For twenty years, from 1971 to 1991, Jerry Turner was artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). He was the second person to fill …

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Jesse Applegate, an influential early Oregon settler, is most remembered for his leadership role in establishing the Applegate Trail. Born in Kentucky on July …

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Jesse Holland Settlemier, one of Oregon's pioneer nurserymen, was born in Alton, Illinois, on February 5, 1840. He traveled west to California and then to …

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Jewish Pioneers: Becoming Oregonians In 1869, Bernard Goldsmith, an immigrant Jew from Bavaria, was sworn in as the mayor of Portland. Two years later, …

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The document above is an excerpt from the journal of Methodist missionary Joseph H. Frost (1805-1864). Written in the winter of 1841-1842, it describes missionary life …

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Jim Hibbard was a principal founder of Blackfish Gallery, the first cooperative art gallery in Portland that was entirely owned and operated by artists. …

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Jim Hill was the first person of color to be elected to statewide office in Oregon, winning the state treasurer’s post as a Democrat in …

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Tenor saxophonist Jim Pepper was an internationally recognized and influential jazz musician. He is best remembered for "Witchi-Tai-To," his elaboration of a Comanche peyote chant …

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Joanna M. Cain is an internationally known physician, teacher, and researcher in women’s health and gynecologic oncology. Cain joined the faculty of the Oregon Health …

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Joaquin “Chino” Berdugo was a prominent vaquero leader and stockman in southeast Oregon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For over a decade, …

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