Ben Selling—an early Portland merchant, elected official, and philanthropist—truly reflects the inscription on the Skidmore Fountain in the city where he lived and worked for …

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At the turn of the twentieth century, logging magnate Simon Benson was reportedly tired of his loggers drinking alcohol to excess while in Portland. To …

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The Benson Hotel, built in Portland by pioneer lumberman Simon Benson in 1913, was constructed as an annex to the adjacent Oregon Hotel to the south. It …

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Bernie Fagan, a successful collegiate soccer coach at Warner Pacific College, was a professional soccer player for the Portland Timbers. His camps for children …

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Bernard Malamud, one of the great American writers of the twentieth century, is best known for his fiction about Jewish life in New York, such …

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Bethenia Owens-Adair overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become a social reformer and one of Oregon's first women doctors with a medical degree. Some Oregon women, …

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Oregon artist and writer Betty LaDuke has gained an international reputation for her murals, paintings, and sketches. Her work tends to express socialist progress and …

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Betty Roberts was a thirty-two-year-old housewife with four children when she went back to college in 1955. Her decision went against the wishes of her …

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The Oregon Beverage Container Act of 1971, popularly called the Bottle Bill, remains one of the most visible and popular legacies of Oregon’s environmentalism in …

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Beverly Cleary is Oregon’s most famous author of children’s books. Born in McMinnville, Oregon, in 1916, Beverly Bunn lived on a farm in Yamhill. Her …

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