Sarah Elizabeth Will, nee Naftzger, was born in Gervais, Oregon, in 1910. In 1936, she and Percy Snyder Will were married; they later had two children. She worked for an insurance company in Woodburn, Oregon. She died in 1982.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com.

Fred Lawence Peterson was born in Owatonna, Minnesota, in 1896. In 1902, he moved with his family to Portland, Oregon. He served in the Oregon National Guard and was sent to France during World War I. After his discharge in 1919, he began operating a pharmacy in the Hollywood neighborhood of Portland. He married Madeline E. Peterson and they later had one child. In 1940, he was elected to the Portland City Council, and in 1953, he was elected Portland mayor. He ran for re-election in 1956 but was defeated by Terry Schrunk. Peterson died in 1985.

Sources: "Fred Peterson," by Robert Donnelly, Oregon Encyclopedia, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/peterson_fred_1896_1985_/; vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Peterson during his interview.

Evelyn Beebe Shirk, nee Evelyn Wilson Beebe, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1913. In 1938, she and Frank James Billington were married; they later had one child. In 1953, she remarried to Stanley Hall Shirk. She died in 2009.

Mary Caroline Hull, nee Webster, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1917. In 1942, she and Robert S. Hull were married. During her life, she was commonly known as Ma'Carry Webster Hull or Ma'Carry W. Hull. She died in 2003.

Alice Carey Rockey, nee Alice Mary Bidwell Carey, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1890. She attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 1914, she and Eugene Watson Rockey were married; they later had four children. She died in 1983.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Rockey this interview and an additional oral history, SR 9475, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

William Cato Ralston was born in Albany, Oregon, in 1899. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and also briefly lived in Berkeley, California, while his older sisters attended college. He studied law at the University of Oregon, then completed his law degree at Yale University in 1923. That same year, he returned to Portland and began practicing law. From 1931 to 1934, he worked as a prosecutor for the district attorney's office in Portland. He married Marcia Knight in 1925; they later had one child, then divorced in 1949. The next year, he remarried to Celia P. Stoddard. Ralston died in 1991.

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

Flora Cushinway Thompson, also named La moosh Cush-nee-yi, was born in 1898. In the 1940s, she and Tommy Thompson, leader of the Wyams, were married. She was active in the attempt to prevent the construction of The Dalles Dam. She died in 1978.