John Sellwood
John Sellwood was a pioneer Episcopal minister who settled in Oregon, United States on a 321-acre (130 ha) donation land claim on the east bank of the Willamette River upstream from Portland.[1] In the 1850s, Sellwood and his brother, James R.W. Sellwood, also a minister, re-located to Oregon to assist Thomas Fielding Scott, the Episcopal missionary bishop of Oregon and Washington.[2] Scott, who had arrived in Oregon in the early 1850s, founded a boys school in Oswego and a girls school in Milwaukie, both relatively near the Sellwood property. Both schools failed, however, and Scott died in 1857.[2]
Sellwood sold his property in 1882 to the Sellwood Real Estate Company, which began development of the land into the town of Sellwood.[1] Henry Pittock, owner of The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, was the majority stockholder in the real estate company.[3] Incorporated in 1887, the town became part of Portland in 1893[1][4] after the state legislature extended the Multnomah County border a bit south and east to allow Portland to assimilate all of Sellwood.[5] The Sellwood post office was established in October 1893 and became the Sellwood-Moreland post office in 1950.[6]
Born in England, Sellwood briefly served as a minister in Illinois.[1] He arrived in Oregon in 1856,[7] and died on August 27, 1892.[8] Sellwood Boulevard and Sellwood Road, as well as the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, are named after him.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Snyder, Eugene E. (1979). Portland Names and Neighborhoods: Their Historic Origin. Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort. ISBN 0-8323-0351-8.
{{cite book}}: Text "p. 202" ignored (help) - ^ a b Gaston, Joseph (1912). The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811–1912, Volume I. Chicago, Illinois: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 582. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ MacColl, E. Kimbark (1976). The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915. Portland, Oregon: The Georgian Press Company. p. 122.
- ^ "Historic Sellwood". PdxHistory.com. September 28, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ Lansing, Jewel (2005). Portland: People, Politics, and Power: 1851–2001. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press. p. 511. ISBN 0-87071-559-3.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|origdate=ignored (|orig-date=suggested) (help) - ^ McArthur, Lewis A. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 860. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1888). "The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume XXX: History of Oregon, Vol. II, 1848–1888". San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers. p. 685. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=ZmcUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA610&dq=%22John+Sellwood%22&hl=en&ei=zf9STNrjN43cvQP5urEZ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=17&ved=0CHUQ6AEwEA#v=onepage&q=%22John%20Sellwood%22&f=false
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