Portrait of William N. Ferrin, Pacific's president from 1900 to 1913. He was Pacific's longest-serving staff member, having been originally hired by Sidney Harper Marsh in 1877.
Portrait of Sidney Harper Marsh, Pacific University's first president from 1853 to 1879. He travelled to Oregon in 1853 on the invitation of George Atkinson. He became principal of Tualatin Academy upon his arrival in 1853, and then became the first president of Pacific University the following year. His tenure ended on February 2, 1879 in Forest Grove, when he passed away at age 81.
Formal portrait of an unidentified older man with a long, white beard. The photograph was discovered in a drawer in the Old College Hall Museum at Pacific University.
Formal portrait of an unidentified young woman in a long white dress. The photo was discovered in a drawer in the Old College Hall Museum at Pacific University.
Pacific University debate team in the spring of 1906. The members are, from left to right, Will Fletcher, graduate of 1906, Will Rasmussen, graduate of 1906, and John Peters, a graduate of 1907.
Portrait of George H. Durham, one of the first graduates of Pacific University in the Class of 1866. He came to Oregon at the age of four in 1847 and went on to be a lawyer in 1869.
Portrait of Napoleon Davis, Pacific University Class of 1883. After graduating, he became a lawyer in Portland, Oregon and a member of the Board of Trustees of Pacific University.
A portrait of "Colonel" Benjamin Stark (1820-1898), issued by the Davies Studio in Portland circa 1890.
Stark was the son of a sea captain from New London, Connecticut who became a shipping merchant. He was one of the earliest white landowners in what later became Portland, purchasing land on speculation there in 1846. He moved to Portland as a merchant in 1850, then served in the Oregon Territorial House of Representatives as a Whig in 1852-3. In the mid-1850s, he served in Oregon's militia, during repressive acts against tribes during the Rogue River Wars and Yakima Wars. On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, he was elected to the Oregon Legislature as a conservative pro-slavery Democrat. When Oregon's Republican Senator Edward Baker died in 1861, the governor appointed Stark in his place. After filling out the term, Stark returned to Connecticut, but he continued to influence Portland's development through his properties. A street in Portland was once named for him, but it was renamed Harvey Milk Street in 2018.
