George Weirs King Scrapbook 1892-1902

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George Weirs King Scrapbook 1892-1902

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The collection consists of reprints and newspaper articles written by or about Dr. George W. King and a scrapbook of photographs and miscellaneous materials. Dr. George Weirs King was born October 1845 in New York. After graduating from the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, he served as a surgeon at the University and subsequently in Illinois and then in New York. After a bout with pneumonia, he was offered a position as surgeon for the Montana Mining Company in 1883. In 1892 he filed a patent for a fracture apparatus. He later moved his practice to Portland, Oregon. Dr. King died on June 26, 1929.

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Oregon Health and Science University Historical Collections and Archives

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Montana Mining Company

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On November 11, 1882, the Joint Stock Association, a London syndicate, agreed to purchase the Drumlummon Mine in Marysville, Montana Territory, from Thomas Cruse. Cruse filed a claim on the Drumlummon in 1876 and he spent the next four years driving a 500-foot tunnel. Two years later a five stamp mill constructed by the Mayger Bros. was processing Drumlummon ore and turning a profit. That same year Cruse transformed his small claim into a return of $1,500,000 by selling the Drumlummon to British...

King, George Weirs

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Taken from the "Biography of Dr. George W. King", by Joaquin Miller, published in 1894 George W. King, the leading medical practitioner of Marysville, Montana, descended from one of the pioneer families of Vermont, his ancestors having located in that State previous to the Revolutionary war. The paternal grandfather served with Washington in that struggle and participated in the hardships endured by the patriot soldiers at Valley Forge. The father of our subject, Cyrus W...