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J.K. Gill

... that J. K. Gill (pictured) started a bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in 1870 that grew to a chain of almost 40 stores before the company folded in 1999?
... that Providence Newberg Medical Center in Oregon was the first hospital in the United States to earn a Gold LEED certification?
... that Philip Leget Edwards, the first teacher in what became the U.S. state of Oregon, later served in the legislatures of Missouri and California?
... that the tracks of the Oregon and Northwestern Railroad are well preserved, even though they weren't well-built and they have been flooded by Malheur Lake?

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