The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 490

G. D. DAHLMAN, D. D. S.

Dr. G. D. Dahlman, actively engaged in the practice of dentistry in Toppenish,
is numbered among the native sons of Washington, his birth having occurred in
Cowlitz county on the 9th of January, 1886. His parents were William and
Christine Dahlman, who came from Gotland, on the Swedish coast of the Baltic
sea. They crossed the Atlantic when young people and became residents of
Castlerock, Washington, in the year 1870. The father followed the occupation of
farming and took up a homestead, while subsequently he purchased railway land.
He is still engaged in farming there and has brought his fields under a high
state of cultivation. His wife passed away in 1895.

Doctor Dahlman at the usual age entered the public schools, but his
opportunities were somewhat limited owing to the necessity of providing for his
own support when a boy of but ten years. He was ambitious, however, to secure a
good education and afterward worked his way through high school at Castlerock
and his earnings during that period also assisted him through college. Ambitious
to enter upon a professional career, his labors supplied him with the capital
necessary to pursue a college course. He entered the North Pacific Dental
College at Portland and is numbered among its alumni of 1907. Following his
graduation he located for practice at Castlerock, where he remained until April,
1909, and then came to Toppenish, being the second dentist of the town and now
the oldest in years of continuous practice here. His office is supplied with the
latest dental equipment and he utilizes the most modern methods in the care and
preservation of the teeth. He is thoroughly familiar with all the scientific
principles which underlie his work and broad reading keeps him in touch with
the trend of modern scientific thought and investigation. He is also a member of
the State Dental Society and through the discussions in its meetings broadens
his knowledge. Aside from his practice he has other business interest, being a
director of the First National Bank of Toppenish.

In 1916 Doctor Dahlman was united in marriage to Miss Iris Wirth, of
Ellensburg, Washington, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wirth. She is a lady
of liberal education who was graduated from the Ellensburg Normal School and for
three years successfully engaged in teaching prior to her marriage.

Doctor Dahlman's Masonic connections are with Toppenish Lodge No. 178, A. F. &
A. M., of which he is a charter member and was the second worshipful master. He
is also identified with the Scottish Rite bodies of Yakima, having attained the
thirty-second degree, and he is also a member of Afifi Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.
He belongs to the Commercial Club, of which he has been a very active member,
serving at the present time as its president. His political endorsement is
given to the republican party, but he has always preferred to do his public
service as a private citizen and has been active along various lines that have
been directly beneficial in the upbuilding of Toppenish and the advancement of
its welfare.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.