12017-02-02T13:45:15-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Durkhiemer General Store, Burns, Oregon5With pioneer resourcefulness and the desire to make good, Julius Durkheimer went east to Baker City at the age of 17. He prospered in eastern Oregon selling dry goods to gold miners and homesteaders. By age 30, Julius had bought and sold a half-dozen businesses and brought three of his brothers out to help run two of his most successful stores. While he was civic-minded and participated in building the community (he served as mayor of Burns for several years), Julius kept the promise he had made to his wife that she would only have to endure the hardships of frontier life for ten years. In 1896, he moved his young family back to Portland to enjoy the luxuries of gas lamps, sewers, and indoor plumbing.media/OJM00639w.jpgplain2017-05-03T15:09:24-07:001891Jewish Business Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationJane Nichols0fc6878c16f733adeaf1e1a782f4809337808754
