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When Silas M. Yoran (1835-[[1922]]) came to [[Eugene]] in [[1883]], there were already two successful newspapers — the republican Oregon State Journal and the democratic Guard. But Yoran decided the town could use another republican voice, so he launched the Register, which began as a weekly in [[1884]] (and eventually merged with the democratic paper to become the Register-Guard). Yoran later went into | When Silas M. Yoran (1835-[[1922]]) came to [[Eugene]] in [[1883]], there were already two successful newspapers — the republican Oregon State Journal and the democratic Guard. But Yoran decided the town could use another republican voice, so he launched the Register, which began as a weekly in [[1884]] (and eventually merged with the democratic paper to become the Register-Guard). Yoran later went into | ||
| - | the retail shoe business with his son, Darwin, until he retired in [[1904]]. | + | the retail shoe business with his son, Darwin, until he retired in [[1904]]. He was active in politics and “identified with practically every move for civic improvement in Eugene,” said the Morning Register in his obituary. His wife, Maria Markell Yoran and daughter, Elizabeth, are also entombed in the Hope Abbey Mausoleum. |
[[Category:Eugene residents (1800s)]] [[Category:Eugene residents (1900s)]] | [[Category:Eugene residents (1800s)]] [[Category:Eugene residents (1900s)]] | ||
