Talk:Ralph Carey Geer

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Citation for {dead-link}: I could not locate this source in any fashion. Replaced with alternate sources for the statement and thought it better to archive the information here than straight delete it. I could find no reference to these affiliations one way or the other. Placing here until sourced.
 * Political career
 * Bell, Sue. Marion County Commissioners. Salem Online History, Salem Public Library. Retrieved on December 22, 2008.
 * Political party
 * Originally a Republican, he later switched party affiliations to the Democratic Party.

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 * Geer Family Willamette Heritage Center  contains several other related sources of information on the whole family.


 * GeerCrest Farm & Historical Society The portion remaining of his original Donation Land Claim is now a large non-profit farm organization and historical society.


 * The farm has two buildings on the NRHP and an Oregon Heritage Tree. It was also the 2nd completed donation land claim in Oregon.
 * NRHP Application National Park Service


 * He had a daughter Florina Geer who married their neighbor Timothy Woodbridge Davenport who became known as "the Sage of Silverton"


 * GeerCrest Room - 206 A local hotel offered suite themed in his honor.  I did find browsing from the hotel's current home page the suite is not appearing in the current list of suites for reservations.


 * New park is named after Geer family. Statesman Journal: City council unanimously votes to change the facility's name from "State Lands Ballpark" to Geer Park  cityofsalem.net  (A state correctional facility, accents, the park in background of the photo)

<--- These are diggins' from attempting to locate a replacement source for the {dead-link}, the citation that lacks any information (not done yet), and duplicating the copyrighted source with materials. Feel free to pick a piece and make it fit. ---> Darryl.P.Pike (talk) 18:09, 15 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Elizabeth Geer (sister) marries Mr. Charles Sanborn August 20th, 1848 her first of four husbands. She had two children with each of the first three. (Geer Genealogy 1914)


 * President of the "Union Club No. 1 Silverton Precinct for 1868


 * Order of Oddfellows Geer is elected "Herald" in May 1869.

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