Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the Cascades. Vol. II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p. 372-373. GEORGE H. DOW, M.D.: Dr. George H. Dow is one of the self-made men of Chehalis, his success in life being due entirely to his own unaided efforts. His office is located at the corner of Market and Park streets and he is today enjoying an excellent practice, being regarded as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of the city. He was born in Page county, Iowa, August 9, 1861, and is a son of Harlan and Nannie M. (Brown) Dow, natives of New York and Illinois respectively. During the Civil war the father enlisted as a private in the Fourth Missouri Cavalry but was promoted to lieutenant and still later commissioned captain, in which capacity he was serving at the time of Lee's surrender, being then a recruiting officer. He also served as judge advocate for some time while in the army. After the war he returned to his home in Page county, Iowa, where he followed farming until 1869, when he removed to Kansas and took up land. Up to 1874 he engaged in agricultural pursuits. For two terms he served as revenue collector in Kansas; was also a member of the state legislature for two terms; and was postmaster of Manhattan, Kansas for several years. He came to western Washington in 1893, and bought a farm in the Big Bottom in Lewis county, where he made his home until his death, which resulted from a fall from a load of hay. His widow still continues to reside upon the home farm. In their family were five children of whom three survive, the Doctor being the oldest. His sisters are Minnie, the wife of Daniel Clark, of Chehalis, and Helen, the wife of a Mr. Peck, who is engaged in the insurance business in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Dow attended the public schools of Manhattan, Kansas, and also the State Agricultural College at that place. Having decided to become a physician, he entered the Chicago Homeopathic Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1885 with the degree of M.D. He began practice at Baldwin City, Kansas, but in 1889 came to Washington and has since practiced with success in Chehalis. He holds membership in the Lewis County and Washington State Medical Societies and for one term was honored with the presidency of the latter organization. He was also called upon to serve as a member of the board of state medical examiners for four years and has been secretary and a member of the board of pension examiners for fourteen years. In 1885 Dr. Dow was married in Manhattan, Kansas, to Miss Clara Lofinck, a daughter of Edward Lofinck, who was a merchant of that city. To this union three children haven been born, namely: Minnie C., who is the wife of M.E. Hasty, superintendent of schools at Pe Ell, Washington, and has one child, Ruth; Edna D., the wife of Daniel T. Coffman, of Chehalis, and the mother of two children, Albert and Margaret; and Harlan, who is now twenty-two years of age and is attending the Washington State University. Dr. Dow is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He also belongs to the Citizens Club of Chehalis, and is a stanch supporter of the republican party. He is engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery, to which he gives the greater part of his time and attention, but is also interested in agricultural pursuits to some extent, having taken up a homestead in the Big Bottom in 1890, at which time the place was thirty miles from any wagon road or main thoroughfare. He not only drove the first wagon into that locality but also the first automobile. The Doctor is a western man by birth and training and has firm faith in the future of his adopted state, with whose interests he has now been identified for almost thirty years. He occupies a prominent place in the ranks of the medical profession in western Washington and as a citizen commands the respect and confidence of all who know him. Dow Brown Clark Peck Lofinck Hasty Coffman = Page-IA>KS>Lewis-WA