Klickitat-Clark-Skamania County WA Archives Biographies.....Zener, M. D., Francis B. 1900 - 
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Source: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     Dr. Francis B. Zener, of White Salmon, though a comparatively recent 
addition to the ranks of the medical profession in the Columbia River valley, 
has in an unmistakable manner demonstrated his high qualifications for his 
life work and has built up a large practice, while his genial and kindly 
manner has won for him a warm place in the hearts of the people of his 
community. He was born at Fort Scott, Bourbon county, Kansas, in 1900, and is 
a son of Dr. Charles and Frances (Gideon) Zener, both of whom are natives of 
Missouri, the father born in Cedar county and the mother in Ozark. Charles 
Zener was educated in the district schools of his home neighborhood to the age 
of thirteen years, when he went to work, and while employed attended night 
school and did much private study. He established and ran a store at 
Springfield, Missouri, and in the meantime studied intensively such subjects 
as are required in the United States civil service examinations, with a view 
to entering the railway postal service. He passed the examinations 
successfully and for several years was engaged in the railway mail service in 
Kansas and Missouri. He had long entertained an ambition to engage in the 
practice of medicine and, his mail service being at night, he devoted his days 
to the study of medicine in Kansas City and eventually passed the Missouri 
state medical examination and was licensed to practice. He opened an office in 
Kansas City and practiced there until 1905, when he came to Washington, 
locating at La Center, Clark county, where he built up a good practice, 
remaining there until 1910, when he moved to Wenatchee, where he was engaged 
in professional work until January 1, 1916, when he came to White Salmon. Here 
he at once took his place among the leading practitioners of this locality and 
remained here until July, 1927, when he moved to Vancouver, Washington, where 
he formed a partnership with Dr. A. W. Stevens and is busily engaged in the 
practice of his profession. He was the organizer and the first president of 
the Klickitat and Skamania Counties Medical Society. To him and his wife were 
born four children, namely: Carlos, who lives in Seattle, Washington; Francis 
B.; Robert, who is engaged in the garage business in Portland, Oregon; and 
Galen, who lives in Salem, Oregon.

     Francis B. Zener attended the public schools in La Center and Wenatchee, 
Washington, completing his high school work at White Salmon. For three years 
he studied in the University of Washington, after which he matriculated in the 
medical school of Washington University, at St. Louis, Missouri, from which he 
was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1925. He served one 
year as interne in the St. Louis City Hospital, after which he returned to 
White Salmon and practiced in association with his father until 1927, when his 
father went to Vancouver and he has since formed a partnership with Dr. John 
R. Barber, formerly of Stevenson, Washington. He has the most modern X-ray and 
physio-therapy equipment and a complete laboratory and is in every way well 
prepared for any type of cases in medicine and surgery. He also fits glasses. 
Closely devoted to his profession and possessing a personality which inspires 
confidence on the part of his patients, his success thus far gives abundant 
promise of a life of great usefulness in his profession.

     In 1926 Dr. Zener was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Peters, who was 
born in Chicago, Illinois, and is a daughter of Ernst and Lillie Belle Peters, 
the former now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Zener are the parents of a daughter, 
Laura Louise, born June 27, 1927. The Doctor is a member of the Klickitat and 
Skamania Counties Medical Society, of which he is secretary, and he commands 
the respect of his professional colleagues, while among his acquaintances he 
is held in the highest esteem.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 357-358

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