The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 643 JAMES ANDREW BLINE, M. D. Dr. James Andrew Bline, actively engaged in the practice of medicine at Yakima, comes to the northwest from Indiana. His birth occurred in the Hoosier state, May 4, 1878, his parents being Joseph L. and Charity C. Mine, both of whom are residing in southern Indiana, where the father follows the occupation of farming. The Doctor is the fifth in order of birth in a family of thirteen children. He completed his college education in the Valparaiso University, where he won the Bachelor of Science degree as a member of the class of 1906. He then determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and with that end in view matriculated in the Chicago College of Medicine & Surgery, from which he was graduated with the class of 1910. He received a degree in pharmacy and pedagogy at Valparaiso and after winning his M. D. degree he served as interne in the Frances Willard Hospital and in the City Hospital of Chicago. Thus he gained broad and valuable experience, such as can be obtained more quickly in hospital work than in any other way. He afterward practiced for a brief period at Lincoln, Nebraska, and subsequently took post graduate work in the Eye & Ear Infirmary of Chicago. In 1916 he spent a few months in the New York Post Graduate School, thus further promoting his knowledge and efficiency. Since 1912 he has specialized in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. In that year he came to Washington, settling first at Walla, Walla, where he remained in practice for five years and then removed to Yakima in 1917. Through the intervening period he has followed his profession in Yakima and although one of the younger representatives of the profession here, having remained in the city for only two years, he has been accorded a very liberal practice. In 1912 Dr. Bline was married to Miss Irene Rice, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and to them have been born three children, Bernard, Rolland and Miriam. Fraternally Dr. Bline is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the Yeomen and with the Knights and Ladies of Security and of the last named he is president. He is also a member of the Country Club and he has membership in the First Christian church, in which he is serving as deacon, while in the Young Men's Christian Association he is serving on the board of directors. He has a pleasant home in Yakima, in addition to a prune ranch near Walla Walla, and his property holdings are the visible evidence of his life of well directed energy and thrift. He is a man of strong purpose, holding to high professional ideals and utilizing every opportunity to advance his knowledge and promote his skill, which has reached a high point in the field of his specialty. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.