William H. Kinross conducted Oregon’s earliest performances of symphonic choral music, skillfully leading local talent in great oratorios and classical orchestral works. Born on December …

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William James “Jack” McLarty, one of Oregon’s veteran modern painters, was born in 1919 in Seattle but grew up in downtown Portland, helping his …

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When William Jasper Kerr was inaugurated president of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) in 1907, the institution had 40 faculty members and …

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William Johnson was the first permanent European settler in what is now the City of Portland. In late 1841, he moved his family from …

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William Kittredge is an award-winning author, influential teacher, and preeminent voice of the American West. Born, raised, and educated in Oregon, Kittredge has written and …

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Oregon's birds have had few better friends than William Lovell Finley. As a biologist, photographer, writer, filmmaker, and public official, Finley spent his life tirelessly …

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Four years after arriving in Oregon in 1848, William Lysander Adams was in the local headlines with his first major publication. Using the pseudonym Breakspear, …

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An award-winning film, television, and theater actor, William Hurt had his first acting job in Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1975, when he …

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William McClendon was a writer, journalist, intellectual, activist, and jazz musician who was a prominent member of Portland’s civil rights community from 1938 until …

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William M. Tugman played a major role in the history of Oregon as an editor for the Eugene Register-Guard and the Port Umpqua Courier and …

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