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John Beeson (1803-1889)
John Beeson had been in Oregon only three years, but his outrage at the treatment of Native Americans by whites led him to become a …
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John Box Hoskins (1768–1824)
John Box Hoskins served as a clerk on the Columbia Rediviva, captained by Robert Gray, during a voyage to the Pacific Northwest from 1790 …
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John B. Waldo (1844-1907)
John Breckenridge Waldo was the first Oregon Supreme Court chief justice born in the state. He may be best known as an outdoorsman and proponent …
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John C. Boyle (1887-1979)
John Boyle was vice president, general manager, and long-time chief engineer of the California Oregon Power Company (COPCO), a privately held utility that served southern …
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John C. Merriam (1869-1945)
Born in Iowa in 1869, John C. Merriam was a geologist, zoologist, and premier taxonomist who trained under such luminaries as Joseph Le Conte and …
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John Colter (ca. 1775-1813)
John Colter was a member of the Corps of Discovery, commanded by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. He was among the majority of the party …
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John Daniel (1948–)
The winner of three Oregon Book Awards, John Daniel is the author of essays, memoirs, poems, and fiction. In his work on the significance of …
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John Day (1770?–1820)
John Day was an American hunter who came to Oregon in 1812 as a straggler from the Pacific Fur Company’s overland expedition to Astoria. Little …
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John Day Fossil Beds Flora and Fauna and Climate Change
The John Day fossil beds in north-central Oregon have one of the world’s most complete records of organisms fossilized during the Cenozoic Era (past 66 …
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John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, established in October 1975, showcases one of the world’s best and most continuous records of the Cenozoic (the past …
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