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...anniversary of its founding with long histories of the paper and nostalgic backward looks at the growth of the Northwest. Though the Oregonian and its surroundings changed greatly through the years, its ownership did not. It stayed in the hands of descendants of early (1860) Owner Henry Lewis Pittock and his longtime editor, Harvey Whitefield Scott...
...insisted on divorcing news from opinion, a major operation for a paper steeped in the personal-journalism tradition of the Oregonian's founder, Henry L. Pittock, a goat-bearded tyrant of pioneer days. Under Hoyt the Republican Oregonian gave labor, Democrats, Japanese-Americans an even break - something the Denver Post never...
...partnership of these two strong men is a big story of U. S. journalism. Scott was a big, brusque, walrus-faced fighter, who read Horace for diversion and stepped up to bars in a long frock coat and high silk hat to call for a shot of straight whiskey. Pittock was barely five feet tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went...
...mother die of plains cholera on the way, helped to bury her beside the trail. He carried a musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned to the Oregonian to stay. Combining immense physical vigor with wide knowledge and a penetrating intellect, Scott was the Oregonian to thousands...
Many old Portland families believe that Harvey Scott was promised a half interest in the Oregonian in 1877, learned later he could never have it because of a deal Pittock had made with rich U. S. Senator Henry Winslow Corbett. One story goes that Editor Scott was in the East when he first learned of the "betrayal," dashed across the continent, and wiped up the office floor with his partner's pint-sized frame. Present day Scotts and Pittocks are noticeably cool toward each other. Most embittered has been big, bald, son Leslie M. Scott, President of Portland...