Multnomah-Lane County OR Archives Biographies.....Palmer, M. D., C. Harold October 1, 1890 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 669 - 670
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. C. HAROLD PALMER, M. D. is recognized as one of the most successful 
of the younger physicians in the Portland district and is making steady 
progress toward the goal of prominence and prosperity. Born in Hemingford, 
Nebraska, on the 1st of October, 1890, he was largely reared in Iowa, where he 
attended the public schools. After coming to Oregon he entered Willamette 
University at Salem, matriculating in 1911. He studied for two years in that 
institution and then spent a similar period as a medical student at the 
University of Oregon, from which he was graduated with the class of 1915. A 
year's service as interne in St. Vincent's Hospital at Portland was followed 
by a brief period as a medical practitioner in the little town of Mabel, near 
Eugene, where he remained until 1917, when he responded to his country's call, 
for the United States had then entered the World war. He enlisted and went to 
Camp Lewis but after a short time was sent overseas in July, 1918, with the 
famous Ninety-first Division as a member of the Three Hundred and Sixty-fourth 
Infantry Medical Corps. He saw active service along the western front, being 
stationed at Ypres at the time the armistice was signed, and during the period 
of his active duty he was promoted to the rank of captain and later to that of 
major. He made a splendid war record and today one of his valued possessions 
is a large case of fine surgical instruments which he obtained in the Argonne 
drive, the case, as he expresses it, having been left by the Germans in their 
haste to go back and see the Kaiser.

     When peace was declared Dr. Palmer went to London, where he did 
university work and also pursued postgraduate work in the London Hospital. 
After thirteen weeks he was awarded a fellowship of medicine in the emergency 
graduates course. In August, 1919, having returned to the United States, he 
received his discharge and at once came to Portland, where he opened an office 
in the Medical building. After a short time he located in St. Johns, where he 
has a very extensive general practice, including a large amount of surgical 
work, mainly major operations. He has a full electrical equipment and his 
office is supplied with every device that is an aid to successful medical and 
surgical practice. His knowledge and skill are being constantly augmented by 
his wide reading, study and experience and he today occupies an enviable 
position in professional circles. He has an excellent X-ray physio-therapy 
equipment, so that he is able to engage in any phase of curative activity.

     Dr. Palmer married Miss Erma Barr, of Idaho, and they have become parents 
of three children: Barr, Patricia and C. Harold, Jr., aged respectively 
eleven, eight and six years.

     Dr. Palmer was made a Mason in Doric lodge, at St. Johns, and is a loyal 
follower of the teachings of the craft. He also belongs to the Alpha Kappa 
Kappa fraternity, while along strictly professional lines he is identified 
with the City and County Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical 
Association, the American Medical Association, the Northwest Medical Society 
and the Medical Society of London, which is one of the oldest in the world. 
His experience has been exceedingly broad, due in part to his military 
service, and actuated by a laudable ambition he has steadily progressed in a 
field which has rendered his life one of great service to his fellowmen.

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