Portrait of Agero Nosei. He came to study at Tualatin Academy (1870-1874) and Pacific University (Class of 1876, B.S.) after fleeing Japan in the wake of the Boshin War of 1868-1869. Eventually he returned to Japan and became an educator. He rose to high rank, gaining the Imperial appointment of Secretary of the Department of Education and becoming superintendent of Tokyo City Schools from 1883-1895. He died of an unknown illness December 18, 1895. A monument to him sits in Zenkoji Park in Nogano, Japan.
Portrait of Professor Agero Nosei in his later years. He came to study at Tualatin Academy (1870-1874) and Pacific University (Class of 1876, B.S.) after fleeing Japan in the wake of the Boshin War of 1868-1869. Eventually he returned to Japan and became an educator. He rose to high rank, gaining the Imperial appointment of Secretary of the Department of Education and becoming superintendent of Tokyo City Schools from 1883-1895. He died of an unknown illness December 18, 1895. A monument to him sits in Zenkoji Park in Nogano, Japan.
Photo of the cabin of Reverend Harvey Clark, taken in 1891. He was one of the founders of Pacific University, and died in Forest Grove in 1858. The cabin stood near what is now the intersection of 15th Avenue and Elm Street in Forest Grove.
Portrait of Dr. Elda Walker, daughter to Elkanah and Mary Walker. Elkanah and his wife were missionaries and among the first settlers in what is now Forest Grove.
Portrait of Reverend Thomas Condon, 1822-1907. Born in Ireland, he came to the United States and gained fame as a pioneer in the fields of geology and paleontology. He served as a Professor at Pacific University, and then as the first Professor of Geology at the University of Oregon.
Photo of Thomas McClelland [left] and Henry Bates [right] sitting in the grass near a tree in front of Marsh Hall. McClelland served as Pacific's fourth President, from 1892-1900. Henry Bates was the nineteenth and final principal of Tualatin Academy. When the Academy closed in 1915, Bates became the Dean of Faculty and a Professor of Philosophy at Pacific University.
Portrait of Reverend Harvey Clark, one of the founders of Pacific University. He was born in Vermont on October 7, 1807, and he and his wife Emeline Cadwell arrived in Oregon Territory in 1840 to serve as missionaries for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He went on to preach and to educate children, founding Tualatin Academy in 1849. Harvey Clark died of tuberculosis in Forest Grove on March 25, 1858, and was buried on what is now the Pacific University campus. His body was later re-interred at the Mountain View Cemetery in Forest Grove.
Portrait of Tabitha Brown (1780-1858). She is known for her account of crossing the Oregon Trail in 1846 at age 66. She founded a school for orphans in Forest Grove, Oregon, which later grew into Pacific University. This portrait, which is the only known image of Tabitha Brown, has been reproduced many times. This particular copy is a 19th century albumen print, produced by the Salem studio W. P. Johnson, and was probably created in the 1870s or 1880s. However, the original upon which it is based was created before her death in 1858, most likely between 1853-1858, based on the availability of portrait photography in Oregon at that time.
Portrait of Alvin Thompson (A. T.) Smith, early settler in Forest Grove. He was among the first to travel the Oregon Trail, was a board member of Tualatin Academy, and participated in the meeting at Champoeg that helped Oregon get on the road to statehood.
Portrait of Hatsutara Tamura, graduate of Pacific University. He was born in Japan in 1854. After leaving Pacific, he travelled to the east coast and taught at St. Clement's Hall in Ellicott City, Maryland. 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.
Portrait of Kin Saito, graduate of Pacific University. He was born in Japan in 1852, and attended Tualatin Academy from 1871-1874 and attended Pacific University from 1874-1876, earning a B.S. After leaving Pacific, he attended the University of Michigan and graduated in 1878 with a L.L.B. He eventually returned to Japan and found success as both an educator and a judge.
Portrait of Sidney Harper Marsh, the first President of Pacific University. Born August 25, 1825 in Virginia. After earning a D.D. from the University of Vermont and teaching for a few years in Virginia, he travelled to Oregon in 1853 on the invitation of George Atkinson. He became principal of Tualatin Academy upon his arrival in 1853, and then became the first president of Pacific University the following year. He served as the President of Pacific University for the next 25 years. His tenure ended on February 2, 1879 in Forest Grove, when he passed away at age 81.
A portrait of an unidentified young man. This photo was found with material relating to Samuel A. T. Walker and Charles L. Walker, his son, so there may be a connection.
A portrait of an unidentified woman. On the back, the photograph is signed “Alex Duncan.” This photograph was found with material relating to the Walker family. Alexander Duncan appears to have been a Clatsop man who attended the Forest Grove Indian School and its successor, the Chemawa Indian School, where the Walkers worked. This photograph might have been sent to the Walkers by Duncan. It matches other carte-de-visite photographs in this collection by W. P. Johnson of Salem that are dated. It was probably taken between 1886-1888 (Robinson, Oregon Photographers, 1993, p. 394).
A portrait of an unidentified Native American girl, most likely a student at the Chemawa Indian School in Salem. The photograph was taken by the W. P. Johnson studio in Salem, which was active from 1886-1888 (See: Robinson, Oregon Photographers, 1993, p. 394). It is dated November 11, 1886 on the back. The photo was found with material relating to the Samuel A.T. & Belle Walker family.
A photo of the Walker's Old Time Orchestra. From left to right: Samuel A. T. Walker on violin, Green Walker, Samuel's brother, on violin, unidentified young man on violin, and Charles L. Walker, Samuel's son, on piano.
