Dr. Rodney Lawrence Glisan

Dr. Rodney Glisan died at his residence at the corner of I and Eighteenth streets about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon of apoplexy. He attended a meeting of the vestry of Trinity church at Judge Deady's chambers Monday evening and when leaving handed Mr. Dodd $5 toward the expenses of the Trinity Sunday-school picnic. He returned in his usual good health, and at 6 o'clock yesterday morning was stricken with apoplexy, or something of that kind which proved fatal.

Dr. Glisan was born in Maryland, and studied medicine at a Baltimore school. He was appointed surgeon in the United States army, and came to this coast in the ‘50s, having been stationed at Port Orford in 1856. When the Southern Indians were removed to Grand Ronde reservation in 1857, he removed to that place and resided there till the war of the rebellion broke out, when he resigned and went to San Francisco, but soon came back here and engaged in the practice of medicine. A year or two later he was married to Miss Lizzie Couch, who survives him. He leaves two sons, who have lately graduated at Yale, and two daughters.

Early in the ‘60s Dr. Glisan wrote a book on army life giving an account of his experience while in Texas and Oregon. He afterward published a work on obstetrics and a few years since on his return from a visit to Europe published an account of his life abroad. Dr. Glisan was about sixty-two years of age, and has been for many years a warden of Trinity church. He was an industrious, economical, painstaking man of rather quiet, reticent ways. Dr. Glisan accumulated a very ample fortune during his lifetime.

As yet no arrangements have been made for the funeral.

[Morning Oregonian (Portland, OR)
June 4, 1890 pg. 6]

Son of Samuel & Eliza Glisan; his ancestors were among the first English settlers of Maryland.