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By: Meghan Saar 03/01/2008
Harvey W. Scott
Any journalist worth his salt today is familiar with The Oregonian. Well, Harvey Scott is one of the pioneer editors who helped build up the newspaper, from 1865 until his death in 1910. (He took a five-year break, starting in 1872, to serve as collector of customs.) For the most part, though, he was the driving force shaping the paper’s conservative perspective.
The articles he wrote on Oregon history make up the six-volume History of the Oregon Country, published in 1924. The Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library in Forest Grove, Oregon, memorializes him.
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