Books
Chilton, W.R., editor. Gresham: Stories of Our Past, Campground to City. Gresham, OR: Gresham Historical Society, 1993.
Corning, Howard. Dictionary of Oregon History. Binford & Mort Publishing, 1956.
MacColl, E. Kimbark with Stein, Harry H. Merchants, Money & Power: The Portland Establishment 1843-1913. Portland, OR: The Georgian Press, 1988.
McArthur, Lewis A., and Lewis L. McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names (7th Edition). Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 2003.
Miller, George R. Gresham. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011.
Wright, E. W., ed. Lewis & Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: The Lewis & Dryden Printing Company, 1895.
Collections
Genealogical Forum of Oregon, Polk City Directories for Portland and East Portland, 1887, 1889, 1907-1908 and 1911.
Gresham Historical Society digital photographs. Gresham, OR. October 24, 2015.
Oregon Historical Society City Directories of Portland by Samuel, AG Walling, McCormick and JK Gill, 1873, 1877, 1878, 1880, 1883 and 1886.
Correspondence
Weaver, Christy. Former Collections Manager, Gresham Historical Society. E-mail communication, June 16, 2015.
Newspapers/Periodicals
“City,” Morning Oregonian, February 25, 1873.
“City Through the Locks,” Morning Oregonian, January 3, 1873.
“Daily City Statistics,” The Oregonian, January 23, 1900.
“Funeral of Mrs. Olive E. Hamlin,” The Oregonian, November 15, 1907. Olive Hamlin obituary.
The Oregonian, May 23, 1915. Charles Hamlin obituary.
The Oregonian, February 21, 1930. Rev. Jonas Johnson obituary.
Oral Communications
Helean, Marjorie. Fourth owner of Hamlin-Johnson House, 1979 to 2014. Conversations, 2014-2015.
Mysinger, Twyla. President, East County Historical Organization which operates both the Zimmerman and Heslin House Museums. Conversation, April 28, 2015.
Solis, Louise. Hamlin/Harris/Laskey descendant. Conversations, 2014.
Other
City of Gresham, Oregon, Inventory of Historic Properties Historic Resource Survey, “John Roberts home,” February 19, 1987. On file, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, accessed November 2015.
Johnson, Selma. A Brief Sketch of My Married Life (unpublished written reminiscences, ca. 1963). Courtesy of Marjorie Helean.
Multnomah County Block Books on microfilm, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911.
Multnomah County Property Deed Records on microfilm.
Multnomah County Tax Assessment Rolls on microfilm.
National Register of Historic Places, Brooks, Andrew J and Minnie J, House, Portland, OR. On file, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, accessed November 2015.
_____, Ott, David and Marianne, House, Gresham, OR, National Register #15000167.
_____, Settlement-Era Dwellings, Barns and Farm Groups of the Willamette Valley, OR, Multiple Counties, OR, National Register #64501236.
_____, Zimmerman, Jacob, House, Gresham, OR, National Register #86001226.
Websites
Ancestry.com. U.S. Census 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900 and 1910. www.ancestry.com.
City of Gresham. Accessed September, 2015. www.greshamoregon.gov.
Find A Grave. Accessed November, 2015. http://www.findagrave.com/.
Historical The Oregonian on-line. https://catalog.multcolib.org/wamvalidate?url=http%3A%2F%2F0-infoweb.newsbank.com.catalog.multcolib.org%3A80%2Fiw-search%2Fwe%2FHistArchive .
Historic Map Works. Multnomah County 1889; Robert A. Habersham. http://www.historicmapworks.com/ Atlas/US/33830/Multnomah+County+1889/.
McIntyre, Larry. “The Maria Wilkins: The First Boat Through the Locks at Willamette Falls,” West Linn Historical Society, June 26, 2015, http://www.westlinnhistory.org/West_Linn_Historical_Society/History/ Entries/2015/6/26_The_Maria_Wilkins_The_First_Boat_Through_the_Locks_at_Willamette_Falls.html.
OregonLive.com (courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers). Everton Bailey, Jr. December 21, 2011. http://www.oregonlive.com/west-linn/index.ssf/2011/12/willamette_falls_locks_deemed.html.
Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. Oregon Historic Sites Database. Accessed April and October, 2015. http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/.
PDXHistory.com. Accessed September 2015. http://www.pdxhistory.com/.
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Accessed November 2015. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Accessed August, 2015. https://www.wikipedia.org/.
Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation. Accessed August, 2015. http://www.willamettefalls.org/. |