Find A Grave - Portland

Dolph, Joseph Norton b. October 19, 1835 d. March 10, 1897
US Senator. He served two terms, 1883 to 1895, as a Republican senator from Oregon. He attended the local New York schools and then studied law at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He was admitted to the bar in 1861 and set up a practice in Schuyler County, New York. That same year he enlisted with a group known as the Oregon Escort, a company established by Congress to protect immigrants crossing the continent to the Pacific coast against Indians. Upon reaching Oregon he settled in Portland and...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Earp, Virgil b. July 18, 1843 d. October 19, 1905
Western Lawman. Born in Hartford Kentucky, he was brother to James, Morgan and Wyatt Earp. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, he was a freighter-teamster in Prescott, Arizona and was Deputy Marshal at Tucson, 1870 to 1879. In 1880, he was elected City Marshal of Tombstone and recruited brothers Wyatt and Morgan as special deputy policemen. Due to the crimes against townspeople and local farmers, the Earp family came into conflict with two families, the Clantons and the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
GPS coordinates: 45.4616203, -122.6741562 (hddd.dddd)
Eaton, Joseph Horace b. October 12, 1815 d. January 20, 1896
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. An 1835 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, during the Mexican War he was an aide to General Zachary Taylor and was twice promoted and cited for gallantry, first at the Battle of Monterey and then at the Battle of Buena Vista. Following the Mexican War, he was stationed on the frontier where he painted a series of landscapes in New Mexico in the 1850's. Eaton's paintings are highly sought after by art collectors and...[Read More] (Bio by: Randy Fletcher)
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Plot: Section 15, Lot 279, Space 1
Ekwall, William Alexander b. June 14, 1887 d. October 16, 1956
US Congressman. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1935 to 1937 as a representative from Oregon's 3rd Congressional District. Ekwall was a graduate of the Oregon Law school in Portland and served in the infantry during the First World War. He served as a municipal court judge in Portland from 1922 to 1927 and as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1940. He was appointed as a federal judge to the United States Customs Court in 1942, where he served in...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Portland Memorial Mausoleum, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Ellis, William Russell b. April 23, 1850 d. January 8, 1915
US Congressman. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1893 to 1899 and from 1907 to 1911 as a representative from Oregon's 2nd Congressional District. Ellis served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Justice Department and was a member of the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands. He attended Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa and the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa where he received a degree in law. He was a one term mayor of Panora...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Portland Memorial Mausoleum, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Evans, Christopher b. 1847 d. 1917
Western Outlaw. Born in Bells Corners, near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the late 1880s, together with partner John Sontag he formed the Evans-Sontag Gang and was it's leader. Going to California, they proceeded to rob several Southern Pacific trains between 1889 and 1892. The outlaws evaded capture for some time until the killing of a member of a law posse outside Visalia, forced Evans with others to the Sierra Mountains. There at Stone Corral, they had a shoot-out with another posse resulting...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Gaddis, Miranda Diane b. November 18, 1988 d. March 8, 2002
Disappeared March 8, 2002 from her apartment complex in Oregon City, Oregon. She was 13 years old at the time of her disappearance and was friends with Ashley Marie Pond. Her body was found and identified on August 26, 2002, on property belonging to 39 year old Ward Weaver, who was serving jail time for an unrelated rape to this case.
Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Gearin, John McDermeid b. August 15, 1851 d. November 12, 1930
US Congressman. Elected to represent Oregon in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1905 to 1907. Member of Oregon State Legislature.
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Geer, Theodore T. b. March 12, 1851 d. February 21, 1924
Oregon Governor.
Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
George, Melvin Clark b. May 13, 1849 d. February 22, 1933
US Congressman. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1881 to 1885 as a representative from Oregon. George received his formal education from Santiam Academy and Willamette University in Oregon. He was a member of the Oregon State Senate from 1876 to 1880 and Circuit Court judge from 1897 to 1907. He also served as director of the Portland Public School System. (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Gibbs, Addison Cranwick b. July 9, 1825 d. December 29, 1886
Oregon Governor. After finishing his law studies he went to California with the gold rush. By 1850 he was in Oregon involved in coastal timber industries near the Umpqua River. In 1853 he volunteered and fought in the Rogue River Indian War. In 1858 he returned to law, practicing in Portland, Oregon. Between 1852 - 53 he served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature. He was elected Governor of Oregon and served 1862 - 1866, followed by terms as Prosecuting Attorney and District Attorney's...[Read More] (Bio by: RB)
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Grover, LaFayette b. November 29, 1823 d. May 10, 1911
Oregon Governor, US Congressman, US Senator. Born in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine, he attended law school on the East coast and moved to Salem, Oregon to practice law in 1851. He was appointed by the Secretary of War to audit the Indian war expenses of Oregon and Washington in 1856. He was a delegate to the convention which framed the constitution of Oregon in 1857, and was elected as a Democrat to the 35th Congress serving February to March of 1859. La Fayette Grover was the Governor of...[Read More] (Bio by: RB)
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Hatfield, Mark Odom b. July 12, 1922 d. August 7, 2011
US Senator, Oregon Governor. He graduated from Willamette University in 1943 and served in the Navy during World War II, manning a landing craft during the Iwo Jima invasion and becoming one of the first Americans to see the effects of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. After the war he completed a master's degree at Stanford University in 1948 and became a Professor and Dean of Students at Willamette. A Republican, he served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1951 to 1955 and the Oregon...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Plot: Section H, Grave 3623-H
Holladay, Ben b. October 19, 1819 d. July 8, 1887
Noted Business Magnate. A figure out of Old West history, he ran several stage coach companies before the railroads expanded, and sold them to Wells Fargo in the mid-1860s for $1.5 Million. He then formed the Northern Pacific Transportation Company, a steamboat line that covered the West Coast to Mexico.
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Plot: Section E
Holman, Rufus Cecil b. October 14, 1877 d. November 27, 1959
US Senator. Elected as a Senator from Oregon to the United States Senate, serving from 1939 to 1945.
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Plot: Section 109, lot 243
Honeyman, Nan Wood b. July 15, 1881 d. December 10, 1970
US Congresswoman. Born in West Point, New York, she moved with her parents to Portland, Oregon in 1884. Honeyman was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1933 which ratified the 21st amendment to the Constitution of the United States. She served as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1935 - 1937 and as a Democrat to the 75th Congress of the United States from 1937 to 1939. Afterwards she served in a variety of political positions in Oregon until the mid 1950'...[Read More] (Bio by: RB)
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Howard, Edward Daniel b. November 5, 1877 d. January 2, 1983
Religious Leader. He served as the Archbishop of Portland, Oregon, from August 26, 1926, to December 9, 1966. He was ordained a priest on June 12, 1906. (Bio by: K)
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Jackson, James b. November 21, 1833 d. October 21, 1916
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Served as a Captain in the 1st U.S. Cavalry. In action at Camas Meadows, Idaho, on August 20, 1877, he dismounted in the face of heavy fire from pursuing Indians to help bring the body of his stricken trumpeter to safety. History recorded his Medal of Honor presentation date as 17 April 17, 1896, but other documents prove that his Medal was authorized on 21 April 1896, Medal 'transmitted' 24 April 1896. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Johnson, Sylvester 'Syl' b. December 31, 1900 d. February 20, 1985
Major League Baseball Player. The right-hander pitched 19 years in the big leagues with the Detroit Tigers (1922 to 1925), the St. Louis Cardinals (1926 to 1933), the Cincinnati Reds (1934) and the Philadelphia Phillies (1934 to 1940). He posted a 12-7 record with a 3.98 earned run average in 1923. His winningest season was 1929, when he was 13-7 with a 3.60 ERA and 12 complete games in 19 starts. He was on pennant-winning teams in 1928, 1930 and 1931, but got only start in the World Series...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Coons)
Portland Memorial Mausoleum, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Johnston, David Emmons b. April 10, 1845 d. July 7, 1917
US Congressman. Representative from West Virginia from 1899 to 1901.
Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Plot: Hillside, Lot 2, Grave 2

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