Dr. James D. McCurdy, an early physician of Salem, Oregon. He was born in March of 1820, in Kentucky. He and his first wife, Artilia, crossed the plains in 1852, arriving in Salem. She died of typhoid on November 26, 1852, at age 28. He reportedly practiced medicine with A. M. Bell, and then went back to the South until the Civil War. He remarried Susan Thornton Baldwin. They returned to Salem in about 1864, and resided there until he became interested in the mines in Idaho and they moved. He died in Bellevue, Idaho, on October 3, 1901.