Inventory of Multnomah County Resources
in Connie Lenzen's Library

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BIOGRAPHIES/DIARIES:

Clark, Malcolm, Jr., ed. Pharisee Among Philistines, Diary of Judge Matthew P. Deady, Vols. 1 & 2. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1975.

Cleaver, J. D. Island Immigrants: The Bybees & The Howells. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1986.

Snyder, Eugene E. We Claimed This Land: Portland's Pioneer Settlers. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1989.

CEMETERY BOOKS AND RECORDS:

Bethany Community Church Cemetery Records. Cemetery Records. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah. 1964.

Brown, Lloyd & Wythle. Records of Lone Fir Cemetery, 1879–1898. Portland: Genealogical Forum of Portland, 1981.

Clarke, Stanley R. Multnomah County, Oregon Burial Sites Vol. 1 [Contains: Escobar Pioneer, Pleasant Home Pioneer, St. Joseph, White Birch Pioneer] (Portland: Genealogical Services, 1999).

Columbia Pioneer Cemetery. Portland: Dept. of Environmental Services Parks and Memorials Multnomah County. Manuscript obtained at Lone Fir Cemetery.

Corbett, Tim. The History Mt. Calvary and Gethsemani Cemeteries, Portland, Oregon, 1888 to 2010. Portland: Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery, 2010.

G.A.R. Cemetery. Copy of manuscript at Lone Fir Cemetery.

Gatton Cemetery. Cemetery Records. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah. Vol. 6. FHL film 56,369.

Kidd, Julie, ed., River View Cemetery Interments Two volumes (Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, Inc., 1999).

Lenzen, Connie. Lone Fir Cemetery, 1858–1880. Portland: Privately printed, 1992.

Lenzen, Connie. St. Mary's Cemetery, Portland's Pioneer Catholic Cemetery. Vancouver, Washington: Clark County Genealogical Society, 1987.

McCoy, Marshall W. Records of the Columbia Pioneer Cemetery.

Sage, Sheila M. Burial Records of St. Joseph's Cemetery, Gresham. 1979.

St. Joseph Cemetery Records. Cemetery Records. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah. Vol. 6, pp. 114–118. FHL film 599,836

CENSUS RECORDS:

1895 Multnomah County, Oregon, State Census. Three reels. Portland: Microfilmed by Portland State University for Oregon State Archives.

Hiday, Mrs. Harry I. 1870 Multnomah County, Oregon Census. Portland: Genealogical Forum of Portland, 1973.

Stoller, Ruth. 1860 Multnomah County Census. Salem, Oregon: End of Trail Researchers, 1975.

CHURCH RECORDS/HISTORIES:

A History of Sacred Heart Parish 1893–1993. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1993.

Baptisms 1901–1904. All Saint's Church (Portland, Oregon) FHL film 1,320,851, item 12.

Baptisms 1905–1911. All Saint's Church (Portland, Oregon) FHL film 1,320,851, item 11.

Baptisms, 1884–1910. St. John's Memorial Church. FHL 1,320,851, item 14.

Baptisms. St. John's Memorial Church (Sellwood, Oregon) FHL film 1,320,851, item 14.

Baptisms. St. Matthews Chapel (Portland, Oregon) FHL film 1,320,851, item 12.

Birth and Death Records, 1876–1908. Congregation Beth Israel. FHL film 1,013,426, item 2.

Church Records, 1883–1897. First Presbyterian Church (Albina, Oregon). FHL film 854,478, item 3.

CITY/COUNTY DIRECTORIES:

Polk's Portland City Directories (Portland: R. L. Polk & Co.)

1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866
1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872
1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878
1879 1880 1881 1901 1903 1904
1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1918
1920 1921 1924 1929 1932 1935
1938 1940 1943/44 1950 1955 1957
1958 1960 1963 1964 1965 1972
1974 1977 1978 1980-81 1932 1985
















Polk's East City Directories (Portland: R. L. Polk and Co.)

A separate set of directories for suburban East Portland was created. It included unincorporated Multnomah County and Gresham.

1966 1967 1968 1969
1969 1978 1979–80 1981
1984 1985





CITY and COUNTY HISTORIES:

A Pictoral History of East Multnomah County. Portland: Pediment Group, 1998.

Archer, Howard. Gresham, The Friendly City. Gresham, Oregon: Gresham Historical Society, 1967.

Canniff, Kiki. Sauvie Island A Step Back in Time. Portland: Privately printed, 1981.

Chilton, W. R., ed. Gresham Stories of our Past. Gresham: Davis and Fox, 1993.

Cleaver, J. D. Sauvie Island Heritage Series: 1 Island Origins Trappers, Traders & Settlers. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1986.

Cleaver, J. D. Sauvie Island Heritage Series: 2 Island Immigrants The Bybees & The Howells. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1986.

DeWolfe, Fred. Old Portland. Portland: Press-22, 1976.

Gaston, Joseph. Portland, Oregon; Its History & Builders. Volumes II and III. Portland:, S. J. Clarke Co., 1911.

Klooster, Karl. Round The Roses. Portland: Daily Journal of Commerce, 1987.

Labbe, John T. Fares Please! Those Portland Trolley Years. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printer, 1982.

MacColl, E. Kimbark, Merchants, Money & Power. Portland: The Georgian Press, 1988.

MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Growth of a City. Portland: The Georgian Press, 1979.

MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Shaping of a City; Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon, 1885 to 1915. Portland: The Georgian Press, 1976.

MacHaffie, Ingeborg. Danish in Portland, Past and Present, 1882–1982. Tigard, Oregon: Skribent Press, 1982.

Maddux, Percy. City on the Willamette, The Story of Portland, Oregon. Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1952.

Mallett, Mary Powell. Courageous People [East Multnomah County]. Portland: Del Brumble, 1972.

McLagen, Elizabeth. A Peculiar Paradise, A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788–1940. Portland: The Georgian Press, 1980.

North East Portland: Rose City Park History, 1907–1977. Portland: The Association, 1977.

O'Longaigh, David, ed. "We Irish in Oregon The Proceedings of the June 1, 1997 Irish Heritage and Potato Famine Commemoration Day Hibernian Hall, Portland, Oregon." Portland: All–Ireland Cultural Society of Oregon, 1998.

Olsen, Polina. The Downtown Jews A Walking Tour Through Portland's Early Business District. Portland: Smart Talk Publications, 2009.

Peters, Vera., ed. Remembering Our Childhood; A Pictrial History of Gresham, Oregon. Volumn 1 in a series. Gresham: Gresham Pioneers, n.d.

Portland Biographical Two Volumes. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1911.

St. Johns Heritage Association, Fourth Edition. Portland, Oregon.

St. John's History Bicentennial Issue. Portland: St. Johns Historical Group.

Sanders, Richard. Portland State: A History in Pictures. Portland: Retirement Association of Portland State University, 2009.

Snyder, Eugene E. Early Portland: Stump–Town Triumphant. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1970.

Snyder, Eugene E. Portland Names And Neighborhoods. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1979.

Snyder, Eugene E. We Claimed This Land: Portland's Pioneer Settlers. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1989.

Spanning The Decades; St. Johns Bridge Diamond Jubilee. Portland: Portland Rose Festival Assn., 1991.

Stein, Harry. Portland: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, Virginia: The Donning Co., 1980.

Thorne, Paulina. Early Settlers Book One Sauvie Island Columbia County, Oregon. Portland: Privately printed, 1997.

Vaughan, Thomas and George A. McMath. A Century of Portland Architecture. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1967.

MORTUARY RECORDS:

Lenzen, Connie. Ewry & Cook Account Books; 1870–1876. Portland: Privately printed, 1989.

Lenzen, Connie. abs. Portland Marble Company Records (N. A. Schanen and Philip Neu doing business under the firm name of Schanen and Neu). Vol. 1, 1880–1892; Vol. 2, 1893–1897; vol. 3, 1898–1902; Vol. 4, 1903–1907. Abstracted from OHS manuscript collection 1,745.

Lenzen, Connie. How To Find Naturalization Records In Oregon. Portland: Privately printed, 2001.

PROBATE RECORDS:

Multnomah County Probate Index, 1856–1939 Reel 1 (Filmed by Oregon State Archives, 5 April 1961). Note between letters G and H: Index compiled from the original index loaned to the Title companies and is now in room 748, Multnomah County Courthouse.

SCHOOL RECORDS:

1896 Portland Public Schools; List of Teachers and Students. Portland: Portland Public Schools.

Casey, Helen Marie. Portland's Compromise: The Colored School 1867–1872. Portland: Portland Public Schools, 1980.

VITAL RECORDS:

City of Portland Birth Register, 1864–1917. Salem: Microfilmed by Oregon State Archives.

City of Portland Death Certificates, 1862–1902. 8 Reels. Salem: Oregon State Archives.

City of Portland Death Register, 1881–1917. Salem: Microfilmed by Oregon State Archives.

Multnomah County, Oregon [Portland] Marriage Index, 1924–1935. Microfilmed by Multnomah County Records Division.

Multnomah County, Oregon [Portland] Marriage Index, 1936–1944. Microfilmed by Multnomah County Records Division.

Chamberlin, Eileen J., project director. Multnomah County, Oregon Marriage Index to Volumes 8–10 (July 1890–July 1895). Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 2001.

Chamberlin, Eileen J., project director. Multnomah County, Oregon Marriage Index to Volumes 11–13 (July 1895–May 1901). Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 2001.

Chamberlin, Eileen J., project director. Multnomah County, Oregon Marriage Index to Volumes 14–15 (April 1901–October 1904). Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 2001.

Park, Harriette Word. Marriage Records of Multnomah County, Oregon, May 1873 to June 1883. Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 1984.

Park, Harriette Word. Marriage Records of Multnomah County, Oregon, 1855–1873. Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 1977.

Park, Harriette Word. Marriage Records of Multnomah County, Oregon, June 1883–December 1885. Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 1984.

Park, Harriette Word. Marriage Records of Multnomah County, Oregon, September 1888 to July 1890. Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 1988.

Park, Harriette Word. Marriage Records of Multnomah County, Oregon, December 1885 to September 1888. Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 1985.

Westergaard, J. C. Portland Death Records–1940. Salt Lake City: Typed by Genealogical Society of Utah. Two Volumes in three.

VOTERS RECORDS:

[Multnomah County, Oregon] Dept. of Records and Elections. Foreign [Born Voter] Registration Cards to Sept. 1967. 29 reels.

[Multnomah County, Oregon] Division of Registration. [Multnomah County, Oregon Voter] Registration Cards, 1918–1958. 158 reels. See Multnomah County, Oregon Cancelled Voter Registration Cards.

[Multnomah County, Oregon] Division of Registration. [Multnomah County, Oregon Voter] Registration Cards, 1959/1963. 69 reels.

[Multnomah County, Oregon] Division of Registration. [Multnomah County, Oregon Voter] Registration Cards, 1982/1983. 59 reels.

Note: for an explanation of nineteenth century Oregon birth records, see "Nineteenth Century Oregon Birth Records."

Other Oregon Resources in Connie Lenzen's Library:

Biographical Census County Records French Canadian Native American Military Oregon Trail & Early Oregon Oregon Catholics Vital Records

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