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Military

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Charles L. Hayward

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9580
Abstract

Oral history interview with Charles L. Hayward conducted by Linda S. Dodds on December 5, 1979. Hayward served as a balloon lookout for the U.S. Army during World War I.

Dates: 1979 December 5

Reuben H. Hitchcock collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 239
Abstract

Ephemera, correspondence, and clippings relating to the Spruce Production Division in Oregon and Washington during World War I, and to Colonel Reuben H. Hitchcock, who served as the division's manager of government operations.

Dates: circa 1917-1919

Hockenyos family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 252
Abstract Papers of the Hockenyos family, including legal and financial papers, photographs, greeting cards, and ephemera. The collection reflects the lives of brothers Henry Hockenyos (1861-1935) and George Hockenyos (1864-1917), and George Hockenyos' children George F. Hockenyos (1897-1966) and Marie E. Hockenyos (1905-1999). George Hockenyos and Henry Hockenyos worked in the carpentry business in Portland, Oregon, and George Hockenyos later managed a grocery store there. Henry Hockenyos and George...
Dates: 1891-1968

Millard C. Holbrook photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 236
Abstract

One album of black and white photographs depicting Millard C. Holbrook and Company H of the 2nd Regiment of the Oregon Volunteers in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.

Dates: circa 1898-1901

Jack Huisman photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1075
Abstract

Snapshots of naval activities in Portland, Oregon, taken by naval officer Jack Huisman. Includes images of the Portland recruiting barracks and ship commissioning.

Dates: circa 1943

Jacob Imhoff letter to Grace Plummer

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1490
Abstract

Manuscript letter from Jacob Imhoff to Grace Plummer, October 5, 1898, regarding his experiences in Company E, 14th U.S. Infantry, in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Dates: 1898 October 15

Berryman Jennings papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1181
Abstract

Papers of and relating to Berryman Jennings (1807-1888), primarily correspondence relating to his role as quartermaster during the Cayuse War. Jennings emigrated to Oregon in 1847, helped build the steamer Lot Whitcomb, and was the first grand master of the Oregon Masonic Lodge. The town Jennings Lodge, Oregon, is named for him.

Dates: 1820-1849; 1929; Majority of material found within 1848-1850

John Henry Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1484
Abstract

Photocopies of two original letters and a diary of John Henry Johnson (1838-1940), a Civil War veteran from Illinois who moved to Oregon in 1883. The letters were written to Johnson's sister, Mary E. Warren, in 1863 and 1865; the diary, written during the Civil War, includes entries from October 1864-May 1865.

Dates: 1863-1865

D. H. Jones reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 898
Abstract

Manuscript and typescript account of D. H. Jones' activities on behalf of Oregon Governor A. C. Gibbs as a spy on Southern sympathizers in Oregon, December 1864, during the Civil War.

Dates: circa 1916

H. R. Kauffman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll887
Abstract

Papers of H. R. Kauffman, including ones relating to his medical career, his military service in World War I and later, and his career as an Oregon state senator. Kauffman was a medical doctor who lived in Toledo, Oregon, and who served as state senator from 1941 to 1943.

Dates: circa 1879-2012; Majority of material found within 1918-1960