Fisher Henderson; music by Edward J. Finck. Pioneer Transactions, 1906.
Edward J. Finck was one of two talented brothers. He was born in Bethel, Missouri, in 1851 and came to Oregon in 1862 with his parents, who were members of the Aurora Colony. He was the composer of two instrumental pieces with Oregon titles—Belle of Oregon and Belle of Portland. He helped form the Amateur Musical Society in Portland in 1875, the first regular orchestral organization in the city. In 1888 he won first prize in a national competition for the best method of piano playing. He died in 1915 and is said to have left much unfinished work in manuscript. The other brother was Henry T. Finck, for many years music critic of the New York Evening Post and author of the books Pacific Coast Scenic Tour and The Golden Age of Music that contain charming Oregon references and recollections.
MacMillan Ordway. Portland. Graves and Company.
1905. Also in Pioneer Transactions, 1907.Mrs. James MacMillan Ordway has written much verse on pioneer and patriotic themes, particularly for the Annual Pioneer Reunions. She is the author of Oregon Summer Days, and Oregon, a drama. Born on Tualatin Plains in 1865, she began writing rhymes in girlhood. Her father, Captain J. H. MacMillan, was president of the North Pacific History Company of Portland, publisher of Elwood Evans' richly illustrated two-volume work on Oregon and Washington.
Alden Harness is a book dealer and poet of Roseburg, who has published some pamphlets of verse and whose poem on Joaquin Miller is printed in this book.
