Eddy Elbridge Wilson was born in Corvallis in 1869 and was a student at Oregon State when the school was still known as Corvallis College. He graduated in 1889. Later an attorney and bank executive, Wilson was heavily involved with numerous campus and community organizations, as well as the State Game Commission. He twice served on the OAC board of regents -- from 1906 to 1915 and from 1924 to 1929. Wilson died in 1961.
Eddy Elbridge Wilson was born in Corvallis in 1869 and was a student at Oregon State when the school was still known as Corvallis College. Later an attorney and bank executive, Wilson was heavily involved with numerous campus and community organizations, as well as the State Game Commission. He served for several years on the OAC Board of Regents. He died in 1961. Ira Noel Gabrielson (1889-1977) was a naturalist and entomologist who also served as Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Jim Sherburne (1933-2008) was a 1955 OSC graduate who later became a department store executive.
Eddy Elbridge Wilson was born in Corvallis in 1869 and was a student at Oregon State when the school was still known as Corvallis College. Later an attorney and bank executive, Wilson was heavily involved with numerous campus and community organizations, as well as the State Game Commission. He twice served on OAC's board of regents -- from 1906 to 1915 and from 1924 to 1929. Wilson died in 1961.
The board assembled outside the north entrance to the Library for this springtime photograph. Front row, from left, are Sam Kozer (Secretary of State, ex-officio), James K. Weatherford (president of the board), E. E. Wilson (secretary of the board), B. F. Irvine (treasurer of the board), Walter Pierce (Governor, ex-officio), Mrs. W. S. Kinney, and Jefferson Myers. Back row, from left, are E. B. Aldrich, Sam H. Brown, George M. Cornwall, and Harry Bailey. Not in the photo were members J. A. Churchill (Superintendent of Public Instruction, ex-officio) and George A. Palmiter (Master of the State Grange, ex-officio).
Eddy Elbridge Wilson was born in Corvallis in 1869 and was a student at Oregon State when the school was still known as Corvallis College. Later an attorney and bank executive, Wilson was heavily involved with numerous campus and community organizations, as well as the State Game Commission. He died in 1961.