Certificate of membership for the American Tract Society, awarded to Emeline (Cadwell) Clark, wife of Harvey Clark, in 1865. She and her husband arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1840 to serve as missionaries for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Harvey founded Tualatin Academy in 1849.
Copy of a certificate of completion from Tualatin Academy for Margaret M. Hinman, Pacific University Class of 1891. D. L. Edwards was the principal at the time.
Lucy Lincoln Hervey, also known as Mrs. W. C. Hervey, was the college secretary at Pacific University around 1920. She was an alumna of Carlton College. This photograph probably dates from the late 1910s or 1920s.
Portrait of George Ellett Coghill, who was a professor of Biology at Pacific University from 1901 to 1906. Coghill was a contributor, editorial associate, editor and managing editor of The Journal of Comparative Neurology. Coghill was born on March 17, 1872 and died July 23, 1941.
Portrait of Hatsutara Tamura, Pacific University Class of 1876, who became the principal of a female seminary. After graduating from Pacific, he traveled to California to attend the state university; however, due a recent tuition raise, he changed his mind and went to New York. There, he met the head master of a school called St. Clement's Hall and was offered a teaching position. Eventually, he returned to Japan and further pursued his career in education, which included tenures as a professor of English and Physics in Osaka and as director of a middle school in Hamamatsu, Japan.
Copy of a portrait of A. P. DeKeyser, perhaps the founder of the DeKeyser Institute of Optometry, which was a predecessor of Pacific University's College of Optometry.
This photo was published in the 1924 Heart of Oak Pacific University yearbook on page 92. Members of the band included director C. W. Lawrence; Drum major Lee Strickland; Solo cornets Thorson Bennett, Alvin Hawk, Enoch Moore, and Ray Wolf; First cornets Fred Dysle, William Goff, Lester Talbot; Clarinet G. E. Richards; Saxophones Elmer Littlehales, Bernard Sellers, and Dean Sellers; Snare drum: William Harrison; Trombones: Elmer Hamilton, George Jackson, Harold Roberts, and Ellis Stebbins; Altos P. L. Jillson, Phillips Jillson, and Bert Sparks; Baritones Harry Kunkel and Leo Morgan; Basses Leonard Alley and John Anderson; Bass drum Bruce Roe. This group was deemed one of the most active organizations on campus.
The in 1970's, two students walk on the walkway near Marsh Hall heading toward what is now College Way at Pacific University. Marsh Hall was built from 1893 to 1895 and is still houses classrooms, administrative offices, and student services offices.
Pacific University graduate Reverend George Washington Kennedy in the 1900s. Kennedy was from Hood River, Oregon, but he was born in Illinois in September 1847. Kennedy traveled to Oregon from Illinois with his parents by ox team and wagon when he was a child. As an adult he preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baker County, Oregon. Later, Kennedy returned to Hood River and was a Methodist minister and had a small farm near Ruthton Hill. He died on May 11, 1926 and is buried at the Idlewilde Cemetery in Hood River.
View of patio area outside Washburne Hall, known as the University Center, at Pacific University in the 1970's. Washburne Hall was built in 1964 and houses dining services, the mail room, staff offices, and other student services.
Two students study in the Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library in the 1970's. Scott Library was built in 1967 and named after the first graduate of Pacific University. The building is now known as Scott Hall and houses faculty and staff offices, a language center called the CLIC, tutoring and learning center, and the Kathrin Cawein Gallery of Art.
Photograph of two buildings on the Pacific University campus. The building on the left is the gymnasium and the building on the right is now called Old College Hall. This is the original location of this building before being relocated three times. This building was built in 1850 and was known as Tualatin Academy. This is the oldest structure in Forest Grove.
