An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 472

	JOHN J. SELLWOOD, one of the prominent medical practitioners of Vancouver,
was born at Oregon City, Clackamas county, Oregon, October 19, 1866, a son of
Rev. John W. Sellwood, a native of Illinois. The father was a prominent pioneer
of Oregon, was an Episcopal minister, and for many years was Rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church in Oregon City. In 1878 he became Rector of St. David's
Church in East Portland, where he remained until his death, in 1889. The mother
of our subject, whose maiden name was Daily, was a native of Sydney, Australia.
	John J., the only child of his parents, took a four years' course of study
at Bishop Scott's Academy, graduating in that institution in 1884. He then began
reading medicine under the supervision of the eminent Dr. S.E. Josephi, of
Portland, and graduated with high honors at the Willamette University in 1887,
and was then engaged in practice one year in East Portland. On account of ill
health, Dr. Sellwood was obliged to give up his practice. He accepted a position
with the Canadian Steamship Company, as physician on their line plying between
Vancouver, British Columbia and Hong Kong, where he was employed one year, and
then became physician and surgeon to the Missionary Hospital of the Episcopal
Church located at Tokio, Japan. In 1889 our subject took up his residence in
Vancouver, since which time he has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice.
	Dr. Sellwood has been twice married, -- first at Portland, July 3, 1888, to
Miss Kate Coburn, a native of Oregon. She afterward died, and in October. 1891,
he married Miss Mary Hunder, a native of Washington. The Doctor is a member of
the Oregon State Medical Association, and is health officer of this city.
Socially, he affiliates with the Red Men, the O.U.A.M. and the I.O.O.F.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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