Obit: Buland, Bertha #2 (1862 - 1944)

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Surnames: Buland, Campbell, Bryan,

----Source: Scrapbook of Bertha and Caroline (Wehrmann) Volk 1930-1950’s

Buland, Bertha #2 (1862 - 1944)

Miss Marion Dickey of 1205 S.E. 37 Ave., Portland Oregon, sends The Press a clipping from the Portland Oregonian of February 8, telling of the death of Mrs. G.L. Buland. She came to a pioneer family of Clark County, and her husband, Dr. Buland, practiced in northern part of the county.

Mrs. Buland died at the age of 81 at her home, 1767 S.E. Maple Street, Portland. She left a son, George Jr., and two daughters, Mrs. George Norman Campbell of Kalama, Wash., and Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan of Tacoma, besides five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Mrs. Buland was active in Portland organizations, serving two terms as president of the Portland Federation of women’s Clubs and many years as chairman of the state organization’s committee on international relations. She was president of the Portland branch of the National Council for the Prevention of War, and was a member of the League of Nations Associations. She was one of the founders of the Portland Research Club, and was legislative chairman and scientific temperance instructor for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Mrs. Buland was born in Baraboo in 1862. The family moved west in 1900, locating at Castle Rock, Oregon. They moved to Portland in 1912, Dr. Buland died in 1930.

(The Neillsville Press)
Mrs. Buland and daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Bryan visited here about 1932 and related the following to Mrs. J.S. Andrews and Mrs. John Arends, who with others were then compiling the “Greenwood History” published in 1934.
“In 1884 Dr. Thomas (the physician here) felt the need to help in his work and wrote to Rush Medical College for names of young doctors looking for a location; two names were sent, those of Dr. Buland and Dr. McCutcheon. Mrs. G.C. Andrews on hearing the names read said “Dr. Buland sounds like a nice name so Dr. Buland was invited to locate at Greenwood. The same year in May, Bertha Mason and Ella Bacon, two young girls, came from Neillsville and started a millinery store here. The first evening they were at the boarding house Dr. Buland and Dorrence Bailey came in together and seeing the two girls, Dorry said “There are two girls for us” Dr. Buland replied “alright I’ll take the long, slim one.” Dr. Buland and Bertha Mason were married December 9, 1884.”

Dr. Buland built and lived in the home now occupied by Harold Stabnow. He also built a drug store and office on the lot where the Gullord Pharmacy now stands and conducted them until he went west in 1900.