"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon." Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1210. ALBERT G. PRILL, M. D. A physician of Scio, Linn county, Ore., whose future gives promise of an advancement to a high degree of excellence and success in his chosen profession, Dr. Albert G. Prill was born May 5, 1869, in Springville, N. Y., where his father, John Prill, a native of Germany, located many years ago and engaged in farming. Success is a native element in the character of this family, for with nothing to encourage John Prill to believe in the successful future which was before him he began in a strange land and among strange surroundings, and became one of the noticeably successful men of that section of the state, now owning seven hundred and fifty acres of land. He makes his home in Springville, living retired at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife was formerly Mary Tardell, also a native of the Fatherland, and who crossed the ocean with him, anxious to help in the labor for a home and competency. As she shared his labor she now enjoys the rest, being seventy-three years old. Of their six children, three of whom are living, Albert G. Prill is the youngest. He was given a good education, after attending the common schools completing in the high school of Springville, from which he was graduated in 1886. Intent on entering upon the profession he had chosen he became a student in the medical department of Buffalo University in 1887, and after an attendance of three years he was graduated with the degree of M. D. In the same year, 1890, he came to Oregon, and locating in Salem, engaged in a general practice of medicine. After nine months in that location he removed to Sodaville, Linn county, and remained successfully engaged there until 1896. At that date he came to Scio and has since remained in this location. Not content with the knowledge of medicine gained in his first years in the study, Dr. Prill has since devoted much time to research in his efforts to advance in the profession. In 1898 he was graduated from the National Institute of Pharmacy, of Chicago, Ill., and took a three-months course in electro-therapeutics in Lima, Ohio. In 1900 he attended the New York Clinical School of Medicine, taking a course in surgery, and especially devoting his thought to the amelioration of the ills of womankind. His advance in his profession has been very noticeable, and is certainly appreciated by those among whom he labors. Dr. Prill was married in Springville, N. Y. ,in 1889, to Anna C. Satterlee Bates, a native of that state, and the two children born of the union, are now deceased, one having died in infancy, and Ariel V. in early childhood. In his fraternal relations Dr. Prill is exceedingly active, being a member of Scio Lodge No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Leonidas Lodge No. 36, Knight's of Pythias ; Dierdorff Lodge No. 54, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; and Stewart No. 51, Encampment ; Knights of the Maccabees ; Modern Woodmen of America ; Ancient Order of United Workmen ; and Order of Pendo. He is active in all of these, having passed all the chairs with the exception of those, of the Masons. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and politically casts his vote with the Republican party. In the interests of the public he acts as health officer of the city. Dr. Prill owns considerable property in the city, in addition to the handsome little cottage and three acres of land about it. He purchased his office of Dr. E. O. Hyde. One of the most engrossing interests of Dr. Prill is that of ornithology, of which he is a profound student, and in his study he has collected many and interesting specimens, now owning one of the finest private collections of birds in the state. Never content with anything leis than the best in whatever line his interests are directed, much is expected of such a man as Dr. Prill in the advancement of all worthy interprises, and through him, as a citizen, the future holds fulfillment for the promises of a strong, earnest and honest manhood. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2007 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.