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OSU's Early Years, 1858 - 1889
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12015-10-05T21:48:29-07:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Mary Graham, Rose Russell, Fannie Irwin, and Mattie Graham, ca. 18684Mary Graham, Rose Russell, Fannie Irwin, and Mattie Graham, ca. 1868. All four of these Corvallis young women attended Corvallis College as preparatory students between 1866 and 1868. Rose Russell married Lewis F. Wilson in 1869; their son, Eddy, graduated from the college in 1889 and was a longtime member of the board of regents. (P101:462)plain2015-10-07T23:53:36-07:00P101_462.jpgE. E. Wilson Photographic CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12015-10-05T21:44:54-07:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Portrait of James K.P. Currin, ca. 18702Portrait of James K.P. Currin, ca. 1870. Currin was a member of OSU’s first graduating class. He was from Cottage Grove, and in 1910 was working there as a pharmacist. This was likely Currin’s senior portrait, and taken at the same sitting as the photo of him with the other two 1870 graduates. (HC 2432)plain2015-10-07T23:46:48-07:00HC2432_James_Currin.jpgHarriet's Photograph CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12015-10-05T21:43:02-07:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Portrait of George F. Burkhart, ca. 18712Portrait of George F. Burkhart, ca. 1871. Burkhart, a member of the Class of 1871, was elected as the Alumni Association’s first vice president after its founding in early 1873. He also served on the college’s board of trustees in 1887 and 1888. (HC 2147)plain2015-10-07T23:48:18-07:00HC2147_george_burkhart.jpgHarriet's Photograph CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12015-10-05T21:41:13-07:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Class of 18722Class of 1872. The five members of Corvallis College’s graduating class of 1872 were Thomas C. Alexander, John Elgin, Alonzo Locke, Rosa Jacobs, and James K. Weatherford. Weatherford (standing, right) later served on OAC’s board of regents from 1886 to 1929. Jacobs was elected in 1876 as the first female president of the Alumni Association. (HC 1421)plain2015-10-07T23:48:35-07:00HC1421_Jacobs_Elgin_Weatherford.jpgHarriet's Photograph CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12015-07-25T00:15:31-07:00Larry Landis with OSU Digital Publishing9d087289d46d0c9b0a147e7761e40d9b5f746896Portrait of Sarah Latimer Finley, ca. 18746Portrait of Sarah Latimer Finley, ca. 1874. Finley was the daughter of a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Despite her health concerns that precipitated the Finleys’ return to California in 1872, she lived to be 89 years old, passing away in 1937. Finley was a leader of the suffrage movement in Sonoma County, California. Thomas Houseworth & Co. was one of the leading photography studios in San Francisco in the 1870s and 1880s. (HC 225)plain2015-10-12T21:29:58-07:00HC0225_Sarah_Finley.jpgHarriet's Photograph CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12015-10-05T21:39:18-07:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29State Agricultural College Student Body, ca. 18882State Agricultural College student body, ca. 1888. This image shows many of the students posed on the side of the college building – probably one of the last photos taken prior to the college moving to its new location on the college farm. The photo was made by Corvallis photographer Winfield S. Gardner, who took many photos of OAC students during the twenty-seven years he operated his studio in the city (1886 to 1913). (HC 1344)plain2015-10-07T23:52:02-07:00HC1344_people_outside_building.jpgHarriet's Photograph CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12015-10-05T21:46:32-07:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Portrait of W. W. Bristow, ca. 18942Portrait of W. W. Bristow, ca. 1894. Bristow served on the college faculty from 1882 to 1894. He was principal of the preparatory department and also taught classes in bookkeeping and beekeeping. This photo was taken by OAC faculty member Emile Pernot. (HC 2979)plain2015-10-07T23:52:29-07:00HC2979_Bristow.jpgHarriet's Photograph CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
