John McLoughlin

Dr. John McLoughlin, baptised Jean-Baptist McLoughlin, (October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857), the ""Father of Oregon", was a fur trader and early settler in the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest. In the late 1840s his general store in Oregon City was famous as the last stop on the Oregon Trail.

References

• The definitive biography is Dorothy Nafus Morrison, Outpost: John McLoughlin and the Far Northwest (Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1999). Morrison also wrote a children's biography, The Eagle and the Fort (Portland, Oregon: Western Imprints, 1979).