Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Wherry, D. D. S., O. T. 1887 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 743 - 744
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DR. O. T. WHERRY, D. D. S. is engaged in the practice of dentistry in the 
Stevens building of Portland, and is held in high regard by his contemporaries 
and colleagues. The Doctor has always resided in the northwest, his birth 
having occurred upon a farm in Klickitat county, Washington, in 1887. His 
father, Charles M. Wherry, was born in Iowa in 1852 and was a son of Wyath 
Wherry, a veteran of the Mexican war, who in 1862 came to Oregon, traveling 
across the country with his family in the old-time prairie schooner. The first 
winter which he spent in Oregon he lost nine yoke of oxen and had to rent 
cattle in order to pull into the Willamette valley the next year. Charles M. 
Wherry, who was only ten years old when he came, was associated with the early 
development and progress of this section of the country and continued his 
residence in the northwest until he passed away in Goldendale, Washington, in 
January, 1926. He was married in Salem to Miss Nancy Miller, who was born in 
the Willamette valley. Her father was one of the early Presbyterian ministers 
of the northwest and rode the circuit, continuing to make his home in this 
part of the country until 1891 when he dropped dead from heart disease. He 
fought in the Modoc Indian war. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. 
Wherry were two sons and three daughters: Mary, J. I., Vina, O. T. and 
Willetta.

     In the rural schools of his home neighborhood Dr. Wherry pursued his 
early education and was also instructed by a private tutor. He afterward 
attended the Washington State College at Pullman, Washington, for two years 
and was graduated from the North Pacific College with the class of 1912 on the 
completion of a course in dentistry. He then came to Portland, where he opened 
an office and has since continued in active practice, while at various times 
has further added to his knowledge by postgraduate courses of study. He 
utilizes every opportunity to promote his efficiency and is well qualified to 
meet the most exacting demands of the profession. He is a member of the 
Portland Dental Society, the Oregon State Dental Society, the American Dental 
Association and the Delta Sigma Delta, a dental fraternity. That he ranks high 
in his chosen calling is indicated in the fact that the Portland District 
Dental Society has called upon him to serve as secretary and president, while 
for two terms he was honored with the presidency of the Oregon State Dental 
Society and was made chairman of the arrangement committee of the Pacific 
Coast Dental Conference.

     In Portland, in 1917, Dr. Wherry was married to Miss Alberta Kraeft, a 
native of this city, where she pursued her education, her father having come 
to Portland in the early '70s. Dr. and Mrs. Wherry have one son, Robert Lee, 
now four years of age.

     In the year of his marriage the Doctor joined the United States Navy as a 
dental surgeon and was commissioned a lieutenant. He was on active duty with 
the Marines, stationed at Paris island, South Carolina, until April, 1919, 
when he received his honorable discharge. In his fraternal relations he is a 
Mason and his appreciation of the social amenities of life is indicated in his 
membership in the University Club. He possesses the enterprising spirit which 
has ever characterized the northwest in its continued development and thus it 
is that he has gained a creditable position in the ranks of his chosen 
profession.

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