John Daniel Stevens letters [manuscripts], circa 1895-1930.

Darrow, Clarence S. (Clarence Seward), 1857-1938

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Clarence Seward Darrow, prominent Chicago trial lawyer, was born in Kinsman, Ohio on April 18, 1857. He attended Allegheny College, after which he studied one year at the University of Michigan Law School. He then worked as a lawyer in Youngstown, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1878. He practiced in Ohio for nine years, before moving to Chicago, where he practiced privately before being appointed assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. For four years he served as Chi...

McNary, Charles Linza, 1874-1944

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Charles Linza McNary was not considered much of a campaigner. He gave one or two speeches when he ran for office, preferring to spend the campaign season on his Salem area farm. Despite this understated approach to campaigning, McNary won re-election to the United States Senate five times and became one of the country's leading political figures. McNary was born on a farm just north of Salem in 1874. By age nine, both of his parents had died, leaving his twenty-six year old college educated s...

O'Hara, Edwin V. (Edwin Vincent), 1881-1956

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Withycombe, James, 1854-1919.

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James Withycombe was born in Devonshire, England in 1854. Educated in England, he came to Oregon in 1871. He studied agriculture and later became the director of the Oregon Agricultural College's experiment station. In 1900, Withycombe became a U.S. citizen. Withycombe won the Republican nomination for governor in 1914 and was eventually elected to two terms. He suddenly became ill and died on March 3, 1919. From the description of James Withycombe papers, 1862-1919. (Oregon Historic...

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 Percé 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, ...

Brownell, George Grant

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George C. Brownell was born in Willsboro, New York, in 1858, the son of a mechanic. He studied law in New York State and moved to Kansas in the mid-1880s. There he practiced law and served as mayor of Ness City and County Attorney of Ness County. In 1891 he moved to Oregon City where he continued his law practice. After an unsuccessful run for the State Senate in 1892, he was elected to that body from Clackamas County in 1894, and re-elected in 1898, 1900, and 1902. He served as president of the...

Stevens, John Daniel 1847-1932.

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John Daniel Stevens (1847-1932) was a civic and political leader, socialist organizer and lecturer in Portland, Oregon. From the description of John Daniel Stevens letters [manuscripts], circa 1895-1930. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 680686645 From the guide to the John Daniel Stevens letters, circa 1895-1930, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) ...

Knights of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of Minutes, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536651 From the guide to the Knights of Labor minutes, 1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers. One of ther goals was to prohibit the importation of foreign labor under contract. In 1880's, California's local Assemblies worked to ban use of Chinese immigrants and to pr...

Bennett, Addison, 1845-1924

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Addison Bennett (1845-1924) was editor of the first newspaper in Irrigon, Oregon, the Oregon Irrigator, later the Irrigon Irrigator. From the guide to the Addison Bennett papers, 1920-1921, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Addison Bennett (1845-1924) was editor of the first newspaper in Irrigon, Oregon, the Oregon Irrigator, later the Irrigon Irrigator. He served for many years as a staff writer on the Oregonian. From the desc...

Bourne, Jonathan, 1855-1940

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Jonathan Bourne was a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts and was educated at Harvard University. He came to Portland, Oregon in 1878 and practiced law for eight years. He became active in mine and real estate speculation and Republican politics. In 1885 and 1887 he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from Multnomah County, and from 1888 to 1892 a member of the Republican National Committee. He favored direct election of senators and was elected U.S. Senator in 1906 but was not ...

Cooper, J. C. (Jacob Calvin), 1845-1937

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Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...

Chamberlain, George E. (George Earle), 1854-1928

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George Earle Chamberlain (b.1913), grandson and namesake of the former governor and senator of Oregon, son of otolaryngologist Dr. Charles Thomson Chamberlain. He received a BA from the University of Oregon in 1936, and an MD from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1938. Chamberlain served as captain and resident physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WWII. He began serving in 1941, when he was stationed in New York, N. Y.,at the New York Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary. He ...

Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915

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A writer, newspaper publisher, and promoter for women's rights, Abigail Scott Duniway was Oregon's strongest voice for the cause of woman's suffrage. Born Abigail Jane Scott in 1834, she left Illinois for Oregon with her family in 1852, where she met her husband Ben Duniway. The couple settled in Yamhill County, but because of financial difficulties and Ben's permanent injury in a wagon accident, they had to sell their land. The couple moved to nearby Lafayette, where Abigail taught school and, ...

London, Jack, 1876-1916

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Jack London was born in San Francisco January 12, 1876. He led an adventurous life, only beginning his career as an author in the 1890s. He wrote short stories, serials, essays, articles, verse and novels. He died November 22, 1916 in Sonoma County, CA. From the description of Jack London papers, 1897-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387554 American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Chronometer method [navigational documents] [1907?]...