Multnomah-Union County OR Archives Biographies.....Ewin, M. D., William Henry May 1, 1868 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 379 - 380
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. WILLIAM HENRY EWIN, M. D. is one of the older physicians of Portland 
in years of continuous practice here, having been active in the profession for 
more than two decades. He was born in Missouri, May 1, 1868, his parents being 
Henry G. and Martha (Pritchett) Ewin. His youth was largely passed in the 
vicinity of Independence, Jackson county, Missouri, where he attended the 
district schools and also spent one year as a pupil in the Woodland school of 
Independence. He was afterward employed in a drug store in that city for a 
year and it was this which awakened his interest in medical practice and led 
him to matriculate as a medical student in the University of Missouri, which 
he entered in the fall of 1889, completing his course by graduation with the 
class of 1891. It was always his desire to come west and through a friend he 
learned that a physician was needed at Cove, Union county, Oregon, so to that 
place he made his way. 'However, the expected practice did not materialize and 
in April, 1892, he removed to Union, where he continued for four years, 
meeting with gratifying success and becoming recognized as one of the best 
physicians of that section of the state. However, he sought a still broader 
field of labor when on the 1st of April, 1906, he came to Portland, settling 
in Sunnyside, almost opposite the site of his present office, which is at 983-
1/2 Belmont street. He continues in the general practice of medicine, although 
specializing to a large extent in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. 
In the fall of 1897 he went to the New York Polyclinic for postgraduate work 
and again in 1905 he took up postgraduate work, this time in Chicago. He has 
always kept abreast with the trend of modern professional thought and practice 
and is familiar with the latest discoveries and principles that have to do 
with the medical profession. He belongs to both the City and County Medical 
Society and the American Medical Association.

      Dr. Ewin was united in marriage to Miss Hettie Dobbin, of Union, a 
daughter of John and Florence (Johnson) Dobbin, whose people were pioneers of 
this section of the state. Dr. and Mrs. Ewin have five children. William 
Haskell, who was born April 6, 1896, was accidentally drowned on the 14th of 
July, 1914. James Edwin, born May 11, 1898, married Alma Johnson of Portland 
and resides on a farm in the vicinity of La Grande, Oregon. John Henry, whose 
natal day was April 20, 1900, married Mamime Alderman, of La Grande. Martha 
Florence, twin sister of John Henry, is the wife of Clarence W. Green, of La 
Grande. Walton Herbert was born November 24, 1915.

     Fraternally Dr. Ewin is a Mason, having joined the order at Union, 
Oregon, while now he has membership with Sunnyside Lodge No. 163, F. & A. M., 
and also with the chapter and commandery at La Grande. When he took up his 
abode in Sunnyside the population of this section of the city was small and 
Belmont, now one of the fine and broad thoroughfares of Portland, was paved 
with planks and horse-drawn wagons had to be guided most carefully or they 
would upset owing to deep holes. Dr. Ewin has lived to see marked changes 
until the district in which his office is located is one of the thickly 
populated and highly improved districts of Portland. His ability in his chosen 
field has gained for him a liberal patronage, with attendant gratifying 
financial return, and he is now numbered among the older physicians of the 
east side.

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