Marion County OR Archives Photo Person.....HIRSCH, Edward 1906
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Source:             Photo Handed Down To Me Through Family
Name:               Edward HIRSCH

Date Of Photograph: 1906
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Edward Hirsch (born May 3, 1836 in Hohebach (Wurttemberg) Germany)
  Emigrated to America in 1855 embarking from Havre to arrive in New York. 
Several years later traveled by steamer "Star of the West" via istmus of 
Panama to San Francisco and then by land to Oregon.

This picture taken in 1906 when Edward Hirsch was Postmaster of Salem, Oregon 
at the end of a long career in Oregon state politics from 1860's.  He was also 
a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1864 in Baltimore, MD 
nominating Abraham Lincoln to his second term as President.  His younger 
brother, Honorable Solomon Hirsch, was also active in Oregon politics and the 
Republican Party as well as the Oregon State Senate.  Solomon goes on to 
become the US Minister to Turkey in 1889.

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