Source: Written by Bruce Landeck, landeckb@bellsouth.net OLIVER O. ORT Oliver was born about 1864 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. His father died in the Civil War, leaving his mother, Mary Aurand Ort to raise him and his sister Frances on a Civil War widowıs pension. They lived in a stone house provided by the Ort family on their farm next to the Aurand farm in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. He married Viola Henrietta Steinbarger on March 26, 1889 and they had at least on child, Henry K. Ort. In 1889 he, his brother-in-law Samuel Grimm, and Samuel Grimmıs brother H.H. Grimm traveled out the Centralia, Washington to scout the area. They returned in 1890. Then Oliver and his family , Samuel and his family, and Oliver and Frances' mother Mary Aurand Ort moved permanently in April 1891 to Centralia. Oliver and his brother-in-law Samuel laid out the Cochran donation claim in Centralia, extending south from Hansen Street, and did government surveying on the Olympic peninsula when it was a wilderness.