Kerr family collection 1816-1968

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Kerr family collection 1816-1968

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv70470

This collection contains photographs, papers, and diaries pertaining to the Peter and Laurie King Kerr family and the Thomas and Mabel Macleay Kerr family of Portland, Oregon. The bulk of the photographs were taken at Peter Kerr's Elk Rock estate in Portland and on various family trips. The diaries and papers include Peter Kerr's diaries, a scrapbook, a letterpress copybook and a diary and letters by Mrs. Lucretia Colton.

7.92 cubic feet

eng,

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6376950

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McDonald family.

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Colton, Lucretia.

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Kerr, Peter, photographer.

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McDonald, James, 1899-1989

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Waverley Country Club (Portland, Or.)

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"Organized 1896, Incorporated 1906 as Waverly Golf Club, Supplementary incorporation and name changed, March 1912." From the description of Waverley Country Club records [manuscript], 1896-1987. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 727741159 From the guide to the Waverley Country Club records, 1896-1987, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) ...

Kerr, Thomas, 1910-1982

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Platt, Jane Kerr, 1908-1989

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Arlington Club of Portland, Oregon

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Kerr, Gifford & Co., Inc.

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Kerr, Peter, 1962-

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Kerr, Donald Macleay, 1907-1945

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Kerr family.

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Peter Kerr, prominent Oregon grain exporter, businessman, and civic leader, was born in Newton Stewart, Scotland in 1861, the son of Thomas and Anne Dewar Kerr. After working as a young man in London for the grain exporting firm of Dewar and Webb, owned in part by his uncle, James C. Dewar, he traveled throughout the world as an agent of the company. He finally settled in Portland in 1889, working as a commission agent until 1894, when he partnered with William S. Sibson to form Sib...

Sibson & Kerr

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Kerr, Laurie King, 1877-1959.

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Platt, John W. S.

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Kerr, Thomas, 1865-1926

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Kerr, Mabel Macleay

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McDonald, Anne Kerr, 1906-2001

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McDonald, Anne Kerr, photographer.

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