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The People of the Record

Every person whose record this Archive keeps, in one index: the name, what the record holds of them, and the years their records span. A name leads to the facts they stand in, and to prepared searches in the newspaper archives.

• Coboway · 1806 · Clatsop chief.
• Sacagawea · 1805 · Guide and interpreter with the Corps of Discovery.
• York · 1805 · Enslaved by William Clark.
• William Clark · 1805 · Co-captain of the Corps of Discovery, who polled the whole party at Station Camp and wrote down every opinion, including York's and Sacagawea's.
• John Jacob Astor · 1811–1847 · The New York merchant whose Pacific Fur Company founded Fort Astoria in 1811 and gave the town its name.
• DeWitt Clinton Ireland · 1873 · Sold the first issue of the Tri-Weekly Astorian on July 1, 1873, at 10th and Commercial.
• Captain George Flavel · 1885 · Columbia River bar pilot.
• Clara Cynthia Munson · 1913 · Elected mayor of Warrenton in 1913, 38 votes to 22, the first woman to win a mayor's office in Oregon.
• Daniel Knight Warren · 1899 · Warrenton's namesake.
• Attilio Pusterla · 1926 · The artist whose sgraffito spiral climbs the Astoria Column, telling the region's early history in pictures.
• Mark Hatfield · 1966 · Governor of Oregon.
• Dan Evans · 1966 · Governor of Washington.
• Frank Woodfield · 1922 · Astoria photographer.
• Peter A. Huhtala · Astoria cannery worker.
• Royal Nebeker · Artist and teacher.