Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Sears, M. D., Charles E. 1878 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 982 - 983
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CHARLES E. SEARS, M. D.  The medical fraternity of Portland finds a 
worthy and successful representative in Dr. Charles E. Sears, who has here 
been continuously engaged in practice for the past fifteen years. He was born 
at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1878, a son of Henry H. and Katherine M. 
(Gillmore) Sears. His father was long active in the milling business. D. D. 
Sears, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Sears and a representative of the Sears 
family of Boston, Massachusetts, served with the rank of brigadier general in 
the commissary department of the Union army during the period of the Civil war.

     Charles E. Sears acquired his early education at the place of his 
nativity, afterward entered the University of Iowa and subsequently 
matriculated in the University of Illinois, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1901, having completed the medical course. He first served as 
interne in the Cook County Hospital of Chicago, later removed to northern 
Idaho and for five years was connected with Providence Hospital at Wallace, 
that state. It was in January, 1913, that he came to Portland, Oregon, and 
here associated himself with Dr. Coffey, establishing the first medical group. 
Subsequently he formed a connection with the firm of Jones, Joyce & Johnson 
which continued for eight years. In 1925 he joined Drs. Coffey and Johnston 
and in the following year formed his present affiliation with Drs. Bean and 
Montague. Dr. Sears is a clinician in the University of Oregon School of 
Medicine. He has a clear understanding of the basic principles of medical 
science and his mature judgment directs the utilization of this knowledge in 
practice.

     In 1906, in Chicago, Dr. Sears was united in marriage to Irma Mentz, of 
that city, where she received her education. They are the parents of two 
daughters, namely: Marcella Marcio, who is pursuing an art course in Europe 
and will complete her studies at Mills College of New York; and Norma Eloise, 
who is studying dramatics in the Bennett School for Girls at Millbrook, New 
York.

     Dr. Sears is a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the 
Masonic fraternity, to which he belongs, and is also a member of the 
University Club and the Waverly Golf Club. Along strictly professional lines 
he has membership connection with the City and County Medical Society, the 
American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the Pacific 
Northwest Medical Association and the Northern Pacific Society of Internal 
Medicine. He has chosen a vocation well suited to his talents and his 
stability of character and genuine worth have established him high in public 
regard.

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