Alfred Powers collection [manuscript], 1834-1963.

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Alfred Powers collection [manuscript], 1834-1963.

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The collection contains primary source materials relating to a wide variety of Western Americana, including Oregon and Northwest businesses, northwest authors, and other authors and organizations. Includes correspondence, business records, school records, diaries, printed materials, biographical and autobiographical materials, financial records, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Included are materials relating to: Richard Baird; Frederic Homer Balch; E. W. Ball; Charles Henry Carey; Eli Colter; Sabra Connor; Walter M. Cook; Belle W. Cooke; Robert Duniway; Daniel Giles; Sheldon Glover; Elwin G. Greer; Lafayette Grover; Bernard Hinshaw; Bruce LeRoy; Chester A. Lyon; Grace Marquam; John McCracken; Joaquin Miller; Joseph Ouper; Emil Peters; M. A. Pflug; George Pope; Dr. D. H. Rand; Oswald West; Auto Freight Company; Big Brother Farm (Lebanon, Oregon); Ladd & Tilton Bank; the Oregon Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty; the Oregon Diamond Coal, Mining, and Developing Company; the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company; Portland Academy and Female Seminary; and the Vancouver Transportation Company. Subjects include: Aumsville, Oregon; freemasonry; Japanese American internment; medical practice; mines and mining; Sitka, Alaska; statues; and steamboats.

4 cubic feet (8 document cases and 2 custom boxes)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7163204

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LeRoy, Bruce.

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Vancouver Transportation Company (Vancouver, Wash.)

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Portland Academy and Female Seminary (Portland, Or.)

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Glover, Sheldon L. (Sheldon Latta), 1891-1969

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Duniway, Robert L.

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Carey, Charles Henry, 1857-1941

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Charles Henry Carey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 27, 1857. Carey graduated with a law degree from Cincinnati College in 1883. He first worked as an associate in the Thayer and Williams law firm in Portland, Oregon (1883-1885) before moving briefly to Michigan. In 1889, Carey returned to Portland and began a long career working in many law firms before eventually being elected to serve as judge on the Portland municipal court. He served on many civic boards and committees, including th...

Lyon, Chester A.

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Oregon Railway and Navigation Company

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Incorporated in 1879, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company carried agricultural and mining freight on two mail lines; Portland to Huntington, Oregon and Pendleton, Oregon to Winona, Washington. By 1890 it owned over 642 miles of track, but in 1896 it was sold to the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. From the description of Timetables, 1881-1903. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 48757673 ...

Ladd & Tilton Bank (Portland, Or.)

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Baird, Richard.

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Cook, Walter M.

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Greer, Elwin G.

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Hinshaw, Bernard.

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Big Brother Farm (Lebanon, Or.)

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Giles, Daniel, 1836-1918

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Daniel Giles was born in 1836. He traveled overland from Iowa to Oregon in 1852. From the description of Autobiography of Daniel Giles, to 1855. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54518484 ...

Marquam, Grace.

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Oregon Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty.

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Cooke, Belle W. (Belle Walker), 1834-1919

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Balch, Frederic Homer, 1861-1891

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Connor, Sabra.

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Oregon Diamond Coal, Mining, and Developing Company.

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Ouper, Joseph.

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Colter, Eli

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Auto Freight Company.

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Ball, E. W.

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West, Oswald, 1873-1960

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Oswald West served as Oregon's fourteenth governor. He was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in 1873, and came to Oregon with his family in 1877. His father was a cattle dealer who took his son on many travels throughout the Willamette Valley and Central Oregon. Oswald worked as a clerk and teller for the Ladd and Bush bank of Salem, and later the First National Bank of Astoria. In 1897 he married Mabel Hutton of Salem, and the couple had three children. West served as a State Land Agent in Salem...

Grover, La Fayette, 1823-1911

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Lafayette Grover served as Governor of Oregon from 1870-1877 and was then resigned to become a United States Senator. From the guide to the Lafayette Grover diary, 1851-1853, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...

Powers, Alfred

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Alfred Powers (1887-1983) was an author, journalist, teacher, book collector, and book binder. He was the author of 18 books and numerous articles; was a professor of journalism at the University of Oregon; served as the head of the Works Progress Administration's Writer's Project; and served as the dean of the SSHE Extension Service and Continuing Education. From the description of Alfred Powers collection [manuscript], 1834-1963. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldC...

Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913

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Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Heine Miller and known as the "poet of the Sierras," was a Calif. poet and playwright. Beginning in 1886, he built and lived in a home on his estate, "The Hights"[sic], in the hills above Oakland. From the description of Joaquin Miller letter : Dimond, Calif., to Mr. Stone: ALS 1905 May 11. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122558852 Born Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller on September 8, 1837, near Liberty, Indiana. In 18...