Dead Oregon doc’s identity stolen by serial swindler

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.

It was sometime in the late summer of 1912 that Dr. Jean Barber first heard the rumors: Her husband, whom she had not seen since 1904, had reappeared in England, and was apparently in some trouble there. And this has to have been a surprise to Dr. Barber, because when she’d last seen her husband, eight years earlier, he had been dead. (Gardiner, Douglas County; 1904) (For text and pictures, see http://www.offbeatoregon.com/1810b.1812.fake-doctor-impersonator.html)