Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 14/Number 2
THE QUARTERLY
OF THE
Oregon Historical Society
Copyright, 1913, by Oregon Historical Society
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FIRST PRESIDENT OF OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FOREWORD
THE editorial page of The Oregonian throughout the decades the paper was in charge of Harvey W. Scott, bore constant witness of an unremitting labor of love in the course of Pacific Northwest history, on the part of its editor. All future generations of Oregonians will owe a large measure of indebtedness to him for the light his pen threw on the part of Oregon and for the insight he gave into the significance of the unique beginnings of this western outlying community.
When conditions were ripe for the organization of the Oregon Historical Society, he was among the first to cooperate to effect the founding of it and was made its first president. For nearly half a century historical activity here received from him the kindliest fostering and there is thus peculiar fitness in the use of the Quarterly to convey to the world the memorials of him incorporated in this issue.
THIS NUMBER IN INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF
Editor, pioneer, scholar, commonwealth-builder, exponent of national authority, leader of thought in the formative period of the Oregon Country, distinguished figure in American Journalism. His breadth and resource of mind, his grasp of abiding principles, his teachings of sturdy moralities, his powers of exposition, made him widely admired. His life labor as helper of men in the Pacific West made him widely beloved
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
John Tucker Scott (1809-80), Harvey W. Scott's father.
Anne Roelofson Scott (1811-52), Harvey W. Scott's mother.
Harvey W. Scott at 19 years of age at Lafayette in 1857.
Harvey W. Scott at 27 years of age; at Portland in 1865 on becoming editor of the Oregonian.
Harvey W. Scott at 37 years of age, at Portland in 1875.
Harvey W. Scott at 50 years of age, at Portland in 1888.
Harvey W. Scott at his Editorial desk in 1898.
Harvey W. Scott at 62 years of age, at Bingham Springs in 1900.
Harvey W. Scott at 66 years of age, near Washington, D. C, in 1804.
Harvey W. Scott at 70 years of age.
Harvey W. Scott at Seaside, Oregon, in 1905.
Harvey W. Scott at 70 years of age, at Portland in 1908.
Facsimile of writing of Harvey W. Scott.
Harvey W. Scott and George H. Williams at Portland in 1904.
Harvey W. Scott's library in his home at Portland.
Harvey W. Scott's home at Portland.