༺✿✿✿༻ LOVING MEMORY ༺✿✿✿༻
Dr. Thomas Van Buren Embree
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August 14, 1836 - October 26, 1910
Pioneer Doctor Dies
Thomas Van Buren Embree Joins Silent Majority
Was Oregon Pioneer of 1844 and State Commander of Indian War Veterans.
Dallas - Doctor Thomas Van Buren Embree, an Oregon pioneer of 1844, and Polk County's oldest practicing physician, died at his home in this city Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 1910, aged 74 years, 2 months and 12 days.
Doctor Embree's last Illness came as a great surprise to the members of his family and to his many friends, as he had been enjoying his usual good health and had been actively engaged in the practice of his profession up to the day he became sick. Only a week ago Tuesday, he attended the funeral and burial of his old friend and neighbor, Daniel Richardson, and at that time he showed no symptoms of the approaching fatal Illness. The next day he suffered a hard chill and was obliged to take to his bed. With each succeeding day he grew worse, and, despite the careful medical attention given him, he passed away Wednesday afternoon a few minutes after three o'clock. He was partially conscious until about fifteen minutes before the end. Death was the result of kidney trouble, which brought about the complete breakdown of his vital organ.
Thomas Van Buren Embree was the eldest son of the late Cary and Lucinda Embree. He was born near Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, on August 14th. 1836. At the axe of eight years, he crossed the plains with his parents, the family arriving In Oregon City on the 24th day of December, 1844, This being one of the earliest emigrants to Oregon, the family suffered many hardships on the way. The family owned only one yoke of oxen, and as all of the room in the wagon was occupied by household good and a bed for the Invalid mother, the little lad, Thomas, and his younger sinter Mary, (now Mrs. T, J, Hayter.) walked nearly the entire distance of the 3000 mile trip.
The Embree family spent the Winter in Oregon City, moving to Polk County in the early Spring of 1845. At that time there were less thin a dozen white families In the county. The elder Mr. Embree selected his 640-acre donation claim in the LaCreole Valley, about two miles west of the present town of Rickreall. His son Thomas, assisted him with the farm work until the year 1858 and then began the study of medicine In the office of Doctor J. W. Boyle, one of the best known physicians of pioneer Oregon, He continued him course of reading with Dr. Boyle until 1880 and then went to San Francisco and became a student In the medical department of the University of the Pacific, (now the Cooper Medical College).
Doctor Embree's first experience in the practice of his chosen profession was in the little town of Lafayette In Yamhill County, Lafayette was one of the important valley town of that early day, and the young physician soon built up a lucrative practice. Later he practiced in Amity and In Lewisville and in 1874 he located in Dallas, In the Winter of 1880-81, he attended the medical department of Willamette University, and upon completing the course received a diploma of graduation from that Institution He next practiced in Corvallis, living there nearly four years. His next move was to Burns, Harney County, where he practiced eight years. He then returned to Dallas and lived here until the time of him death, with the exemption of a two year residence in Portend in the early "90s.
When the Yakima Indian War began in 1856, Doctor Embree, then a boy of 19 years, was one of the first to offer his services. He first enlisted In Company G, First Infantry, In the command of Captain Benjamin Hayden and after completing his term of service he re-enlisted, his second commander being Captain R. P. Burch, of Company B. He remained In the army until the end of the war and was ore of the volunteers that saw service In the famous *horse meat' campaign. Doctor Embree wan married in Corvallis 1868, his bride being Miss. Annie Finley, a native of Santa Clara, California, and a sister of John P. Finley. the pioneer undertaker of Portland, To this union were born seven children, three of whom are living. The surviving children are Clyde and Van Embree. of Harney County and Mrs. Armand Guthrie, of Dallas. He is also survived by two brothers, Mark and John B. Embree, and two sisters, Mrs. Hayter and Mrs. Allee Dempsey, all residents of Dallas
The Doctor was a lifelong member of the church and was a Incensed minister of the Gospel. He was one lot the earliest members of Jennings Lodge A. F. & A. M. having been made a Mason in that lodge in the late '50s. He was also a member of the Oregon Pioneer Association, and at the time of his death was Grand Commander of the Oregon Indian War Veterans.
Doctor Embree was a man of strong personality. He was an original thinker and a ready speaker, He was outspoken. In the defense of his views and opinions, but was always ready to listen to the opinion of others, He enjoyed opposition; in fact sometimes it seemed that he courted it. But back of brusque exterior there beat the heart filled with love for his fellowman and sympathy for the afflicted and distressed. If at times his manner seems somewhat abrupt, it was because of his long experience in the school of hard knock had taught him to despise sham and hypocrisy. Doctor Embree was a fine type of the sympathetic self-sacrificing country doctor of the old school.
He earned a fortune, he collected a bare livelihood, and died leaving his family little but the heritage of a good name. Now, that he is gone, it is comforting to those who knew and loved him that "blessings ever wait on vigorous deeds and though a late, a sure reward succeeds" (William Congreve).
The funeral will be held from the United Evangelical Church next Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will take place at the family cemetery on the old Embree donation land claim near Rickreall.
Published in the Polk County Observer of Dallas, Oregon on Friday, October 28th, 1910.
Dr. Thomas Van Buren Embree
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
August 14, 1836 - October 26, 1910
Pioneer Doctor Dies
Thomas Van Buren Embree Joins Silent Majority
Was Oregon Pioneer of 1844 and State Commander of Indian War Veterans.
Dallas - Doctor Thomas Van Buren Embree, an Oregon pioneer of 1844, and Polk County's oldest practicing physician, died at his home in this city Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 1910, aged 74 years, 2 months and 12 days.
Doctor Embree's last Illness came as a great surprise to the members of his family and to his many friends, as he had been enjoying his usual good health and had been actively engaged in the practice of his profession up to the day he became sick. Only a week ago Tuesday, he attended the funeral and burial of his old friend and neighbor, Daniel Richardson, and at that time he showed no symptoms of the approaching fatal Illness. The next day he suffered a hard chill and was obliged to take to his bed. With each succeeding day he grew worse, and, despite the careful medical attention given him, he passed away Wednesday afternoon a few minutes after three o'clock. He was partially conscious until about fifteen minutes before the end. Death was the result of kidney trouble, which brought about the complete breakdown of his vital organ.
Thomas Van Buren Embree was the eldest son of the late Cary and Lucinda Embree. He was born near Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, on August 14th. 1836. At the axe of eight years, he crossed the plains with his parents, the family arriving In Oregon City on the 24th day of December, 1844, This being one of the earliest emigrants to Oregon, the family suffered many hardships on the way. The family owned only one yoke of oxen, and as all of the room in the wagon was occupied by household good and a bed for the Invalid mother, the little lad, Thomas, and his younger sinter Mary, (now Mrs. T, J, Hayter.) walked nearly the entire distance of the 3000 mile trip.
The Embree family spent the Winter in Oregon City, moving to Polk County in the early Spring of 1845. At that time there were less thin a dozen white families In the county. The elder Mr. Embree selected his 640-acre donation claim in the LaCreole Valley, about two miles west of the present town of Rickreall. His son Thomas, assisted him with the farm work until the year 1858 and then began the study of medicine In the office of Doctor J. W. Boyle, one of the best known physicians of pioneer Oregon, He continued him course of reading with Dr. Boyle until 1880 and then went to San Francisco and became a student In the medical department of the University of the Pacific, (now the Cooper Medical College).
Doctor Embree's first experience in the practice of his chosen profession was in the little town of Lafayette In Yamhill County, Lafayette was one of the important valley town of that early day, and the young physician soon built up a lucrative practice. Later he practiced in Amity and In Lewisville and in 1874 he located in Dallas, In the Winter of 1880-81, he attended the medical department of Willamette University, and upon completing the course received a diploma of graduation from that Institution He next practiced in Corvallis, living there nearly four years. His next move was to Burns, Harney County, where he practiced eight years. He then returned to Dallas and lived here until the time of him death, with the exemption of a two year residence in Portend in the early "90s.
When the Yakima Indian War began in 1856, Doctor Embree, then a boy of 19 years, was one of the first to offer his services. He first enlisted In Company G, First Infantry, In the command of Captain Benjamin Hayden and after completing his term of service he re-enlisted, his second commander being Captain R. P. Burch, of Company B. He remained In the army until the end of the war and was ore of the volunteers that saw service In the famous *horse meat' campaign. Doctor Embree wan married in Corvallis 1868, his bride being Miss. Annie Finley, a native of Santa Clara, California, and a sister of John P. Finley. the pioneer undertaker of Portland, To this union were born seven children, three of whom are living. The surviving children are Clyde and Van Embree. of Harney County and Mrs. Armand Guthrie, of Dallas. He is also survived by two brothers, Mark and John B. Embree, and two sisters, Mrs. Hayter and Mrs. Allee Dempsey, all residents of Dallas
The Doctor was a lifelong member of the church and was a Incensed minister of the Gospel. He was one lot the earliest members of Jennings Lodge A. F. & A. M. having been made a Mason in that lodge in the late '50s. He was also a member of the Oregon Pioneer Association, and at the time of his death was Grand Commander of the Oregon Indian War Veterans.
Doctor Embree was a man of strong personality. He was an original thinker and a ready speaker, He was outspoken. In the defense of his views and opinions, but was always ready to listen to the opinion of others, He enjoyed opposition; in fact sometimes it seemed that he courted it. But back of brusque exterior there beat the heart filled with love for his fellowman and sympathy for the afflicted and distressed. If at times his manner seems somewhat abrupt, it was because of his long experience in the school of hard knock had taught him to despise sham and hypocrisy. Doctor Embree was a fine type of the sympathetic self-sacrificing country doctor of the old school.
He earned a fortune, he collected a bare livelihood, and died leaving his family little but the heritage of a good name. Now, that he is gone, it is comforting to those who knew and loved him that "blessings ever wait on vigorous deeds and though a late, a sure reward succeeds" (William Congreve).
The funeral will be held from the United Evangelical Church next Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will take place at the family cemetery on the old Embree donation land claim near Rickreall.
Published in the Polk County Observer of Dallas, Oregon on Friday, October 28th, 1910.
༺✿✿✿༻ LOVING MEMORY ༺✿✿✿༻
Dr. Thomas Van Buren Embree
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
August 14, 1836 - October 26, 1910
Pioneer Doctor Dies
Thomas Van Buren Embree Joins Silent Majority
Was Oregon Pioneer of 1844 and State Commander of Indian War Veterans.
Dallas - Doctor Thomas Van Buren Embree, an Oregon pioneer of 1844, and Polk County's oldest practicing physician, died at his home in this city Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 1910, aged 74 years, 2 months and 12 days.
Doctor Embree's last Illness came as a great surprise to the members of his family and to his many friends, as he had been enjoying his usual good health and had been actively engaged in the practice of his profession up to the day he became sick. Only a week ago Tuesday, he attended the funeral and burial of his old friend and neighbor, Daniel Richardson, and at that time he showed no symptoms of the approaching fatal Illness. The next day he suffered a hard chill and was obliged to take to his bed. With each succeeding day he grew worse, and, despite the careful medical attention given him, he passed away Wednesday afternoon a few minutes after three o'clock. He was partially conscious until about fifteen minutes before the end. Death was the result of kidney trouble, which brought about the complete breakdown of his vital organ.
Thomas Van Buren Embree was the eldest son of the late Cary and Lucinda Embree. He was born near Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, on August 14th. 1836. At the axe of eight years, he crossed the plains with his parents, the family arriving In Oregon City on the 24th day of December, 1844, This being one of the earliest emigrants to Oregon, the family suffered many hardships on the way. The family owned only one yoke of oxen, and as all of the room in the wagon was occupied by household good and a bed for the Invalid mother, the little lad, Thomas, and his younger sinter Mary, (now Mrs. T, J, Hayter.) walked nearly the entire distance of the 3000 mile trip.
The Embree family spent the Winter in Oregon City, moving to Polk County in the early Spring of 1845. At that time there were less thin a dozen white families In the county. The elder Mr. Embree selected his 640-acre donation claim in the LaCreole Valley, about two miles west of the present town of Rickreall. His son Thomas, assisted him with the farm work until the year 1858 and then began the study of medicine In the office of Doctor J. W. Boyle, one of the best known physicians of pioneer Oregon, He continued him course of reading with Dr. Boyle until 1880 and then went to San Francisco and became a student In the medical department of the University of the Pacific, (now the Cooper Medical College).
Doctor Embree's first experience in the practice of his chosen profession was in the little town of Lafayette In Yamhill County, Lafayette was one of the important valley town of that early day, and the young physician soon built up a lucrative practice. Later he practiced in Amity and In Lewisville and in 1874 he located in Dallas, In the Winter of 1880-81, he attended the medical department of Willamette University, and upon completing the course received a diploma of graduation from that Institution He next practiced in Corvallis, living there nearly four years. His next move was to Burns, Harney County, where he practiced eight years. He then returned to Dallas and lived here until the time of him death, with the exemption of a two year residence in Portend in the early "90s.
When the Yakima Indian War began in 1856, Doctor Embree, then a boy of 19 years, was one of the first to offer his services. He first enlisted In Company G, First Infantry, In the command of Captain Benjamin Hayden and after completing his term of service he re-enlisted, his second commander being Captain R. P. Burch, of Company B. He remained In the army until the end of the war and was ore of the volunteers that saw service In the famous *horse meat' campaign. Doctor Embree wan married in Corvallis 1868, his bride being Miss. Annie Finley, a native of Santa Clara, California, and a sister of John P. Finley. the pioneer undertaker of Portland, To this union were born seven children, three of whom are living. The surviving children are Clyde and Van Embree. of Harney County and Mrs. Armand Guthrie, of Dallas. He is also survived by two brothers, Mark and John B. Embree, and two sisters, Mrs. Hayter and Mrs. Allee Dempsey, all residents of Dallas
The Doctor was a lifelong member of the church and was a Incensed minister of the Gospel. He was one lot the earliest members of Jennings Lodge A. F. & A. M. having been made a Mason in that lodge in the late '50s. He was also a member of the Oregon Pioneer Association, and at the time of his death was Grand Commander of the Oregon Indian War Veterans.
Doctor Embree was a man of strong personality. He was an original thinker and a ready speaker, He was outspoken. In the defense of his views and opinions, but was always ready to listen to the opinion of others, He enjoyed opposition; in fact sometimes it seemed that he courted it. But back of brusque exterior there beat the heart filled with love for his fellowman and sympathy for the afflicted and distressed. If at times his manner seems somewhat abrupt, it was because of his long experience in the school of hard knock had taught him to despise sham and hypocrisy. Doctor Embree was a fine type of the sympathetic self-sacrificing country doctor of the old school.
He earned a fortune, he collected a bare livelihood, and died leaving his family little but the heritage of a good name. Now, that he is gone, it is comforting to those who knew and loved him that "blessings ever wait on vigorous deeds and though a late, a sure reward succeeds" (William Congreve).
The funeral will be held from the United Evangelical Church next Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will take place at the family cemetery on the old Embree donation land claim near Rickreall.
Published in the Polk County Observer of Dallas, Oregon on Friday, October 28th, 1910.
Dr. Thomas Van Buren Embree
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
August 14, 1836 - October 26, 1910
Pioneer Doctor Dies
Thomas Van Buren Embree Joins Silent Majority
Was Oregon Pioneer of 1844 and State Commander of Indian War Veterans.
Dallas - Doctor Thomas Van Buren Embree, an Oregon pioneer of 1844, and Polk County's oldest practicing physician, died at his home in this city Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 1910, aged 74 years, 2 months and 12 days.
Doctor Embree's last Illness came as a great surprise to the members of his family and to his many friends, as he had been enjoying his usual good health and had been actively engaged in the practice of his profession up to the day he became sick. Only a week ago Tuesday, he attended the funeral and burial of his old friend and neighbor, Daniel Richardson, and at that time he showed no symptoms of the approaching fatal Illness. The next day he suffered a hard chill and was obliged to take to his bed. With each succeeding day he grew worse, and, despite the careful medical attention given him, he passed away Wednesday afternoon a few minutes after three o'clock. He was partially conscious until about fifteen minutes before the end. Death was the result of kidney trouble, which brought about the complete breakdown of his vital organ.
Thomas Van Buren Embree was the eldest son of the late Cary and Lucinda Embree. He was born near Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, on August 14th. 1836. At the axe of eight years, he crossed the plains with his parents, the family arriving In Oregon City on the 24th day of December, 1844, This being one of the earliest emigrants to Oregon, the family suffered many hardships on the way. The family owned only one yoke of oxen, and as all of the room in the wagon was occupied by household good and a bed for the Invalid mother, the little lad, Thomas, and his younger sinter Mary, (now Mrs. T, J, Hayter.) walked nearly the entire distance of the 3000 mile trip.
The Embree family spent the Winter in Oregon City, moving to Polk County in the early Spring of 1845. At that time there were less thin a dozen white families In the county. The elder Mr. Embree selected his 640-acre donation claim in the LaCreole Valley, about two miles west of the present town of Rickreall. His son Thomas, assisted him with the farm work until the year 1858 and then began the study of medicine In the office of Doctor J. W. Boyle, one of the best known physicians of pioneer Oregon, He continued him course of reading with Dr. Boyle until 1880 and then went to San Francisco and became a student In the medical department of the University of the Pacific, (now the Cooper Medical College).
Doctor Embree's first experience in the practice of his chosen profession was in the little town of Lafayette In Yamhill County, Lafayette was one of the important valley town of that early day, and the young physician soon built up a lucrative practice. Later he practiced in Amity and In Lewisville and in 1874 he located in Dallas, In the Winter of 1880-81, he attended the medical department of Willamette University, and upon completing the course received a diploma of graduation from that Institution He next practiced in Corvallis, living there nearly four years. His next move was to Burns, Harney County, where he practiced eight years. He then returned to Dallas and lived here until the time of him death, with the exemption of a two year residence in Portend in the early "90s.
When the Yakima Indian War began in 1856, Doctor Embree, then a boy of 19 years, was one of the first to offer his services. He first enlisted In Company G, First Infantry, In the command of Captain Benjamin Hayden and after completing his term of service he re-enlisted, his second commander being Captain R. P. Burch, of Company B. He remained In the army until the end of the war and was ore of the volunteers that saw service In the famous *horse meat' campaign. Doctor Embree wan married in Corvallis 1868, his bride being Miss. Annie Finley, a native of Santa Clara, California, and a sister of John P. Finley. the pioneer undertaker of Portland, To this union were born seven children, three of whom are living. The surviving children are Clyde and Van Embree. of Harney County and Mrs. Armand Guthrie, of Dallas. He is also survived by two brothers, Mark and John B. Embree, and two sisters, Mrs. Hayter and Mrs. Allee Dempsey, all residents of Dallas
The Doctor was a lifelong member of the church and was a Incensed minister of the Gospel. He was one lot the earliest members of Jennings Lodge A. F. & A. M. having been made a Mason in that lodge in the late '50s. He was also a member of the Oregon Pioneer Association, and at the time of his death was Grand Commander of the Oregon Indian War Veterans.
Doctor Embree was a man of strong personality. He was an original thinker and a ready speaker, He was outspoken. In the defense of his views and opinions, but was always ready to listen to the opinion of others, He enjoyed opposition; in fact sometimes it seemed that he courted it. But back of brusque exterior there beat the heart filled with love for his fellowman and sympathy for the afflicted and distressed. If at times his manner seems somewhat abrupt, it was because of his long experience in the school of hard knock had taught him to despise sham and hypocrisy. Doctor Embree was a fine type of the sympathetic self-sacrificing country doctor of the old school.
He earned a fortune, he collected a bare livelihood, and died leaving his family little but the heritage of a good name. Now, that he is gone, it is comforting to those who knew and loved him that "blessings ever wait on vigorous deeds and though a late, a sure reward succeeds" (William Congreve).
The funeral will be held from the United Evangelical Church next Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will take place at the family cemetery on the old Embree donation land claim near Rickreall.
Published in the Polk County Observer of Dallas, Oregon on Friday, October 28th, 1910.
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