People

The Clark County Courthouse and variety of business buildings and homes are testimony to the abilities of architect Day Hilborn, who died in 1971.

When members of the John B. Higdon family came to town, they were able to fill a wagon to capacity.

Germans, Irish and Anglo-Saxons made up a large percentage of the early settlers in Clark County.

Alex Heisen, born in 1829 in Germany, arrived in Washington Territory in time to be one of the first settlers. Later, a small community in Clark County was named for him and his wife, Mary Heisen.

The Hathaway name is best known today for a park and a school, both in Washougal. But the Hathaways were tied in with numerous other facets of Clark County history dating back to 1853.

One of the real founders of Clark College, Ralph Wesley Hanna, worked for $25 a month in the beginning -- and felt fortunate to get even that small stipend.

Wilber and Manie Hall and their children crossed the plains to Washington in 1894 and settled ...

Salmon Creek, when it was still a wilderness, was the home chosen by the Goddard family, ...

John D. Geoghagen was a tough Irishmen. He had to be to survive the horrors of ...

Prunes and politics were dominating features in the life of Edward L. French, whose home at ...

In a small cemetery lying south of the Old Evergreen Highway just east of Southeast 164th ...

Ed W. Firstenburg, the founder of First Independent Bank and a leading Vancouver philanthropist, died Saturday.

A pioneer businessman who helped Camas grow from a one-horse village to a modern city, Charles ...

What do North Vancouver and Arnada Park have in common? Along with being neighborhoods adjacent to downtown ...

A community called Eaton, or Eatonville, named for the Joseph Eaton family, was a popular destination ...

Although his name is obscure today, J.E.C. Durgan gets credit as a founder of Washougal and ...

The pioneering DuBois family is remembered mostly for its lumber mill business, but members also branched ...

When Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Dollar bought property about three miles west of Battle Ground in ...

Old names fade out and new ones arrive on the scene. An example of a once-prominent ...

One of Clark County's most interesting survivors from the heyday of agriculture is the Brush Prairie ...

That Hazel Dell once almost was named Basilville is a tribute to a Belgian boy who ...

JUSTIN CARINCI December 22, 2007 Dale Denny, in 1933 a junior at Vancouver High School, hopped on an ...

Politics, journalism and other businesses were top interests for the Daniels family in Vancouver. A street west ...

Before Michael Damphoffer Sr. died in 1916 at age 101, he had been described as Vancouver's ...

Around the turn of the century, the Vancouver Independent newspaper observed, "All crooks look alike to ...