Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Smith, Charles J. August 23, 1864 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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Charles J. Smith, M.D.
	Charles J. Smith was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, August 23, 1864, 
and was reared at his birthplace. There also he received a good common school 
education. Later he studied at the Northwestern University. It is evidence of 
rare precocity that at the age of sixteen he had completed these studies and 
had taken a school to teach, which he completed well. Then for four years he 
followed teaching. At the age of twenty he entered the office of a doctor and 
read one year, and then in the fall of 1885 he entered Starling Medical 
college and continued there until his graduation in the spring of 1888. 
Thereupon he took up the practice of medicine in Derby, Ohio, until the autumn 
of 1889, when he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from whence he 
graduated in the spring of 1890. It was now decided by him to turn to the west 
and accordingly he came on to Walla Walla and entered into the employ of Dr. 
Blalock of that city. Later he was sent by Dr. Blalock to Pendleton, where he 
practiced for him for one year, and then opened an office for himself. Since 
locating in Pendleton he has taken two more post-graduate courses in New York, 
one in 1893 and one in 1896. He has uninterruptedly continued his practice in 
this city since his settlement here.  In this day when there is such great 
temptation for men to launch themselves upon the public with nothing but wind 
in their sails, it is refreshing, to say the least, to see a young man from 
his first inception of the matter lay out a good long and honest course to fit 
himself for his chosen profession and then to accomplish it. A glance at the 
record of this man's work in the institutions, where are centered the skill 
and brains of the medical faculties, and which foster real advancement and 
development, is sufficient to show that his has been a most thorough, patient, 
studious and accomplished course of courses. Backed by the real integrity and 
merit of the man such a fitting will win success in spite of all obstacles 
that can show themselves. It has done it, as is well evidenced by the 
confidence of the people reposed in him. He has been chosen mayor of the city 
of Pendleton, member of the school boards and also of the board of health. His 
standing among his colleagues of the medical profession is of the highest 
order. He is a member of the National as well as of the State Medical 
Societies, being the vice-president of the latter. He has a good holding in 
landed and other properties, being interested in farming as a relief to the 
strain of continued mental labor.
	Pendleton was the place of his marriage, for Oregon, his chosen home, 
could produce the "helpmeet" for that home. Miss Lillian Gulliford, the 
daughter of a prominent family and a native of Oregon herself, is now Mrs. Dr. 
Smith. They have been blessed with the advent of one more to share their joys--
Gwendoline. The Doctor and his wife affiliate with the Presbyterian church.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


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