"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. 689. JOHN J. SELLWOOD, M. D. All that is substantial and worthy in western citizenship and in pioneer and latter-day attainment finds expression in the name of Sellwood, a family at present commanding the attention of the town of that name through the professional career of Dr. John J. Sellwood, son of one of the noblest pioneers who ever dignified the pulpit of the Episcopal Church. Dr. Sellwood was born in Oregon October 19, 1866, and his father, John W., was a native of Illinois. His mother, Belle J. (Daly) Sellwood, whose ancestry is enlarged upon in another part of this work, was born in Sydney, Australia, whither her father, James F. Daly, had removed, after many years spent as master of mathematics in the University of Dublin, Ireland. John W. Sellwood, who spent his entire active life in the ministry, was comparatively young when his parents brought him to Oregon the year of the Panama massacre. The family located first in Salem, and in 1864 removed to Oregon City, with the church of which town Mr. Sellwood was connected for many years after completing his education with a private tutor, and graduating from the Willamette University. A man of profound human instincts and humanitarian tendencies, he impressed the beauty of his character and teachings upon all with whom he came in contact, and in his unsettled and rapidly growing environment stood a tower of strength, splendid vitality, and unusual gentleness. Towards the close of his life he assumed charge of St. Davis Church in East Portland, where his death occurred in 1892, at the early age of fifty-two years. At the age of twelve Dr. Sellwood entered the Bishop Scott Academy, from which he was graduated in 1882, at the age of sixteen. His professional training was received primarily at the Willamette University, from which he graduated in 1887, after which he became surgeon on one of the steamers of the Canadian Pacific running between Hong-Kong and British Columbia. At the expiration of a year the doctor took up his professional residence in Tokio, Japan, where he remained a year, and for the following three years practiced in Vancouver, Wash. On account of his wife's health he lived for three years in Los Angeles and become permanently identified with Sellwood in 1896. As proof of his faith in the continued prosperity of the town the doctor has erected a residence at No. 1694 East Thirteenth street, which is presided over by his wife, whom he married in Vancouver, Wash., and who was formerly Mary Hunder, born in Vancouver, September 17, 1870, a daughter of Charles Hunder, who was born in Germany, and became prominently identified with the state of Washington. Mr. Hunder was treasurer of Vancouver at one time, and at present is ranching in northern California on a large tract of land, where his wheat crops are among the largest of his district. Politically Dr. Sellwood is a Republican. He is fraternally identified with the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen of the World. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. Dr. Sellwood possesses to a pronounced degree the personal attributes which encompassed his father's success, and which, in the world of medicine and surgery, find as great a field of usefulness as did the pioneer in the pulpit. Remote Cornwall ancestors evidently laid a solid foundation while pursuing their various occupations in that historic portion of Britain, and their reliable traits have not lost through transmission to the prominent and popular physician of Sellwood. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in February 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.