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[edit] Pioneer articles
I've got Minto on my short list. I'm currently almost finished with an article on Jesse Applegate, and Lindsay Applegate needs an article too. Charles might not, but I've linked him in a couple places. I'll doublecheck my copy of Oregon Geographic Names for Breitenbusher, I'm pretty sure that's how it was spelled. I'm not sure he's particularly notable. I've noticed a lot of the pioneers had Liberty ships named after them as well, so that might be another source for ideas. Katr67 20:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- I changed the Breitenbush, Oregon article to be more accurate. I don't think Lewis Breitenbusher or John Breitenbush are notable enough on their own. One g-hit for Lewis: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/marion/britbush.htm , source is probably OGN... Katr67 18:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other notable people suggestions
Check out the list of notable Oregonians from the Oregon Blue Book: http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/nothome.htm
I had planned to go through the list and make sure each of those people had an article. Katr67 20:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] John Minto
I was adding a list of Minto info I googled to the article's talk page, but my browser freaked out and I need to go eat lunch--I'll try to add more to the article later. Thanks for starting the article! I'm a much better wikignome than I am an instigator. Katr67 20:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ran across this info on Minto: Minto Park. Katr67 15:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Capitol Names book
I've added the first stub from the book that lists the bios of every name (158 of 'em) painted in the House and Senate chambers at the Capitol. It's a tiny book, all these will need to be expanded. Many will, of course, already have articles. Katr67 05:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
- I met the author! :) Katr67 15:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Names
- Martin d'Aguilar, (not sure this name needs Spanish accents), many Google references to Aguilar, including that he sailed as far north as the Columbia River or up into Washington, more stuff needs to be added to article
- Chief Comcomly, interesting guy, could be expanded greatly
- Thomas Condon, ditto
- François X. Matthieu, lots of material on the 'net for expansion, also search for F.X. Mattieu
[edit] Temp page
I made a page that right now is just the people from the book who don't have articles: User talk:Katr67/List of Capitol names/Temp. It might be interesting to fill it out with the other 104 names. Some of the disambiguated links don't match what other people on the project have called them--I'm not attached to the way I've done them (feel free to edit the page), but let's make sure we communicate and fix redlinks if any of these folks get new articles. Katr67 16:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Another place to look for ideas
Still a few redlinks there. Katr67 15:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Resource
Came accross this from the Oregon Historical Society site. A lot of times their info does not come up in Google so there may be good info to use. Aboutmovies 04:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
