George Fox University’s roots reach to 1885 and the founding in what is now Newberg of Friends Pacific Academy, with future President Herbert Hoover one …

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The photograph above, taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934, depicts the brick house built for George K. Gay near Hopewell in Yamhill …

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Historian, archivist, printer, and journalist George Henry Himes served for over forty years as the assistant secretary and later first curator of the Oregon Historical …

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George H. Williams was a Democratic politician and officeholder in Oregon from the mid-1850s to the early twentieth century. He was chief justice of the …

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George Johanson was a Portland painter and printmaker known for his images of the erupting Mount St. Helens, panoramic Portland as imagined from his …

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George Katagiri was an educator for most of his life. He began his career in 1950 at Abernethy School in Portland, teaching social studies …

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A significant figure in the years before Oregon became a state, George Law Curry served in the legislature of the Provisional Government and as governor …

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George Luis Baker served on the Portland City Council and as Commissioner of Public Affairs before being elected mayor of Portland in 1917. Her served …

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Born in New York in 1820, George Nurse, pictured here circa 1900, entered the Oregon Country through California in the early 1860s.  In 1860, the …

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George Putnam was the epitome of the fighting editor during the Progressive era in Oregon. His battles with an entrenched political machine in Medford cost …

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