Whitman County WA Archives Biographies.....Else, M. D., John Earl  1878 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 678 - 681
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     JOHN EARL ELSE, M. D.  Well equipped for the vocation of his choice, Dr. 
John Earl Else has not only won an enviable position in professional circles 
of Portland, but is known throughout the Pacific northwest as a surgeon of 
high attainments. A native of Portage county, Wisconsin, he was born in 1878 
and is a son of George W. and Della (Gray) Else, now deceased. His boyhood was 
spent on his father's farm and his early schooling was obtained in South 
Dakota. Later he matriculated in the State College of South Dakota, which 
conferred upon him the Ph. G. and B. S. degrees, and in 1905 he received the 
M. D. degree from the Northwestern University Medical school in Chicago. For a 
year and a half he was an interne of the Cook County Hospital in Chicago and 
later received the degree of M. S. from the State College of Washington.

     Dr. Else began his professional career in the Palouse country of 
Washington and maintained an office in Pullman for four years. In 1913 he came 
to Portland and in the intervening period of fifteen years he has built up an 
extensive practice in general surgery. His scientific knowledge is 
comprehensive and exact, and his work as a surgon is characterized by 
sureness, precision and skill. In 1912-13 he studied in the universities of 
Vienna and Berlin.

     In 1907 Dr. Else was married in Waupaca, Wisconsin, to Miss Jessica 
Emmons, who was born, reared and educated in that state, and they now have two 
children, Ruth Elizabeth and John Harold, aged respectively twelve and eleven 
years.

     The Doctor belongs to the Alpha Omego Alpha fraternity, and is a Scottish 
Rite Mason and Shriner. In 1922 he was chairman of the committee that 
organized the Pacific Northwestern Medical Association. He is clinical 
professor of surgery and chairman of the department of general surgery in the 
University of Oregon Medical school. He is also a member of the Portland City 
and County Medical, Oregon State and American Medical Societies, the North 
Pacific Surgical Society, the Pacific Coast Surgical Society, the Western 
Surgical Society, the American College of Surgeons, and was formerly secretary 
of the Portland Academy of Medicine and later president. Through intensive 
study, hard work and the wise use of the talents with which nature endowed 
him, Dr. Else has attained a place of distinction in his profession and is 
esteemed for the qualities to which he owes his success.

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