Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Wade, M. D., Ben N. 1887 - ************************************************ 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 January 21, 2011, 1:58 am Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 738 - 739 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company DR. BEN N. WADE, M. D., successfully practicing in Portland with offices in the Stevens building, joined the ranks of the medical profession here in 1911 and through the intervening period has largely given his attention to surgery. He is a native of South Dakota, his birth having occurred in Gary in 1887. His father, Newton M. Wade, was born in Harvard, Illinois, sixty-seven years ago, is a graduate physician and came to Portland in 1910. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Anna Stanley, is still living in Portland where the father is yet actively engaged in practicing his profession. The family includes a brother and a sister of Dr. Ben Wade, namely, William S. Wade and Mrs. Lucille Warner. In the acquirement of his education Dr. Ben N. Wade attended the Central high school of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Northwestern University at Chicago, Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1909 on the completion of a medical course. He afterward acquired broad and valuable experience by serving as interne in the Cook County Hospital for a year and a half and in 1911 came to Portland, where through the intervening period he has followed his profession. For a time he devoted his attention to general practice but in more recent years has confined his efforts to surgery, in which field he has developed his powers to a point of skill and efficiency. The only interruption to his professional activities here came in 1917, when he joined the army. He was on duty in various camps and was then sent to France, where for thirteen months he was connected with Base Hospital No. 79. He held the rank of captain and later that of major in the Medical Corps. With his return to Portland he resumed the practice of general surgery and has long been accorded a foremost place in professional ranks here. He is now serving on the staff of Emanuel Hospital and the Multnomah County Hospital, and he keeps in close touch with the trend of modern professional thought through his connection with the Academy of Medicine, the Portland City and County Medical Society, the Oregon State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons. For fifteen years he has been connected with the Oregon University Medical School in the department of surgery. In Chicago, Illinois, in 1909, Dr. Wade was united in marriage to Miss Mae Lehmann. Fraternally he is identified with Hassalo Lodge No. 15, I. O. O. F., with Willamette Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has always concentrated his efforts and attention, however, upon his professional duties and activities and in 1925 he organized the Medical Reserve Hospital Unit of Evacuation Hospital No. 85 in Portland, known as the Emanuel Hospital Unit. A sense of conscientious obligation characterizes all of his professional work and his ability is widely recognized by his colleagues and contemporaries as well as by the laity. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/wademd1388gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb