Oregon Pioneer Association

Its members gathered at conventions and published annual addresses dealing with pioneer life.

The group thrived throughout the decades of the 1870s and 1880s, eventually giving way due to the attrition of its members to a new organization known as the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers, established in 1901.

[1] Annual conventions were held at various locales throughout the state, at which keynote addresses dealing with themes of pioneer history were delivered by leading participants.

[1] The Society maintained an archive including a list of its members, details of their place of birth and move to Oregon.

[4] Due to its declining numbers inevitably resulting from the deaths of eligible members, the Oregon Pioneer Association was largely supplanted in 1901 by the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers, a new fraternal and historical association with less stringent eligibility requirements for its members.

Official logo of the Oregon Pioneer Association, named such from 1873.
Seal of the OPA, which the group began using during the 1890s.
For more than half a century the Oregon Pioneer Association published pamphlets containing speeches delivered to its annual meetings and other historical materials.