Cornelius C. Beekman
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Cornelius C. Beekman was a Wells-Fargo Express agent and banker in Jacksonville, Oregon, United States. He is the namesake of the Cornelius C. Beekman House and the Beekman Native Plant Arboretum.
Cornelius Beekman around the turn of the 20th century
W. W. Thayer
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William Wallace Thayer, was an American Democratic politician active in U.S. states of Idaho and Oregon. Most notably, he served as the sixth governor of Oregon from 1878 to 1882 and Chief Justice of
Cornelius C. Beekman
…shipped millions of dollars in gold dust to be minted in San Francisco. Beekman ran on the Republican ticket for governor of Oregon in 1878, losing to William Thayer by fewer than 70 votes. Beekman was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 2018, Wells Fargo Bank created a…
Portrait of Thayer, 1919