Bio of CARLAW, Dr. Chester M. (b.1871), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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CHESTER M. CARLAW, M.D., C.M., F.C.S.A. - Vol III, pg 626-629
No representative of the medical fraternity of Minneapolis is better known or
more highly esteemed than Dr. Chester M. Carlaw, who has' successfully followed
his profession in this city for a period of thirty years, specializing in
surgery, and he has built up a large practice. He was born in the city of
Toronto, Canada, June 5, 1871, and is a son of Major John A. and Susanna
(Chester) Carlaw, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Montreal,
Canada. The father was graduated from the Royal Military College at Kingston, in
the province of Ontario, Canada, with the rank of major and for forty-two years
was employed as cashier in the Toronto offices of the Grand Trunk Railroad
Company. He is now a successful capi­talist of Toronto and although eighty-four
years of age, he is still active in the con­trol of his business interests.
The public schools of his native city afforded Chester M. Carlaw his early
educational privileges and later he became a student at Albert College at
Belleville, Ontario, from which he was graduated in 1888. He then entered the
medical department of McGill University at Montreal, Canada, and in 1891 that
institution conferred upon him the degrees of M. D. and C. M. He served as
interne at the Mon­treal General Hospital and in 1891 came to Minneapolis, where
he has since followed his chosen vocation, concentrating his attention upon
surgical cases. He has done postgraduate work in leading medical institutions of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, Boston, Massachusetts, Buffalo,
New York, and Chicago, Illinois, and is now on the surgical staffs of the
Northwestern and Minneapolis General hospitals. For six years he was professor
of materia medica and clinical medicine at Hamline University of St. Paul and
during the World war he was surgeon on the advisory board for the Minnesota
troops. He is deeply interested in the scientific and humanitarian phases of his
profession, of which he has ever remained an earnest student, and with the
passing years his practice has steadily increased. He has had broad experience
along professional lines and the sureness and precision of his work have won for
him recognition as one of the foremost surgeons of Minneapolis.
On the 5th of August, 1891, Dr. Carlaw was united in marriage to Miss Jennie
Bogart, a daughter of Dr. Irving D. Bogart of Campbellford, Ontario, Canada. Her
demise occurred in 1919. She had become the mother of two children: Mrs. Ralph
E. Clifford, whose husband is a son of George B. Clifford of Minneapolis; and C
Bogart Carlaw, a sophomore at Dartmouth College. Dr. Carlaw is a member of the
Minneapolis Athletic and Automobile clubs and the Lafayette Club and he is a
Scot­tish Rite Mason, having take the thirty-second degree in the consistory,
while he is also a Noble of Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His professional
relations are with the Hennepin County and Mississippi Valley Medical societies,
the Minnesota Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association and he is
also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He possesses the sterling
qualities of the Scotch race and natural talent and acquired ability,
determination and energy, have gained him high standing in his profession.