Multnomah-Washington County OR Archives Biographies.....Tamiesie, M. D., J. Phillippe 1861 - 
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     J. PHILLIPPE TAMIESIE, M. D.  Among Portland's best known medical men 
stands Dr. J. Philippe Tamiesie, whose success in combatting human disease has 
won for him an enviable reputation throughout this section of the state. He 
was born on a farm in Iowa in 1861 and is a son of Jean Batiste and Philipene 
(Goffette) Tamiesie. The latter was a native of France and was married at the 
age of sixteen years. The father was born in New York state and in an early 
day brought his family west on one of the emigrant trains of that period, 
which required eleven and a half days to transport them from Council Bluffs, 
Iowa, to San Francisco in 1879.  The passengers were required to take with 
them sufficient food for the entire trip, and when the engine would run out of 
fuel the passengers would all get out and hunt buffalo chips to supply this 
need. Mr. Tamiesie was influenced to come west through newspaper articles 
published by Mr. Samuel, whose son is now president of the Oregon Life 
Insurance Company, and for a time he engaged in the contracting business for 
L. B. Seuly of the Oregon Iron and Steel Company. To him and his wife were 
born ten children.

     J. Phillippe Tamiesie secured his early education in the public schools, 
after which he taught school for a time. He studied medicine under a tutor and 
after coming west graduated from the medical school of the University of 
Oregon with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1889. He went to the Big Bend 
country under J. J. Buckley, chief surgeon of the Northern Pacific Railroad 
Company, remaining there until 1892, when he located in Hillsboro, Washington 
county, Oregon, where he practiced medicine until 1912. He then went to 
Europe, doing postgraduate work in Paris and London, and on his return to this 
country attended some of the noted eastern clinics, including that of Johns 
Hopkins University. He then located in Portland, where he is still actively 
engaged in professional work, specializing in X-ray and diagnosis. In 1895 he 
organized and established the Oregon Condensed Milk Company at Hillsboro,, 
Oregon, and operated it for four years. This was the first canned milk made in 
Oregon. He had the largest condensed vacuum pan on the Pacific coast. He sold 
to the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company and the plant is still running.

     In 1890 Dr. Tamiesie was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Wilcox, who was 
born near Reno, Nevada, and completed her education at the State Normal School 
at Monmouth, Oregon. Dr. and Mrs. Tamiesie have a son and daughter: K. L., now 
twenty-eight years of age, who is a graduate of the University of California, 
and Lura, wife of J. M. Lansinger, who is owner of the publication College 
Humor. The Doctor is a member of the Waverly Golf Club, the Arlington Club and 
the University Club, and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He 
is a man of kindly and courteous manner, possesses the happy faculty of being 
able to inspire confidence on the part of his patients, and is held in 
grateful regard by hundreds whom he has served professionally, while 
throughout the community he commands uniform respect.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 888-889

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