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402 Ralph C. Matson, M. D., Tuberculosis and Vaccine Therapy.

Robert H. Ellis, M. D., Obstetrics.

R. C. Yenney, M. D., Internal Medicine.

J. C. Eliot King, Dermatology.

Louis Arthur Shane, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.

Theodore Fessler, M. D., Laboratory Demonstrator of Chemistry.

Guy H. Ostrander, B. S., M. D., Laboratory Demonstrator of Pathology.

Marius Breckenridge Marcellus, B. S., M. D., Assistant Laboratory Demonstrator of Pathology.

Wm. A. Shea, M. D., Laboratory Demonstrator of Therapeutics.

Geo. Andrew Cathey, M. D., Laboratory Demonstrator of Bacteriology.

The city of Portland is to have within its corporate limits one of the great colleges of the United States. This is made a possibility and certainty through the life-long care, prudence and thoughtfulness of one of Portland's pioneer citizens, and his noble wife.

Simeon G. Reed and his wife came to Portland in its infancy, about sixty years ago. They were both modest, industrious, prudent, careful people, making no pretensions to social position, religious leadership or other worldly ambitions. They did not spend everything they made in vulgar display, hoard it up in a miser's box or lend it out on a Shylock's bond. They lived plain, practical sensible lives, and laid the foundation of an endowment of three million of dollars to found and maintain a college, which is to bear their names—.

Mr. Reed was one of the men who made a fortune out of the earnings of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company; and with his wife, after providing for relatives and numerous charities to the extent of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, has handed over to the trustees, three million dollars for this great foundation college. In a review of the work so far the Oregonian says:

"Few of the great colleges of the country have begun their educational work so strongly endowed, and possibly no other has had such painstaking efforts made to lay a foundation so strongly consistent with future prospects nor such a broad field of experience to guide it in the initial effort.

Much of the seven years since Mrs. Reed's death were spent by the trustees of the fund in combating litigation. Mrs. Reed died in California, May 16, 1904. A number of nephews and nieces survived her, who were remembered with bequests of from $5,000 to $100,000. Under the laws of California, had Mrs. Reed been a legal resident of that state, it would, it was contended, have been impossible for her to will such a large proportion of the estate to educational or charitable institutions. Some of the nephews and heirs therefore raised the contention that Mrs. Reed was a resident of California and not of Oregon. This litigation, after several years, ended in a final decision that Mrs. Reed's residence was Portland, and the property was distributed according to the terms of the will.

The bequests aside from that to the Reed Institute fund, totaled $339,086.25 and a number of charitable and educational institutions were remembered in addition to the relations. The largest bequest to an Oregon institution was a block of Portland property valued at $40,000 to the Old Ladies' Home. The administrator's final report was submitted on February 27, 1909, and soon thereafter the trustees of the institute fund began their work. These trustees are Rev. T. L. Eliot, chairman. Judge C. E. Wolverton, W. P. Olds, C. A. Dolph and Martin Winch.

The first work of the trustees was to decide upon the character of educational institution that should be established, for under the terms of the will