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Rh tion of the pleasures of life make him popular in club circles. An analyzation of his life record indicates that close application, determination and industry have been the salient features in his success. He possesses a natural inclination to stick to a proposition until the desired result is achieved and his faithfulness and ability have carried him into important relation with the railway interests of the northwest.

J. C. ELLIOTT KING, M. D.

The profession as well as the public, accords to Dr. J. C. Elliott King a prominent position among the medical practitioners of the northwest. Close study has formed the basis of his advancement and combined with an appreciation of the scientific phase of his profession is a deep and abiding sympathy that prompts him to put forth earnest and unfaltering effort where the welfare of his fellowmen is involved.

Dr. King is a western man by birth, training and experience. He was born in Stearns county, Minnesota, September 26, 1861. His father, Eli B. King, is a native of New York, has devoted his life to farming, and is now living in Monticello, Minnesota, where he is numbered among the pioneers, having located there fifty-six years ago. He is now living retired, having reached the age of eighty years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Adelia Burns, was born in Dundalk, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish lineage, and became a resident of the state of New York when twelve years of age. She has now passed the seventy-ninth milestone on life's journey. Three of the children of Eli B. and Adelia King are living: Lorin U. and Mrs. Mason Allen, both of St. Paul, Minnesota; and J. C. Elliott King, of this review.

As a pupil in the public schools. Dr. King pursued his early education, and later entered the State University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated with the B. A. degree in 1886. For a year he engaged in teaching at Elk River, Minnesota, and afterward took up the study of medicine, completing his course in the Northwestern University Medical School, which conferred upon him his professional degree upon his graduation with the class of 1890. He spent eight months as interne in St. Luke's Hospital, being appointed to the position as the result of his first grade in a competitive examination. He also took an examination with the graduating class in science, literature and medicine, and for his excellent scholarship received a cash prize of fifty dollars.

Removing to Salt Lake City, Dr. King there began practice, continuing for thirteen years, and his high standing among his professional brethren is indicated by the fact that he was honored with the presidency of the city and county medical society. He was also chosen secretary of the state medical society, served on the staff of St. Mark's Hospital, and during the last four years was health commissioner of the city. Deciding to further equip himself for his life work, he then went to Europe and pursued post-graduate studies in skin diseases in Vienna, Berlin and Breslau, and also visited clinics in Paris and London. On his return in the summer of 1904, he located in Portland, since which time he has given his attention entirely to his profession. He has served in this connection on the staff of the county hospital, and is a lecturer on skin diseases in the medical department of the University of Oregon. Feeling that progress should be the watchword of the profession at all times, he keeps in touch with the great truths which science is constantly revealing, through his membership in the Multnomah County, Oregon State and American Medical Associations. Aside from his practice, he is interested in fruit growing, owning two hundred acres of land at Eagle Creek, Oregon, where he has planted an apple orchard, and also walnut trees, making his summer home there.

On the 14th of May, 1891, Dr. King was married in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Miss Adelia M. Kiehle, a daughter of the Rev. Dr. D. L. Kiehle, who was