Biography of C. M. Pearce, MD, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon:

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 355

C. M. Pearce, M.D.

Though a very young man, the subject of this review has already achieved much
in the difficult profession he has chosen for his own, and he certainly gives
great promise of becoming one of the leading physicians and surgeons in the
west. A graduate of one of the most famous medical colleges in the United
States, and gifted with great natural ability, he seems to have come int
prominence all at once, without undergoing the novitiate so trying to young
professional men, and already he and his partner are in possession of a large
and lucrative practice.

Dr. Pearce is a son of Thomas M. and Laura M. (Carter) Pearce, natives
respectively of Iowa and Illinois, The father crossed the plains to the
Willamette valley in 1850, and ten years he came to Clark's creek in eastern
Oregon to engage in mining and in operating with a pack train between Umatilla
Landing and Boise. The mother came with her parents via New York and Panama to
California, and thence they removed to Oregon in 1861. In 1874 their marriage
was solemnized, and on February 16, 1876, our subject was born. He received
the advantages offered by the common schools of the county and by Baker City
high school, and with this preparation entered Jefferson Medical College, of
Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1899. He then took a course in the
Jefferson Medical College hospital and three months' training in the
Philadelphia sanitarium for children, thereupon coming to Sumpter, Oregon,
where he and Dr. Tape started the Sumpter general hospital. Dr. Tape later
sold out to Dr. Anderson, our subject's present partner. They have a large
practice, the natural result of their skill and care, for they are counted as
among the leading physicians of the county.

In fraternal affiliations Dr. Pearce is identified with the B.P.O.E. of Baker
City; he also belongs to the W. W. Keen Surgical Society of Philadelphia. In
Philadelphia, on September 19, 1899, Dr. Pearce married Miss Janette, daughter
of James and Elizabeth Hurley, of that city. Mrs. Pearce is a graduate nurse
of Jefferson Medical College hospital of Philadelphia, and renders her husband
very material assistance in the supervision and management of his hospital.