Sepia-toned image mounted on printed cardstock of a three-story, gabled home with an extension on the back. The house is Georgian Colonial style, with a covered porch with elaborately carved supports. The porch roof provides a balcony for the upper floor. Two men stand in front of the house, both wearing suits and holding hats in one hand. There is a small dog in the yard behind the men. The yard is grassy, and a number of trees and bushes are scattered close to the house and throughout the yard.
Sepia-toned image of Hillsboro pioneer James Sewell. He wears a suit with a vest and a bow-tie, and a trimmed Vandyke beard. His hair is short and combed to one side.
Portrait of Thomas Otchin. He was born in England in 1814, and moved the North America, where he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. He eventually settled in a Donation Land Claim near Orenco, where he died in 1906.
Downtown Cornelius, Oregon around the 1880s. This photograph was taken looking west at what is now the intersection of Alpine Street and 12th Avenue, on the south side of the railroad tracks. On the right side of the photograph is a large grain warehouse belonging to the town’s namesake, T.R. Cornelius. According to notes on the back of the photograph, the buildings from foreground to background on the left side of the photograph are: St. Joseph Hotel; Dr. Clark Smiths’ Drugstore; a store owned by T.R. Cornelius; a warehouse; a saloon; and Keim’s store. None of the buildings pictured appear to have survived today. Notes identify several of the people standing in the photograph: “T.R. Cornelius, black hat, in front of door; Scott Cornelius in doorway; Dr. Smith, tall man near corner of hotel; Alec Couture sitting on platform, first in picture.” Several horse-drawn wagons appear in the background. The grain warehouse was the place where farmers from surrounding communities brought their wheat so that it could be moved to market via the railroad nearby. The photograph was taken by the I.G. Davidson Studio of Portland. This appears to be a black-and-white copy print of an earlier albumen card print. It was donated to the museum by Lester Mooberry, a prominent area resident who wrote a book on the history of Forest Grove and Cornelius.
Portrait of Thomas R. Cornelius, son of early Oregon pioneer Benjamin Cornelius. Born in Missouri in 1827, he travelled with his family on the Oregon Trail in 1845. He became a colonel during the course of his service in the Oregon Volunteers during the Indian Wars of the 1840s and 1850s. After the war he served in the Oregon State legislature and became a successful farmer and businessman. In 1872, the town of Cornelius was founded and named after him. He lived there with his family; in 1850 he married Florintine Wilkes, and after she died in 1864 he married Missouri Smith in 1866. He had six children, and lived the rest of his life in Cornelius, dying there in 1899.
A man and a woman, identified on back as Calvin and Catherine Adams, stand separately before a 2-story house and behind a wooden plank fence. He wears a jacket, vest, and hat and is bearded. She wears her hair pulled back and up, and is clothed in an ankle-length dark dress with a lighter colored apron and dark shoes. The house has two sections, one with a long covered porch featuring carved posts, corner scrollwork, and climbing vines. Leafy trees and bushes front the house; a boardwalk runs in front of the fence.
Wilson M. Tigard arrived in Oregon in 1852 from Arkansas and took up a donation land claim near the present site of Tigard. In 1853 he built a log school house with the help of neighbors. Tigard was then known as East Butte and the school was called Butte School. Wilson Tigard is buried in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, Oregon.
Montgomery 'Gum' Turner (1866-1951) and Vessie (Parmley) Turner (1872-1960), photographed while sitting on the front porch of their home. Montgomery was the proprietor of first store in Banks and was a Trustee for the Banks Dairy Products Company and proprietor of a Tillamook dairy farm. Montgomery and Vessie moved to Banks in 1904, and lived out the rest of their lives there, raising four children and prospering in their business enterprises.
Portrait of Dr. Marion Parker, an important early resident of Greenville, Oregon. He was born in 1846 in Indiana, and died in 1911 in Greenville, having immigrated to Oregon in 1852.
Portrait of John L. Banks and one of his sons. Mr. Banks was born October 1, 1840 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He emigrated to Oregon in 1882, and became a successful business man. He died September 22, 1909 in Washington County, Oregon. The town of Banks is named for him.
