Multnomah-Lane County OR Archives Biographies.....Bettman, M. D. , Adalbert G. 1883 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 407 - 408
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. ADALBERT G. BETTMAN, M. D., of Portland, has won a wide reputation as 
a skilled plastic surgeon and in both lay and professional circles is regarded 
as well worthy of the confidence and respect of his fellowmen. The Doctor was 
born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1883, and is a son of Goodman and Bertha (Simon) 
Bettman, who were married in Portland. His father came to this state in 1860 
by way of the Isthmus of Panama from Bavaria, where he was born in 1845, and 
was essentially a self-made man, having from boyhood depended on his own 
efforts and resources, achieving a worthy measure of success. For a while 
during his early life here he was employed in a grocery store in Portland, and 
then completed his education at Portland Academy, which stood on the site of 
the Portland hotel. In 1868 he went to Eugene and conducted a general 
merchandise business, in which prosperity crowned his efforts and he became 
one of the well-to-do and influential business men of that city. In the days 
before banks were established in Eugene, he owned the only safe in that 
locality with the exception of the one in the office of the Wells-Fargo 
Express Company which closed when the train left in the early afternoon. 
Farmers freely used Mr. Bettman's safe as an overnight repository. In 1897 Mr. 
and Mrs. Goodman Bettman returned to Portland and Mr. Bettman was prominently 
connected with the retail drug business for a number of years.

     Mrs. Bettman was born in Germany in 1853 and came to Portland with her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Simon, in 1868, by way of the Isthmus of Panama. 
She resided in Portland until her marriage to Goodman Bettman of Eugene in 
1879. To them were born four sons, surviving are: A. G., of this review; M. 
Montefiore, who is engaged in the practice of periodontia in Portland, and C. 
Hugo, president of the Bettman Nut Company of New York city.

     A. G. Bettman attended the public schools and high school, and 
matriculated in the medical school of the University of Oregon, from which he 
was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1907, since which time 
he has engaged in the practice of his profession in Portland, having his 
offices in the Medical Arts building. He specializes in plastic surgery, in 
which he has shown extraordinary skill, and commands an extensive practice. He 
is attending surgeon at the Good Samaritan Hospital and is ex-president of its 
association and is consulting surgeon at the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled 
Children and Veterans' Hospital No. 77. He is a member of the Portland City 
and County Medical Society, its council and its board of censors, the Oregon 
State Medical Society, and a Fellow of the American Medical Association.

     He is a trustee and president of the Medical Society Telephone Service, 
trustee "Northwest Medicine," Seattle, past-president Portland Lodge, No. 65, 
Independent Order B'nai B'rith, member Pacific Northwest Medical Association, 
treasurer Portland Academy of Medicine, member Oregon Public Health League, ex-
president Alumni Association, Medical School, University of Oregon; ex-
president Portland Medical Journal Club, member Portland Lodge, No. 142, B. P. 
0. Elks, and a member Congregation Beth Israel.

     He has written a number of articles on plastic surgery which have been 
published in the leading medical magazines and have been well received by the 
profession. In 1921, in San Francisco, California, Dr. Bettman was united in 
marriage to Miss Hermine Loewy. A man of splendid personality, kind and 
sympathetic in his relations with his patients, he is held in grateful regard 
by hundreds who have been benefited by his able services, while throughout the 
community he is greatly esteemed.

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