Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905. p. 601. O. P. LOW, M. D. is well known in Arlington and in the surrounding country as a physician of high standing and excellent ability. He is a gentleman with a high sense of honor, is a patriotic and enterprising citizen and one of the leaders in this county. In addition to handling a good practice of medicine Dr. Low fills his own prescriptions and is a thorough business man. O. P. Low was born in Wood county, West Virginia, on March 10, 1862. Nathan B. Low, his father, was a native also of West Virginia and followed stone cutting. His ancestors were early settlers in the colonies and in West Virginia. He married Miss Mary Lent, who was born in Ohio. She came with her parents to West Virginia when a child and was well educated and for some time taught school. In 1889 Mr. Low came with his family to Portland, where his widow is now residing. Our subject gained his early education in his native state, and he knows well what it is to work hard all day long at the stone cutting trade and pore over the printed page in the evening. Thus he gained his first knowledge and a good share of later training. After he came west in 1886 he studied one year at Green's University in Kansas. Then he came on to Oregon and in 1893 entered the Willamette University. Here he pursued his medical studies until his graduation in 1896, being in a class of twenty-two. He received his diploma with honors and had conferred on him the degree of doctor of medicine. Immediately subsequent to that Dr. Low opened an office in McCoy, Oregon, and for three years did a good business there. Then he spent two years in Independence, Oregon, and finally, in 1901, he located in Arlington. From the days when the doctor laid aside the stone cutter's hammer to pursue and study the volumes of science until the present he has always practiced the policy of studying some every day. The result is he is a well informed man, and is fully abreast of the advancing art of medicine, being a skillful and successful practitioner. In 1896 Dr. Low married Miss Grace Tucker, a native of Wisconsin. Her father was a veteran in the Civil War and died in the service. Dr. Low is city recorder and is always interested in public matters. He is a member of the K. P. and the W. W. Dr. Low is a strictly professional man and devotes his time and energy to the prosecution of his profession with the result that he is at the head of a large and ever increasing patronage. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.