Phil Metschan
Politician and businessman of Oregon · Politicians · Lived 1840 to 1920 · aged 80
Phil Metschan (1840-1920) was a politician and business owner in the U.S. state of Oregon, serving as treasurer of Oregon. Originally from Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1854. He lived in Ohio, Kansas, and Colorado before traveling west to Sacramento, California in 1861.
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He soon moved on to Portland, Oregon, where he ran a bakery until it was destroyed by the flood of 1862. He then ran a store in Canyon City and got his start in state politics. He married Maria (Marie) Catharina Schaume (1841-1895), a native of Germany who had immigrated in 1864, living first in San Francisco and then Canyon City.
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