John Bain, a Portland-area youth soccer coach, spent many years in Oregon as a player for the Portland Timbers and as a coach of professional, …

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John Ball spent just one of his eighty-nine years in Oregon but has been widely recognized as the first school teacher in the Oregon Country. …

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John Baptiste Horner was a faculty member at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1891 to 1933. While he taught several subjects, …

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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 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 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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University of Oregon speech professor John L. Casteel made this entry into his diary on Feb. 18, 1935. Casteel’s diary spans the entire time he …

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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. Frémont, pictured here as a Union Major General, was born in Savannah, Georgia on January 21, 1813.  He briefly taught mathematics to U.S. …

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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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