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Davies, Barbara Elliott, 1902-1981

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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.

Cook, Lewis Clark, 1909-1983

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Lewis "Lew" Clark Cook was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1909. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War. During his service, he made films of combat, and later became the official film editor for the Seabees. He was a newsreel photographer for Universal News, and also took photographs for Mount Hood Weekly and Portland News. He shot television commercials while working for Central Telefilms in Peoria, Illinois, in the early 1950s. In 1954, he returned to Portland, and became director of the movie department for Photo Art Commercial Studios. He volunteered for the Oregon Historical Society for many years, and in 1974, he became the society's film archivist.

He married twice, first to Chancey Rose Deveraux in 1937, then to Martha Irene Thoreson in 1943. Cook and Thoreson had five children. Cook died in 1983.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Cook in his interview; obituary for Cook, published in the Oregonian on June 22, 1983.

Heaney, Charles, 1897-1981

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Charles Edward Heaney was born near Onconto Falls, Wisconsin, in 1897. In 1913, he moved with his mother and sister to Portland, Oregon. He later studied at the Museum Art School, now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and worked for the Brandenburg Engraving Company. He painted landscapes, urban architecture, and rural towns in Oregon. In 1947, he was selected for an exhibition called "Ten Northwest Artists," and in 1952, the Portland Art Museum presented a 20-year retrospective show of his work. Heaney died in 1981.

Sources: Information provided by Heaney in his interview and in an additional oral history interview, SR 77, also held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library; "Charles Edward Heaney," by Richard Hull, Oregon Encyclopedia, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/heaney_charles_edward/

Brown, Harold M., 1887-1956

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Harold M. Brown was born in Minnewaukan, North Dakota, on June 2, 1887. During the first half of the 20th century, he worked as a commercial photographer, primarily focusing on the lumber and shipping industries in northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington. During World War II, Brown also served as an Army photographer. He died on August 17, 1956.

Source: Harold M. Brown obituary, Oregonian, August 24, 1956, Page 21.

Ivancie, Francis J.

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Francis James "Frank" Ivancie was born in Marble, Minnesota, in 1924. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. In 1948, he earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Minnesota. He became a teacher and principal in Burns and Portland, Oregon. In 1950, he and Eileen Louise O'Toole were married; they later had ten children. In 1953, he taught at a school on a U.S. Air Force base in England, then moved with his family to Portland, where he continued to work as a teacher. He served as executive assistant to Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk, then served on the Portland City Council beginning in 1966. In 1980, he became mayor, serving one term. He was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Federal Maritime Commission. After he retired, he moved to California. Ivancie died in 2019.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Ivancie in his interview; "Frank Ivancie, Last Conservative Mayor of Portland, Dies at 94," by Gordon Friedman, The Oregonian, May 2, 2019.

Dodds, Linda S.

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Linda Sue Dodds, nee Paisley, was born in Astoria, Oregon, in 1945. A short time later, her family moved to the Eugene, Oregon, area. She studied journalism at the University of Oregon. In the late 1970s, she continued her college education at Portland State University and earned a bachelor's degree. She also co-authored a book on the history of Cedar Mill, Oregon, where she resided. In 1979, she became the oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society. After leaving the historical society in 1982, she continued to do contract work as a historian, and also co-authored additional history books. In the 1990s, she earned a master's degree from Oregon State University.

She married twice, first to John Stuart Brody, with whom she had two children, in 1966. She worked professionally under the name Linda S. Brody until 1982, when she married Gordon B. Dodds.

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

Kingery, Marion F. (Marion Farrell), 1904-1995

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  • 1904-1995

Marion Farrell Kingery, nee Marion Lockwood Farrell, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1904. She was married twice, first to Fred Jacobs, whom she married in 1925; they had one child. Jacobs died early in their marriage, and she remarried in 1929, to Lyle B. Kingery, with whom she had a second child. She was an actress at the Portland Civic Theatre under the name of Marion F. Jacobs. She later served as president of the Town Club and National Society of Colonial Dames of Oregon. She died in 1995.

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

Peterson, Edwin J. (Edwin Junior), 1930-2023

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  • 1930-2023

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.

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