Abstract

Papers of a Dallas, Oregon, merchant and businessman, including correspondence, financial and legal records, records of the Polk County Pioneer Association, and records of the firm Fenton and Toner. Also includes papers of other family members, including diaries and World War I papers of Carl Fenton, and a diary of Henriett Coad.

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...

Abstract

Small collection of materials related to the military service of Ross E. Read of Portland, Oregon, in Company D of the 1st U.S. Engineers during World War I. The bulk of the collection consists of documents and correspondence regarding citations and awards bestowed on Read for heroism during combat in Cantigny, France, in May 1918, and a book, published circa 1918, documenting the operations of the 1st U.S. Engineers during the war.