Orlando Pleasant Shields Plummer was an American physician and politician in the state of Oregon.
30 Facts About Orlando Plummer
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Orlando Plummer's grandfather on his mother's side was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.
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Orlando Plummer received his early education at the local public schools and at the Greenville Academy.
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Orlando Plummer then was employed as an assistant at the local telegraph office, which led to additional jobs working for the telegraph company in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
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Plummer continued in this line of work at an office in Rock Island, Illinois, where his brother S C Plummer was a doctor.
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Orlando Plummer read medicine from his brother before he returned to his native Pennsylvania to enter medical school.
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Orlando Plummer attended school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia where he graduated in 1857 with a Doctor of Medicine.
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Orlando Plummer returned to Illinois and practiced medicine in the communities of Aledo and Moline from 1858 to 1863.
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In 1863, Orlando Plummer took the Oregon Trail to California to continue working for the telegraph company, traveling by mule team.
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Orlando Plummer spent the winter of 1863 to 1864 working in a telegraph office there before receiving a promotion.
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Orlando Plummer was promoted to manager of the Portland, Oregon, office of the California State Telegraph Company.
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Orlando Plummer arrived on April 9,1864, and became the first interstate telegraph operator in the city.
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Orlando Plummer was hired as the superintendent for their Oregon district, and served in that position from 1868 to 1875.
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Orlando Plummer taught hygiene and medical electricity for three years at the school.
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In 1877, Orlando Plummer returned to Portland to practice medicine and opened a drug store at First and Salmon streets in what is today Downtown Portland.
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Willamette University's medical program moved to Portland in 1879 and Orlando Plummer returned to teaching at the school.
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Orlando Plummer left the school after three years to concentrate on his drug store.
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Orlando Plummer bought a new home in 1881, and remodeled the building.
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Orlando Plummer was a member of the United States Examining Surgeons, serving as the secretary of the board on several occasions.
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Orlando Plummer helped found the State Medical Society of Oregon and was later appointed by Governor Sylvester Pennoyer to the newly created State Board of Medical Examiners.
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Orlando Plummer spent some time as a professor at the University of Oregon's medical school, located in Portland.
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In 1865, Orlando Plummer entered politics and was elected as a city council member for Portland.
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Orlando Plummer served one term on the council, from 1865 to 1866.
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Orlando Plummer won re-election to a second two-year term in 1882, but represented District 39 during that session.
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Orlando Plummer only served during the 1880 and 1882 legislative sessions.
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Orlando Plummer served as chairman of the Republicans' city and county conventions for one year.
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Orlando Plummer was a horticulturalist and owned a 20-acre fruit farm that was then southwest of Portland.
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Orlando Plummer was an elder at the church for decades, and helped organize another Presbyterian Church in South Portland.
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Orlando Plummer was a member of the Masons and of the Al Kader Temple.
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Orlando Plummer died on December 7,1913, in Portland at the age of 77.