Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: LewisPub. Co. 1893.  p. 558. C. E. GEIGER, M.D.     Is a native of Oregon, born at Forest Grove, Washington county, in 1853.His father, William Geiger, M.D., was a native of New York State, born in 1816,of German ancestry, who emigrated to America late in the seventeenth century,settling first in New York State and subsequently removing to Michigan.  Herethe father of our subject left his parents and pushed west to Missouri, andthere engaged in teaching school.  With the emigration of 1839 Mr. Geigercrossed the plains to Oregon and passed the winter with Dr. Whitman in easternOregon.  In 1840 he came to the Willamette valley and passed a few years.  Hethen went to California, via the Sandwich islands, in 1840, and passed about oneyear with Captain Sutter, experiencing many adventures in that new and unsettledcountry.  In 1842 he joined a small company to return East, but upon the plainsof Nevada their provisions gave out and starvation stared them in the face, whenthey fell in with an emigrant train bound for Oregon in the fall, and Mr. Geigerjoined the company and returned to that State.     In 1847 he married Miss Elizabeth Cornwall, a pioneer of 1846, and theysettled upon a donation claim of 640 acres, near Forest Grove, and there residedand farmed until 1862, when he resumed the practice of medicine.  In 1865 heremoved to Forest Grove, there continuing his profession and continuing toreside, retaining 540 acres of his original claim.  He and his wife have sevenchildren, and our subject is the third.     C. E. Geiger was educated at the Pacific University at Forest Grove, and in1875 commenced the study of medicine with his father, according to homeopathicmethods of treatment.  In 1876 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and in a courseof study under Dr. E. C. Franklin, he received a special certificate and adiploma from the Good Samaritan hospital, which was followed by a course ofstudy at the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, where he graduated in thespring of 1879.  He then returned to Oregon, and thence to Victoria, BritishColumbia, where he practiced until 1881, when he settled in Portland and hasthere continued until the present date, enjoying a general practice, which hecarried on according to the homeopathic methods.     He was married in Salem, October 27, 1886, to Miss Alice E. Shirley, anative of Oregon and daughter of James Shirley, a pioneer of the early forties.Dr. Geiger is a member of Progress Lodge, No. 72, and Rebekah Degree Lodge, No.32, I.O.O.F., also of Company K, First Regiment, Oregon National Guards, and ofthe Oregon Pioneer Association.  Transcriber's additional Notes: "Oregon, Washington and Alaska Gazetteer and Business Directory:  1901 - 1902"R.L. Polk & Co.; page 173Forest Grove -Gieger, Charles E. phys.Geiger, Wm., phys. Oregon Death Index:Charles E. GeigerWashington Co, ORDate of death:  November 16, 1920Certificate # 238 Alice Earnestine GeigerWashington Co, OR.Date of death:  October 6, 1927Certificate # 204*******************Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitterhas no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.