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Benjamin Stark (1820-1898)
Benjamin Stark was a merchant, land speculator, and politician active in Oregon from 1845 to 1862. He played a central part in the early development …
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Benjamin Tanaka (1887-1975)
Benjamin Tanaka was a prominent physician in Portland’s Japantown in the early twentieth century before he was imprisoned in a federal detention center during …
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Benson Bubblers
At the turn of the twentieth century, logging magnate Simon Benson was reportedly tired of his loggers drinking alcohol to excess while in Portland. …
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Benson Hotel
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 …
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Bernard (Bernie) Fagan (1949-2023)
Bernie Fagan, was a successful collegiate soccer coach at Warner Pacific College, and a professional soccer player for the Portland Timbers. His camps …
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Bernard Daly (1858–1920)
Bernard Daly did much to improve the lives of Oregonians, particularly in Lake County. He was a doctor, banker, and rancher and served as a …
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Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
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 (1840-1926)
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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Betty Chilstrom (1924–2014)
Betty Chilstrom was an Oregon painter who used a distinctive impressionistic style to document buildings and scenes in the downtown and southeast neighborhoods of Portland …
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Betty LaDuke (1933-)
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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