William Hanley Company records, circa 1901-1935.

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William Hanley Company records, circa 1901-1935.

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William Hanley was born in Jacksonville, Oregon in 1861 and died in Pendleton, Oregon in 1935. The William Hanley Company consisted principally of two ranches: the "00" and the "Bell A." Hanley was president of the Harney Valley Improvement Company and was an officer of the Juntura Investment Company. This collection includes correspondence, business records, court documents, maps, miscellaneous ephemera and papers concerning the Hanley ranch, Hanley family, Blitzen Valley Land Company, Silvies River adjudication, Juntura Investment Company, Harney Valley Development Company, Harney Valley Land Company, the Pacific Livestock Company, and various other ranch and land development activities in Harney and Malheur Counties in Oregon. Correspondence includes a "letter to the editor" [1917?] from C.B. McConnell concerning William Hanley, Harney County politics, French-Glenn Company, and railroad scandals (13 pp.), and letters from Erskine Wood and Charles Erskine Wood. Also included as Mss 378-1 are two reminiscences of a 1930 whirlwind tour of Europe by William Hanley and Clem Ausman, a journalist from Los Angeles.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Juntura Investment Company.

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William Hanley Company.

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Harney Valley Development Company.

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Ausman, Clem.

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Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944

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Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1874, he became an aide to General O.O. Howard in 1877, serving with him in thePacific Northwest during the Bannock and Paiute and Nez PerceĢ Indian wars. He later attended Columbia University, obtained his law degrees, and established a practice of maritime and corporation law in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his successful law practice, Wood painted, wrote, ...

Pacific Livestock Company.

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Wood, Erskine

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Harney Valley Land Company.

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Hanley, William J.

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McConnell, C. B.

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Blitzen Valley Land Company.

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