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EDGAR OAKES DUTRO, M. D.

Dr. Edgar O. Dutro, a leading physician and surgeon of Hood River county, where
he has been engaged in the practice of his profession for about fourteen years,
maintaining an office in Odell and also one in Hood River, is a native of
Illinois, born in that state in 1870.

Dr. Dutro is a son of Thomas Corwin and Laura (Savitz) Dutro, the latter a
descendant of old residents in America who were among the early settlers of
Dutch extraction in the state of Pennsylvania, where the name is held in high
esteem. The Dutros were natives of Ohio and Thomas C. Dutro, the doctor's
father, was reared and educated in Zanesville, Ohio. He afterwards moved to St.
Louis, where he occupied the position of president of the St. Louis Car Wheel
Company until his death in 1886. This plant is one of the leading manufactories
in that city.

Dr. Dutro, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the grade and high
schools of St. Louis, in the Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, and received
his professional training in the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons,
from which he was graduated in 1892 with the degree of M. D. During the two
years following his graduation he practiced his profession at St. Louis and for
a time occupied the post of house surgeon at the Missouri Pacific Hospital in
that city.

It was in 1894 that Dr. Dutro decided to come to the west, where he felt that
greater opportunities presented themselves for a young physician than in the
crowded east. Having carefully considered all sections he decided in favor of
Oregon for his future home, and on arrival in the state he went to Portland,
where he opened an office in 1894, remaining in that city until 1898. From 1895
to 1897 Dr. Dutro was associated with Dr. A. E. Rockey, one of the most
distinguished medical men on the coast. He spent two years as surgeon of one of
the large ocean liners and from 1902 to 1906 practiced in various parts of Wasco
and Hood River counties. In the latter year he decided to locate in Hood River
county and has since practiced there.

Dr. Dutro resides on his ranch at Odell, Hood River county, and for the
convenience of his patients maintains an office at Odell and also one at Hood
River. He is a deep student and has devoted himself almost exclusively to the
interests of his profession, following the developments of medical and surgical
science. While giving his attention to general practice he has also specialized
in the treatment of the diseases of children but the local field for this branch
is not sufficiently extensive to enable him to devote all of his time to it. Dr.
Dutro is a member of the Oregon Medical Society and of the American Medical
Association, and is secretary of the Hood River General Hospital. Since coming
to reside on the coast he has received the degree of M. A. from Westminster
College. He is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the
affairs of which he takes a warm interest and in which he has filled all the
chairs.

In 1902 Dr. Dutro was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Williams, a daughter of
William N. Williams of Nebraska, who belongs to one of the trail blazer families
of the west. Mr. Williams operated one of the early day freight lines to the
Wyoming country in the days before the advent of the railroads. William F. Cody
(Buffalo Bill) came from the same family as Mrs. Dutro's mother. Two children
have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Dutro, namely: Virginia and Delma, students,
respectively, of the high and grade schools. The doctor and his wife are members
of a community in which they are extremely popular and where they take a
prominent part in all social and cultural movements designed to advance the
welfare of the people among whom they live.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2006 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.