Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Parker, M. D., Harvey G. 1878 - ************************************************ 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 November 6, 2009, 5:39 pm Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 169-170 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company DR. HARVEY G. PARKER, who has been engaged in the general practice of medicine in Portland for twenty-two years, has achieved high standing in his profession because of his ability and has rendered to his community distinctive service in the conservation of public health. Dr. Parker was born at Owatonna, Minnesota, in 1878, and is a son of J. E. and Jane A. (Banta) Parker. His father, who is a veteran of the Civil war and is eighty-one years of age, resides in Oregon, but the mother died in 1923. They were the parents of five children: Harvey G., Frank, Mrs. W. F. Miller, Mrs. Frank L. Brown and Mrs: E. R. Barton. Dr. Parker received his preliminary education in the public and high schools of Owatonna, after which he entered the medical school of the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. He engaged in general medical and surgical practice at Madison Lake, Minnesota, until the last of 1906, when he went to Europe, doing postgraduate work in Vienna. He then came to Portland and engaged in the practice of medicine, specializing in diseases of the skin. He is a member of the medical staff of the Multnomah County Hospital and has been for seventeen years a teacher in the medical school of the University of Oregon. During the World War he enlisted in the United States Medical Corps, in which he was commissioned a captain, and served at Camp Jackson, where he had charge of skin diseases. He has been a close and constant student of his profession, keeping in close touch with the latest advances in the healing art, and in 1914, and again 1924, he spent some time in postgraduate work in Vienna and London, studying under Profs. Oppenheim, and Finger of Vienna and Sequria and Whitfield, both of London. During the administration of Dr. Harry Lane, Dr. Parker served as assistant health officer of Portland and, at a time when Portland was threatened with bubonic plague, he made a cleanup of the water front in Chinatown, the district being made sanitary and safe from a health standpoint. This required much strenuous work, but the results were satisfactory and were greatly appreciated by the people of this city. In 1901 Dr. Parker was united in marriage to Miss Mary D. Bohen, who is a native of Wisconsin, and they have become the parents of two children. Jennison B., twenty-five years of age, attending the Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Washington, and is now engaged in the advertising agency business in San Francisco, California. Marion C., twenty- one years of age, is a student in the University of Oregon. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic order, the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the University Club, the Portland Academy of Medicine, the Multnomah County Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a man of sincere purpose and upright life, has honored his profession by his efficient and successful career, and is regarded as one of Portland's representative professional men. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/parkermd956gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb