Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Jones, M. D., Noble Wiley June 18, 1876 - ************************************************ 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 Wakley iwakley@msn.com October 24, 2009, 12:05 pm Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 87-88 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company The medical profession in the Columbia River valley is honored by the membership of Dr. Noble Wiley Jones, of Portland, who stands in the front rank of the learned, skilled and successful physicians of this section of the country. The Doctor was born in Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, on the 13th of June, 1876, and received his early education in the public and high schools of Red Wing, Minnesota. He entered the University of Wisconsin and transferred to Stanford University from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1895, after which he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Chicago, winning the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. He spent three and a half years in postgraduate work in Europe, where he was a student under V. Neusser and Ghon, of the University of Vienna; Adolf Schmidt, of the University of Halle, Germany; Kuttner and Ewald, of the University of Berlin; and Sir Thomas Lewis, of the University of London. He served three years as a chemist for a mining company in Utah, from 1895 to 1898, and from 1901 to 1903 was resident physician in the Cook County Hospital, Chicago. He then entered upon the private practice of his profession in South Dakota, where he remained two years, after which he was in Vienna until 1906, and in the following year he located in Portland, where he has practiced to the present time. The Doctor is a member of the Portland Academy of Medicine, the City and County Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the Association of American Physicians and the American Gastroenterological Association, also of the scholarship fraternities, Alpha Omega Alpha and Sigma Xi. He is clinical professor of medicine in the medical department of the University of Oregon and is a member of the staffs of the Multnomah County Hospital, the Doernbecher Hospital for Children and the Central Free Dispensary. Dr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Nellie S. Sturtevant, who is a native of Minnesota and who completed her education in Hamline University, at St. Paul. Dr. and Mrs. Jones have three children, namely: Orville N., eighteen years of age, a student in Reed College; Thomas S., fifteen years old, who is in Lincoln high school; and Jeanette, thirteen years old, attending the Preparatory school. Dr. Jones is a Knights Templar Mason and belongs to the Arlington Club, the University Club and the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/jonesmd893gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb