User:Valfontis/Oregon Companion

Engeman, Richard H. (2009). The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of The Useful, The Curious, and The Arcane. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-899-0.

Topic list

List of topics covered in the book The Oregon Companion not yet in Wikipedia (number in parens is number of incoming links):

• Leo Adler (1895-1993), Jewish Baker City newsman and millionaire, philanthropist, home is part of Baker Heritage Museum
• Agriculture in Oregon--loads to add for dozens of crops and livestock

apples

barley

beans (green)

berries

blackberries

boysenberries

cattle

cheese

cherries

Christmas trees

corn (sweet)

cranberries

dahlias

dairy industry

emus/ostriches/rheas

farmer's markets

filberts

flax

wine and winemaking

hay

hops

iris

loganberries

marionberries

nurseries

oats

onions

peaches

pears

peas

plums/prunes

potatoes

raspberries

grass seed and other seed crops (sugarbeet, clover)

sheep

strawberries

turkeys--formerly Oregon grew 30% of West Coast supply of turkeys

walnuts

wheat

• Manufacturing in Oregon--does this cover fur trade, timber, aluminium, coal (Coos Co.), iron (Oswego), mercury, nickle (Riddle), papermaking, plywood, shipbuilding, high-tech? Maybe add to a natural resources section of Economy of Oregon, or ???

alder--furniture, pulp and papermaking

cascara

cedar

cottonwood--crates and boxes, excelsior, pulp and paper

Douglas-fir

beer and brewing

hemlock--pulp and paper, trim, some lumber, rayon

larch--lumber, flooring, plywood, pulp, utility poles

oak--Oregon white

pine--lodgepole, ponderson western white, and sugar

Port Orford-cedar

redwood

spruce

tree farm--concept promoted by Weyerhaeuser

• Art in Oregon (of?)
• Architecture of Oregon
• Aviation in Oregon
• Frederick Homer Balch (1861-1891), novelist, Native historian (1)
• Robert H. "Sam" Baldock (1889-1968), innovative highway engineer, part of I-5 named for him Baldock Safety Rest Area, Other freeway stuff
• Bus transportation--add to History of transportation in Oregon
• African Americans in Oregon--brief snippet at History of Oregon#Racial discrimination, Slavery in Oregon, Race relations in Oregon, Daniel Waldo
• Samuel H. Boardman (1874-1953), middle name Herbert, founder of Boardman, first state parks supe, see Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor, Pugsley Medal winner? (2)
• Louis Bunce (1907-1983), middle name DeMott, painter, WPA (2)
• Cape Arago , currently a redir (3)
• Cape Falcon, currently redirs to Oswald West State Park
• Cape Ferrelo after Bartolomé Ferrelo (1)
• Cape Kiwanda, currently a redir
• Cape Sebastian, see Cape Sebastian State Scenic Corridor
• Central Oregon Normal School in Drain
• Oregon Century Farm and Ranch Program, jointly administered by the ODA, OHS, Oregon Farm Bureau and parks and rec
• Champooick District currently a redir
• Chautauqua movement in Oregon, see Chautauqua, Gladstone, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
• Chinese in Oregon, see Anti-Chinese violence in Oregon, Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum, Chinatowns
• Clatskanie people, also at Clatskanie (people), Clatskanie currently a redir
• Communes and communal colonies in Oregon or Utopian communities in Oregon, or something like that Aurora (desperately needs a history section), Rajneeshpuram, Alpha, Lost Valley, Socialist Valley, in Polk Co. [1] [2] [3], book Eden Within Eden: Oregon's Utopian Heritage by Kopp
• Danes in Oregon, necessary?, Junction City, Astoria, maybe broader Scandinavians in Oregon would work
• Dorchester Conference (2), Republican convention in Seaside, currently a redir
• June D. Drake (1880-1969), back when June could be a boy's name, photography, Silver Falls State Park booster (1), currently a redir
• Barbara Fealy, landscape architect (1)
• Finns in Oregon, Astoria
• Wildfires in Oregon
• Commercial fishing in Oregon

Salmon--Chinook (King), Chum (Keta), Coho (Silver), Sockeye (Red, also Kokanee)

Dungeness crab

Lamprey

Oysters

Smelt

Sturgeon

• Fishtrap (writers' gathering) @ Wallowa Lake (3)
• George H. Flanders (1821-1892), Ned Flanders' namesake
• Flumgudgeon Gazette and Bumble Bee Budget, Oregon City, Oregon's first newspaper, hand copied, before real first newspaper Oregon Spectator
• French in Oregon, French Prairie, etc.
• Fulton, Oregon, see South Portland, Portland, Oregon and South Burlingame, Portland, Oregon, had its own p.o., rr station
• Applegate Indians, Galice Indians, redir to Galice-Applegate (people) when created
• Germans in Oregon
• Gold mining in Oregon
• Good Government Congress
• Grandmother Rock aka Tupper Rock
• Gypsies in Oregon or Romani in Oregon
• George Irving Hazeltine, photographer with bro., judge, investor, city recorder of Canyon City
• Martin Mason Hazeltine, see John P. Soule, photographer for rr companies, stereopticons
• Dorothy Anne Hobson, need to add her and Valsetz Star to Valsetz article
• Harry Holt (qualifier) (1904-1964) and Bertha Holt (1904-2000), prob. should redir to Holt International Children's Services, from Creswell, Harry successful farmer and lumberman, concerned about plight of Koren War G.I. babies
• George Hume (businessperson), brother of William Hume (businessperson) and R. D. Hume, 3 of 4 bros in early fishing industry
• Irish in Oregon
• Italians in Oregon
• Japanese in Oregon
• Jews in Oregon
• Thomas L. Kay, Pendleton, Mission Mill
• Keep Oregon Green--add to appropriate article and redir
• Ira Keller, Portland Development Commission, urban renewal
• Knights of the Golden Circle, pro-Southern Civil War-era group--see about mentioning in appropriate article such as Oregon in the American Civil War
• Lake Labish, French Prairie, drained, Japanese farmers, onions
• Twenty Miracle Miles/Twenty Miserable Miles--see Lincoln City
• Sam Simpson (see Samuel L. Simpson, below), Anne Shannon Moore, Alfred Powers, writers
• Ralph B. Lloyd, oil exec, Lloyd Center
• Henderson Luelling
• Memaloose Island, Native burial places, inundated by Bonneville Dam
• Mexicans in Oregon
• Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, founded Providence Health Systems (expand)
• Journalism in Oregon
• Pacific Coast Survey by George Davidson (geographer), William Pope McArthur, Cleveland S. Rockwell and others
• Pacific International Livestock Exhibition, make a redir for now, see Kenton, PDX
• Pacific Mail Steamship Company, important to history of ocean transportation in Oregon. Make sure it's included somewhere.
• Pacific Railroad Surveys, ditto.
• Portland Civic Theatre (1925-1990), theatre demolished in 1993, can't find a pic!
• Alfred J. Powers (1888-198), writer, historian
• Edward Burns Quigley (1895-1984), artist, WPA muralist, in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
• Russians in Oregon
• Salishan, Oregon, pop. place per GNIS, designed by Barbara Fealey, opened in 1965
• "crimping"--add info to Shanghai tunnel article
• Asa Meade Simpson (or Asa Mead Simpson) (1826-1915), shipbuilder, ship Westen Shore came from his shipyard--see Green Acres, Oregon. Son was lumber baron Louis J. Simpson of Shore Acres.
• Samuel L. Simpson (1846-1899), "Sam", writer, lawyer, drunkard, poet: "Beautiful Willamette", attended Willamette, rich dad Benjamin Simpson (1818-1910), ran Statesman for a while, captained wagon train that came on Barlow Road, settled in French Prairie, volunteer in Cayuse War, steamboats, sawmill, store, Second Territorial Legislature, then House and Senate, pals with Philip H. Sheridan, Indian agent at Siletz and Grande Ronde, Surveyor General of Oregon. Sam was Oregon's first poet laureate (Engeman says middle name is "Lysander", most other sources say "Leonidas"), lots written about him: [4], [5], [6], [7], from T.T. Geer. Bro Sylvester C. Simpson. May be responsible for the moniker "Emerald Empire" as used for Eugene https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72296623/
• Slabtown, Portland, Oregon, NW 16th and Pettygrove
• Staging and freighting--stagecoaches and shipping of goods by wagon, add to History of tranportation in Oregon
• Swedes in Oregon
• Robert R. Thompson (1820-1908), one of the principals of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, need dab, or likely unlink of non-notable author
• Tongue Point (Oregon), named by member of Vancouver's expedition, navy base, see Tongue Point Village, Oregon, populated place
• Urban renewal in Oregon, put this somewhere suitable.
• Vietnam War--add section to Oregon history article re: protests, Wayne Morse
• Carleton Watkins, photographed Oregon, needs to be mentioned in his article
• Webfoot (nickname), put this somewhere
• West Coast Airlines, add service to smaller Oregon cities later served by Air Oregon (add to Oregon cats)