Anthony Netboy papers [manuscript], 1853-1991.

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Anthony Netboy papers [manuscript], 1853-1991.

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The collection contains scrapbooks, correspondence, and drafts of Anthony Netboy's memoirs, written 1980-1984; as well as papers of the family of Netboy's second wife, Elizabeth Silsby Netboy. Scrapbooks, 1949-1991 (in boxes 2 and 3), contain clippings, book reviews, correspondence, and articles by and about Anthony Netboy and his books on salmon and conservation. Also included are: report titled "The preference clause and the Bonneville Power Administration" by Anthony Netboy; and travel memoirs of Jack and Gerry Netboy (Anthony's brother and sister-in-law), 1969-1980. Silsby family papers include: letters to Amy Brown, 1869, and Edith Brown Silsby, 1893-1912; letters to Elizabeth Silsby from her mother and other family members, circa 1932; papers of Katherine Silsby; National Register nomination form for the Colonel William Silsby House in Ashland, Oregon; Silsby family genealogy; and other family papers.

2 cubic feet (1 document case and 2 flat boxes)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6956176

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Silsby, Edith Elizabeth Brown, b. 1871

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United States. Bonneville Power Administration

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Silsby, William, 1902-1987

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Judge, Hancock County, Me. From the description of Oral history interview, 1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70964500 Judge, of Ellsworth, Me.; name also appears William S. Silsby, Jr. From the description of Oral history interview, 1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70966446 ...

Netboy, Anthony

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Writer and teacher Anthony Netboy (1906-1993) was born into a Jewish family in Ciechanow, Poland, and emigrated to the United States with his family. He grew up in Chicago and attended Columbia University (1927) and Harvard (1930). After various writing jobs he became a professor of English at Portland State University in 1957. Much of his writing focused on fisheries and conservation. His second wife was Elizabeth Silsby (d. 1988), daughter of John and Edith Brown Silsby and sister of Katherine...

Silsby, John Steele.

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Since its designation as a 4-year college in 1955, Portland State has had 8 presidents: John F. Cramer, 1955-1958; Branford P. Millar, 1959-1968; Gregory B. Wolfe, 1968-1974; Joseph C. Blumel, 1974-1986; Natale A. Sicuro, 1986-1988; Judith A. Ramaley, 1990-1997; Daniel O. Bernstine, 1997-2007; Wim Wiewel, 2008-present. Stephen E. Epler was director of the school from its foundation in 1946 until it became a college in 1955. There have also been three interim presidents: E. Dean Ande...

Silsby, Katherine.

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Silsby, Helen M.

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Netboy family.

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Silsby, Elizabeth.

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