Multnomah-Wasco County OR Archives Biographies.....Rinehart, M. D. , Jackson Carle May 6, 1885 - ************************************************ 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 February 1, 2011, 2:25 pm Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 823 - 824 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company DR. JACKSON CARLE RINEHART, M. D., who is engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery in Portland, is a scion of old pioneer stock and has always been a loyal and persistent supporter of Oregon, of which state he is a native son. He was born in Summerville, May 6, 1885, his parents being Dr. Willard Ellis and Emily Belle (Cooper) Rinehart. His grandfather in the paternal line was James H. Rinehart, who crossed the plains to Oregon in 1848 and built the first log cabin at La Grande. Later he established the town of Summerville and opened the first bank and the first flour mill at that place. His son, Dr. Willard E. Rinehart, was born in 1861, was graduated from the old Willamette Medical School and afterward engaged actively in the practice of medicine until his death, which occurred in 1893. He was a man of broad learning and marked capability and served for a number of years as an instructor and lecturer in the Willamette Medical School. His wife was a daughter of Daniel J. Cooper, who crossed the plains in 1863, and her birth occurred in Kentucky while the family was en route to their western home. Some time after the death of her husband she took up the practice of medicine, which she followed for two years and then became the wife of Dr. E. E. Ferguson. To Willard E. and Emily Belle Rinehart were born four sons: Jackson Carle; Harvey Earle, also a physician; Willard Sayre, who died in 1927; and Philip Cooper, who is engaged in the real estate business. Dr. Jackson C. Rinehart acquired his early education in the public schools of The Dalles, Oregon, and afterward attended Pacific College at Newberg, Oregon, for four years. He next entered the Oregon Agricultural College, from which he was graduated in 1904, having majored in engineering. In that year he became station inspector for the Portland Railway Light & Power Company in Portland, occupying the position continuously until 1911, when having determined to follow in the professional footsteps of his father, he enrolled as a medical student in the University of Oregon, in which he completed a four years' course, winning his professional degree in 1915. He became associated in practice with Dr. Harry F. McKay, with whom he remained two years, and in 1917 he entered upon an independent practice, remaining alone to the present time. While a capable medical practitioner, he specializes in surgery and has won a wide and well merited reputation for his skill and success. He today enjoys a large and representative practice and is accorded the confidence and esteem of his fellow members of the profession. He is also serving on the medical staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital. On the 1st of August, 1907, Dr. Rinehart was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Prichard, a daughter of Professor D. W. Prichard, of Corvallis, in the schools of which city she was educated. Dr. and Mrs. Rinehart have one son, James Carle, usually known as Jimmie, who was born in Portland in 1909. He is a graduate of the Jefferson high school and now a student in Reed College, pursuing a preparatory course with a view of later taking up the study of medicine and eventually becoming associated with his father in practice. His name is widely known in connection with aviation. When but a youth he built his own plane in 1926 and learned to fly. When but seventeen years of age he went to Kansas and flew from there to the Pacific coast in a plane that he had purchased with his own money. He has taught his father and mother to fly and probably has received more press notices than any boy of his years and undoubtedly has done much to inspire other youths by his achievements. He is the youngest transport pilot in the United States, having been licensed on his eighteenth birthday, and he holds the world's endurance record (official) for 0 X 5 class, made in the American Eagle plane at Seaside, Oregon, June 29, 1928. He has his own corporation — the Columbia Gorge Air Service, Inc., with sea planes and land planes, with hangars at Hayden island and Jantzen Beach park, all built by himself. The planes are used for sightseeing trips in the Columbia gorge and he gives student instruction. He established the first passenger route from Portland to the ocean beaches in 1927, making weekly trips, and in the same year he entered the national air races, flying from San Francisco to Spokane. Dr. and Mrs. Rinehart also have a daughter, Dorothy Mary, born in Portland in 1916 and now attending the Elliott public school. The Doctor is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World and the Acacia Club. Naturally he is deeply interested in aviation matters and has stood back of his son in his activities in that connection. Along strictly professional lines he is identified with the Portland Academy of Medicine, the Multnomah County Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The Doctor represents the third generation of the family in Oregon, where for eight decades he and his forbears have taken active part in supporting all those plans and projects which have made for the development of the city and the upbuilding of the state. The name of Rinehart is inseparably interwoven with the records of Portland and the career of Dr. J. C. Rinehart reflects added credit and honor upon an untarnished family name. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/rinehart1439gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 6.2 Kb