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Historical person
1877–1947
Louis J. Simpson was an American businessman and entrepreneur closely associated with the development of Oregon’s southern coast in the early twentieth century. A member of the Simpson lumber family, he invested in timber, shipping, real estate and civic development around North Bend and Coos Bay, using family industrial wealth to promote new commercial and residential projects.
Louis J. Simpson also worked as Businessman. In dynastic and political terms, Louis J. Simpson was associated with United States and the American West. Simpson comes from the connection between this individual life and the larger political, social or cultural changes of the period, rather than from the headline episode alone.
In Jane Kirkpatrick’s A Gathering of Finches, On the turn-of-the-century Oregon coast, the marriage of Cassie and Louis Simpson is observed through Cassie, her sister and an Indigenous servant whose position reveals the unequal world surrounding the household.
Series
The Dreamcatcher series gathers four biographical novels about women and families who shaped communities across Oregon and Florida from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth. Pioneer settlement, Indigenous displacement, coastal wealth and frontier education create very different settings, but each book centres on the consequences of belonging…
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