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The Tunis Hood Family: Its Lineage and Traditions

by Dellmann Osborne Hood. 1960.   Oregon (and other places) banker and owner of a Telephone Company

Library
Over 320 Years of Data of Inlows in America 1658-1978

by Fred Elvin Inlow  

929.2 I55 1982 Vol 1 Library
Oregon Pioneer and Related Families 1844-1859

by Fred Elvin Inlow. Inlow and related families for which author got an Henry Clinton Collins  award for the collection and preservation of…

929.2 I55 1982 vol. 2 Library
Impact A Generation of Changes

by R.F. Kenaga, Sr. autobiography  of an osteopathic doctor in Oregon, Washington, and other places

929.2 R3 Library
Richard Miller a family portrait

by Margot Burridge Miller 1974. Richard and Margaret (Stanton) Miller were the parents of John S., Riley, Bluford, Andrew J., Matilda, Sarah, Mary…

Library
Family history of John S. Miller, Jackson County Pioneer

compiled by Mrs. (Lionel) Margaret Miller. Typed manuscript with transcripts of a few letters and mention of a John S. Miller diary from 1855-56…

929.2 M54 1977 Library
Peach, Hopwood, Gaddis, Breithbarth Families

by Charlotte White, 1968 with pedigree charts and an index

929.2 P41 1968 Library
Peach, Hopwood, Gaddis and Breithbarth Families

complied by Mrs. R. C White typed and mimeographed  with real photos pasted in the manuscript. 1967

929.2 P41 1967 Library
The Plymale Family in America

compiled by John Fred Plymale . 1967.  and donated to SOHS by the author (Jackson County, Oregon Plymales are on pages 132 -135

929.2 P59 1967 Library
The Hughes Family from Virginia to Oregon

by Patty Barthell Myers . 1999 Family history on Hughes, Dunlap, McKee, Lowther, Myers, Hutchinson, and other families with ties to Jackson County…

929.2 M996 1999 Library
Passageways A Collection of Family Stories

Researched and remembered by many and edited by Jean Harden Pope. May 1995 Chapters on the following : John B. Taylor, Elizabeth Gordon Yocum and…

929.2 P72011 Library
AIA Southern Oregon

American Institute of Architects 50th Anniversary 1965-2015 Celebrating 50 years of Design Excellence Including articles on Early Architecture in…

720.92 AIA Library
History of Siskiyou County, California

by Harry L. Wells Illustrated with Views of Residences Business Buildings and Natural Scenery and containing Portraits and Biographies of its…

Ref 979.421 Wells Library
Snapshots of Life and Friends

by Larry Slessler with cover noting how the stories are from his view

used 50 stories, added a few newspaper stories he had published, 3…

921 SLE 2021 Library
A Fifty Year Adventure (2nd copy)

by Rosalyn R. Rhinehart. 2006

wedding day June 3, 1948.  Professor Pat Keyes encouraged author's writing this memoir

Married in…

921 R55 c.2 Library
A Fifty Year Adventure

Wedding day = June 3, 1948;  by Rosalyn R. Rhinehart, 2006. Professor Pat Keyes encouraged author's writing this memoir.

married in…

921 R55 Library
The Walk Down Memory Lane

by Rosalyn R. Rhinehart (autographed copy). 1988 LOOSE PAGES INSERTED:  Book reunites cousins 9/5/2003,

autobiography.  husband…

921 R55 Library
The Story of My Life by Alice Rockefeller Meacham Foster Ough

by Alice Rockefeller Meacham Foster Ough

autobiography starts with herself at 4 years of age remembering 6 months in a wagon train  …

921 O 94 Library
Growing up in Ashland Oregon in the 1930's

by Eugene S. Powers (autographed copy).  edited by grandson Chris Powers (and helped produce the whole book) father Mick Thomas Elmer Powers…

921 Powers Library
Main Street Merchant, The Story of the J.C. Penney Company

by Norman Beasley, 1948,  who saw the Penney company as a pioneer with "contributing to the growth and development of fellow workers and the…

921 Pen 1948 Library
"Over the Back Fence" Hank Henry's Column Book Two

Book Two: Mail Tribune columns from January 4, 2000 through February 27, 2001 by Hank Henry, called "Over the Back Fence", describing…

921 H46 Library
"Over the Back Fence" Hank Henry's Column, Book One

Book One:  Medford Mail Tribune  1995 through 1999 "Over the Back Fence"  columns by Hank Henry, June 26, 1995 through…

921 H46 Library
"The Lame Duck Report"

Central Valley Times 50 columns by Hank Henry, Jackson County Commissioner for 12 years, January 5, 1994 thru December 28, 1994. CVT was…

921 H46 Library
The Henry Saga

by Hank Henry (dedicated to Nora) September 10, 1983

autobiography 

921 H46 Library
Jewels of the Past

by R. James Erway, Sr., an Autobiography, provision of copy from Erway noted by Janette Merriman, Southern Oregon Historical Society Curator of…

921 E79 Library
Grace Russell Fountain: Her Life and Art 1858-1942

by Gail Evans-Hatch, October 2013

Grace Hasseltine Russell b. 1/22/1858, Yreka CA, married James Davis Fountain 12/11/1878. art mentor:…

921 F68 Library
The Last Lot with a View, The Life of Larry & Ann Horton

a biographical novel by Kristopher Horton who said book from Horton's offering more memoirs than historical facts, still based on acutal events;…

921 H Library
Dalton and Ruth Straus, Heritage Ranch Families - 2016

Heritage Ranch Family series presented by  The Jackson County Stockmen's Association & The Jackson County Cattlewomen 2016; (Stockmen's…

921 E39 2016 Library
Fisher Family: A Heritage Ranch Family of Southern Oregon

Bob (and Tessie) Fisher, his history as part of ranch development in southern Oregon

series presented by The Jackson County Stockmen's…

921 E39 Library
Jack Dalton The Alaska Pathfinder

by M.J. Kirchhoff.  2007 (especially enjoys researching Alaska history)

story of Dalton, his creating trails, posts, The Dalton Pony…

921 D35 Library