Durham, N. N.  "Spokane and the Inland Empire; History of the City of Spokane
and Spokane County Washington."  Vol. 2.  S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912.  

J. EUGENE ST. JEAN, M.D.

	Dr. St. Jean, the sole owner and manager of the Wallace Hospital, the
largest institution of the kind in the state of Idaho, was born at Adamsville,
province of Quebec, Canada, on the 30th of May, 1875. His parents being Ludger
and Sophia (Vautrini) St. Jean. 
	Reared in his native land Dr. St. Jean after the completion of his
preliminary education matriculated in the Laval University, at Montreal, where
he pursued a medical course, being graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1896.
Very soon thereafter he came to the United States, locating at Anaconda,
Montana, where he engaged in practice for about a year, coming to Wallace in
1897. Dr. St. Jean readily built up a practice here, his winning personality and
pleasing manner gaining him patients, whom he retained by reason of his skill
and ability. In 1905 he purchased the Wallace Hospital, a private institution,
designed for the care and treatment of general medical and surgical cases. It
contains accommodations for one hundred patients with operating room and
laboratory of most modern equipment, and the most approved apparatus for the
care and treatment of all cases likely to come under supervision. There is a
large corps of the city's most skillful surgeons and physicians and eleven
permanent nurses on the staff, and he also maintains a registered training
school for nurses. Dr. St. Jean has a branch receiving hospital at Warden, under
the direction of Dr. T. R. Mason, and another at Burke in charge of Dr. Charles
A. Dettman. In addition to his large private practice he is surgeon for the
Federal Mining & Smelting Company, Frisco Mining Company, Hecla Mining Company,
Success Mining Company, Pittsburg Lead Mining Company, Gold Hunter Mining &
Smelting Company, Beartop Mining Company, Black Horse Mining Company, Caledonia
Mining Company, Stewart Mining Company, Jack Waite Mining Company, Lead Silver
Mining Company, Roanoke Mining Company, Rose Lake Lumber Company, and several
minor companies, all located in the Coeur d'Alene district. As the county has no
regular hospital it maintains a ward in the Wallace Hospital for its indigent
patients. 
	Dr. St. Jean was married on the 18th of February, 1901, to Miss Phedora
Nadeau, a daughter of J. A. Nadeau, a large real-estate owner and prominent
citizen of Butte, Montana. 
	Dr. and Mrs. St. Jean are communicants of the Roman Catholic church, and he
also belongs to the Knights of Columbus of Wallace, and the Elks, being a member
of Wallace Lodge, No. 331, B. P. O. E., while his membership in organizations of
a more purely social nature is confined to his affiliation with the Inland Club
of Spokane. He keeps in touch with his fellow practitioners through the medium
of his connection with the American Medical Association, North Idaho Medical
Association and the Kootenai, Bonner and Shoshone Counties Medical Society. Dr.
St. Jean has rapidly come to the front during the fourteen years of his
residence in Wallace and is, like the majority of people in this vicinity,
interested in a number of mining companies. He is meeting with the most
gratifying success both in his private practice and in the management of his
hospital, and owing to his skill both as a surgeon and physician is acquiring
far more than a local reputation.

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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in October 2015 by Diane Wright.
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