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C.E.S. Wood (known as Col. Wood) came to Portland penniless in 1883. Over the next thirty years he came to live two separate lives. In one, he was a well-known poet and lawyer. He also founded the Portland Art Museum, directed the Portland Public Library, and was an influential member of Portland’s business and social elite. At the same time, Col. Wood thought of himself as a social anarchist and believed that American capitalism was an exploitative system. Therefore, in his second life, he was a vocal supporter of the IWW and defended Emma Goldman, Marie Equi, Tom Burns, and other IWW members, all for free. He was also a strong supporter of birth control, women’s rights, and civil rights. In fact, he quit the Oregon Bar Association in 1913, because it denied membership to an African American lawyer. He kept two different offices, reflecting his two different lives, but used the money he made from his business life to finance the radical causes he believed in. He left Portland in 1920 for Los Gatos, California, where he built an amazing house that still stands.

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