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Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 66.

SANDFORD WHITING

	DR. SANDFORD WHITING, physician and surgeon, who is specializing, however,
in surgical practice in Portland, has had thorough training in preparation for
his chosen life work. He was born at Taylor's Falls, Minnesota, September 15,
1868, and is a son of Charles B. and Flavia (Standing) Whiting. He is descended
from one of the oldest New England families. His grandfather, however, became a
pioneer settler of Illinois and his father of Minnesota. The latter was a native
of Connecticut and was reared in that state and in Illinois, his parents
removing westward during his youthful days, at which time the family home was
established near Galena, Illinois.  Later Charles B. Whiting took up his abode
in Minnesota, becoming interested in the lumber business in that state and
Wisconsin, where he carried on extensive operations to the time of his death,
which occurred in 1871, when he was forty-seven years of age. He filled the
position of register in the United States land office under President Lincoln
and was also deputy United States marshal during the period of the Civil war.
	Dr. Whiting pursued his preparatory education in McAllister College of
Minnesota and then, having determined to engage in the practice of medicine as a
life work, he entered the Pulte Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, while
subsequently he became a student in the New York College Hospital. Later he
returned to Pulte and was graduated therefrom in 1892. He has since pursued
further courses of study in the New York Post Graduate College. He spent two
years in Ward's Island Hospital of New York as house surgeon and in that manner
gained broad practical experience such as only hospital practice brings. On
leaving that institute in 1894 he came to Portland and opened an office in this
city, where he has since resided, save for the period of his service in the
Spanish-American war. Following the outbreak of hostilities with Spain ho became
captain and assistant surgeon of United States Volunteers and with the Second
Oregon Regiment went to the Philippines, whore he remained for eighteen months
in active duty. He then returned to Portland and has since been closely
identified with professional interests in tliis city.  He has a large private
practice in both medicine and surgery but specializes somewhat in the latter
field. He is now serving on the surgical staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital
and he is a member of the Multnomah County Medical Society, the Oregon State
Medicul Society and the American Medical Association. 
	In 1893 Dr. Whiting was married to Miss Iva Marvel Curtis, a daughter of
Charles Curtis, of Wisconsin, and they have two sons, Curtis Charles and
Sandford. Dr. Whiting belongs to Hawthorne Lodge, A. F. & A. M., to the Knights
of Pythias and to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a
republican and is well informed concerning the vital questions and issues of the
day. Eight years ago he was elected to the city council to fill out an unexpired
term but he cares little for public honors and offices, avoiding those of a
political character, and in the lodges as well. He is a man of modest,
unassuming manner, who is recognized as one of the leading surgeons of the
northwest.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2009 by Jenny Tenlen. Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.