Multnomah-Jackson County OR Archives Biographies.....Easter, Drs. C. F. And Mabel B. 1878 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com August 29, 2010, 1:17 am Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 551 - 552 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company DRS. C. F. AND MABEL B. EASTER has built up a gratifying practice in the field of physio-therapy since coming to Portland a decade ago. He was born in Kansas in 1878, his parents being Dr. Jacob P. and Martha (Musgrave) Easter, the former a native of Ohio, in which state they were married. Jacob P. Easter received the degree of M. D. upon the completion of a medical course in 1869. Coming to the Pacific coast country, he located first at Farmington, Washington county, Oregon, and thence in 1884 removed to Coos county, where he engaged successfully in the practice of medicine and surgery. He now resides in Coos Bay, where he is still active in the work of his chosen profession, but his wife passed away in 1914. Their family numbered two sons and two daughters. C. F. Easter was a lad of four years when in 1884 he came with his parents to Oregon, and in the schools of this state he acquired his early education. Subsequently he attended the Southern Oregon Normal school at Ashland, Oregon, and following his graduation taught school for two years, on the expiration of which period he took up the training course in physical education. In further preparation for professional work he attended the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic and the Los Angeles Eclectic College of Naturopathy-Physical Therapy, graduating in 1918. He had spent several years as a professional associate of his father, who was at that time practicing medicine in Los Angeles, and in 1918 he took up his permanent abode in Portland, where he has since been active in the field of physio-therapy. Since his marriage in 1919 he has been associated in practice with his wife, Dr. Mabel B. Easter. Their attractive offices at 72 North Twentieth street are completely equipped in all types of lights, electro-therapy and radio-therapy and the extensive practice accorded them is evidence of the efficacy of their methods. Dr. C. F. Easter has kept abreast of the most advanced work of his science and to further augment his knowledge pursued a postgraduate course in the American College of Physical Therapy Chiropractic at Lima, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1926 and also from the Northwest College of Physical Therapy in 1927. In 1919, in Portland, Dr. C. F. Easter was married to Dr. Mabel Coplen James, a native of Forest Grove, Oregon, and a daughter of George W. and Sarah (Bowbly) Coplen. Her father died in 1898, and her mother, an Oregon pioneer who was a music instructor in Pacific University for a number of years, now makes her home in Spokane, Washington. The grandfather of Mrs. Easter in the maternal line was one of the early physicians of Washington county, Oregon, where he engaged in practice from 1852 until 1893, or for a period of forty- one years. Dr. Mabel Easter received splendid training for her chosen life work as a student in the San Francisco College of Chiropractic and in the Pacific Chiropractic College of Portland, from which she was graduated in 1920. Four years later she took a postgraduate course. She is a popular member of the Portland Woman's Club. By a former marriage she has two children, namely: Barrie James, a youth of nineteen, who is a graduate of the Lincoln high school of Portland; and Elizabeth May James, a maiden of sixteen, who is attending the Lincoln high school. Donald Easter, son of Dr. C. F. Easter by a former marriage, is fifteen and a student in the Benson Polytechnic School of Portland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/easter1256gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb