Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Norden,, M. D., Ben L. 1879 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 423 - 424
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. BEN L. NORDEN, M. D., a well known physician and surgeon of Portland, 
where he has been continuously engaged in practice during the past twenty 
years, is widely recognized as one of the skilled and successful 
representatives of his profession. He is a native son of Portland, born in 
1879. His father, Ben L. Norden, a native of New York, arrived in Portland, 
Oregon, as early as 1859 and was connected with the United States customs 
service here. He was a democrat in politics and took an active part in public 
affairs, serving most acceptably in the capacities of sheriff, county clerk 
and auditor. His death occurred in 1898. In Portland he married Miss Mary 
Maher, a native of Ireland, who had emigrated to the United States in 1861 and 
had come to this city in 1867 via the Isthmus of Panama and by way of San 
Francisco. In their family were a son and two daughters, namely: Ben L., of 
this review; Mrs. W. E. Prudhome; and Frances.

     Ben L. Norden acquired his early education in Portland and received his 
more advanced classical and professional training in the University of Oregon, 
being graduated from the Medical department of that institution in 1907 and 
the Law Department in 1915. Subsequently to 1907 he served as interne and 
house surgeon in St. Vincents Hospital, Portland, terminating his service 
there in May, 1908. After which he pursued postgraduate studies in the New 
York Postgraduate Hospital mid New York Polyclinic. In addition to meeting the 
demands of his private practice he served for two terms as coroner, to which 
office he was elected in 1908 and again in 1910. Dr. Norden was a surgeon in 
the United States Navy during the period of the World war and was on board the 
U. S. S. South Dakota. After the armistice he served on U. S. S. Aeolus, 
plying between Hampton Roads and France in the transport service. He was 
afterward assigned to duty at the U. S. Marine recruiting station in Portland, 
Oregon, and following his honorable discharge from the service in 1921 
returned to private practice in Portland where he has since been actively 
engaged in the work of his chosen profession and has been accorded a very 
gratifying practice. Through his membership in the City and County Medical 
Society he keeps thoroughly informed concerning the most advanced methods and 
theories of the science of medicine and surgery, and on the staff of St. 
Vincent's Hospital his services are much appreciated.

     Dr. Norden gives his political support to the republican party and 
fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World and the Royal Arcanum. By a 
life consistent in motive and because of his many fine qualities of head and 
heart he has earned the sincere regard of a vast acquaintance in fraternal, 
social and professional circles of his native city.

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