Snyder, Eugene E. (Eugene Edmund)

Historian Eugene Edmund Snyder was born in Portland, Oregon, on August 3, 1918, the only child of Aurora Colony descendant Edmund I. Snyder and artist Amanda (Tester) Snyder. He published more than a dozen nonfiction titles on Oregon history, world travels, and art. He is perhaps best known in research circles for his books on Portland history, including Portland Names and Neighborhoods: Their Historic Origins; Early Portland: Stump-Town Triumphant; We Claimed this Land: Portland's Pioneers Settlers; and Skidmore's Portland: His Fountain and its Sculptor. Additionally, he published three fiction novels. Snyder was also an academic economist who taught at the University of British Columbia, Linfield College, and Portland State University. He died in 2010 in Portland.

From the description of Eugene E. Snyder papers, circa 1862-2011. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 733407165

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