Louis Hanson Whitehouse, M.D.

 Louis Hanson Whitehouse, M.D., a physician and surgeon of Oakland, was born in Troy, Maine, December 6, 1844, a son of E. G., and Annie M. (Shaw) Whitehouse, both natives of that State.  New Hampshire was the first seat of the Whitehouse family in this country, and it was from that State that Hanson Whitehouse, the grandfather of our subject, emigrated to Maine, in his youth.  He followed the vocation of farming and settled at Troy, where he was married to Miss Mary Rogers, a native of some section of New England.  Hanson Whitehouse was a soldier of the war of 1812) and a pensioner of that war for some years.  About 1857 Mr. E. G. Whitehouse moved to Newport, Maine, and engaged in business, dying there of typhoid fever at the age of forty-seven.  Mrs. Whitehouse is still a resident of that place, aged sixty-six.

     Dr. L. H. Whitehouse, the subject of this sketch, received his early education in the district school of Troy and from the age of thirteen to eighteen in Newport.  He then enlisted in the Second Maine Cavalry, serving in the Red river campaign and at Mobile with General Smith.  He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant July 8, 1865, in the United States Forty-first Regiment (colored, and was mustered out of service in December, 1865.  Returning home he began to read medicine under Dr. Benson of Newport, and afterwards attended a course of lectures in Bowdoin College.  Later he entered the medical department of Dartmouth College and was graduated from that institution before the close of 1866.  He then began to practice in Newport, but soon desiring to enlarge his professional knowledge and skill, he concluded to take a course of clinical study and observation.  For this purpose he visited the hospitals of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis.  He then set out for California, arriving in San Francisco, March 4, 1868, and in April received the appointment of surgeon on the revenue cutter Lincoln, to cruise chiefly in Alaskan waters.  He resigned that position at Port Townsend in 1870, and was appointed surgeon of the Pacific division of the Northern Pacific railroad.  He remained in the service of that corporation for sixteen years, residing at different points---Kalama, Tacoma, Seattle, Ellensburg and Spokane Falls.  This last he represented in the Upper House or Council, from 1884, to 1886, being a resident there from 1880 to 1886.  Since 1886 he has been chiefly engaged in real estate, and has traveled extensively through Washington, Oregon and California.  In 1888 he settled in this city, but continues to travel considerably on his realty interests, while he has virtually retired from practice as a physician.  He was married in Port Townsend in 1871, to Miss Hannah Mein, a native of Scotland, whose parents died in that country at an advanced age.  Dr. and Mrs. Whitehouse have two boys, born in Kalama, Washington, L. H., Jr., in 1875; Herbert Clyde, in 1877.  Dr. Whitehouse is a member of the F. & A.M.

 

 

Transcribed 10-28-04 Marilyn R. Pankey.  There were some odd parentheses, the first with no opening and the latter with no closing.  mrp