"Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon, containing original
sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present."  Chicago: Chapman
Pub. Co., 1909. p. 523.
 
ALBERT WILEY KIME

     In keeping with  its broad and cosmopolitan character, Bandon welcomes
within its borders professional as well as commercial and industrial talent.
Numerous followers of medical science have found the town a pleasant place in
which to live, as well as a profitable field in which to apply their absorbing
occupation. Among these, Albert Wiley Kime takes high rank, partly because of
his clear and comprehensive understanding of medical and surgical science, and
also because of a genial and tactful manner and faculty for inspiring
confidence.
     Dr. Kime is not the only member of his family who has shown a capacity for
the calling of AEsculapius, for his father, James Henry Kime, is at present
conducting a successful practice in Alton, Humboldt county, Cal. The elder Kime
was born in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1836, and as a boy removed with his parents to Iowa
county, Iowa, where he was reared on a farm until his twenty-first year. He
married Katherine Zimmerman, who was born in Ohio, and who bore him two sons, of
whom the youngest, Charles, is a steamboat engineer with headquarters at Bandon.
Albert Wiley, the oldest son, was born in Iowa county, Iowa, August 27, 1858.
The same year his father crossed the plains to California, equipped with
ox-teams and a prairie schooner, finally settling in Sierra county, Cal., where
Mr. Kime engaged in mining with moderate success until 1878. In the meantime his
wife and son, Albert W., came to his newly established home in 1865, by way of
the Isthmus of Panama. The second son, Charles, was born in Oakland, Cal., in
1871. In 1878 Mr. Kime located in Corvallis, Ore., where he worked at the
carpenter's trade, in 1885 removing to Baker county, Ore., and still later to
Vale, Malheur county. In the latter town he became interested in a drug
business, and at the same time undertook the study of medicine, finally
graduating from the medical department of the University of Oregon in the class
of 1890. Directly after his graduation he began to practice in Bandon, and in
1897 removed to his present home in Alton, Humboldt county, Cal.
     Albert Wiley Kime was a child of seven when he came to the west, and his
preliminary education was acquired in the public schools of California. In 1883
he left his home in Oregon and engaged in a drug business in Portland, and in
1885 transferred his business to eastern Oregon. In the meantime he had made a
thorough study of medicine, and in 1892 removed to Bandon, where he practiced
until 1894, during that year entering the medical department of the University
of Oregon, from which he was duly graduated in 1897.  Since then he has
practiced medicine in Bandon, and at present has a large general patronage, his
skill in diagnosis and treatment having won the confidence of his fellow-
townsmen as well as the surrounding agriculturists. Dr. Kime is one of those
liberal and broad-minded practitioners who find actual enjoyment in public
affairs, and especially in political undertakings. In Malheur county he was
elected county treasurer on the Republican ticket, resigning the office when he
came to Bandon in 1892. At the present time he is serving his second term as
chairman of the city council, in the deliberations of which he has taken a
conspicuous part. Wise land investments have added materially to his yearly
income, and he owns, besides other town and country property, the Kime Opera
House of Bandon. His fraternal associations are with the Odd Fellows, in which
he has passed all of the chairs; the Fraternal Aid; the Foresters of America,
and the Knights of Pythias. He is also examiner for the Knights of Pythias, the
Ancient Order of United Workmen and several old-line insurance companies.
    Dr. Kime's pleasant and hospitable home has a gracious keeper in Mrs. Kime,
who was formerly Kittie Rohner, a native of Brownsville, Ore., and a daughter of
J. B. Gross. She is the devoted mother of two children, Mamie and Claude. Dr.
Kime is one of the substantial citizens of this progressive little town, and in
character and attainments represents the fundamental upbuilders of the western
slope.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in April 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.