Multnomah-Washington-Lane County OR Archives Biographies.....Hall, M. D., Chester G.  May 5, 1881 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 522
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CHESTER G. HALL, M. D.  For twenty-two years Dr. Chester G. Hall has been 
engaged in the practice of medicine in Portland and is a pioneer of that 
section of the city in which he is located, for at the time of his arrival 
here the district was largely undeveloped, the residents were widely scattered 
and there were few thoroughfares, so that patients had to be visited on 
horseback. With all the passing years Dr. Hall has witnessed remarkable 
changes as the work of improvement and development has been carried forward 
and throughout the intervening period he, too, has made substantial progress, 
at all times keeping abreast with modern methods in medical and surgical 
practice, so that he is now classed with Portland's foremost physicians. While 
not a native of this city, he has always been identified with the northwest, 
his birth occurring in Goldendale, Washington, May 5, 1881, his parents being 
Alfred C. and Celina (Sells) Hall, who came from Missouri in 1852, taking up 
their abode in Goldendale, where they remained for a short time and then 
removed to Cedar Mill, Oregon, where the father secured a donation land claim.

      Dr. Hall was reared in Sherwood, Oregon, pursuing his preliminary 
education in the public schools there, while later he attended the Pacific 
University at Forest Grove and was graduated in 1900, having completed a 
classical course. He then entered upon preparation for the medical profession 
and won his M. D. degree in 1904. He first opened an office at Cottage Grove, 
where he remained for a few months, while later he spent two years in practice 
in Halsey, Oregon. Portland numbered him among her citizens in 1906, at which 
time he opened an office on Greeley street, on the corner on which he is still 
located, meeting the medical requirements of the few scattered families in 
this district but building up a large practice as settlement increased here. 
He was alone until 1925, when he admitted Dr. George H. Bendshadler to a 
partnership. In 1907 Dr. Hall took postgraduate work in Chicago and further 
has studied in New York and New Orleans, utilizing every available opportunity 
to broaden his knowledge and promote his efficiency in medical practice. He 
has ever been actuated by a laudable ambition to make his service of the 
greatest possible benefit to his fellowmen and is the loved family physician 
in many households in his section of the city.

     Dr. Hall married Miss Minnie M. Mount, daughter of Henry D. Mount and 
representative of a pioneer family of Silverton, Oregon. More extended 
reference to Henry D. Mount is made on another page of this work in connection 
with the sketch of his son, Dr. Hugh Stevens Mount. Dr. and Mrs. Hall occupy 
an enviable social position and he is also well known in Masonic circles, 
belonging to Hawthorne Lodge, No. 111, F. & A. M., and to the Scottish Rite 
bodies, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree. The major part of 
his time and attention, however, is concentrated upon his professional 
interests and duties, and to the end of furthering his knowledge he holds 
membership in the City and County Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical 
Society and the American Medical Association.

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