Jacob Kamm was a prominent early transportation businessman in Oregon, USA.
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14 Facts About Jacob Kamm
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Jacob Kamm was born on 12 December 1823, in Canton of Glarus, Switzerland.
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Jacob Kamm's family migrated to America when he was 8 to Illinois, St Louis and then New Orleans.
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Jacob Kamm moved to Oregon in 1850 after being hired by the Milwaukie, Oregon founder Lot Whitcomb onto his ship, The Lot Whitcomb, being the chief engineer on the Willamette River.
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Jacob Kamm owned half of the Jenny Clark, Ainsworth owned a quarter, and Abernathy and Clark shared the remaining quarter.
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Jacob Kamm was a founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company in 1879 and a shareholder in the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company.
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Jacob Kamm built steamboats including in 1891, the Ocean Wave and in 1900, Athlon.
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Jacob Kamm sold property to the city in about 1910 to construct Old Lincoln High School, currently known as Portland State University's Lincoln Hall.
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Jacob Kamm married Caroline Augusta Gray on 13 September 1859 during the Pig War, on the PS Eliza Anderson steamer just outside Fort Hope, Canada.
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In December 1907, Jacob Kamm was "run down by a reckless bicycle rider" in Portland.
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Jacob Kamm became ill on 1 December 1912, "being an invalid" since the 1907 bicycle wreck.
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Wright, a marine historian, wrote that Jacob Kamm was one of "two outstanding figures whose leadership in Columbia river steamboating will never be disputed".
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