An Illustratied History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, 1902
published by Western Historical Publishing Company

Daniel Grant, M.D.

He was born in Nova Scotia, on November 24, 1874, his parents being Alexander R. and Margaret Grant natives respectively of Nova Scotia and Scotland. Having completed the course offered by the excellent public schools of his native province, our subject entered McGill University of Montreal, and from the medical department of that famous institution he graduated in 1896. He then practice for two years in the state of New Hampshire, after which he came to Baker City, Oregon, where he practiced a year, thereupon being appointed physician and surgeon to the E. & E., Columbia, Golconda, North Pole, Venus and Mountain View mines. He also enjoyed a very enviable patronage outside of his mining practice, this coming to him as a reward of his painstaking care and conscientiousness in the discharge of his professional duties.

Fraternally our subject is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, at Sumpter, Oregon, and the Pioneers of the Pacific, being examining physician for the last named order. He also affiliates with the very ancient K.A.E.O. He belongs to the British Medical Society, and the New Hampshire Medical Association, and while in Baker City he was on the staff of physicians of St. Elizabeth hospital.

Dr. Grant has achieved a very enviable success in his mining ventures, having been half owner of the Porcupine group, which sold a short time since for fifteen thousand dollars. He also has interests in other valuable properties
in the district.

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