Creitz family collection 1823-2007

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Creitz family collection 1823-2007

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv52005

Papers of the Creitz family of Portland, Oregon, including manuscripts, genealogical papers, and ephemera. Included are materials relating to the muscial activities of Louis Creitz and his son Albert, both concert violinists; the activities of Albert's wife Lenore Tamiesie Creitz, who was elected as Rose Festival Queen in Portland in 1929; and genealogical materials relating to the Creitz, Huber, Tamiesie, and Reiling families.

4 cubic feet; 3 document cases, 2 flat boxes

eng,

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6373452

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Creitz, Louis Albert

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Creitz, Lenor Tamiesie

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Creitz, Albert

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Reiling family

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Creitz, Helen

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Creitz, Norman

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Huber family

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Tamiesie family

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Rose Festival Association (Portland, Or.)

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The Portland Rose Festival had it origins in the 1904 rose show and parade, sponsored by the Portland Rose Society. After the flurry of civic boosterism during the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland businessman E. W. Rose proposed in 1906 an annual festival to include a grand floral parade and related events. In the following year, 1907, the Portland Rose Festival Association was founded. In 1912 the Royal Rosarians -- a ceremonial corps of men (with women later) -- was formed to support ...

Creitz family

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tk3hmj (family)

Captain William F. Creitz was born October 5, 1829 in Jacksonville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Creitz and Elizabeth Follweiler Creitz. William served in the Civil War as a Captain in the Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. He married Melissa Jane Watters in 1864, and their son Louis Albert Creitz was born December 25, 1866. In 1875 the family moved to Portland, Oregon. Louis Albert Creitz became a concert violinist, and at age 21 he traveled to Leipzig, Germany, where...

Creitz, William F.

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