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university, and for some time after leaving it, he was engaged in teaching. In June, 1876, he commenced the study of law under the tutorship of Judge B. F. Bo'nham. He finished his law course in the office of Bonham & Ram- sey, and was admitted to the bar at the January term, 1879, of the Supreme Court. From this time until January, 1881, he remained in the office of Messrs. Bonham & Ramsey, acting during that time as Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Third Judicial District. In the year 1880 he was nomi- nated by his fellow Democrats of Marion county for Representative in the State Legislature, but was defeated with the rest of his ticket. In Jan- uary, 1881, he removed to Independence, where he formed a co-partnership Avith Hon. M. L. Pipes, and has since been engaged in the practice of the law. He was married on the 1st day of August, 1882, to Miss Olive L. Chamberlin, of Salem. No sketch of George would be satisfactory to the boys that did not refer to his service as a base-ball player, a fireman and a mihtary man. As a base-ball player he was for years captain of the cham- pion nines of Salem. As a fireman he was long the Foreman of Tiger En- gine Company, No. 2, and afterwards Chief Engineer of the Salem Fire De- partment, and as an olficer of the Capital Guards he made a practical study of military tactics, and in July, 1880, he was appointed Aid-de-Camp on the stafi" of Brigadier General M. V. Brown, with the rank of Captain. All of these matters, in which he was once regarded as an authority, have ap- parently lost their attractions for him, and he is now devoting himself to his profession with an assiduity that shows his love for it and that promises for him a most successful career as a lawyer.

DR. W H. SAYLOR.

As a rule, the ranks of the medical profession are made up of a class of gentlemen possessing great strength of mind, highly cultxired intellects and a loftiness of character which is necessary to command for them the respect of the general public. They are therefore entitled to the great confidences which are necessarily reposed in them, and which they guard with all the great traditional honor of their noble calling. Amongst the physicians of the State of Oregon Dr. W. H. Saylor takes a foremost position. Well qualified by natural inclination, educational training and a vast experience, with a soul fully comprehending the greatness of his work and of his per- sonal responsibility, he has built up for himself a very extensive practice and acquired an enviable standing. He was born August 17, 1843, in Wap- elo county, Iowa, and at the tender age of nine years came with his parents across the plains to Oregon. The family lived one year in Portland, and then went to Olympia, W. T., where they lived three years. Returning to our State, the family permanently located in McMinnville, and young Wil- liam was enabled to finish his education at the Willamette University, graduating from the medical department of that institution in the class of 1869. He then practiced for a term of five years in Forest Grove, and not being satisfied with his general and specific knowledge of the profession, went to New York and attended the celebrated Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which he graduated in 1876. In that year he returned and