Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Tharaldsen, M. D., Thorfinn 1879 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 92-93
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. THORFINN THARALDSEN, successfully engaged in the general practice of 
medicine and surgery in Portland, was born at Battle Lake, Minnesota, in 1879, 
a son of Ivor and Emily (Engerud) Tharaldsen, who were married in Racine, 
Wisconsin, and are now deceased. The father was a preacher of the gospel. In 
the family were three sons and a daughter, namely: Agott Tharaldsen, who is a 
teacher of music in New York; Thorfinn Tharaldsen, of this review; Conrad 
Tharaldsen, who is a professor of anatomy in the New York Medical College; and 
Hjalmar Tharaldsen, sales manager for the Cameron Supply Company of Chicago.

     Thorfinn Tharaldsen acquired his early education at the place of his 
nativity and subsequently matriculated in the University of Minnesota, from 
which instituŽtion he was graduated in 1902 on the completion of a course in 
medicine. After spending two years as an interne in St. Mary's Hospital of 
Minneapolis he located for the practice of his chosen profession at 
Cottonwood, Minnesota, where he reŽmained for eleven years. When the United 
States became involved in the World war in 1917 he joined the army and was 
stationed at Fort Riley and Camp Funston. He organized the S. P. D. Sanitary 
Department in the army; was in charge of the Auditorium Hospital for the city 
of Portland during the flu epidemic in 1918-19, and following his honorable 
discharge was associated with Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, to which 
organization he gave his professional services until 1921. In that year he 
became associated in the practice of medicine with Dr. G. T. Trommald but 
since the latter's death in 1922 has carried on his work alone and is widely 
recognized as one of Portland's most capable and skilled physicians and 
surgeons. Dr. Tharaldsen is surgeon for the Inman-Poulson Lumber Company of 
Portland and for the Portland Shipbuilding Company. With the onward march of 
his profession he keeps in close touch through his membership in the Portland 
Medical Society, the Multnomah County Medical Society, the American Medical 
Association and the Academy of Medicine. His name is also on the membership 
roll of the American Legion.

     At Minneapolis, in 1904, Dr. Tharaldsen was united in marriage to Mabelle 
Olsen, who was born at Battle Lake, Minnesota, but was educated in 
Minneapolis. Their daughter, Kathleen Virginia, has completed the junior year 
at the University of Oregon and is a member of the Kappa Gamma sorority.

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