Word: ores
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Honored. Daniel Cowan Jackling. president of Utah Copper Co., with the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal for achievement in mining;? by the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. He found methods for making low-grade copper ore profitable...
Wallace McCamant was born at Hollidaysburg, Pa. in 1867, graduated from Lafayette College, removed to Portland, Ore. where he practiced law. For 23 years he served as master in chancery for the U. S. District Court. For 17 months he was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon. An active Republican, he attended as a delegate the National Conventions of 1896, 1900, 1920. At the last he began a political feud with Senator Hiram Johnson by nominating Calvin Coolidge for the Vice Presidency. In 1925 President Coolidge nominated him for the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Salem, Ore...
Born: near Monroe, Ore...
...Oregon Trail, hewed out a farm near Monroe. Aged 15, he chopped wood for a professorial neighbor who read him the Congressional Record, fired him with an ambition to sit in the House of Representatives. That ambition guided his early life. Graduated by Willamette University at Salem, Ore. (1884), he taught school, went on chautauqua circuits, made political friends. Aged 21, he married Anna M. Geisendorfer who bore him two sons, one daughter. (His son Cecil ("Stu"), chief road man for Texas Co., last summer set a New York-Los Angeles round trip automobile record...