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History of Early Pioneer Families of Hood River, Oregon
Compiled by Mrs. D.M. Coon

THESE ARE THE VOLUMES OF HISTORICAL DATA COMPILED BY MRS. T.R. COON WHILE HISTORIAN    OF THE HOOD RIVER PIONEER ASSOCIATION. ALL OF THE DATA CONTAINED IN THE PAGES HAS         BEEN SECURED BY DIRECT CONTACT WITH MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES HEREIN RECORDED.

Volume 1 - Indian

• Silver Locks

• George Tomileck Chinidere

• Joe Aleck and Family

• John Slibender

• Sapotiwell

• Indian Nellie

• The History of Jim and Nellie

Volume 2 - Early Events

• Columbia River Steam Ships

• Early Ascent Mt. Adams

• Early History Mt. Hood

• Hood River Grade Exercises 1899

• Hood River Early Day Schools

• Trip to Big Lake and Mt. Hood

• Lost Lake

• Summit Mt. Hood

• U. B. Church 1881

• Belmont M.E. Church

• Valley Congregational Church

• Riverside Congregational Church

• First Unitarian Society

• Idlewilde - I.O.O.F. 1891

• Cascade Locks

• Strawberry Industry

• H.R. Fruit Growers Union

• Hood River Town

• Winans Addition

• Hood River Townsite 1890

• Hood River Glacier

• Union Church -- Odell

• Butler Banking Co.

• Pioneers Reunion -- 1915

• Pioneers Reunion -- 1916

• Pioneers Reunion -- 1917

• Pioneers Reunion -- 1924

• Pioneers Reunion -- 1927

• Pioneers Reunion -- 1928

• Pioneers Reunion -- 1929

• Mt. Hood Loop Highway

• Mid-Columbia Indians

• Pioneer Steamboating on the Columbia

Volume 3 - Pioneers

• Absten, F.R.

• Adams, W.L.

• Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs.

• Atwell, Roger & Mary

• Balch, F.H.

• Baldwin, Stephan

• Barrett, P.G.

• Bartmess, S.E.

• Bartmess, Oliver

• Bell, C.A.

• Belieu, B.F.

• Benson, Nathan

• Benson, James M.

• Berry, J.W.

• Blossom, J.M.

• Blowers, A.S.

• Blowers, Lawrence

• Blythe, S.F.

• Boggs, J.C.

• Boorman, Wm.

• Booth, John P.

• Booth, John S.

• Bradford Bros.

• Butler, Leslie

• Butler & Whiting

• Carter, Joseph

• Chenowith, F.A

• Church, F.G.

• Clark, Newton

• Clark, Wm. Lewis

• Clark, Thomas

• Clelland, W.G.

• Coe, Nathaniel

• Coe, Lawrence

• Coe, Charles

• Coe, Eugene

• Coe, Henry

• Coon, Thomas R.

• Cooper, D.R.

• Copple, Simpson

• Cowperthwaite

• Cradlebaugh, J.H.

• Craft, Michael

• Crapper, D.G.

• Crandall, Lulu

• Crowell, Geo. P.

• Culbertson, Geo.

• Cunning, T.J.

• Dallas, T.C.

• Dethman, Christian

• Dimmick, George

• Divers, Davis

• Divers, John

• Donnell, Camilla

• Dwinnell, Grace Clark

• Ehrck, William

• Ellis, William

• Eliot, Thomas Lamb

• Farnsworth, Dr.

• Forrest, L.L.

• Foss, W.W.

• Frasier, Joseph

• Frazier, Simon

• Garrison, Joseph

• Gerdes, John

• Gilbert, C.L.

• Hald, H.C.

• Harbison, Mathew

• Harrison, M.V.

• Haynes, C.H.

• Henderson, Catherine

• Henderson, Louis

• Henderson, John L.

• Hibbard, H.J.

• Hinrichs, John W.

• Hinrichs, Peter

• Hood River Voters, June 1876

• Hood River Voters, Nov. 1876

• Howe, Alma

• Hudson, Wm.

• Husbands, Wallace

• Hutton, Sophia

• Ingalls, Alfred

• Ingalls, J.W.

• Jackson, Francis M.

• Jayne, A.A.

• Jenkins, Wm.

• Johnson, Lee

• Joslyn, E.S.

• Koberg, John

• La France, Shearman

• La France, Eleanor

• Lage, Hans

• Langille, J.L.

• Laughlin, W.C.

• Lindsay, R.B.

• Lockwood, Tyler

• McFarland, Frank

• McKay, Thomas

• McGuire, Joseph

• Mansfield Pacific Colony Parkhurst Colony

• Marden, John M.

• Markham, C.E.

• Masiker, Carson C.

• Mason, A.I.

• Moffett, Wm. F.

• Mohr, Peter

• Monroe, Nancy

• Morse, L.E.

• Morton, C.R.

• Morton, Leslie

• Morton, J.W.

• Mosier, Jonah

• Neal, Peter

• Nickelsen, M.H.

• Odell, William

• Parker, John

• Pealer, Russel

• Perkins, George

• Phelps, A.C.

• Phelps, C.W.

• Potter, Miles B.

• Prather, George

• Price, Stephan

• Prigge, Henry

• Purser, Thomas

• Ramsdell, Thomas M.

• Rand, Robert

• Rand M.V.

• Rich, John

• Riddell, George

• Rigby, J.W.

• Ruckel, Joseph and the Oregon Portage

• Sanders, J.F.

• Shelley, Troy

• Sherrieb, Frank

• Smith, E.L.

• Smith, Lyman

• Smith, Helen Jackson

• Smith, Charles D.

• Smith, William

• Spaulding, Frank

• Stranahan, J.K.

• Stranahan, O.L.

• Stranahan, Albert

• Stranahan, Charles

• Stillwell, Laban

• Temple, C.H.

• Tieman, A.H.

• Tomlinson, H.H.

• Tucker, H.B.

• Turner, David

• Underwood, Amos

• Wallace, James W.

• Ward, W.L.

• Watson, W.P.

• Welch, M.E.

• Whitcomb, Thomas

• Wilson, John

• Wilson, Joseph

• Winans, Edgar

• Winchell, Jerome

• Woodworth, G.D.

• York, Frank

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