Rodney Glisan

He was born in Linganore in Frederick County, Maryland, the son of Samuel and Eliza Glisan.

He practiced medicine for a year in Baltimore and then in 1850 he was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army.

He resigned his commission in 1861 and practiced medicine in San Francisco before moving to Portland, Oregon.

He is noted for performing the first amputation of the shoulder and thigh, and the second operation for strangulated inguinal hernia in the Pacific Northwest.

Glisan is honored by the naming of a street in Northwest and Northeast Portland, Oregon.