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	JAMES M. SLEICHER, M.D.:  Dr. James M. Sleicher, 
who for the past ten years has successfully engaged in the practice 
of medicine in Chehalis, claims Pennsylvania as his native state, his 
birth occurring in Allentown, July 17, 1860, and he is the second in 
a family of five children.  His parents, Jonas and Catherine (Butz) 
Sleicher, were also born in Pennsylvania, where the father engaged 
in business as a carriage builder for a number of years.  He died in 
July, 1907, and the mother passed away when the Doctor was a 
small boy.
	Dr. Sleicher acquired his early education in the public 
schools of the Keystone state and the knowledge there obtained was 
supplemented by a course of Ursinus College in Collegeville, 
Pennsylvania, and at Columbia College, New York, graduating 
from both institutions with the degree of A.B.  Later he entered 
upon the study of medicine in Gross Medical College, Denver, 
Colorado, and upon his graduation was granted the degree of M.D. 
in 1888.  He was also graduated from the medical department of the 
University of Louisville, Kentucky, and has taken post graduate 
work in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago and also a Johns 
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and under the Mayo 
brothers at Rochester, Minnesota.  It will thus be seen that he is 
exceptionally well fitted for the profession which he follows, 
keeping posted on all discoveries known in the science of medicine 
and surgery, and in his practice he has met with most excellent 
success.  He first opened an office at Walsenburg, Colorado, where 
he engaged in practice for seven years, and the following twelve 
years were spent at Watertown, Wisconsin.  In 1906 Dr. Sleicher 
came to Chehalis, Washington, and here he has followed his chosen 
calling ever since.
	The Doctor's wife was formerly a nurse at St .Helen's 
Hospital.  He has one daughter, Ruth, now the wife of Julian E. 
Smith, who is connected with the Butler Paper Company of 
Chicago, in which city they make their home.
	In politics the Doctor has always affiliated with the 
democratic party and in religious faith he is a Presbyterian.  He is a 
Knight Templar Mason and has taken all of the degrees of the 
Scottish Rite, and is also a member of the Benevolent Protective 
Order of Elks and has belonged to the Citizens Club of Chehalis 
since its inception.  He is prominently identified with the Lewis 
County Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and 
the American Medical Association and has been honored with the 
presidency of the first named organization is now a delegate from 
the state to the national association.  It will thus be seen that he 
stands high in the esteem of his professional brethren, who 
recognize his ability and worth, and his success is all the more 
creditable in that he worked his way through college and by his own 
unaided efforts has surmounted all obstacles in his path until he now 
ranks among the leading physicians and surgeons of western 
Washington.

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