Portrait of Frances T. Sorenson, Pacific University Class of 1906. After leaving Pacific, she did some teaching, and eventually married fellow Pacific University Class of 1906 alumnus Arthur J. Prideaux.
Portrait of Virgil G. Lilly, Pacific University Class of 1926. He went on to earn his medical degree and engaged in botanical research, among other things, at the University of West Virginia. He died in 1988.
Portrait of Samuel B. Lawrence, Pacific University Class of 1908. He then went to the Law School at the University of Washington. He graduated in 1910, and went on to practice law.
Portrait of Mattie E. Koontz, Pacific University Class of 1889. She later married John U. Smith, Pacific University Class of 1888. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Oregon in 1890, and he and Mattie appear to have moved a lot - she is listed as living in Portland, Oregon in 1895, in Hilo, Hawaii in 1900, and in Newberg, Oregon in 1910.
Portrait of Mary F. Lyman, wife of Newton McCoy. Mary graduated from Pacific University in 1878, and she married Newton McCoy, Pacific University Class of 1880. After marriage, they lived in Portland, where Newton worked as an attorney. This portrait was likely made when Mary was older, perhaps in the 1910s.
Portrait of Joseph E. Kirkwood, the first Pacific University graduate to go on to obtain a Ph.D. He graduated from Pacific in 1898, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. After graduation, he became an Assistant Professor in Botany at Syracuse University in New York. Later, he served for 19 years in the Botany Department at the University of Montana; he died in his wife's arms while at a research station in Yellow Lake, Montana, after suffering a heart attack.
Portrait of Rev. Horace M. Ramsey, Pacific University Class of 1899. He went on to attend the University of California, and became Dean of St Stephen's Pro-Cathedral in Portland, Oregon.
