Rare photograph of Virgil Earp at age 19,
taken in 1862 in Monmouth, IL

 
  Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905)

Virgil Earp was the older brother of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone
City Marshal at the time of the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral
in 1881.

After suffering from pneumonia for six months, Virgil died in the
town of Goldfield, Nevada. His remains were sent to Portland,
Oregon at the request of his daughter Nellie Jane Bohn and
buried at the River View Cemetery (below), the state’s oldest
nonprofit cemetery, dating back to 1882.

The Earp brothers from left: Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil

                                                                                                          (Vintage Portland)
The corner of SE 6th and Morrison

 

  
Johnnie Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990)

John Alvin Ray was born in Dallas, Oregon, spending part of his
childhood on a farm, with parents Elmer and Hazel Ray and older
sister Elma Ray. He attended grade school there and eventually
moved to Portland, Oregon, where he attended high school. Ray
was extremely popular as a singer / songwriter, and pianist for 
most of the 1950s.

Johnnie Ray in the studio recording “Cry”

Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads, 1952

This view is of the Northwest Industrial District from NW Yeon Avenue at
Nicolai Street. The first two buildings on the right exist today as Imperial
Paints (below).

Imperial Paint Company has been in business since 1945.

The Lents neighborhood of Portland was originally the town of Lent, platted
in 1892. It was bounded by SE Foster Rd. and Duke Street between SE 92nd
and 97th Avenues.