Index to: "Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders"

The following is an index of biographies published in the "Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders" [Joseph Gaston, Author; Published by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago-Portland, 1911]

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VOLUME 2

Adams, Lewis Hyde
Adams, Thomas H.
Ainsworth, J. C. (Capt.)
Alger, Hollis
Alisky, Charles Adolph
Anderson, James
Andrew, V. (Brother, F.S.C.)
Annand, John
Armstrong, Anderville P.
Arnold, Willis D.
Arrigoni, S. N.
Avery, Victor Audubon
Ayer, Winslow B.

Bailey, Joseph
Baker, George Luis
Baker, John Gordon
Baldwin, Edward Arthur
Barber, Sumner J. (D.D.S.)
Barbour, John Hoyt
Barbur, A. Lincoln
Beach, Jarvis Varnel
Beall, John S.
Beck, William (b 1817)
Beck, William G. (b 1849)
Beckwith, Harry George
Beekman, Benjamin B.
Beharrell, William H.
Bennett, Frank Sim (Judge)
Bennett, Hiram
Bennett, William H.
Berry, Frederick William
Bettman, Lazarus
Beveridge, Joseph W.
Bigger, Henry Johnson
Biles, James
Bingham, Alfred J.
Bingham, John
Birrell, Alexander H.
Blair, Frame W.
Blakely, Nelson Leroy
Blossom, Elizabeth Louise
Blossom, James Monroe
Blumauer, Simon
Boise, Reuben Patrick (Judge)
Boise, Whitney Lyon
Bond, William
Bouton, Edward F.
Boyhan, Michael
Bradley, John Stone
Bridges, J. B.
Bristol, William Coleman
Brodie, George Alexander
Bronaugh, Earl C., Jr.
Bronaugh, Earl C., Sr.
Brong, Elias
Brown, Matthew
Buckman, Cyrus
Burgard, John Henry
Burkhardt, Gustave J.
Burton, E. M.
Bushong, W. A. T.
Byars, Elizabeth

Cameron, George James
Cannon, Anderson M.
Carey, Charles Henry
Carson, John Crosthwaite
Carter, Samuel H.
Carter, William A.
Cartwright, Charles Morrison
Cartwright, Charlotte Moffett
Chalmers, James M. P. (M.D.)
Chapin, Harkness L.
Chapin, Willard Hart
Chipman, Leavitt B.
Christie, Alexander (Archbishop)
Clark, Alfred Edward
Clarke, Louis Gaylord
Coffey, John B.
Colt, Cornelius Chapman
Connell, E. DeWitt (M.D.)
Cook, James W.
Corbett, Henry W. (Hon.)
Cornelius, C. W. (Dr.)
Couch, John H. (Capt.)
Couch, Kindle C.
Cox, Arthur M.
Cox, Norris Remey (D.D.S.)
Crawford, William Patterson
Crichton, Ernest Whitcomb
Crouch, Leslie E.
Crowley, Daniel

Damphoffer, Michael, Sr.
Davis, Thompson T.
Dawson, Volney J.
Deady, Matthew P.
Dean, Edmund Alson
Deaver, Wilmot Dayton
Dekum, Adolph A.
Dekum, Frank
Dieck, Robert G.
Dolph, Cyrus Abda
Donovan, William
Downing, Fremont O.
Drinker, Frank P.
Durham, Richard L.

Eastman, Charles Albert
Edlefsen, P. H.
Ell, Peter
Emmons, Arthur Carpenter
Engleman, Christian
Esson, Alfred M.
Evans, Sarah A.

Failing, Edward
Failing, Henry
Failing, Josiah
Farrell, Sylvester
Ferris, Otho Leonard
Fields, Charles E.
Fields, Lewis Russell
Finzer, William Edward
Flanders, G. H. (Capt.)
Fleischner, Isaac Newton
Fleischner, Louis (Col.)
Fleischner, Marcus
Flick, J. D.
Fliedner, William
Flynn, Patrick Henry
Foley, William
Frank, Sigmund
Frazer, Arthur L. (Judge)
Frazier, William
Freeman, Frank F.
Freeman, John Marcus
Fulton, Charles William (Hon.)

Gallien, Charles L.
Galvani, William H.
Ganong, C. W.
Ganong, Joseph Wentworth
Gantenbein, Calvin U.
Garrigus, Lewis C.
Gates, G. Walter
George, Melvin C. (Hon.)
Gibbs, Addison C. (Governor)
Giltner, Benjamin F.
Giltner, Frank F.
Glisan, Rodney (M.D.)
Glisan, Rodney L.
Goddard, George
Goddard, Mary J.
Going, James W.
Goldsmith, Louis J.
Goode, Henry Walton
Grant, Frank Salisbury
Gray, Rollie Milton
Gridley, Harvey Hart

Hall, John Hicklin
Hamilton, Anna
Harper, Alfred J.
Harvey, John
Haseltine, James E. (Hon.)
Hawkins, L. L. (Col.)
Hawthorne, James C. (M.D.)
Hazen, George Wintermute
Henderson, Rhoda Carpenter
Henrichsen, Lars C.
Henry, Charles K.
Herrin, David C.
Hewitt, Theodore John
Hexter, Levi
Hidden, Lowell M.
Hill, Charles H.
Hill, Paschal
Himes, George Henry
Hirsch, Solomon (Hon.)
Hodge, Charles
Hogue, Charles P.
Hogue, Harry Wildey
Holbrook, Merritt L.
Holman, Charles (Capt.)
Holmes, Byron Zebriski
Hudson, Harvey Sanfred
Hughes, Ellis G.
Hunt, George W.
Hyskell, Charles M.

Jackson, Charles Samuel
Jackson, James (Col.)
Jacobson, Clarence S.
Jaggar, Benjamin
Jeffery, Edward James
Johnston, David E.

Kamm, Jacob
Keating, John
Keats, Harry L.
Kelly, Clinton
Kelly, Penumbra
Kelly, Plympton
Kelly, Richmond (M.D.)
Kern, John William
Kerr, James B.
King, Samuel Willard
Kollock, John Kosciusko
Kraemer, Julius
Krimbel, Jacob

Labbe, Blaise
Labbe, John
Ladd, J. Wesley
LaForce, William Mosby
Laidlaw, James
Landess, Felix
Langford, George
Langsdorf, J. M.
Larrabee, Charles X.
Lawrence, George Walter
Lee, Joseph Daniel
Lent, George P.
Leonard, H. C.
Lewis, Cicero Hunt
Lewis, David Cruickshank
Lewis, John Marion
Lindsley, Addison Alexander
Littlefield, Horace R. (M.D.)
Logan, John Francis
Lotan, James
Lucas, M. M.
Lumsden, Alexander
Lyon, John H.

Mac Naughton, Ernest Boyd
Mackay, Donald
MacMahon, M. J.
MacMaster, William
MacMillan, Tirzah Barton
Macrum, Charles A.
Magers, John E.
Mallory, Rufus (Hon.)
Manley, Alison Burtland
Mann, John M.
Mann, Peter John
Marquam, Philip A. (Hon.)
Marquam, Philip A., Jr.
Marshall, John
Marshall, R. A.
Mayer, Franz Joseph Alexander
Mayer, Mark A.
McChesney, Joseph (M.D.)
McCourt, John
McGrath, T. S.
McKenna, Francis I.
McKinnell, Henry (M.D.)
McMaster, Donald
McPherson, George L.
Meier, Aaron
Melton, A. E.
Mendenhall, Edward
Merges, Ernest Eugene
Miller, John P.
Mills, Abbot Low
Miners, Clifford B.
Mock, John
Montague, Samuel S.
Moore, William S.
Morrow, William H.
Moser, Gustavus C.
Muir, William Torbert
Mulkey, Fred W. (Hon.)
Murdoch, Miller
Murphy, Dan R.

Neal, Oscar Almamen
Neuhausen, Thomas Brues
Nichols, Ammi Sibley (M.D.)

O'Brien, James P.
O'Hara, Bernard
Olds, William Parker

Page, J. Henry
Paget, B. Lee
Parker, Ernest Henry (M.D.)
Paxton, Ossian Franklin
Perkins, Alonzo
Perkins, Richard S.
Peterson, Marshall
Phegley, Grant
Pittock, Henry Lewis
Platt, Harrison Gray
Platt, Robert Treat
Plummer, O. P. S. (M.D.)
Porter, John Gray
Portland Trust Co. of Oregon
Powell, William Hamilton
Pratt, Irving W. (Prof.)
Price, Richard (b 1835)
Price, Richard W. (b 1880)
Prudhomme, William Edward

Rauw, James (Rt. Rev.)
Reid, William
Riddell, Hayward Hamilton
Riggs, Frank C.
Risley, Jacob S.
Roberts, Amos M.
Rogers, Edward Payson
Rowe, Henry Spoor (Hon.)
Rowley, Edson M.
Ryan, John Burke

Savier, Thomas
Scadding, Charles (Rt. Rev.)
Schnabel, Charles Joseph
Schuyler, Philip Church
Scott, Harvey Whitefield
Scott, Richard
Scott, William
Seaman, Charles Baldwin
Sharkey, John P.
Shepherd, Charles E.
Sheppard, Chester Arthur
Sherlock, William
Sichel, Sigmund
Sitton, Charles E.
Slattery, William Charles
Slaughter, William Forester
Slocum, Charles Wilbur
Smith, Albert T.
Smith, Amedee M.
Smith, Amedee M., Jr.
Smith, Jay
Smith, Milton W.
Smith, Philip T.
Smith, Preston Carter
Smith, Samuel D.
Soderberg, Charles J.
Sparks, Marshall R.
Sparks, Walter W.
Spencer, Arthur Champlin
Stanley, Frederick S.
Starkweather, H. G.
Starkweather, William A.
Starr, William B.
Stearns, Joseph O.
Strahan, Claude
Strahan, Reuben S. (Judge)
Steinecke, William
Storey, J. O.
Stout, Charles
Strowbridge, Joseph Alfred
Strowbridge, Justus M.
Stuart, Dell (Judge)
Summers, Owen (General)
Sutcliffe, Hamer
Swan, Enos
Swank, A.
Sweek, Alexander

Taggart, Edward Thomas
Talbot, Guy Webster
Taylor, Douglas William
Taylor, Peter
Teal, Joseph
Tenney, H. D.
Thompson, David P.
Thompson, John A.
Thompson, Mary Anna
Trimble, William Francis
Trommald, Gunder Theodoric (M.D.)

Uhlman, Robert
Upton, Jay Hollister
Upton, Robert Jarvis
Upton, William W. (Hon.)
U'ren, William Simon

Van Houten, Garret H.
Van Vleet, Lewis
Vancouver National Bank
Vaughan, Frank E.
Velguth, Adolph F.

Wakabayashi, S. (Rev.)
Wakefield, Duron Whittlesey
Walling, Albert
Walls, James Thompson (M.D.)
Ward, John P.
Watson, Edward Byers (Judge)
Watson, Frank Whalley
Watson, Joseph Franklin
Watts, John M.
Weeks, Reuben
Weidler, George Washington
Weinhard, Henry
Wells, George F.
Wells, John H.
Whalley, John T.
Whalley, John William (Hon.)
Wheelwright, William Dana
White, Levi
Wickersham, James L.
Wickersham, Lloyd B.
Wilbur, Rozel Millage
Wilcox, Ralph
Wilcox, Theodore Burney
Wiles, Elwood
Wiley, Joseph R. (Capt.)
Williams, George H. (Hon.)
Wilson, Alexander King
Wilson, George F. (M.D.)
Wilson, George William
Wintler, John Jacob
Woodard, Charles Henry
Woodcock, Charles C.
Woodward, Tyler
Woodward, William Finch
Wrenn, John Otto
Wright, Charles
VOLUME 3

Adams, Charles F.
Ainsworth, George Jennings (Capt.)
Ainsworth, J. C.
Albers, Bernard Hermann
Albers, Henry
Ames, Harris, Neville Co.
Anderson, Sarah Jane (Sturgis)
Anderson, Thomas McArthur
Andrews, Arthur
Andrews, Frederick Vigne
Andrews, George H.
Arbuckle, Benson B.
Ashley, Mark A. M.
Atkinson, George H. (Rev.)
Avann, Richard H.
Averill, Alva H.
Axtell, Abram (Judge)

Back, Seid, Sr.
Baker, Perry G.
Ball, Chauncey
Bamford, George
Ban, Sinzaburo
Barenstecher, Charles
Barnes, Charles O.
Barnes, Richard Lea
Barrett, John
Barron, James Thomas
Bechill, Thomas H.
Beebe, Charles F. (Gen.)
Bellinger, Charles B. (Hon.)
Bellinger, Howard
Benefiel, Wilson
Bergman, Joseph
Betz, George
Bickel, Frederick
Bills, Cincinnati
Biscar, Adam H.
Black, James H. (Rev.)
Black, Robert Grant (M.D.)
Blurock, Charles A.
Bohlman, Henry C.
Bollons, William
Borthwick, Alexander E.
Boschke, George W.
Botefuhr, Frank
Bozarth Family
Braden, William
Brady, Mathew
Breyman, Arthur H.
Breyman, William Otto
Brownell, George Clayton (Hon.)
Buchtel, Joseph
Buck, Louis
Burckhardt, Adolph
Burke, John
Burke, Thomas
Burrage, Charles W.
Burrell, Walter Frazar
Bybee, James

Cardwell, Herbert W. (M.D.)
Cardwell, James Robert (Dr.)
Catching, William W.
Cates, William A.
Catlin, John (Judge)
Chamberlain, George E. (Hon.)
Chapman, William Williams (Col.)
Chapman, Winfield S.
Chase, James W.
Chemin, Louis Francis
Chick, Charles Herbert
Christ, Henry
Christ, Philip
Christian Brothers Business College
Church, James S.
Clark, George Knight
Clay, Oliver
Cleeton, Thomas J. (Judge)
Clemens, William J.
Clyde, Oscar L.
Cody, James
Coffey, R. C. (M.D.)
Coffin, Stephen (Gen.)
Cohen, Edward E.
Coldwell, Edward Lothrop
Coldwell, Orin B.
Cole, David
Collier, Robert
Congle, John Burke
Connor, M. Joseph
Cook, Amos
Cook, John William
Cook, Vincent
Cordano, John C.
Cotton, William Wick
Covey, Howard M.
Cranston, Ephraim
Cremen, Joseph Dennis
Crosman, Allen B.
Crowe, Luther E.

Dalton, Edwin
Daly, William A.
Dammasch, Ferdinand H. (DDS., MD.)
Darr, Ellen C. (Leabo)
Davenport, George Lewis
Davenport, John Lewis
David, Alexander
Davis, H. W.
Davis, James N.
Day, Edward F.
De Long, Francis M.
Denny, Owen N. (Judge)
Devlin, Thomas Clarke
Dimick, Aphia Lucinda
Dimick, Myron Hawley
Dolph, Joseph Norton (Hon.)
Dooly, Frank E.
Dosch, Henry Ernst (Col.)
Dufur, Andrew J., Jr.
Dufur, Enoch Burnham
Dufur, William Henry Harrison
Duniway, Abigail Scott
Dunne, David M. (Col.)
Dye, Charles H.
Dye, Eva Emery

Elerath, Arthur F.
Emmert, Jacob H.
Ennis, Joseph T.
Evans, Dudley

Failing, William S.
Fanno, Augustus J.
Fenton, William David
Finley, J. P.
Fleischner, Jacob
Flinn, John (Rev.)
Flynn, John Edrion
Flynn, Peter J.
Francis, Allen
Francis, Clarence A.
Francis, Samuel D.
Franklin, Minnie (Smiley)
Friberg, Andrew
Fribert, William
Frizzell, Joseph A.
Fuller, Franklin Ide

Gansneder, Jacob
Gaston, Joseph
Gates, John
Gauld, James G.
Geer, Theodore T. (Hon.)
Gill, Ephraim
Gillen, John O.
Gillespie, R. L. (M.D.)
Gillette, Preston Wilson
Giltner, Jacob S. (M.D.)
Glass, Jeremiah H.
Goddard, Henry Washburn
Goldsmith, Bernard
Goodman, Richard
Gordon, William Alexander
Grahs, Edward J.
Gray, Mary Augusta (Dix)
Green, E. M.
Gregory, William Montgomery
Gritzmacher, Carl
Groce, Oliver J.
Grubbs, Francis H.

Hackett, Mellie Albertus (Capt.)
Haight, Emmor J.
Hall, John
Hall, William T.
Hallock, A. B.
Hallock, Frank S.
Hamilton, Alexander
Hansen, Marius
Hanson, Phineas T.
Hardin, John O.
Harris, Michael
Hartness, George
Hathaway, Hiel Bronson
Hathaway, J. S.
Hayes, John H.
Heald, Perley Chandler
Healy, Joseph M.
Hegele, Charles
Hess, Jesse C.
Hidden, Jackson
Hill Military Academy
Hill, Joseph Adams
Hill, Joseph Wood (M.D.)
Hillebrand, A. (Rev.)
Hirsch, Max S.
Hilton, Charles
Hobkirk, Peter (Hon.)
Hoge, Richard R.
Holloway, Charles P.
Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies
Holman, Guy E.
Holman, William C.
Holmes, Richard
Honeyman, John
Honeyman, Walter James
Honnes, Christian
Hovenden, Alfred
Hoyt, George W., Jr.
Hoyt, George W., Sr. (Capt.)
Hoyt, Ralph Warren
Hudson, Robert M.
Hughes, Edward
Hughes, William
Humason, Orlando
Hume, Robert Alexander
Hunsaker, Jacob T.
Hurley, Richard Hillard
Huston, Samuel Bruce

Irving, William (Capt.)

Jaggar, Louis
Jensen, Theodore
Jeppesen, Peter
Johnson, Jasper J.
Johnson, John Wesley
Jones, Francis Bedford (Capt.)
Jones, William P.
Joplin, Ferdinand
Joplin, William T.
Josselyn, Benage S.

Kavanaugh, John P.
Keasey, Dorr E.
Kelly, Hampton
Kern, Loyal E.
Killfeather, Edward
Killin, Benton
Killin, Thomas Benton
King, Charles Willard
King, Frederick Charles
King, J. C. Elliott (M.D.)
King, John
Kinney, Marshall J.
Kleemann, Otto
Knapp, Frank A.
Kocher, John S.
Koehler, Richard

Ladd, William Sargent
Lambert, Joseph Hamilton
Lane, Joseph (Gen.)
Langille, Sarah (Harding)
Langworthy, Augustus J.
Lanning, Frank
LaRue, Jacob S.
Laue, John M. A.
Lawler, Isaac Joseph
LeeLewes, Fred (Capt.)
Leithoff, George P.
Levinson, Newman J.
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, William Parsons
Lind, William
Linnemann, John G. D.
Loeb, Nathan
Long, Alexander Gotwald
Lutke, Robert
Lytle, Elmer Elm

Mackenzie, William Russell
Macleay, Donald
MacMillan, J. H.
Macrum, Isaac A.
Mair, John
Malcolm, Philip Schuyler
Mallory, William L.
Mann, Thomas
Manning, John
Mansfield, E. H.
Markle, A. W.
Marquam, U. S. Grant
Mason, Archie
Matthiesen, John
Mayer, Jacob
McBride, George Wickliffe (Hon.)
McCabe, William L.
McCord, Frank B.
McCraken, John
McCully, Asa A.
McGinn, Charles
McGrath, Edward Arthur
McIrvin, Marion Edward
McKenzie, Archibald M.
McKercher, Finlay
McKnight, James William
McNary, Lawrence A.
McNemee, Adam
McPherson, W. G.
Mears, Edward C.
Mears, Samuel M.
Meldrum, John W. (Hon.)
Melvin, Frank L.
Menzies, Charles M.
Merrick, Charles B.
Metcalf, Albertus H.
Millard, Justin (M.D.)
Miller, John Anthony
Miller, Richard Benjamin
Minsinger, C.
Monahan, Thomas J.
Montague, Richard Ward
Montgomery, James Boyce
Moore, A. W.
Morgan, W. H. H.
Mosher, La Fayette (Judge)
Mountain, Thomas (Capt.)
Mulligan, Owen
Mulligan, Thomas
Munly, Michael G.
Murphy, Chester Griffin
Murphy, Dennis S.
Murphy, James Hennesy
Myrick, Josiah (Capt.)

Nelson, Gustave Walter
Nicolai, Louis
Niebur, Franz
Noa, Wilhelm E.
Nolta, John Henry

O'Day, Thomas
O'Hare, John
Ordway, June MacMillan
O'Reilly, Drake C.

Pacific Stoneware Company
Packard, John A.
Palmer, Almond Chester
Paquet, Joseph
Parker, Wilder W.
Parrish, Josiah L. (Rev.)
Patterson, Wallace W.
Perkins, Freeman H.
Perkins, Thomas Lewis (Col.)
Pittenger, John M.
Polivka, Joseph
Pope, Charles W.
Powell, Benjamin W.
Powers, Ira F., Sr.
Pratt, Cyrus C.
Price, Horatio Nelson

Quackenbush, Edward

Raleigh, Patrick
Ralston, Lonner Owen
Ramsdell, Thomas M. (Rev.)
Randall, Tom Phocion
Rankin, Egbert A.
Rankin, Monroe Bennett
Rasmussen, John Peter
Rector, Albert B.
Reed, Charles Jerome
Reidt, William
Riesland, Ben
Rigler, Frank
Riley, Edward Francis
Riley, Frank Branch
Roberts, Andrew
Roberts, Joseph Harvey
Rockwell, Cleveland (Capt.)
Rood, Edward D.
Rosenblatt, Samuel & Louis
Royal, Charles Wesley
Royal, Osmon (M.D.)
Royal, Thomas Fletcher (Rev.)
Rumelin, Charles Edward
Ryan, Edward

Saldern, Lawrence J. O.
Sappington, William D.
Sargent, Harry Otis King
Schmeer, William
Schwab, Samuel B.
Scott, John Tucker
Scott, Samuel F.
Sears, Alfred F. (Maj.)
Sedgwick, Cyrus W.
Seed, John S.
Seller, Moses (& Co.)
Sellwood, John J. (M.D.)
Sharkey, Patrick
Shaver, Delmer
Shaver, James W. (Capt.)
Shaw, James P. (Capt.)
Shelby, Aaron Delaney
Sherlock, Samuel
Sigler, Bluford D.
Simon, Joseph (Hon.)
Sinnott, P. B.
Smith, H. W.
Smith, Joseph Showalter
Smith, Lewis L.
Smith, Seneca
Smith, William H. (Capt.)
Smith, William K.
Snuffin, Benjamin F.
Soden, Bartholomew T.
Spanton, William Alfred
Spurgeon, John R.
Spurgeon, Mathias
Stansbery, John E.
Stearns, David S.
Stearns, Samuel E.
Steele, Samuel N.
Steele, William Boyd
Stokes, William R.
Stott, Raleigh (Judge)
Stout, Lansing (Hon.)
Streib, Philip
Sutton, John
Sweeney, William

Terwilliger, Hiram
Thompson, Edward L.
Tresham, John D.
Trevitt, Victor
Tuthill, Hance S.

Van Fridagh, Prosper
Van Schuyver, William James
Vancouver Trust & Savings Bank
Veazie, Arthur Lyle
Vogler, F. W.

Waggener, John, Jr.
Wagner, Henry
Wagner, Henry (Hon.)
Wakeman, Maurice B.
Walker, Franklin Pierce
Walker, Isaac M. (Prof.)
Watkins, George E.
Watson, Andrew J.
Welch, John (D.D.S.)
Welch, John C.
Wessinger, Paul
Whipple, George A.
White, Calvin S. (M.D.)
Whitehouse, Benjamin Gardner
Whitehouse, Morris Homans
Wilcox, George W.
Williams, Charles A.
Williams, Robert
Wilson, John
Wilson, Joseph Rogers (Rev.)
Wilson, Robert Bruce (M.D.)
Wiswall, Robert Davis (M.D.)
Wolfe, John H. (Capt.)
Woodcock, William H.

Yeon, John B.
Young, George Henry
Young, Louis C.

Zanello, G.
Zeller, Phillip J.
Zeller, Richard L.