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Lane County Historian DR. ANDREW WILSON PATTERSON Pioneer Physician, Surveyor, Educator, Hop Grower - IN THIS ISSUE - PIONEER DOCTORS OF EUGENE HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY OF CROW Many pictures of each group THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT LANE COUNTY PIONEER-HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. VI - No. 4 Eugene, Oregon December, 1961 PRICE 50 CENTS PER COPY -61-- LANE COUNTY PIONEER-HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2161 Madison St., Eugene, Oregon - Merle S. Moore, Editor -CONTENTS - CORRECTION FOR VOL. VI, No. 3, Sept. 1961 62 THREE PIONEER DOCTORS OF EUGENE, Effie R. Knapp 63 A HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY OF CROW, ORE., Ruth Mavity...70 THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 78 Andrew Jackson Crow and his first wife Christina Zumwalt Crow, from whom the post office of Craw took its name. Crossed the plains to Oregon in1852, wife died Aug. 2 of cholera enroute.Settled on his DLC, Oct. 15, 1852 - signed with his (X) mark - between Crow and Hadleyville. Married Mrs. Mary Taylor Sanders in Lane Co. Had 10 children by first wife and 3 by second.Children of Christina: EllenF.(McCoy); Cynthia E.; Sarah Susanna (Gibson); William Marion; James A. J.; Mary Jane (John H. Cochran); Lucinda S.; John L.; Lodema A. (Sedlak, Bandy); Rosanna Amanda. To A. J. and Mary Taylor Sanders: Nancy M. (Hinton), Thomas N.; Margaret J.(Keyte).Cynthia and Lucinda died on the Oregon Trail with cholera, that had taken their mother. CORRECTION FOR VOL. VI, No. 3Sept. 1961 The title under the picture on page 56 should be: "Rev. Gilmore Callison and second wife, (Mrs.) Eliza Linder Callison; whom he married after the death of his first wife soon after their arrival in Oregon in Sept. 1852.Their DLC was across the river from Jasper.He assisted in organizing and building Christian churches in Pleasant Hill (1850) and in Eugene City (1866)." His first wife was the mother of all of his children.Eliza Linder was the mother of Rebecca Linder (Callison), page 53. 62- Three Pioneer Doctors of Eugene By EFFIE R. KNAPP The followingbiographiesareex- M.D., physician and surgeon, Eugene cerpts from the manuscript dealing with City, Lane County, Oregon. Office and the medical story of Lane County soon residence corner Ninth and High Streets, to be published by the Lane County nearly opposite the Eugene City Livery Medical Society Stables." He had been mentioned by the There has accumulated much infor- historian, Bancroft, in his list of doctors mation about three of the very early in Lane County before 1860. Eugene doctors who were contempo- The doctor had begun his practice in raries and very little about the many Eugene City, five years before the above other pioneer men and women of that professional card which was probabjy profession. Whether each of these three prompted to meet the competition of in his own particular way was of such another physician, Dr. j. W. Mahtn, outstanding personality that he attracted then living near Monroe who also carried wide attention and respect or whether all an ad in the local publication, saying that three exemplified the proverbial maker his services would be available at any of the better mousetrap is problematical. time to residents of both Benton and It was the great German neurologist, Lane Counties. physiologist, and pathologist, Dr. Carl Dr. Hanchett was the sonof Dr. W. H. Northnagel (1847-1905) who LutherHanchett, a surgeoninthe said: "Only a good man can become a United States Army. He studied under good physician." The three men who are the direction of his father and two other the subjects of the following biographies doctors, attended a course of medical lec- demonstrated the truth of the saying. tures in Geneva, New York, and in all, The first of these three: a round vola- studied four years before beginning prac- tile little man, exclusively engaged in the tice as physician and surgeon. Several one profession from the time ofhis years of successful practice, first in Cold- arrival in Eugene until his death, and an water, Michigan, later in Sacramento, active participant in every phase of com- California, preceded his location in Eu- munity life; gene in 1859. The second: lean, tall (he was six feet, Dr. Leonard Jacobson,ofEugene, four inches), reserved and so versatile while still a student in Medical College that he seemed capable of engaging in in Oregon, wrote a paper in 1941 on any profession which interested him; early medical practice in the Upper Wil- The third: enigmatic, temperamental, lamette Valley in which he quotes from skilledphysician and surgeon, whom a pioneer woman's recollections of Dr. other doctors respected and from whom Hanchettduring herchildhood,her they often sought assistance, and who family having arrived in Eugene in 1854. gave to the world a physician son who She describes the doctor as a jolly little brought distinction to the entire West. man, obviously liked by the children who gathered around the table to watch him DR. WILLIAM H. HANCHETT mixing and measuring and packing into The first of these, Dr. William H. little white papers the ingredients of Hanchett, announced in the OREGON which he carried in his medicine case. STATE JOURNAL (a weekly paper Among the remedies used were Dover's published inEugene)initsissue of powders, quinine, castoroil, and blue March 19, 1864: "Wm. H. Hanchett, mass (a form of mercury now given in 63- one-tenth grain calomel tablets hut which of apparent recurrence of various diseases as given then, often salivated the pa- showed his intelligent approach to his tient). Various liniments and "sticking duty professionally and as a conscientious plasters" were also used. Reference was adviser. made to the practice of cupping and to As an illustration of his concern, Dr. the common ailments of the time which Hanchett had submitted to the local she mentionedas inflamationofthe newspaper in February, 1869, an article bowels or stomach,(appendicitis was on vaccination as a protective agent and unheard of at that time), putrid sore had asked, and secured, publication of throat, lung fever, scrofula, rheumatism, paragraphs dealing with the subject from and felons. the January issue of the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal. Dr. Hanchett became a much publi- He made the prophetic statement: "It cized citizen from his earliest appearance is the opinion of the medical profession in Eugene. It was rarely that a week that smallpox can be almost banished passed without some mentioninthe from the world by a thorough and syste- weekly newspaper of the doctor or his matic adoption of vaccination andre- wife, and often of both. The news stories vaccination." gave details of his various surgical opera- This was at a time when smallpox was tions,thecountlessaccidentcases* being reported as spreading seriously as treated,incidents of, the horseback or far away as in San Francisco, where it buggy trips to see patients, the gifts of was said nearly one-fourth of the afflicted flowers, fish, or fruit to the newspaper had died. The State Journal had sug- families; his service on all sorts of com- gested in January, 1869, "a preventative mittees and boards - civic, political or medicinecream of tartar and sulphur," religious,hisassistancewithcharity and advised: "It is worth trying, it costs affairs, entertainment ofthe winning little, and cannot fail to do much good. baseball team, opening of the Hanchett Take one ounce cream of tartar, 2 ounces home for meetings of all sortseven for flowers oi sulphur, and mix well in a marriage ceremonies. pint of molasses; dose, one teaspoon on If he felt strongly on any current issue going to bed (adult),/2teaspoon (chil- or differed radically with others, his de- dren). In ten days or two weeks it will fenseofhisposition was announced have cleansed the system effectually." through the press. At one time he de- In the old I.O.O.F. cemetery, adjoin- fended his reported criticism of a drug- ing the University of Oregon campus, gist who had, he felt, overcharged one there is a simple, weathered white marble of his patients for brandy, and at another shaft, the south face of which bears the time denied that he had said there was inscription "William H. Hanchett, born a case of dreaded smallpox in town. At July 30, 1805, died June 11, 1875. On the same time, his warning at the time the opposite, or north side, almost inde- iscarved "Louise, H., his *Accidents that required the treatment of the cipherable, pioneer doctor included those incident to wife, died June 18, 1896, aged 79 years." the then common use of horses; frequent The plot, grass covered, contains two runaways that resulted in overturned bug- gies and wagons, sudden kicking or a rider rambling rose bushes and an old lilac beingthrown whenhismount became tree. frightened; axe or knife injury. Sometimes Mrs. Hanchett had lived twenty-one a patient would be poisoned by medicine, e. g. vaccine, that had become spoiled on years longer than her husband. Her will account of lack of refrigeration, etc., during contained eight distinct sections provid- long periods (sometimes 6 months) of de- ing for the disposition of her estate alter livery by sailing ships and overland trans- portation. 64the preliminary sentence: "I desire all "Again we are called upon. to record the death of one of our most useful citizens. He was a man of strict, temperate hab- its, a quick, active brain and more than ordinary ability, which induced him to be charitable in all his dealings and espe- ciall; to the poor. Through his long and useful life he bore a spotless reputation. His high sense of honor and pure moral qualities of heart always placed him on the side of right.