Anna Jaeger Brown, nee Anna Jaeger, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1952. She initially attended Lewis and Clark College before completing a bachelor of science degree in administration of justice at Portland State University in 1975. In 1977, she and Paul Brown were married. In 1980, she earned a doctorate of jurisprudence from Northwestern College of Law, now the Lewis and Clark Law School. While she was in law school, she clerked for Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge John C. Beatty. She practiced law at a firm in Portland until 1992, when she became a judge on the Multnomah County District Court. Two years later, she moved to the Multnomah County Circuit Court. In 1999, President Bill Clinton nominated her to the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. She took senior status in 2017.

Sources: Information provided by Brown in her interview.

Orlando John Hollis was born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1904. He earned a law degree from the University of Oregon in 1928. While attending law school, he worked at the First National Bank of Eugene. In 1931, he began teaching full-time at the University of Oregon Law School. In 1937, he and Marian Mildred Herbert were married. Hollis served as acting president of the University of Oregon Law School from 1944 to 1945, then as dean from 1945 to 1967. After retiring, he joined the Eugene law firm Cass, Scott, Woods and Smith. He was also active in several civic organizations, including the Eugene Water Board and the Lane County Selective Service Board. He also chaired the Governor's Commission on Judicial Reform from 1971 to 1975. He died in 2000.

Dr. Adalbert Goodman Bettman was born to Bertha and Goodman Bettman in 1883. He was licensed as a pharmacist in 1902 and worked at his father's drugstore in Eugene, Oregon, to finance his education at the University of Oregon Medical School. He obtained his medical degree in 1907 and entered private practice in Portland in 1908. He specialized in reconstructive plastic surgery, becoming one of the first plastic surgeons in the Pacific Northwest. He pioneered innovative methods for the treatment and healing of burns, including the use of tannic acid-silver nitrate as a treatment. He invented and patented a sanitary (spoonless) measuring sugar bowl in 1914. He was involved in the formation of the University of Oregon Medical School Alumni Association and was a Mason, a Shriner, and a member of B'nai B'rith and the Royal Rosarians. Bettman retired in 1963 and died in 1964.

Source: "Adalbert G. Bettman (1883 - 1964)," by Sara Piasecki, Oregon Encyclopedia, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/bettman_adalbert_g_1883_1964_/

Homer Tipton Shaver was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1891. He attended Pacific University, then earned a law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He returned to Portland, and passed the Oregon bar examination in 1916. In 1921, he joined his family business, the Shaver Company. He helped organize a towboat firm, Shaver Forward Company, to haul grain to Portland from the Upper Columbia River. In 1967, he became president of Shaver Transportation.

Shaver was married twice. He and Florence Catherine Jacobsen married in 1918 and later had two children. She died in 1939, and Shaver married Aileen B. Dunbar the next year. Shaver died in 1978.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Shaver in his interviews.

John Denny Scott was born in Washington, D.C., in 1885. When he was eight years old, he moved with his family to Portland, Oregon. In 1927, he and Jessie Marilla Thompson were married; they later had two children. He was a mountaineer and a historian, and wrote a book on the history of the Mazamas, "We Climb High," which was published in 1969. Scott died in 1977.

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

Hilde Schmoll, nee Bordasch, was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1908. In 1926, she immigrated to the United States. In 1934, she and Rudolph F. Schmoll were married; they later had two children. She died in 1999.

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

Catherine Russell Sabin, nee Catherine Barclay Russell, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1895. She attended Reed College, and in 1920, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1926, she and Robert L. Sabin were married; they later had two children. She served on the boards of several Portland non-profit organizations, including Community Chest and the Fruit and Flower Mission. She died in 1986.

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

Hazel Irene Ross, nee Kilgore, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1904. She married three times, including to Melvin F. Ross in 1959, and had four children. She died in 1991.

Medford G. Reed was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1891. In 1914, he and Rosalind Kingsley were married. He owned an apple orchard in Hood River for 20 years. He died in 1979.

Luther Laurence Dowrick Pratt was born in Jetmore, Kansas, in 1888. Soon after, his family relocated to the Pacific Northwest, and he grew up in Portland, Oregon. In 1910, he and Susie B. Smith were married; they had two children and later divorced. In 1918, he graduated from Reed College. He worked at the paper mill in Camas, Washington for one year, then became a professor of English at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. After five years, he became an English teacher at Portland public high schools, and retired in 1954. He wrote several books of poetry, including "A Saga of a Paper Mill." He died in 1985.

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

Hobart McKinley Mitchell was born in Gervais, Oregon, in 1897. In 1901, the family moved to Portland. In 1919, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University. He returned to Oregon and worked as a produce wholesaler. He retired during World War II. He married twice and had no children. He died in 1980.

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

Gwendoline Violet Miller, nee Scott, was born in Medford, Oregon, in 1904. The next year, she moved with her family to Condon, Oregon, and when she was six years old, the family moved near Walla Walla, Washington. In 1915, the family relocated to LaCrosse, Washington. She married four times and had two children. She died in 1999.

Earl Erwin "Taz" Conner of the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) people was born in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1938. From 1956 to 1972, he served in the U.S. Navy, and served two tours in Vietnam. He also worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon. In the 1980s, Conner began to meet with community members in Wallowa, Oregon, to plan an event recognizing the presence and history of the Nimiipuu in the Wallowa Valley. The first event, the Wallowa Band Nez Perce Pow Wow and Friendship Feast, was held in 1990; it continued as an annual event, now named the Tamkaliks Celebration. Taz Conner died in 1999.

Sources: Information provided by Conner in his interview; "Earl (Taz) Conner, active in rebuilding the Wallowa Band, dies at age 61," Associated Press, October 22, 1999; "The Nez Perce people build an ongoing story about return in Wallowa, Oregon," by Antonia Sierra, OPB.org., https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/09/nez-perce-wallowa-band-celebration-oregon-tamkaliks/; "Tamkaliks Celebration and Friendship Feast," by Mary Hawkins, Oregon Encyclopedia, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/tamkaliks_celebration__friendship_feast/

Lewis Linn McArthur was born in 1917 in Portland, Oregon. He studied economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and served in the U.S. Army in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. After the war, he worked for 40 years as an industrial engineer for the Ray F. Becker Company.

McArthur's father, Lewis A. McArthur, was the author of Oregon Geographic Names in 1928. Though Lewis L. McArthur was not formally trained as a historian, he was most well known for continuing his father's work in studying and compiling the history of place names in Oregon. He served on the Oregon Geographic Names Board from 1958 to 2006, and between 1974 and 2003, he published the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions of Oregon Geographic Names. McArthur also served on the state historic preservation committee and the Historic Columbia River Highway State Advisory Committee.

McArthur and Joyce Abigail Clark of Eugene, Oregon, married in 1946. The couple had four children: Lewis, Mary, Sarah, and Susan. Lewis L. McArthur died in 2018 at the age of 101.

Ruth Leota Van Beber, nee Leota Ruth Goff, was born in Durango, Colorado, in 1902. Her family moved to New Mexico and later to El Paso, Texas. As an adult, she lived in Alaska, Southern California, Washington state, and New York, and she eventually moved to Southern Oregon, where she homesteaded. She was married several times, and also went by the surnames of Garrison, Stevenson, and Carter. She died in 1994.