Barker, Burt Brown

Dr. Burt Brown Barker was born in 1873 in Wakeburg, Washington. He graduated from Salem High School in 1889 and was a close friend of United States President Herbert Hoover during their teen years. He followed a classical course of study at Willamette University from 1889 to 1893 in both the University Academy and College of Liberal Arts; while at Willamette, he served as business manager for The Collegian newspaper and was a member of the Philadorian Society and Y.M.C.A. In later life, Barker was a practicing lawyer as well as vice-president of the University of Oregon. An advocate for the arts and historic preservation he also served as president of the Oregon Historical Society, president of the Oregon Society Sons of the American Revolution, and director of the Federal Art Project in Portland. Barker is the author of two monographs: The McLoughlin empire and its rulers: Doctor John McLoughlin, Doctor David McLoughlin, Marie Louise (Sister St. Henry); an account of their personal lives and of their parents, relatives, and children; in Canada's Quebec Province, in Paris, France, and in the West of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Autobiography of Burt Brown Barker. Barker died in 1969.

From the guide to the Burt Brown Barker papers, 1890-1893, 1935, (Willamette University University Archives and Special Collections)