Hillsboro (Or.)

The "Aurora" was a short-lived newspaper that was published in Forest Grove, Oregon in 1882. The editor was Albert E. Tozier. The newspaper covered local news from Forest Grove, Gaston, Cornelius, Hillsboro and other local towns.

This anonymous handwritten volume contains several texts, including a diary of a sea voyage from Boston to San Francisco in 1852, a description of an 1863 trip on the Columbia River, and miscellaneous handwritten recipes, notes and clippings.

James Gerrish was an Oregon pioneer of 1844, and a Methodist circuit preacher who worked in Oregon and Washington in the 1850s-1860s. His diaries, dated 1854-1863, record his daily life travelling and preaching to communities on the frontier.

Malcolm and Catherine McIntosh were a prominent family of Salem, Oregon, who later moved to the Orenco area of Hillsboro. The four photograph albums in this collection contain approximately 200 portrait photographs, most dating from around 1880 to 1900, probably depicting their family and friends.

Political papers of Chuck Riley, a Democratic legislator representing Washington County, Oregon's District 29 in the Oregon State House of Representatives from 2005-2011 and as the Senator for District 15 beginning in 2014.