Minorities of Early Jackson County, Oregon c.1 and c.2
material prepared by Kay Atwood, Intermediate Education District, published 1976
especially focuses on Chinese: early settlers in Jackson County, working with ore, building trestles, digging through mountains for tunnels, blasted rock, hammered down ties for RR, special holidays in which shared candy and gifts, planted "trees of heaven", cooked in hotels, worked for individual families, washed clothes, ran boarding houses
Chinese treated with contempt, seen as "different" so threatening so laws and ordinances passed to make it difficult for Chinese to remain anywhere; paid tax to mine, could not vote or own property unless a citizen of the US, had to pay stiff license fee for their business
Chinese before 1850, in southern Oregon, in domestic occupations, and the railroad, eating habits of the railroad workers, newspaper accounts of the Chinese in The Oregon Sentinel in Jacksonville, 1880 census, livestyle in Jackson County, Gin Lin + 1876-1877 accounting sheet, Wah Chung, Lim Wang, photos of Chinese with captions, intro explaining coming of Chinese and Blacks--then Jews, The Blacks, Blacks in Oregon, Samuel Cozzens, Jackson Berry, Samuel Vose, other Black residents: Isaac, John Glancer, Goerge W. Doan, Henry Vaughan, John Collins, Richard Conway, Isaac Cowan, Andrew Jason, Daniel Jones, Isaac McBride, Antonia Potter, Lou Southworth; Ku Klux Klan, photos including of deed and contract for freedom for Jackson Berry, The Jews: Max Muller, Morris Mensor, Matilda Mensor, Karewski store, Gustav Karewski house, Newman Fisher, Fisher Bros Store, Benjamin Sachs, Solomon Sachs