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  • Henry Haefner (1884-1980)

    Henry Haefner was an early forester and oral historian in the Siskiyou National Forest. A 1908 graduate of Iowa State University, he began work …

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  • Henry Hagg Lake

    Henry Hagg Lake is a manmade reservoir located in Scoggins Valley, just a few miles southwest of the City of Forest Grove. Owned by …

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  • Henry Hamilton Hicklin (1825–1873)

    White supremacy dominated opposition to slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Oregon and shaped the conservatism of its Civil War-era Republican Party. But when the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act …

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  • Henry Larcom Abbot (1831-1927)

    Henry Larcom Abbot was a career military engineer who is memorialized on Oregon’s landscape in three places: Abbot Pass, just west of Clear Lake off …

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  • Henry Lewis Pittock (1835-1919)

    Henry Lewis Pittock, longtime publisher of the Portland Oregonian, was born on March 1, 1835, in London, England, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As …

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  • Henry Theophilus Finck (1854–1926)

    Music critic Henry T. Finck spent his childhood on an apple orchard near the Christian agricultural colony of Aurora, in the lower Willamette Valley …

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  • Henry Thiele (1882-1952)

    Henry Thiele was a Portland restaurateur, chef, and socialite whose eponymous restaurant was a city landmark for more than a half century. His culinary accomplishments …

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  • Henry Villard (1835-1900)

    Henry Villard gained national significance as a journalist, advocate of abolition, and railroad financier. For Oregon, he is best remembered as the man who brought …

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  • Henry W. Corbett (1827-1903)

    In early 1851, Henry W. Corbett, an ambitious, twenty-four-year-old adventurer, departed from New York City’s busy East River, sailing to the Isthmus of Panama, crossing …

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  • Henry Yelkus (c. 1843–1913)

    Henry Yelkus (also spelled Yalkus, Yelkes, Yelkis, Yal-kus, and Yelcus), a member of the Molalla Tribe, lived at Dickey Prairie, southeast of present-day Molalla, …

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2114 results

  • Henry Haefner (1884-1980)

    Henry Haefner was an early forester and oral historian in the Siskiyou National Forest. A 1908 graduate of Iowa State University, he began work …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Hagg Lake

    Henry Hagg Lake is a manmade reservoir located in Scoggins Valley, just a few miles southwest of the City of Forest Grove. Owned by …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Hamilton Hicklin (1825–1873)

    White supremacy dominated opposition to slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Oregon and shaped the conservatism of its Civil War-era Republican Party. But when the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Larcom Abbot (1831-1927)

    Henry Larcom Abbot was a career military engineer who is memorialized on Oregon’s landscape in three places: Abbot Pass, just west of Clear Lake off …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Lewis Pittock (1835-1919)

    Henry Lewis Pittock, longtime publisher of the Portland Oregonian, was born on March 1, 1835, in London, England, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Theophilus Finck (1854–1926)

    Music critic Henry T. Finck spent his childhood on an apple orchard near the Christian agricultural colony of Aurora, in the lower Willamette Valley …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Thiele (1882-1952)

    Henry Thiele was a Portland restaurateur, chef, and socialite whose eponymous restaurant was a city landmark for more than a half century. His culinary accomplishments …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Villard (1835-1900)

    Henry Villard gained national significance as a journalist, advocate of abolition, and railroad financier. For Oregon, he is best remembered as the man who brought …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry W. Corbett (1827-1903)

    In early 1851, Henry W. Corbett, an ambitious, twenty-four-year-old adventurer, departed from New York City’s busy East River, sailing to the Isthmus of Panama, crossing …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Henry Yelkus (c. 1843–1913)

    Henry Yelkus (also spelled Yalkus, Yelkes, Yelkis, Yal-kus, and Yelcus), a member of the Molalla Tribe, lived at Dickey Prairie, southeast of present-day Molalla, …

    Oregon Encyclopedia