Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 2.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 62.
 
HUGH A. DOWD
 
     Dr. Hugh A. Dowd, of Gervais, Marion county, is the only physician in this
locality and has built up a large and successful practice throughout the
surrounding country. Dr. Dowd was born on the 17th of June, 1894, at Whitehall,
Trempealeau county, Wisconsin, and is a son of Lewis H. and Emma (Dissmore)
Dowd. He is descended from an old American family, his paternal ancestors having
come to this country in 1659, presumably from Scotland. His mother was a native
of Massachusetts. The parents settled in Wisconsin, where were born eight
children. all of whom located in Washington and Oregon, and six of them are
married.
 
     Mr. and Mrs. Dowd brought their family to eastern Oregon in 1905 and in the
schools of that locality Doctor Dowd secured his early education. Later he
attended McMinnville College, where he was graduated in 1920, and then
matriculated in the medical school of the University of Oregon, where he won the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1924. He served his interneship and, in July,
1925, came to Gervais and engaged in the practice of his profession. He conducts
a general practice of medicine and surgery and covers a wide radius of country,
extending from Donald to Hopmere and from Gervais to the Willamette river. His
medical and surgical equipment is modern in every respect, including an X-ray
outfit and complete physio-therapeutic apparatus, while his rooms were built
according to his requirements, the lighting facilities of his operating room
being exceptionally fine. In addition to his large private practice, the Doctor
is identified with the Marion county demonstration center and he states that the
general health conditions of this locality are excellent, an opinion which he is
well qualified to express.
 
     In the fall of 1923 Dr. Dowd was united in marriage to Miss Vera Hoge,
whose family came to this state from Iowa. She is a graduate of normal school
and for live years taught in the public schools of eastern Washington, in Idaho
and in Forest Grove, Oregon. She takes an active interest in church and
missionary work. Dr. and Mrs. Dowd are the parents of a son, John Earl, who was
born June 8, 1925. The Doctor is a member of Gervais Lodge, No. 121, I. O. O.
F., and his religious connection is with the East Side Baptist church of
Portland, while he maintains professional affiliation with the Tri-County
Medical Society. In 1917 he tried to enlist for service in the World war, and in
1918 was drafted and was in training at Camp Lewis for nine months. He was in
the Thirteenth Division Medical Corps, being assigned to the medical detachment
of the Thirty-ninth Machine Gun Battalion, and was honorably discharged with the
rank of sergeant. Though one of the younger physicians of the Willamette valley,
his professional ability has gained wide recognition, and he is regarded as a
distinct asset to his community, where he commands the respect and esteem of all
who know him.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2016 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.