Theodore Thurston Geer

1851 - 1924  (72 years)

• Name	Theodore Thurston Geer
  Birth	12 Mar 1851	Waldo Hills, Oregon Territory
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Feb 1924	Portland, Multnomah, OR
  Burial	Portland, Multnomah, OR
  	Theodore Thurston Geer Burial: Rose City Cemetery Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, USA Inscription: "Theodore T. Geer 1851-1924 Governor Of Oregon 1899 To 1903 Isabelle His Wife 1861-1947"
  Person ID	I8014	Drollinger Genealogy
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	Heman Johnson Geer
  Mother	Cynthia Ann Eoff
  Family ID	F6889	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Isabella L "Isabelle" "Belle" Trullinger,   b. 9 Sep 1861, Oswego, Clackamas, OR d. 16 Apr 1947, Portland, Multnomah, OR (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	14 Jun 1900	Astoria, Clatsop, OR
  	Brooklyn Eagle, 15 June 1900, page 3 Astoria, Ore, June 15- The marriage of Theodore Thurston Geer, Governor of Oregon, and Miss Isabelle Trullinger, daughter of J.C. Trullinger of this city, occurred at the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Henry Marcotic officiating. Beside the relatives, there were present members of the Governor's staff and prominent state officials of Oregon and Washington. Governor Geer and his bride left in a special car for Pugot Sound and British Columbia, where they will spend a week. Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, 1700s-1900s Name: Miss Isabelle Trullinger Marriage Date: 14 Jun 1900 Spouse: T T Geer Oregon, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1851-1975 Name: Isabell Trullinger Gender: Female Marriage Date: 14 Jun 1900 Marriage Place: Clatsop, Oregon, USA Spouse: Theodore T. Geer Film Number: 001838940
  Family ID	F2661	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Nancy G. Duncan,   b. 22 Oct 1841, Callaway County, MO d. 13 Oct 1898, Omaha, Douglas, NE (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	16 Jun 1870	OR
  	Nancy G. Batte in the Oregon, County Marriages, 1851-1975 Name: Nancy G. Batte Gender: Female Marriage Date: 15 Jun 1870 Marriage Place: Union, Oregon, USA Spouse: Theodore F. Geer Film Number: 001723414
  Family ID	F6890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2017

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Mar 1851 - Waldo Hills, Oregon Territory Marriage - 16 Jun 1870 - OR Marriage - 14 Jun 1900 - Astoria, Clatsop, OR Death - 21 Feb 1924 - Portland, Multnomah, OR Burial - - Portland, Multnomah, OR  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  26 Jul 1902 - Mt. Adams, WA

  
  

  Headstones

  Rose City Cemetery Portland, Multnomah, OR

  
  

• Notes

  Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century.Addenda page xxxix GEER, THEODORE THURSTON, farmer, legislator, governor, was born March 12, 1851, at Waldo Hills, Oregon. He was a member of the Oregon State legislature in 1880, 1889, 1891 and 1896. He is now governor of Oregon for term of 1899-1903; republican. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Genth, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William GEER, Theodore Thurston, governor of Oregon, was born in Marion county, Ore., March 12, 1851; son of Heman J. and Cynthia (Eoff) Geer. His ancestry was English. He was educated at Willamette university, Salem, Ore.; became a farmer; was a representative in the Oregon legislature in 1880, 1889, 1891 and 1893; speaker of the house, 1891, a McKinley presidential elector in 1896 and carried the vote of the state to Washington, and governor of Oregon, 1898-1902. Fifty Years in Oregon EXPERIENCES, OBSERVATIONS, AND COMMENTARIES UPON MEN, MEASURES, AND CUSTOMS IN PIONEER DAYS AND LATER TIMES BY T. T. Geer Believing that it is not good for man to live alone, on June 14, 1900, I was married to Miss Isabelle Trullinger, of Astoria, the daughter of an Oregon pioneer of 1848. Her father, John C. Trullinger, was one of the first men to engage extensively in the manufacture of lumber in Astoria ? in 1875 ? and was a member of the Legislature in 1893 from Clatsop County; mention of him has already been made in these pages. He was a very enterprising man, establishing the first electric light plant in that city and afterward purchasing the gas plant. His father, Daniel Trullinger, was a minister in the Christian Church, was a neighbor of my Grandfather Eoff in Iowa, and arrived in Oregon in October, 1848, just in time to perform the marriage ceremony for my father and mother. The eleven years succeeding June 14, 1900, have constituted a continuous season of domestic bliss ? a honeymoon which shows no sign of termination. Every moment of our married life has been ideal, largely because the other member of this firm has measured up to every qualification of an ideal wife; and, since she does not know I am paying her this deserved tribute, I will dare to say that, she being fully six feet in height, I often declare my appreciation of her many good qualities by saying that an experience of eleven years of married life has shown her to be all wool and two yards long.? And may I prove to be worthy of her while life lasts!