"Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon." Authors: "a compilation of this work....by a number of writers". Chapman Publishing Co; Chicago, 1903. p. 876. SAMUEL TOWERS LINKLATER, M.B., C.M. One of the erudite exponents of the science of medicine in Oregon is Dr. Samuel Towers Linklater, a resident and practitioner of Hillsboro, Washington county, since 1883. During this period he has established a reputation for skill in surgery and accuracy in diagnosis and treatment in general practice. By his professional brethren he is freely accorded a position among the successful practitioners in the state. Dr. Linklater was born in the Orkney islands, off the north coast of Scotland, April 8, 1853. Authentic records have been kept of his great-great grandfather, Asa; his great-grandfather, Hugh; and his grandfather, Peter. William Linklater, his father, married Margaret Stockand, who still lives in the Orkneys, and is now eighty-six years of age. At Stromness, a seaport town of Scotland, and on the mainland of Orkney, Dr. Linklater received his rudimentary education in the public schools. After leaving school he engaged in mercantile clerking and teaching until entering upon professional study at the University of Edinburgh in 1878. Upon his graduation in 1882 with the degree of M.B., C.M., he practiced in Leith, Scotland, for nearly a year as an assistant. In 1883, having decided to seek his fortune in Australia, visiting the United States en route, he arrived in Oregon, and liking this country, concluded to go no further. He decided to locate in Hillsboro. Since that year this town has been his home and the scenes of all his professional labors. Desiring to avail himself of every possible advantage along the lines of his chosen profession, Dr. Linklater visited Europe in 1891-2, and devoted several months to clinical work under the direction of the most eminent scientists associated with the leading hospitals of Edinburgh, Vienna and Berlin, the experience thereby gained adding greatly to his qualifications for practice. Since 1886 Dr. Linklater has been engaged in the drug business in Hillsboro, in conjunction with his practice, and is at present the owner of the Delta drug store. He is a member of the Oregon State Medical Society, the Washington County Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally, he is associated with Tuality Lodge No. 6, A.F. & A.M., Portland Consistory, the Eastern Star and Al Kader Temple, N.M.S.; and with Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, of which he is regimental surgeon. He and his wife are member of the Tualatin Plains Presbyterian Church. He was married in 1886 to Elizabeth M. Sinclair, a native of Edinburgh, who died in 1889. In 1898 he married Zula Harriet Warren, a native of Oregon, and to them have been born four children -- Francis, Margaret Ruth, Dorothy, and an infant boy. Dr. Linklater is a Republican, and for one term served his town as mayor. He has a large practice in Hillsboro and vicinity, and uses an excellent automobile to convey him on his professional rounds. In a most unostentatious manner he is constantly performing many acts of charity, and his inclination in this direction find a most generous outlet in the course of his daily professional labors; for it is a well known fact that no poor man is ever refused proper medical attendance by him because of his inability to pay the usual fee. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.