Abraham Walter Lafferty papers [manuscript], 1949-1991.

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Abraham Walter Lafferty papers [manuscript], 1949-1991.

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Collection includes: Letters to E. B. McNaughton, January 1949, urging Reed College to purchase Calvert Mansion in Riverdale, Maryland, with historical references to Jonathan Bourne and Edward D. Baker; Miscellaneous documents, 1961-1963, regarding his problems with the I.R.S. and Oregon & California Railroad land claims; Correspondence between Norman Wiener and Dr. Thomas R. Montgomery, 1991, regarding Lafferty's I.R.S. and O&C troubles retrospectively.

.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811-1861

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Born in London in 1811 to schoolteacher Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson Baker, poor but educated Quakers, the boy Edward Baker and his family left England and emigrated to the United States in 1816, arriving in Philadelphia, where Baker's father established a school. Ed attended his father's school before quitting to apprentice as a loom operator in a weaving factory. In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert O...

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 ...

United States. Internal Revenue Service

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Oregon and California Railroad Company

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Montgomery, Thomas R., Dr.

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Lafferty, A. W. (Abraham Walter), 1875-1964

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Abraham Walter Lafferty was a Representative from Oregon. From the guide to the Abraham Walter Lafferty papers, 1949-1991, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Abraham Walter Lafferty was a Representative from Oregon. He was born in Missouri in June 10, 1875. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1905. He engaged in the practice of law in Portland and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3,...

Reed College (Portland, Or.)

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Wiener, Norman J., 1919-

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McNaughton, Ernest Boyd, 1880-1960

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