BIOGRAPHIES

ALBERT PATRICK O'LEARY

ALBERT PATRICK O'LEARY, M. D.  The professional services of Dr. O'Leary as physician and surgeon has been given to Big Timber since 1906.  The only hospital advantages enjoyed by Sweetgrass County have been established and developed by Dr. O'Leary, and this well equipped private hospital is only one of many services by which his name is held in honor in that section of the state.

Dr. O'Leary was born at Flint, Michigan, August 26, 1870, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan, department of medicine and surgery.  The previous generations of his family lived in County Cork, Ireland.  Doctor O'Leary was about seven years old when his parents moved to Oregon, and he acquired his early education in public and private schools at The Dalles, and in 1892 graduated from the Wasco Independent Academy and Normal School.  He finished his course and received his M. D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1898.  One year he spent as interne in a hospital at Portland, Oregon, and has always kept up with the advances in his profession, particularly in surgery, in which he specializes.  He attended the Chicago Polyclinic in 1915.  He began practice at Butte in 1899 and for two years had the chief responsibilities in controlling the smallpox epidemic.  Later he spent two years at Boulder Hot Springs and Alhambra Hot Springs, practiced at Billings six months, and in 1906 located at Big Timber, where he has been busily engaged in a general practice.  He built his hospital in 1911 and is sole owner and proprietor.  This hospital, the only one in Sweetgrass County, is located at McLeod Street and Fourth Avenue, and has accommodations for ten patients.  Its facilities have frequently been taxed, and patients come from as far as sixty miles away.  Dr. O'Leary is a member of the State and District Medical Societies, and is a county health officer of Sweetgrass County.

He served as a member of the city council of Big Timber in 1917-18-19, is a republican, a Catholic, and a former member of the Knights of Columbus at Butte.  He is associated with his father in the ownership of 1,000 acres of ranch land in the Grass Valley of Oregon, and he individually 280 acres in Carbon County.  Dr. O'Leary is unmarried.

Source: Excerpts from the book, Montana: Its Story and Biography, volume II, edited by Tom Stout, published in 1921, pages 265-266, located on the website, Hathitrust Digital Library (http://www.hathitrust.org), accessed 15 June 2022.

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