Grants Pass (Or.) -- History

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Washington M. Hair owned land and farmed near Unadilla, Nebraska, and then moved to Oregon in 1899 where he commenced farming in Grants Pass. The collection (1885-1910) contains an account book of the Unadilla and Grants Pass farms; a note of explanation from Washington M. Hair's daughter, Mozelle Hair, is with the account book.

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James R. Harvey was secretary of the Grants Pass, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce. The collection consists of business correspondence and files containing correspondence and other documents regarding projects important to Grants Pass and Josephine County such as the California and Oregon Coast Railroad, Crescent City Harbor Development, and Old Channel Mine.

Abstract Marcus W. Robbins (1879-1936) was an attorney, Socialist, and free thinker, and was named bishop for the Diocese of Reno, Nevada by Bishop Frank H. Rice of the Liberal Church, Inc. The collection (1902-1933) includes notebooks of Socialist and agnostic essays, manuscripts and published copies of Socialist pamphlets and broadsides authored by Robbins, issues of the circular Facts published by Robbins, articles, essays, and letters to the editor written by Robbins, photographs, and also...