For many years, Dave and I have been working on our family genealogies. That usually entails looking through archives, getting documents and, if we are lucky, photos. One of the more interesting tools to the genealogist is the website, findagrave.com. The folks there have managed to put on-line, the memorials to millions of people who have died and their information made available to the world wide web. It is through our desire to add to findagrave that the Friends of Multnomah Park Cemetery was created.
Dave and I live in the Lents Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. On the outskirts of that neighborhood lies Multnomah Park Pioneer Cemetery.
Multnomah Park Cemetery was founded in 1888 by O. P. Lent, Gustaf Petersen, George P. Lent, Robert Gilbert and William Kern, all of whom are buried in the cemetery. After its establishment, Mr. Lent operated the cemetery and somewhere around 1906 it was deeded to Multnomah County. The county operated the cemetery until its operation was transferred to Metro in 1996.
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