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June D. Drake (the middle initial "D" did not stand for anything) was born in Marquam, Oregon, in 1880 to Charles Wesley Drake and Fannie Aurora Milster Drake. In the fall of 1889, the Drake family moved to Silverton, Oregon, and Charles Drake built the family home at 401 South Water Street. He later owned the Commercial Hotel on Main Street, which was sold in 1891 to hardware store owner Adolf Wolf. Charles Drake also served as mayor of Silverton before his death in 1911.

In 1900, June D. Drake and his brother, Emory Roy Drake, founded their photography business, Drake Bros. Studio, buying out the business of pioneer Silverton photographer William L. Jones. The brothers operated their studio together until 1908, when Emory Drake left to become a music teacher in Sacramento. This studio burned to the ground on March 27, 1908, and thousands of the brothers' original negatives were destroyed. After the fire, members of the Silverton community built June Drake a temporary studio at 311 North Water Street. He operated his business there from April 1908 until September 1911, when he moved into a new studio building at 303 North Water Street. Drake continued his photography there until his retirement in 1960, when the building was sold to Standard Oil Co. and torn down.

Though he was well known for his portraiture and town scenes, one of June D. Drake's greatest achievements was the establishment of Silver Falls State Park. Beginning around 1902, he photographed the waterfalls and created brochures and booklets to bring statewide attention to the need to protect the land from logging interests. Working with Silverton and Salem citizens and Oregon state legislators, Drake organized an effort to buy the land around the falls and sell it to the state. On April 2, 1931, the Oregon State Park Commission accepted the proposal, and Silver Falls State Park officially opened to the public in July 1933. Many of the signs still in existence in the park were originally erected by June Drake, and Drake Falls in the park was named after him.

June D. Drake married Eleanor Schoenfield in 1904. The couple's home in Silverton was the first in the town to be wired for electricity. The Drakes had two children, Charles Henry, born in 1909, and Ardith Maxine, born in 1915. In addition to his career as a photographer, June Drake was also a member of the Knights of Pythias and served as secretary of the Silverton Chamber of Commerce, chief of the Silverton Fire Department, and a member of the city council. He also founded the Silverton Historical Society in 1930.

Edwin Junior Peterson was born in Gilmanton, Wisconsin, in 1930. His family moved to Eugene, Oregon, in 1944 due to his severe asthma. He studied music at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1951. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. After his discharge in 1954, he studied law at the University of Oregon, earning his degree in 1957. He met Barbara Lee while in law school and they married in 1957; Peterson later adopted her two children, and they also had two children. He then joined the Portland, Oregon, law firm Tooze, Kerr, Peterson, Marshall & Shenker. In 1971, Peterson remarried, to Anna M. Perrault, nee Chadwick, who had joined the law firm as a receptionist in 1968. In 1979, Governor Vic Atiyeh appointed Peterson to the Oregon Supreme Court. In 1981, he was elected chief justice, a position he held until 1991. During his time on the Oregon Supreme Court, he focused on improving the efficiency of courts and eliminating racial and ethnic biases in the courts. For his work, he was awarded the American Judicature Society's Herbert Harley Award in 1992. Peterson resigned from the court at the end of 1993. He later became Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Willamette University. Peterson died in 2023.

Barbara Elliott Davies, nee Barbara Coit Elliott, was born in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1902. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1924, she earned a bachelor's degree from Whitman College. That same year, she moved to Portland. In 1930, she and David Lloyd Davies were married; they later had two children. She worked as a secretary for the Oregon Historical Society, served as president of the Portland Town Club, and served on the boards of the Fruit and Flower Day Nursery, the Visiting Nurses Association, and the Portland Garden Club. She died in 1981.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Davies in her interview; obituary published in The Oregonian on March 2, 1981.