Robert Livingstone Beebe was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1912. In 1939, he and Alice Allyene Biddle were married; they later had five children. He died in 1992.

Sources: Vital records in Ancestry.com.

Edris Morrison Cox, nee Noble, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903. She became a photographer, and in 1925, she opened the Edris Morrison Studio in Portland. In 1946, she co-founded the Professional Photographers Association of Oregon and served as its first president. She also performed with the Portland Civic Theatre for 50 years, using the name Edris Morrison in both her photography career and her acting career. She married twice, and had two children, one from each marriage. She died in 1997.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Morrison in her interview.

Harvey Sheldon Giffin was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1922. The next year, he moved with his family to Vancouver, Washington. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army. In 1942, he and Emily Mae Barnes were married; they later had two children. After he was discharged from the Army in 1946, he began acting with the Portland Civic Theatre in Portland, Oregon. He died in 1988.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Giffin in his interview.

Mildred Butler Engdahl, nee Mildred Allen Butler, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1897. During her teen years, her family lived in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Wellesley College and after graduation, taught high school English for several years. In 1925, she left teaching to become the director of the Little Theatre League of Richmond, Virginia, and in 1927, she became director of the Portland Civic Theatre in Portland, Oregon. In 1929, she moved to Los Angeles, California, and later directed the Cheviot Hills Community Players there. In 1932, she and Amandus Julian "Jack" Engdahl were married. In the 1950s, she earned a master's degree in drama from the University of Oregon, and again was a director at the Portland Civic Theatre. She also directed children's theater productions, published scripts for children's plays, and wrote several historical books and magazine articles. She died in 1987.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Engdahl in her interview.

Isabelle Kidd Ashcraft, nee Isabelle Janet Kidd, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901. A few years later, she moved with her family to Portland, Oregon. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon. In 1923, she and Forrest E. Littlefield were married; they later had two children, then divorced. From 1937 to 1949, she taught math at Grant High School in Portland, and later taught part-time at Portland State University. In 1949, she and Lyle J. Ashcraft were married. She was active in several Portland civic and arts organizations, including the Portland Civic Theatre and the Portland Arts Commission. She died in 1992.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Ashcraft in her interview.

Frederic Franklin Littman was born in Hidegszamos, Hungary (now Gilău, Romania) in 1907. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Budapest, and at the Académie Julian, the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the Académie Ranson in Paris, France. In 1940, he and Marianne Charlotte Gold were married. That same year, the couple immigrated to the United States, and the next year they moved to Portland, Oregon. The couple divorced in 1949. From 1941 to 1945, Littman served as artist in residence at Reed College; from 1946 to 1960, he taught sculpture at the Museum Art School, now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art; and from 1960 to 1973, he was a professor of art at Portland State University. He collaborated with several Portland architects, including Pietro Belluschi. He died in 1979.

Sources: "Frederic Littman (1909-1979)," by Mark Humpal, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/littman_frederic_1907_1979_/; vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Littman in his interview.

Manuel Torres Izquierdo was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1925. In 1941, he studied art in Marseilles, France. During World War II, his parents sent him and his two brothers to the United States via the United States Committee for the Care of European Children. In 1942, Manuel T. Izquierdo arrived in Portland, Oregon. In 1951, he graduated from the Museum Art School, now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He taught at the Museum Art School until his retirement in 1997. As an artist, he specialized in welded metal sculptures and woodcuts. His work was exhibited in Oregon, Washington, and California, and he created sculptures for 27 public and corporate commissions. In 1991, he received the Oregon Governor's Arts Award.

Izquierdo married Lois Alice Baker in 1956. They had four children, and divorced in 1969. Manuel Izquierdo died in 2009.

Sources: "Manuel Izquierdo," by Roger Hull, Oregon Encyclopedia (accessed August 2023), https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/izquierdo_manuel_1925_2009_/; vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Izquierdo in his interview.

Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1931. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. As part of his military service, he worked as a combat illustrator, and one of his commissioned paintings was gifted to Great Britain in honor of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. After his discharge from the Navy, he worked as a commercial artist, and he later moved to Portland, Oregon. Ghiglieri was a painter and sculptor, and his works typically depicted scenes of the American West and native wildlife, particularly bald eagles. One of his sculptures, a 27-foot-tall bald eagle, stands outside the Seven Feathers Casino near Canyonville, Oregon. He died in 2020.

Sources: Ghiglieri's website (accessed February 6, 2023), https://lorenzoeghiglieri.com/; information provided by Ghiglieri in his interview.

Virgil Hillary Langtry was born in Rigby, Idaho, in 1911. Within a year, his family moved near Eugene, Oregon. He earned a law degree from the University of Oregon, then practiced law in Bend during the Depression. A few years later, he began serving as treasurer for the Farm Loan Association in Redmond. He served as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1969 to 1976.

In 1939, he and Marguerite Ellen Cronin were married; they later had two children. After her death in 1971, he remarried, to Hazel Lavina Mulkins. Virgil Langtry died in 2000.

Sources: Vital records in Ancestry.com; information provided by Langtry in his interview.

Nancie Peacocke Fadeley, nee Nancie Newell Peacocke, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1930. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Central College in Fayetteville, Missouri, then continued her studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In 1953, she and Edward Norman Fadeley were married; they later had two children. A year after they married, the couple moved to Eugene, Oregon, and she taught kindergarten at Lincoln Elementary School. In 1974, she earned a master's degree from the University of Oregon. From 1971 to 1981, she served in the Oregon House of Representatives. After leaving the Legislature, she served as vice provost at the University of Oregon, and later worked as a freelance journalist.

Sources: Vital records in Ancestry.com; information provided by Fadeley in her interview.

Thelma Olive Williams, nee Hollingsworth, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1896. When she was a teenager, she moved with her family to Portland, Oregon. In 1914, she was selected as the Portland Rose Festival queen. In 1925, she and Wade Winfred Williams were married. She died in 1984.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Williams in her interview.

Sidney Teiser was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1882. After his parents died, he was raised by relatives in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1903, he earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. In 1911, he moved to Portland, Oregon, and practiced law until his retirement in 1972. He served on the board of governors of the American Bar Association. He invented the Magna Q Viewer, a reading aid for people with visual impairments, and developed the Microlex system of legal research. He served as the first president of the Jewish Historical Society of Oregon. He wrote several books on legal and judicial history. Teiser married twice and had two children. He died in 1982.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Teiser in his interview.

Helen West Stone, nee West, was born in Astoria, Oregon, in 1902. Her family soon moved to Salem, where her father, Oswald West, worked as a lawyer and later served as governor of Oregon. After Oswald West left office in 1915, the family moved to Portland. In 1924, Helen West earned a bachelor's degree from Mills College in Oakland, California. In 1925, she and Ellery Wheeler Stone were married; they later had two children. She worked as a real estate agent in Portland, and served on the Oregon Real Estate Board and the Portland Board of Realtors. She died in 1986.

John Harold Steelquist was born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1912. In 1930, he moved with his family to Brazil, then returned to the United States in 1932 to study engineering at Stanford University. He soon switched majors and earned a medical degree from Stanford several years later. He worked as a doctor in California. He married three times and had three children. He died in 1986.

Leo Fredrich Simon was born in San Francisco, California, in 1890. In 1902, he moved with his family to Portland, Oregon. Simon became a photographer and ornithologist, and owned a photography studio downtown Portland. He was a member of the Portland Audubon Society and was elected to its board in 1936.

Simon married Johanna M. George in 1918, and they later had two children. He died in 1986.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Simon in his interview.

Richard Keylon Harmon was born in Colorado in 1937. He attended Colgate College in Hamilton, New York, and the University of Chicago. In 1959, he and Carol Joyce Williams were married; they later had two children. Harmon worked for approximately 20 years as an organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation, based in Chicago and founded by Saul Alinsky. He then moved to Brooklyn, where he assembled a coalition of more than 40 churches, the Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperatives, which worked against housing abandonment. In the early 1990s, Harmon became an organizer for the Portland Organizing Project, a church-based group in Portland, Oregon, advocating for social and economic justice.

Source: Information provided by Harmon in this interview, an additional interview (SR 2459) at the Oregon Historical Research Library, and an interview (Ms.2015.06) held by the Brown University Library in Providence, Rhode Island.

Thomas Michael Coffin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1945. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from St. Benedict College in Atchinson, Kansas. In 1970, he earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. The next year, he began working as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office in San Diego, California. In 1973, he and Penelope Teaff were married; they later had seven children. In 1980, he moved to the U.S. attorney's office in Eugene, Oregon, and in 1992, he became a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court of Oregon.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Coffin in his interview.