Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Watts, M. D., George Eliot  1874 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 402 - 405
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. GEORGE ELIOT WATTS, M. D. has been engaged in the practice of 
medicine in Portland for thirty-two years, during which period he has been 
uniformly successful professionally and has won and retains the genuine 
respect of the people among whom he has lived and labored. Born in Portland in 
1874, he is a son of Lewis W. and Imelda (Bender) Watts, the latter a native 
of Pennsylvania. Lewis W. Watts, who followed farming throughout his active 
life, was born in Oregon territory and came of an old pioneer family, his 
parents having crossed the plains with ox teams and covered wagons in 1847.

     Dr. Watts has a brother, Walter W., and four sisters. He received his 
elementary education in the public schools and prepared for his life work in 
the University of Oregon, from which he was graduated with the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine in 1895. He served as interne in the Good Samaritan 
Hospital and engaged in the practice of his profession in Baker City, Oregon, 
but in 1896 came to Portland, where he has ministered to the physical ills of 
the people for nearly a third of a century. He specializes in female diseases 
and his professional record stamps him as a man of wide learning and 
exceptional skill.

     In 1920, in Portland, the Doctor married Mrs. Alice Rockwell Iverson and 
they have a son, George Eliot, Jr., aged six and a half years. The Doctor is a 
member of the various Masonic bodies, the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the United Artisans Life Association and 
the Aero Club of Oregon, while professionally he is affiliated with the 
American Association of Medico-Research, the American Association of Orificial 
Surgeons and the American Academy of Conservative Proctology. Dr. Watts is 
vice president and treasurer of the National Aircraft Corporation, which was 
organized in January, 1928, and is engaged in building aeroplanes. Their 
plant, which is located at Beaverton, Oregon, is an up-to-date and well 
equipped factory, located on a tract of thirty-three acres, and will soon be 
producing planes at the rate of one a day. Dr. Watts has at all times shown a 
commendable interest in the general welfare and progress of his community and 
throughout his extensive acquaintance commands uniform respect and confidence.

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