Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 558.
 
C. E. GEIGER, M.D.

     Is a native of Oregon, born at Forest Grove, Washington county, in 1853.
His father, William Geiger, M.D., was a native of New York State, born in 1816,
of German ancestry, who emigrated to America late in the seventeenth century,
settling first in New York State and subsequently removing to Michigan.  Here
the father of our subject left his parents and pushed west to Missouri, and
there engaged in teaching school.  With the emigration of 1839 Mr. Geiger
crossed the plains to Oregon and passed the winter with Dr. Whitman in eastern
Oregon.  In 1840 he came to the Willamette valley and passed a few years.  He
then went to California, via the Sandwich islands, in 1840, and passed about one
year with Captain Sutter, experiencing many adventures in that new and unsettled
country.  In 1842 he joined a small company to return East, but upon the plains
of Nevada their provisions gave out and starvation stared them in the face, when
they fell in with an emigrant train bound for Oregon in the fall, and Mr. Geiger
joined the company and returned to that State.
     In 1847 he married Miss Elizabeth Cornwall, a pioneer of 1846, and they
settled upon a donation claim of 640 acres, near Forest Grove, and there resided
and farmed until 1862, when he resumed the practice of medicine.  In 1865 he
removed to Forest Grove, there continuing his profession and continuing to
reside, retaining 540 acres of his original claim.  He and his wife have seven
children, and our subject is the third.
     C. E. Geiger was educated at the Pacific University at Forest Grove, and in
1875 commenced the study of medicine with his father, according to homeopathic
methods of treatment.  In 1876 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and in a course
of study under Dr. E. C. Franklin, he received a special certificate and a
diploma from the Good Samaritan hospital, which was followed by a course of
study at the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, where he graduated in the
spring of 1879.  He then returned to Oregon, and thence to Victoria, British
Columbia, where he practiced until 1881, when he settled in Portland and has
there continued until the present date, enjoying a general practice, which he
carried on according to the homeopathic methods.
     He was married in Salem, October 27, 1886, to Miss Alice E. Shirley, a
native of Oregon and daughter of James Shirley, a pioneer of the early forties.
Dr. Geiger is a member of Progress Lodge, No. 72, and Rebekah Degree Lodge, No.
32, I.O.O.F., also of Company K, First Regiment, Oregon National Guards, and of
the Oregon Pioneer Association.
 
 
Transcriber's additional Notes:
 
"Oregon, Washington and Alaska Gazetteer and Business Directory:  1901 - 1902"
R.L. Polk & Co.; page 173
Forest Grove -
Gieger, Charles E. phys.
Geiger, Wm., phys.
 
Oregon Death Index:
Charles E. Geiger
Washington Co, OR
Date of death:  November 16, 1920
Certificate # 238
 
Alice Earnestine Geiger
Washington Co, OR.
Date of death:  October 6, 1927
Certificate # 204

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.