Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 988.
 
DR. WALTER EDWARD CARLL

     one of the most worthy representatives of the medical profession in Oregon
City, was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, October 26,1858. His father, Jason L.
Carll, was born in Maine, of English ancestors, who settled in this country
previous to the Revolution. The Doctor has in his possession the old flint-lock
musket and spurs, which belonged to his ancestors, who figured in the war for
independence. His grandfather, Seth Carll, and one of his uncles, were editors
of the Boston Bee, and so on down, the family have been able and influential.
The Doctor's father married Miss Malinda H. Burnham, a native of Maine.  She
also was of English ancestry, who were early settlers of the colonies. Her
grandmother was Priscilla Tarbox, belonging to one of the oldest and most
prominent Massachusetts families, so that the Doctor is a descendant of the New
Englanders, whose misguided zeal induced them to burn persons for witchcraft,
but who amply atoned for their fault, when this same enthusiasm was directed to
gaining their independence in the sanguinary struggle of the Revolution.  His
parents had but two children, the subject of our sketch and a daughter.
     The Doctor attended the public schools of his native city, and later
attended Harvard College, where he took the special medical course, and at which
institution he graduated in 1885. He then spent a year in travel, visiting
Africa and other foreign countries, and finally came to Oregon in 1886.  
     The first two years of his residence in this State were spent in Portland,
where he was a  member of the medical faculty of the State University. He then
opened an office in Oregon City, in 1887, and at once secured a lucrative
practice.
    In politics he is a Massachusetts-Jacksonian Democrat; i. e., is an advocate
of Democracy as expounded by the brilliant statesman, Jackson. His father was a
Republican, but the Doctor's first vote was cast for Democracy, when that party
was greatly in minority in Massachusetts, there being still a few old men in
that locality who held to the old traditions, for which they were greatly
despised. For this reason probably the Doctor, who has an unbounded sympathy for
the under dog in the fight, voted that ticket. As he grew older he studied the
ideas, and voted the ticket from choice. If these old men are yet living, they
must be gratified to find they are not now in the minority, especially is this
the case in this city, where Democratic magnates were recently elected. These
incidents go to prove that the Doctor is an independent thinker, such as it
becomes an American citizen to be; for, being a king in his own right, it
behooves him to be independent, and not be like the oppressed citizens of
oligarchical governments, where all are expected to conform to a certain
pattern, as if cut by the same die.
     The Doctor is a member of the State Board of Charities and a thirty-second
degree Scottish Rite Mason.
     He is skilled in his profession and loves it, and tales pride in its
practice. He is courageous in undertaking difficult cases, and is bound to
attain fame and prosperity in his chosen calling.

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above.