Jacob Outwater Van Winkle, 70, a pioneer physician and surgeon in his community for over 40 years is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Palmer, at Ithaca, N.Y., according to word received here. His death was a shock to this community, he having gone east June 15 with hope that his health restored.
Burial services were held at Rochester, N. Y. [sic]
Dr. Van Winkle was born March 9, 1864, at Hackensack, N. J. * He was well known through western Washington in medical and surgical practice and as a scholar and a gentleman.
Dr. Van Winkle earned his A. B. degree In 1884 from the City of New York college, and his M. D. degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in ? He served ohis interne practice in Charity Hospital and Maternity hospital, also in New York city.
He and Miss Edith Hilton were married in...in 1893 Oakville. He served as physician for the Chehalis Indian reservation for many years.
Dr. Van Winkle was a charter member of Olympic lodge NO.--I68. I. O. O. F. and a member of i he A. O. U. W. and Elks of the American Medical Association. Though in failing health the past year he received calls to the last. Besides his wife Edith, the physician is survived by his daughter Katherine Palmer, two grand- children, Lawrence Palmer, jr., and Robin at Ithaca N. Y., a nephew, Edward Oldfield ….
Published in the Centralia Daily Chronicle, Centralia, Washington on Tuesday, July 03, 1934 - Page 3 [OCR copy; some missing words. Please check against the original]
~~For 40 years, an Oakville doctor healed the sick, and when local Chehalis and Quinault Indians couldn't pay him in cash, he took baskets as payment or in thanks.
Now his niece, Mary Stiltner, is giving his entire collection of hand-woven baskets, moccasins and hunting tools back to the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Indian Reservation.
Mark Colson, who chairs the tribe's cultural committee, said the gift of cultural artifacts is a priceless contribution to the tribe's knowledge of its own history.
"It's going to open so many doors, it's unbelievable," he said.....
In 1893, Dr. Jacob Outwater Van Winkle moved from New York to Oakville, where he practiced medicine for the Chehalis Indians, railroad employees and the local community until just before his death in 1934.
He received baskets in trade for medical services or in appreciation for the contribution he made to healing the sick, Stiltner wrote in a letter to the tribal members.
Stiltner said one of the baskets was made specially for her aunt as a sewing basket. Another item, labeled as coming from a Quinault Indian, had the year 1902 woven into it.
After Van Winkle's death, the baskets went to various family members in New York and then Seattle. Stiltner, the last living family member of her generation, received them in October after the death of her sister.
Although she has children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren, she decided the items had been in their family long enough.
"These baskets and other artifacts represent years of admiration and affection bestowed upon a much loved and appreciated doctor … They have brought joy to several generations of our family. And it seems right that they should now be displayed in a place of honor among the ancestors of those who lovingly crafted them more than 100 years ago," Stiltner wrote.
Picking up an arrow painted with red and black rings, Colson said, "To touch something like this is overwhelming — to see the medicine and prayers that were put into this to feed the people."....
Colson said the stories told by the styles of weaving and the type of paint on the arrows point to a larger story about how Dr. Van Winkle took care of the tribe's ancestors.
"What goes around, comes around," he said. "There are all sorts of stories we'll share with the children from this."
The arrow feather was from a red-tailed hawk, he said. The bow was made of yew, strung with a cord made from twisted deer sinew.
Dots on the arrows represent spiritual power songs, and painted bands on a club would indicate ownership, he said.
"There's a lot of teachings from these," Colson said. "There's a reason for everything."
Extracted from "Century-old woven baskets return to tribe" by Brian Mittge published in the Daily Chronicle Centralia, WA on Feb 1, 2003
* Contributor Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings [# 47178231] has a birth certificate trsncrption that suggests place of birth was Lodi NJ.
~~Noted scientist Katherine Van Winkle Palmer credited her physician father, Jacob Outwater Van Winkle, for stimulating her interest in science. "He had an interest in natural history," she once told a reporter, "and we lived in western Washington, an area rich in paleontology. I knew fossils as a child, so by the time I went to the University of Washington I knew I wanted to study geology." She was the only girl in her high school to go on to college.
Unconfirmed suggestion: married 1889
Burial services were held at Rochester, N. Y. [sic]
Dr. Van Winkle was born March 9, 1864, at Hackensack, N. J. * He was well known through western Washington in medical and surgical practice and as a scholar and a gentleman.
Dr. Van Winkle earned his A. B. degree In 1884 from the City of New York college, and his M. D. degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in ? He served ohis interne practice in Charity Hospital and Maternity hospital, also in New York city.
He and Miss Edith Hilton were married in...in 1893 Oakville. He served as physician for the Chehalis Indian reservation for many years.
Dr. Van Winkle was a charter member of Olympic lodge NO.--I68. I. O. O. F. and a member of i he A. O. U. W. and Elks of the American Medical Association. Though in failing health the past year he received calls to the last. Besides his wife Edith, the physician is survived by his daughter Katherine Palmer, two grand- children, Lawrence Palmer, jr., and Robin at Ithaca N. Y., a nephew, Edward Oldfield ….
Published in the Centralia Daily Chronicle, Centralia, Washington on Tuesday, July 03, 1934 - Page 3 [OCR copy; some missing words. Please check against the original]
~~For 40 years, an Oakville doctor healed the sick, and when local Chehalis and Quinault Indians couldn't pay him in cash, he took baskets as payment or in thanks.
Now his niece, Mary Stiltner, is giving his entire collection of hand-woven baskets, moccasins and hunting tools back to the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Indian Reservation.
Mark Colson, who chairs the tribe's cultural committee, said the gift of cultural artifacts is a priceless contribution to the tribe's knowledge of its own history.
"It's going to open so many doors, it's unbelievable," he said.....
In 1893, Dr. Jacob Outwater Van Winkle moved from New York to Oakville, where he practiced medicine for the Chehalis Indians, railroad employees and the local community until just before his death in 1934.
He received baskets in trade for medical services or in appreciation for the contribution he made to healing the sick, Stiltner wrote in a letter to the tribal members.
Stiltner said one of the baskets was made specially for her aunt as a sewing basket. Another item, labeled as coming from a Quinault Indian, had the year 1902 woven into it.
After Van Winkle's death, the baskets went to various family members in New York and then Seattle. Stiltner, the last living family member of her generation, received them in October after the death of her sister.
Although she has children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren, she decided the items had been in their family long enough.
"These baskets and other artifacts represent years of admiration and affection bestowed upon a much loved and appreciated doctor … They have brought joy to several generations of our family. And it seems right that they should now be displayed in a place of honor among the ancestors of those who lovingly crafted them more than 100 years ago," Stiltner wrote.
Picking up an arrow painted with red and black rings, Colson said, "To touch something like this is overwhelming — to see the medicine and prayers that were put into this to feed the people."....
Colson said the stories told by the styles of weaving and the type of paint on the arrows point to a larger story about how Dr. Van Winkle took care of the tribe's ancestors.
"What goes around, comes around," he said. "There are all sorts of stories we'll share with the children from this."
The arrow feather was from a red-tailed hawk, he said. The bow was made of yew, strung with a cord made from twisted deer sinew.
Dots on the arrows represent spiritual power songs, and painted bands on a club would indicate ownership, he said.
"There's a lot of teachings from these," Colson said. "There's a reason for everything."
Extracted from "Century-old woven baskets return to tribe" by Brian Mittge published in the Daily Chronicle Centralia, WA on Feb 1, 2003
* Contributor Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings [# 47178231] has a birth certificate trsncrption that suggests place of birth was Lodi NJ.
~~Noted scientist Katherine Van Winkle Palmer credited her physician father, Jacob Outwater Van Winkle, for stimulating her interest in science. "He had an interest in natural history," she once told a reporter, "and we lived in western Washington, an area rich in paleontology. I knew fossils as a child, so by the time I went to the University of Washington I knew I wanted to study geology." She was the only girl in her high school to go on to college.
Unconfirmed suggestion: married 1889
Jacob Outwater Van Winkle, 70, a pioneer physician and surgeon in his community for over 40 years is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Palmer, at Ithaca, N.Y., according to word received here. His death was a shock to this community, he having gone east June 15 with hope that his health restored.
Burial services were held at Rochester, N. Y. [sic]
Dr. Van Winkle was born March 9, 1864, at Hackensack, N. J. * He was well known through western Washington in medical and surgical practice and as a scholar and a gentleman.
Dr. Van Winkle earned his A. B. degree In 1884 from the City of New York college, and his M. D. degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in ? He served ohis interne practice in Charity Hospital and Maternity hospital, also in New York city.
He and Miss Edith Hilton were married in...in 1893 Oakville. He served as physician for the Chehalis Indian reservation for many years.
Dr. Van Winkle was a charter member of Olympic lodge NO.--I68. I. O. O. F. and a member of i he A. O. U. W. and Elks of the American Medical Association. Though in failing health the past year he received calls to the last. Besides his wife Edith, the physician is survived by his daughter Katherine Palmer, two grand- children, Lawrence Palmer, jr., and Robin at Ithaca N. Y., a nephew, Edward Oldfield ….
Published in the Centralia Daily Chronicle, Centralia, Washington on Tuesday, July 03, 1934 - Page 3 [OCR copy; some missing words. Please check against the original]
~~For 40 years, an Oakville doctor healed the sick, and when local Chehalis and Quinault Indians couldn't pay him in cash, he took baskets as payment or in thanks.
Now his niece, Mary Stiltner, is giving his entire collection of hand-woven baskets, moccasins and hunting tools back to the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Indian Reservation.
Mark Colson, who chairs the tribe's cultural committee, said the gift of cultural artifacts is a priceless contribution to the tribe's knowledge of its own history.
"It's going to open so many doors, it's unbelievable," he said.....
In 1893, Dr. Jacob Outwater Van Winkle moved from New York to Oakville, where he practiced medicine for the Chehalis Indians, railroad employees and the local community until just before his death in 1934.
He received baskets in trade for medical services or in appreciation for the contribution he made to healing the sick, Stiltner wrote in a letter to the tribal members.
Stiltner said one of the baskets was made specially for her aunt as a sewing basket. Another item, labeled as coming from a Quinault Indian, had the year 1902 woven into it.
After Van Winkle's death, the baskets went to various family members in New York and then Seattle. Stiltner, the last living family member of her generation, received them in October after the death of her sister.
Although she has children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren, she decided the items had been in their family long enough.
"These baskets and other artifacts represent years of admiration and affection bestowed upon a much loved and appreciated doctor … They have brought joy to several generations of our family. And it seems right that they should now be displayed in a place of honor among the ancestors of those who lovingly crafted them more than 100 years ago," Stiltner wrote.
Picking up an arrow painted with red and black rings, Colson said, "To touch something like this is overwhelming — to see the medicine and prayers that were put into this to feed the people."....
Colson said the stories told by the styles of weaving and the type of paint on the arrows point to a larger story about how Dr. Van Winkle took care of the tribe's ancestors.
"What goes around, comes around," he said. "There are all sorts of stories we'll share with the children from this."
The arrow feather was from a red-tailed hawk, he said. The bow was made of yew, strung with a cord made from twisted deer sinew.
Dots on the arrows represent spiritual power songs, and painted bands on a club would indicate ownership, he said.
"There's a lot of teachings from these," Colson said. "There's a reason for everything."
Extracted from "Century-old woven baskets return to tribe" by Brian Mittge published in the Daily Chronicle Centralia, WA on Feb 1, 2003
* Contributor Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings [# 47178231] has a birth certificate trsncrption that suggests place of birth was Lodi NJ.
~~Noted scientist Katherine Van Winkle Palmer credited her physician father, Jacob Outwater Van Winkle, for stimulating her interest in science. "He had an interest in natural history," she once told a reporter, "and we lived in western Washington, an area rich in paleontology. I knew fossils as a child, so by the time I went to the University of Washington I knew I wanted to study geology." She was the only girl in her high school to go on to college.
Unconfirmed suggestion: married 1889
Burial services were held at Rochester, N. Y. [sic]
Dr. Van Winkle was born March 9, 1864, at Hackensack, N. J. * He was well known through western Washington in medical and surgical practice and as a scholar and a gentleman.
Dr. Van Winkle earned his A. B. degree In 1884 from the City of New York college, and his M. D. degree from College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in ? He served ohis interne practice in Charity Hospital and Maternity hospital, also in New York city.
He and Miss Edith Hilton were married in...in 1893 Oakville. He served as physician for the Chehalis Indian reservation for many years.
Dr. Van Winkle was a charter member of Olympic lodge NO.--I68. I. O. O. F. and a member of i he A. O. U. W. and Elks of the American Medical Association. Though in failing health the past year he received calls to the last. Besides his wife Edith, the physician is survived by his daughter Katherine Palmer, two grand- children, Lawrence Palmer, jr., and Robin at Ithaca N. Y., a nephew, Edward Oldfield ….
Published in the Centralia Daily Chronicle, Centralia, Washington on Tuesday, July 03, 1934 - Page 3 [OCR copy; some missing words. Please check against the original]
~~For 40 years, an Oakville doctor healed the sick, and when local Chehalis and Quinault Indians couldn't pay him in cash, he took baskets as payment or in thanks.
Now his niece, Mary Stiltner, is giving his entire collection of hand-woven baskets, moccasins and hunting tools back to the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Indian Reservation.
Mark Colson, who chairs the tribe's cultural committee, said the gift of cultural artifacts is a priceless contribution to the tribe's knowledge of its own history.
"It's going to open so many doors, it's unbelievable," he said.....
In 1893, Dr. Jacob Outwater Van Winkle moved from New York to Oakville, where he practiced medicine for the Chehalis Indians, railroad employees and the local community until just before his death in 1934.
He received baskets in trade for medical services or in appreciation for the contribution he made to healing the sick, Stiltner wrote in a letter to the tribal members.
Stiltner said one of the baskets was made specially for her aunt as a sewing basket. Another item, labeled as coming from a Quinault Indian, had the year 1902 woven into it.
After Van Winkle's death, the baskets went to various family members in New York and then Seattle. Stiltner, the last living family member of her generation, received them in October after the death of her sister.
Although she has children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren, she decided the items had been in their family long enough.
"These baskets and other artifacts represent years of admiration and affection bestowed upon a much loved and appreciated doctor … They have brought joy to several generations of our family. And it seems right that they should now be displayed in a place of honor among the ancestors of those who lovingly crafted them more than 100 years ago," Stiltner wrote.
Picking up an arrow painted with red and black rings, Colson said, "To touch something like this is overwhelming — to see the medicine and prayers that were put into this to feed the people."....
Colson said the stories told by the styles of weaving and the type of paint on the arrows point to a larger story about how Dr. Van Winkle took care of the tribe's ancestors.
"What goes around, comes around," he said. "There are all sorts of stories we'll share with the children from this."
The arrow feather was from a red-tailed hawk, he said. The bow was made of yew, strung with a cord made from twisted deer sinew.
Dots on the arrows represent spiritual power songs, and painted bands on a club would indicate ownership, he said.
"There's a lot of teachings from these," Colson said. "There's a reason for everything."
Extracted from "Century-old woven baskets return to tribe" by Brian Mittge published in the Daily Chronicle Centralia, WA on Feb 1, 2003
* Contributor Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings [# 47178231] has a birth certificate trsncrption that suggests place of birth was Lodi NJ.
~~Noted scientist Katherine Van Winkle Palmer credited her physician father, Jacob Outwater Van Winkle, for stimulating her interest in science. "He had an interest in natural history," she once told a reporter, "and we lived in western Washington, an area rich in paleontology. I knew fossils as a child, so by the time I went to the University of Washington I knew I wanted to study geology." She was the only girl in her high school to go on to college.
Unconfirmed suggestion: married 1889
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