July 18, 2025 TweetJeb Bladine: McMinnville's founder left an interesting willWe newspaper people tend to be packrats of history. It shows in our weekly “Memory Lane” articles, “Vintage N-R” photographs and backroom stacks of newspapers dating into the 1800s. One of those pearls of the past that surfaced this week was a copy of the will for W.T. For a succinct story about Newby and other local pioneers, see the history of McMinnville Water & Light compiled by Katherine Huit. Jeb Bladine can be reached at jbladine@newsregister.com or 503-687-1223.