Herman O. Skolrud
Herman O. Skolrud died Saturday at his home in Rainier, Ore., at
the age of 77.
He was born Nov. 20, 1897 in Minnesota and received his education
there, later operating a sawmill. He moved to Winlock in 1952 and to
Rainier in 1967.
Mr. Skolrud is survived by his widow Julia, Kelso; one daughter,
Mariam Demmer, Minnesota; four sons, Milton, Minnesota; Howard, St.
Helens, Ore.; Clinton, Kelso, and Dennis, Rainier; one brother,
three sisters and eighteen grandchildren.
Services were held in Rainier Tuesday, with burial in Green
Mountain Cemetery, Rainier, Ore.April 29, 1975
Daily Chronicle, Centralia Washington
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The Oregonian
(Portland, OR)
Friday, December 27, 1895
Another Pioneer Gone
The rapidly thinning ranks of our pioneers have
again been visited by the angel of death. On Wednesday
morning, December 18, in answer to the grim summons, Dr. John A.
Blanchard, of Warren, Columbia county, passed quietly and peacefully
to his rest. He had suffered greatly from a
complication of diseases for the past three years, and his sorrowing
friends and relatives knew that the end was very near.
He was a member of the grand lodge, A.F. & A.M., and his funeral was
conducted by St. Helens lodge, No. 32.
(A separate section of the article appeared
after the initial report... so the first John Blanchard article
could be connected to this one)
The Oregonian (Portland, OR)
Friday, December 27, 1895
John A. Blanchard was born in Virginia, April
18, 1817, and lived there until he was 13 years of age, when he
moved, with his parents, to Ohio, where he was married at Edina,
Mo., to Miss Lucinda Despaines, who survives him. At
the breaking out of the Mexican war he promptly volunteered for
service, and served his country faithfully until peace was declared.
The doctor came to Oregon in 1849, in the employ of the
government, and three years later he located a donation claim near
Lafayette, Yamhill county. In 1853 he removed to
Portland, then a small settlement, and engaged in mercantile
pursuits, until 1871, when, through a disastrous fire, he lost
nearly the whole of a large fortune, which he had acquired by
hardship and patient toll. He served the city of
Portland as councilman in 1867, and again as police commissioner in
1869. In 1888 his failing health again induced him to
seek a change, and he located at Warren, Columbia county, where he
remained up to the time of his death. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell)
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Oregon Notes
The body of Henry Johnson, who was drowned in
the Columbia by the capsizing of the steamer Hattie, was found last
Sunday near where the accident occurred, two miles below Rainier.
The Oregonian (Portland, OR)
Sunday, October 6, 1895
Submitted by Jim
Dezotell
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