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Gresham

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Gresham (grĕsh`əm), city (2000 pop. 90,205), Multnomah co., NW Oregon, mainly residential suburb E of Portland, near the Columbia River; founded 1852, inc. 1905. Construction materials and electronic equipment are manufactured; local agricultural products include nuts, berries, nursery plants, and poultry. Mt. Hood National Forest and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area are nearby.
Gresham
Sir Thomas. ?1519--79, English financier, who founded the Royal Exchange in London (1568)


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I carefully preserved them all; and having since shown them, with some other curiosities, in several parts of Europe, upon my return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for myself.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
Gresham was a very good man and a very religious man, but he told too many funny stories and made the people laugh in church; he was undignified, and you must have some dignity about a minister, mustn't you, Matthew?
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
My father, therefore, began now to return remonstrances instead of money to my demands, which brought my affairs perhaps a little sooner to a crisis; but had he remitted me his whole income, you will imagine it could have sufficed a very short time to support one who kept pace with the expenses of Sir George Gresham.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
 
 
 
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