E.C. "Fergie" Ferguson - Jackson County Courthouse - Jacksonville, Oregon
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Memorial dedicating the old Jackson County Courthouse to a newspaper editor
Waymark Code: WMJZ47
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 01/20/2014
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This memorial plaque is found on a stone placed on the northeast corner of the grounds of the old Jackson County Courthouse. The marker describes the efforts of Everett Carl "Fergie" Ferguson in establishing the Jacksonville Museum within the old courthouse building. For many years, the museum was a way to make use of the building, which ceased to be the courthouse when the county seat of Jackson County was moved to Medford in the late 1920s. The text of the marker reads:
"THIS BUILDING
IS DEDICATED TO
E.C. FERGUSON
("FERGIE"),
FOR MANY YEARS MANAGING
EDITOR OF THE
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE,
WHOSE UNTIRING EFFORTS,
BOTH IN THE COLUMNS OF
THE PAPER AND PERSONALLY
IN CIVIC AND COUNTY
ACTIVITIES, WAS,
WITH OTHERS LIKE-MINDED,
LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
THE JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM."
ERECTED 1957
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An obituary for Mr. Ferguson says:
E.C. Ferguson, 64, managing editor of the Mail Tribune since 1928, died at the Sacred Heart hospital at about noon today. He had been there for several months, and had been ill since last spring., Mr. Ferguson was born in Ord, Neb, on Jan 9, 1891. -The Mail Tribune, Medford, Oregon, Jan. 5, 1956
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