Mrs. Breck Dies At 87
Widow of Former Mayor Passes After 60 Years in Portland.
In the death of Mrs. John Malcolm Breck, at her home 935 Corbett street, last Wednesday, Portland lost another pioneer woman. She was 87 years old and had lived here since her marriage to Mr. Breck in 1854. He husband, J. M. Breck, was one of the first merchants in the city and at different times had municipal offices, including that of Mayor. He died in 1900.
Annie Ashmead Breck was born in Lancaster, Pa., February 17, 1828. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and writer, a volume of his sermons having been published in 1830. He died almost at the beginning of his work, but his memory has been preserved in a square named for him in Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. Breck was the youngest of a large family of children. Her mother was the founder of a young women's school in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Breck is survived by a daughter, Annie Breck Stowe, of this city, and a son, George Breck, of San Francisco.
[The Oregonian, 5 Feb 1915, p4]
Widow of Former Mayor Passes After 60 Years in Portland.
In the death of Mrs. John Malcolm Breck, at her home 935 Corbett street, last Wednesday, Portland lost another pioneer woman. She was 87 years old and had lived here since her marriage to Mr. Breck in 1854. He husband, J. M. Breck, was one of the first merchants in the city and at different times had municipal offices, including that of Mayor. He died in 1900.
Annie Ashmead Breck was born in Lancaster, Pa., February 17, 1828. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and writer, a volume of his sermons having been published in 1830. He died almost at the beginning of his work, but his memory has been preserved in a square named for him in Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. Breck was the youngest of a large family of children. Her mother was the founder of a young women's school in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Breck is survived by a daughter, Annie Breck Stowe, of this city, and a son, George Breck, of San Francisco.
[The Oregonian, 5 Feb 1915, p4]
Mrs. Breck Dies At 87
Widow of Former Mayor Passes After 60 Years in Portland.
In the death of Mrs. John Malcolm Breck, at her home 935 Corbett street, last Wednesday, Portland lost another pioneer woman. She was 87 years old and had lived here since her marriage to Mr. Breck in 1854. He husband, J. M. Breck, was one of the first merchants in the city and at different times had municipal offices, including that of Mayor. He died in 1900.
Annie Ashmead Breck was born in Lancaster, Pa., February 17, 1828. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and writer, a volume of his sermons having been published in 1830. He died almost at the beginning of his work, but his memory has been preserved in a square named for him in Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. Breck was the youngest of a large family of children. Her mother was the founder of a young women's school in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Breck is survived by a daughter, Annie Breck Stowe, of this city, and a son, George Breck, of San Francisco.
[The Oregonian, 5 Feb 1915, p4]
Widow of Former Mayor Passes After 60 Years in Portland.
In the death of Mrs. John Malcolm Breck, at her home 935 Corbett street, last Wednesday, Portland lost another pioneer woman. She was 87 years old and had lived here since her marriage to Mr. Breck in 1854. He husband, J. M. Breck, was one of the first merchants in the city and at different times had municipal offices, including that of Mayor. He died in 1900.
Annie Ashmead Breck was born in Lancaster, Pa., February 17, 1828. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and writer, a volume of his sermons having been published in 1830. He died almost at the beginning of his work, but his memory has been preserved in a square named for him in Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. Breck was the youngest of a large family of children. Her mother was the founder of a young women's school in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Breck is survived by a daughter, Annie Breck Stowe, of this city, and a son, George Breck, of San Francisco.
[The Oregonian, 5 Feb 1915, p4]
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