Preliminary edition of William Wildermuth family tree / [compiled by Alice Wagner and Charles Wagner] 1952.

Wagner, Alice (Alice Wildermuth)

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Wagner, Charles U.

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Flax was grown at least by 1844 in the Willamette Valley. A flax oil mill was established at Salem in 1867, and the first flax-spinning mill was operating at Albany by the 1870s. An exhibit of Oregon flax won the bronze medal and certificate of merit at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. By the 1890s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was touting Oregon and Washington as good flax growing areas; however, costly hand labor required to harvest and process it and competition with Euro...

Wildermuth family.

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