Photograph was possibly taken at time of marriage. William Asa Finley served as the first president of Corvallis College from 1865 to 1872. He was appointed as president in 1865 by the Methodist Episcopal Church South and was president at the time the college was chosen as the agricultural college for Oregon under the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act.
Globe Hotel (Destroyed in Fire of of 1871) French's Bank Co., John Espinger, Proprietor, A. _ _ _ _ succeeded, Methodist Church on left, _ _ _ 1862 on the 90th anniversary , looking south on Washington Street