate for office, being too much attached to his pro- fession.

VAN B. DE LASHMUTT, ESQ.. A well-known resident of Portland, is now in the full prime and vigor of manhood, having first seen the glorious hght of day in Burlington, lowji, July 27, 1842. " Van," as he is familiarly known, came into this world with a whoop and a yell, and, to tell the truth, he has been making things li\ely ever since. With his parents he came across the plains to Oregon, and the family located on a farm in Polk county, where he remained until lie was fifteen years of age, when, farm life proving burdensome to " Van," who was naturally of a stirring disposition, and an adventurous, enterprising turn of mind, he struck out for Salem, where he entered the " Statesman" office as an apprentice at the printer's trade. The paper was then edited by Hon. A. Bush, who was making things generally tropical. In September, 1861, young DeLashmutt enlisted as a private in the Third California Volunteer Infantry, and, with his company, served three years on the plains, the life proving decidedly irksome and monotonous at times. The regiment was under command of Gen. Connor. In the winter of 1863-4 Mr. DeLashmutt published the " Union Vidette" in Salt Lake City, and, as a Gentile paper, threw hot shot into the camps of Mormonism for several months. The ex- citement of this enterprise proved acceptable to DeLashmutt, but he finally disposed of his interest in the paper and was next heard of at Washoe City, Nevada, in 1865, where he purchased the " Times," and, for a few mouths, showed the residents of that part of the country how to run a newspaper. The enterprise, however, did not " pan out" very well, so " Van" packed his collar box and took a bee line for Oregon, the country of big wheat fields, webbed feet, pretty girls, and big red apples. He reached Portland in the winter of 1865-6 and accepted a case on the " Daily Oregonian." He applied himself closely to his work and managed to lay by some money, with which.