Asa B Starbuck, M.D
Submitted by: Lynn Mack
Dr. Asa B. STARBUCK, who since 1907 has engaged in the practice of
medicine and surgery at Dallas, is widely and favorably known in this
section of the state, for his birth occurred four miles west of Salem,
in Polk county, June 6, 1876. His parents Thomas H. and Almira B.
(GIBSON) STARBUCK, were natives of Ohio and Illinois, respectively.
In 1864 the father accompanied his parents on their journey across the
plains to Oregon, the family locating on a farm in Polk county, which
became the birthplace of the subject of this review. The father
engaged in farming in this section of the state until 1887, when he
removed to Portland in order to give his children better educational
advantages. He has since made that city his home and has been very
successful in his undertakings, becoming the owner of valuable real
estate, and is also engaged in preaching the gospel as a minister of
the Seventh Day Adventist church. He has reached the age of
seventy-seven years but retains his mental and physical vigor and is
yet an active factor in the world's work. The mother also survives.
In 1852 she crossed the plains with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Davis
GIBSON, as members of a train of emigrants, and as they journeyed
along the Platte river they became victims of the cholera epidemic,
losing half of their party. The father had previously made the trip
to Oregon in 1848, and being pleased with the country, returned to the
east and succeeded in inducing others to locate on the Pacific slope.
Taking up a homestead claim in Polk county adjoining the Starbuck
ranch, he here engaged in farming throughout the remainder of his
life, passing away at the age of eighty-two, while his wife's demise
occurred about 1902, when she had reached the venerably age of
ninety-two years.
Asa B. STARBUCK attended the schools of Polk county and of Portland,
being eleven years of age when his parents became residents of that
city. Subsequently he became a student in the Walla Walla College
at
Walla Walla, Washington, from which he was graduated in 1899, and in
1902 he entered the medical department of the State University of
Oregon, graduating with the class of 1906. For a year thereafter he
was interne in St. Vincent's Hospital at Portland, where he gained
valuable experience, and in 1907 he opened an office in Dallas, where
he has since followed his profession. He has through the
intervening
period built up a large practice and is accounted one of the most able
and successful physicians of this part of the state. He has studied
broadly, thinks deeply, and his efforts have been of the greatest
value to his patients, for he is seldom at fault in the diagnosis of
cases and his sound judgment and careful study enable him to do
excellent professional work. He also has invested in farm lands in
the county and has a seventy-acre prune orchard, supplied with the
most modern equipment in the way of buildings and driers.
On the 30th of July, 1913, Dr.STARBUCK was united in marriage to
Miss
Ruth BEAVER and they have become the parents of three children,
namely: Mary E. who was born June 9, 1914; Almira E. born August
18,
1917; and Thomas B., whose birth occurred on the 7th of December,
1918.
In his political views the Doctor is a republican, and fraternally is
identified with the Knights of Pythias and is also a Scottish Rite
Mason and member of the Shrine. His professional connections are
with
the Medical Societies of Polk, Marion and Yamhill counties, the Oregon
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a
patriotic and loyal American and during the World war had charge of
the sale of War Savings Stamps in Polk county and also conducted all
of the local drives, for which he raised the sum of four hundred
thousand dollars in Polk county. He likewise served as a member of
the Council of Defense and was chairman of the Red Cross county
committee, thus rendering most important and valuable aid to the
government in its hour of need. He is a lover of his profession,
deeply interested in its scientific and humanitarian phases and puts
forth every effort to made his labors effective in checking the
ravages of disease. He is a man of strict integrity and high
ideals,
who is every relation of life exemplifies the highest standards of
American manhood and citizenship.
History of Oregon, Biographical, Vol. II, The Pioneer Historical
Publishing Company, 1922, Pages 284-285
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