Multnomah-Washington County OR Archives Biographies.....Jones, M. D., Arthur C. September 4, 1896 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 522 - 523
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. ARTHUR C. JONES, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Portland, with 
offices at 1533 The Alameda, was born in Oberlin, Ohio, September 4, 1896, and 
traces his ancestry in direct line back to the Mayflower, which brought to the 
new world the band of Pilgrims who planted the seeds of civilization on the 
soil of New England. The Jones family is of Welsh and English lineage. His 
father, the Rev. Burton H. Jones, is a Congregational minister now residing at 
Forest Grove, Oregon. He married Angie Tallmon, whose people were of English 
and Amsterdam Dutch lineage.

     During his early years Dr. Jones resided at various points at his 
father's ministerial duties called him to different places. He therefore 
obtained his education in the schools of various states, spending three years 
amid the sand hills at Hyannis in Nebraska. That district was particularly a 
frontier region, wild and unsettled. He also passed three years of his early 
life in Kansas and in 1904 reached California. The year 1906 witnessed his 
arrival at Oswego, Oregon, where his father was minister of the Congregational 
church for five years. There Arthur C. Jones largely acquired his early 
education but finally completed his eighth grade work at Beaverton and his 
high school course at Forest Grove. From 1916 until 1921 he also attended 
Pacific University at Forest Grove save for the period in 1918 when he was on 
active service in the army with a machine gun battalion. He was made mounted 
orderly but the war closed before the command was sent overseas.

     On being discharged Dr. Jones returned to Forest Grove and again entered 
Pacific University, from which he was graduated in 1921, the Bachelor of Arts 
degree being at that time conferred upon him. He next attended the Medical 
School of the University of Oregon and was graduated in 1926. He made his own 
way through college, much of his money being acquired through playing in 
orchestras. He also taught in the medical school a part of the time for four 
years, giving instruction in anatomy.

     In 1925 he won his Master's degree from the University of Oregon, in 
anatomy. For more than a year he had practical experience as interne in St. 
Luke's Hospital in Chicago, his work there being of great benefit to him as a 
training for later professional duties. In August, 1927, he opened an office 
at 1514 Sandy boulevard in Portland and is now located in The Alameda, having 
a pleasant suite of rooms. He is a member of the Else Dudman Nelson Clinic in 
the Medical Arts building and he is steadily building up a good practice in 
medicine and surgery for which his thorough training well qualifies him, while 
in all his professional service he is most conscientious and earnest.

     In September, 1924, Dr. Jones married Miss Doris Wolcott, of Portland, 
and they are well known socially here. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to 
Holbrook Lodge, No. 30, A. F. & A. M., of Forest Grove. He is a member of the 
Nu Sigma Nu, a medical fraternity, and he belongs to the City and County 
Medical Society and to the Oregon State Medical Society.

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