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Orlando Plummer
Orlando Pleasant Shields Plummer (April 13, 1836 – December 7, 1913) was an American physician and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he started practicing medicine in Illinois before moving to Portland, Oregon. In Oregon, he continued his medical work as well as working for several telegraph companies. A Republican, Plummer was also a member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, a medical professor, fruit farmer, and Portland city council member. His drug store in downtown had the first telephone in Portland.
==Early life==
Orlando Pleasant Shields Plummer (often O.P.S. Plummer) was born in Greenville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, on April 13, 1836, to Elizabeth (née Craig) and John Boyd Plummer.〔Corning, Howard M. (1989) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 199.〕〔''Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon. Containing Original Sketches of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present''. Chicago: Chapman Pub. Co., (1903). p. 786-8.〕 His grandfather on his mother’s side was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.〔(''Lineage book''. ) Daughters of the American Revolution, (1890). p. 266.〕 Plummer received his early education at the local public schools and at the Greenville Academy.〔〔 He 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.〔 Plummer continued in this line of work at an office in Rock Island, Illinois, where his brother S. C. Plummer was a doctor.〔
Orlando read medicine from his brother before he returned to his native Pennsylvania to enter medical school.〔 He attended school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia where he graduated in 1857 with a Doctor of Medicine.〔 Plummer returned to Illinois and practiced medicine in the communities of Aledo and Moline from 1858 to 1863.〔〔 In 1859, he married Sarah B. Cool with whom he had three daughters, with the marriage ending in divorce.〔〔〔 One daughter married Claud Gatch, one-time mayor of Salem, Oregon.〔 In 1863, Plummer took the Oregon Trail to California to continue working for the telegraph company, traveling by mule team.〔 He spent the winter of 1863 to 1864 working in a telegraph office there before receiving a promotion.〔
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