John Sellwood

John Sellwood was a pioneer Episcopal minister who settled in the U.S. state of Oregon on a donation land claim on the east bank of the Willamette River upstream from Portland. he was badly wounded during a riot in Panama, where the Sellwoods stayed during part of their journey west. He never fully recovered from his injuries. Scott, who had arrived in Oregon in the early 1850s, founded a boys' school in Oswego and a girls' school in Milwaukie, both relatively near the Sellwood property. Incorporated in 1887, the town became part of Portland in 1893 after the state legislature extended the Multnomah County border a bit south and east to allow Portland to assimilate all of Sellwood. The Sellwood post office was established in October 1893 and became the Sellwood-Moreland post office in 1950.

Sellwood died on August 27, 1892. Sellwood Boulevard and Sellwood Road, as well as the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, are named after him.