Had Gordon Voorhies not married Helen Strong Burrell from Portland, Voorhies would not be remembered today as someone who greatly influenced the development of Rogue Valley's fruit and fruit packing business.After all, Voorhies was a Kentucky boy, born in 1868, a West Point graduate, who served in the army on the American frontier and in the Spanish-American War. Perhaps not wishing to lose his daughter to Kentucky, in 1899 Helen's father steered the couple to Southern Oregon [...]
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