Yep today I went into work and found the Atwood doctor I had told everyone about. Here's the lowdown. Dr. James P. Atwood (1846-1926) established himself at Baker City in 1871 and remained there until his death. He was born in Green Co., Wisconsin, but was brought to Oregon by his father who located in Benton Co., in 1853. Atwood attended school in Corvallis and Sublimity, after which he taught school for a time. He read medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Marion B. Lingo of Salem and entered the Willamette Medical Department, graduating in 1870. He practiced for a year at LaGrande, Oregon and in 1871 settled at Baker City. Feeling the need of further training he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, from which he graduated in 1874, returning to Baker City to resume his practice. He kept up with developments of medicine by reading and through post-graduate courses from time to time, and served his community for more than half a century. "Centennial History of Oregon, Joseph Gaston, (1912), Vol II:631. Judi Wetzell