Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson – Oregon teacherBy Mary Norwell and published in the Oregon Observer on November 15, 2023. Mary Almeda Sholts Anderson was born to Professor and Mrs. Arthur Sholts in March, 1897. She spent virtually her entire life on the family farm, just south of Oregon. Her father was a professor and Regent at University […]
Ernest Hiram Tresch
Hrnest Hiram Tresch was born on a farm in Fleming Ohio in 1917. On November 9, 1941 Ernie Tresch enlisted to the Army Air Corps. In 1945 Tresch received a call from General Eisenhower’s staff and became a pilot for him. In 1948 Ernie left the service. He married Lydia Given in 1948 and […]
Joan Wethal
Joan H. Wethal was born on November 22, 1930 to Wallace and Mae Hegge. Joan graduated from Oregon High School, Class of 1948. She married Wesley Wethal on October 1, 1949. Wesley and Joan were longtime residents of Oregon, and Joan a lifetime member of Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church. Joan was the director […]
Eeda Lumley
Eeda was born on June 2, 1924 to Axel and Nyna Johnson in a house on Second Street (which would become Washington Street). The family’s roots were already in Oregon for decades. In 1903, Eeda’s grandfather and uncle started the Oregon Drug Store which sold notions, patent medicines, and did a big business in ice […]
Florice Paulson
Florice A. Paulson (August 28, 1917-June 11, 2013) was a driving force in so many Oregon institutions including the Oregon Area Historical Society and Museum. Florice was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Oregon and the Oregon Chapter, No. 49 Order of the Eastern Star where she was Worthy Matron in 1950 and […]
Charles Anthony
Charles Anthony was born in Rutland, Wisconsin on April 18, 1857. He married Miss Philena Chidester in December, 1885. For their honeymoon, Chalres and Philena took the noon train to, then went on to Nebraska to spend a few weeks with relatives. In 1888, the spring live Charles lived near became known as Anthony Creek […]
Lyman L. Hanan
Lyman L. Hanan was born 1824 in New York and lived in Rutland, Wisconsin. He was mustered on December 3, 1863 into the Wisconsin 33rd Infantry and transferred to the 11th, Co. F. He Served in the Louisiana and Alabama campaign against Mobile and in the siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely. He was […]
Private Robert McWatty
Age 16, single, blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion, 5′ 6″, a farmer.
Private Cassius M. Palmer
Age 19, single, gray eyes, brown hair, light complexion, 6’0″, a farmer.
William H. Draher
WILLIAM H. DRAHER, farmer, Secs. 14 and 11; P.O. Oregon; born in Hamilton, Monroe Co., Penn., Nov. 20, 1835;