Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Strohm, M. D., J. Guy 1885 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 557
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. J. GUY STROHM, M. D., a veteran of the World war entitled to wear 
both Belgian and French decorations and numbered among the capable physicians 
of Portland since 1911, was born in Endicott, Nebraska, in 1885. He is a son 
of George W. and Augusta (Read) Strohm. The father, a native of Pennsylvania, 
devoted his life largely to merchandising and on leaving the east removed to 
Illinois, while his last days were spent in Nebraska, where he died in 1907, 
his wife passing away the following year.

     Dr. Strohm acquired his high school education in Fairbury, Nebraska, and 
following the removal of the family to the Cornhusker state became a student 
in the University of Nebraska. He also attended the University of Michigan at 
Ann Arbor and in preparation for the practice of medicine entered the Rush 
Medical College of Chicago, from which he received his M. D. degree in 1910. 
He obtained early practical experience in his chosen calling as an interne in 
the Cook County Hospital and in the following year came to Portland, where he 
has remained continuously since 1911. In that year he was elected secretary of 
the City and County Medical Society. He began practice and was commissioned in 
the Medical Reserve Corps by President Wilson as a lieutenant in 1916. He was 
then ordered on active duty, recruiting men of the medical profession for the 
army, and organized the first volunteer unit in Portland. For two years he was 
on military duty at Camp Lewis and then went overseas as a lieutenant colonel, 
as division surgeon in the Ninety-first Division, having the distinction of 
being the youngest division surgeon in the American Expeditionary Force. In 
May, 1919, he was honorably discharged and soon after he received a commission 
as colonel.

     Returning to Portland, Dr. Strohm was elected president of the medical 
society in 1922 and was elected president of the University Club in 1924. For 
the past ten years he has done a great amount of charity work at the free 
dispensary and he is constantly extending a helping hand in individual cases 
where aid is needed. He is now a member of the staff of the County Hospital 
and in addition has a large private practice, the duties of which he most 
conscientiously meets. He was decorated for overseas service by a medal from 
King Albert, also received the French Medal of Honor, the Croix de Guerre and 
in 1928 was awarded the French Legion of Honor by special act of congress 
passed May 26, 1928, authorizing different officers to accept these medals.

     Dr. Strohm married Miss Florence Michel, who was born in Ohio and 
educated in Chicago, their marriage, however, being celebrated in Portland in 
1912. The Doctor belongs to the Masonic fraternity, to the Phi Kappa Psi, the 
Nu Sigma Nu and to the Waverly Club. His social qualities make him popular 
wherever he is known and he enjoys meeting with his many friends but regards 
his professional duties as his first interest. He has utilized every 
opportunity for promoting his efficiency in his chosen field, several times 
taking postgraduate courses in Vienna (he spent September and October, 1928, 
in postgraduate work in Vienna) and at all times has kept in touch with the 
current literature of the profession.

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