"Oregon"
- Trunk, 1912 -
Slovenia translation
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First Posted: 12 July 1996
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This Rev J. M. Trunk text was published originally in 1912 as Part 8, History of Slovene
Communities, contains significant genealogical information about Slovenian immigrants,
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Oregon
Cornucopia: Three Slovenes work in the gold mines.
Oregon City: The first to come to Oregon City were Jakob Polanc, Katarina Hanny
and Matija Justin and wife in 1888. The former is a superintendent in the Williamette
Company factory. The latter has a hotel. The majority of the Slovenes are employed in a
paper mill. Mr. Jos. Kestnar reports to me that there are now about 180 Slovenes in this
settlement, the majority from Gorenjska. Among these there are 25 families. Besides the
aforementioned, the following have their own homes: F. Sajovic, L. Avman, F. Snove, P.
Kurnik, Jos. Pavlin, and others.
They go to church in the Irish St. John the Evangelist Church. They do not have Slovene
services.
On 13 August 1907, M. Justin, J. Smrekar, J. Subic and others established the Society of St.
Joseph #76 of the KSKJ, which numbers about 30 members.
Portland: Mat. Justin and I. Polanc were the first to come to this beautiful city over
five years ago. Mr. A. Roits reports to me that there are now about 100 Slovenes in the city
among them 15 families some of whom have their own houses. They are employed in
various factories, mostly in the Willamette Paper Mill.
The church life is average since there is no Slovene priest. The majority go to a German
____ diocesan church. There are no societies.
There are also many Slovene farmers scattered about the State of Oregon on whom I do not
have any reporting.
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