Biography of Lewis T. Brock, M.D., 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Brock, Worsick ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access and not to be removed separately without written permission. ************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - November 2001 ************************************************************************ An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 352 Lewis T. Brock, M.D. Dr. Brock was bron in Woodsfield, Ohio, April 11, 1855, his parents being Dr. Jacob and Annie (Brock) Brock, pioneers of Ohio. His father died when he was yet in his infancy, and his mother moved to Illinois, where she married again, and where our subject grew to early manhood, receiving a public school education. He then graduated from the pharmaceutical department of the state university of Illinois, from which, however, he received no diploma, being too young at the time of graduation. He next went to California and there entered a San Francisco drug store as a clerk, remaining three years. In 1875 he moved to Boise, Idaho, where for the ensuing half decade he was engaged in the drug business in company with Dr. J. B. Wright, then the firm started a branch store in Bellevue, Idaho, of which our subject had charge until 1884. In that year he went to Seattle, and engaged again in the practice of pharmacy, continuing therein until 1888, when he went to South America. After maing an extensive tour of that continent he returned to Portland, where he again engaged in the drug business, at the same time studying in the medical department of the univesity of Oregon, from which he graduated in 1897. He acted as surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for a time, then as surgeon for the Speckles Surgar Company, during the construction of their factory at Salinas, California. He then came, in 1898, to Sumpter, where his abilities as a physician speedily received recognition and soon he found himself in possession of a pleasant and lucrative practice. He is considered one of the finest physicians and surgeons in the county, his standing being an enviable one, both among the people and his fellow practitioners. He was elected city physician shortly after coming here, and in that capacity he has acted ever since. He is also surgeon for the Sumpter Valley Railroad Company and examiner for the Equitable, the Mutual, the Pacific Mutual, the State Life and other insurance companies. In his fraternal affiliations he is identified with the Royal Arch of the Masonic fraternity, the W. of W., the M.W.A., the Pioneers of the Pacific and the I.O.O.F. His marriage was solemnized in Bellevue, Idaho, on November 15, 1882, when Miss Ada A. Worsick became his wife, and they have one child, Jessie. The family in a very pleasant home on Granite street.