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1858Pres-JEMagers
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John E. Magers
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- 1876-1877 (Creation)
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President from 1876-1877
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John E. Magers (1876-1877) - Linfield’s fifth president who rose from the McMinnville Community and only held the position for seven months. He was born in 1847 in Morgan County, Ohio, and died in 1919. Magers emigrated to Oregon in 1852; he then studied law on the East Coast in 1870 but eventually returned to Oregon, where he began practicing law in Salem, Oregon. He moved to McMinnville soon after, which led to him teaching mathematics at the college for three years. He studied and taught at Willamette University and obtained his J.D. on the East Coast.