Forrest Earl Balliet was born in Red Bluff, California, in 1886. Around 1900, his mother died, and afterward he lived with his grandmother near Talent, Oregon, and in Ashland, Oregon. He later worked as a seasonal farm and ranch worker in Montana, Missouri, Washington, Utah, Oregon, and California. He served in the U.S. Army in France during World War I. He died in 1986.

Monte Ballou, also known as Ralph Hosea Ballou, was born in Waterport, New York, in 1902. His family moved to Oregon in 1911. He developed an interest in music at an early age, particularly jazz music. He played mandolin, banjo, and guitar. He was a leader of the Castle Jazz Band, which was part of the West Coast revival of traditional jazz. Ballou died in 1991.

Agnes J. Barchus was born in 1893. She was the first woman minutes clerk in the Oregon State Legislature, beginning in 1927. She also wrote a biography of her mother, Oregon artist Eliza R. Barchus. She died in 1983.

David Stow Barrows was born in Wisconsin in 1935. His family moved to California in early 1940s, and then to Washington, D.C., after the end of World War II. He attended Willamette University, where his advisor was State Senator Mark Hatfield. Hatfield got Barrows a job as a page in the Oregon House of Representatives, which led him to pursue a career as a lobbyist. He married Pat Gilmore in 1960, his last year of law school; they later had two children. After graduating, he practiced law while working toward his goal of becoming a full-time lobbyist. He subsequently became a lobbyist for the Oregon Savings and Loan League. Barrows died in 2014.

Phyllis Louise Van Houten Barry, nee Gallien (1896-1986) was born in Portland, Oregon. She was a niece of Henry and Georgiana Pittock.

Annette Martha Bartholomae, nee Crogster, was born in Milwaukie, Wisconsin, in 1908. Shortly afterward, she was adopted by relatives in Portland, Oregon. She attended Reed College in Portland, and later earned a library science degree from Columbia University in New York. She later worked as a librarian for the Multnomah County Public Library, and as the head librarian for the library of Pocatello, Idaho; a librarian for the U.S. Army's Camp White in Medford, Oregon, during World War II; the social services librarian at Portland State University; and as a librarian in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. In 1945, she and George Thomson Bartholomae were married. Late in life, she earned a master's degree from Portland State University. She died in 1997.