Gilbert, Frank T. "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon." Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a12. DR. W. W. DAY The following notice appears in Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons: "Day, William Walker, M.D., of Dayton, Columbia Co., W.T., was born on the 27th day of August, 1816, at Triangle, Broome Co., N. Y., where also he received his education until the age of 21 years. At that time he emigrated to Indiana, and spent three years in the study of medicine with Dr. T. P. Albertson, with whom he then entered into copartnership, which continued six years. He afterward attended a course of lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College, in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated in 1847 from that institution, holding a membership in the Cleveland Medical Lyceum, organized in January, 1846, and in the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences. After receiving his degree he returned to Yorktown, Ind., for one year, when owing to the loss of his health, from the so called milksickness, incident to that region he returned to his native village, where in the following year he was married. In the summer of 1850, he made a voyage to San Francisco, afterward locating at Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras county, first engaging there for a short time in mining, and then in practice, until September, 1853, when he set out on his return home by steamer from San Francisco. On the voyage, they were obliged to put into Acapulco for coal, and on leaving this port, the cholera broke out among the steerage passengers with such virulence as to result in from five to eight deaths per day, when in answer to the call of the captain, he with Dr. Randolph, of South Carolina, and a homeopathic physician of New York, devoted themselves to the care of the sick, taking each an equal number of patents in charge. During the course of their services both he and Dr. Randolph were so astonished at the successful use of homeopathic remedies, that they resolved to become proficient in their administration, and on reaching the Atlantic states, he located at once in Osceola, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, to put into practice his newly discovered, and to him, marvelous means of cure. Engaged thus for four years in Osceola, with very flattering success, and desiring a larger field of usefulness, he removed to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to introduce the homeopathic system, and there spent fourteen years of highly successful practice, first successfully overcoming the bitterest opposition from physicians of the old school, and the mistrust of the community influenced by them, and then so rapidly rising to popularity as to require for a long time assistant. Here he held for several years an appointment from the Governor of the state as examining surgeon for the Army. Also filled the office of Coroner at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and afterward at Dayton, Oregon. And the appointment of city physician for Eau Claire. "In 1871, worn out with his long continued and extremely arduous duties, he sought the climate of the Pacific coast, and after traveling through many of the western states, settled permanently in Dayton, W. T., where he has regained his health, and enjoys the distinction of being the only homeopathic practitioner in the Territory, and in all respects one well worthy to represent so noble and so beneficial a science." * * * * Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in August 2006 by Diana Smith. Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.